Patent ID: 7272800
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying causally related messages of a data flow stored in a file corresponding to a temporal sequence of the messages, said method comprising: highlighting a selected message in a first window in which the messages are listed in chronological sequence; evaluating header information of the highlighted message and establishing whether at least one message of a parent generation relating to and causally triggering the highlighted message exists and/or whether at least one message of a child generation triggered causally by the highlighted message exists; displaying said at least one message of the parent generation in a first region of a second window and said at least one of message of the child generation in a second region of the second window and simultaneously; and displaying a hierarchical system of the highlighted message in a third window, the display of the hierarchical system of a message concerning the inner modular construction of a message.