Patent ID: 8332018

Claim:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing program instructions executable by a processor to perform a method to predict at least one system event, the method comprising: capturing of measured values s j of at least one primary parameter S j within at least one time window of presettable length, for at least one part of the captured primary parameters S j , determining a probability of a trend p j for a number of said time windows that can be set in advance, for at least one part of the captured primary parameters S j , determining a value for the relevance of the time windows window for a the prediction of at least one system event, for at least one part of the captured primary parameters S j and for at least one part of the time windows, constructing at least one feature M to describe the system through analysis of the probability of a trend p′ j and of the value for the relevance of the time windows, classifying at least one feature M, and signaling of a system event and/or initiation of system-event-related measures according to the results of the classifying, wherein the probabilities of a trend p j for time windows of a length L, L min ≦L≦L max , and for times of prediction H, H min ≦H≦H max are determined.