Administering checkpoints for incident analysis

US8943366B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8943366-B2
Application numberUS-201213570819-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateAug 9, 2012
Priority dateAug 9, 2012
Publication dateJan 27, 2015
Grant dateJan 27, 2015

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Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for administering checkpoints for incident analysis are provided. Embodiments include a checkpoint manager receiving from each incident analyzer of a plurality of incident analyzers, a checkpoint indicating an incident having the oldest identification number still in analysis by the incident analyzer at the time associated with the checkpoint. The checkpoint manager examines each received checkpoint to identify, as a restore incident, an incident having the oldest identification number indicated in any of the received checkpoints. A monitor sends to the incident analyzers, a stream of incidents beginning with the identified restore incident and continuing with any incidents having a newer identification number than the identified restore incident. Each incident analyzer processes from the stream of incidents only the incident indicated in the last checkpoint of the incident analyzer and any subsequent incidents having a newer identification number than the indicated incident.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of administering checkpoints for incident analysis in a distributed processing system, the method comprising: receiving, by a checkpoint manager of the distributed processing system, from each incident analyzer of a plurality of incident analyzers, a checkpoint indicating an incident having the oldest identification number still in analysis by the incident analyzer at the time associated with the checkpoint; examining each received checkpoint by t…

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What does patent US8943366B2 cover?
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for administering checkpoints for incident analysis are provided. Embodiments include a checkpoint manager receiving from each incident analyzer of a plurality of incident analyzers, a checkpoint indicating an incident having the oldest identification number still in analysis by the incident analyzer at the time associated with the checkpoint.…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Carey James E, Sanders Philip J, IBM
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06F11/079. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jan 27 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
What related patents are in patentsdb?
We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).