EP0666534A2
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Interactive rule based system
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1995-01-19
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2015-01-19
Abstract
Abstract This invention presents a novel rule based system and method that interacts with a user to provide the user a series of interim results. The system has a set of one or more operations. Each of these operations in turn has a set of one or more choices, called a choice set, associated with an operation. Rule based intelligence is applied to the operations set and/or one or more operation choice set by a set of rules associated with its respective operation and/or choice set. When one or more rules in a rule set are applied to the operation set, an offered operation set is created which is a subset of the operation set. Only the operations in the offered operation set are offered to the user. When one or more rules in a rule set are applied to a choice set, an offered choice set is created which is a subset of the choice set. Only those operation choices in the offered choice set are offered to the user. The operations (operation choices) that are in the offered operation set (offered choice set) are those that conform to the constraints of the rules that are applied. The user selects operations (operation choices) from the offered operation set (offered choice set). Information about the user selections feeds back to the rules and is used to constrain the next offered operations and operation choices. The user is also permitted to change rules, rule specific metadata, and rule specific metadata algorithms as well as the data in the system. Interacting with the system this way, the user preference, knowledge, and judgment is incorporated in each of a series of interim results and is used to further develop the next interim result in the series of iterations.
Inventors
- 👤 Bernice Ellen Rogowitz
- 👤 David Alen Rabenhorst
- 👤 Lloyd Alan Treinish
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-07 18:17
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06N; G06N5/00; G06N5/02; G06N5/022
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
188 words
An interactive rule based computer system comprising: means for storing data; an operation set of one or more operations, each operation having a choice set of one or more operation choices associated with the operation; one or more rule sets, each rule set associated with a choice set arid one or more rule sets having one or more rules that constrain its associated choice set; a feed back mechanism monitoring one or more selections of operations and operation choices of a user and feeding back information about the user selections to the rule sets, one or more rules in one or more rule sets using the selection information to constrain its associated choice set so that one or more of the constrained associated choice sets has some subset of its operation choices offered to the user ill an offered set on an output means of the computer system, whereby the user selects choices from one or more offered sets and selects operations, the selected operations and selected choices being applied to the data to produce an interim result that is presented to the user on the output means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
25 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the user can select which of one or more of the rule sets constrains its associated choice set.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
54 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the user selection information feeds back to one or more rule specific metadata means, each rule specific metadata means associated with a rule set that has one or more rules that access the user selection information from the rule specific metadata means associated with its rule set.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
24 words
A system, as in claims 3, where the user can change information in the metadata means that is accessed by its associated rule set.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
A system, as in claim 3, where a metadata algorithm provides metadata to the metadata means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
14 words
A system, as in claim 5, where the user can change the metadata algorithm.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the user can change one or more rules in a rule set.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
27 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the user selects rule weights to reflect the importance of one or more rules in one or more rule sets.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
18 words
A system, as in claim 8, where the rule weights are used to resolve conflicts among the rules.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
12 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the interim results are incomplete.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
A system, as in claim 1, where the rules of one or more rule sets partially constrain their associated choice set so that the offered set has two or more operation choices.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
29 words
A system, as in claim 1, where one or more operations, the choice set associated with the operation, and the rules constraining the choice set are an expert system.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
226 words
An interactive rule based computer system comprising: means for storing data; an operation set of one or more operations, each operation having a choice set of one or more operation choices associated with the operation; one or more rule sets, each rule set associated with a choice set and one or more rule sets having one or more rules that constrain its associated choice set; one operation rule set associated with the operation set that constrains the operation set; a feed back mechanism monitoring one or more selections of operations and operation choices of a user and feeding back information about the user selections to the rule sets, one or more rules in one or more rule sets using the selection information to constrain its associated choice set so that one or more of the constrained associated choice sets has some subset of its operation choices offered to the user in an offered set and the constrained operation set has some subset of its operations offered to the user in offered operation set on an output means of the computer system, whereby the user selects choices from one or more offered sets and selects operations from the offered operation set, the selected operations and selected choices being applied to the data to produce an interim result that is presented to the user on the output means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
18 words
A system, as in claim 13, where the constraint on the operation set is switchable by the user.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
167 words
A method of a user interacting with a rule based computer system comprising the steps of: viewing a system output means that presents the user with an offered operation set having one or more operations and one or more offered choice sets, each offered choice set being a subset of a choice set and each choice set having one or more operation choices associated with an operation; selecting, by a user, one or more operations from the offered operation set and selecting one or more choices from one or more of the offered choice sets; feeding back information about the selections to one or more rule sets, each rule set being associated with a choice set and one or more rules in one or more rule sets constraining its associated choice set using the selection information to produce the subset that is the offered choice set presented on the output means, whereby the selected operations and operation choices are applied to data to produce an interim result.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
197 words
An interactive rule based computer system comprising: means for storing data; an operation set of one or more operations, each operation having a choice set of one or more operation choices associated with the operation; one or more rule sets, each rule set associated with a choice set and one or more rule sets having one or more rules pertaining to human perception that constrain its associated choice set; a feed back mechanism monitoring one or more selections of operations and operation choices of a user and feeding back information about the user selections to the rule sets, one or more rules in one or more rule sets using the selection information to constrain its associated choice set so that one or more of the constrained associated choice sets has some subset of its operation choices offered to the user in an offered set on an output means of the computer system, whereby the user selects choices from one or more offered sets and selects operations, the selected operations and selected choices being applied to the data to produce an interim result that is presented to the user on the output means in a perceptively meaningful way.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
37 words
A system, as in claim 16, where one or more rules constrain images with high spatial frequency to use a color map which varies monotonically in luminance to improve the presentation of continuous variations in the image.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
33 words
A system, as in claim 16, where the luminance difference between a representation of text and a background of the text increases as a typeface of a font of the text becomes finer.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
35 words
A system, as in claim 16, where the luminance difference between a representation of text and a background of the text increases as a typeface of a font of the text becomes smaller in size.
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