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Application crash resist method and apparatus

  • US 7,827,444 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2007
  • Issued: 11/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An article of manufacture comprising:

  • a non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium; and

    a plurality of programming instructions stored in the storage medium, configured to enable an apparatus, in response to execution of the instructions by the apparatus, to perform operations comprising;

    instantiating a plurality of instances of an exception handler, wherein each of the exception handler instances corresponds to a different one of a plurality of applications executing on the apparatus, wherein each of the exception handler instances is configured to stall an abnormal termination of the corresponding application upon receiving a non-stop stalling message from a message queue of the corresponding application, and to translate the received message and post the translated message back to the message queue of the corresponding application; and

    instantiating an abnormal application termination service configured to enable a user to control the instances of the exception handler in stalling or permitting abnormal terminations of the corresponding applications;

    wherein said instantiating of the plurality of instances of the exception handler is performed responsive to an instruction received from the abnormal application termination service.

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