Granted Patent B2

US 7,468,662 · App. 11/455,210 · Granted Dec 23, 2008

Abstract

Claims (6)

1. A method for monitoring events, comprising:

defining alert events based on primitive event types in an environment monitored by one or more monitoring devices;

setting alert parameters for each alert event;

combining alert events to create a composite alert event based on a plurality of alert events by providing an operator for combining the primitives where the primitives function as operands of the operator;

determining if multiple events comprising the composite alert event have occurred by monitoring one or more tracking engines; and

parsing the composite alert event by an event manager to provide an event definition to the one or more tracking engines.

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