Patent ID: 9680692
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer system in a computer network, a request to register an event listener on a source node, from a client in the computer system, the source node being one of a plurality of nodes that are related to each other in a hierarchy, each of the nodes representing a logical partition of a storage device in the computer system, the storage device including a plurality of logical partitions, each of the logical partitions containing a separate non-overlapping subset of data contained in the storage device; registering, by a server in the computer system, the event listener on the source node, wherein the event listener is configured to notify the client of an occurrence of a first event in the source node; determining, by the server, whether the source node has a descendant node in the hierarchy; and responsive to a determination that the source node has a descendant node in the hierarchy, setting, by the server, the event listener to notify the client of an occurrence of a second event in the descendant node without requiring registration of another event listener on the descendant node.