Monitoring the responsiveness of a user interface
US9389936B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 23, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jul 12, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 9, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/0778
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A diagnostic mechanism monitors execution of a user interface (UI) thread to detect execution of a long running task that may have caused the UI thread to become unresponsive. The execution time of the UI thread is monitored and when it exceeds a threshold, the UI thread's call stack is preserved to a mini-dump file. The completion time of the UI thread is also tracked and stored in a delay file. The mini-dump and delay files are then uploaded to a server where the collected data is aggregated overall execution runs by multiple users to identify the cause of the unresponsiveness.
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