Patent ID: 7788680

Claim:
A method of managing events in a standard computer system comprising a central unit connected to memory units and peripheral devices by a data bus allowing a multimaster configuration, the method comprising the following steps: receiving one or more events, time-stamping each received event, storing each received event in a first memory and a second memory, assigning at least one appropriate action to each received event, and executing that action in response to the received event, which method is characterized in that the above-mentioned management steps are carried out in real time without access to the central unit by a management unit included in an independent management module connected to the data bus and incorporated into the standard computer system, and the first memory and the second memory are associated with the management unit, the first memory storing events to be processed by the independent management module and the second memory storing events so that these events may be read via the data bus; wherein events received by the management unit which come from outside the management module are resynchronized to a frequency corresponding to that of a clock internal to the computer system while events received from within the management module are received synchronized.