Prevention of event flooding

Abstract

An apparatus and method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the apparatus comprising: responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event; responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values; responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.

1 . An apparatus for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the apparatus comprising:
 responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;   responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;   responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and   responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, a communication component communicating the potential event to a filtering component for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus  claim 1 , wherein an event is a number of changing activities over a time period. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 3 , wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value. 
     
     
         5 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus of  claim 5 , wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value. 
     
     
         7 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale. 
     
     
         9 . A method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the method comprising:
 responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;   responsive to determining a potential event, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;   responsive to a positive determination, determining if the met threshold value, is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and   responsive to a second positive determination, disregarding the potential event.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9  wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, communicating the potential event, to a filtering component, for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein an event is a number of changing activities over a time period. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending, set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 13  wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value. 
     
     
         16 . A computer program comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed:
 responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;   responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;   responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and   responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.   
     
     
         17 . The computer program of  claim 16  wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, a communication component communicating the potential event to a filtering component for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer. 
     
     
         18 . The computer program of  claim 16 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period. 
     
     
         19 . The computer program of  claim 16 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale. 
     
     
         20 . The computer program of  claim 16 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.