US 10,949,316 B2 · Detection and analysis of energy consumption of software applications

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems for generating and processing energy consumption reports received from a plurality of devices. The reports may include a plurality of call stacks captured and stored by remote device as a result of an energy consumption of the corresponding device. For each energy consumption report, the plurality of call stacks may be analyzed to determine a representative call stack of the energy consumption report. The energy consumption reports may be assigned to one or more of a plurality of energy consumption categories based on distances between the representative call stacks of the energy consumption reports and corresponding representative call stacks of the energy consumption categories. A request may be received for energy consumption reports for a particular energy consumption category. Upon receiving the request, providing a representative set of energy consumption reports assigned to the particular energy consumption category.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising performing, by a computing device:

monitoring an energy consumption of the computing device;
determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds a threshold amount;
in response to determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds the threshold amount, storing a plurality of snapshots of a call stack of the computing device, each snapshot of the call stack including one or more frames corresponding to one or more functions in the call stack;
identifying, for each snapshot of the plurality of snapshots, a function call path that includes each function in the call stack of the snapshot;
determining a frequency in which each function call path is included in the plurality of snapshots;
generating a micro-stack, the micro-stack including the function call paths and each corresponding frequency;
packaging one or more micro-stacks into an energy consumption report;
and
transmitting the energy consumption report to a remote device.

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A mobile device comprising:

one or more processors:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
monitoring an energy consumption of a computing device;
determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds a threshold amount;
in response to determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds the threshold amount, storing a plurality of snapshots of a call stack of the computing device, each snapshot of the call stack including one or more frames corresponding to one or more functions in the call stack:
identifying, for each snapshot of the plurality of snapshots, a function call path that includes each function in the call stack of the snapshot;
determining a frequency in which each function call path is included in the plurality of snapshots;
generating a micro-stack, the micro-stack including the function call paths and each corresponding frequency;
packaging one or more micro-stacks into an energy consumption report;
and
transmitting the energy consumption report to a remote device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:

monitoring an energy consumption of a computing device;
determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds a threshold amount;
in response to determining that a measure of the energy consumption exceeds a threshold amount, storing a plurality of snapshots of a call stack of the computing device, each snapshot of the call stack including one or more frames corresponding to one or more functions in the call stack;
identifying, for each snapshot of the plurality of snapshots, a function call path that includes each function in the call stack of the snapshot;
determining a frequency in which each function call path is included in the plurality of snapshots;
generating a micro-stack, the micro-stack including the function call paths and each corresponding frequency;
packaging one or more micro-stacks into an energy consumption report;
and
transmitting the energy consumption report to a remote device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Detection and analysis of energy consumption of software applications

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Detection and analysis of energy consumption of software applications

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Abstract

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