Patent ID: 8688606

Claim:
A method executed by a processor for analyzing a plurality of reports, said method comprising: predicting results of future reports based on past reports; identifying a first report that deviates from its predicted results with a change detection module; and performing a dependency analysis and a usage analysis with a dependency analysis module, said performing of the dependency analysis including: identifying at least one second report that deviates from its predicted results, and labeling the first report and the at least one second report as sharing a dependency, and said performing of the usage analysis including: identifying at least one report that has previously been analyzed by a human analyst, said at least one report that has previously been analyzed by a human analyst having been requested by the human analyst in response to said identifying of the first report, and subsequent to said identifying at least one report that has previously been analyzed by a human analyst, labeling the first report and the at least one report analyzed by the human analyst as sharing a dependency based on the fact that said at least one report that has previously been analyzed by a human analyst was requested by the human analyst in response to said identifying of the first report.