Event management system and method

• US 20040139446A1
• Filed: 01/14/2003
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Turner, Richard, Massey, Christopher C., Hope, Clifford C.
• Application Number:
  US10/342,438
• Publication Number:
  US 20040139446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

An event management system and method is disclosed. The system has access to at least one data source and includes a server component, a definition data store for storing data definitions; a client component for authoring said agents using said definitions; and an interface between said agent engine and said data source. The server component includes an agent engine for creating one or more agents, and a scheduler for running said created agents.

Claims

1. An event management system having access to at least one date source, said system comprising

a server component having:

an agent engine for creating one or more agents; and

a scheduler for running said created agents;

a definition data store for storing data definitions;

a client component for authoring said agents using said definitions; and

an interface between said agent engine and said data source.

3. The system according to claim 3, wherein two or more data sources are pooled to improve system efficiency.

2. The system according to claim 3, further including an event data store for maintaining a history of events.

4. An event management method comprising the steps of:

storing definitions in a definition data store;

interfacing an agent engine with at least one data source;

creating one or more agents using said agent engine; and

running said created agents using a scheduler; and

accessing said data source by said agent.