Patent ID: 7930330
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for scaled exponential smoothing, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium embodying computer program instructions, said instructions, when executed on a computer cause the computer to perform operations comprising: computing a first product of an inverse of a constant weighting factor and a difference between 1 and the constant weighting factor; computing a second product of the first product and an event value for an affected computing object at a first time; computing a smoothed value of the event value for the affected computing object at the first time as a sum of the second product and a preceding smoothed value of the affected computing object at a second time, wherein the second time precedes the first time; setting a smoothed value for an unaffected computing object at the first time to a preceding smoothed value of the unaffected computing object at the second time; and using a plurality of smoothed values for computing objects over a time period in a computing application, wherein the plurality of smoothed values includes the smoothed value for the affected computing object at the first time, the computing objects include the affected computing object and the unaffected computing object, and the time period includes the first time and the second time.