Patent ID: 6519661
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for recording data relating to internal and external messages in a software system which is part of a digital telecommunications switching center, the software system including a plurality of components which transmit and/or receive external messages via at least one interface and/or which interchange internal messages between ones of the components, and the data being transmitted from the software system via an interface to a data-processing system, comprising the steps of:registering at least one internal and/or external message at at least one trace point defined in the software system; transmitting the data to be recorded from said at least one trace point to at least one buffer store by transmitting the at least one internal and/or external message to said at least one buffer store without any acknowledgment from said at least one buffer store of receipt of the data; storing the data in said at least one buffer store; and reading the data stored in said at least one buffer store from said at least one buffer store to the data-processing system only after issuance of a request to read the data from the data-processing system.