Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 03/07

20070074147 - Method and apparatus for identifying an unknown work: A system for determining an identity of a received work. The system receives audio data for an unknown work. The audio data is divided into segments. The system generates a signature of the unknown work from each of the segments. Reduced dimension signatures are then generated at least a portion... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070074149 - Automated product defects analysis and reporting: An automation infrastructure which automatically analyzes software faults and/or bugs related to a product defect is provided. More particularly, the system can automatically analyze and detect symptoms in the forms of crash dump, memory leak, corruption and test issues etc. In accordance therewith, aspects can automatically search for and locate... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070074148 - System and method for selecting a suitable technical architecture to implement a proposed solution: Systems, methods and computer program products for assisting a user who is designing a project in selecting a technical architecture suitable for the project. A catalog of architectures and architecture components and various criteria to be met by project architectures, including such as technical standards, organization policies and guidelines, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070074150 - Queued asynchrounous remote function call dependency management: A system, computer program product and method of processing function calls in a distributed application environment are provided. A number of function calls for communication from a sending application to a receiving application are queued in a database. Dependencies among at least a portion of the function calls that are... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070074151 - Business process to predict quality of software using objective and subjective criteria: A method and system for providing predictive quality analysis during software creation/development. A system of computation is provided that utilizes a combination of objective measures and subjective inputs to determine a final quality of the software that is being developed. In addition to using objective measures, in a unique, consistent,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070074152 - Design verification using efficient theorem proving: A heuristic theorem prover incrementally simplifies theorems so that they can be more efficiently solved. According to one aspect, the invention provides innovations in preprocessing theorems according to certain heuristics before they are processed using conventional DPLL(T) algorithms. In one innovation, a unate detection algorithm is used to efficiently locate... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070074155 - Apparatus and method for data profile based construction of an extraction, transform, load (etl) task: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to accept a specification of an Extraction, Transformation, Load (ETL) task associated with source data. Source data is profiled to produce profiled data. Data conformance rules are defined from the profiled data. Mapping rules are generated in accordance with the collaborative specification... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070074153 - Collecting information at a remote site: Embodiments of the invention relate to techniques for collecting information. In an embodiment, a support engineer for a vendor, when desiring information to be collected at a customer site, creates an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file that includes collection instructions. The support engineer then sends the XML file to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070074154 - Method and system for monitoring user interaction with a computer: A system is provided to monitor a user's interaction with a computer. The system may comprise a reference string generator to generate a random reference string, an image generator to generate an image including the random reference string, a communications module to communicate the image to a client computer for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070074156 - Componentization of software computer programs: A set of data items and their possible values associated with an aspect of a computer program is encapsulated 23 into a container along with an associated action 25 of the computer program. Interaction between the containers is enabled by binding output of some containers into inputs of others 27.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070074157 - Method and system for runtime graphical assembly of running applications: A method and system for dynamic management of running applications and the communications among them at runtime. Runtime dynamic assembly of running applications is achieved by providing graphical representations of the running software applications in block form, and dynamically connecting the blocks into a flow chart, each application being instantiated... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070074159 - Information editing device, information editing system, information editing method, and program: An information editing device is provided with an object storage portion 11 in which a character string object or image object is stored, a placement information storage portion 12 that stores placement area designation information that sets two or more placement areas that do not overlap each other for respectively... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070074158 - Method and system for creating reusable software components through a uniform interface: A method for designing software components for integration into any system without additional coding is provided. The method includes adopting a uniform application programming interface that breaks down external objects to include the characteristics of object, attribute, and method. Ideally, the characteristics include create object, delete object, read attributes, write... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070074160 - Apparatus and method for manipulating report segments: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to display a report as a set of report segments; facilitate the expansion and collapse of individual report segments; and coordinate drag and drop operations between individual report segments.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070074161 - Device and method for a graphical user interface: To enable the adaptation of display units, e.g. of a medical device, to different color display capabilities, an individual library of individual user interface components is used. The individual library of individual user interface components is derived from a generically wrapped library of universal user interface components. It is consequently... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070074162 - Readers and scanner design pattern: An object-oriented interface for providing access to stored data comprises a data enumeration module that provides an object-oriented view to at least one stored first datum that is not an object created by the interface. The interface also includes a scanning module that cooperates with the data enumeration module to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070074165 - Extended multi-lifecycle breakdown structure models: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for providing extended multi-lifecycle breakdown structure models. In an embodiment of the invention, a methods management data processing system can be provided.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070074163 - Recording of scheduled broadcast in upnp: A method is provided for enabling to establish a connection between multiple UpnP-compliant resources, wherein each of the resources has a respective ConnectionManager service. The method comprises configuring the respective ConnectionManager services so to enable a UpnP Control Point to use the respective services for negotiating the connection between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070074164 - Systems and methods for information brokering in software management: Methods and systems consistent with embodiments of the present invention may provide an interface configured to obtain software management information from software applications under management, and provide a central information broker having the software management information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070074168 - Automated step type determination: A method and apparatus for debugging the source code of a computer program are provided. A debugging system typically provides step into and step over commands that allow for the stepwise execution of a computer program. Embodiments of the invention allow users to specify lines of source code at which... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070074166 - Event-driven test framework: A modular instance-aware event-driven test framework is described. It includes an event-driven test framework, a transition-graph test model for the event-driven text framework, an instance-aware event-driven test framework built on said event-driven test framework and a transition-graph test model for said instance-aware event-driven test framework built on said transition-graph test... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070074167 - Systems and methods for testing application accessibility: Systems, methods, and computer program products consistent with the invention expose semantic information for the user interface elements of an application at runtime as part of a rich object model and check accessibility requirements compliance, such as Section 508 compliance, for each user screen or other user-interface that the application... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070074169 - Apparatus and method for analyzing and supplementing a program to provide security: A computer readable storage medium has executable instructions to perform an automated analysis of program instructions. The automated analysis includes at least two analyses selected from an automated analysis of injection vulnerabilities, an automated analysis of potential repetitive attacks, an automated analysis of sensitive information, and an automated analysis of... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070074170 - Application monitoring using profile points: A system and method for application monitoring using profile points. An embodiment of a method includes installing an agent in a computer application. The agent will generate an event when there is an entry into a method or when there is an exit from a method. The method further includes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074173 - Cross-architecture optimization: Embodiments include a device, apparatus, and a method. An apparatus includes a monitor circuit for determining an execution characteristic of a first instruction associated with a first computing machine architecture. The apparatus also includes a generator circuit for creating an optimization profile useable in an execution of a second instruction... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070074171 - Per thread buffering for storing profiling data: A method, system and computer program product for collecting profiling information during runtime of a multithreaded program. According to the method, a plurality of instructions of the program for execution in an application thread are first received; a plurality of variable size profiling records are then stored in a buffer... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070074172 - Software problem administration: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for software problem administration that includes identifying the occurrence of a predefined watch event; identifying an action in dependence upon the identified predefined watch event and a policy; and executing the action. A policy defines predefined watch events and their associated actions.... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070074174 - Utility computing system having co-located computer systems for provision of computing resources: System and method for providing computer resources to users. The system includes a plurality of co-located computing systems, e.g., blade computers, comprising a hierarchy of computer resources based on performance, and located at a first location, each computing system including a processor, a memory medium coupled to the processor, and... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070074176 - Apparatus and method for parallel processing of data profiling information: A computer readable medium comprising executable instructions to process data in a data profiling system includes executable instructions to establish a plurality of attribute profiling threads, distribute columns of a selected row of a table across the plurality of attribute profiling threads, and generate data profiling information.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070074175 - Method and system for dynamic probes for injection and extraction of data for test and monitoring of software: Method and system are disclosed for dynamic probing of software. The dynamic probe is capable of being inserted into (or removed from) the software under test during run-time. This dynamic insertion (and removal) of the probe allows the user to insert and remove probes as needed instead of recompiling the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070074177 - Logic extraction support apparatus: In extracting logic by backward slice, all logic portions influencing an output start point are extracted and the extraction result contains logic not necessary for a user. In order to solve this, a user is made to designate input information on logic to be extracted from a program constituting an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070074178 - Method and system for broadly sharing uml-based models: A method, system and computer-usable medium is based on a procedure that includes: generating a graphics file for each of a plurality of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams; creating an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema that reflects an underlying subject domain that is to be used when creating an XML... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070074181 - Method and system for parent/child application integration: To integrate a parent application and a child application, the parent application receives events through a user interface. If the events are to be processed by the child application, they are propagated to the child application. The child application generates content data based on the received events, writes the content... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070074183 - On the fly generation of multimedia code for image processing: A method and apparatus for processing multimedia instruction enhanced data by the use of an abstract routine generator and a translator. The abstract routine generator takes the multimedia instruction enhanced data and generates abstract routines to compile the multimedia instruction enhanced data. The output of the abstract generator is an... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070074179 - Position sensing system for a kvm switch: A position sensing system controls selection of channels in a KVM switch having a plurality of channels. The system has a sensor interface for receiving a sensor reading indicating a current position of a position movable component. Each position of the movable component is associated with one of the plurality... Agent: Driggs, Hogg & Fry Co. L.p.a.

20070074182 - Systems, methods and apparatus for modeling, specifying and deploying policies in autonomous and autonomic systems using agent-oriented software engineering: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, an agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS, is analyzed, flaws in the agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS are corrected, and an implementation is derived from the corrected agent-oriented specification. Described herein are systems, method and apparatus that produce fully (mathematically)... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070074180 - Systems, methods and apparatus for procedure development and verification: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in some embodiments, a script is derived from scenarios, the script is analyzed, and flaws in the script are corrected. The systems, methods and apparatus may include inferring an equivalent formal model from procedures described in natural language (such as English), as... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070074184 - System and method for creating and using graphical object instances in a statechart environment: A method of providing multi-instantiable state templates to a statechart environment is discussed. The method includes the step of providing a graphical definition of an independent state machine object belonging to a statechart. The method further includes the step of instantiating a first instance and a second instance of the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070074185 - Identifier expressions: Systems and methods that enhance a programming language with late binding via employing expressions of the form “Expression” in syntactic positions—wherein previously only compile-time constants were allowed. In a related aspect, the subject innovation can parameterize over a member name, via examining the grammar of the language (and all the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070074187 - Method and apparatus for inserting code fixes into applications at runtime: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for inserting code fixes into applications at runtime. One aspect of the present invention leverages capability of a just-in-time-instrumentation monitoring component to receive a code fix during execution of applications and insert code fixes into applications. Another aspect of the present... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070074186 - Method and system for performing reassociation in software loops: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for optimizing an intermediate code in a compilation logic. The intermediate code is optimized by performing reassociation in software loops. The intermediate code includes at least one critical recurrence cycle. The performance of reassociation in software loops can reduce... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074188 - Systems and methods for securing web application code: Methods, software tools and systems for analyzing software applications, e.g., Web applications, are described. A software application to be analyzed is transformed into an abstract representation which preserves its information flow properties. The abstract interpretation is evaluated to identify vulnerabilities using, for example, type qualifiers to associate security levels with... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070074189 - Summarizing application performance in a large system from a components perspective: A process of analyzing performance of a computer program including a plurality of components, each component comprising a plurality of methods, the program being executable by carrying out a plurality of calling sequences, each calling sequence includes a plurality of invocations of the methods, the process includes steps of: receiving... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070074190 - Use of different color sequences for variables of different sizes and different semantics: Colors to be used in register allocation are grouped into a number of sequences. Each sequence is associated with an attribute (e.g. size and/or type) of variables whose nodes in an interference graph can be colored by colors in the sequence. In certain embodiments, in addition to the above-described grouping,... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070074192 - Computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform: A computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform is described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a virtual operating system (VOS) including a VOS kernel and a first library, a host operating system (HOS) including a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074193 - Device, system and method for maintaining a pre-defined number of free registers within an instrumented program: A method, device and system for maintaining a pre-defined number of free registers at any location of an instrumented program such that at each point during execution of a segment of the instrumented program, the segment has access to the pre-defined number of free registers.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070074191 - Software executables having virtual hardware, operating systems, and networks: Software executables having virtual hardware, operating systems, and networks are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a host operating system (HOS) including a HOS kernel, a virtual operating system (VOS) coupled to the HOS including a first virtual platform... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074194 - Methods for programming flash memory devices using variable initial program loops and related devices: A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells includes providing a plurality of program loops having a corresponding plurality of program voltages associated therewith. A first one of the plurality of program loops is activated to generate a first program voltage to program a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070074196 - Compiler apparatus: A compiler apparatus that improves the performance of loop processing. The compiler apparatus translates a C program that includes a loop into a machine language program, and includes: a movement judgment unit that judges whether or not an instruction which is positioned outside of the loop of the C program... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070074195 - Data transformations for streaming applications on multiprocessors: Methods for optimizing stream operator processing by creating a system of inequalities to describe a multi-dimensional polyhedron, solving the system by projecting the polyhedron into a space of one fewer dimensions, and mapping the solution into the stream program. Other program optimization methods based on affine partitioning are also described... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074197 - Automatic dependency resolution: Techniques for automatic dependency resolution are provided. A source machine and a previously successful modification for a given resource, which was modified on the source machine, are identified. Dependencies associated with the modification are identified on the source machine. One or more target machines are selected in response to having... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070074198 - Deciding redistribution servers by hop count: A system and method are provided for updating software on a client computer including accessing a list of available redistribution servers in a network wherein each redistribution server includes particular software for download. A hop count is determined between a client computer and a plurality of the redistribution servers on... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070074200 - Function selection system and method: A function selection system (1) includes a firmware module (10), a querying interface (20), and a customer data module (30). The firmware module includes a plurality of programs for performing different functions. The customer data module is used for saving customer data. The customer data includes statuses of the different... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070074199 - Method and apparatus for delivering microcode updates through virtual machine operations: Instructions to change a microcode program of a virtual device are trapped and the replacement program is saved. Later, the microcode program is installed on one or more non-virtual devices. Software and systems using the method are also described.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074201 - Method and system for updating software and computer readable recording medium storing the method: A method and system are provided for updating software in an apparatus having limited storage, and a computer readable recording medium storing the method. The method includes performing a transaction of managing state information on an update transaction and state information on the software component, downloading a new version of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070074203 - Deployment, maintenance and configuration of complex hardware and software systems: Techniques for deploying, maintaining and configuring complex hardware and software systems are provided. An abstract configuration of the system describes the system's desired state. Each component of the system declares the general form of the resources it requires and an abstract representation of the versions of the services it both... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070074202 - Program product installation: A solution for generating an installation medium for a program product is provided. A runtime profile for a customer is used to recreate the customer's runtime environment. The program product is installed in the recreated runtime environment and it is tested to ensure that the program product operates as intended... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070074204 - Upgrade and downgrade of data resource components: Techniques for upgrading and/or downgrading a data resource deployed on a machine from one version to another version are provided. An application component that defines the data resource may provide an up/down tool for use in changing the data resource component from one version to another version. The up/down tool... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070074205 - Method and system for managing and organizing software package installations: A method and system for managing and organizing software package installations are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a software package from a computer source. One or more properties of the received software package are identified. The identified one or more properties of the received software package are... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070067753 - Enterprise management system: A health care enterprise management system and method of management are disclosed. The system and method include a routing layer, a plurality of applications in an application layer, wherein the application layer communicates external to the enterprise manager via communicative contact through the routing layer, a business rules layer of... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070067754 - Server application state: A server application discovers its relevant data objects and generates a report of the current states of such objects at a moment in time that is relevant to a detected failure. Responsive to a request for a server application state, the application can identify root objects; discover data types, values,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070067755 - Systems, methods and apparatus for pattern matching in procedure development and verification: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in some embodiments, a formal specification is pattern-matched from scenarios, the formal specification is analyzed, and flaws in the formal specification are corrected. The systems, methods and apparatus may include pattern-matching an equivalent formal model from an informal specification. Such a model... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070067757 - Method and apparatus for editing and viewing device layout, and computer program product: A receiving unit receives a device icon of an input/output device and device layout data including positional information of the device icon from a device-layout managing apparatus. A viewing unit displays a device layout diagram including a device list area and a map area, based on the received device icon... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070067756 - System and method for enterprise software portfolio modernization: A system and method are disclosed for analyzing and converting legacy software systems. The system and method of the invention involves a multi-task process including preparing an overview characterization of the software application; parsing the source code of said software application; generating business process models; identifying business rules from said... Agent: Andrew G. Dinovo Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070067759 - Computer system for compiling source program: A computer system includes: a storage unit that stores the source program and type information representing data types including a fixed-point type; a detecting unit that obtains the source program from the storage unit and detects a type specifier and an immediate from the obtained source program; a type specifier... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070067758 - Identifying sources of memory retention: One embodiment relates to a method for identifying sources of memory retention in an executing application. A size of a set of objects is tracked over multiple periods. A period is determined to be a growth period if the size for the set of objects increases above a previous maximum... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070067760 - External resource files for application development and management: A method and system are provided for efficient development of software application programs with user interfaces. Customarily, several specialists, including designers and developers, cooperate during the development stage of an application program. The invention teaches a strategy for making resource files external to the other compiled executable files in an... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070067761 - System and method for transforming graphical models: A mechanism for converting a graphical model of a system into an intermediate representation (IR) of a model is discussed. The mechanism alters the IR, and uses the altered IR to create a new or updated graphical model of the system that may be viewed and simulated by a user.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070067762 - Exposing code contentions: Code contentions among concurrently executing execution paths may be identified by intentionally altering the timing of execution of one or more modules of executable instructions in one of the execution paths.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070067765 - Efficient generator of update packages for mobile devices that uses non-elf preprocessing: An efficient generator for update packages employs one of two possible schemes to perform preprocessing when an ELF file or other similar information is not available. The first technique embeds the preprocessing in the generator loop and does not rely on the knowledge of the architecture. The second technique, called... Agent: Kevin Borg Mcandrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

20070067766 - Infrastructure for the automation of the assembly of schema maintenance scripts: A method and apparatus to build a migration package. According to one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of programming elements are developed and stored in a configuration repository. The configuration repository also includes metadata used to describe each of the programming elements. Selected programming elements are placed in a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070067763 - Mechanism to upgrade system capability without affecting service: A method of upgrading the system capability of a communications network is provided. The method involves initiating a transfer of at least one set of upgraded system capability software machine-coded instructions to a host card, instructing the host card to begin an upgrade process, determining whether at least one set... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20070067764 - System and method for automated interpretation of console field changes: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for assembling a database that associates a collection of user interface panels with at least one user. At least one preference for periodically monitoring said plurality of user interface panels for changes is set and written to memory. A collection of documentation files associated... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070067768 - Method and apparatus for gaming device software configuration: A method and apparatus for packaging, distributing, installing, deleting, or updating gaming software is disclosed. In one embodiment the method and apparatus of the invention identifies a plurality of files, which may exceed hundreds of files, to be distributed, installed, or provided as updates. The plurality of files are selected... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070067767 - Method for transmitting a software code from a control unit to a field device of process automation technology: A method for transmitting a software code from a control unit to a field device of process automation technology. The inventive method is characterized in that the software code is integrated into a software module which encapsulates data and functions of the field device and which requires an operator control... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070061774 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing project customization, compliance documentation, and communication: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing construction projects. The present invention may include an option library module configured to provide a set of building options defined by a general contractor. The invention may also include an option set library module configured to allow a general contractor to... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070061775 - Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium: In an information processing device adapted for performing an application program, a displaying unit causes a display device to display information related to a state transition of the application program. A generation unit receives an input updating request for updating information related to a displayed state transition, and generates an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070061776 - Integration of process and workflows into a business application framework: Process is integrated into a business application framework on which the process is built. The same programming model used by the framework is used for managing data operated on by the process and for interacting with and controlling the process.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070061777 - System, method, and computer program product for graphically generating a program for controlling the operation of a kiosk: A system, method, and computer program product enable a user to graphically create a program for controlling operation of a self-service kiosk. A workflow diagram, representing the desired operation of the kiosk, is created in response to the selection and ordering by the user of a plurality of state elements... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070061778 - Visual programming method: The invention is a computer programming method that includes inputting a drawing shape or drawing figure into a computer via a user interface of the computer. In response to a prompt that is generated related to the input drawing shape or drawing figure, data is input into the computer via... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070061779 - Method and system and computer program product for maintaining high availability of a distributed application environment during an update: A method and system and computer program product for updating Java libraries in a distributed application environment while maintaining its high availability is provided. In one embodiment, the distributed application environment comprises multiple computers having nodes connected with each other via a network, and application components are distributed over the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070061780 - Enterprise resource planning system test framework: A method of testing a business application in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. The business application is written using an application program interface (API) of the ERP system. The method comprises providing a test package configured to control testing of the business application. The method further comprises... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070061782 - Independent software integration: Independent software integration is described. In an embodiment, source code of independently developed software is received for integration into a developing software build and the source code is maintained as a limited-access resource to protect proprietary information contained within the source code. The source code is tested independent of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061781 - Stochastic testing directed by static test automation: A static automated test is applied to software under test. The commands of the static test are fixed and they operate the software and/or provide inputs to the software, thus driving the software under test into different states. When the software under test is in a particular state, a stochastic... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070061784 - Automatic code tuning: Automatically executing commands to process code (e.g., compile commands, interpret commands, etc.) and recording code characteristic metric values (e.g., file size, execution time, etc.) allows automatic code tuning. The automatic turning system may execute predefined commands on codes, automatically intelligently build commands, both execute predefined commands and intelligently build upon... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Attn: Timothy Schulte

20070061783 - Task dispatch monitoring for dynamic adaptation to system conditions: Monitoring system wide task dispatch allows dynamic adaptation to conditions of a system. A monitor tracks the total tasks currently dispatched to the system. In a system with multiple processing units, this monitor is centralized and collects information about tasks dispatched to each of the processing units. The monitor compares... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Attn: Timothy Schulte

20070061785 - Web-based code tuning service: Concentrating resources and expertise about a code development tool allows a web-based code tuning service to recover extensive capabilities and features of the code development tool previously lost due to the extensiveness being overwhelming for users. A code tuning service provider provides a web portal for accepting code tuning parameters... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Attn: Timothy Schulte

20070061786 - Methods and apparatus for modifying process control data: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for modifying process control data involve obtaining the process control data in an extensible markup language format, converting the process control data in the extensible markup language format to a second data format, and storing the process control data in a database. The process... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070061787 - Code compilation management service: The contents of a cache of specialized code interpreted into an intermediate language may be recompiled for execution in a managed execution environment in accordance with an automated process in such a manner to minimize any impact on machine resources.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070061789 - Methods and apparatus for integrated, automatic pseudo localization of software: Methods and articles of manufacture for integrated, automatic pseudo localization of software applications are disclosed herein. A pseudo localization process, comprised of one or more utility applications, is integrated into a build cycle for a developing software application to generate pseudo-translated user-interface code as part of a build process. A... Agent: Cyrus F. Bharucha Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP

20070061788 - Process scheduler employing ordering function to schedule threads running in multiple adaptive partitions: A system is set forth that includes a processor, one or more memory storage units, and software code stored in the one or more memory storage units. The software code is executable by the processor to generate a plurality of adaptive partitions that are each associated with one or more... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070061790 - Partially compiled data security software: Described are methods of compiling computer code using a unique identifier. According to some methods, computer code is provided having a first portion that is compiled and a second portion that is uncompiled. A program is executed that seeks a unique identifier, and, if the unique identifier is present, facilitates... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070061791 - Method, apparatus and computer program product enabling full pre-emptive scheduling of green threads on a virtual machine: Disclosed is a computer program product, a method and a device to execute a native code thread in a virtual machine environment. The method includes, prior to executing the native code thread, storing a pointer pointing to a current top of a native stack; initiating generation of an interrupt; beginning... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070061792 - Method and system for automated root-cause analysis for class loading failures in java: A method and system for automated root-cause analysis for failures in class loading in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environment. Specifically, a class loader comprises a class loader for loading classes which comprises an identifier, a search policy object, a configuration policy object, and metadata. The identifier is unique to... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070061793 - Method, system and computer program product for optimizing software program execution during class loading phase: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for optimizing computer program execution during class loading phase. As a code method of the program is received for compiling prior to execution, a check is performed whether program execution is in class loading phase. Program execution is in... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070061794 - Method and apparatus for classpath optimization in a java runtime environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program are provided by the aspects of the present invention. Aspects of the present invention identify required classes of a software program in the import statements in the source code. Next, the aspects of the present invention identify an element... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070061797 - Bulk loading system and method: A method and system for providing an efficient and convenient mechanism for class loading is presented. A present system and method virtual machine includes a bulk class loading component, normal class loader and execution engine. The bulk class loading component performs bulk loading of classes in a single pass of... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20070061795 - Method and system for automated code-source indexing in java virtual machine environment: A method and system for class loading in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environment. Specifically, the system includes a code-source index and a mapper. The code-source index is associated with at least one class loader in a class loader tree in the JVM environment. The code-source index includes a plurality... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070061796 - Shared loader system and method: A virtual machine method and system that includes shared loader importation and selective searching. For example, shared loader is stored for importation into a loader tree by executing a shared loader process. In one exemplary implementation, a shared loader search includes determining if a class is in the cache. If... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070061798 - System and method for shared code-sourcing in a java virtual machine environment: A system and method for code-source sharing between class loaders in a java virtual machine environment (JVM). Specifically, a central repository for referencing a plurality of code-sources for java class loaders in a JVM environment is described. Each entry for a shared code-source in the central repository includes a reference... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070061799 - Using attributes to identify and filter pluggable functionality: In a composition model for large-scale extensible applications, applications are constructed in a modular fashion. The modules integrate with each other by producing and consuming functionality that conforms to a common definition. Producer modules and consumer modules are kept independent of one another, and are linked together indirectly via a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070061800 - System and method for updating software in a network device: A network device including a software updating module for automatically updating software of the network device so that the software corresponds with that of a server side is provided. The software updating module includes a version file downloading unit for downloading a new version file from the server side, a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070061802 - Automatic installation of pc game: A database is built in a computer system and includes a characteristic set, an installation data set corresponding to the characteristic set, a reference command set and an execution set corresponding to the reference command set. A specified installation data in the installation set is used to automatically and continuously... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070061801 - File system builder and method for building file system: The invention is directed to a file system builder for building a file system from a source package database of a source machine with a first platform according to a keyword, wherein the file system can be installed into a target machine with a second platform. The system builder comprises... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070061803 - Automated notification of software installation failures: A system and method are disclosed for enabling the system administrator to identify servers in which the installation of drivers failed without having to examine the installation log of each server by directing the server to send an e-mail to the system administrator in the event of an installation failure.... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070055954 - System and method for development and architecture of an expert system and corresponding user interface: Systems and methods for automated development of a software application for implementing a process are disclosed. After obtaining a set of specifications or knowledge from a customer or potential end user about the operation of a software application these systems and methods may allow this knowledge or specifications to be... Agent: Sprinkle Ip Law Group

20070055955 - System and method for information handling system display color space management: An information handling system display presents multimedia visual information with plural performance settings based on the type of image associated with the visual information. For instance, an image detector detects plural types of images so that a display controller automatically applies color and brightness settings associated with the type of... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070055956 - Data transfer management method, software and system: The present invention is a method for managing data transfers between a base component and at least one extension component on a computer system. The extension component can store data received within an extension component data store and then subsequently transfer this data to a processor integrated within the base... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.c.

20070055957 - Remote debugging proxy: A system and method for a remote debugging proxy. An embodiment of a method for debugging a target system application includes receiving notification of an event regarding the target system at a first proxy component via a second proxy component. The method further includes receiving data regarding the event at... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070055958 - Remote debugging proxy: An apparatus and method for a remote debugging proxy. An embodiment of a method for debugging a system includes receiving notification of an event regarding a target system at a first proxy component, requesting information from the target computing system regarding the event, and receiving the information from the target... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070055959 - Method and device for the automated evaluation of software source code quality: A method and a device are disclosed for automated evaluation of the quality of a software source code, a quality target being predetermined for the quality of the source code. The current quality of the source code and the distance between the current quality of the source code and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070055960 - System and method for supporting multiple alternative methods for executing transactions: Transaction code written by the programmer may be translated, replaced or transformed into a code that is configured to implement transactions according to any of various techniques. A compiler may replace programmer written transaction code into code allowing multiple compatible transaction implementation techniques to be used in the same program,... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070055961 - Systems and methods for re-ordering instructions: Systems, methodologies, computer-readable media, and other embodiments associated with ordering instructions are described. One exemplary system embodiment can include an analysis logic configured to analyze executable instructions from an executable program. A re-write logic can be configured to re-order selected load instructions within the executable program based on latency times... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070055962 - Anonymous types: A computer-implemented system for representing data comprises a position indicator that indicates a position of a datum within a group, a name indicator that optionally names the datum, and a value of the datum. A type to be assigned to the datum is derived from at least one of a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070055963 - Compile target and compiler flag extraction in program analysis and transformation systems: A technique for automatically identifying source files and the compile time flags for each file used in building an executable program and recording this information in a data format that can be used by a code analysis and transformation system is provided.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070055964 - System and method for synthesizing object-oriented high-level code into browser-side javascript: A system and method are provided to enable developers of web sites and software applications to code in an object-oriented high-level language that is compiled into a browser-side JavaScript which can be natively interpreted by a browser. This enables developers to program in a high-level language of choice to create... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii Russo & Hale LLP

20070055965 - Generating an application software library: A method for generating an application software library comprising the steps of: a static analyser processing a binary input library to identify one or more locations in the binary input library which satisfy a semantic analysis condition; inserting metadata into the binary input library at the one or more locations... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070055966 - Yet another transformation language (yatl): A practical language for writing analysis and transformation tools for C/C++ and other languages is provided. This language, YATL, is imperative in style and designed to be easy to use for someone familiar with the grammar of the target language. It allows the developer to describe transformations with reference to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070055967 - Offload system, method, and computer program product for port-related processing: An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided. In use, data is communicated between a host and at least one network utilizing a network interface capable of transport layer processing. Further, a port associated with the data is identified. The connection, by which the data is communicated, is... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20070055970 - Control software updating technique for a network apparatus: A network apparatus has first and second controllers that are coupled via communication channel, and is coupled to a network by the first controller. In order to update the firmware of this first controller, the first controller obtains update data for updating via the network and transfers the obtained data... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070055971 - Program operating apparatus and program write control apparatus and method: A program operating apparatus is provided, which is capable of rewriting control programs for a plurality of CPUs without using any exclusive external apparatuses, thereby achieving a simplified and efficient rewrite operation. A control program stored in a ROM of a master CPU that controls the basic operation of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070055968 - Reliable bios updates: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving, at a network controller communicatively coupled to a non-volatile storage, a BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) update to replace a current BIOS, and using the network controller to write the BIOS update to the non-volatile storage.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070055969 - System and method for updating firmware: A system and a method for updating firmware are disclosed. The system includes a storage device and an electronic device. The storage device has an update code and a backup region for storing a backup code. The electronic device includes a processor, a first memory, and a second memory. The... Agent: Snell & Wilmer

20070055972 - Model-driven software deployment in an application server: A method, system and computer program product is provided for deploying software in a data processing system. A topology pattern is selected in which the selected topology pattern describes an arrangement of software and hardware devices. Augments to the selected topology pattern are received to form an augmented topology pattern... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070055973 - Text based markup language resource interface: A software control method and apparatus for displaying a text based markup language interface. The interface can interact with a computer to provide reference documents, install system drivers and perform various system utilities. The interface can reference optical drivers, hard disk drives or other storage medium and files available over... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070050750 - Extensible data-driven setup application for operating system: An extensible data-driven setup application is provided for installing operating systems. Instead of performing installation operations itself, the host application determines individual tasks from a configuration file. The host application then instantiates and calls modules that perform the specific installation tasks including user interface screens, setup actions, data imports, and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050751 - Automatic interoperation with legacy pos service and control objects: Automatic interoperation functionality for legacy POS service and control objects is provided. In response to a request for creating an instance for a control object that implements an interface for the POS device, a legacy interoperability subsystem determines a unique identifier associated with the control object. The legacy interoperability subsystem... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050752 - Quick-creating objects in an application: A palette of representations that can be generated by an application for database, spreadsheet, word processing, and the like, is provided in response to a request for a new object within the application. If the application already has one or more objects open at the time of the request, the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050754 - Relaxed and extended delegates: Systems and methods that enhance expressibility in a programming language (e.g., Visual Basic) via relaxation of artificial restrictions and extension of delegates associated therewith, without changing the runtime infrastructure. A stub is employed that can replace an impermissible expression in the programming language, to leverage the existing permissible expressions.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050753 - System and method for generating content rules for a website: A system and method for generating content rules for a Web application server. A system is provided that includes a content manager for selecting a content item; and a segment manager for defining a data segment to associate with a selected content item, wherein the segment manager includes a multifaceted... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070050755 - Identification of input sequences: A method, apparatus and system for identification of input sequences is provided. The method monitors a plurality of commands received by an input device of a computer, analyzes the commands to identify a sequence thereof, and responsive to the identification of the sequence, determines a response action for execution by... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corpoation

20070050757 - Automated analysis and recovery of localization data: Recovery of localization data is provided between versions of a software product. A first resource is identified that is associated with a first version of the software product. A second resource is identified that is associated with a second version of the software product. A first resource identifier associated the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050756 - Component architecture: A self-organising software for controlling a device, which software contains at least two components. Each component includes at least one interface for connecting with other components, wherein each of the components itself contains information defining component rules. The rules contained by the components define how components can be connected with... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070050758 - Creating a behavioral model of a hardware device for use in a simulation environment: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and products are described for creating a behavioral model of a hardware device for use in a simulation environment. The behavioral model is created by an iterative process that includes receiving in a simulated hardware device from a simulated device under test (‘DUT’) a stimulus waveform. The... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070050759 - Method for testing and controlling workflows in a clinical system and/or components thereof: In a method to test a clinical and/or medical-technical system and a method for controlling medical-technical examination workflows in a clinical and/or medical-technical system, medical examination workflows in the appertaining system are simulated. For this purpose, a process workflow plan is selected from a number of process workflow plans dependent... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070050760 - Generation of application specific xml parsers using jar files with package paths that match the xml xpaths: A method of XML parsing is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include: parsing of an XML document; constructing an XML XPATH which includes at least one XML XPATH tag; constructing a JAR file of Java classes which include at least one package path that matches the at... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20070050761 - Distributed caching of files in a network: Distributed caching and download of file. A method is described that includes building a peer list comprising a listing of potential peer servers from among one or more networked computers. The peer list includes no more than a predetermined number of potential peer servers. Potential peer servers in the peer... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070050762 - Build optimizer tool for efficient management of software builds for mobile devices: A build optimization tool analyzes builds of software/firmware to determine the ordering of code objects in first and second code versions for an electronic client device such as a cellular phone, personal digital assistant, or pager. The build optimization tool produces information for use by a software linker to link... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd