Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 04/06

20060090154 - System and method for contributing remote object content to an integrated development environment type-ahead: A system, method, and program product for enhancing keyword contribution to a code-completion facility used in association with an Integrated Development Environment source code editor. A code-completion facility supporting a source code editor includes a look-up module that retrieves keywords from a keyword compare pool responsive to a code-completion prompt....

20060090155 - Methods and apparatus for message oriented invocation: The invention relates to data processing systems and methods facilitating the creation of computer code files for making MOI Adapters that advantageously interface compound messages with service modules that process them. An MOI Controller Compiler utilizes multiple input data sources, correlates their contents as needed, and produces the computer code...

20060090157 - Method of executing virtual machine application program and digital broadcast receiver using the same: A method is provided for receiving a digital broadcast, which contains a virtual machine application program that is to be executed. The method includes receiving a virtual machine application program signal, downloading a virtual machine application program, ahead-of-time (AOT) compiling virtual machine instruction code included in the downloaded virtual machine...

20060090156 - Program / method for converting spreadsheet models to callable, compiled routines: A computer program and a method for operating it to convert spreadsheet models into callable, compiled routines. The models are first converted into program code in a language such as C. Then the program code is compiled into computer object code....

20060090159 - Method and system for sending a rewrite control program to a control unit: A control unit has a first storing unit storing data of a rewrite control program received by the control unit in a rewritable storage medium at a destination address thereof received thereby. The control unit has a second storing unit storing the destination address in the rewritable storage medium at...

20060090158 - Rewritable, nonvolatile memory, electronic device, method of rewriting rewritable, nonvolatile memory, and storage medium having stored thereon rewrite program: A rewritable, nonvolatile memory includes a first region having stored therein a processing program which allows an electronic device to perform a process, and having a first specific portion which is accessed first upon boot-up by the electronic device; and a second region having stored therein a boot program and...

20060085783 - Multi-process display method in debugger system: In a multi-process display method of displaying processes to be debugged in a debugger system, an operation state change and detailed information of each process are acquired, each process is displayed using a predetermined pattern, a relationship between the processes is displayed using a layout of patterns and lines therebetween,...

20060080635 - Dynamic linking in constrained environment: A platform independent binary object (PIBO) operable on disparate computing environments that have a selected hardware architecture without requiring rebuilding or reloading is provided. The PIBO can be parsed to generate source-code stub file. The PIBO can be loaded and linked with a cooperating computing application by an exemplary linker/loader...

20060080636 - Method of building intelligent platform management interface firmware architecture: A method of building an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) firmware architecture embedded in an IPMI hardware architecture, first uses a software program to edit the hardware architecture. The method then selects at least one hardware interface device, and defines environmental parameters between the firmware architecture and the IPMI hardware...

20060080637 - System and method for providing malware information for programmatic access: A malware Web service provides malware information to client computing devices. A client computing device formulates a malware information query, and submits the query to the malware Web service. The malware information query specifies criteria relating to a plurality of searchable fields in a malware data store. Upon receiving the...

20060080638 - Automated multi-platform build and test environment for software application development: A system, method and program product for implementing an automated multi-platform build and run operation for a software application. A system is provided that comprises: a control process loadable on a host platform, wherein the control process causes the software application to be built and run on both the host...

20060080639 - System and method for revealing remote object status in an integrated development environment: A method, system and computer program product for creating a software product in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). In one embodiment, remote object status data is received by a software development module which may be a source code editor or a program execution emulator. Responsive to the received data, the...

20060080640 - Method, system and program product for retrofitting collaborative components into existing software applications: Under the present invention, an executable object such as binary or JAVA byte code corresponding to the software application is obtained. Based on an analysis of the software application, points for introducing the collaborative components are identified. A set of executable code (e.g., an Aspect) to introduce the collaborative components...

20060080641 - Inferring data type in a multi stage process: A computer program (10) for analysing a specification, determining what kind of data processing operations are carried out, and deducing or inferring from the kind of internal operations, what data types are appropriate. The data types inferred can be compared with specified data types, to check for errors, or optimise...

20060080642 - Program processing apparatus: A program processing apparatus, which can check hint information as represented by a pragma so that a compiler may not create a wrong machine-language program, includes: a syntax analysis unit which analyzes a syntax of a program that includes hint information given by a user to the compiler, for generating...

20060080643 - Program processing apparatus: A program processing apparatus, which can correct a source program by automatically inserting hint information so that a satisfactory optimization can be performed even in the case where the user has not given hint information to a compiler, automatically inserts, into the source program, hint information given to the compiler,...

20060080644 - Parameterization of programming structures: A method for transforming at least a portion of at least one programming structure into a type parameter includes receiving a first list of at least one declaration of at least one programming structure for transforming to a type parameter. The method further includes generating a second list of at...

20060080645 - System and method for optimizing source code: One aspect of the invention includes a method of address expression optimization of source-level code. The source-level code describes the functionality of an application to be executed on a digital device. The method comprises first inputting first source-level code that describes the functionality of the application into optimization system. The...

20060080646 - Command script parsing using local and extended storage for command lookup: A method for parsing and verifying the contents of a command script containing a token and written in a scripting language. A first, relatively rapidly accessible data store and a second, less rapidly accessible data store are provided. Each data store contains function signature definitions which include a function name...

20060080647 - Attempting runtime retranslation of unresolvable code: A compiler that completes compilation upon identifying unresolvable input during compilation instead of aborting compilation. This can be accomplished by inserting an exception-throwing instruction, and/or handlers in place of the unresolvable input in the compiled code output. If the section of the compiled code containing the inserted exception throwing instruction...

20060080648 - Concurrent code loading mechanism: A platform independent binary object (PIBO) operable on disparate computing environments that have a selected hardware architecture without requiring rebuilding or reloading is provided. The PIBO can be parsed to generate source-code stub file. The PIBO can be loaded and linked with a cooperating computing application by an exemplary linker/loader...

20060080650 - Method and system for reducing storage requirements for program code in a communication device: A software routine that writes downloaded updated operating system software over existing application code to flash memory of a cable modem in an inverted arrangement. If the download process is interrupted before the update can be verified, a pointer still points to the existing code to facilitate update-interruption recovery. After...

20060080649 - Object initializing for updating a system state: An initialization application system and method are provided. The method comprises: reviving a program application with uninitialized data objects; accessing an initialization application data, including object identification (OID), for creating object data; assembling the data into a tree structure; reading the OID from a node in the initialization application assembled...

20060080651 - Update package for offline synchronization of software updates: The description of an update package for updating a software application in an offline synchronization operation is presented. The update package includes update information for a plurality of updates. The update information includes a reference to the update payload and the relationships of the present update to other updates in...

20060080652 - Methods and systems for providing an application from an application providing system to a first front-end system and a second front-end system: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an application. The systems and methods may include receiving a first selection data from a first front-end system or a first back-end system and receiving a second selection data from a second front-end system and a second back-end system. The systems and methods...

20060080654 - Method and apparatus for upgrading implantable medical device operating software: A method and apparatus for reallocating in the local memory of an implantable medical device for upgrading operating software stored in the Code portion of the local memory. The local memory is managed so that new software e.g., a code segment, is accepted into memory provisionally, and then validated before...

20060080653 - Methods and systems for patch distribution: In one aspect, a method for distributing a software patch to a plurality of customers includes downloading the software patch from at least one server to one of a number of kiosks located at public customer-accessible locations. In another aspect, a system for distributing a software patch includes kiosks located...

20060080655 - System and method for post-issuance code update employing embedded native code: Updating system software of a resource-constrained device having a microprocessor. The system software is updated by embedding native code instructions in an application program that is downloaded onto the resource-constrained device. The native code instructions are selected from the instruction set requiring no processing prior to execution by the microprocessor....

20060080656 - Methods and instructions for patch management: In one aspect, a method of instructing users in the implementation of a patch management process is provided. The patch management process relates to the installation of a software patch in a computer system. The method comprises an act of providing instructions that describe the patch management process in a...

20060080658 - Autonomic peer-to-peer computer software installation: Methods, systems, and products are provided for peer-to-peer computer software installation. Embodiments include receiving, by an observing install agent running on an observing host from a test install agent running on a test host, performance information describing the performance of software installed on the test host; determining, by the observing...

20060080657 - Method and structure for autonomic application differentiation/specialization: A method (and structure) of at least one of implementing, for deploying, an enterprise application, includes, for the set of instructions defining the enterprise application, a mechanism that allows the enterprise application to autonomously exercise at least one of a node differentiation and a task specialization....

20060080659 - System and method of provisioning software to mobile devices: A system of provisioning software comprises a server operable to communicate wirelessly with a plurality of mobile devices, a data storage accessible by the server and operable to store device characteristics and device type of the plurality of mobile devices, and a user interface operable to receive a device registration...

20060075381 - Method and apparatus for isolating execution of software applications: A method for isolating access by application programs to native resources provided by an operating system redirects a request for a native resource made by an application program executing on behalf of a user to an isolation environment. The isolation environment includes a user isolation scope and an application isolation...

20060075382 - Developing applications using configurable patterns: Methods, systems, and computer program products, implementing techniques for developing applications using configurable patterns. The techniques include determining the functionality of a pre-existing application; selecting one or more patterns based on the functionality of the pre-existing application, and configuring the patterns so that the patterns execute similar functionality as the...

20060075383 - Execution context infrastructure: Described herein is an implementation for exposing an “execution context” to a logical execution flow of procedures as it executes. An “execution context” is a set of data and/or sub-procedures that might be useful at some point during a logical execution flow (to manage and control the execution flow and...

20060075384 - Method, system and program product for managing application forms: An improved solution for managing application forms for an application executing on a client. A form tree that includes one or more application forms is managed on a server. The form tree enables the relationship between the various application forms to be maintained on the server. Rendering information is provided...

20060075385 - System and method for extensible java server page resource management: A system and method of providing resource management in association with extensible Java Server Pages are provided. The system and method provide an interface for defining alternative input source, resource path and compilers for generating JSP servlets for processing JSP requests. A JSP provider may define an extensible translation context...

20060075388 - Cross-platform software development with and software development peripheral: A cross-platform development system includes a computing device that generates an image of an operating system, and a software development peripheral connected to the computing device that runs the operating system corresponding to the image. The software development peripheral communicates information, such as image data, generated by the operating system...

20060075387 - Graphical xml programming system and engine where xml processing programs are built and represented in a graphical fashion: A system and methods are provided for operating and building graphically XML processing programs, guiding the user in development of the program, preventing and detecting development errors as the program is being designed, ensuring that the program is valid, i.e. satisfies required input and output constraints at all times, i.e....

20060075386 - Method and system for a call stack capture: A method of acquiring software profile information of a target software application includes receiving a programmed interrupt while executing an application in a computer system, servicing the interrupt such that call stack information is acquired and processing the call stack information to produce statistical information concerning function calls. The call...

20060075389 - Device and method for api specification verification, program for executing the method, and storage medium for storing the program: An API specification verification device, an API specification verification method, a program for executing the method, and a storage medium for storing the program are disclosed herein, the API specification verification device and method enabling API which is not registered in a verification tool to be verified without modification to...

20060075390 - Method and system for tracing components of computer applications: A method and system for tracing components in computer applications is provided in which trace data from components can be logged in real time. A hierarchical control interface 209 is used in which leaf nodes 306-311 represent components 204 being traced. The hierarchical control interface 209 includes means for setting...

20060075391 - Distributed scenario generation: A Scenario Generation Framework is described. The Framework provides the organizational infrastructure through which scenario data—a shared set of data supporting enterprise application coordination and interoperation—can effectively be managed from a centralized location. From this location, the framework provides capabilities whereby scenario data, described using a published data representation format,...

20060075392 - System and method for reverse engineering of pattern string validation scripts: A system and method for reverse engineering of pattern string validation scripts is presented. A pattern engine receives an input string from a developer or a database, and generates a pattern string based upon the input string and strictness preferences. The strictness preferences identify how much to constrain generated pattern...

20060075393 - Stack marshaler: Systems and techniques for transferring the flow of control between agents. In one general aspect, a computer program product includes instructions operable to cause data processing apparatus to: store data on a first call stack, the first call stack corresponding to and being used by a first agent; suspend the...

20060075394 - Dynamic loading and unloading for processing unit: Methods and apparatus are provided for enhanced instruction handling in processing environments. A program reference may be associated with one or more program modules. The program modules may be loaded into local memory and information, such as code or data, may be obtained from the program modules based on the...

20060075395 - Flash card system: A flash memory system is disclosed. The flash memory system includes a flash controller and at least one flash memory device coupled to the flash controller. The boot code and control code for the flash memory system are stored in the flash memory device. Because the boot code and the...

20060075396 - System and method for configurable trading system: A system dynamically integrates into an application program that implements rules for controlling business operations changes in the parameters and parameter groupings that are used by or in conjunction with the rules. The system includes a dynamic business logic rule integrator that provides business logic rules to the application software...

20060075398 - Controlled deployment of software in a web-based architecture: The present invention includes systems and methods for the controlled deployment of software in a web-based environment where multiple versions of a single application are supported to provide field experience of various versions before general deployment. The systems and methods of the invention support backwards compatibility, which allows older versions...

20060075397 - Methods and apparatus for distributing software applications: Methods and apparatus for enabling execution of software programs permit: obtaining identification information that is indicative of a version of a software program; determining whether processing capabilities of a processor on which the software program is to be executed are incompatible with proper execution of the version of the software...

20060075401 - Patch installation control: Patch installation control is described, including evaluating a system registry for a system identification, determining an installation case based on the system identification, and installing a patch if the installation case indicates a first result. A system for controlling patch installation is also described, including a registry configured to store...

20060075400 - System and method for data migration integration with information handling system manufacture: Data migration from existing to replacement information handling systems is integrated with manufacture of the replacement information handling system by including a data migration application and rules in the image copied to the replacement information handling system during manufacture. The rules define the data migration, such as the types of...

20060075399 - System and method for resource usage prediction in the deployment of software applications: The invention provides a system and method for predicting a quantity of a resource required for the deployment of a software application on a computing system. The method comprises the steps of providing historical resource utilisation data for deployment of software applications on computing systems, providing a value for a...