Patent ID: 8630969

Claim:
A system for locally implementing business rules that are designed remotely, the system comprising: a database for storing backend data; a non-transient memory that stores a set of rules that operate with a local application to perform business tasks; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing instructions to perform stages comprising: requesting at least a portion of a rule design interface from a computing cloud located remotely from the processor, wherein the portion of the rule design interface is stored and updated on the remote computing cloud independently from the local application; receiving, over a network, a modified set of rules from the remote computing cloud, the modified set of rules being created via the computing cloud, wherein the requesting and receiving stages include communicating over a secure network service that connects the processor to the remote computing cloud, and wherein the local application and remote computing cloud communicate with one another using remote procedure calls; integrating the modified set of rules to operate with the local application; storing the integrated modified set of rules on the non-transient memory; and subsequent to the integration, applying the modified set of rules during runtime of the local application.