Patent ID: 7610514

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for identifying names of uninformative functions in call-stack traces, said method comprising the steps of: using said computer, obtaining a set of call-stacks and information indicative of which call-stack traces in said set match a particular call-stack trace; using said computer, for each matching call-stack trace pair, incrementing a false negative counter for each function name above a first matching function name in a respective call-stack trace pair; using said computer, for each non-matching call-stack trace pair, incrementing a false positive counter for each function name above a first non-matching function name in a respective call-stack pair; using said computer, incrementing a frequency counter for each function name appearing in each of said call-stack traces; using said computer, calculating an aggregate value for each of said function names as a function of respective ones of said false positive counter, said false negative counter and said frequency counter; and using said computer, identifying uninformative ones of said function names based on the respective aggregate values.