METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREVENTING FAILURE

• US 20110154124A1
• Filed: 05/12/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Trustseed SAS
• Original Assignee: Trustseed SAS
• Inventors: Blot-Lefevre, Eric
• Application Number:
  US12/992,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20110154124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/47.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/26 using historical data, averaging values or statistics

Abstract

The method of tracking the evolution of a physical quantity comprises:

• • a step of storing a plurality of dates of transmissions of numerical values requested by requests issued by so-called “requesting” entities destined for the same so-called “issuing” entity sending numerical values,
  • for each so-called transmission actually carried out subsequent to a so-called request, a step of storing the date of transmission and a step of determining the lag between the date of the actual transmission and the corresponding requested transmission date,
  • for each of a plurality of predetermined durations, a step of determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags,
  • a step of determining the evolution of said statistical quantity between at least two of the so-called predetermined durations and
  • a step of comparing said evolution with a predetermined limit value.

Claims

1. A method of tracking the evolution of a physical quantity, comprising:

a step of storing a plurality of dates of transmissions of numerical values requested by requests issued by so-called “

requesting”

entities destined for the same so-called “

issuing”

entity sending numerical values,

for each so-called transmission actually carried out subsequent to a so-called request, a step of storing the date of transmission and a step of determining the lag between the date of the actual transmission and the corresponding requested transmission date,

for each of a plurality of predetermined durations, a step of determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags,

a step of determining the evolution of said statistical quantity between at least two of the so-called predetermined durations and

a step of comparing said evolution with a predetermined limit value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the course of the step of storing a plurality of requested transmission dates, each date requested by a plurality of “

requesting”

entities destined for the same “

issuing”

entity is stored.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the course of the step of determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags, an average is determined, for a so-called predetermined duration, of the lags determined in the course of the lag determination step.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the course of the step of determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags, the statistical quantity is weighted as a function of the numerical value corresponding to the request.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the course of the step of comparing said evolution with a predetermined limit value, said predetermined limit value depends on the past evolution of said statistical quantity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, if said evolution is greater than the predetermined limit value, a step of issuing an alarm message destined for each issuing entity that made a request whose date has been stored in the course of the step of storing dates of requests is performed.

7. A device for tracking the evolution of a physical quantity, comprising:

a memory for storing a plurality of dates of transmissions of numerical values requested by requests issued by so-called “

requesting”

entities destined for the same so-called “

issuing”

entity sending numerical values,

a memory for storing the date of transmission of each so-called transmission actually carried out subsequent to a so-called request,

a processing module for determining the lag between the date of the actual transmission and the corresponding requested transmission date,

a processing module for determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags, for each of a plurality of predetermined durations,

a processing module for determining the evolution of said statistical quantity between at least two of the so-called predetermined durations and

a processing module for comparing said evolution with a predetermined limit value.

8. A computer program, comprising instructions adapted, once implemented by a computer system, for implementing a method of tracking the evolution of a physical quantity, the method comprising the steps of:

a step of storing a plurality of dates of transmissions of numerical values requested by requests issued by so-called “

requesting”

entities destined for the same so-called “

issuing”

entity sending numerical values;

for each so-called transmission actually carried out subsequent to a so-called request, a step of storing the date of transmission and a step of determining the lag between the date of the actual transmission and the corresponding requested transmission date;

for each of a plurality of predetermined durations, a step of determining a statistical quantity representative of the so-called lags;

a step of determining the evolution of said statistical quantity between at least two of the so-called predetermined durations; and

a step of comparing said evolution with a predetermined limit value.