Patent ID: 7424646
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a trace data analyzer comprising a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to analyze unstructured trace data the operations comprising: an operation to analyze one or more unstructured trace data records, the unstructured trace data records generated by a plurality of computer applications such that internal structure of the trace data records is unknown to the trace data analyzer; an operation to divide each unstructured trace record logically, by dynamically imposing a logical structure on each unstructured trace record during run-time of the trace data analyzer to divide the unstructured trace record into two or more trace entries based on structural information, the unstructured trace record logically divided based on a boundary indicator associated with a logical field indicator provided by one or more parameters; an operation to dynamically apply a query expression comprising a condition and the one or more parameters to each entry; an operation to assemble each trace entry that satisfies the query expression into an abridged trace record; and an operation to present the abridged trace record to a user.