Client Application Error Detection and Automatic Code Update
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems face challenges in handling application errors and crashes, often misdiagnosing issues and disrupting user access for extended periods while selecting patches, as they require analysis before applying updates.
Innovation Solution
The system automatically detects unexpected errors in client applications, requests and applies updates from the application server, allowing seamless reloading of application code without interrupting user experience, even if the error cause is unknown, by sending instructions to the server and receiving updated code for immediate resolution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional systems analyze errors before applying patches, then patch accuracy is improved, but user access time is worsened due to extended interruption periods
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting errors and fetching updated application code from the server before user experience is significantly impacted. The client device proactively requests and applies updates without waiting for manual analysis or user intervention, thus preparing the system in advance to maintain both accuracy and continuous access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service through automated error detection and update application mechanisms. When an error is detected, the client automatically requests updated code from the server and applies it without requiring user involvement or manual patch selection, thereby eliminating access interruptions while maintaining reliable error resolution.
2Ease of operation
If automated update checks are implemented, then user experience continuity is improved, but system complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple functions into a unified automated process: error detection, update verification, code fetching, and update application are combined into a single seamless workflow. This integration maintains user experience continuity while managing complexity through consolidated logic rather than separate manual operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms where the client continuously monitors for errors, automatically requests updates from the server upon detection, and verifies successful application. This closed-loop feedback system maintains continuous user experience while managing complexity through automated control rather than manual intervention at each step.
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AI summary
A system and machine-implemented method for handling an unexpected error associated with an application are disclosed. The subject disclosure provides for sending, from a client running a client application, an instruction to an application server hosting a server application associated with the client application, detecting an unexpected error in response to the sent instruction, automatically requesting, from the application server, an updated version of application code for the client application in response to the detected unexpected error, receiving the updated version of application code and updating the client application using the updated version of application code.