Patent ID: 7389496

Claim:
A condition management system embodied in a computer-readable media of a processor employing a hierarchical register consolidation structure, comprising: a condition management data structure, separate from said hierarchical register consolidation structure, configured to abstract groups of status indicators associated with said hierarchical register consolidation structure into a tree of hierarchical container objects and element objects, each of said container objects associated with at least one of said element objects and linked to a single parent object, each of said element objects configured to represent at least one of said status indicators and linked to a single child object, wherein if two groups of said status indicators consolidate to a single consolidation status indicator of said hierarchical register consolidation structure, one of said container objects being associated with said at least one of said element objects and a virtual element object, said virtual element object being said parent object to one of said container objects associated with said element objects representing said status indicators of one of said two groups; an abstraction retrieval subsystem configured to employ said condition management structure to traverse said hierarchical register consolidation structure to determine a condition of at least one of said status indicators; and an abstraction management subsystem configured to employ said condition management structure to control a propagation of selected ones of said status indicators through said hierarchical register consolidation structure.