System for monitoring a target application and method thereof

• Main Authors: MCCULLOUGH GARY OWEN, ZHANG JUN PING, THOMPSON DAVID SCOTT, LOTTMAN MARC ALAN, SWENSON JEFFREY R, HANSEN DARRELL GENE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.06.2008
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A system ( 100 ) for monitoring one ore more target application ( 192, 193 ) includes an application extender module ( 111 ) having a foreign communications module ( 114 ) to communicate a change in a first context in the one or more target applications to one or more foreign applications ( 190 ). The system also includes one or more first monitor modules ( 120, 130 ) having: (a) one or more capture modules ( 121, 131 ) to capture an event in the target applications; (b) one or more comparison modules ( 122, 132 ) to test whether the event includes the change in the first context; and (c) one or more first communications modules ( 123, 133 ) to communicate the change in the first context out of the target applications to the application extender module.