Patent Document ID: 7565642
Application ID: 10639674

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: in a processing system, receiving a rule set as a single package; generating a dependency graph for the rule set, the dependency graph including a plurality of ranked nodes, the nodes including entity nodes, attribute nodes, condition nodes, and rule nodes, where a first attribute node points to a first condition node when a first attribute associated with the first attribute node is used in a conditional expression associated with the first condition node, a first condition node points to a first rule node when a first condition associated with the first condition node is used in a first rule associated with the first rule node, and where the first rule node points to a second rule node when the first rule overrides a second rule associated with the second rule node; and generating a sequence of processing logic for optimal processing of inputted facts according to a rank order of the nodes in the dependency graph.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 in which the rule set is free of logical conflicts.