PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981258
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["717", "124000"]

Abstract:
A real-time debugger implementation maintains and manages multiple debug contexts allowing developers to interact with real-time applications without “breaking” the system in which the debug application is executing. The debugger allows multiple debug contexts to exist and allows break points in real-time and non-real-time code portions of one or more applications executing on a debug enabled core of a processor. A debug monitor function may be implemented as a hardware logic module on the same integrated circuit as the processor. Higher priority interrupt service requests may be serviced while otherwise maintaining a context for the debug session (e.g., stopped at a developer defined breakpoint). Accordingly, the application developer executing the debugger may not have to be concerned with processing occurring on the processor that may be unrelated to the current debug session.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of debugging program code executing on a processor configured with a debug controller performing a debug monitor function, the program code including a plurality of code sections, each code section associated with an execution priority level, the method comprising:\n executing a first code section having a first execution priority on the processor while allowing interrupting code sections of a higher execution priority than the first execution priority to pre-empt execution of the first code section for a period of execution to complete each interrupting code section; recognizing a first breakpoint in the first code section at the debug controller; the processor at the first breakpoint; allowing the debug controller to process functions of the debug monitor while at the first breakpoint; obtaining information representative of a first debug context at the debug monitor, the first debug context associated with register values attributable to the first code section at the first breakpoint; receiving an indication that a second code section, of a higher execution priority than the first execution priority, attempts to pre-empt execution of the first code section while at the first breakpoint of the first code section; allowing the processor to execute for a period of execution to complete the second code section while maintaining the first debug context of the debug monitor associated with the first breakpoint of the first code section; recognizing a second breakpoint in the second code section at the debug controller; pausing execution of the processor at the second breakpoint; storing information of the first debug context on a stack; allowing the debug controller to process functions of the debug monitor while at the second breakpoint; obtaining information representative of a second debug context at the debug monitor; receiving an indication to continue execution from the second breakpoint; pausing execution of the processor upon return from the second code section to the first code section; and returning control to the debug controller performing the debug monitor function in the first debug context upon completion of the second code section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64368
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13888370', '13888357', '12120543', '13916877', '11754007']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3972151288171376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5027665448950249
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4077702704249263
- Mean Citation Score: 232.005838
- Max Citation Score: 254.21907
- Similarity Product: 206.5596312301648

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test