A method of extracting and transforming a business rule which is a self contained section of legacy code focused on the computation of specific business policy includes identifying the business rule. Thereafter, the business rule code is located in the existing program and extracted in human readable...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6389588?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6389588 - Method and system of business rule extraction from existing applications for integration into new applications