Storing application messages

• US 8,347,021 B1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Phillips, Derek, Grieve, Andrew, Bolohan, Matthew, Kroeger, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Gu, Shawn X
• Application Number:
  US13/249,800
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 711/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466

Abstract

The subject matter of this document can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, by a process executing separately from a first software application on a computing device, a first message generated by the first software application. The method further includes storing, by the process executing separately from the first software application, the received first message in a volatile memory storage location of the computing device. The method further includes retrieving, by the process executing separately from the first software application, the first message following a termination of the first software application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a first application executing at a computing device and separately from a second application also executing at the computing device, a first message generated by the second application, the first message identifying information related to at least one of a user interaction with the second application, a system interaction with the second application, and execution of the second application;

storing, by the first application executing at the computing device, and in a volatile memory storage location of the computing device, the first message, wherein the volatile memory storage location is allocated to the first application; and

retrieving, by the first application executing at the computing device, the first message following a termination of the second application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application executing at the computing device and separately from the second application refrains from storing the first message in a non-volatile storage location.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the first message in a non-volatile storage location.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location after the volatile memory storage location reaches a threshold capacity level that is based on a percentage of a total capacity of a volatile memory.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location at a specified time following a previous storing operation in the non-volatile storage location.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location upon determining that the computing device is idle.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first application, a second message generated by a third application executing on the computer device; and

storing the second message in the volatile memory storage location of the computing device, wherein the third application is different from the first and second applications.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising outputting the first and second messages in an interleaved format based on a timestamp that indicates when the first message was received and on a timestamp that indicates when the second message was received.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises one or more of a crash log message associated with the second application, a stack trace message associated with the second application, a latency timing message indicating a time between actions associated with the second application, a message indicating detection of an event by the second application, and a message indicating a time when the second application was started.

10. A computer system, comprising:

a computing device comprising at least one processor that is configured to execute one or more web applications;

a first web application of the one or more web applications that is executable by the computing device, the first web application being configured to generate a first message that relates to operation of the first web application, the first message identifying information related to at least one of a user interaction with the first web application, a system interaction with the first web application, and execution of the first web application; and

a worker application executable separately from the first web application by the computing device, the worker application being associated with an allocation of volatile memory and being configured to receive the first message from the first web application, store the first message in the allocation of volatile memory, and retrieve the first message following termination of the first web application.

11. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the worker application refrains from storing the first message in a non-volatile storage location.

12. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the worker application is further configured to store the first message in a non-volatile storage location of the computing device.

13. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location after the allocation of volatile memory reaches a threshold capacity level that is based on a percentage of a total capacity of allocated memory.

14. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location at a specified time following a previous storing operation in the non-volatile storage location.

15. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the first message is stored in the non-volatile storage location upon determining that the computing device is idle.

16. The computer system of claim 10, further comprising:

a second web application of the one or more web applications that is executable by the computing device, the second web application executing separately from the first web application and also from the worker application, and being configured to generate a second message that relates to operation of the second web application, and wherein the worker application is further configured to receive the second message from the second web application, and to store the second message in the allocation of volatile memory.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the worker application is further configured to output the first and second messages in an interleaved format based on a timestamp that indicates when the first message was received and on a timestamp that indicates when the second message was received by the worker application.

18. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the first message comprises one or more of a crash log message associated with the first web application, a stack trace message associated with the first web application, a latency timing message indicating a time between actions associated with the first web application, a message indicating detection of an event by the first web application, and a message indicating a time when the first web application was started.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

receive, by a first application executing at a computing device and separately from a second application on a computing device, a first message generated by the second application, the first message identifying information related to at least one of a user interaction with the second application, a system interaction with the second application, and execution of the second application;

store, by the first application executing at the computing device, the first message in a volatile memory storage location of the computing device, the volatile memory storage location being allocated to the first application; and

retrieve, by the first application executing at the computing device, the first message following a termination of the second application.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first application executing separately from the second application refrains from storing the first message in a non-volatile storage location.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first message comprises one or more of a crash log message associated with the second application, a stack trace message associated with the second application, a latency timing message indicating a time between actions associated with the second application, a message indicating detection of an event by the second application, and a message indicating a time when the second application was started.