Patent ID: 8825852

Claim:
A system for relevant alert delivery in a distributed processing system, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the apparatus to carry out the steps of: identifying by an event analyzer one or more alerts; sending by the event analyzer to an alert analyzer all the alerts identified by the event analyzer; assigning by the alert analyzer the identified alerts to an alerts pool; determining by the alert analyzer in dependence upon alert analysis rules and the alerts in the alert pool whether to suppress any alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts to one or more components of the distributed processing system, wherein: the system further comprises an events pool that has a predetermined initial period of time and computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the system to carry out the step of assigning by the event analyzer each received event to an events pool, including extending for each event assigned to the events pool the predetermined initial period of time by a particular period of time assigned to the event.