Patent Document ID: 8805771
Application ID: 13276426

Base Claim:
1. A rules editing system comprising: a computer with memory and at least one processor; a datastore of rules previously applied utilizing different inputs; a rule correlation table disposed in the memory of the computer correlating the rules in the datastore with one another according to common ones of the inputs to which the rules had been applied previously; a rules editor configured to edit a selected one of the rules in the datastore; and, rules proximity logic executing in the memory of the computer and enabled to identify different rules in the datastore that also had been applied to an input in common with the selected one of the rules in the rules editor, and to display the identified different rules in the rules editor in connection with the selected one of the rules.

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Claim 4:
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the rules proximity logic is enabled to identify in a rule correlation table different rules having respective normalized values derived from corresponding respective counts of common inputs for the selected one of the rules that exceeds a threshold value.