Patent Document ID: 8539510
Application ID: 12400626

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: capturing a stream of operational events; and materializing, by an activity monitoring computer system, a resulting view, wherein the resulting view comprises a dynamically defined view of the stream of operational events, wherein the materializing of the resulting view comprises: forming a row for at least one event in the stream of operational events; capturing a context that comprises data relevant to the at least one event; and joining the context with the row to form a compound row within the resulting view; and when a business rule applied to the resulting view holds true, outputting a reportlet corresponding to an alert that is based at least in part on the business rule.

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Claim 12:
12. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising outputting a reportlet to a rule engine, wherein the reportlet comprises information relevant to an event comprising the stream of operational events and additional context.