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Patent No.:

US 8776027 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2009

Extracting and collecting platform use data

Applicants:

Cenk Ergan, Bellevue, WA (US);

Justin Steventon, Kirkland, WA (US);

Eric Kochhar, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Udayasimha Shivaswamy, Sammamish, WA (US);

Douglas R. Earhart, Seattle, WA (US);

Micah Brodsky, Boston, WA (US);

Inventors:

Cenk Ergan, Bellevue, WA (US);

Justin Steventon, Kirkland, WA (US);

Eric Kochhar, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Udayasimha Shivaswamy, Sammamish, WA (US);

Douglas R. Earhart, Seattle, WA (US);

Micah Brodsky, Boston, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:

John Jardine

Andrew Sanders

Micky Minhas

Primary Examiner:

Thuy Dao

Assistant Examiner:

Geoffrey St Leger

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for reporting information about how selected components of an operating system are used by applications on a computing device. A manifest of components is provided from a management server to a computing device. The manifest specifies components of the operating system for which usage information is to be collected. The computing device surveys applications for calls to the components specified in the manifest. Surveys may be performed by static scanning and/or dynamic monitoring. In static scanning, application files are scanned for keyword strings specified in the manifest. Keyword string matches are recorded to a log file. In dynamic monitoring, calls from executing applications to components specified by the manifest are identified and logged. A report is generated from the log and sent to the management server. The management server then aggregates and analyzes reports from multiple computing devices to enable developers to assess how the components are being used.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ergan, Cenk. (2014). Extracting and collecting platform use data (U.S. Patent No. 8776027). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8776027

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