Patent Document ID: 20090222396
Application ID: 12041353
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for problem determination in a computing system, the method comprising: providing a database accessible by a computer device; providing to said database data representing events and problems patterns received from a computing system resource, said problem determining comprising associating a potential source of problems with received events; configuring received events and potential problems associated with these events as entries into an adaptive event-problem (EP) matrix; providing a storage device having dictionary entries comprising a weighting factor associated with one or more terms in said EP matrix and representative of the relative importance of said one or more terms; applying a weighting factor to said one or more terms in said EP matrix; and, utilizing a Singular Value Decomposition on said EP matrix having said weighted terms to construct an event-problem data structure representing an event-problem vector space comprising associative patterns and correlations in the event-problem data, wherein the use of weighted terms in said SVD technique enables an accelerated and accurate convergence to a set of specific associated problems for accurate and rapid problem determination.