Patent ID: 7756682

Claim:
A method for monitoring and analyzing an electronic system for one or more alarm conditions, comprising: receiving values of one or more attributes evinced in the electronic system, wherein the electronic system comprises a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar components; providing one or more abstract probabilistic models for modeling a set V of the one or more attribute values, wherein the one or more abstract probabilistic models include one or more parameters each having a numeric value; probabilistically inferring the numeric values of the one or more parameters for each of the one or more abstract probabilistic models modeling the set V through an iterative process comprising a variable number of Bayesian inference iterations until the iterative process converges to a predetermined convergence criterion, wherein each of the one or more abstract probabilistic models when combined with a single inferred number for each of the parameters is defined as a concrete probabilistic model; determining relative probabilities of at least some of the one or more attributes evinced in the electronic system; providing criteria for one or more alarm conditions based upon the relative probabilities of the at least some of the attributes evinced in the electronic system; determining whether any of the one or more alarm conditions are met; and providing a signal and information identifying which of the one or more alarm conditions are met.