| US 7,487,402 B1 | ||
| Graceful recovery from and avoidance of crashes due to notification of third party applications | ||
| Jesse Donaldson, Sunnyvale, Calif. (US); and Robert Ebert, Montepellier (France) | ||
| Assigned to PalmSource, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 21, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/897,264. | ||
| Application 10/897264 is a continuation of application No. 09/528663, filed on Mar. 20, 2000, granted, now 6,810,493. | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 714—43 | 16 Claims |
| 1. In a computer system, a method for an event notification to a client within a notification list of a plurality of clients
to be notified about an event, said method comprising the steps of:
a) storing information about said client, said information stored to persist through an operating system malfunction of said
computer system;
b) notifying said client about said event;
c) in response to an operating system malfunction, accessing said persistently stored information to identify said client;
and
d) in response to said operating system malfunction, provided that a notification was in progress prior to said operating
system malfunction, designating said identified client as an errant client.
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