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US5819249A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Tax coding expert system

Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1995-11-29
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Granted: 1998-10-06
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Expires: 2015-11-29
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Abstract

Abstract An analysis protocol embodied in an expert system is articulated into portions to provide optimization of ease of use consistent with ease of design and updating of expert information contained therein. These portions include presentation of a fixed, invariant inquiry sequence and storage matrices which are accessed on the basis of responses to the inquiry sequence, a portion in which a decision tree is traversed efficiently under control of an inference engine based on user selections, preferably from a menu or a hierarchy of menus and a portion in which the analysis sequence is carried out by parsing text from an expert database into queries which are also preferably in the form of menus. Capture of the decision trees traversed together with corresponding user input data for at least selected analyses performed by the Expert system provides for capture of additional rules and business practices and facilitates correction of determinations, consistency of user intervention and expansion of the expert system.

Inventors

  • 👤 Laurel Anne Dohanich
  • 👤 Stephen Leo Dohanich

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-30 00:16
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06N; G06N5/00; G06N5/02; G06N5/022

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim 123 words
An expert system including a database, an expert knowledge interface and an inference engine wherein said inference engine includes an inquiry sequence comprising a sequence of invariant inquiries, and at least one pointer to a location in said expert knowledge interface and a further pointer to a location in said database, said expert knowledge interface includes at least one data storage matrix which is accessible on the basis of responses to said inquiry sequence, and wherein said at least one pointer is accessed in response to return of data of a first type accessed from said data storage matrix and said further pointer is accessed in response to data of a second type of data from said location in said expert knowledge interface.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 123 words
An expert system including a database, an expert knowledge interface and an inference engine wherein said inference engine includes an inquiry sequence comprising a sequence of invariant inquiries, and at least one pointer to a location in said expert knowledge interface and a further pointer to a location in said database, said expert knowledge interface includes at least one data storage matrix which is accessible on the basis of responses to said inquiry sequence, and wherein said at least one pointer is accessed in response to return of data of a first type accessed from said data storage matrix and said further pointer is accessed in response to data of a second type of data from said location in said expert knowledge interface.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 38 words
An expert system as recited in claim 1, wherein said expert knowledge interface further includes a further data storage matrix accessible in response to data of a second type accessed from said at least one data storage matrix.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 54 words
An expert system as recited in claim 1, wherein said expert knowledge interface further includes means for transiently storing at least one item of user-selectable information derived from information in said database, said at least one item of user-selectable information being accessed from said inference engine in response to said at least one pointer.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 37 words
An expert system as recited in claim 3, wherein said further pointer to a location in said database is accessed in response to evaluation of a selection from said user-selectable information and responses to said inquiry sequence.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 19 words
An expert system as recited in claim 3 wherein said item of user-selectable information is contained in a menu.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 40 words
An expert system as recited in claim 1, further including means for capturing at least one of said inquiry sequence and said item of user-selectable information and corresponding user input data for at least selected operations of said expert system.

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