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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2006
Colin Goodall, Rumson, NJ (US);
William H. Dumouchel, Tucson, AZ (US);
Deepak Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Colin Goodall, Rumson, NJ (US);
William H. DuMouchel, Tucson, AZ (US);
Deepak Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for anomaly detection in a data stream are disclosed. In one embodiment, the present method detects an anomalous condition in a data stream, by calculating at least one expected base event count for at least one event in the data stream for a time interval, obtaining an actual event count for the at least one event in the data stream, applying at least one shrinkage factor to the at least one expected base event count to obtain at least one actual estimated event count and detecting the anomalous condition in accordance with the actual event count and the at least one actual estimated event count.