Method and system for parameter profile compiling

• US 7,900,198 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wind River Systems Incorporated (Aptiv PLC)
• Original Assignee: Wind River Systems Incorporated (Aptiv PLC)
• Inventors: Kasman, Bulent
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham; Thomas K
• Application Number:
  US11/541,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,611 Days
• Field of Search: 717/124, 717/158
• US Class Current: 717/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A method for extracting context information from an extraction module to create a minimized extraction module, creating a parameter profile from the context information, transmitting the minimized extraction module to a target device, receiving a value extracted from the target device by the minimized extraction module, and combining the value with at least a portion of the context information to create a user readable log statement. A system having an extraction element extracting context information from an extraction module to create a minimized extraction module, a creating element creating a parameter profile from the context information, a transmitting element transmitting the minimized extraction module to a target device, a receiving element receiving a value extracted from the target device by the minimized extraction module, and a combining element combining the value with at least a portion of the context information to create a user readable log statement.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

extracting, by a compiler, context information from an extraction module, wherein the compiler creates a minimized extraction module, wherein the minimized extraction module is a sensorpoint module;

creating a parameter profile from the context information;

transmitting the minimized extraction module to a target device;

receiving a value extracted from the target device, the value being extracted by the minimized extraction module; and

combining the value with at least a portion of the context information in the parameter profile to create a user readable log statement.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the log statement to a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the context information includes static data included in the extraction module.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the static data includes one of a location in a user code from where the value was extracted.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the minimized extraction module is transmitted in object code form.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the minimized extraction module is inserted as running code into a running user code on the target device and the value is extracted from the running user code.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the parameter profile includes keywords to relate the value to the context information.

8. A system, comprising:

a compiler extracting context information from an extraction module, the compiler creating a minimized extraction module, wherein the minimized extraction module is a sensorpoint module;

a creating element creating a parameter profile from the context information;

a transmitting element transmitting the minimized extraction module to a target device;

a receiving element receiving a value extracted from the target device, the value being extracted by the minimized extraction module; and

a combining element combining the value with at least a portion of the context information in the parameter profile to create a user readable log statement.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a display element displaying the log statement to a user.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the context information includes static data included in the extraction module.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the static data includes one of a location in a user code from where the value was extracted.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the minimized extraction module is transmitted in object code form.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the minimized extraction module is inserted as running code into a running user code on the target device and the value is extracted from the running user code.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the parameter profile includes keywords to relate the value to the context information.

15. A system, comprising:

an extraction module configured to extract data from running user code loaded onto a target device;

a compiling module configured to compile source code of the extraction module into object code that is transmitted to the target device and extract context information from the extraction module;

a parameter profile module including the context information extracted from the extraction module; and

a log file created from at least a portion of the context information in the parameter profile module and the data extracted from the running user code.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the log file is displayed to a user.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the compiling module extracts the context information from one of the source code of the extraction module and the object code of the extraction module.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the context information includes keywords.