System and method for emulating and profiling a frame-based application playing on a mobile device

• US 8,589,140 B1
• Filed: 02/15/2010
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wapp Tech Corp.
• Original Assignee: Wapp Tech Corp.
• Inventors: Poulin, Donavan Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, THAI Q
• Application Number:
  US12/705,913
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 703/14, 703/22, 463/42, 463/43, 713/156, 709/206, 709/246, 715/771
• US Class Current: 703/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3457 Performance evaluation by simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/00 Indexing scheme relating to error detection, to error correction, and to monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/33 Design verification, e.g. functional simulation or model checking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines

Abstract

A system, method and software product emulate and profile an application playing on a mobile device. The mobile device is emulated using a model based upon characteristics related to performance of the mobile device. The application is played and monitored within the model to determine resource utilization of the application for the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for para-authoring an application comprising:

authoring a part of the application on each of two or more communicatively connected authoring environments;

publishing each said part of the application from each authoring environment to each of the other authoring environments;

publishing an online status of each authoring environment to each of the other authoring environments.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising emulating the application within an emulator executing in one of the authoring environments and publishing output from the emulator to one or more of the other authoring environments.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the output from the emulator comprises one or both of profile data and a device view.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a communication from a first one of the authoring environments to one or more of the other authoring environments, wherein the communication is selected from the group including a text message, a video message, and an audio message.

5. A system for developing an application to play on an application player in a mobile device comprising:

a software authoring interface configured to simultaneously visually emulate, via one or more profile display windows, a plurality of hardware characteristics indicative of performance of the mobile device when executing the application; and

a system information window configured to display mobile device hardware characteristics.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the relative positions of maximum and minimum operational thresholds of the application are displayed in real time while the application is executing.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the windows can be docked and undocked to simultaneously display one or more of the windows.

8. The system of claim 5, further including a module configured to allow user control of a least one of the hardware characteristics via an image of the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the windows can be scrolled to display the contents thereof at any given position of the executing application.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the windows can be scrolled to display the contents thereof at any given frame of the executing application.

11. The system of claim 5, wherein a positioning mechanism is configured to determine the position of the application relative to each of the thresholds.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the maximum and minimum operational thresholds are adjustable by a system user.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein said characteristics for a plurality of the mobile devices can be simultaneously viewed in a plurality of respective windows.

14. The system of claim 5, wherein movement of a respective scroll bar enables display of a static runtime position of each of a plurality of said profile windows displaying said characteristics of the mobile devices.

15. The system of claim 5, wherein the percentage CPU and memory usage of a plurality of said mobile devices is indicated in a respective plurality of said profile windows when playing the application.

16. A system for developing a mobile handset application to play on an application player executing on a computer external to the handset comprising:

a software authoring interface configured to simultaneously visually emulate a plurality of hardware characteristics indicative of performance of a of a plurality of mobile handsets through at least one profile window; and

a system information window configured to display operational characteristics of a plurality of said handsets while the application is executing on the computer.

17. A system for developing an application for a mobile handset to play on an application player executing on a computer external to the handset comprising:

an Internet-connected para-authoring software interface simultaneously accessible to a plurality of developers;

a plurality of visual profilers, each configured to visually emulate the hardware characteristics of the mobile handset through a respective profile window;

wherein the interface enables near-simultaneous collaborative authoring of the application by more than one author.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein each of the profile windows is simultaneously displayed.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the system is connected to another system of the same kind via the Internet.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the software interface comprises an environment for simultaneously authoring para-authoring a plurality of applications.