Monitoring of computer events and steps linked by dependency relationships to generate completed processes data and determining the completed processed data meet trigger criteria

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising software for performing operations of a data processing system when executing on a digital processor, a number of steps are carried out, comprising:

• capturing user interaction events which arise in the system with an interface;
• automatically monitoring the user interaction events with a process engine to effectuate the steps of:
• identifying completion of steps, each of the steps comprising a plurality of events of the user interaction events, wherein the plurality of events are linked by a first set of dependency relationships;
• and
• identifying completion of processes, each of the processes comprising a plurality of the steps, wherein the plurality of steps are linked by a second set of dependency relationships,
• generating process data from the completed processes for transference to a trigger engine;
• the trigger engine for receiving and processing the process data to effectuate the steps of:
• determining whether at least one of the completed processes meet one of a plurality of trigger criteria;
• in response to the at least one of the completed processes meeting a trigger criteria, calling a software function;
• saving the process data generated by the process engine with a database manager;
• and
• generating reports according to the saved process data with a reporting engine, wherein the process engine processes the steps to simultaneously recognise plurality of potential processes, wherein each potential process is a process that may result from additional steps that have not yet been identified, and, once a completed step has been identified from the plurality of potential steps, abandons the remaining potential processes.

A data processing system comprising a processor, a memory, and a storage device, wherein the processor comprises:

• an interface for capturing user interaction events which arise in the system,
• a process engine for automatically monitoring the user interaction events to:
• identify completion of steps, each of the steps comprising a plurality of events of the user interaction events, wherein the plurality of events are linked by a first set of dependency relationships;
• and
• identify completion of processes, each of the processes comprising a plurality of the steps, wherein the plurality of steps are linked by a second set of dependency relationships,
• generate process data from the completed processes for transference to a trigger engine;
• the trigger engine for receiving and processing the process data to:
• determine whether at least one of the completed processes meet one of a plurality of trigger criteria;
• in response to the at least one of the completed processes meeting a trigger criteria, call a software function;
• a database manager for saving the process data generated by the process engine;
• a reporting engine for generating reports according to the saved process data, wherein the process engine processes the user interaction events to simultaneously recognise a plurality of potential steps, and abandons other potential steps when completion of a step is determined;
• and wherein the first and second set of dependency relationships include Boolean AND operators.