Patent Document ID: 20130332411
Application ID: 13908961
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for creating, updating, and deleting business rules, comprising: a processor accepting a set of defined attributes (input variables), each of which is an enumeration with a set of enumerators (allowable values); said processor accepting a set of rules tables, each of which contains one or more of the defined attributes; for each rules table, said processor generating a set of tuples, where each tuple represents one or more attribute value combinations and where no two tuples represent the same attribute value combination; for each rules table, said processor accepting a set of settings (outcomes or output variables), where the setting is assigned a value for each tuple; and providing a rules manager with which an application sets each attribute to a value, said rules manager providing the value of a setting requested by the application by using a rules table associated with the setting and looking up the setting value assigned to the tuple whose combination of enumerators matches the current value of the corresponding attributes.