Patent ID: 8095651

Claim:
A method for monitoring events in a home network, the method comprising: receiving, at a node on the home network, a subscription request from a control point on the home network, wherein the subscription request contains a variable that explicitly indicates whether or not the control point has an interest in delayable eventing; when an event variable changes, determining if the control point had indicated an interest in delayable eventing for the event variable in a subscription request sent from the control point, wherein the event variable changing indicates the addition or deletion of a file, and if so: determining if the control point can receive an event notification sent by the node; if the control point cannot receive the event sent by the node, storing an event notification regarding the change in the event variable such that the event notification can be retrieved when the control point can receive communications from the node; and sending the stored event notification regarding the change in the event variable to the control point when the control point can receive the notification.