195 results about "Event tracking" patented technology

A data management method wherein a real-time history of a database system is stored as a logical representation and the logical representation is then used for any point-in-time recovery of the database system. More specifically, a method for capturing transaction data, binary data changes, metadata, and events, and for tracking a real-time history of a database system according to the events. The method enables tracking and storing of consistent checkpoint images of the database system, and also enables tracking of transaction activities between checkpoints. The database system may be recovered to any consistent checkpoint or to any point between two checkpoints.

Program code loaded for execution by a computer can be dynamically instrumented to collect event data by inserting an instruction at a trace point within the program code as loaded in a memory space of a computer, where the trace point corresponds to the beginning of a predefined function of the program selected for event tracing. The instruction provides for the direction of the execution of said computer to a function proxy routine, which includes a call to an instance of the predefined function. Event data is collected in connection with the calling of the instance of the predefined function.

Use of configuration information to specify particular conditions under which trace events are to be logged. When accessing trace events generated by various modules, configuration data is referred to specifying condition(s) under which the trace events should be logged. If the log condition(s) are satisfied, the trace events are logged. Otherwise, they may be discarded. Thus, the number of trace events in the log may be significantly reduced to those trace events that satisfy conditions of interest to an evaluator.

A software engine runs in a compatible mode with off-the-shelf word processors, e-mail programs and presentation development software and other document development software. The software engine is used for the security classification of sensitive or national security classified information in electronic and resultant hard copy document formats. The software engine ensures that the individual considers all informational portions of a document, that appropriate document marks are employed, that document marks in their electronic format are persistent and that all necessary information, such as classification guides, standards and security regulations, provided by the organization to classify information is at hand and immediately available. In addition to the document sensitivity or classification determination and marking support, the software engine tracks and controls documents and the electronic media storing documents. It also provides warnings and alarms, ad hoc document security analysis and reporting capability to system security administrators with respect to document or network events or captured information that may be indicative of risk to the information requiring protection. The software also provides the ability for an organization to centrally establish and control a security classification or sensitivity marking hierarchy for automated security classification support.

A system and method provides efficient and highly reliable customer tracking. A Personal Digital Key (PDK) is associated with and carried by a user. The PDK wirelessly communicates with a receiver/decoder circuit (RDC) that can be coupled to a variety of electronic devices. The RDC authenticates the PDK based on received data and stores information to track customers and provide improved service. A PDK can be assigned to one more groups of PDKs based on the received data. Specific functions can then be executed based on the group assignments. In a casino environment, the system enables functions such as group gaming, back betting, event tracking, and notification services.

An event tracking system tracks customer interactions to obtain product information that are made across plural contact mediums and displays an intuitive directed graph for analysis of the customer interactions. Each customer interaction is logged at each contact medium with a labeled reference associated with the content of the interaction, a time stamp and an identifier for the product or product user. An event modeling engine analyzes the log to identify contact sessions as contacts by the same identifier within a predetermined time so that an event tracking graphical user interface module prepares each contact session for display as a path of nodes interconnected by edges. Selected directed graph characteristics are highlighted, such as transitions from one contact medium to another or contact session volumes associated with an edge that have a relative volume compared with other contact sessions.

A fraud rule can be applied to a transaction according to a first authorization parameter. The transaction is passed to a filtering rule which is applied to the transaction according to a second authorization parameter. The filtering rule can approve the transaction for processing or pass the transaction on to a third party analysis. The fraud and filtering rules can apply the same analysis to the transaction with the exception of the authorization parameters. The fraud rule and filtering rules can analyze historical attributes of a consumer account.

A method is disclosed for enhancing the predictability, scalability and cost effectiveness of online advertising with voice over IP connectivity and event tracking technologies. A service provider maintains a list of merchants who have offered to pay for customer VoIP calls to their establishment. The service provider maintains a real time connection with this merchant list and renders an advertisement in a distinguishing way in real time. A potential customer who views this advertisement on a web page may establish a VoIP call session with a merchant by selecting a free click-to-call link on the web page. When the customer places the call, the service provider pays for the call. Merchants in turn pay the service provider for displaying the ads that generated the calls on a price per call, price per impression or fixed fee basis.

A method and apparatus in a distributed processing environment for tracing events includes receiving a request to trace an event on a local processor, acquiring a sequence identifier associated with the local processor that associates the event with a chronological sequence of events on the local processor, storing the sequence identifier and information about the event in a local event trace associated with the local processor, providing the sequence identifer and information about the event to a remote processor for storage in a remote event trace. Consolidating the event traces from multiple processors into a single chronological event trace includes accessing a local event trace having one or more local trace events associated with the local processor, identifying a trace event entry having a local sequence identifier and referencing a remote processor, accessing a remote event trace associated with the remote processor and having a remote trace event entry matching the local sequence identifier, comparing the remote trace event entry with the local sequence identifier and one or more local trace events in the local event trace, and inserting the remote trace event entry into the local event trace based upon the comparison.

A system that tracks information related to security events in a gaming environment includes a plurality of gaming machines, a database storing data regarding security events, and a security event tracking server in communication with the gaming machines and database. Each gaming machine can have an electronic tracking device adapted to detect wirelessly identifying information from portable electronic devices proximate the gaming machine with respect to the occurrence of a security event at or near the gaming machine. The server includes a processor configured to receive information regarding security events and mobile device identifying information, associate the security events with the identifying information, and store the associated security events and identifying information to the database. Mobile device identifying information can be detected passively without any affirmative input by any user of the mobile devices. Patterns of repeated mobile device detections associated with multiple security events can be determined.

A multiprocessor data processing system includes a shared main memory and a plurality of processors connected to the memory utilizing a system bus. Data is transferred utilizing the system bus. The plurality of processors include a first processor and a second processor. The first processor includes a first cache, and the second processor includes a second cache. The multiprocessor data processing system executes a test program. During execution of the test program, a first and a second trace are generated. The first trace is generated by monitoring all events occurring at a first location within the system. The second trace is generated by monitoring all events occurring at a second location within the system. Each event is associated with a time of occurrence of that event. The first trace includes each event which was monitored at the first location and the time associated with each event. The second trace includes each event which was monitored at the second location and the time associated with each event. The first and second traces are stored and utilized to determine if the multiprocessor data processing system is operating correctly.

A method includes logging past event sequences in a knowledge base, receiving a real-time event sequence, comparing the real-time event sequence to the past event sequences to determine a predicted event sequence for the real-time event sequence, and providing the predicted event sequence, a suggested course of action with predicted outcome, and a recommendation of a user who previously encountered the event sequence. In the above manner, use of subjectively characterized and/or raw historic data to match real-time event sequences provides users with both subjective advice from those who had previously faced similar conditions as well as raw statistical predictions as to what is expected to come next. This allows the users to take a course of action that results in the most desirable outcome.

Various embodiments of the present invention are related to incident tracking systems and methods. A method allows for receiving input that specifies an incident at a facility, defining a search area adjacent to a position of the incident, and displaying one or more other incidents that occurred at the facility within the search area. A further method allows for dynamically plotting, each time a search area is changed on a map of a facility and an associated date range is indicated, positions on the map within the search area so as to indicate where incidents have occurred at the facility within the date range. Another method allows for receiving input that specifies a name of a person associated with an incident at a facility, and automatically flagging the person as being of interest if the person has been involved in one or more other incidents at the facility.

A process operation display apparatus includes a storage section configured to store a process control table in which a set of a process ID of a process and a user ID of a user is written. An event trace data outputting section detects events of about execution start and execution end of an executed process and generates an event trace data based on a process ID of the executed process and the detected events. A user ID added event trace data generating section generates a user ID added event trace data in which a set of the event trace data and the user ID corresponding to the process ID contained in the event trace data is written, by referring to the process control table based on the process ID. A display control section displays a set of the process ID of the executed process and the user ID of the user who instructed the execution of the executed process on a display unit based on the user ID added event trace data.

An electronic device that responds to the fatigue degree of user's eyes, and a display control method of the electronic device are provided. An operation method of the electronic device includes detecting an operation event, tracking a state of a user and a state of the electronic device in response to the operation event, changing an operation associated with displaying a screen in the electronic device based on a result of tracking and outputting a result corresponding to the changed option.

The various implementations of the present invention are provided as a network computer system configured to allow for the tracking and reporting of user-specified events, including but not limited to, performance metrics and attendance data. This network computer system provides a user interface that allows a user to create metrics to be monitored, view and update event-related information, and to configure and review various pre-programmed and ad hoc reports so the users can monitor and evaluate performance metrics over time. Further, a wide variety of user and system generated alerts and messages or message events can be configured, allowing for automated and manual messaging related to the attendance or performance metrics that are being monitored. Alerts can be provided via email, non-electronic mail, telephone, SMS, facsimile, social networking sites and services (such as “tweets”), etc. In at least one implementation of the present invention, a computer-implemented method of tracking and reporting student performance and attendance-related events for an educational environment is provided.

A system provides mechanisms and techniques to retrieve trace data from a trace buffer residing in a data storage system. The software program operating on a processor within the data storage system operates in trace mode to produce trace data in the trace buffer upon occurrence of trace events. An event trace routine operates in response to a system call to access the trace buffer and return either a current value of a trace buffer pointer or the current trace buffer pointer as well as trace data read from the trace buffer beginning at a location and in an amount as specified in the system call to the event trace routine. The trace capture process can operate either within the data storage system or preferably on a remote host computer system to access trace data in the trace buffer in the data storage system by using the event trace routine. The trace capture process can periodically query the event trace routine with a frequency determined by an adaptive timing algorithm in order to detect the addition of trace data to the trace buffer. Upon detecting such a condition, the trace capture process can use the event trace routine to retrieve the trace data from the trace buffer. The trace capture process can also detect if trace data is written beyond the end of the trace buffer and can perform the proper sequence of trace data access operations using the event trace routine in order to provide continuous remote access to all trace data produced in the trace buffer.

The invention provides a visual real-time monitoring operation and maintenance method of a distributed system. The method comprises the steps that noninvasive event tracking is conducted in each application system, and log information of each application system is collected; open-source plug-ins are deployed on an operating system of applications, and hardware running information and operation loginformation of the operating system are collected; the collected various data information is transmitted to a stream-oriented computation framework cluster through a message-oriented middleware cluster, and the stream-oriented computation framework cluster stores the received data information into a file in an HBase or HDFS format; based on a Kibana framework in an ELK framework, it is achieved that various views are displayed in a Web page with the combination of report plug-ins in the industry, and data in the views is pushed and updated in real time through distributed caches. The visual real-time monitoring operation and maintenance method has the advantages that the operation and maintenance difficulty of the distributed system is greatly reduced, the operation and maintenance efficiency of a distributed application is improved, and a strong guarantee is provided for construction, deployment, operation, maintenance, upgrading, reconstruction and other processes of the system.

The invention provides an event tracking point processing method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of: receiving event tracking point data transmitted from a front-end page, wherein the event tracking point data is generated by an event tracking point in the front-end page and capturing a user operation, and the event tracking point in the front-end page updates the loading when the front-end page is loaded; verifying the event tracking point data transmitted from the front-end page and adding a timestamp to the event tracking point data transmitted from the front-end page to form the target event tracking point data; storing the target event tracking point data; sending the target event tracking point data to a server. According to the method and apparatus, the event tracking point is disposed in the front-end page, a corresponding code is downloaded from the server when the front-end page is loaded, and when the event tracking point is modified, the dynamic deployment of the event tracking point can be achieved by loading the front-end page.

A discovery server is provided for tracking an object in a supply chain in accordance with a plurality of predefined events. The object is identifiable by an object identifier. The discovery server comprises the following elements. A communication interface is configured to communicate with each of a plurality of partners in the supply chain using a predefined protocol. A data store is configured to store events for the object, the events being received from the plurality of partners. Each event stored in the data store an object identifier, a life cycle step, a partner identifier and an timing identifier. Also, a processor is configured to search the data store in response to an inquiry regarding the object.

Providing detection of computing application malfunctions by performing at least the following: collecting a plurality of computing events that correspond to a computing application and a plurality of addresses associated with the plurality of computing events, generating an event trace that comprises the plurality of computing events and the plurality of addresses, constructing at least one sample fingerprint that represents a current behavior of the computing application using at least the event trace, comparing the at least one sample fingerprint with a behavior model that represents an expected operation of the computing application; and determining whether the computing application is malfunctioning based upon the comparison of the at least one sample fingerprint and the behavioral model.