Patent ID: 6985900

Claim:
An article of manufacture for use in condition to action processing in a computer system, the apparatus comprising a computer readable medium with computer readable program code embodied therein for directing a computer system, the computer readable code in the article of manufacture comprising: an event data store that can store at least one event identifier and at least one corresponding expression that indicates a corresponding predicate logic expression of condition that corresponds to an event identified by the at least one event identifier; a task data store that can store at least one task identifier and corresponding response information that indicates a group of one or more command statements that corresponds to the at least one task; a correspondence data store that can store at least one correspondence between the at least one event identifier and the at least one task identifier; a notice data store that can store respective event data that corresponds to the at least one event identifier; computer readable program code causing the computer to evaluate the indicated predicate logic expression using the event data so as to produce an evaluation result corresponding to the at least one identified event; and computer readable program code causing the computer to execute the at least one or more command statements only if the produced evaluation result has a prescribed value.