Event notification system for associating an outgoing electronic message with an incoming response

摘要

An event notification system is linked to a plurality of event generation devices and to an event notification network. The system receives event messages from the event generation devices and determines what information should be included in an event notification message that the system transmits to one or more recipient devices. Each event notification message includes coded event message information and a coded unique message identity. A response message receive by the system from a recipient device includes the coded event message information which is used by the system to validate the response.

主权项

1. In an event notification system running on a network appliance, a method for validating a response to an event notification message, comprising:
the event notification system generating the event notification message which correlates to an event received by the event notification system from an event generating device, the event notification message comprising one or more header fields and a message body; inserting coded event message information and uncoded event message information into the body of the event notification message and transmitting the event notification message to at least one recipient device; parsing information comprising the response received from the at least one recipient device to identify uncoded response information and the coded event message information; decoding the coded event message information and comparing it to the identified uncoded response information; and validating the response if at least some of the uncoded response information correlates to the decoded event message information.