Collection of telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device

• US 9,613,147 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2015
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Carlson, Jay A., Chopra, Vivek
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/817,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20150339388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 34087001, 34087003, 34087009, 3408704, 34087042, 34042618, 34042619, 3404262, 34042621, 340445
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Provided are methods and systems for collecting telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device. A system for the collection of telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device may comprise a client device to initialize the telemetry library. The system may further comprise a processor to contact a configuration server with identifying information specific to the client device to retrieve configuration information. The system may then perform a search using the identifying information, return configuration regular expressions related to the identifying information to the telemetry library, and identify the telemetry data along with a namespace or a scope to which the telemetry data belongs, using a name generated by the telemetry library.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for collection of telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device, the method comprising:

initializing the telemetry library via the client device;

contacting a configuration server with identifying information specific to the client device to retrieve configuration information, via the telemetry library;

using the identifying information to perform a search, via the configuration server;

returning configuration regular expressions related to the identifying information to the telemetry library, via the configuration server;

using a name generated by the telemetry library to identify the telemetry data along with a namespace or a scope to which the telemetry data belongs, via the client device;

generating a signature using a scope hierarchy, the name used, and the telemetry data being collected;

matching the telemetry data to the configuration regular expressions; and

adding the telemetry data to a collection of data of the telemetry library being captured if there is no match to the generated signature, via the telemetry library.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the telemetry library uses a name-value pairing combination to uniquely identify telemetric data.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the identifying information is associated with the client device.

4. The method of claim 1, in which the identifying information is associated with a user of the client device.

5. The method of claim 1, in which the client device is one or more of a game console, a mobile device, a computer, a tablet computer, and a smartphone.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the configuration regular expressions are provided in response to a startup of the client device.

7. The method of claim 1, in which the configuration regular expressions are received in response to a user login at the client device.

8. The method of claim 1, in which the configuration regular expressions are received with a request for reporting.

9. The method of claim 1, in which the telemetry data includes a string generated based on one or more of a name, a namespace, type of the telemetry data, and a value.

10. A system for collection of telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device, the system comprising:

a client device to initialize the telemetry library; and

a processor to;

contact, via the telemetry library, a configuration server with identifying information specific to the client device to retrieve configuration information;

perform a search, via the configuration server, using the identifying information;

return configuration regular expressions, via the configuration server, related to the identifying information to the telemetry library;

identify the telemetry data along with a namespace or a scope to which the telemetry data belongs, via the client device, using a name generated by the telemetry library;

generate a signature using a scope hierarchy, the name used, and the telemetry data being collected;

match the telemetry data to the configuration regular expressions; and

add the telemetry data to a collection of data of the telemetry library being captured if there is no match to the generated signature, via the telemetry library.

11. The system of claim 10, in which the telemetry library uses a name-value pairing combination to uniquely identify telemetric data.

12. The system of claim 10, in which the identifying information is associated with the client device.

13. The system of claim 10, in which the identifying information is associated with a user of the client device.

14. The system of claim 10, in which the client device is one or more of a game console, a mobile device, a computer, a tablet computer, and a smartphone.

15. The system of claim 10, in which the configuration regular expressions are provided in response to a startup of the client device.

16. The system of claim 10, in which the configuration regular expressions are received with a request for reporting.

17. The system of claim 10, in which the telemetry data includes a string generated based on one or more of a name, a namespace, type of the telemetry data, and a value.

18. A non-transitory processor-readable medium having embodied thereon instructions being executable by at least one processor to perform a method for collection of telemetry data by a telemetry library within a client device, the method comprising:

initializing the telemetry library via the client device;

contacting a configuration server with identifying information specific to the client device to retrieve configuration information, via the telemetry library;

using the identifying information to perform a search, via the configuration server;

returning configuration regular expressions related to the identifying information to the telemetry library, via the configuration server;

using a name generated by the telemetry library to identify the telemetry data along with a namespace or a scope to which the telemetry data belongs, via the client device;

generating a signature using a scope hierarchy, the name used, and the telemetry data being collected;

matching the telemetry data to the configuration regular expressions; and

adding the telemetry data to a collection of data of the telemetry library being captured if there is no match to the generated signature, via the telemetry library.