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Joris Claessens

Eldar Akchurin

Ivo Jose Garcia Dos Santos

Panos Periorellis

Oliver Nano

Laurent Bussard

Dmitry Starostin

Alexey V Orlov

Christian Geuer-Pollman

A monitor-mine-manage cycle is described, for example, for managing a data center, a manufacturing process, an engineering process or other processes. In various example, the following steps are performed as a continuous automated loop: receiving raw events from an observed system; monitoring the raw events and transforming them into complex events; mining the complex events and reasoning on results; making a set of proposed actions based on the mining; and managing the observed system by applying one or more of the proposed actions to the system. In various examples, the continuous automated loop proceeds while raw events are continuously received from the observed system and monitored. In some examples an application programming interface is described comprising programming statements which allow a user to implement a monitor-mine-manage loop.

Monitor-mine-manage cycle

Information rights management (IRM) systems enable information to be protected after it has been accessed by or delivered to an authorized individual. For example, this might be to allow an email to be viewed for a limited time by specified individuals but to prevent that email from being forwarded. However, existing IRM systems are limited in the situations in which they may operate. An IRM server is provided which communicates with one or more policy evaluators which are independent of the IRM server. Results from the different policy evaluators may be combined by the IRM server and one or more identity providers may be used in conjunction with each policy evaluator. By enabling the IRM server to act as a broker between authors, recipients and policy evaluators situations in which IRM systems may operate are greatly extended.

Information rights management

A scoped federation is described which is referenced by a unique identifier and messages relating to the federation include this unique identifier. The federation is scoped by rules which are stored associated with the unique identifier and upon receipt of a request containing the unique identifier, the related rules are checked to determine if the request is valid.

Scoped federations

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