Patent Document ID: 8280831
Application ID: 12683655

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implementable method comprising the steps of: storing, in at least one memory storage device in a computer, a case base and a generalization/analog base, wherein the case base comprises user-validated knowledge statements and the generalization/analog base comprises computer-generated knowledge statements, each of the user-validated knowledge statements and the computer-generated knowledge statements comprising a consequent and an antecedent with more than one antecedent features; receiving, from a computer input device, a user-specified context comprising more than one context features; searching the case base for a user-validated knowledge statement having antecedent features that match each of the context features; displaying the user-validated knowledge statement consequent to the user via a display device if a user-validated knowledge statement having antecedent features that match the context features is found; and receiving user feedback regarding the displayed user-validated knowledge statement consequent, wherein if the user feedback indicates that the user-validated knowledge statement consequent is incorrect the method further comprises the step of creating, during runtime, a new rule by performing an analogical contextual transformation by selecting one context feature from the user-specified context, selecting, by chance in proportion to the size of the base, either the case base or the generalization/analog base, searching the selected base for a first knowledge statement having an antecedent feature that matches the context feature, searching the selected base for a second knowledge statement having a consequent that matches the consequent of the first knowledge statement, substituting an antecedent feature of the second knowledge statement with the selected context feature, and searching the selected base for a knowledge statement including antecedent features matching the other context features from the user-specified context and the selected context feature.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implementable method of claim 1 , wherein if not in run-time, the method further comprises the steps of: creating new computer-generated knowledge statements; and storing the newly-created computer-generated knowledge statements in the memory storage device at the head of the generalization/analog case base.