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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2004
Donald Edward Baisley, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Ravi Anthony Joseph Dirckze, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Jonathan Virgil Ziebell, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Russel Elliot Cole, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Donald Edward Baisley, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Ravi Anthony Joseph Dirckze, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Jonathan Virgil Ziebell, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Russel Elliot Cole, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention is a method for generating a database model from a set of business rules. For a business rule given as input, an empty list of fact types is created. A determination of whether the business rule is a definitional rule defining that one or more propositions become true upon occurrence of an event is made. If the business rule is a definitional rule, the fact type of each of the propositions is added to the list of fact types. Otherwise, a determination of whether the business rule is an authorization rule for provision of information that comprises one or more authorized provisions of information corresponding to one or more fact types is made. If the business rule is an authorization rule for provision of information, the corresponding fact types are added to the list of fact types. For each fact type in the list of fact types, the fact type having at least one role, the role having a type, if the type of the role is not a lexical type, the type is added to a list of types. The types in the list of types are processed and the fact types in the list of fact types are processed.