PREVENTION OF EVENT FLOODING

• US 20130019244A1
• Filed: 09/15/2012
• Published: 01/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Collins, Ann Eleanor, He, Jenny Jing, Papageorgiou, Anthony Philip, Wharmby, Andrew Dean
• Granted Patent: US 9,946,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

Techniques for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, comprising: responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event; responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values; responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.

Claims

1. A method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the method comprising:

responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;

responsive to determining, a potential event, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;

responsive to a positive determination, determining if the met threshold value, is an identical threshold value net by a previous potential event; and

responsive to a second positive determination, disregarding the potential event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, communicating the potential event, to a filtering component, for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an event is a number of changing activities over a time period.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending, a numerical measurement scale.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value.