ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,573, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Event pattern prediction" was invented by Jonathan Ian Settle (Dursley, Great Britain), Fred Harald Klein (Berlin), Zane Clayton Bray (London) and Isabell Sippli (Metzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting the formation of event groups in complex and enterprise-related information technology (IT) environments is provided. In some instances, an event pattern is predicted based upon events arriving within a duration that matches a historical pattern for an event and surpasses a user-defined threshold of events that are receive...