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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Donna K. Byron, Petersham, MA (US);

Reinaldo T. Katahira, Anhagabau, BR;

Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Round Rock, TX (US);

Craig M. Trim, Sylmar, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2872 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01); G06N 5/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

A knowledgebase of an expert system is populated with rules inferred from a set of business processes that govern the manner in which the business interacts with users. Each business process contains an input, an output, an action, and a set of dependency relationships that relate pairs of the input, the output, and the action. Each process's input, output, action, and dependency relationships are translated, respectively, into a subject, an object, a predicate, and a set of dependency relationships among the subject, object, and predicate, of a natural-language rule. Each rule is stored in the expert system's knowledgebase as a directed graph, and nodes representing each stored subject, object, and predicate are assigned domain classifications as a function of characteristics of the business rule. These domain classifications are represented within the knowledgebase as a set of domain classifications determined as a further function of characteristics of the business rule.


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