Including Simulation Patents (Class 717/135)
  • Patent number: 9740596
    Abstract: Various embodiments are describe techniques, methods, and system disclosing accelerated test automation that is invoking a first script representing a first test case of an application under test, in response to a set of input data. From the first script, a plurality of generalized script elements are invoked, where each generalized script element tests a specific functionality of the application under test. A second script, representing a second test case is executed, and at least some of the plurality of generalized script elements that were invoked by the first script are invoked by the second script. Thereafter, it is determined whether the first and second test cases have passed or failed the software testing based on execution of the first and second scripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Mikhail Galburt
  • Patent number: 9733926
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for development of code for deployment on target devices within native code containers that provide access to native resources on the target devices. The native code containers on the target devices may provide only limited development capabilities. Thus, the disclosed development techniques may make use of a device that offers extended development capabilities in comparison to the native code containers on the target devices. A bridge may be established to connect an extended development capability device to a target device. The disclosed bridge may allow developers to benefit from extended development capabilities, while also enabling certain appropriate features to be tested on the target device in the environment in which they will eventually be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdullah Mohammed Jibaly, Rahul Ravikumar
  • Patent number: 9632759
    Abstract: A device may receive model information that describes a model and external system information that describes an external system that is different than the model. The model information may identify a first set of signals, associated with the model, that are incompatible with the external system. The external system information may identify a second set of signals, associated with the external system, that are incompatible with the model. The device may generate interface code based on the model information and the external system information. The interface code, when executed, may permit the model and the external system to interact using the first set of signals and the second set of signals. The device may execute the interface code to transform the first set of signals to the second set of signals and to transform the second set of signals to the first set of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying-On Yan, David Koh, Jerome O. Chevalier, Tao Jia
  • Patent number: 9612863
    Abstract: A device is provided for accelerating, on a platform comprising a plurality of processing units, the execution of a SystemC simulation of a system, said simulation comprising a SystemC kernel and SystemC processes. The device comprises hardware means for scheduling the SystemC processes on the processing units in a dynamic manner during the execution of the simulation, these means making it possible notably to preempt the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Nicolas Ventroux
  • Patent number: 9489289
    Abstract: An automated, self-adaptive framework prioritizes software testing in a consistent and effective manner. A metric evaluates past test execution information for assigning regression testing priority. The metric may be calculated with reference to one or more of the following factors taken in combination: requirement, coverage, history, and cost. The requirement factor considers customer-assigned priority of testing the code, complexity of implementing the code, and proneness of the code to faults. The coverage factor considers code coverage, feature coverage, and common usage rate. The history factor considers previous bug found rate, case stable rate, and priority to calculate. The cost factor considers test case execution time, and step length. A value of each factor for one test case is measured according to that test case and is not related to other test cases. The calculation result representing the metric for each test case determines a priority of the test case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Ziheng Hu, Jing Li, Xin Li, Chen Zhou, Longhui Chang
  • Patent number: 9459852
    Abstract: While a first code, in an object code generated from a source code, for a loop included in the source code or a second code in the object code is executed, a feature amount concerning the number of times that a condition of a conditional branch is true is obtained. The loop includes the conditional branch, and the conditional branch is coded in the first code. The second code is a code to perform computation of a branch destination for a case where the condition of the conditional branch is true, only for loop indices that were extracted as the aforementioned case. Then, a processor executes, based on the feature amount, the second code or a third code included in the object code. The third code is a code to write, by using a predicated instruction and into a memory, any computation result of computations of branch destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshie Inada
  • Patent number: 9454461
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for identifying program flow in a computer program, executing in a debugger on at least one processor, subsequent to suspending execution of the computer program at a user breakpoint can include suspending execution of the computer program at a first user breakpoint, setting, by the debugger, one or more tracking breakpoints in one or more routines that can continue execution from the first user breakpoint, then resuming execution of the computer program. The method may be continued by suspending execution of the computer program at a second user breakpoint after processing by the at least one processor at least one instruction of the computer program. The method may further include determining whether to provide an indicator to indicate that at least one of the one or more tracking breakpoints was hit during the executing, and providing the indicator in response to determining to provide the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cary L. Bates, Lee N. Helgeson, Justin K. King, Michelle A. Schlicht
  • Patent number: 9398041
    Abstract: A computer identifies each web method, of a web service, declared in a web services description language (WSDL) file. The computer adds a node within a directed graph for each web method identified. The computer identifies pairs of web methods declared in the WSDL file in which a match exists between an output parameter of one of the web methods and an input parameter of another one of the web methods. The computer adds an edge within the directed graph for each of the pairs of web methods identified. The computer generates one or more sequences of web methods based on nodes connected by edges within the directed graph, wherein each of the one or more sequences includes at least one of the pairs of web methods identified. The computer tests each of the one or more sequences of web methods to identify stored vulnerabilities in the web service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Evgeny Beskrovny, Omer Tripp, Emmanuel Wurth
  • Patent number: 9317397
    Abstract: In a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) simulation system, at least one of a PLC simulator and an external simulator executes processing while checking the status of program execution in the other. For example, the PLC simulator provides a socket interface, and operates upon receiving various commands from the external simulator. The external simulator checks, using a command, whether processing for a program is being executed or the execution is finished in the PLC simulator. The external simulator checks the status of operation of the program in the PLC simulator, and executes processing accompanying writing to a PLC memory or the like, in a case where contention of access to the PLC memory does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Narutani, Taku Oya, Yasunori Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 9311222
    Abstract: Interactions with a particular graphical user interface (GUI) of a software system are caused to be recorded and a particular one of the interactions is identified as an interaction with a particular GUI element of the GUI. A particular type of GUI element corresponding to the particular GUI element is determined and at least a portion of an instruction is generated for inclusion in a test of the software system, the instruction referencing the particular GUI element as an instance of the particular type of GUI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin B. Avery, Jacob H. Stoddard
  • Patent number: 9304892
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media determining a behavior model of a computing system under test. In some implementations, actions include executing, using a user interface of a computing SUT, an initial test script on the SUT; recording, after executing the initial test script, a state of the SUT in the behavior model by observing one or more events that can be triggered using the user interface of the SUT; and iteratively refining the behavior model until an end condition is reached by generating one or more new test scripts, executing the new test scripts on the SUT to test unobserved behavior, and recording one or more new states reached by executing the new test scripts on the SUT in the behavior model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Matthias Schur, Andreas Roth
  • Patent number: 9248279
    Abstract: A method of providing stimulation therapy to a patient includes performing first and second calibration processes in first and second patient posture states, respectively. The first and second calibration processes respectively associates a sensation experienced by a patient, in the respective patient posture states, with first and second amounts of an evoked potential, respectively, and also with first and second values of a stimulation parameter to achieve the first and second amounts of evoked potential, respectively. Thereafter, a current patient posture state is detected. If the current patient posture state is detected as the first patient posture state, stimulation therapy is applied to the patient using the first value of the stimulation parameter as an initial value. If the current patient posture state is detected as the second patient posture state, stimulation therapy is applied to the patient using the second value of the stimulation parameter as the initial value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Joey Chen, Kerry Bradley, Leslie Halberg
  • Patent number: 9178900
    Abstract: A computer executes a suspicious software sample directly on its CPU in order to detect if the software sample is malicious. The software sample does not execute within a sandbox or virtual machine. Before the sample executes, a memory state of the computer is saved and a virtual disk file is created to bootstrap the computer at a later time. Malicious behavior of the software sample is collected while it executes and a report is generated. Hard disk access requests are redirected to a virtual disk file. The software sample does not detect that it is being analyzed. After execution of the sample, the computer is reverts to a clean state by bootstrapping the computer from the saved virtual disk file and then restoring the computer's volatile and non-volatile virtual memory from the saved memory state. A new software sample may then be executed and analyzed on the clean computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Trend Micro Inc.
    Inventors: Yuefeng Li, Qiang Huang, Ben Huang
  • Patent number: 9171157
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for tracking access to application data and preventing data exploitation by malicious programs. In one example, the method includes shimming into a running process of the system to create at least one monitoring hook to monitor a program, building an execution path of the monitored program, and monitoring a behavior of the execution path for malicious behavior using the monitoring hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Flores, Wei Lu, Ronnie Blewer, Yariv Kaplan
  • Patent number: 9098631
    Abstract: The present invention enables an automated testing of computer software applications for efficiently determining the quality and/or performance characteristics of the computer software applications and assists testing designers when determining software application scalability and performance under load. Embodiments of the present invention may be implemented to, for example, determine how many test servers are required to test computer software applications for correct function under the load of many concurrently active users, and periodically test and/or monitor computer software applications for quality control and/or other purposes. Additionally, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented to, for example calibrate a set of one or more test servers for testing a computer software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Appvance Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Cohen
  • Patent number: 9047166
    Abstract: An application generation system configured to automatically generate an application having a desired function is disclosed. The application generation system has a mobile terminal including computation means for performing predetermined computation processing, image capture means for capturing an information code, decoding means for decoding the information code to extract character information, display means for displaying predetermined information, and first communication means for communicating character information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Mediaseek, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Nishio, Shinya Matsuda, Yasuhiro Nezu, Eiichi Ohsawa, Akira Tateishi
  • Patent number: 9047404
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for development of code for deployment on target devices within native code containers that provide access to native resources on the target devices. The native code containers on the target devices may provide only limited development capabilities. Thus, the disclosed development techniques may make use of a device that offers extended development capabilities in comparison to the native code containers on the target devices. A bridge may be established to connect an extended development capability device to a target device. The disclosed bridge may allow developers to benefit from extended development capabilities, while also enabling certain appropriate features to be tested on the target device in the environment in which they will eventually be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Abdullah Mohammed Jibaly, Rahul Ravikumar
  • Patent number: 9043762
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for providing a simulated network. Providing a simulated network can include collecting a number of network parameters for a plurality of locations and determining an application frequency of an application for the plurality of locations. Furthermore, providing a simulated network can include providing a simulated network with the number of network parameters to a number of testers of the application, wherein the number of network parameters are provided proportionally to the application frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Lior Reuven
  • Patent number: 9027132
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, execution of a portion of internal code of an interface is identified. Further, in response to the execution of the portion of internal code, at least one aspect of an invocation of the interface is monitored and/or analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory William Dalcher
  • Publication number: 20150121350
    Abstract: Provided is a virtual simulation device including a simulator unit executing embedded software; an image implementing unit implementing an image corresponding to an embedded system in which the embedded software is installed; and a state managing unit, wherein the state managing unit receives a state message created by executing the embedded software from the simulator unit, converts the state message into a control message capable of being interpreted by the image implementing unit and delivers the control message to the image implementing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Woo Jin LEE, Soo Young JANG
  • Patent number: 9021453
    Abstract: A deployment simulator application receives information about an anti-malware application that is to be deployed to and installed on client devices connected to a network. The deployment simulator application identifies the clients that will receive the deployed anti-malware application and performs a series of tests on the client to determine whether the anti-malware application will be able to successfully install remotely on the client. The deployment simulator application may report the results of the deployment simulation tests to an administrative client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Malwarebytes Corporation
    Inventor: Yadong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9021452
    Abstract: Systems and methods for demonstrating a replacement information management software for a computing system. The methods may include determining if existing information management software is installed in the computing system. The methods may include identifying computing devices of the computing system using information from the existing information management software. The methods may include simulating the replacement information management software with characteristics of the identified computing devices to enable a user to experience the replacement information management software prior to committing to installing the replacement information management software in the computing system. The methods may include automatically installing the replacement information management software. Other implementations are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: CommVault Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjay Harakhchand Kripalani
  • Patent number: 9021008
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate the evaluation of the operation of host computing devices by utilization of targeted scripts. Each host computing device includes a local targeted script management component that interfaces with a centralized or master targeted script management component. The local targeted script management component obtains targeted scripts, causes the execution of the targeted script and can terminate the targeted script. Additionally, the local targeted script management component can collect information associated with the execution of the targeted scripts and initiate the restoration of previous state in the event that the execution of the targeted script modifies or otherwise affects the host computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kolton D. Andrus, Daniel M. Vogel, Timothy M. Sehn, Aaron D. Son
  • Publication number: 20150113511
    Abstract: A system and methods to emulate an application executing in real time in a mobile device. The mobile device is emulated in real time using a model running on a processor extrinsic to the mobile device. The model is based on characteristics indicative of performance of the mobile device. The application is executed in real time within the model and the application executing in the model is monitored to determine resource utilization information by the application for the mobile device. The resource utilization information for the mobile device is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: DONAVAN PAUL POULIN
  • Patent number: 9015672
    Abstract: A method of interface simulation is provided for enabling publication and subscription of messages for a given problem domain, without requiring development of software or code. The method includes identifying a set of messages using the DDS as a problem domain; generating said .java message class from said problem domain generated from a .idl file for Interface Definition Language (IDL); processing said .java message class by Java reflection; generating a plurality of .java message stubs generated in the IDL format of said problem domain; incorporating said plurality of .java message stubs into a .jar message class file by said Java reflection; and rendering a graphical display that enables an operator to select and edit a .java message object from said plurality of stubs in said .jar message class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Stephen H. Dause, Nathan J. Schmidt, Thomas G. Turner
  • Patent number: 9015677
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for generating logic to automate target applications. The logic may be programmed in a virtual environment using mock-up screen elements that mimic the behavior of real screen elements in the target applications environments. The programmed logic may be executed in a computer system using the real screen elements in the target applications environments. The operating environment may be switched between the virtual environment in a mock-up mode and the target applications environment in a real mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ariel Tunik, Dan Eylon
  • Patent number: 9009683
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to approaches for testing client reactions to simulated disruptions in a real production environment that leverages the publish/subscribe messaging model (or one of its variants), optionally in connection with JMS messages and/or triggers. In certain example embodiments, a test driver reads a script that includes an instruction flow that brings down brokers in a broker cluster similar to (or in a manner as inflicted by) broker crashes (e.g., where a process or application does not have a chance to save its state or data before it is terminated), and/or broker stop/start events, e.g., to simulate the problems and determine whether the client application remains intact in the presence of errors. The simulations may leverage hardware and/or software means for intentionally causing disruptions in a live production environment. Thus, it advantageously becomes possible to test an application integration's client-side failover and/or load-balancing implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Software AG
    Inventor: Siddalingesh
  • Patent number: 9003383
    Abstract: The subject system provides the ability to parallelize pre-existing serial code by importing and encapsulating all of the serial code into an object orientated flowchart language utilizing an analytic engine so that the imported code can be efficiently executed taking advantage of the partially ordered transitive flowchart system. The importation examines the serial code to ascertain what elements may be processed under an atomic time to instantiate them as either Action or Test objects, whereas statements which require more than atomic time are instantiated as Task object, with the Action, Test and Task objects being processable by separate processors to establish parallel processing, or by the multitasking afforded by the partially ordered transitive flowchart system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: You Know Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Lavallee, Thomas C. Peacock
  • Patent number: 8990783
    Abstract: Embodiments can include computer-implemented methods or non-transitory computer readable media storing executable instructions. The method or instructions can perform execution scheduling for code generated from an executable graphical model, where the generated code is executed on a target. The method/instructions can perform execution scheduling for a first code portion having a first execution rate, and a second code portion having a second execution rate that is temporally related to the first execution rate. The execution scheduling can account for target environment characteristics obtained from a target, can use an execution schedule, and can account for optimizations related to the first code portion or the second code portion. The method/instructions can further schedule execution of the first code portion and the second code portion in generated executable code based on the performing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Biao Yu, Jim Carrick, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 8984494
    Abstract: An embodiment can include one or more computer readable media storing executable instructions for performing execution scheduling for code generated from an executable graphical model. The media can store instructions for accessing a first code portion having a first priority, and a second code portion having a second priority, where the second priority has a relationship with the first priority. The media can store instructions for accessing target environment characteristics that indicate a performance of the target environment, and for performing execution scheduling for the first code portion and the second code portion, the execution scheduling taking into account the target environment characteristics, the execution scheduling using an execution schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Carrick, Biao Yu
  • Patent number: 8977531
    Abstract: A system for designing a circuit, which includes a module, uses a computer. A user may program or adapt the computer to perform computer-aided design functions. The computer obtains a description of the module from the user. The computer parses the description of the module to identify a port of the module, and to obtain information about the port. The computer presents to the user the information that it has obtained about the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: James M. Brown, Tim Allen, Mike Fairman, Jeffrey O. Pritchard
  • Publication number: 20150067636
    Abstract: A method includes generating a test model based on at least one of test group dependencies and test group constraints and generating a resource base. the method includes generating a cost model and generating a resource allocation plan based on the test model, the resource base, and the cost model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kathryn A. BASSIN, Howard M. HESS, Sheng HUANG, Steven M. KAGAN, Shao C. LI, Zhong J. LI, He H. LIU, Susan E. SMITH, Hua F. TAN, Li WANG, Jun ZHU
  • Publication number: 20150067656
    Abstract: A shared platform included in a device can be configured to execute instructions from a first application and a second application to operate the device. The shared platform can be configured to receive mode instructions from the first application indicative of operating in a test mode where the shared platform provides simulated responses to the first application. The shared platform can receive a request from the first application pertaining to an operation of the second application. The shared platform operating in the test mode can determine a response to the request from the first application based on a simulation of providing the request to the second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas William Knych, Valeriy S. Zakharov
  • Patent number: 8972944
    Abstract: A simulation environment, in one embodiment, includes a debugger server, one or more debuggers, and one or more debugger adapters. Each debugger adapter couples a corresponding debugger to the debugger server. The debugger server coordinates the run mode of the debugger adapters. Each debugger adapter controls the run mode of its corresponding debugger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventor: Dietmar Petras
  • Patent number: 8972958
    Abstract: Systems and systems which implement workflows for providing reconfigurable processor core algorithms operable with associated capabilities using description files, thereby facilitating the development and generation of instruction sets for use with reconfigurable processors, are shown. Embodiments implement a multistage workflow in which program code is parsed into custom instructions and corresponding capability descriptions for generating reconfigurable processor loadable instruction sets. The multistage workflow of embodiments includes a hybrid threading complier operable to compile input program code into custom instructions using a hardware timing agnostic approach. A timing manager of the multistage workflow of embodiments utilizes capabilities information provided in association with the custom instructions generated by the hybrid threading complier to impose hardware timing on the custom instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Convey Computer
    Inventor: Tony Brewer
  • Publication number: 20150058828
    Abstract: In a PLC simulation system (10), at least one of a PLC simulator (2) and an external simulator (4) executes processing while checking the status of program execution in the other. For example, the PLC simulator (2) provides a socket interface, and operates upon receiving various commands from the external simulator (4). The external simulator (4) checks, using a command, whether processing for a program is being executed or the execution is finished in the PLC simulator (2). The external simulator (4) checks the status of operation of the program in the PLC simulator (2), and executes processing accompanying writing to a PLC memory (205b) or the like, in a case where contention of access to the PLC memory (205b) does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Fumiaki Narutani, Taku Oya, Yasunori Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150058829
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to testing a software interface for a streaming hardware device through simulation. Methods include receiving, by a processor, a data manipulation request and a data segment associated with the data manipulation request and generating, by the software interface, an input data stream comprising control information and the data segment. The method also includes transmitting the input data stream to a simulation device and generating, by the simulation device, an output data stream in response to the input data stream, the output data stream including a delineator, control data, a manipulated data segment and a trailing delineator. The simulation device is configured to simulate the operation of the streaming hardware device by performing the data manipulation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Anthony T. Sofia, Peter B. Yocom
  • Patent number: 8966447
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an automated user-level testing tool is enhanced to capture additional information about the state of the automated testing, beyond just a screenshot of the application-under-test. In another embodiment, an automated user-level testing tool is enhanced to capture testing state information for multiple points in time (referred to as “snapshots”), beyond just when the application-under-test crashes. This captured information from one execution of an automated test (one “test run”) is stored in one test log, which can then be viewed using a test log viewer. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface (GUI) for the test log viewer includes four areas: a screenshot area, a test script area, a stack trace area, and a timing area. The content shown in the screenshot area, the test script area, and the stack trace area is specific to a particular point in time during a test (e.g., a particular snapshot).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Evan M. Hoke, Patrick R. Holley, Jonathan M. Deutsch
  • Patent number: 8954929
    Abstract: A unit testing system allows testing of multiple types of method calls using an unmodified software application module. The system dynamically copies byte code of the tested method, clones the byte code, and executes the cloned byte code. During cloning, the system instruments the code so that method calls are redirected into a system method, where the system can determine whether a mocked method should be called instead. The result is that the developer does not need to modify the original methods in order to redirect method calls to mock methods. The developer can simply reference a test module of the unit testing system and easily write tests that redirect any method they wish. Thus, the unit testing system provides a framework for building more useful unit tests that cause less interference with production-ready code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Braude
  • Publication number: 20150026667
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to receive configuration instructions for elements of a network topology to be simulated and tested. In response to receiving and in accordance with the configuration instructions, a plurality of software images (for a plurality of virtual network elements of the network topology) are configured via an Application Programming Interface (API). The plurality of software images run in a cloud host. In response to receiving and in accordance with the configuration instructions, data is configured via the API, which represents one or more connections between the virtual network elements. A plurality of software images for the plurality of virtual network elements is then executed in accordance with the data representing the connections, for development and testing of the network topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Richard Pruss, John E. McDowall, David John Beazley, Marc Joseph Faggion, Joel Obstfeld
  • Patent number: 8938493
    Abstract: Provided is a simulation system capable of reducing a deviation that occurs in simulation results between a client and a server. In the simulation system, a server (2) notifies a client (3) of event information regarding behaviors of one or a plurality of objects, which is obtained as results of executing simulations, along with timing information indicating timings of the behaviors, and the client (3) executes, based on the event information notified from the server (2), a simulation regarding behaviors of at least part of the objects. Also in the simulation system, the client (3) executes the simulation at a timing delayed from the execution of the simulation by the server (2), and causes the behavior of the object corresponding to the event information to occur at a timing determined according to the timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawakami, Shinichiro Mikami
  • Patent number: 8924925
    Abstract: A mechanism in a block diagram environment allows the modeling of an execution behavior of a block in a block diagram, where a user selects the execution behavior from a plurality of functions related to the block diagram and where the execution behavior of the block is performed when at least one model variable associated with the block satisfies a user-specified condition is disclosed. States and other internal data in the designated block are initialized upon the satisfaction of the user-specified condition. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention also allows the internal data to be reset upon the ending of the event, such as the modeled introduction or withdrawal of power. The execution behavior may be suspended and resumed multiple times during the simulation in response to multiple occurrences of the specified event. The present invention also allows for selected data to be exempt from the reset process so that the selected data is non-volatile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew J. Englehart
  • Publication number: 20140380284
    Abstract: A computer readable memory medium comprising program instructions for developing and testing a connectivity driver for an instrument is provided. The program instructions are executable by a processor to record transmissions to or from the instrument, place raw data from each recorded transmission into a primary field, and generate a secondary field associated with the primary field. The secondary field includes at least one of: a time that the transmission was transmitted at, a direction the transmission was transmitted in, a content of the transmission, and a state of the connectivity driver during the transmission. The program instructions are also executable by a processor to modify the content of the first or secondary fields, and play the modified transmission from computer readable memory medium in order to debug the communications software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Slava Rivkin
  • Patent number: 8914274
    Abstract: An ISS (instruction set simulator) debugging method. The method includes executing a plurality of instructions of an ISS (instruction set simulator). For each instruction, an ISS simulation state is synchronized to a simulation time when the execution of the instruction is finished. At least two debugger components are executed in conjunction with the execution of the ISS, wherein the debugger components are each coupled to control the ISS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventor: Dietmar Petras
  • Patent number: 8904362
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a network interface to facilitate communication with a second apparatus, and one or more machine-readable media with instructions executable by one or more processors to perform facilitating accessing a windows application resident on the second apparatus without executing locally the windows application resident on the second apparatus. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing functionality to permit use of a windows application resident on the apparatus without requiring more than windowing information of the windows application to be provided. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing information for display. An apparatus may facilitate provision of windowing information associated with a program executable on the apparatus configured to run a multi-user operating system, the program resident on the apparatus. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Wyse Technology L.L.C.
    Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, David Stone
  • Patent number: 8898643
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for trace replay and simulation are presented. The system creates a trace entry for each one of a plurality of transactions through the server interface for a client, A message type and message data are recorded into the trace entry for each one of the plurality of transactions. A collection of trace entries for an individual one of the plurality of clients is transferred to a trace player. A client identifier is replaced in the trace entry with an identifier associated with the trace player, An interaction between the server and the clients is replayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Matthias Rode
  • Patent number: 8893086
    Abstract: A method includes generating a test model based on at least one of test group dependencies and test group constraints and generating a resource base. The method includes generating a cost model and generating a resource allocation plan based on the test model, the resource base, and the cost model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn A. Bassin, Howard M. Hess, Sheng Huang, Steven Kagan, Shao C. Li, Zhong J. Li, He H. Liu, Susan E. Skrabanek, Hua F. Tan, Li Wang, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 8887136
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system that facilitates the evaluation of an equation. During operation, the system obtains one or more data-access functions to be used in the equation. Next, the system obtains an analysis context for the equation separately from the data-access functions. The analysis context may include one or more analysis parameters that specify one or more data sources and/or types of analysis to be used in evaluating the equation. Finally, the system evaluates the equation using the data-access functions and the data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian M. R. Delbaere, Anil P. Balaram
  • Patent number: 8881113
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for assigning exceptions in a multi-tenant system providing instances of a virtual application over a network to multiple tenants. One exemplary method of assigning an exception record corresponding to an anomalous condition identified by an instance of the virtual application involves obtaining context information associated with the anomalous condition from the instance of the virtual application and automatically assigning the exception record to a development entity based at least in part on the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Zuye Zheng, James Iry, Nagraj Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 8875102
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention enable testing and operation of scripts or other applications on multiple browsers at the same time. The browsers may run on different operating systems and platforms. This permits the user to observe and manage any differences in script functionality in the different browsers. An application developer may create a script or other application, run the application in one browser and observe results simultaneously in one or more other browsers. Operation may occur in a step by step process in a specific domain to determine how the script/application works in the different browsers. Such operation may occur in a real time procedure, providing instantaneous feedback and speeding up the application development process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: He Feng