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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Loren Merriman, Duvall, WA (US);
Gordon Hardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Curtis Anderson, Kent, WA (US);
Michael Robinson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dipak Boyed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Callahan, Woodinville, WA (US);
Loren Merriman, Duvall, WA (US);
Gordon Hardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Curtis Anderson, Kent, WA (US);
Michael Robinson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dipak Boyed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Callahan, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Break and optional hold preserves a state of a computing environment on which a software program has failed. Being able to examine the status of the environment existing upon the occurrence of the failure, including the condition of various processes and values facilitates resolution of the cause of the failure. Upon occurrence of a failure during the execution of a first software program in a first computing environment, execution of the first software program breaks. A first state of the first computing environment existing upon the breaking in execution of the first software program is then held. A failure notification is generated to signal the failure to a monitoring system. The monitoring system accesses hold information to determine whether the first computing environment should hold its current state and whether one or more other computing environments interacting with the first computing environment should also hold their states.