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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7673180 | Method and apparatus for dispatching a remote debugging agent in a distributed computing environment A method for dispatching a remote debugging agent (RDA), involving embedding the RDA in a target program to obtain a remotely debuggable target program, submitting the remotely debuggable target program to a distributed computing environment, wherein the distributed... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7673181 | Detecting race conditions in computer programs Recording and replaying computer programs includes detecting whether a race condition exists among multiple threads of a multithreaded application program. In an embodiment, detecting race conditions comprises detecting and preventing an operation of a first thread ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7673179 | Online testing unification system with remote test automation technology The present invention is directed to an online product validation solution integrating an online testing module configured to assist a user to create test cases and a remote test automation module configured to execute the created test cases on remote test systems. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664989 | Automated software testing architecture using a multi-level framework A software testing architecture can comprise a three-level framework. The three-level framework can comprise a first level (comprising a first data source), a second level (comprising a second data source), and a third level (comprising a third data source). The fra... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664990 | Method and apparatus for testing web application, and computer product A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a web application testing program causing a computer to execute receiving a request including an input value to be given to web application software installed in a web server; executing the web application sof... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661032 | Adjusting sliding window parameters in intelligent event archiving and failure analysis A computerized method, program product, and an autonomic data processing system that oversees real-time log data acquired by a logging application of an executing computer program. In response to an event occurring, the logging application communicates the occurrenc... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7661031 | Correlating macro and error data for debugging program error event A solution for managing a program execution is provided. During execution of a program, macro data and error data can be generated and stored. The macro data includes a set of execution entries, each of which includes data for a user interface task for a user interf... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657793 | Accelerating software rejuvenation by communicating rejuvenation events A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for triggering a software rejuvenation system or method, the method includes receiving a request for resources at a node, determining an estimated response ti... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657792 | Identifying race conditions involving asynchronous memory updates A method of identifying race conditions in a computer program can include identifying a call to a selected function specifying a memory range. The selected function can cause data to be written to the memory range asynchronously. The method further can include spray... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7647528 | Problem determination via model-based debugging A method for automated software debugging includes steps of: receiving an interface configured for accessing a program; receiving a behavioral model of the program; receiving a failing input sequence from the program; executing the failing input sequence on both the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644312 | Virtual machine monitoring for application operation diagnostics A method and system for monitoring the operation of an application in a virtual machine. The system can include a debug script processor programmed to command an application executing within the virtual machine according to instructions specified in a debug script. ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644313 | Method, apparatus and program product for a point-in-time recovery of a computing system A method for detecting a failure in a computing system and for restoring the system is provided. The method comprises providing a system connected to a network communications channel, creating, using a configured backup automation tool, a full system backup image an... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644316 | System, method and program for managing browser scripts sent from server to client System, method and program for managing a script program sent from a first computer to a second computer. The first computer embeds in the script program an identity of a program module within the first computer that generated the script program. The first computer ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644315 | Diagnostics and error reporting for common tagging issues Content requests are debugged in accordance with a presence of a flag in a request to a publisher. A document received from the publisher contains a script to debug requests for content to a content provider. The requests are examined to determine the presence of in... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644314 | Retroactive verbose logging Retroactive verbose error logging may be provided. Loggable event entries associated with software installation during installation may be saved. Each of the loggable event entries may have a first level or a second level. In addition, the loggable event entries ass... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640458 | Software self-repair toolkit for electronic devices A device and method supporting the identification and correction of firmware and/or software errors is described. Upon the occurrence of a firmware/software error or exception, an embodiment in accordance with the present invention may gather parameters for identify... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634690 | Initializing diagnostic functions when specified run-time error criteria are satisfied A run-time monitor allows defining sets of run-time error criteria and corresponding diagnostic action to take when the run-time error criteria is satisfied. One way to define the run-time error criteria is to take a baseline measurement of run-time errors that occu... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627785 | Capturing machine state of unstable Java program Mechanisms and methods for capturing an execution state of a failing program in a computing environment are disclosed. Embodiments can enable detection of user initiated program terminations and error information capture without incurring the overhead of a separate ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624307 | Operations engine error handling A file operations engine is provided that manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system. The operation engine may place certain classes of errors in an error queue while performing a requested operation without waiting for a user to satisfy t... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7617418 | Method and system for verifying and storing documents during a program failure Method and system for verifying and storing documents during a failure in a program module. Once a failure is detected in the program module, control passes to an exception handler that determines whether the open files have been modified. If so, a crash handler is ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613955 | Collecting debug data from a wireless device A data processing apparatus having a memory for storing program code and a processor for processing the program code, the data processing apparatus comprising: a radio module to communicatively couple the data processing apparatus to a wireless network, the radio mo... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613953 | Method of converting a regression test script of an automated testing tool into a function A method of converting a regression test script of an automated testing tool into a function. The regression test script is received, wherein the regression test script comprises at least one object. A physical description of object is inserted into the regression t... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613954 | Test executive with stack corruption detection A system and method for detecting and/or preventing execution problems caused by user-supplied code modules that are called by steps of a test executive sequence. The test executive sequence may include a plurality of test executive steps. At least a subset of the s... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610514 | Identification of uninformative function names in call-stack traces A method for identifying names of uninformative functions in call-stack traces is described. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a set of call-stacks and information indicative of which call-stack traces in the set match a particular call-stack trace; for ea... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7607046 | System for predicting and preventing escalations In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for predicting and preventing escalations is disclosed. The method includes generating a predictive model from analysis of historical defect data and corresponding historical escalation data, and applying the predictive mode... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7607047 | Method and system of identifying overlays A method and system of identifying overlays. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising executing a traced program on a target system (the traced program comprising a plurality of overlay programs), obtaining values indicative of which of t... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600155 | Apparatus and method for monitoring and debugging a graphics processing unit A system has a graphics processing unit with a processor to monitor selected criteria and circuitry to initiate the storage of execution state information when the selected criteria reaches a specified state. A memory stores execution state information. A central pr... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596720 | Application health checks Techniques for determining a complete address of a test point of an application from a relative address of the test point and a configuration of a system are provided. An application component that defines the application includes a relative address of the test poin... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7594142 | Architecture for automated detection and analysis of security issues Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) that relate to an architecture for automated detection and analysis of security issues are described herein. One aspect of the tools provides a watchdog application that generates fizzing signals that enable or disab... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7594141 | Apparatus, system, and method for signaling logical errors in an EIS remote function call An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to signal a logical error in a function call made by an integration adapter. The apparatus includes an communication module, a code extraction module, a comparison module, and an error report module. The communication m... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7594143 | Analysis engine for analyzing a computer system condition A computer-executable method for analyzing a condition of a computer system comprises executing an operating system on a processor according to an operating system image resident in a memory, and executing an analysis engine independently of the operating system on ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590892 | Method and system of profiling real-time streaming channels A method and system of profiling streaming channels. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising executing a traced program on a target system (the traced operating on a plurality of streaming channels), obtaining values indicative of which ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587638 | Method and system for generating and monitoring variable load on an application under test A facility executes on a central computer system and applies a time-varying load to an application program under test (AUT). The facility executes in a multiple number of modes or hierarchical levels as dictated by information provided in its configuration file. An ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584385 | Method and system for customer support An embodiment generally relates to a method of software support. The method includes receiving a request for assistance for a selected device and analyzing an associated fault log for the selected device, where the associated fault log logging at least one fault. Th... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581141 | Kernel module compatibility validation In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for high-efficiency time-series archiving for computer server telemetry signals are disclosed. The method includes maintaining a data structure in a kernel module that identifies information related to a system including the... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7581142 | Method and system usable in sensor networks for handling memory faults A method and system usable in sensor networks for handling memory faults is disclosed. In order to protect the operating system of a sensor node, coarse-grained memory protection is provided by creating and enforcing an application fault domain in the data memory ad... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577875 | Statistical analysis of sampled profile data in the identification of significant software test performance regressions Sampled profile data provides information about processor activity during a test. Processor activity can be analyzed to determine an amount of processor resources used to execute the various functions, modules, and processes associated with a tested software activit... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574627 | Memory dump method, memory dump program and computer system A technique for identifying a fundamental cause of a system fault in a system in which a plurality of OSs run on one computer. In a system in which each of a plurality of operating systems executes a process by time-sharing hardware of one computer, a plurality of r... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574626 | Trace information collecting system, method and program Occurrence of a failure in a computer system is appropriately detected, and information required for removing the failure is automatically collected. A trace information collecting system of the present invention which collects trace information indicating the cours... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574625 | Active content wizard testing Automated testing of active content wizards is provided. A test infrastructure (TI) accesses a list of ACW to test and controls an ACW runtime engine to execute the ACWs. During ACW execution, the TI interacts with the ACW runtime engine to inject simulated user inf... | 08/11/2009 |