Patent ID: 9459991
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for heap dump object identification in a heap dump analysis tool, the method comprising: instrumenting an object with a uniquely identifiable marker; instantiating the instrumented object in a virtual machine executing in memory by a processor of a host computer; triggering a heap dump in the virtual machine; parsing a heap dump file resulting from the triggered heap dump to locate a reference to the uniquely identifiable marker, the reference referring to an entry in a table, the table including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows correlating objects to different uniquely identifiable markers, each uniquely identifiable marker being distinct from the different uniquely identifiable markers in the table; comparing the reference to entries in the table to identify the object associated with the uniquely identifiable marker; and, displaying an association between the object and the heap dump file in a heap dump analysis tool executing in the memory by the processor of the host computer, the displayed association correlating the object with one of a creator or an owner of the object.