公开(公告)号：US6073142A

公开(公告)日：2000-06-06

申请号：US881034

申请日：1997-06-23

申请人： Fred J. Geiger ,  William K. Wood ,  Sonjaya T. Tandon

发明人： Fred J. Geiger ,  William K. Wood ,  Sonjaya T. Tandon

IPC分类号： G06Q10/10 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G06F7/00

CPC分类号： H04L12/585 ,  G06Q10/107 ,  H04L12/5855 ,  H04L51/12 ,  H04L51/14

摘要： A system, method and various software products provide for automatic deferral and review of e-mail messages and other data objects in a networked computer system, by applying business rules to the messages as they are processed by post offices. The system includes rule enforcing post offices that store a plurality of business rules derived from business communication policies. The rule enforcing post offices receive messages from client applications and from other post offices and apply the business rules with a rule engine. The rule engine determines a set of actions, specified by business rules that are fired, to be applied to each message. The rule engine provides the actions to a distribution engine, which executes a highest priority action. Actions include releasing, deleting, returning, forwarding, or gating the message. Gating forwards the message to a gatekeeper, an administrator assigned to review messages for conformity with business policies or for other reasons. The gated messages are received by the gatekeeper at a gatekeeping post office. A gatekeeper can review the gated messages, and then manually release, delete, return, or further gate the message. Alternatively, if the gatekeeper does not review a gated message with a specified time period, the message is automatically reviewed by the gatekeeping post office with its own set of business rules. Having multiple post offices with independent sets of business rules allows for distributed and hierarchical review and gating of the messages. The system can route any type of data object, and apply the business rules to such objects in a similar manner.

摘要翻译： 系统，方法和各种软件产品通过在邮局处理邮件时应用商业规则来提供联网计算机系统中的电子邮件消息和其他数据对象的自动延迟和审查。 该系统包括规则执行邮局，其存储从业务通信策略导出的多个业务规则。 执行邮局的规则从客户端应用程序和其他邮局接收消息，并将业务规则应用于规则引擎。 规则引擎确定由触发的业务规则指定的要应用于每个消息的一组操作。 规则引擎向执行最高优先级操作的分发引擎提供操作。 操作包括释放，删除，返回，转发或门控消息。 门控将消息转发给守门人，分配给审核消息以符合业务策略或其他原因的管理员。 选通信息由守门员在门卫邮局接收。 网守可以查看门控消息，然后手动释放，删除，返回或进一步关闭消息。 或者，如果看门人没有检查具有指定时间段的门控消息，该消息将由门卫邮局自行由其自己的一组业务规则进行审查。 拥有多个具有独立业务规则的邮局可以进行分布式和层级审查和门控消息。 系统可以路由任何类型的数据对象，并以类似的方式将业务规则应用于此类对象。