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Data processing: software development, installation, and management March list of patents 03/08

20080077908 - Method and apparatus for application building using build styles: A method of building a software product in an integrated development environment using build styles. The method includes 1) applying a plurality of build styles, each of the build styles comprising a dictionary of build settings, to a target; 2) determining an order of precedence for the build styles and... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080077909 - Enabling multiple instruction stream/multiple data stream extensions on microprocessors: Embodiments described herein disclose a system for enabling emulation of a MIMD ISA extension which supports user-level sequencer management and control, and a set of privileged code executed by both operating system managed sequencers and application managed sequencers, including different sets of persistent per-CPU and per-thread data. In one embodiment,... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080077910 - Source code displaying program, source code displaying device, and source code displaying method: When a source code is designated, a software development device stores relation information that relates a comment to a token associated with the comment for each of comments in the source code into tables. The source code is displayed in a source code display frame under the condition where the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080077911 - Using breakpoints for debugging in a risc microprocessor architecture: A microprocessor executes at 100 native MIPS peak performance with a 100-MHz internal clock frequency. Central processing unit (CPU) instruction sets are hardwired, allowing most instructions to execute in a single cycle. A “flow-through” design allows the next instruction to start before the prior instruction completes, thus increasing performance. A... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080077912 - Software development methods, systems, and storage media storing software developed thereby: A software development method is provided. Definition of one or more sections in program source code is retrieved. The section definition indicates the range and a corresponding main memory address of each section. The source code is compiled to generate an executable file according to the section definition, such that,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077913 - Information recording medium, apparatus and method of reproducing contents: An information recording medium, in which a software version of an apparatus for reproducing contents is actively examined in order to provide update information about the software used in reproducing contents, the apparatus for reproducing contents, and a method of reproducing contents. The information recording medium includes contents and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077914 - Driver installing method, driver controlling method and terminal apparatus: A driver installing method is supplied capable of effectively installing driver program to correspond to respective modes of a device driven by the modes. The driver installing method is used to install respective driver programs corresponding to plural modes to a terminal apparatus in order to drive a device serving... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080077915 - Personalized installation files: A method includes personalizing a software installation file. The personalizing includes providing the file with a unique identifier included as part of a file name associated with the file. Another method includes installing a software application from the personalized installation file, extracting the indication from the file name and using... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080072209 - Systems, method and computer program products for tracking and viewing changes to information stored in a data structure: Previous attempts to provide systems or processes for enabling the review of the development of information stored in an electronic file are difficult to use effectively and require a user to take active steps to ensure that versions and annotations are created at regular intervals. By contrast, provided by aspects... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20080072210 - Notification system for source code discovery: In various embodiments, a system, method and apparatus for notification of source code discovery is provided. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes detecting a change in source code. The method further includes extracting the change in source code. The method also includes constructing a search criteria... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080072211 - Method and system for firmware image size reduction: Embodiments described herein disclose the use of a compiler pre-processing component for the optimization of a firmware image so that it can be made to take up less space in a memory device without the use of compression. Embodiments identify repeated modules or common components across previously separate binary firmware... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080072212 - Semiconductor integrated circuit including a monitor unit: A semiconductor integrated circuit has a CPU executing a target program to be debugged, a peripheral circuit generating an internal signal in response to an operation of the CPU, and a monitor unit storing the internal signal of the peripheral circuit in response to a first status signal from the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080072213 - Assessing computer programs using stack frame signatures: A method of assessing a computer program under actual working conditions according to one embodiment comprises executing the computer program multiple times under actual working conditions, in response to each unhandled exception encountered during execution of the computer program, creating a corresponding stack frame signature to characterize the state of... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080072214 - Method and system for detecting interprocedural vulnerability by analysis of source code: Methods and systems of detecting vulnerabilities in source code using inter-procedural analysis of source code. Vulnerabilities in a pre-existing source code listing are detected. The variables in the source code listing are modeled in the context of at least one of the inherent control flow and inherent data flow. The... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080072215 - Parser for signomial and geometric programs: A method and apparatus for parsing signomial and geometric programs, referred to herein as “the Parser”. Signomial and Geometric programming is a unique class of mathematical problems that is useful in the study of optimization problems. The Parser is a program designed to recognize and parse both signomial and geometric... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080072216 - Method and device for anbf string pattern matching and parsing: A method and an apparatus for string pattern matching and parsing based on ABNF syntax. The method includes: defining an instruction set suitable for describing a string pattern rule; designing a compiler capable of translating the protocol rule described in ABNF syntax into a protocol rule described with the instruction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080072217 - Method, apparatus, and system for customizing and performing policy in version control: A method of setting customized policy for version control, a version control method, apparatus for setting customized policy for version control, apparatus for performing version control customized policy, and a version control system. There is provided a method of setting customized policy for version control by generating at least one... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080072218 - Apparatus and method for upgrading software in portable terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for upgrading software in a portable terminal. The method includes determining if additional installation files for the software upgrade are downloaded, storing the additional installation file in an additional installation region of a memory without discrimination between software modules, and storing the matching information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072219 - Deployment and versioning of applications: A method and system to deploy a software archive on a runtime environment. The method extracts metadata from the archive and verifies the components can be deployed and further deploys them on the runtime environment.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080072220 - Sharing data processing resources: A group of computer processing devices are arranged to co-operate to host services for use by each other. Each device stores information relating to the devices known to have such services installed (38). When one of the devices requires a service that it does not already have installed, it transmits... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080066048 - Method and system for managing the lifecycle of a service oriented architecture: Managing the lifecycle of a service oriented architecture (SOA). The method may include selecting a subset of a plurality of objects of the SOA for lifecycle management in accordance with the requirements of an organization implementing the SOA, and assigning a lifecycle property to each member of the subset of... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080066050 - Calculating defect density by file and source module: Techniques are provided for tracking and analyzing defect density by source file or module. Defect density is the number of distinct defects which required changes to be made (to fix the defect) to a particular file or module in a given period of time. This metric is very useful for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080066049 - Method for enforcing change policy based on project state: A set of tools and other mechanisms automatically enforce software development change policies by providing a way to map physical source control system codelines to projects and by providing a way to maintain current project and codeline state information. The set of tools and other mechanisms also provide ways to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080066051 - Managing application customization: A facility is provided for managing application customization. In various embodiments, an application associated with the facility receives an indication of an application identifier that identifies a customized instance of the application, determines whether the customized instance of the application is available and, when the customized instance of the application... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080066052 - Methods and systems for determining a formula: In a method to help a user determine a formula, (e.g., a fact, rule, or principle expressed in scientific, mathematical, technical, etc. symbols), a user may input an indication of the formula in an imprecise syntax. The inputted indication may be in ASCII text, for example, and may include technical... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080066053 - Automatically generating a second graphical program based on a first graphical program: A system and method for automatically generating a second graphical program based on a first graphical program. The first graphical program may be associated with a first programming development environment. For example, a user may have interactively created the first graphical program from within the first programming development environment, e.g.,... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080066054 - System and method for determining when an ejb compiler needs to be executed: A system for determining when an EJB compiler needs to be executed, comprising: a server, including an EJB or plurality of EJBs and an EJB compiler operating thereon that determines a first snapshot of the EJB at a particular moment in time or for a particular server version, and a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080066056 - Inspection apparatus, program tampering detection apparatus and method for specifying memory layout: A debugger 100 is connected to a multi-processor system configured so that each processor autonomously accesses a shared memory and loads a program stored in the shared memory into storage of the processor. An identifier defined uniquely in the system is included in code of the program module in advance.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080066055 - Reversing execution of instructions in a debugger: A method can include receiving navigational debug input from a debugger interface including input to traverse input code in a plurality of modes; in response to receiving the navigational debug input, a) saving state of a program being executed in a corresponding debugger, including creating a child process from a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066057 - Testing internationalized software using test resource file and test font: An efficient testing method is provided for internationalized software executed in a plurality of language environments. The method includes mock-translating an externalized resource file written in a first language of the internationalized software by converting characters of the first language to characters of a second language based on a conversion... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080066058 - Testing internationalized software using test resource file and test font: An efficient testing method is provided for internationalized software executed in a plurality of language environments. The method includes mock-translating an externalized resource file written in a first language of the internationalized software by converting characters of the first language to characters of a second language based on a conversion... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080066059 - Computer readable storage medium for multi-language debugging: Software developers working on multi-language systems can utilize a multi-language debugging environment. The debugging environment can be uniform across languages, and can seamlessly perform debugging between one or more languages in a multi-language environment. Such a system can have a number of attributes intended to help developers facing debugging problems... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080066061 - Method and data processing system for solving resource conflicts in assembler programs: f

20080066060 - Redirection interface system and method for cim object manager provider: System and method are described for an I/O redirection provider for rapidly adapting legacy services, such as Linux services, into CIM management space. In one embodiment, a method of implementing an I/O redirection provider in a management system including a Common Input Model Object Manager (“CIMOM”) comprises, for each of... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080066062 - System and method for performing code completion with an extensible compiler framework in an integrated development environment: A system and method for code completion, comprising providing a representation of a first program in a first programming language, establishing a location in the first program, associating the location with a representation of the first program, obtaining code completion information relevant to the location in the first program based... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080066063 - System and method for preparing runtime checks: System and method for allowing embedded devices, even with a limited amount of CPU power and limited memory, to run code more efficiently by eliminating all or most of the runtime checks, while retaining the benefits of runtime checks. The runtime checks may be moved or duplicated to an outside... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080066064 - Computer readable storage medium for incremental application deployment: Incremental application deployment allows any files under development for an application to be modified directly in place, such as on a server disk. Application and module configuration information can be collected from a user as they build their application. Each time a developer modifies the configuration of the application, changes... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080059941 - Method and system for supporting a collaborative development environment: An approach is provided for supporting a collaborative development environment. A master site and a subordinate site are configured to participate in collaborative software development. One or more objects are automatically determined for replication from the master site to the subordinate site. A replication metadata file with replication metadata indicating... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080059940 - System and method for implementing a safe framework: This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for implementing a safe framework for application development. In one aspect, the software initializes an application using a runtime framework, identifies a customized class residing in a library associated with and decoupled from the runtime framework, identifies a path to the customized class... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080059942 - Method and system for baselining across multiple domains: Techniques are provided for baselining across multiple domains. Relationship information that associates a collection of requirement objects with a set of configuration management objects is stored. The collection of requirement objects is defined in a requirement management system for a software product, and the set of configuration management objects is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080059943 - Method and system for using a library cache in a distributed development environment: Techniques are provided for using library caches in a distributed software development environment that includes a plurality of development sites. Each of the plurality of development sites is associated with at least one library cache area that is accessible over a LAN to a set of network nodes included in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080059944 - Deployment-aware software code generation: A method and product for deployment-aware code generation in a distributed embedded system is described. The method generally comprises defining source and target component structural models by graphically modeling components and component structural features. The source component structural model is then mapped to the target component structural model to define... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080059945 - Generating a business document model: A computer-implemented method for identifying a substitute relating to a business document model includes receiving, in a computer system that has a modeling tool, a first user input indicating one of multiple components of a business document model in the modeling tool. The multiple components include nodes and edges that... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080059946 - Method and system for determining dependencies in a mainframe development environment: Techniques are provided for determining dependencies in a mainframe development environment. While executing a first build file to generate a first build of a software program from files in a file system, the activity in the file system is monitored to determine a plurality of files that are being accessed,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080059947 - System and method for automating generation of an automated sensor network: An application software generator automatically generates an application software unit. The application software generator includes an application composer that combines components extracted from a component repository with an application framework to generate the application software unit. Each component in the component repository includes a component shell, a component interface and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080059948 - User configureable language independent code assist method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product: A code assist function which suggests candidates responsive to a parsing of a partial program instruction statement by determining a current cursor position in the partial program instruction statement; parsing the partial program instruction statement before the current cursor position; generating a list of candidates to be inserted at the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080059949 - System and method for implementing a safe framework: This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for implementing a safe framework for business applications. In one aspect, software identifies a customized class related to a first framework and automatically inserts at least a portion of the customized class into a second framework. In some implementations, the second framework comprises... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080059950 - Method and system to automatically generate software code: According to a first aspect there is provided a system to automatically generate software for an object to relational mapping system. The system reads class information respectively associated with a plurality of classes. The system reads meta-data based on the class information. In addition the system automatically generates the plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080059951 - Method and apparatus for a container managed persistent entity bean support architecture: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and computer instructions for a container managed persistent support architecture that meets the Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) Specification. The support architecture provides application programmers a model for balancing generated components with runtime code to better optimize flexibility and efficiency of applications. Six generated components:... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080059952 - Method for replicating and synchronizing a plurality of physical instances with a logical master: Design Data Management uses one copy of common data sets along with a plurality of instances, while continuing to utilize the existing design databases and existing CAD tools. Allowing a minimum amount of user intervention to create and maintain the common data set, Design Data Management employs replicating common data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080059953 - Software management process, software management apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing software management program: In a software management process, a software management apparatus, and a computer-readable medium storing a software management program for managing software installed in clients: a profile for a client is updated in accordance with a change notice on receipt of the change notice from the client; settings of the software... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080059954 - Universal system component emulator with human readable output: A system and method for emulating or monitoring the communications behavior of any system component connected to a data bus. These functions are accomplished through the implementation of software component emulators (SCE) that encode and decode message data for any system component automatically. The present invention includes a means for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080059955 - Compiling method and storage medium therefor: A compiler includes a register allocator for allocating registers for instructions in a program to be compiled, and a code generator for generating object code based on the register allocation results performed by the register allocator. The register allocator allocates logical registers for instructions in the program to be compiled.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080059957 - Method of compiling source code, compiler, computer system, and computer program product: A method of compiling source code, involving a pre-processing step for including at least one additional source code file into the source code prior to generating target code from the source code. The proposed method further comprises the steps of: establishing, during the pre-processing step, at least one network connection... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080059956 - Methods and systems for compiling a shading process of a 3d computer graphics: A method for a 3D computer graphics shading process compiler, utilized to generate hardware machine code corresponding to a script is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Operation mapping code indicating an operation of the script, and argument mapping code indicating an argument associated with the operation is provided.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080059959 - Firmware update network and process employing preprocessing techniques: A network for updating firmware, drivers, or application software facilitates the access to generated update packages by electronic devices and the update of firmware, drivers, content or application software in a fault tolerant mode. A “Bubbles” technique is employed to generate efficient and compact update packages. A “Bubbles” information is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080059958 - Update of software in a portable radio communication equipment: The present invention relates to a portable radio communication equipment (1) for a wireless communication system, with a download means for downloading from an external server (10) during a first operational state of the equipment (1) update information for updating software of the equipment (1), a flash memory (4) for... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080059960 - Image forming apparatus, program updating method and computer-readable storage medium: An image forming apparatus which executes a program and updates the program, and is provided with an updating part configured to store a program prior to updating or a copy of the program prior to the updating and to generate an updating program by executing an updating process of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059961 - Output of help elements that correspond to selectable portions of content: Techniques are described to output help elements that correspond to selectable portions of content. Content, for instance, may be output in a user interface having a plurality of selectable portions and a help element. The user interface may be updated in response to sequential selection of the plurality of selectable... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC