Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Watcher: precise and fully-automatic on-site failure diagnosis
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Application No.: US16442042Application Date: 2019-06-14
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Publication No.: US11599445B2Publication Date: 2023-03-07
- Inventor: Tongping Liu , Hongyu Liu , Sam Albert Silvestro
- Applicant: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
- Current Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/36
- IPC: G06F11/36 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F9/30

Abstract:
The techniques described herein may provide techniques for precise and fully-automatic on-site software failure diagnosis that overcomes issues of existing systems and general challenges of in-production software failure diagnosis. Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide a tool capable of automatically pinpointing a fault propagation chain of program failures, with explicit symptoms. The combination of binary analysis, in-situ/identical replay, and debugging registers may be used together to simulate the debugging procedures of a programmer automatically. Overhead, privacy, transparency, convenience, and completeness challenges of in-production failure analysis are improved, making it suitable for deployment uses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190384692A1 WATCHER: PRECISE AND FULLY-AUTOMATIC ON-SITE FAILURE DIAGNOSIS Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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