ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,989, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dynatrace LLC (Boston).
"Fast clustering of log messages" was invented by Esteban Perez Wohlfeil (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented technique is presented for analyzing log messages. The method includes: receiving a plurality of log message from a list of log messages; for each log message in the log messages, generating a fingerprint for the log message and appending the fingerprint to the log message, where the fingerprint is comprised of punctuation characters in the log message; sorting the log messages in the list of log messages according to the punctuation...