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US5847972:
Method and apparatus for graphically analzying a log-file
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Eick, Stephen Gregory; Naperville, IL 60565
Lucas, Paul Jay; Naperville, IL 60540
Schmidt, Jeffrey Donald; Aurora, IL 60504
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None
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| Published / Filed: |
1998-12-08
/ 1993-09-24
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| Application Number: |
US1993000126846
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06F 11/32;
G06F 11/34;
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IPC-7:
G06K 15/22;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06F11/32P;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
709/246;
345/440;
714/E11.181;
Original:
364/514.A;
395/140;
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| Field of Search: |
364/408,921.9,514 A
395/140,142,119,575
371/15.1
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US1993000126846 |
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| Abstract: |
A technique for interactively analyzing system log-files. System log-files, which are monitored by technical personnel and systems specialists to determine system performance, status, and software faults, are often generated during various hardware and software monitoring operations. Each log-file contains time stamped reports. This technique is especially useful for analyzing large log-files. A new release of software may contain many incremental versions that must be tested. The testing of each incremental version may generate a log-file containing thousands of reports. Using this technique, reports are correlated, faults are isolated, and temporal patterns are recognized more quickly and efficiently than by using conventional, non-graphical techniques.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Voeltz, Emanuel T.; Peeso, Thomas
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DE ES FR GB IT SE
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First Claim:
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What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. Apparatus comprising:
- means for originating a plurality of time-stamped messages, each message having a set of characteristics;
- means for visually displaying a plurality of symbols, each symbol corresponding to a respective message of said plurality of messages;
- each symbol having an appearance that varies according to a first characteristic of the set of characteristics of its respective message;
- each symbol having a position that is determined by the time-stamp and a second characteristic of the set of characteristics of its respective message; and
- means for displaying the message corresponding to any symbol.
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| Other Abstract Info: |
DERABS G95-132823
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| Other References: |
"The X Window System", R. W. Scheifler, J. Gettys, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 5, No. 2, Apr. 1986, pp. 79-109.
(31 pages)
Cited by 20 patents
"Seesoft-A tool for Visualizing Line Oriented Software Statistics", S. G. Eick, J. L. Steffen, E.E. Sumner, Jr. --IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 18, No. 11, Nov. 1992, pp. 957-968.
(12 pages)
Cited by 5 patents
[ISI abstract]
"Graphical Analysis of Computer Log Files", S. G. Eick, M. C. Nelson, J. D. Schmidt, Dec. 19, 1992, pp. 1-22.
"Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond programming Languages", B. Shneiderman, Univ. of Maryland, IEEE, 1993, pp. 57-69.
T. Lehr et al., "Visualizing Performance Debugging", Computer, vol. 22, No. 10, Oct. 1989, pp. 38-50.
(14 pages)
Cited by 2 patents
S. Aikawa et al., "ParaGraph: A Graphical tuning Tool for Multiprocessor System", Fujitsu-Scientific and Technical Journal, vol. 29, No. 2, Jun. 1993, pp. 119-127.
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[ISI abstract]
"Translation of Data Generated by the AIX 3.2 Trace Facility into a Format for Visualization of the Data", , IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 36, No. 7, Jul. 1993, pp. 39-41.
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