Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Other

Jason Carl Hendrickson

Stuart Sechrest

Prashant Ratanchandani

Qi Zhang

Robert P Fitzgerald

Bruce Lee Worthington

Changjiu Xian

Mehmet Iyigun

Yevgeniy Bak

Mark Yalovsky

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Jeffrey Che Fuller

Yau Ning Chin

Richard Gains Russell

Peter Seraphim Ponomarev

Shawn M Woods

Christina L Rhodes

Ryan M Hurst

Nathan Teeuwen

Robert Whittemore Dreyfoos

Ishfaq Mohammad Ismail

Shuo-Hsien Hsiao

Brian D Wentz

Pavan Kumar Josyula Venkata

John Corey Morgan

Jonathan M Au

Hemchand Alla

A method and an apparatus for characterizing performance of a device based on user-perceivable latency. To characterize device performance, a value of a metric may be computed from latencies of operations performed by the device. In computing a value of a metric, latencies may be treated differently, such that some latencies perceivable by a user of the device may have a greater impact on the value of the metric than other latencies that either are not perceivable or are perceived by the user to a lesser degree. Such a performance metric based on user-perceivable latency facilitates identification of computing device that provide a desirable user experience.

Characterizing device performance based on user-perceivable latency

Systems and methods for monitoring operational performance of at least one application containing no explicit instrumentation are described. Data relating to the operational performance of the application can be obtained and provided to a telemetry server for analysis without the use of diagnostic instrumentation within the application. Generic and targeted performance data can be obtained using responsiveness components within a computing operating system.

Performance monitoring for applications without explicit instrumentation

Two different process management views can be displayed, and a user can request to switch between the two views. The user can select a process in either view and have the selected process terminated. One view is a simplified view that identifies processes and whether they are non-responsive. The other view is an expanded view that identifies processes and the amount of various system resources used by each of those processes. Various additional information can be displayed in the expanded view, such as identifiers of various windows, tabs, and/or services associated with each of the processes.

Process management views

A description language and a tool for identifying, analyzing and addressing performance issues in event traces. With this language, a behavior descriptor may be defined to describe a simple behavior within a performance trace, by specifying values for a relatively small number of attributes. Even a relatively unsophisticated user can define behavior descriptors, but complex behaviors may be defined based on interactions between multiple behavior descriptors. A trace analysis tool may use a library of behavior descriptors to identify performance issues in performance traces by matching behavior descriptors to the performance trace. This analysis may be used in any number of ways, including reporting to a user detected performance issues reflected in a set of performance traces, filtering a set of performance traces to remove those performance traces corresponding to known performance issues or prioritizing efforts to resolve performance issues.

Description language for identifying performance issues in event traces

Growing community of inventors

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jason Carl Hendrickson