Patent ID: 7737826

Claim:
An event notification device connected to a plurality of client devices via a network, the event notification device comprising: a receiving unit that receives from at least a first client device from among the client devices a request message containing a request for monitoring a first event from among a plurality of events in the event notification device; an adding unit that adds information about the first client device as destination client information and information about the first event as monitoring-target event information to a storage unit; a setting unit that sets setting information to be used when monitoring events occurring in the event notification device based on at least one of the destination client information and the monitoring-target event information stored in the storage unit; an event monitoring unit that monitors events, including the first event, occurring in the event notification device based on the setting information; and an event notifying unit that notifies, when the event monitoring unit detects occurrence of the first event, to the first client device based on the destination client information and the monitoring-target event information stored in the storage unit.