Patent ID: 9548955
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a consolidation support program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising: acquiring an electronic message transmitted and received among apparatuses; setting, for a plurality of consolidation rules of a consolidation rule group, a second consolidation sequence based on priority ranks given to each of the consolidation rules to acquire an output result as intended by a user of a consolidation process, and a first consolidation sequence for each of the consolidation rules different from the second consolidation sequence; converting the acquired electronic message into a first electronic message based on a first consolidation rule according to the first consolidation sequence, by substituting a character string with a value, the character string matching a pattern and being among character strings included in the acquired electronic message; converting the acquired electronic message into a second electronic message based on a first consolidation rule according to the second consolidation sequence, by substituting a character string with a value, the character string matching a pattern and being among character strings included in the acquired electronic message; determining whether the first and the second electronic messages match each other; producing, when the first and the second electronic messages do not match each other, a restrictive condition specifying that the first consolidation rule according to the first consolidation sequence comes after the first consolidation rule according to the second consolidation sequence; and setting a selection sequence for each of the consolidation rules in the consolidation rule group, the setting of the selection sequence includes setting the selection sequence for each of the consolidation rules in the consolidation rule group, based on an application session count for each of the consolidation rules that are applied to the electronic messages and in the consolidation rule group.