Patent ID: 9521035
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, implemented at a system that includes one or more processors, of handling alerts to reduce a number of non-actionable alerts that are provided to an alert handling portion of the system, the method comprising: receiving an alert, wherein the alert is an unstructured alert comprising unstructured data; comparing the alert to one or more of a plurality of known non-actionable alerts, to determine a similarity between the alert and at least one of the known non-actionable alerts, including calculating a similarity distance between the unstructured data of the alert and data of the least one known non-actionable alert, the similarity distance indicating how different the unstructured data of the alert is from the data of the least one known non-actionable alert; and dispatching the alert based on the calculated similarity distance, including: