METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING SCATTERED LOGS

• US 20140188860A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: ZHANG, Maoquan, TANG, Weiguo, WANG, XUELI
• Granted Patent: US 9,824,148 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/725
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/334 Query execution G06F16/335 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9035 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades

Abstract

A method for searching and displaying scattered logs, comprising: finding out one or more corresponding log data based on a search key word; determining a desired timestamp from the log data, and regarding the log data containing the timestamp as target data; searching a semantic file for related semantic data based on the search key word, and finding out related log data based on the related semantic data; time filtering the related log data to obtain filtered log data; establishing a coordinate system by mapping the target data and the filtered log data onto mapping points of the coordinate system; semantically linking the filtered log data, and dying the filtered log data and the target data; and counting the number of lines related to the target data and the filtered log data, and generating links thereto. The present invention further discloses a device for searching and displaying scattered logs.

Claims

1. A method for searching and displaying scattered logs, the method comprising:

finding out one or more corresponding log data based on a keyword;

determining a desired timestamp from the log data, and regarding the log data containing the timestamp as target data;

searching a semantic file for related semantic data based on the keyword, and finding out related log data based on the related semantic data;

time filtering the related log data to obtain filtered log data;

establishing a coordinate system by mapping the target data and the filtered log data onto mapping points of the coordinate system;

semantically linking the filtered log data, and dying the filtered log data and the target data; and

counting the number of lines related to the target data and the filtered log data, and generating links thereto.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining a desired timestamp from the log data comprises:

selecting log data containing the timestamp from a plurality of corresponding log data, or obtaining the timestamp according to a preset time period.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the semantic file is an XML semantic file or other structured data files which define semantic data related to the keyword.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the time filtering the related log data to obtain filtered log data comprises:

time filtering the related log data based on the timestamp.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

selecting the related log data within a time period around the timestamp as the filtered log data.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing a coordinate system by mapping the target data and the filtered log data onto mapping points of the coordinate system comprises:

establishing an X-axis representing time and an Y-axis representing processing steps; and

mapping the target data and the filtered log data onto the mapping points in the coordinate system according to corresponding time information and processing step information.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein some of the mapping points are connected to form a waveform.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the semantically linking the filtered log data, and dying the filtered log data and the target data comprise:

determining semantic closeness between the filtered log data and the keyword, the semantic closeness being determined based on the level of conversion to show semantic relevance.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the target data is dyed red, system logs dyed blue, log data having semantic relevance of Level One dyed yellow, and the rest log data dyed gray.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the counting the number of lines related to the target data and the filtered log data, and generating links thereto comprise:

counting the number of log data related to the keyword and the related semantic data, and generating links to the log data.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

displaying, at the mapping points, the number of corresponding related lines.

12. A device for searching and displaying scattered logs, the device comprising:

a log searching component for finding out one or more corresponding log data based on a keyword;

a timestamp determining component for determining a desired timestamp from the log data, and regarding the log data containing the timestamp as target data;

a related semantic data searching component for searching a semantic file for related semantic data based on the keyword, and finding out related log data based on the related semantic data;

a filtering component for time filtering the related log data to obtain filtered log data;

a mapping component for establishing a coordinate system by mapping the target data and the filtered log data onto mapping points of the coordinate system;

a dye component for semantically linking the filtered log data, and dying the filtered log data and the target data; and

a counting component for counting the number of lines related to the target data and the filtered log data, and generating links thereto.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the timestamp determining component selects log data containing the desired timestamp from a plurality of corresponding log data, or obtains the timestamp according to a preset time period.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein the semantic file is an XML semantic file or other structured data files which define semantic data related to the keyword.

15. The device according to claim 12, wherein the filtering component time filters the related log data based on the timestamp.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the filtering component selects the related log data within a time period around the timestamp as the filtered log data.

17. The device according to claim 12, wherein the mapping component establishes an X-axis representing time and an Y-axis representing processing steps, and maps the target data and the filtered log data onto the mapping points in the coordinate system according to corresponding time information and processing step information.

18. The device according to claim 17, wherein the mapping component connects some of the mapping points to form a waveform.

19. The device according to claim 12, wherein the dye component determines semantic closeness between the filtered log data and the keyword, the semantic closeness being determined based on the level of conversion to show semantic relevance.

20. The device according to claim 19, wherein the dye component dyes the target data red, system logs blue, log data having semantic relevance of Level One yellow, and the rest log data gray.

21. The device according to claim 12, wherein the counting component counts the number of log data related to the keyword and the related semantic data, and generates links to the log data.

22. The device according to claim 21, wherein the counting component further displays, at the mapping points, the number of corresponding related lines.