Patent ID: 9736226
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A rule distribution server operative to locate, on registering rules relating to event processing from an application server, rules at a front-end processing server connected to a front-end network to which an event generating source is connected and a back-end processing server connected to a back-end network, the rule distribution server comprising: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to: calculate, from an event condition, an ID of a front-end network where any event matching the event condition is generated; register the application rule into a processing server connected to the front-end network when events matching respective event conditions designated by application rules registered from application are all generated on the same front-end network, and register the application rule into the back-end processing server when the events are not generated on the same front-end network; generate a processing rule to transfer an event matching the event condition to a back-end processing server, with respect to an application rule which has been determined to be registered into the back-end processing server; and respectively register an application rule and a transfer rule into corresponding processing servers.