Patent Document ID: 8494977
Application ID: 11864457

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of querying policy violations that, when executed by a processor, causes the computer to perform the steps of: populating a repository with a plurality of notifications, each notification of the plurality of notifications pertaining to adherence to a respective desired state in an information network; identifying, for each respective notification, a rule defining the respective desired state that the respective notification pertains to, wherein the rule further comprises an object, scope and desired state, the notification indicating deviation from a desired state, the deviation defined by the desired state based on an expected value actual state based on an actual value, the object indicative of a type of network entity, and the scope indicative of a subset of network objects for which the desired state is scrutinized, thus indicating an object being within the scope of the rule; presenting a display of each respective notification, the display including, for each respective notification, the identified rule and a network entity that triggered the notification; receiving a selection of a one of the plurality of notifications; computing related notifications of the plurality of notification relating to the selected notification, wherein the related notifications are related to the selected notification with respect to at least one of the network entity that triggered the selected notification and rules relating to the identified rule for the selected notification; and filtering the display to remove from the display notifications of the plurality of notifications not related to the selected notification.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the notifications indicate a violation of a rule, the violation defined by an actual state deviating from a desired state.