Patent ID: 7389306

Claim:
A method for processing semi-structured data for the support of business decisions, the method comprising: inputting semi-structured data in a first format from a real business process; converting the semi-structured data in a first format into a second format; storing the semi-structured data in the second format into memory; processing the stored information with the components of one or more business decisions to couple the business decision with the semi-structured data; separating the semi-structured data in the second format into a fixed part, a structured data part and an unstructured data part; identifying one or more relational class related to the business decision in the structured part; replacing members of the relational class with special symbols to create a rewritten corpus; determining a template from one or more aggregate patterns coupled to the identified relational class from the rewritten corpus; displaying the relational class, the template, and the business decision; and determining from variable fields within the template, an indicator of a business event.