Meta-Rule Manager Automates RIB Rule Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Complex organizations face inefficiencies in configuring thousands of RIB rules for financial management software due to the tedious process of manually writing rules for inter-relationships between revenue and budget items, especially when only a handful of unique transform calculations exist.
Innovation Solution
A meta-rule manager system that automatically generates and writes new RIB rules by utilizing value transforms and address transforms, stored as separate configuration entities, to replicate unique calculations across multiple source-destination address sets, reducing manual configuration efforts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If RIB rules are coded manually to cover inter-relationships between revenue items and budget items, then the financial management software can track revenues and determine budget changes, but the deployment process becomes tedious and time-consuming when thousands of rules are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining transform calculations as reusable templates before deployment. These templates capture the logic for converting revenue changes to budget adjustments, allowing the system to automatically generate specific RIB rules during deployment without manual coding of each rule, thus reducing deployment time while maintaining accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by replicating transform calculation templates across multiple source-destination address pairs. Instead of manually writing thousands of unique RIB rules, the system copies and adapts a small set of unique transform calculations to cover all revenue-budget relationships, significantly reducing the manual configuration effort
2Adaptability or versatility
If thousands of unique RIB rules are written manually to cover all revenue sources and budget items, then complete coverage of inter-relationships is achieved, but the configuration process becomes extremely tedious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating transform calculation templates that can serve multiple purposes across different revenue sources and budget items. A single transform calculation template can be applied to numerous source-destination address pairs, allowing one configuration object to perform multiple functions and cover all revenue-budget relationships without requiring unique manual rules for each pair
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying to replicate transform calculation templates across multiple contexts. Instead of manually creating thousands of unique RIB rules, the system copies the logic from a small set of unique transforms and applies them to all necessary source-destination address combinations, achieving complete coverage while maintaining ease of configuration
Data Source
AI summary
Financial management applications may operate according to RIB rules in which expenditure budget limits are increased as an organization or department thereof realizes revenue. When such applications operate in conjunction with complicated data structures for revenues and budget, it can become burdensome to define a plurality of RIB rules individually. A configuration system includes a RIB strategy array containing a relatively small set of meta-rules for identifiers of various portions of a revenue data structure to which they apply. An automated configuration system surveys the revenue data structure, determines which value transforms and destination addresses of a budget database apply and generate a larger set of RIB rules that will govern in the financial management application during normal system operation.