Patent ID: 8732259
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: one or more computing devices receiving a message that indicates a first event occurred at a primary entity in a network; the one or more computing devices determining that one or more entities related to the primary entity are impacted by the first event; in a notification layer that is hosted in a first process, the one or more computing devices automatically creating and publishing one or more first alarms that indicate the one or more entities are impacted by the first event and one or more second alarms that indicate one or more other entities are impacted by a second event that subsequently occurred at the primary entity; in a heuristics layer that is hosted in a second process different than the first process and that is subscribed to the notification layer, the one or more computing devices receiving, from the notification layer, the one or more first alarms and the one or more second alarms that were created at the notification layer, and automatically creating, based on stored rules for determining that alarms resulting from events are related, one or more annotated alarms comprising a relationship between the one or more first alarms and the one or more second alarms; and publishing, by the heuristics layer, the one or more annotated alarms in addition to the one or more first alarms and the one or more second alarms that were previously published.