SYSTEM FOR OPERATING ON CLIENT DEFINED RULES

摘要

The disclosure includes a computational system implemented with respect to a novel computational architecture (10) for operating an externally defined data based on client defined rules (14). In one of the implementations, the architecture is utilized in a billing and customer service program. The architecture includes an engine unit which includes a number of processing modules (12) which internally operate on generic data units that are independent of the particular application. A metadata engine (14) receives externally defined data and relates the externally defined data to the generic data units for use for the engine unit. A rules based engine provides to the engine unit information related to the client defined rules. In this manner, the engine unit can be reused in a large part in a variety of different environments.