Patent ID: 9356843
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A flow method comprising: writing records during program execution, wherein the records include program execution events caused by execution of the program, wherein each of the records is a trace record of a function called during execution of the program, and wherein each trace record comprises an indication of a record file type; collecting the written records for post-execution analysis, wherein the written records are associated with a flow; performing a flow connection process associated with said flow, wherein said flow connection process determines the record file type for each of the collected records based on the indication of the record file type included in the trace record, determines which of a plurality of flow connection processes to perform based on the determined record file type, examines information in one of a plurality of hash tables according to the selected process and the determined record file type, and connects flow segments within said flow based upon connect IDs within the examined hash table and the determined flow connection process, wherein the flow connection process is performed after the records have been written; and performing a presentation process of displaying said flow on a graphical user interface in which said flow is at least one of visualized, searched, and traversed.