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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2004
Quji Guo, Stanford, CA (US);
Roberto a Franco, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward J Praitis, Woodinville, WA (US);
Li-hsin Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingyang Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian D Wentz, Seattle, WA (US);
Julian Jiggins, Seattle, WA (US);
Venkatavaradhan Panchapagesan, Redmond, WA (US);
Quji Guo, Stanford, CA (US);
Roberto A Franco, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward J Praitis, Woodinville, WA (US);
Li-Hsin Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jingyang Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian D Wentz, Seattle, WA (US);
Julian Jiggins, Seattle, WA (US);
Venkatavaradhan Panchapagesan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method that traces program execution from an instruction that ultimately generated a failure to a code library that caused the failure generating instruction to be executed. The method traces execution of the computing device by obtaining the contents of memory at the time of the failure and traversing the stack data structure that stores data items necessary to execute function calls.