US 10,592,587 B2Granted

Techniques for view capture and storage for mobile applications

AssigneeQuantum Metric, Inc.

InventorsMario Luciano Ciabarra, Jr., Joseph Eric Pastuer

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Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for capturing, storing, and regenerating a view of content in applications (e.g., native applications) on devices (e.g., a mobile device). In at least one embodiment, a capture management system is disclosed that produce compact data storage of views of content in an application on a device and the efficient search thereof of views of content provided in the application. The views of content can be translated into a transportable data layer, such as HTML, and captured using delta encoding to identify changes and modifications in content accessed in any application at a device. A capture management system can accurately and efficiently capture events displayed for an application at a device and send the events to a server-side system, which can combine the events to reassemble the events. For example, user interface and user interaction events on an application at a mobile device can be reassembled for the purpose of playback and analysis of interactions with the application.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

detecting that an application on a device is loading a view in the application;
analyzing, by a capture system, the view in the application to determine a layout of the view;
generating, by the capture system, a document having the layout of the view in the application;
sending, to a computer system, the document for storage;
detecting a change in the view in the application based on monitoring operation of the application on the device;
and
in response to detecting the change the view in the application:
(a) determining a plurality of data portions within the document;
(b) for each of the plurality of data portions within the document, using a hash function to generate a fingerprint;
(c) for each of the plurality of data portions within the document, comparing the generated fingerprint to a fingerprint previously generated based on the same data portion within the documents,
(d) determining, based on the comparing, a first subset of the data portions within the document that changed during the change in the view in the application wherein a second subset of the data portions within the document did not changed during the change in the view in the application;
and
(e) transmitting, the computer system, the first subset of the data portions of the document that changed, wherein the second subset of the data portions of the document that did not change are not transmitted to the computer system.

10 more elements

A capture system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a memory accessible to the one or more processors, the memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
detect that an application on a device is loading a view in the application;
analyze the view in the application to determine a layout of the view;
generate a document having the layout of the view in the application;
send, to a computer system, the document for storage;
detect a change in the view in the application based on monitoring operation of the application on the device;
and
in response to detecting the change the view in the application;
(a) determine a plurality of data portions within the document;
(b) for each of the plurality of data portions within the document, use a hash function to generate a fingerprint;
(c) for each of the plurality of data portions within the document, compare the generated fingerprint to a fingerprint previously generated based on the same data portion within the document;
(d) determine, based on the comparing, a first subset of the data portions within the document that changed during the change in the view in the application, wherein a second subset of the data portions within the document did not changed during the change in the view in the application;
and
(e) transmit, the computer system, the first subset of the data portions of the document that changed, wherein the second subset of the data portions of the document that did not change are not transmitted to the computer system.

13 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/722,911Filed 2 Oct 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Sep 2016
Published: US 2018/0095941 A15 Apr 2018
Granted: 17 Mar 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 40/123
Use of codes for handling textual entities: storage facilities
G06F 40/106
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: display of layout of documents; Previewing
G06F 40/143
Tree-structured documents: markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
G06F 3/013
Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality: eye tracking input arrangements