Automated dynamic firmware analysis at scale: a case study on embedded web interfaces

A Costin, A Zarras, A Francillon - Proceedings of the 11th ACM on Asia …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Embedded devices are becoming more widespread, interconnected, and web-enabled than
ever. However, recent studies showed that embedded devices are far from being secure …

Error recovery

A Smith, T Upadhyaya, J Lozano, D Hung - US Patent 11,003,568, 2021 - Google Patents
A system and method may provide assistance to programmer during programming to detect
and predict the existence of errors in code and, in some aspects, predict fixes for erroneous …

Fingerprinting event logs for system management troubleshooting

R Panigrahy, C Verbowski, Y Xie, J Yang… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A technique for automatically detecting and correcting con figuration errors
in a computing system. In a learning process, recurring event sequences, including eg …

Monitoring distributed web application transactions

J Bansal, B Sunkara - US Patent 9,167,028, 2015 - Google Patents
The present technology monitors a web application provided by one or more services. A
service may be provided by applications executing on a virtual machine. The monitoring …

Identifying root causes of failures in a deployed distributed application using historical fine grained machine state data

PM Deshpande, A Nandi, S Subramanian - US Patent 9,772,898, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods and arrangements for identifying root causes of system failures in a distributed
system said method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that …

System and method for incident management enhanced with problem classification for technical support services

A Sailer, HH Shaikh, Y Song - US Patent 8,365,019, 2013 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to incident management for technical Support services, more
specifically, to an enhanced problem determination and resolution technique. 2. Description …

System and method for online unsupervised event pattern extraction and holistic root cause analysis for distributed systems

X Gu - US Patent 10,831,585, 2020 - Google Patents
An unsupervised pattern extraction system and method for extracting user interested
patterns from various kinds of data such as system-level metric values, system call traces …

Capturing and displaying state of automated user-level testing of a graphical user interface application

EM Hoke, PR Holley, JM Deutsch - US Patent 8,966,447, 2015 - Google Patents
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 …

System and method to monitor and manage imperfect or compromised software

TA Anschutz - US Patent 9,825,908, 2017 - Google Patents
A method of increasing integrity associated with a computer network, which includes
determining a model operational parameter associated with an application operating at a …

Building an application call graph from multiple sources

A Rao, J Lyon-Smith - US Patent 8,595,709, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND One technique for analyzing or debugging a program employs a call graph
that indicates function calls made during an execution of a computer program. A call graph …