Patent ID: 8442947
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of handling performance data comprising a set of events, comprising: storing an event record for each event as a set of blocks, each block containing one or more attributes of the event; and reducing the storage space occupied by each event record in discrete steps, each step including a reduction process that reduces the size of one of the set of blocks, wherein the set of blocks comprises one or more of: wherein at least one of the steps includes a space block reduction process that reduces the size of the space block, wherein the space block reduction process results in a plurality of event records having identical space blocks, the method further comprising aggregating those event records having identical space blocks, wherein aggregating the event records includes creating a new event record with a time block which is a union of the time blocks of the aggregated event records and a space block which is the same as the space block of each of the aggregated event records, and wherein the new event record has an information block which contains performance attributes calculated using a probability density function unifying the performance attributes included in the information blocks of the aggregated event records.