US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Trigger point detection for online root cause analysis and system fault diagnosis" (New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,835, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Trigger point detection for online root cause analysis and system fault diagnosis" was invented by Zhengzhang Chen (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.), Liang Tong (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Dongjie Wang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting trigger points to identify root cause failure and fault events is provided. The method includes collecting, by a monitoring agent, entity metrics data and system key performance indicator (KPI) data, integrating the entity metrics data and the KPI data, constructin...