Patent ID: 8554857

Claim:
A method for sending a notification of an event in a network environment, the network environment comprising a server and a plurality of clients connected to the server via a network, the method comprising: receiving, at the server from a client in response to occurrence of an event, a notification corresponding to the event into a storage unit; storing, in response to a generation of event data generated from the received notification and matching a conditional expression in a profile associated with the event, the event data in a queue associated with at least one of change management information corresponding to the event and a recipient of the change management information, the storing comprising setting a transfer time in the event data on a basis of the profile, and wherein setting the transfer time further comprises: 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, wherein the determined transfer time is an earliest time out of transfer times set in respective pieces of event data stored in the queue.