A technique for managing network elements significantly reduces the amount of monitoring related traffic by using a combination of aperiodic polling and asynchronous event reporting. A global resource (e.g., a network of interconnected nodes or resources) is partitioned into a plurality of separate nodes,...http://www.google.com/patents/US20020138599?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020138599 - Method and apparatus for efficient Reactive monitoring
