Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Framework for user-mode crash reporting
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Application No.: US14217030Application Date: 2014-03-17
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Publication No.: US09836343B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Hongwei Zhang , Aruldevi Muthukumsarasamy , Aswin Gunawan
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F11/36

Abstract:
A user-mode crash reporting system for generating a crash report when an application crashes is provided. The user-mode crash reporting system installs a crash handler to execute in the same process as the application when the application crashes. When the application crashes, the crash handler identifies a victim thread of the process that was executing at the time of a crash. The crash handler then walks a call stack of the victim thread to identify return addresses for returning from called functions of the application. The crash handler identifies offsets within the module corresponding to the return addresses and creates a call chain of functions using the identified offsets. The crash handler then generates a crash report based on the identified call chain.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150261596A1 FRAMEWORK FOR USER-MODE CRASH REPORTING Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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