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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2007
Wenli Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Yantao LI, Beijing, CN;
Qiang Wang, Beijing, CN;
Haidong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Bing Sun, Beijing, CN;
Guowei Liu, Beijing, CN;
Shuguang YE, Beijing, CN;
Min Wang, Beijing, CN;
Adan Azfar Mahmud, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;
Wenli Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Yantao Li, Beijing, CN;
Qiang Wang, Beijing, CN;
Haidong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Bing Sun, Beijing, CN;
Guowei Liu, Beijing, CN;
Shuguang Ye, Beijing, CN;
Min Wang, Beijing, CN;
Adan Azfar Mahmud, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technology for analyzing usage of a software program's features. Software instrumentation data is collected during actual user program usage sessions. The collected data is then processed to determine various feature usage counts and other information, cross-feature usage (e.g., among users who use a feature, how many use another feature or program), and characteristics of feature users, e.g., how long, how much, how often and how extensive feature users use a program. Session analysis may be performed to provide information about the number of sessions in which a set of features occur. Feature usage trends over time may also be determined via analysis. A user interface is described for facilitating selection of one or more features to analyze, for facilitating selection of a group of users, and/or for outputting results corresponding to the analysis.