Patent ID: 6526442
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A programmable operational system for managing devices participating in a network, comprising:a collection of notices indicative of at least one of a network event, the status of the network and the status of at least one of the devices participating in the network; operation logic that filters the collection of notices based on at least one criteria and that generates at least one operation indicative of a state change of the network; an automation engine, communicatively coupled to the operation logic, that uses the at least one operation to perform at least one process in response to the at least one operation; the operation logic further generating at least one job that references the at least one operation that invokes a helper process to facilitate execution of the at least one operation; the helper process generating an event notification and providing the event notification to the automation engine; and the event notification including at least one reference to the at least one job to enable the automation engine to access the at least one operation.