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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2017
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Lei Kou, Redmond, WA (US);

Zhongyuan Li, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 11/362 (2013.01); G06F 11/3604 (2013.01);
Abstract

Automatic detection of software program regression points enables developers to more quickly and accurately diagnose and solve issues in changes to software. Traces of instructions are collected from before and after a change to a program or settings thereto on a computing device and are compared to identify differences between the two traces. Areas of differences are ranked and returned to identify the point(s) of regression in the traces to alert a user of programs of behaviors to avoid and/or a developer a point to focus efforts on to patch the responsible program or update other programs around the responsible application.


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