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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2002
Kimmo Hätönen, Helsinki, FI;
Markus Miettinen, Helsinki, FI;
Kimmo Hätönen, Helsinki, FI;
Markus Miettinen, Helsinki, FI;
Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for compressing a log record information provided e.g. to a monitoring system. Frequent patterns in the log information are detected and, then, redundant frequent patterns whose value or record combination is a subset of a value or record combination of another one of said detected frequent patterns are removed. Accordingly, a general method is provided which can be applied to all event logs arising from communication networks or other monitoring systems. The detection of frequent patterns is only based on value or record combinations and is thus independent of the specific application. On the other hand, the size of the stored log files can be decreased remarkably while remaining readable for human beings.