Patent ID: 7373388
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for issuing notification messages to users of a computer network, the method comprising: receiving, at a notification message distribution component, an alert message generated by one of multiple different computer applications, the alert message indicating that a current value of a predetermined variable is in a predetermined relation to a reference value; creating, within the notification message distribution component, one or more distribution lists of users to receive notification messages pertaining to at least one of the multiple different computer applications, each distribution list being generated, by identifying, from stored application-to-role assignment information and from stored user-to-role assignment information, one or more users who share in common at least one role with one or more of the multiple different computer applications, wherein the stored application-to-role assignment information and the stored user-to-role assignment information define which of the multiple different computer applications a user is allowed to access; issuing, from the notification message distribution component, a first notification message to a communication device corresponding to each user in a first group of users, the first group of users consisting of users in one of the one or more distribution lists that share at least one role with the computer application that generated the alert message.