ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,244, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Automatic online log template mining" was invented by Chen Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Lingfei Wu (Elmsford, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for log message aggregation include determining a first similarity distance score for a first incoming message by comparing the first incoming message to one or more stored templates. It is determined that the first incoming message imperfectly matches a matched template of the one or more stored templates, based on the first similarity distance score. A token in the imperfectly ...