Patent ID: 7814372

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing a total count of an occurrence of a parameter in an application for a current time period and a past time period; normalizing, using one or more processors, the total count of the current time period based on another count during the current time period, wherein the total count of the current time period is normalized based on information regarding measurement, the information regarding measurement is one or more of a total number of users making requests, a day of a week, an hour of a day, or an amount of traffic to the application; determining a frequency of the occurrence of the parameter for the current time period and the past time period based on the normalized total count; determining whether the frequency of the current time period compared to the past time period transgresses a threshold; and based on the determination, providing a rater alert to a user, the rater alert including presentation of a graph of the frequency of the occurrence from the current time period and the past time period to the user.