Morgan Stanley
CLASSIFICATION RULES ENGINE AND API GENERATOR

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for providing an interface to prioritize classification rules for an unclassified input. A set of classification rules for input queries are stored as a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of values, each value being associated with an attribute from a plurality of attributes ordered by priority from most important to least important, at least one record comprising a value consisting of a wildcard operator, and each record representing a classification rule that applies to an input query if and only if each value of the plurality of values is matched by a corresponding value for a same associated attribute in the input query. A GUI enables setting the ordering of the plurality of attributes; receiving an input query; and based on the ordering, automatically determining and outputting a unique best match among all classification rules that satisfy the input query.