Patent ID: 7856415

Claim:
A method for mapping an event in a computer system to a tree structure, said method comprising the steps of: during a run-time processing operation in the computer system, identifying at least one conditional text element of an event during a run-time processing operation in the computer system, wherein the at least one conditional text element comprises variable elements in an event; identifying a subtype associated with the at least one conditional text element, wherein the subtype identifies a format and a range of values for the associated conditional text element; branching to nested text fragments and variable elements that are referenced by the at least one conditional text element; branching within the at least one conditional text element until an associated leaf node is reached with respect to content of the at least one conditional text element; identifying a dynamic data field during a run-time processing operation in the computer system; applying conditional values to the dynamic data field to translate the data of the dynamic data field into a predetermined format of a tree structure; completing repeating the above steps until the at least one with respect to each previously unmapped conditional text element is mapped into the tree structure; and creating a result event from the tree structure.