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Program product for processing requests for notice of events
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1996-04-30
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Granted: 1998-06-16
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Expires: 2016-04-30
Abstract
Abstract A program product of processing a request for notice of occurrence of an event in a distributed processing environment may in general terms comprise receiving a request for notice of occurrence of an event, the request including an identification of a resource in which the will occur, and identifying a monitor associated with an indicator of states of the resource. The program product may further comprise obtaining indication of the event. The state characterizing the event may be received from the client or may be a default value. Indication of the event may be obtained by receiving state values and determining if they indicate the event, or periodically monitoring the indicator for occurrence of the event, or requesting monitoring from a monitor associated with the indicator.
Inventors
- 👤 Michael Anthony Schmidt
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 16:13
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L67/00; H04L67/01; H04L67/10; H04L9/00; H04L9/40; H04L69/00; H04L69/30; H04L69/32; H04L69/322; H04L69/329
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
128 words
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means therein for processing a request for notice of occurrence of an event in a distributed computing environment, the event characterized by a state of a network resource, the computer readable program code means in the computer program product comprising: computer readable program code means for receiving a request from a client for notice of the occurrence of an event characterized by a state of a resource, said request comprising an identifier of a prespecified network resource; and computer readable program code means for identifying a monitor associated with an indicator of states of said resource and registering the event from said client irrespective of whether the resource has changed location in the network.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
128 words
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means therein for processing a request for notice of occurrence of an event in a distributed computing environment, the event characterized by a state of a network resource, the computer readable program code means in the computer program product comprising: computer readable program code means for receiving a request from a client for notice of the occurrence of an event characterized by a state of a resource, said request comprising an identifier of a prespecified network resource; and computer readable program code means for identifying a monitor associated with an indicator of states of said resource and registering the event from said client irrespective of whether the resource has changed location in the network.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
20 words
The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said identifier indicates that said resource is of a prespecified resource type.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
47 words
The computer program product of claim 2, wherein said computer readable program code means for identifying said monitor comprises computer readable program code means for determining that monitors associated with indicators of states of resources of said type are identified by identifiers of resources of said type.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
36 words
The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer readable program code means for identifying said monitor comprises computer readable program code means for determining said monitor from a database which correlates resources with monitors.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
31 words
The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer readable program code means for receiving a request comprises computer readable program code means for receiving an identifier of said state.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
22 words
The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer readable program code means for obtaining indication of occurrence of said event.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
36 words
The computer program product of claim 6, wherein said computer readable program code means for determining said state comprises computer readable program code means for determining a state of said resource which characterizes a default event.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
39 words
The computer program product of claim 6, wherein said computer readable program code means for obtaining indication comprises computer readable program code means for receiving data from said indicator and determining whether said data indicates occurrence of said event.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
20 words
The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising computer readable program code means for initiating operation of said indicator.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
47 words
The computer program product of claim 6, wherein said computer readable program code means for obtaining indication comprises computer readable program code means for periodically observing data provided by said indicator and computer readable program code means for determining whether said data indicates occurrence of said event.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
36 words
The computer program product of claim 10, wherein said computer readable program code means for periodically observing data comprises computer readable program code means for preceding said periodically observing data with initiating operation of said indicator.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
51 words
The computer program product of claim 6, wherein said computer readable program code means for obtaining indication comprises: computer readable program code means for requesting notice of occurrence of said event from said monitor; and computer readable program code means for receiving notice of occurrence of said event from said monitor.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
35 words
The computer program product of claim 12, wherein said computer readable program code means for requesting comprises computer readable program code means for providing said identifier of said resource and an identifier of said state.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
44 words
The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising: computer readable program code means for receiving identification of a requester of notice of occurrence of said event; and computer readable program code means for providing notice of occurrence of said event to said requester.
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