METHOD AND TREND ANALYZER FOR ANALYZING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method and apparatus for performing analysis of client related data obtained from a communication network (302), A trend analyzer (312) analyzes (3:5) a trend of a client segment, which trend has been detected by means of a data stream analysis (3:3) of the client related data. The trend reflects a change over time of at least one feature derived from the client related data. The trend analyzer then requests (3:6) a batch based deep analysis when the trend fulfils a trigger condition, to find a cause for the trend. A result of the deep analysis is finally provided {3:9) to a result consumer (314). Thereby, the deep analysis is performed only when a trend has been detected thus being more responsive to trends by the stream analysis and requiring less resources, as compared to when data is always subjected to deep analysis regardless of whether a trend occurs or not.