Patent ID: 9178936
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for selected alert delivery in a distributed processing system, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the apparatus to carry out the steps of: receiving a plurality of events from one or more event producing components of the distributed processing system, wherein each of the plurality of events is a notification of a particular occurrence on a component of the distributed processing system, each event producing component comprising an aggregation of computer hardware and software; creating, by an incident analyzer in dependence upon the events, a truth space data structure representing events that make one or more conditional event processing rules true, wherein the one or more conditional event processing rules are rules indicating circumstances under which a condition is true, wherein creating the truth space data structure includes: creating, by the incident analyzer in dependence upon the truth space data structure, one or more alerts, wherein the one or more alerts are unique to the combination of the truth events and the event location of the event producing components that can generate the truth events; and sending, by the incident analyzer, the alerts to at least one component of the distributed processing system.