Patent ID: 6304875
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method for performing event recordings in a service database system, the database comprising measurement tables (MT) which comprise consecutive rows (Ri), whereby a single row comprises data related to a single measurement object and the measurement objects of one measurement table are of the same type so that they form a measurement group, the method comprising the steps ofreceiving service requests (SR) into the system during whose processing it is necessary to count the number of events occurring per each measurement object,activating the provision of the service as a response to the service request,performing the recording of events by incrementing the measurement object-specific counters for each different event during the processing of the service request for a time determined by a certain, predefined recording interval, andperforming the recording of counter values by storing the measurement object-specific counter values after each recording interval,excluding an individual measurement object from the measurement of the measurement group by deactivating the object in question and including an individual measurement object in the measurement by activating the object in question, whereby the value which indicates deactivation or activation is assigned to the measurement object-specific activation parameter whose value is updated as a response to the measurement object-specffic activation/deactivation information provided by the user,characterized in that the method further comprises the steps ofmaintaining a single measurement counter copied to N copies on rows of the measurement table corresponding to each measurement object so that each of the N counters belongs to a different counter group, whereby N counter groups are located on the row,dividing the time domain into consecutive recording intervals (TP) so that only the values of a selected counter group located on the row are incremented during each recording interval, and the counter group to be incremented is changed from one recording interval to another,handling the recording and zeroing of counter values during a recording interval one measurement object at a time by processing the rows of the measurement table one at a time so that the recording and zeroing of the counter values of a single counter group which is located on the row is performed during the recording intervals which are left between the recording intervals during which the counters of the counter group in question are incremented,storing the value of the activation parameter of the measurement object on the row which corresponds to the measurement object and checking said value during row processing before the recording and zeroing phase, whereby the recording and zeroing phase is performed, if the value of the checked parameter indicates that the measurement object is active,performing the zeroing of the counter groups of the measurement object so that for each counter group of the measurement object the first processing after the activation of the measurement object in question is forced to be such that the recording of the counter group is blocked, but the zeroing of the counter group is allowed.