Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product which capture and use analytics data relating to the internal activity of software programs executing in a message-passing runtime environment, such as that provided by Objective-C. The invention exploits the well documented interfaces of these environments together with their dynamic runtime capabilities to insert data collection and analysis code into an application without modification of the target application.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
Introspex Incorporated
Inventors:
Fred W. McClain, Stephen Mickelsen, Vishweshwar Ghanakota