WORKSPACE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING INFORMATION EVENTS

• US 20110167433A1
• Filed: 05/30/2008
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Informatica LLC (Informatica, Inc. (California))
• Original Assignee: Informatica Corporation
• Inventors: Bradley, Christopher, Bartman, Michael, Ginter, Karl, Appelbaum, Michael, Garvett, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 8,453,159 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24565 Triggers; Constraints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata

Abstract

A system and method for monitoring information events partitions sets of information and processing steps into one or more workspaces. The workspaces include sharable portable specifications for implementing event monitoring by a plurality of users or computer systems. Workspaces may be bindable computing resources to establish controls between the computing resources and the workspaces.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring information events comprising:

partitioning sets of information and processing steps into one or more workspaces;

wherein said workspaces comprise sharable specifications for one or more objects used to implement event processing flows.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said workspaces comprise workspace items including shareable and portable specifications for one or more of PPSs, rule specifications, event queues, event objects, rulebooks, templates, wizards, publish/subscribe relationships, authorization credentials and computing resources.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said workspaces items include entities used to define, implement control and monitor event processing.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising provisioning each of said workspace items to one or more computer resources.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising binding instances of said one or more workspaces to one or more computing resources to establish controls between said resources and said workspaces.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising binding instances of said one or more workspaces to one or more of said workspace items to establish controls between said workspace items and said workspaces.

7. The method of claim 1 comprising partitioning said sets of information into said workspaces in accordance with access rights assigned to said workspaces.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sharing one or more of said workspaces between one or more users.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sharing one or more of said workspaces between one or more roles.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sharing one or more of said workspace items between one or more of said workspaces.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising associating one or more of said workspaces with one or more rule specifications.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising associating one or more of said workspaces with one or more rulebooks, wherein said associating makes the contents of said one or more rulebooks available to an associated workspace.

13. A system for controlling information events comprising:

one or more workspaces including sharable specifications for one or more workspace items used to implement event processing flows.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein said workspace items include

shareable and portable specifications for one or more of PPSs, rule specifications, event queues, event objects, rulebooks, templates, wizards, publish/subscribe relationships, authorization credentials and computing resources.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein said workspaces items include entities used to define, implement control and monitor event processing.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein each of said workspaces defines a corresponding information and event processing configuration.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein said corresponding information and event processing configuration includes identifications of binding between a plurality of said workspaces.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein said corresponding information and event processing configuration includes identification of bindings between workspace items and distributed computer resources.

19. A system for monitoring information events comprising

one or more workspaces including sharable specifications for one or more workspace items used to implement event processing flows;

and

means for partitioning sets of information and processing steps into one or more of said workspaces.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

means for binding one or more of said workspaces with entities selected from the group consisting of users, roles, workspace items and computer resources.

21. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

means for separating the operations the processing steps occurring within a first workspace and the processing occurring with a second workspace such that processing steps occurring in the first workspace do not effect the processing steps occurring in the second workspace.

22. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

means for enforcing the separation between the processing occurring within a first workspace and the processing occurring with a second workspace.