Monitoring the responsiveness of a user interface

A diagnostic mechanism monitors execution of a user interface (UI) thread to detect execution of a long running task that may have caused the UI thread to become unresponsive. The execution time of the UI thread is monitored and when it exceeds a threshold, the UI thread's call stack is preserv...

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Main Authors MCCOLL CAMERON, PRICE PHILIP, AYGUN BERTAN, BASAVA SHIBANI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.07.2016
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A diagnostic mechanism monitors execution of a user interface (UI) thread to detect execution of a long running task that may have caused the UI thread to become unresponsive. The execution time of the UI thread is monitored and when it exceeds a threshold, the UI thread's call stack is preserved to a mini-dump file. The completion time of the UI thread is also tracked and stored in a delay file. The mini-dump and delay files are then uploaded to a server where the collected data is aggregated overall execution runs by multiple users to identify the cause of the unresponsiveness.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201113241249