Enterprise management application providing availability control checks on revenue budgets

Abstract

A budgetary control system limits revenue generating transactions that may be entered in an enterprise management system. When a new revenue posting is proposed to the system, various AVC rules are evaluated. The evaluation compares the revenue posting against predetermined budgetary limits. The AVC rules may address various nodes within a revenue postings data structure and within a revenue budget data structure and they may define a test relationship that must be maintained between them. If proposed revenue posting would violate the test relationship of an AVC rule, then the revenue posting may be rejected from the system depending upon the contents of a response field in the AVC rule. Some AVC rules mandate that a violation cause the proposed transaction to be blocked while others may generate a warning notification within the system but admit the new transaction despite the violation.

1 . An availability control check system, comprising:
 a first database storing a revenue budget, the database organized into first nodes each of which stores an individually addressable budget value,   a second database storing revenue postings, the database organized into second nodes each storing an individually addressable aggregation of revenue, and   an AVC ledger comprising control objects, each control object including pointers to select nodes of the first and second databases, and AVC rules for each control object, each AVC rule including a test field identifying a test relationship that is desired to be maintained between addressed values of the first and second database and a response field.   
     
     
         2 . The availability control check system of  claim 1 , further comprising an AVC manager to execute AVC rules represented by the control objects of the associated AVC rule sets. 
     
     
         3 . The availability control check system of  claim 1 , wherein the control objects further comprise a field representing a filtering condition that must be met to trigger execution of a corresponding AVC rule. 
     
     
         4 . The availability control check system of  claim 1 , further comprising additional AVC ledgers, each comprising control objects, each control object including pointers to select nodes of the first and second databases, and AVC rules for each control object, each AVC rule including a test field identifying a test relationship that is desired to be maintained between addressed values of the first and second database and a response field. 
     
     
         5 . The availability control check system of  claim 1 , wherein the AVC ledger includes a database storing aggregations of revenue posting values and revenue budget values that are operands to the control objects and the AVC rules therein. 
     
     
         6 - 21 . (canceled) 
     
     
         22 . An Availability Control (AVC) method for an Availability Control system, the method comprising:
 determining, by a processor, in response to a proposed posting of revenue to an enterprise management application including an identifier of a donor organization that donated the revenue, whether any one of a plurality of AVC ledgers would use the proposed posting in a revenue calculation, where in each ledger of the plurality of AVC ledgers comprises an AVC rule set related to at least one of a plurality of control objects, and a database for storing aggregated values of revenue budget items from a revenue budget ledger database and revenue items from a revenue budget postings ledger database that are operands to at least one of a plurality of control object in the AVC rule set of the ledger;   identifying, by the processor, at least one of the plurality of AVC rule sets in at least one of the plurality of AVC ledgers related to the donor organization identifier;   executing the identified rule set; and   generating an indication of whether the proposed posting violates the identified rule set.   
     
     
         23 . An Availability Control (AVC) method of  claim 22 , the executing comprising:
 retrieving from an AVC database of the AVC ledger containing the identified AVC rule set, a postings operand generated from an aggregation of previously-admitted postings values addressed by the control object, and   determining whether the postings operand stored in a control object satisfies a test relationship of the AVC ledger associated with the identified AVC rule set, wherein the test relationship tests whether the proposed posting of revenue would exceed revenue limits for the control object in the AVC rule set of the AVC ledge is retrieved from, and   blocking the posting from being admitted, if any AVC rule is violated by the posting.