Patent ID: 8589342

Claim:
A method of presenting log messages during execution of a computer program, the method comprising: identifying at least a second log message set comprising information that is the same as information contained in a first log message set; determining to present the second log message set in a list of log messages in a manner that indicates that the second log message set is redundant; and presenting the list of log messages, the list of log messages comprising at least the first log message set and indicating that the second log message set is redundant, wherein the determination not to present the second log message set in the list of log messages is made in response to a global preference that indicates that a condensed view of the list of log messages is to be presented, the global preference indicates a threshold value for a size of the second list of log messages, and determining not to present the second log message set in the list of log messages comprises identifying that the size of the second list of log messages at least equals the threshold value.