Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 08/08

20080209387 - Spatial layout of hierarchical shared resources: A hierarchical shared resources spatial visualization system and method including a visualization runtime user interface that quickly and efficiently displays a spatial layout of a shared resource having a hierarchical nature. The user interface provides a spatial layout of the hierarchical shared resource and overlays salient activity information of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080209388 - Systems and methods for providing higher assurance software construction via aspects: There are provided systems and methods for integrating requirements driven security code into an application system. The security code is integrated into an application system in such a way as to make the integrated security code maintainable and traceable as the application system evolves over time.... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20080209389 - Method, system and program product supporting sequential encoding for relational analysis (sera) of a software model: A method of verifying a software system includes receiving a description of a software system described utilizing a high-level modeling language, and responsive thereto, parsing the description and constructing an abstract syntax graph. The abstract syntax graph is transformed into a sequential logic representation of the software system, and following... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209390 - Pluggable model elements: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing pluggable model elements. A modeling application is provided that is operable to allow custom model elements to be loaded. Custom behavior can be associated with the custom model element types in a modular fashion that allows custom behaviors to be plugged in.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Patent Group Docketing Dept.

20080209391 - Automatic software production system: An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust software application based on the validated formal specification, including user-interface code and error handling... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20080209392 - Systems and methods for definition and execution of batch processing services: A modeler allows definition of batch services that may include applications/services executing externally from the batch processing environment. The modeler may provide access to applications/services hosted on other platforms either in SOA or native API processing using TCPIP or other connection methods. The modeling or flow processing interface may provide... Agent: Weatherly Kerven & Seigel Llc

20080209393 - System and method to automatically detect incompatible licensing models: A system and method for inserting a marker in an object file, the marker indicating that at least a portion of the object file is subject to a first license agreement, determining if the first license agreement of the object file and a second license agreement to which one of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080209394 - Generic interface for numeric types: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a common generic interface for numeric types in statically typed languages. The common generic interface defines basic arithmetic operations, thereby allowing basic arithmetic operations to be performed on the numeric types. The common generic interface provides support for overflow detection when a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209395 - Automatic code replacement: A machine-implemented method for serving web content to a client having a web browser. In one embodiment the method includes browsing to a page at a server having active content, wherein the active content is written in a language unsupported by the web browser. The method continues as the server... Agent: Jablonski Law Group

20080209396 - Homepage for modular software: A multi-module application has a main module that generates a homepage user interface in a window for accessing a number of function modules of the application. Upon startup of the application, the main module parses a startup xml file that stores information about the function modules and generates the homepage... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080209397 - Method and apparatus for on-demand composition and teardown of service infrastructure: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for creating a composite service. Dependencies are identified utilizing a set of active objects used to manage services to form identified dependencies in response to receiving a request for the composite service. The identified dependencies specify requirements of the composite... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080209398 - Methods and apparatus for authentication of configuration items via configuration item change analysis: Techniques for authenticating one or more configuration items in an information repository are provided comprising the step of running an audit on the one or more configuration items in accordance with a change history of each of the one or more configuration items and one or more request for change... Agent: Robert W. Griffith Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080209400 - Approach for versioning of services and service contracts: An approach is provided for versioning of services and service contracts. According to the approach, when the executable code of a service external to one or more composite applications is generated, first version information is automatically stored in a contract that describes the service. The contract specifies an input interface... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080209399 - Methods and systems for tracking and auditing intellectual property in packages of open source software: Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to accurately track and audit the intellectual property aspects in software, such as packages or distributions of open source software. An intellectual property (IP) tool analyzes software as its source code is being submitted to a code repository or as a distribution... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080209402 - Non-invasive time-based profiling tool: Some embodiments of a non-invasive time-based profiling tool have been presented. In one embodiment, a system is profiled using information on each of a number of events collected from a set of subsystems in at least one client machine in the system. Then a profile of the system is caused... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209401 - Techniques for integrating debugging with decompilation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating debugging with decompilation. A debugger integrated with a decompiler is provided. The system determines a need to debug at least a portion of an application for which necessary debug information is not available. A decompile process is performed to decompile a binary... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209403 - Profiling apparatus and profiling program: A profiling apparatus including a program execution section that executes an target program, an interrupt generation section that generates an interruption every predetermined time, a gathering section that is activated upon occurrence of the interruption to gather a data access destination in the target program and a number of interruptions... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209404 - Method and system for analyzing memory leaks occurring in java virtual machine data storage heaps: An invention is disclosed for analyzing memory leaks occurring in Java Virtual Machine (JVM) data storage, consisting of a dynamically modifiable JVM “profiler” and an “object tracker” tool for analyzing the output from the profiler. Specifically, a method and system is disclosed for programming a JVM profiler used to analyze... Agent: Lee Law, Pllc Ibm Customer Number

20080209405 - Distributed debugging for a visual programming language: A system for distributed debugging of a visual programming language computer application. The system includes an execution environment such as a runtime environment to execute a visual programming language computer application. The system also includes a debugging engine to manipulate execution of the a visual programming language application being debugged.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209406 - History-based call stack construction: In a computing system environment, methods and apparatus relate to constructing a call stack for a software program based upon a comprehensive recording of an execution history of the software program. Upon defining procedure calls and returns in the execution history, a call stack is constructed for the procedure calls... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080209407 - Processor and compiler for decoding an instruction and executing the instruction with conditional execution flags: The present invention provides a processor which has a small-scale circuit and is capable of executing loop processing at a high speed while consuming a small amount of power. When the processor decodes an instruction “jloop C6,C1:C4,TAR,Ra”, the processor (i) sets a conditional flag C4 to 0 when the value... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080209409 - Method and system for quality assurance subscription service: Embodiments pertain generally to a method of providing a quality assurance subscription service for a customer. The method includes determining a new software configuration for the customer and instantiating a test virtual machine based on state information of the customer in a secure location. The method also includes executing the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080209410 - Method and system for updating attachment files: A method of updating a file attached to an electronic document can include attaching a file to an electronic document and storing a reference to the attached file. The reference can specify a location from which the attached file was obtained. Responsive to a user input, the attached file can... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080209408 - Seeding product information: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for patching software based on seeded product information. In one embodiment, patching software can comprise receiving a patch deliverable that can include a software patch and information identifying a target software package. The information identifying the target software package can be read and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080209411 - Method for updating indicia readers: A method of operating an indicia reader comprising the steps of: requesting upgrade software from a remote server; the remote server sending in response to the request an information bearing indicia (IBI) to a device local to the indicia reader; providing the IBI on a readable medium; reading the IBI;... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20080209412 - Reselling experienced agents: The present invention relates to Assistant Software Modules (ASMs) providing services to users of e.g. a mobile phone. The ASMs are becoming learned (or skilled) by the user modifying the behaviour of the ASMs. Adding rules to a configuration file of the ASM preferably performs the modifications, but the modification... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209413 - Software change modeling for network devices: A method for software change modeling for network devices provides dynamic (on the device) and static (computer) change modeling. The same source code and libraries are used for both modeling applications, allowing a user to see the impact of activating or deactivating specific software modules without affecting the actual node.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080209414 - Peer-to-peer software update distribution network: A software package of interest is identified, and information about a latest version of the package is retrieved. Then, data corresponding to the latest version are downloaded from a peer-to-peer network, and the downloaded package is installed. Alternative methods and systems for use in particular environments are also described.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080201687 - Testing and debugging framework for application builders: An application builder system and methodology enables a user to create an application using a builder (“builder application”); interactively edit the builder application by adding and removing application objects; interactively edit the properties of the application objects, including a new property called “debug level”; interactively set values of parameters for... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080201688 - System and method for the automatic verification of privilege-asserting and subject-executed code: The present relates to a method for verifying privileged and subject-executed code within a program, the method further comprising the steps of constructing a static model of a program, identifying checkPermission nodes that are comprised within the invocation graph, and performing a fixed-point iteration, wherein each determined permission set is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080201689 - Vector crc computatuion on dsp: A method of generating Cyclic Redundancy Checking codes based upon an N-bit binary string comprises initially compressing the N-bit binary string into a compressed string of bits using a compression look-up table. The compressed string of bits is congruent with the N-bit binary string and so share a same CRC... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080201690 - Code generation techniques: A method of generating executable code for performing desired functionality. The method includes defining a component combination based on the desired functionality, the component combination being indicative of components to be implemented and connections between the components. The component combination is then used to cause components in the component combination... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080201691 - Version resiliency for a host application and custom code: A method and architecture for increasing version resiliency between a host application that is unmanaged code and custom code that is managed code is provided. A host application exposes an application-level object and a document-level object. A custom code runtime provides a wrapper for the document-level object within the application... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080201692 - Siebel spf template file update utility: The present invention is directed to a Siebel SPF template file update utility. A method for updating a template file in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a template file, an existing row_id, and a target row_id; scanning the template file for section markers; locating an... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080201693 - System and method for the automatic identification of subject-executed code and subject-granted access rights: The present invention relates to a method for identifying subject-executed code and subject-granted access rights within a program, the method further comprising the steps of: constructing a static model of a program, and determining a set of access rights that are associated with each subject object that is comprised within... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080201694 - Code recovery system and method: A system and method for restoring a computing system to a first operating state associated with a first system software code installed on the computing system is provided. The method comprises installing a second system software code on the computing system, while the system is operating in the first operating... Agent: Jeffrey P. Aiello IBM Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20080201695 - Computer graphics rendering: Techniques for rendering computer graphics are described. The techniques include binarization of graphics files generated using a vector graphics language (e.g., Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)). In exemplary applications, the method is used for rendering video information in cellular phones, video game consoles, personal digital assistants (PDA), or laptop computers, among... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080201696 - Method and apparatus for testing a software program using mock translation input method editor: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for testing software programs running on a data processing system. Text is translated from the source language to the target language to form translated text in response to a user input, containing the text in a source language. The text is entered through a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080201697 - Extensible markup language parsing using multiple xml parsers: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and a computer readable medium for parsing a hierarchical markup document. The method includes initializing a first parser for parsing a hierarchical markup document. The first parser parses the hierarchical markup document. A shared parsing state associated with a set of parsers including... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080201699 - Efficient data reorganization to satisfy data alignment constraints: Vectorizing misaligned references in compiled code for SIMD architectures that support only aligned loads and stores is presented. In the framework presented herein, a loop is first simdized as if the memory unit imposes no alignment constraints. The compiler then inserts data reorganization operations to satisfy the actual alignment requirement... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080201698 - Reordering application code to improve processing performance: A method of reordering a sequence of code for processing by a target data processor in order to reduce an execution time for said code on said target data processor is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: in response to a request to execute said sequence of code, loading... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080201701 - Methods and systems for upgrading and installing application packages to an application platform: Systems and methods for installing and upgrading application packages to an application platform. The systems and methods are particularly useful in an on-demand database service. Application packages may be uploaded to a directory by developing users (developers) for installation by subscribing users (subscribers). Alternatively, a developer may send identification information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080201700 - Version resiliency for a host application and managed code: A method and architecture for increasing version resiliency between a host application that is unmanaged code and managed code is provided. A version resiliency technique specifies that the host application and the managed code communicate via an adapter that implements a protocol to access an object exposed by the host... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080201702 - System and method for scheduling software updates: A system and method for scheduling software updates on data processing systems. In an embodiment, software updates are scheduled on a data processing system by identifying a list of software updates; scheduling at least one primary software update for execution within a scheduled outage time based on an estimated execution... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080201703 - Packaging content updates: Aspects of the present invention are directed at obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates configured to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080201704 - Office equipment and program installation support method: Office equipment that is controllable by a predetermined driver program from an external apparatus includes a request accepting unit 101 that accepts an acquisition request for information necessary for processing for installation of the driver program and an information transmitting unit 102 that transmits, when the acquisition request is accepted... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201705 - Apparatus and method for generating a software dependency map: A system and method for generating a software installation map, also referred to as a dependency map, that involves receiving a first software package comprising at least a first software file and a second software file. The first software file is dependent on the second software file. The method further... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20080201706 - Data handling system: There is described a data handling system (700, 710) for controlling a configuration of support software products for monitoring and/or managing a complex system (200, 250, 310). The handling system (700, 710) comprises computing hardware (700) operable to execute the support software products (750) for assimilating information and/or data from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080201707 - Dynamic deployment of custom code: A method and system for dynamically downloading custom code for execution within a host application is provided. A deployment system augments the manifest used for deploying managed applications to include information describing how the host application is to use the custom code, referred to as host manifest information. The deployment... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080195998 - Enable top-down service design: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a software development application that supports development using a top-down approach. The user creates a high-level system design for a system in the top-down design software development application. The user describes a behavior of the system by attaching technology-neutral original system endpoints... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195999 - Methods for supplying code analysis results by using user language: Methods comprising the steps of receiving a code to be analyzed; running a flow analysis of the received code; running a backward and/or forward analysis, whereby the analysis returns at least one input statement; selecting at least one externally-visible statement from the returned list of statements; associating each externally-visible statement... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20080195997 - System and method for creation of personalized applications for mobile devices: There is provided a system and method for the creation of customized applications for mobile computing devices which will allow a user to incorporate selected media items into a preexisting program, thereby customizing it for execution on his or her own brand and model of device (e.g., cell phone). In... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080196000 - System and method for software development: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for developing software. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating the distributed development of software components includes conducting one or more contests for the development of computer software, and rewarding contest reviewers based on the performance of the software developed. Reviewers performance... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080196001 - Use of temporary optimized settings to reduce cycle time of automatically created spreadsheets: Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for reducing cycle time of automatically created spreadsheets. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides a way to create a spreadsheet from data that is in a native format more quickly and/or efficiently. To do so, the invention accesses a control... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080196003 - System for creating application content using an open model driven architecture: A system for generating application content includes specifying an application definition or model in a flexible grammar, defining a set of templates that define generalized content output forms, and specifying a control definition for transforming the application definition into application content bused on the templates. A transformation engine accesses the... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.c.

20080196002 - Template-based rule generation: A rule-based monitoring framework offering a simplified GUI-driven and template-based way to specify and generate monitoring rules. The automatically generated rules can be directly deployed or further modified, in particular by combining plural templates. The modification can take place in two different views on the rule: the code view and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080196004 - Apparatus and method for developing component-based software: An apparatus and method for developing component-based software, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for developing component-based software in order to define an identified component in a component language and reuse the identified component. The apparatus includes a component division module to analyze source code and a build file... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080196005 - Compositional application programming interface and literal syntax: A compositional application programming interface (API) permits non-sequential construct declaration independent of other API calls. A wrapper is applied to an imperative API to provide a compositional interface that enables arbitrary and autonomous construct declaration. Additionally, a literal syntax (e.g., code literals, graphic literals . . . ) affords a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080196006 - Event-based process configuration: A system and method for configuring an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives input describing an event-based process or modifications to an event-based process. For example, the configuration module receives as input a graphical depiction of one or more states and state transitions that comprise at least a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080196007 - System and method for representing mfs control blocks in xml for mfs-based ims applications: A system and method for representing MFS control blocks in XML for MFS-based IMS applications utilizes an MFS XML adapter and an MFS XML repository to translate between XML and MFS. The repository contains XML files for DOF/MOD and XML files for DIF/MID. When an XML request is received, the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080196009 - Apparatus and method for componentizing legacy system: Provided are an apparatus and method of componentizing a legacy system that reconstructs software components, which are included in the legacy system, as abstract or logical modules according to the association between the components. An apparatus for componentizing a legacy system includes a legacy code analyzing unit which analyzes the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080196008 - Method of operating a computing device: An incremental release to a body of software is carried out by using automated tools on a computing device. The tools are provided with access to the files comprising a whole body of software to be released, the files comprising the last release of the whole body of software, and... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080196010 - Controlling and extending programmable network functions using a declarative approach: In an embodiment, a computer apparatus comprises a network interface; a processor; a packet forwarding unit; and instructions which when executed cause storing a first executable software module in computer storage; receiving and storing, in association with the first software module, a first human-readable declaration of one or more available... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080196011 - Generating sequence diagrams using call trees: A software tool is provided to analyze static source code. Source Code files are selected to define the project work space. A class and a method in the class are selected from said selected source code files. The tool generates a Call Tree as an ordered recursive sequence of all... Agent: John A. Jordan, Esq.

20080196012 - System and methods for static analysis of large computer programs and for presenting the results of the analysis to a user of a computer program: A system and method for analyzing a computer program comprising a first multiplicity of elements having a second multiplicity of functional relationships defined therebetween, the first multiplicity of elements including interface elements and non-interface elements, the method comprising reading source code, finding at least selected interface elements in the source... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080196013 - System and method for implementing data breakpoints: A system and method for implementation of MMU assisted data breakpoints for any number of data structures within a program application are provided. For each data structure for which a data breakpoint is desired, two distinct MMU entries are created. One MMU entry has access attributes. The other entry has... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.c.

20080196014 - Partial methods: Partial methods enable separation of method declaration and/or calls from method implementation. A partial method specifies a signature of a join or hook point in a class. Calls to a partial method specify a join or hook point in code that can optionally be linked with an actual method implementation... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080196015 - Formatting and viewing source objects: A system, method, and computer readable storage medium for formatting and viewing a source object that allows software developers to select their own preferences for formatting and/or viewing the same source object.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080196016 - Processing of expressions: In many messaging systems, message selection filtering involves a significant processing overhead. This includes the parsing and preparing of the message selection filters in readiness for evaluation, as well as the evaluation itself. In systems which involve parsing and prepare processing for expressions that include repeated patterns (such as in... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080196017 - Method and software for optimising the positioning of software functions in a memory: The present invention is related to a method and a software program for optimising the positioning of software functions in a memory of a computing device. The present invention hereby comprises the steps of identifying each of a number of software functions and the respective number of calls between the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080196018 - Simplebinding extension: A SimpleBinding extension in Window Presentation Foundation (WPF) is established using a compact binding syntax in which all binding components are specified in a string. The simple binding string is parsed to derive a native WPF binding class. A typecast may be used to determine how the binding result will... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080196019 - Method and apparatus for generating an update package: Method and apparatus for generating an update package. The update package is capable of in-place updating an old version to a new version wherein the old and new versions are stored in a storage device. The method includes inserting update commands into the update package, wherein the update commands allow... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080196021 - Accessible limited distribution release software change catalog: A catalog for maintaining a store of public and private limited distribution release software changes in a single location. A method for distributing limited distribution release software changes to clients via a network comprises receiving a search request, authenticating the client, querying a database of limited distribution release software changes,... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080196020 - Network service for a software change catalog: A catalog for maintaining a store of public and private limited distribution release software changes in a single location. A method for distributing limited distribution release software changes to clients via a network comprises receiving a search request, authenticating the client, querying a database of limited distribution release software changes,... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080196023 - Local controller, remote management controller and method for automatically updating the local controller of an air conditioner system: A remote management system and method having an automatic update function, the system including: a remote management controller located remotely from at least one air conditioner system so as to perform a central control for the air conditioner system(s); and a local controller installed between the air conditioner system(s) and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080196022 - Software updates based on rss feeds: r

20080196024 - Method and apparatus for changing software components in an information handling system: A client information handling system (IHS) includes a dependency database that stores both installation dependency information and operational dependency information for installed software components and candidate software components. The client IHS also includes a request handler that, in response to a request to change the software configuration of the IHS,... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20080196025 - Tier splitting support for distributed execution environments: A spectrum of tier-splitting mechanisms facilitates distributed programming. A rich application model and associated tools enable programmers to write rich distributed applications that can run anywhere. A program can be developed simply as a single tier or tier agnostic application. Subsequently or concurrently, the program can be sliced into multiple... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189675 - Method and system for providing tooling instructions through parameterization as an aid for software application development: An invention is disclosed for a programming method and system of implementing parameterization of data types and/or categories to convert an example “instance” of using a software application into an actual product of program use by customizing the example to make it suitable for user needs. A parameter modeling component... Agent: Gerald J. Iwanejko, Jr.

20080189676 - Software development apparatus for model that requires security: A software development apparatus for developing application software based on an object model that requires security in a web service application is provided. The software development apparatus includes a display unit that displays, in a class diagram of the application software, security annotation for adding security requirements for a service,... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080189679 - Method and system for creating, deploying, and utilizing a service: A system and method of utilizing a service, comprising: designing the service in a visual modeling environment such that low level machine centric and/or platform dependent programming language is not used, the service capable of being implemented across an enterprise; and deploying the service in a plurality of technology infrastructures... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080189678 - N-tiered applications support via common interface: A development system is provided. The system includes a workspace component to visually display one or more model components. A separation component automatically segments the model components into two or more project components. A synchronization component can be provided to automatically update at least one of the project components in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189677 - Visual association creation for object relational class development: A development system is provided. The system includes a workspace component to visually display one or more class components. A linking component identifies a database relationship between at least two of the class components, where the database relationship is employed to automatically create a class association between the at least... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189681 - Private source code commenting: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for exchanging information regarding software source code among a team of developers is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a developer associates commentary with a particular code feature, such as a function or object class. A list of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080189680 - User experience customization framework: A user experience (“UX”) customization framework is provided that enables the customization of the UX provided by an operating system (“OS”) and application programs executing on the OS. The UX customization framework includes a UX platform engine that processes UX markup language files to create a customized UX. UX markup... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189682 - In-line editor: A software application, method of constructing same, and method for editing text displayed by same are disclosed. In a form, the software application is a web-format application with a core set of executable instructions dictating the display, operation, and user interaction, the instructions including identifiers for text to be displayed... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080189683 - Direct access of language metadata: Method and system for direct access of language metadata are disclosed. In an implementation, the method includes receiving commands from a user to modify language metadata of a programming language. The metadata is modified based on the command and the modified metadata is utilized as a feature in the programming... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189684 - E-learning authorship based on meta-tagged media specific learning objects: A method and system of an e-learning authorship based on meta-tagged media specific learning objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes searching for learning objects in a repository based on a content query data publishing the learning objects to a content management system through applying a meta-data describing... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080189685 - Program development support device: Via an internal bus 69, a host emulation unit 61 of a control procedure unit 60 loads a program under development into, and sends program execution control commands to, a program under development execution unit 70 which includes an engine processor. In response to these program execution control commands, the... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080189686 - System and method for detecting software defects: A method for detecting software defects includes selecting from a target program comprising a plurality of modules a first module for evaluation and isolating the first module. The method also includes iteratively performing the following steps until the first module has been reduced such that a validation program is able... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080189687 - Method and apparatus for maintaining performance monitoring structures in a page table for use in monitoring performance of a computer program: A method and apparatus in a data processing system for measuring events associated with the execution of instructions are provided. Instructions are received at a processor in the data processing system. If a selected indicator is associated with the instruction, counting of each event associated with the execution of the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080189688 - Obtaining profile data for use in optimizing computer programming code: Program execution profile data is collected by direct measurement of some code paths, and by inferring data for unmeasured paths. The data collection process may cause errors, which are propagated by the inferencing process. The profile data thus constructed is further enhanced by detecting certain data mismatches, and adjusting inferred... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080189689 - Method for preparing and checking application data: Method for preparing and checking software means to be executed by programmable control devices or plants for carrying out processes, in which: a) a programming language for expressing the software means is provided, which language is based on an abstract syntax, particularly an object oriented syntax; b) the said programming... Agent: Themis Intellectual Property Counsel

20080189690 - Method for persisting or transferring an xcodes execution plan in a self-contained, platform independent format: A method for constructing and executing an XCodes execution plan stored in a self-contained, platform-independent format, the method comprising: providing a plurality of Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents each having content, structure, and a plurality of instruction; identifying a language in which the content of the plurality of XML documents... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080189691 - Method and apparatus for referencing a constant pool in a java virtual machine: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for referencing a constant pool. A determination is made as to whether a bytecode references the constant pool. A relative offset to the constant pool is identified for the bytecode, in response to the bytecode referencing the constant pool. The bytecode is then replaced... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080189692 - System and program product for implementing single threaded optimizations in a potentially multi-threaded environment: Under the present invention, program code is examined (statically or dynamically) for characteristics indicative of a potential to generate multiple threads. If none are found, single threaded optimization(s) such as desynchronization, optimization of globals, etc., can be implemented. In addition, if the program code is later revealed to have the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080189696 - Automatic customization of classes: A method and computer readable medium for automatic replacement of object classes in a library with custom classes to improve program efficiency. The method begins with static analysis preformed on a program containing a plurality of objects in order to determine type-correctness constraints and to detect unused functionality in one... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080189693 - Remote firmware management for electronic devices: A method and system for firmware updating for one or more electronic devices connected on a user network. A management gateway may be connected on the network, configured to control all firmware update activity for the one or more electronic devices. In an exemplary application, the electronic devices may be... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080189694 - Transparent recovery of self-sustained code-upgrade: A defective self-sustained code-upgrade code is recovered. A relevant unset variable is set to avoid an un-initialized command failure. A relevant set variable is unset to render a second invocation of the set variable to appear as a first invocation A fix-named file is retrieved containing a plurality of code... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080189695 - Updating of data instructions: A method and an electronic device for updating data instructions of an electronic apparatus (1) based on updating data. The method comprises acquiring updating data for updating of data instructions, meta data associated with the updating data, and at least one security mechanism associated with at least one of the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080189697 - Updating a virtual machine monitor from a guest partition: Mechanisms are disclosed for updating a virtual machine monitor (“VMM”). Facilities of a guest operating system running in a guest virtual machine managed by the VMM are leveraged to facilitate receiving an update package. The update package may contain updates for guest operating systems extensions in addition to a VMM... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080189698 - Tailoring an operating system to a computer system: A method for tailoring the installation of an operating system to a computer system receives information regarding the computer system. Information regarding a modular operating system is accessed. The modular operating system is comprised of a foundational base and a plurality of installable features. Desired performance characteristics of the computer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189699 - System and method for automatically loading software components: A computer-based method for automatically loading software components is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: powering on a computer, identifying whether there is an identifier recorded in a desktop management interface (DMI) in a BIOS of the computer, and detecting that the computer is installed with a non-Windows based... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang