Forming stack frame signatures
US7877641B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 20, 2007 |
| Grant date | Jan 25, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 26, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3636
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of forming a stack signature responsive to execution of a computer program in a digital computer according to one embodiment comprises halting execution of the computer program, tracing the program's call stack to determine a series of stack frames resulting from execution of the program, capturing a selected metric with respect to each stack frame in the series, encoding each captured metric into a corresponding symbol, and assembling the series of encoded symbols into an ordered list thereby forming a stack frame signature that reflects generally the execution of the computer program.
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