Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1994-05-25
1996-06-18
Ramirez, Ellis B.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364550, 364580, G01B 2100
Patent
active
055285163
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method is provided for efficiently determining the source of problems in a complex system based on observable events. The problem identification process is split into two separate activities of (1) generating efficient codes for problem identification and (2) decoding the problems at runtime. Various embodiments of the invention contemplate creating a causality matrix which relates observable symptoms to likely problems in the system, reducing the causality matrix into a minimal codebook by eliminating redundant or unnecessary information, monitoring the observable symptoms, and decoding problems by comparing the observable symptoms against the minimal codebook using various best-fit approaches. The minimal codebook also identifies those observable symptoms for which the greatest benefit will be gained if they were monitored as compared to others. By defining a distance measure between symptoms and codes in the codebook, the invention can tolerate a loss of symptoms or spurious symptoms without failure. Changing the radius of the codebook allows the ambiguity of problem identification to be adjusted easily. The invention also allows probabilistic and temporal correlations to be monitored.
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Kliger Shmuel
Yemini Shaula
Yemini Yechiam
Ramirez Ellis B.
System Management Arts, Inc.
Wachsman Hal D.
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