Patent ID: 7962610
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer for managing a plurality of computer network elements, comprising: a storage memory; said computer configured for a management console function; and said computer configured for at least one statistical inspector, in communication with said management console function said at least one statistical inspector remotely performing a relevance determination function in connection with an associated network element for collecting, storing in said storage, and manipulating time-based data at said associated network element; said management console function comprising a bin mechanism for collapsing said time-based data stored by said at least one statistical inspector for said network element to identify an historical trend in connection with said network element and/or said plurality of network elements; wherein said at least one statistical inspector comprises: wherein said time-based data are stored in one or more statistical bins and wherein said management console function combines minute bins every hour into hour bins and hour bins into day bins and wherein the contents of the bins are any of: stored locally, reported to a remote management console, and purged, for reducing data storage requirements while consolidating data and preserving the statistical nature of said data; and said statistical inspector using a least-squares method to fit a line through data in a particular bin or a line through the logarithms of the data in the bin to provide a statistical projection that is used in identifying said historical trend.