Patent ID: 9489282
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for logging at least one stream of records in a data-processing system, for each stream of records the method comprising: receiving a stream of records in succession, logging records from the stream of records into a log structure, and in response to fulfillment of a pre-defined purging condition: diverting the logging of the records to a buffer structure, purging the log structure according to a set of purging criteria in response to the diverting, moving the records logged in the buffer structure to the log structure in response to a completion of the purging, and restoring the logging to the log structure in response to a completion of the moving, wherein at least one of the purging criteria involves a deletion of each record of at least one first type logger in the log structure according to the logging of at least one record of at least one second type in the log structure.