METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CREATE AND TRANSMIT A CONDENSED LOGGING DATA FILE

• US 20170034303A1
• Filed: 07/28/2015
• Published: 02/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dish Technologies LLC (Dish Network Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Echostar Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Inventors: Hinrichs, Joel
• Granted Patent: US 10,003,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/02 Capturing of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26291 for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4425 Monitoring of client processing errors or hardware failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25

Abstract

A method for producing log data for a programming receiver is provided. The method executes a set of instructions comprising at least a log statement, the log statement causing the programming receiver to access condensed source code; compresses one or more string arguments in the log statement, during execution of the set of instructions; and generates a log file, based on the executed set of instructions and the compressed one or more string arguments.

Claims

1. A method for producing log data for a programming receiver, the method comprising:

executing a set of instructions comprising at least a log statement by the programming receiver, the log statement causing the programming receiver to access condensed source code;

compressing one or more string arguments in the log statement, during execution of the set of instructions by the programming receiver; and

generating a log file by the programming receiver, based on the executed set of instructions and the compressed one or more string arguments.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a query; and

in response to the query, performing steps of executing the set of instructions, compressing the one or more string arguments, and generating the log file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

performing steps of executing the set of instructions, compressing the one or more string arguments, and generating the log file according to a timed interval schedule.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving data, by the programming receiver, the data received from the condensed source code during execution of the set of instructions, the data comprising at least one indexed string; and

using the at least one indexed literal string as a parameter during execution of the log statement by the programming receiver;

wherein the generated log file comprises the data; and

wherein the at least one indexed string comprises at least one numeric value.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the compressing step further comprises:

during execution of the set of instructions by the programming receiver,

defining a variable value comprising a string for insertion into the log statement by the programming receiver, the one or more string arguments comprising the variable value;

encrypting the variable value, by the programming receiver, to generate a result; and

inserting the result into the log statement, by the programming receiver, during execution of the set of instructions;

wherein the generated log file comprises the result.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the compressing step further comprises encoding the one or more string arguments by the programming receiver.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the compressing step further comprises encoding the one or more string arguments by converting a numerical base of the one or more string arguments, by the programming receiver.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more string arguments comprises one or more strings.

9. A programming receiver, comprising:

system memory;

a communication device, configured to transmit a log file; and

at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the system memory and the communication device, the at least one processor configured to;

use an encryption technique at run time to compress a set of strings defined at run time to produce compressed values; and

execute a log statement to generate the log file, using a pre-processed set of source code and the compressed set of strings defined at run time.

10. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the programming receiver is further configured to transmit the log file to a central server system;

and

wherein the central server system and the programming receiver are disparately located.

11. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the communication device is further configured to:

receive a query; and

transmit the log file in response to the query.

12. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to compress the set of strings and execute the log statement according to a timed interval schedule.

13. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the programming receiver is further configured to:

define a variable value comprising a string for insertion into the log statement, the second set of strings defined at run time comprising the variable value;

encrypt the variable value to generate a result; and

insert the result into the log statement, prior to execution of the log statement;

wherein the generated log file comprises the result.

14. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the encryption technique comprises Huffman encoding.

15. The programming receiver of claim 9, wherein the encryption technique comprises encoding the set of strings by converting a numerical base of the set of strings.

16. A method for generating a log file for a programming receiver, the method comprising:

during run time of an object of a condensed set of source code by the programming receiver,

compressing arguments defined at run time to produce compressed values by the programming receiver;

executing a log statement using the index values and the compressed values, by the programming receiver, the log statement invoking the condensed set of source code during execution; and

generating the log file based on data produced during execution of the log statement by the programming receiver.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a query; and

in response to the query, compressing the arguments, executing the log statement, and generating the log file.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

performing steps of compressing the arguments, executing the log statement, and generating the log file according to a timed interval schedule.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

during run time of the object of the condensed set of source code by the programming receiver,

receiving data from the condensed set of source code by the programming receiver, the data comprising the index values; and

using the index values as parameters during execution of the log statement by the programming receiver;

wherein the generated log file comprises the data; and

wherein the index values comprise numeric values associated with the strings.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein, prior to run time of the object of the condensed set of source code, the method further comprises:

transmitting a firmware version associated with the object of the source code, by the programming receiver; and

receiving, by the programming receiver, the object based on the firmware version.