Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 09/07

20070226678 - Exchanging project-related data in a client-server architecture: Techniques are described for exchanging data between software applications, such as project-related data between a project management software application (“PMSA”) and an unaffiliated organizational project tracking software application (“OPTSA”). A computing architecture with multiple interacting computer systems, such as a client-server architecture, can be used to allow users of remote... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226679 - Systems, apparatus and methods for distributed deployment management: Systems, method, and apparatus for the definition and management of a deployment program are described. This may entail defining a deployment program having a deployment schedule, participation events, and a plurality of target constituents respectively having defined participation conditions in the deployment program that include at least one participation event... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070226680 - Dynamic workflow documentation system: The dynamic workflow documentation system is a computer implemented process comprising the following steps: The dynamic workflow documentation system starts a workflow manager program, a class loader program in a computer memory and creates an instance of a workflow program in the computer memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system extracts... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070226681 - System for annotation based model driven software development: The invention relates to a system for annotation based model driven software development comprising a source code and a model. The system further comprises an element in said model linked to at least one element in said source code through an annotation. Hereby is achieved to maintain and develop software... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070226682 - Method and code generator for integrating different enterprise business applications: A method and code generator system for integrating different enterprise business applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for integrating a local business system with an external business system, comprises using a code generator to generate integration source code, wherein using a code generator comprises; interrogating a repository containing... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226683 - Method of efficiently performing precise profiling in a multi-threaded dynamic compilation environment: Synchronizing clones of a software method to be executed by at least one thread while the software method is compiled. The software method is cloned to generate a software method clone. At least one transition is created between equivalent program points in the software method and the software method clone.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070226685 - Apparatus and method for live loading of version upgrades in a process control environment: A method includes comparing a first layout of data elements associated with a first version of a class and a second layout of data elements associated with a second version of the class. The first and second versions of the class are associated respectively with first and second versions of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070226684 - Reusable component data persistence using a markup language: Reusable component data persistence using markup languages may be provided. A file including data associated with a reusable software component may be opened. Next, it may be determined if the file includes a persistence element comprising a dataset. The dataset may contain the data associated with the reusable software component.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070226686 - Programming a multi-processor system: A computer-implemented method for creating a program for a multi-processor system comprising a plurality of interspersed processors and memories. A user may specify or create source code using a programming language. The source code specifies a plurality of tasks and communication of data among the plurality of tasks. However, the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070226687 - Method and apparatus to control translatable properties of metadata: A method and apparatus for providing a translation locking mechanism comprising a locking system to permit locking of translatable properties of an object within a project. The apparatus further comprises a lock tester to determine whether the locking system prevents edits to a particular property; and an editing tool to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226688 - System and method for providing class definitions in a dynamically typed array-based language: A class definition syntax that leverages the array and math-oriented nature of a dynamically typed array-based programming language is discussed. The present invention provides a simplified mechanism for the creation of element-wise methods. Additionally, a mechanism for defining derived classes in a dynamically typed array-based programming language using mathematical set... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070226689 - Mechanism for selectively allowing certain components in a group of components to be associated with a target component: A mechanism is disclosed for selectively allowing certain components in a group of components to be associated with a target component. With this mechanism, it is possible for a user to select a group of candidate components, and to drop that group of candidate components into a target component. Thereafter,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070226692 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to perform a plurality of image processes on image data that is input to the image processing apparatus; a unit configured to receive a specified function; an image debugging interface unit configured to output... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070226691 - Associating attribute tags with test cases: A computing system for associating one or more attribute tags with one or more executable test cases. A test case is accessed by the computing system. In addition, various attribute tags are also accessed by the computing system. The attribute tags comprise one or more attributes that describe properties of... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070226690 - In source code suppression of binary analysis: Upon accessing binary that was generated by a compiler using corresponding source code, a potential reportable problem in the binary is identified. The binary includes a compiler transformed indication that the potential reportable problem is to be suppressed at least under some circumstances. The transformed indication is generated by the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070226695 - Crawler based auditing framework: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with post-crawl auditing are described. One system embodiment includes an audit logic that can be controlled to apply an audit rule to crawl data. The crawl data may be acquired by a crawl logic that provides the crawl data to an index logic. The... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070226694 - Control unit for a machine: A control unit for a machine includes a processor and a memory for program instructions and parameter values. A first portion of the program instructions defines a first process which accesses the parameter values in order to ascertain control information and to transmit same to the machine, and a second... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070226693 - System and method for certification: A method of preparing a certification project plan for certifying compliance for a mobile platform project with pre-defined regulations is provided. The method includes defining the project in a software system and defining a certification plan for the project in the software system. The method also includes selecting authorized representatives... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070226697 - Autonomic performance management: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for autonomic performance management by selecting a performance management function, identifying a set of instructions capable of being analyzed using the performance management function, and determining whether to execute the performance management function on the identified set of instructions in dependence upon... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070226698 - Method for improving performance of executable code: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and data processing system to improve runtime performance of executable program code when executed on the data-processing system. During execution, data is collected and analyzed to identify runtime behavior of the program code. Heuristic models are applied to select region(s) of the program code... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070226696 - System and method for the execution of multithreaded software applications: A system and method is disclosed for optimizing the execution of a software application or other code. A computing environment may include a number of processing elements, each of which is characterized by one or more processors coupled to a single front side bus. The software application is subdivided into... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226701 - Automated central trace management: Automated central trace management in a communication network including a network managing entity and at least one subordinate network entity, comprising the steps of activating a trace session locally at the at least one subordinate network entity and emitting a notification of said activated trace session from the at least... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070226700 - Dynamic incremental compiler and method: A virtual machine executive (VME) system operating on a target platform that includes a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and a dynamic compiler, in particular, a trace compiler (TC). System embodiments include a virtual machine monitor configured to record a trace corresponding to a selected cycle, and configured to transform the... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070226699 - Method for tracing a program executed on a system comprising a plurality of processing units, and a system comprising a plurality of processing units: In a method for tracing a program according to the present invention, a processing unit that executes a program, generates a task control block corresponding to the program based on a tracer storage destination/trace information output destination storage area, which makes a correspondence between the storage destination of a tracer... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070226702 - Method for operating a microcontroller in a test environment: The invention relates to a method for operating a data processor, especially a single-chip microcontroller, in a test environment (debugger) in which the program code to be tested is modified before, during and/or after the execution of the program to be tested by exchanging individual program instructions, wherein the program... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070226703 - Binary code instrumentation to reduce effective memory latency: A system for binary code instrumentation to reduce effective memory latency comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprises program instructions executable by the processor to implement . a code analyzer configured to analyze an instruction stream of compiled code executable at an execution engine to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070226704 - Method and system for rendering harmless a locked pestware executable object: A method and system for rendering harmless a locked pestware executable object is described. In one illustrative embodiment, a locked pestware executable object is detected on a storage device of a computer, the locked pestware executable object being inaccessible via the computer's operating system; the locked pestware executable object is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226705 - Wrap-up reads for logless persistent components: Architecture that facilitates exactly-once application execution via a wrap-up procedure. A logless component (LLcom) processes a last-read activity (or wrap-up read) against external state when processing a method of a middle-tier environment. A client logging component logs results of the method to a client log. The wrap-up procedure of the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070226706 - Method and system for generating multiple path application simulations: A system and method to generate simulations of a target application or software. The method comprises recognizing a start point associated with a multiple path simulation of a target application and automatically generating simulation branches of the multiple path simulation from the recognized start point. The method and system of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070226707 - Transforming product description information: A facility for displaying a product definition is described. The facility retrieves a body of product information in a first form that is compatible with a first software package. The facility transforms the product information in the first form into product information in a second form that is distinct from... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226708 - Source-to-source transformation for language dialects: An analysis and source-to-source transformation framework covers dialects of programming languages that lack formal definition for all individual dialects. Multiple instantiations of the same compiler front-end tools can be used with different settings to create distinct intermediate forms and maps. Intermediate forms and maps are used in an individual analysis... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070226709 - Computing system and method to perform compile-time extension for world wide web application: Methods and apparatuses for extending a web-based application class by performing a compile-time extension. For one embodiment the extension is inherited by every object of the class. For one embodiment the extension is transparent to an external application coupled to the web-based application.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226710 - Efficient generation of executable file from program files when some of the program files expressly incorporate other program files: Efficient generation of executable file from program files when some of the program files expressly incorporate other program files. In an embodiment, dependency information representing which program files (conditionally or unconditionally) incorporate other program files is generated and stored in a secondary (non-volatile) storage. When some program files are modified,... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070226711 - Method for preventing malicious software from execution within a computer system: A method for preventing malicious software from execution within a computer system is disclosed. Before any actual execution of an application program on a computer system, the application program needs to be cross-compiled to yield a set of cross-compiled code of the application program. The set of cross-compiled code of... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20070226712 - Method of providing software development services: A method for enabling a software developer to provide software development services to an end user. The software developer has a website and other network accessible computers that the end user can access to define for the software developer the nature of the source code or software to be developed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070226713 - Moving data to multiple target files: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-usable medium designed to move data from a source file to multiple target documents by inserting a copy of an insertion point into each of multiple target files; associating specific source data, from a source file, with the insertion point; and pasting the specific source... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070226716 - Software system architecture and application program processing method: A software system architecture and an application program processing method is disclosed involving placing application programs on an application program layer, using a compiler program provided on a compiler program layer to compile the application programs to generate compiled code, using a process program provided on a process layer to... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070226715 - Application server system and computer product: A recovery virtual machine acquires execution frequency information from a file, and converts a procedure, of which execution frequency is high in the execution frequency information acquired, to native code, and the time for starting the conversion is thereby reduced. Furthermore, by performing conversion at a timing at which a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070226714 - Program execution control device, program execution control method, control program, and recording medium: When a home appliance equipped with a processor implementing a conventional JVM with a JIT compiler executes uncompiled methods, the execution speed is slower because the methods are compiled at runtime. To suppress the execution speed reduction, a program execution control device judges, on invocation of a method during program... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070226718 - Method and apparatus for supporting software tuning for multi-core processor, and computer product: A granularity information acquiring unit acquires information on granularity assigned to each core. A structure information creating unit calculates frequency of appearance for each task or for each function included in the task based on the granularity information, and creates information on the frequency. A dependence information creating unit creates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070226719 - Method of providing partially isolated execution environment for multiple applications and digital information apparatus using the same: A method of providing a partially isolated execution environment for multiple applications in a digital information apparatus having a virtual machine and middleware is provided. The method includes initializing an application manager by driving the virtual machine, and loading and initializing a main class of the middleware, executing an action... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070226717 - Code transformation to optimize fragments that implement constant loading: A code, which may be a post-link binary or a pre-link object file, can be transformed to optimize code fragments that implement loading a constant from memory. A constant loading code fragment includes address computing operations that compute (or copy) an address representation of a constant for consumption by a... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20070226720 - System and method for efficiently passing information between compiler and post-compile-time software: System and method are described for register optimization during code translation utilizes a technique that removes the time overhead for analyzing register usage and eliminates fixed restraints on the compiler register usage. The present invention for register optimization utilizes a compiler to produce a register usage bit vector in a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company

20070226721 - Compliance program assessment tool: This invention provides a compliance assessment system and tool for efficiently assessing compliance programs and managing compliance program assessments across an organization. Compliance activities are measured against a group of Compliance Program Element Requirements (CPR's) that are used to assess LOB compliance programs. The CPR's define the minimum standards for... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070226722 - Method and apparatus for selectively executing different executable code versions which are optimized in different ways: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that selectively executes different versions of executable code for the same source code. During operation, the system first receives an executable code module which includes two or more versions of executable code for the same source code, wherein the two or... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070226723 - Efficient generation of simd code in presence of multi-threading and other false sharing conditions and in machines having memory protection support: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for automatically generating SIMD code, particularly in the presence of multi-threading and other false sharing conditions, and in machines having a segmented/virtual page memory protection system. The method begins by analyzing data to be accessed by a targeted loop including at... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070226725 - Device management system and control method therefor: A device management apparatus is equipped with a function to record document information including link information about a specified linked object in response to a link request and a Web server function to provide the document information to a Web client and is connected with a managed device. The device... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070226724 - Method and apparatus for firmware execution and provision: Methods and apparatuses for firmware execution and provision are provided. A ROM device stores compressed firmware. A decompressor is coupled to the ROM device, extracting the compressed firmware to a first instruction stream comprising at least one absolute address instruction. A post-filter, coupled to the decompressor, filters the first instruction... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070226729 - Processing system, projector, program, and information storage medium: A projector storing a plurality of pieces of firmware includes an input section which inputs batch update data including update data for at least one piece of firmware and identification data for identifying update target firmware; a determination section which determines the update target firmware based on the identification data;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070226727 - Method and apparatus for updating firmware: A device having updatable firmware code includes a non-volatile memory for storing the firmware code; a clock enable controller for generating a clock signal according to a clock source signal when a clock disable signal is unasserted, and further for pausing the clock signal when the clock disable signal is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070226726 - Method and system for revising installation software: A method and system for revising installation software is disclosed. The method includes causing an installation program to configure at least a portion of the installation program using an update. An example of a system of the present invention is an installation architecture. Such an installation architecture includes an installation... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226728 - Method, system, and product for upgrading software objects using inherency: Techniques for identifying “relevant” objects for upgrading a repository of objects in a computer system. The relevant objects to be used for upgrading may include any combination of (1) “corresponding” objects in a prior and a new standard repository, (2) “ancestor” objects in the prior and new standard repositories, and... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226730 - Method and system for tracking and exchanging incremental changes to hierarchical objects: Techniques to track and publish changes to object instances. For an “outbound process” to publish object instances, a list of object instances is initially received. For each received object instance, a determination is made whether or not the object instance has changed since its last publication. For each changed object... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226731 - Modularity: A method is provided. The method determines a plurality of platforms on which a first enterprise module is intended to run. Further, the method determines a first set of code included in the first enterprise module that is compatible with at least one of the platform and is incompatible with... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226733 - Automated factory install printer test process: A system for performing an automated factory install peripheral test process. The system is configured so that peripherals (e.g., printers) to be tested are coupled to a hub (such as a USB hub) that is then coupled to a download test system. The download test system is coupled to the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070226732 - Flow chart programmable data collector: A programmable data collector that can interactively act with the person using same is disclosed. The logic responsible for the interactive ability of the data collector is programmed on a personal computer through a graphical flow-charting interface. The flow chart is processed by software that analyzes the flow chart and... Agent: James A. Hudak, Esq.

20070226734 - Auxiliary display gadget for distributed content: Described is a technology by which a specific gadget program is installed (e.g., created) on a main host computer system that receives data (e.g., an RSS feed) from a distribution source, in which the feed data contains the information needed to install the gadget. Once installed, gadget is then used... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070220479 - Systems and methods for software development: Software applications are developed by facilitating online software programming contests that result in functional software components. Teams of two or more developers form to compete in the competition, and a specification for the design of the software application describing the software components to be used in the development of the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070220478 - Connecting alternative development environment to interpretive runtime engine: An application program interface (API) links an interpretive runtime engine to an alternate application development environment. The API includes a generic API layer that is configured to translate an output from the alternate application development environment into a corresponding signal that is recognizable by the interpretive runtime engine. The API... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070220480 - Dynamic generation of cascading style sheets: The claimed method and system provides programmers of client-server applications the ability to implement extensions to a standard style sheet language by using a preprocessor at a client to first parse, extract, and transform noncompliant, proprietary code. A new standards compliant style sheet may be created based on the transformed... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220483 - Approach for automatically generating program code: Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system. The generation of program code may be automated based on a software design specification that can be created by developers. The software design specification... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070220482 - Dynamic program module generation for manipulating vehicle frame: A system and method for generating a set of programming instructions for manipulating a vehicle frame are provided. A frame computing device obtains configuration information for an identified vehicle frame. The frame computing device sub-divides the selected vehicle frame into a set of regions and obtains programming modules for each... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070220481 - Limited source code regeneration based on model modification: A model corresponds to a collection of source code files. A determination is made that a change has occurred to the model. A sub-set of the collection of source code files is updated or regenerated to reflect the change to the model.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070220484 - Flow implementation system, flow implementation method, recording medium having flow implementation program stored therein, and image processing apparatus: A flow implementation system is disclosed. The flow implementation system implements a flow created by a user into an image processing apparatus having at least one of a plotter and a scanner. The system includes a tool providing unit that provides the user with a tool for creating the flow... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070220485 - Code editing for data traffic modification: Apparatus and associated systems and methods may relate to a data traffic modification system that may receive operating code developed using a graphical user interface (GUI) that permits substantially real-time editing of instructions that have been determined to include errors. In various implementations, a data traffic modification device may selectively... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070220486 - Complexity metrics for data schemas: A schema code complexity analysis architecture that computes complexity data for output to a code designer. The complexity data can be in the form of a number and/or complexity level. A schema component is provided for processing schema code, and a metrics component, for outputting a complexity value based on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070220490 - Information-processing apparatus and activation method thereof: Disclosed herein is an information-processing apparatus which includes: a computer; an execution-state holding unit configured to hold an execution state of a program executed by the computer; and a return-point setting unit configured to set an execution point of the program, which is to be restored after activation of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070220489 - Performance tuning apparatus, performance tuning method, and computer product: In performance tuning, a program is created by development engineers. Data A, data B, data C, . . . are given to the program to execute the program. Performance index values of functions for each data are measured. The results of the measurement are combined for each function and combining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220487 - System for diagnosing and testing computers: A system for diagnosing and testing computers includes a graphical user interface tier (10), an invoking logic tier (20), and a test logic tier (30). The graphical user interface tier offers users a graphical user interface to show the progress and results of testing hardware components and generating diagnosis configuration... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070220488 - Apparatus and method for automatically sizing fields within reports: A computer readable medium stores executable instructions to specify a report with a report field for displaying information. An assessment of information that will be potentially displayed in the report field is performed. The report field is sized in accordance with the assessment.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070220491 - Method for the analysis, control, automation and information management of life-cycle processes of technical products: A method for the analysis, control, automation, and information management of life-cycle processes of technical products includes an engineering process, an analysis process, a test process, and accesses an information system. The engineering process, the analysis process and the test process, which includes a plurality of test modules, have connections... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070220493 - Recording medium, software verification apparatus and software verification method: A software verification program allowing a computer to execute verification of software including a library 11 and a program that uses a library 21 to operate in a concurrent or parallel manner, comprises: a shared element utilizing part extraction step that extracts a part at which a shared element, which... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070220492 - Application verifier infrastructure and checks: A verifier infrastructure for a runtime verification tool is provided. The verifier infrastructure includes a managing module and one or more verifier modules. The verifier modules provide the verification for checks (tests) to predict how well an application will perform under a certain runtime setting. Each verifier module is configured... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070220494 - A method of rapid software application development for a wireless mobile device: A method of rapid software application development for a wireless mobile device, comprising the step of calling modular software elements, that each (i) encapsulate functionality required by the wireless mobile device and (ii) share a standard interface structure and (iii) execute on the device, under the control of a command... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070220495 - Method and apparatus for profiling execution of code using multiple processors: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable medium for gathering performance related data in a multiprocessing environment. Instrumentation code is executed on a processor that minimizes the distortion to the processor resources used to execute the program to be profiled. Data is written by the instrumentation code to a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070220496 - Multiple operating device version software generating device and multiple operating device version software generation support program and method: A multiple operating device version program generating device for generating software for multiple versions of an operating device, has an environment file storage unit having environment file storage folders, prepared for multiple versions of an operating device, each storing environment files including a library, at least one source program, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220498 - Method, mobile terminal and computer program product for interworking via a card application toolkit: A method, computer program product and mobile terminal are disclosed for providing application interworking via a card application toolkit. Initially, a request is received from the card application toolkit to access a requested application, such as a Java MIDlet. A determination is then made as to whether the requested application... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070220497 - Synchronicity in software development: Systems and methods that facilitate software development projects via employing a synchronization component, which enables synchronization among a state for a specification, a product and an associated documentation. A project manager responsible for preparing the specification can enter and/or store the definition of the specification in a specification database, in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070220499 - Usb tool stick with multiple processors: The present invention disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises a development system operating on a computer for evaluating compiled program code that was developed to run on a specific processor based functional IC having associated therewith memory and configurable data I/O modules, and which code defines the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070220501 - Image processing apparatus, method therefor, and storage medium: A data processing apparatus and method configured to load a program corresponding to each of a plurality of functions into a memory, the apparatus and method including storing a program for a specific function from among the plurality of functions, storing a program for a function different from the specific... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070220500 - Computer security method and computer system: A method for secure loading, integrity checking of the runtime image and control over the runtime execution of applications which ensures that a software application loads only code it was authorized to load, and that the software application is monitored for unauthorized modifications of the runtime image. The method proposed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070220502 - Combining software executable libraries: The present invention provides a method, data processing system and computer program product in which a plurality of software executable libraries (sub-libraries) are combined into a single software executable library. The single library comprises a plurality of register functions, each associated with a particular sub-library and each sub-library comprises one... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070220505 - Automated task update: The usefulness of task templates can be maintained in a number of ways. Task templates can be updated on a client server from a remote task update server by initiating communication with the remote task update server, selecting a task template from a list of available task templates presented by... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070220504 - Flash memory programming: Disclosed is a method for updating program code stored in a memory, which memory comprises a plurality of memory sectors. The method comprises transforming an updated input code into an updated program code version to be stored in a memory, which memory has stored thereon a current program code version... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070220503 - Method for upgrading the communication device: Disclosed is a method for updating communication equipment through a server in a communication system, where the server stores the updated files used for updating the communication equipment. In this method, configuration data in the communication equipment are backed up in the server at first, and then the updated files... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070220506 - Software update method, update management program and information processing apparatus: The present invention provides a software update method, including: a first step for detecting an execution of an update process using update information of software installed in a first nonvolatile storage medium of an electronic apparatus; and a second step for storing the update information in a second nonvolatile storage... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220507 - Managing version information for software components: A system manages version information for a group of software components by maintaining a version repository containing version information for all of the components. The system determines a baseline for the components, modifies data in the repository in connection with updating software components, and accesses the data in the repository... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070220511 - Ensuring a stable application debugging environment via a unique hashcode identifier: A method and system for ensuring a stable application debugging environment via a unique hash code identifier is presented. The method includes the steps of appending a first timestamp to a first software file that is located in a client system, wherein the first timestamp indicates when the first software... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070220508 - Mapping of dynamic link libraries in a computing device: A dynamic link library (DLL) in a computing device is provided in the form of a first part and an extension part. The first part has selected entry point ordinals by which an application program may link to first functions. The application program may only link to further functions via... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070220510 - Method for advanced management of software distribution tasks: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a software installation. A graphical user interface is displayed for receiving user input to manage a software installation having multiple software installation tasks. A particular software installation task is initiated in response to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070220509 - System and method for deploying software based on matching provisioning requirements and capabilities: A system, method, and computer program product for provisioning software on at least one node in a plurality of computational nodes in a distributed information processing system are disclosed. The method includes accepting a plurality of requirements associated with a software product. The plurality of requirements is expanded into multiple... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20070220512 - Driver-server for data or data files of device drivers, particularly printer drivers in a computer network: The invention relates to an arrangement for distributing data for device drivers, particularly printer drivers, in a computer network, comprising three or more connected computers as nodes, of which at least one is connected as so-called peripheral server computer to one or more peripheral devices, for instance, printers, for administering... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070214449 - Portlet template based on a state design pattern: A method for designing object-oriented software for implementing portlets, and an associated computer system and computer program product. The portlets are available to a user of the software who clicks on a link of a first page to identify an action object of an Action class and a state object... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070214450 - Data structure used for directory structure navigation in a skeleton code creation tool: Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system. The generation of program code may be automated based on a software design specification that can be created by developers. The software design specification... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070214451 - Method and device for the stimulation of functions for controlling operating sequence: A method and a device for the stimulation of functions for controlling operating sequences are described, the functions accessing at least one global variable of at least one program for control, wherein at least one stimulation function accessing the at least one global variable via at least one software breakpoint... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070214452 - Data flow analysis of transactional processes: A XLANG/s compilation method is provided that uses data flow analysis of a program's flow graph to determine lifetimes of a data object. A flowgraph is created according to abstract computer instructions. A depth-first order is assigned to basic blocks and a dominance relationship between the basic blocks is determined.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070214453 - Installation of software on removable media: To install software on a computing device, a decision phase is used to decide whether or not to install the software followed by an installation phase for installing the software. Information required by the decision phase is provided in the form of metadata having an integrity protected by a digital... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070214454 - Data access architecture: Methods and apparatuses for remotely accessing data through a wireless device are disclosed. Preferably, the wireless device includes an ability to link data between software components operating on the wireless device. Additionally, the wireless device preferably includes an ability to reduce remote data access by identifying a first data type... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070209031 - System, method and medium for providing dynamic model-code associativity: A system, method and medium associates source code with a plurality of elements of a model representing the source code. Portions of computer code are associated with one or more of the model elements. The source code is modified to correspond to one or more modified model elements, and at... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070209032 - Driver verifier: A method for verifying driver component behavior is provided. A driver verification component verifies that a driver component processes I/O requests in a specified amount of time. The driver verification component also verifies that pending I/O requests are processed correctly by a driver component. The driver verification component further verifies... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070209033 - Source program processing method: Comparison indices each for two components incorporated in a source program are used for easy and quantitative evaluation of functional redundancy in the program, effective and accurate extraction of redundant code segments from the program and also effective and accurate extraction of components to be modified simultaneously. A tree T... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070209034 - Method, system, and program product for deploying a platform dependent application in a grid environment: Under the present invention, it is determined whether sufficient resources exist for deploying a platform dependent application on its specific “native” platform in a grid environment. If not, a platform dependent portion of the application is identified, and the application is split into the platform dependent portion and a platform... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC