Patent ID: 8890675

Claim:
A method of prioritizing alarms received from two or more sites located at different geographical locations, the method comprising: providing a filter having a priority scenario, the priority scenario is based at least in part on one or more site level attributes, wherein the sites are located at two or more different geographical locations; applying the filter to a system of sites to arrange the sites into a list according to the priority scenario applying an order of priority for the sites, where a site having a highest priority is at a top of the list; doing an alarm review of the site at the top of the list to order the alarms at the site by criticality of the alarms based on ease and uses cases of the particular site and select out any existing active alarm or alarms of the site; silencing the existing active alarm or alarms by taking appropriate action; and re-evaluating a priority of the site having the active alarm or alarms which were silenced; and wherein: re-evaluating the priority pulls the last acted upon site having no longer an active alarm from the top of the list and places the site lower in the list; and the order of priority for the sites is according to a level of urgency and criticality associated with a particular site.