Tracing system for application and module tracing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9298588-B2
Application number	US-201414455170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2014
Priority date	Sep 4, 2013
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A tracing system may trace applications and their modules, and may make module-specific data available through various interfaces. The tracing system may collect tracer data while an application executes, and may preprocess the data into application-specific and module-specific databases. An analysis engine may further analyze and process these databases to create application-specific views and module-specific views into the data. The application-specific views may be intended for a developer of the application, while the module-specific views may have a public version accessible to everybody and a module developer version that may contain additional details that may be useful to the module developer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by at least one computer processor, said method comprising:
receiving tracing data gathered from an application, said application comprising application specific code and reusable module code;
identifying reusable module trace data and storing said reusable module trace data in a reusable module trace database;
identifying application trace data and storing said application trace data in an application trace database;
receiving a first request for said tracing data;
determining that said first request is not authenticated;
creating an application-specific view of said application trace data in response to determining that said first request is not authenticated;
receiving a second request for said tracing data;
determining that said second request is authenticated; and
creating a reusable module-specific view of said reusable module trace data in response to determining that said second request is authenticated.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
anonymizing said reusable module trace data prior to storing said reusable module trace data.

3. The method of claim 2 , said anonymizing being performed by obfuscating at least a portion of said reusable module trace data.

4. The method of claim 1 , said first request being an authenticated request from an application developer.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Seto Tetsuo
• Gounares Alexander G
• Krajec Russell S

Classifications

• G06F11/3636 Primary

  by tracing the execution of the program · CPC title

• G06F21/31

  User authentication · CPC title