US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Feb. 17 for "Graphical display of plot of bins over which items represented within log events having a power law-oriented distribution are organized" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,554, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graphical display of plot of bins over which items represented within log events having a power law-oriented distribution are organized" was invented by Martin Fraser Arlitt (Calgary, Canada), Manish Marwah (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mark Kendall Vaszary (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each item represented within log events that have a power law-oriented distribution, first and second metrics for the item are computed based on the log events which pertain to the item. The items are organized over bins according to the first metric....