Patent ID: 7818318

Claim:
Computer-accessible medium which includes a set of software instructions for determining a feature of a particular pattern, wherein, when the software instructions are executed by a processing arrangement, the processing arrangement is configured to execute procedures comprising: a) receiving data records, wherein at least one record of the data records includes non-stationary data; b) obtaining particular patterns that are associated with at least some of the data records; and c) determining whether the particular pattern is an unexpected pattern based on the obtained particular patterns, wherein the processing arrangement is configured to at least one of display at least one result of the determination or record the at least one result, wherein the data records include input sequences, wherein, and in step (c), the processing arrangement is programmed: i. scan the input sequences to determine an interestingness measure of at least one event in the input sequences, and ii. select a particular pattern derived from the particular patterns which has a largest interestingness measure; wherein at least one portion of at least one of the particular patterns is expressed using at least one temporal logic expression.