Patent ID: 8713115

Claim:
A server that sends a notification of an event and can be connected to a plurality of clients computers via a network, the server comprising: a computer comprising a processor; and instructions which are executable, using the processor, to perform functions comprising: receiving, in response to occurrence of an event, a notification corresponding to the event; storing in a queue, when event data generated from the received notification matches a conditional expression in a profile associated with the event, the event data, wherein the queue is associated with at least one of change management information corresponding to the event and a recipient of the change management information, the event data stored in the queue including a transfer time set on the basis of the profile, further comprising: updating, in a case where a transfer time is set for the queue in which the event data is stored, when the transfer time set in the event data is earlier than the transfer time set for the queue, the transfer time set for the queue with the transfer time set in the event data; and setting, in a case where no transfer time is set for the queue in which the event data is stored, the transfer time set in the event data as the transfer time for the queue; and sending, when a determined transfer time has come, all the pieces of event data stored in the queue to a client that is the recipient as a single notification, the determined transfer time comprising an earliest time out of transfer times set in respective pieces of event data stored in the queue or an earliest time out of transfer times for the queue.