Inventors:
Ronald S. Indeck - St. Louis MO, US
David Mark Indeck - Highlands Ranch CO, US
Naveen Singla - St. Louis MO, US
Jason R. White - Manchester MO, US
Assignee:
Exegy Incorporated - St. Louis MO
International Classification:
G06F 17/00
G06N 5/02
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method and system for hardware-accelerating various data processing operations in a rule-based decision-making system such as a business rules engine, an event stream processor, and a complex event stream processor. Preferably, incoming data streams are checked against a plurality of rule conditions. Among the data processing operations that are hardware-accelerated include rule condition check operations, filtering operations, and path merging operations. The rule condition check operations generate rule condition check results for the processed data streams, wherein the rule condition check results are indicative of any rule conditions which have been satisfied by the data streams. The generation of such results with a low degree of latency provides enterprises with the ability to perform timely decision-making based on the data present in received data streams.