Fecha de publicación: 13/11/2014 Fuente: Wipo "BigData" An example method for analyzing big data in a network environment is provided and includes extracting a data set from big data stored in a network environment, detecting a pattern in the data set, and enabling labels based on the pattern, where each label indicates a specific condition associated with the big data, and the labels are searched to answer a query regarding the big data. In specific embodiments, detecting the pattern includes capturing gradients between each consecutive adjacent data points in the data set, aggregating the gradients into a gradient data set, dividing the gradient data set into windows, calculating a statistical parameter of interest for each window, aggregating the statistical parameters into a derived data set, and repeating the dividing, the calculating and the aggregating on derived data sets over windows of successively larger sizes until a pattern is detected.