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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1996
Mohan Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Laurie Beth Turner, Atlanta, GA (US);
Leo Yue Yeung, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An object oriented network event management framework for managing network protocol events in a computer network. The framework contains a network protocol event class object which includes a first set of network protocol event types, i.e. class definitions, which occur at multiple protocol layers. The network protocol event class object also includes a second set of network protocol event types which occur at specific protocol layers. A network protocol event object is derived from the network protocol event class which specifies network protocol event types from the first and second sets in the network protocol event object which are of interest to an application in the network. Events of the specified network protocol event types are stored in the network protocol event object as the events occur in the network. Upon request, the stored events sent to the application.