US Patent 7177925 Event management system

One embodiment of an event management system, operating on a computer system having event producers and event consumers, includes an initial event handler program and an event queue having a first event. The initial event handler program retrieves the first event from the event queue for event processing. This event processing returns a first response to the initial event handler program, wherein the initial event handler program manages the first event on the event queue based on the first response.