Patent ID: 8126857

Claim:
A method of monitoring changes in a data set, the method comprising: providing a central alerting system having a mapping of remote records in the data set; defining criteria on the central alerting system for an alert; automatically desegregating, by the central alerting system, the criteria into multiple criterion by mapping criteria conditions into individual criterion on a record-by-record basis where each criterion of the criteria is associated with at least one of the remote records in the data set; instructing a first remote agent to monitor a first record of the data set located in a first remote database, and to send a first notification to the central alerting system when the first record satisfies a first criterion of the criteria; instructing a second remote agent to monitor a second record of the data set in a second remote database unaffiliated with the first database, and to send a second notification to the central alerting system when the second record satisfies a second criterion of the criteria; aggregating the first and the second notifications at the central alerting system; and sending the alert from the central alerting system to an entity when the criteria for the alert have been satisfied as indicated by the first and the second notifications.