Patent ID: 9542299
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for processing core data produced by a computer process to identify data relevant to the computer process, the method comprising: identifying the core data for a computer process; identifying trace data comprising sequential trace entries for the computer process; selecting a predetermined number of most recent entries in the trace data; identifying any references to a memory address in each selected trace data entry; dereferencing each identified memory address in the core data; extracting the data from the dereferenced memory location in the core data; in response to the data from any dereferenced memory location in the core data comprising a further reference to a memory address, dereferencing the further memory address in the core data; and extracting the data from the dereferenced further memory location in the core data, wherein, for a given trace entry, the extraction of referenced data is limited to a predetermined depth of reference.