ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,605, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Trace classification and log association for distributed system troubleshooting" was invented by Ying Mo (San Jose, Calif.), Rui Liu (Beijing), Yue Chen (Beijing), Ya Xiao (Beijing), Hu Wang (Beijng, China) and Simao Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for a troubleshooting system. Selection of a trace is received. The trace is associated with raw log lines. A trace category of the trace is identified, where the trace category is associated with a common log lines template. Common log lines are gener...