Patent ID: 8122517

Claim:
A method for mediating access to content of a software dump comprising: identifying an event occurring within a computing device, which causes data to be dumped to file; creating a dump file responsive to the event, wherein said dump file comprises data defining a state of the computing device; analyzing using an analysis module operating on the dump file to determine content to be placed in a first tailored dump file and a second tailored dump file, wherein said first tailored dump file comprises a first subset of the content of the dump file for which first access privileges have been granted in accordance with the analysis module, and said second tailored dump file comprises a second subset of the content of the dump file for which second access privileges have been granted in accordance with the analysis module, wherein the analysis module defines different permission category for different analysts; creating a first output file based on said first tailored dump file and a second output file based on said second tailored dump file, wherein the first and second output files are both created responsive to the event; identifying a first analyst who is to receive the first output file and a second analyst who is to receive the second output file; during when analyzing the dump file, determining a permission category from the different permission categories associated with the first and second analysts; and limiting the content in each of the first and second output files to content authorized based upon the determined permission category, respectively.