Remote Stand-Alone Exception Handler Module
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional error or exception handling in mobile devices is often customized and compiled statically, making it challenging for developers to account for all possible exceptions, leading to application crashes and unexpected behavior due to unhandled exceptions.
Innovation Solution
An application framework that allows field configuration of exception handlers, enabling exceptions to be handled uniformly across applications by a remote stand-alone exception handler module, which can be executed by a host server or another remote computing device, and communicates with local applications to centralize error reporting and handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If static exception handling is used, then exception handling is customized and compiled, but it is challenging to account for all possible exceptions leading to application crashes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts exception handling functionality from the local application and relocates it to a remote server. The local device generates exceptions and transmits them to the remote exception handler, which processes and returns handling instructions. This extraction allows comprehensive exception coverage without burdening the local device with complex exception handling logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The remote exception handler serves multiple applications and devices universally, providing centralized exception handling for all possible exception types. This universal handler can account for all possible exceptions across different applications without requiring each application to implement its own comprehensive exception handling.
2Reliability
If dynamic exception handling is used, then code operates in the event of an error, but processing burdens remain on local devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the computationally intensive exception processing from the local device and relocates it to the remote server. The local device only generates exceptions and transmits them, while the remote exception handler performs the actual error handling processing, significantly reducing the processing burden and energy consumption on local devices.
3Ease of operation
If centralized error reporting is implemented, then processing burdens are removed from local devices, but network communication is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network communication intermediary to connect local devices with the remote exception handler. This intermediary enables centralized error reporting by facilitating exception transmission from local devices to the remote server and returning handling instructions, simplifying local error reporting while managing the architectural complexity through standardized communication protocols.
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AI summary
An application framework that provides field configuration of exception handlers by one or more applications, rather than defining exceptions at runtime. The exception handler may operate as a remote service in communication with an application executing locally. When an exception is received, the exception handler can consume the exception and return a defined object based on the exception type.