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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
Gregory M. Callis, Morrisville, NC (US);
Jon Kevin Franks, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Lap Thiet Huynh, Apex, NC (US);
Loan Nguyen, Durham, NC (US);
Diane Iupe Shannon, Raleigh, NC (US);
David Yu Pin Yang, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products which provide for a complex policy rule structured in a plurality of levels wherein the complex policy rule selects an action for execution based on a plurality of individual policy conditions. An event is received having an associated value defining a point in a space covered by the individual policy conditions. The following operations are performed if the complex policy rule is a CNF policy rule. A plurality of summary conditions are generated, each of the summary conditions being associated with one of the levels. The associated value of the received event is compared to a selected one of the summary conditions to determine if the selected one of the summary conditions is met. Operations repeat for others of the summary conditions and individual policy conditions until either one of the summary conditions is not met or all individual policy conditions for one of the levels are not met, allowing the policy rule to be skipped, or until at least one of the individual policy conditions for each level is met. DNF policy rule processing is also provided.