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Google patents method to find oddities in complex data streams

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a computer method for detecting unusual patterns in data that changes over time. It works by separating different factors influencing the data, training models on simplified versions, and flagging values that differ significantly from what the model predicts.

Why it mattersThis improves how software monitors complex systems by better accounting for outside influences, making it easier for engineers to spot real problems in data logs.

In the filing’s own words

A method includes receiving a query to determine anomalies in a set of multivariate time series data values including an endogenous variable and an exogenous variable. The method includes determining an impact of the exogenous variable on the endogenous variable. The method includes determining a set of univariate time series data values and training one or more models using the univariate time series data values. The method includes determining an expected data value for a respective time series data value and determining a difference between the expected data value and the respective time series data value. The method includes determining that the difference between the expected data value for a particular time series data value and the particular time series data value satisfies a threshold. In response, the method includes determining that the particular time series data value is anomalous and reporting the anomalous value to a user.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method executed by data processing hardware that causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising: receiving a time series anomaly detection query from a user, the time series anomaly detection query requesting the data processing hardware to determine one or more anomalies in a set of multivariate time series data values, the set of multivariate time series data values comprising an endogenous variable and at least one exogenous variable; determining an impact of the at least one exogenous variable on the endogenous variable; determining, using the impact of the at least one exogenous variable on the endogenous variable, a set of univariate time series data values; training one or more models using each time series data value in the set of univariate time series data values; for each respective time series data value in the set of univariate time series data values: determining, using the trained one or more models and the impact of the at least one exogenous variable on the endogenous variable, an expected data value for the respective time series data value; and determining a difference between the expected data value for the respective time series data value and the respective time series data value; and for a particular time series data value in the set of univariate time series data values: determining that the difference between the expected data value for the particular time series data value and the particular time series data value satisfies a threshold; in response to determining that the difference between the expected data value for the particular time series data value and the particular time series data value satisfies the threshold, determining that the particular time series data value is anomalous; and reporting the anomalous particular time series data value to the user.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Multivariate time series anomaly detection
Patent number
US12756732B2
Application number
18973018
Filed
Dec 8, 2024
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

H04L 63/1425 Electricity & electronicsG06F 11/0751 Physics & computingG06F 11/0766 Physics & computingG06F 16/2477 Physics & computingG06F 21/552 Physics & computing

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