Appeal No. 2002-0814
Application No. 09/112,261
conditions that are joined by a logical OR operator. See page 7
of Appellants' specification. The user interface 23 and the
event log monitor 22 cooperate to insure that if a condition of a
user defined rule is satisfied, then the condition is satisfied
by information contained in a single database row of the database
24. See page 7 of Appellants' specification. The database 24
stores event information and user defined rule information used
by the management system 10 in response to database commands
received from the event log monitor 22 and the user interface 23.
Moreover, the database 24 receives database queries that request
information stored in the database 24, and generates database
result tables that include the requested information in response
to processing the received database queries. See page 8 of
Appellants specification. As shown in Figure 4, rule evaluation
method 100 is used by the management system 10 to determine
whether a defined rule has been satisfied. In particular, the
management system 10 executes the detection method 100 upon any
change to the information stored in the database 24, and/or a
predetermined periodic interval. The management system 10 in
step 102 queries the database 2 to obtain a rule list that
contains the rules that have been defined in the management
system 10. See page 12 of Appellants' specification. Then, the
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