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Monitoring of computer events and steps linked by dependency relationships to generate completed processes data and determining the completed processed data meet trigger criteria

  • US 8,752,062 B2
  • Filed: 03/15/2007
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data processing system comprising a processor, a memory, and a storage device, wherein the processor comprises:

  • an interface for capturing user interaction events which arise in the system,a process engine for automatically monitoring the user interaction events to;

    identify completion of steps, each of the steps comprising a plurality of events of the user interaction events, wherein the plurality of events are linked by a first set of dependency relationships; and

    identify completion of processes, each of the processes comprising a plurality of the steps, wherein the plurality of steps are linked by a second set of dependency relationships,generate process data from the completed processes for transference to a trigger engine;

    the trigger engine for receiving and processing the process data to;

    determine whether at least one of the completed processes meet one of a plurality of trigger criteria;

    in response to the at least one of the completed processes meeting a trigger criteria, call a software function;

    a database manager for saving the process data generated by the process engine;

    a reporting engine for generating reports according to the saved process data, wherein the process engine processes the user interaction events to simultaneously recognize a plurality of potential steps, wherein each potential step is a step that may result from additional user interaction events that have not yet been identified, and, once a completed step has been identified from the plurality of potential steps, abandons the remaining potential steps of the plurality of potential steps.

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