Patent ID: 7269586
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer system having a large disk resident data set, a method of analyzing the disk resident data set using a patient rule induction method (PRIM), the method comprising steps of: (a) receiving a meta parameter and a relational data table comprised of continuous attributes, discrete attributes and a cost attribute, wherein the cost attribute represents cost output values based on continuous attributes values and discrete attribute values as inputs; (b) defining a hyper-rectangle enclosing a multi-dimensional space defined by the continuous attribute values and the discrete attribute values, wherein the continuous attribute values and the discrete attribute values are represented as points within the multi-dimensional space, further including steps of: (c) removing a plurality of points along edges of the hyper-rectangle based on an average of the cost output value from the plurality of points until a count of the points enclosed within the hyper-rectangle equals the meta parameter; and (d) adding removed discrete attribute value points and the continuous attribute value points along the edges of the hyper-rectangle until a sum of the cost output values over the multi-dimensional space enclosed by the hyper-rectangle changes.