Patent ID: 8266117
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a computer processor to: receive a search condition for tracing an access to target data stored in a database; search, from among access logs that are recorded in the database in response to accessing to the database, a first log that meets the search condition; identify, based on the first log, a server from which the access to the target data has been possible at a time identical to a time recorded in the first log; search, from among log records stored on the server, a second log corresponding to the first log; identify a client that has made the access to the target data, based on the second log; search, from among operation logs of the client stored in a storage of the client, an operation log that is recorded after the client has obtained the target data; and output a result of tracing the access to the target data, based on the searched operation log.