Patent ID: 7228304

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for implementing an extensible audit trail, comprising: propagating an audit ID value from a first node to a second node, the first node and the second node interrelated based upon related activity; recording a first audit record at the first node with the audit ID value for a first audit event that is associated with the related activity, the first audit event occurring at the first node; recording a second audit record at the second node with the audit ID value for a second audit event that is associated with the related activity, the second audit event occurring at the second node, wherein the first audit event is related to the second audit event; wherein the first and second audit records each comprise mandatory attribute information, and the audit ID value is for correlating the first audit record at the first node with the second audit record at the second node, to thereby allow an audit to be performed to obtain the first and second audit records that are resulted from the related activity.