Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 09/08

20080235653 - System and method for defining and dynamically invoking polymorphic call flows: A system and method for defining and dynamically invoking polymorphic call flows in a call flow system. Call flows are defined that include a publisher call flow and subscriber call flows. A first trigger point in a publisher call flow is defined. Triggers specifying late-binding references to trigger points are... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080235656 - Method and apparatus for mashing up web applications: Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and computer program, product for mashing up web applications. The method includes: obtaining at least two document object models (DOM) corresponding to at least two web applications respectively; merging nodes of the at least two document object models to obtain a new document object model;... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080235655 - Method of designing a system comprising hardware and software components: The invention relates to a method of designing a system. The system includes an application having software components and an architecture having hardware components on which the application is run. The system has to satisfy at least one functional and one non-functional requirement. The functional analysis step (11) obtains a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080235654 - Using collaborative development information in a team environment: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide and interact with a collaborative development information store in a team software development environment. A submission service updates an active meta-model of an application in a central information store that is used by multiple users. A notification service operating in a particular... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235657 - Loop coalescing method and loop coalescing device: A loop coalescing method and a loop coalescing device are disclosed. The loop coalescing method comprises removing an inner-most loop from among nested loops, so that an outer operation provided outside of the inner-most loop is performed when a condition of a conditional statement is satisfied, generating a guard code... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235658 - Code generation for real-time event processing: A method for information processing includes determining respective execution times for a plurality of operations on a selected computing platform. When a definition of a rule is received, including a complex event and an action to be performed upon occurrence of the complex event, software code is automatically generated to... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20080235659 - Facilitating self-remediation for software applications: Facilitating self-remediation for software applications. In an embodiment, a self-remediation tool (incorporated in the software application) receives a set of tasks that are to be performed for fixing an error in the software application. The self-remediation tool determines a subset of tasks requiring termination of execution of the software application.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080235660 - Depicting changes to structures in an integrated development environment: Operating an integrated development environment in a data processing system comprising running a source code editor, displaying source code in a graphical interface of the source code editor, displaying at least one cross-reference marker, the at least one cross-reference marker indicating crosscutting in the source code, receiving an input, changing... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080235661 - System and method for using annotations to automatically generate a framework for a custom javaserver faces (jsf) component: A system and method for using annotations to automatically generate a framework for a custom JavaServer Faces (JSF) component is provided. Source code for a custom JSF Component class may be received, where the received source code may include annotations indicating how a declared element should be processed. For example,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080235662 - Method for obtaining context of corresponding xlet while playing bd-j title: The present invention is to provide a method for enabling BD-J to effectively obtain context of the corresponding Xlet while playing BD-J title, which comprises the steps of setting up source file attribute of each class by adding an Xlet context ID as an unique code to the class when... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080235663 - Change management for structure objects: A structure object is locked to prevent changes to the structure object in previous phases of a software life cycle. When a request to change the structure object in a previous phase is received, a change request file is opened. The changed request is approved or denied based at least... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235664 - Method, system and computer program for discovering multi-component software products: A solution (400) for discovering shared software components (C1-C9) of software products (PRODa-PRODe) installed on a data processing system (110) is proposed. In order to achieve this result, for each software product the corresponding software components are aggregated into groups (Ga1-Ge1); each group includes software components that must be linked... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080235665 - System and method for automated safe reprogramming of software radios: The proposed system defines an automated safe reprogramming of software radios. The essence of software radios is to enhance or alter the functionality of a mobile terminal by using software. This means that the required software is downloaded onto a mobile terminal on the fly to meet the critical and... Agent: Venable LLP

20080235666 - 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.

20080235667 - Application software flight recorder test server: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprises an input circuit to receive one or more data files over a communication channel, the one or more data files comprising first data representing operation of a computer during a test interval and second data representing screen updates generated by the computer... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080235668 - Operating system support for thread-level breakpoints: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing breakpoints. A breakpoint is detected during execution of a process. A thread that is currently executing is identified as an identified thread. A determination is made as to whether the breakpoint is applicable to the identified thread. In... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235670 - Method and apparatus for creation of an interface for constructing conversational policies: A method and apparatus for taking a visual or verbal representation of a conversational policy and translating the representation into an XML file. The XML file can then be output in one or more formats, such as code used in a policy, a Word version of the XML file, or... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235669 - Method, system, and program product for accessing required software to process a file: A system, method, and program product for accessing or retrieving on a computer network the required software to process a file is disclosed. According to the invention, it is determined, when accessing a file, whether or not software required to process this file is already installed on the user's computing... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080235671 - Injecting content into third party documents for document processing: Techniques for extracting content from a rendered page are provided. In one approach, a tool allows a user to specify executable code (e.g., JavaScript) to be inserted into a file (e.g., HTML file). The code-injected file is interpreted and the executable code is executed, including, optionally, any executable code already... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080235672 - Data layout using data type information: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method of compiling a software program into an executable binary file, including determining a data layout in the binary file and a data layout in the executable's dynamically allocated memory. The method includes taking into account data types of data as a factor in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080235674 - Compiler method of exploiting data value locality for computation reuse: A compiler method for exploiting data value locality for computation reuse. When a code region having single entry and exit points and in which a potential computation reuse opportunity exists is identified during runtime, a helper thread is created separate from the master thread. One of the helper thread and... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235673 - Method and system for measuring database programming productivity: A method for measuring database programming productivity is disclosed. The method quantifies the database programming effort, which can then be used to calculate the software productivity for database development.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080235675 - Typed intermediate language support for existing compilers: Described is a technology by which a compiler's intermediate representation is generated in a way that includes type checking to ensure safe execution. Typed representation of virtual method invocation uses an exact class name to represent objects of the class but not those of the subclasses, and a combined class... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235676 - Optimal floating-point expression translation method based on pattern matching: Embodiments of the present invention include code generation methods. In one embodiment, a table of patterns is generated. Each pattern in the table includes an FMA (fused multiply-add) DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), a canonical form equivalent of the FMA DAG, and a shape corresponding to the canonical form equivalent. Incoming... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235677 - Method and system for categorized auto-completion: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing an auto-completion assist box comprising different views of selectable method and field information, thereby allowing a user to easily locate desired information. A list of methods for an object is provided to one or more view plug-ins... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235678 - Methods and apparatus for patching software in accordance with instituted patching policies: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for controlling software patching activity in, for example, computer systems. Methods and apparatus of the present invention may implement a software shell and institute a patching policy to control patching activities. When implemented, the software shell acts as a barrier which permits patching... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235679 - Loading software on a plurality of processors: Loading software on a plurality of processors is presented. A processing unit (PU) retrieves a file from system memory and loads it into its internal memory. The PU extracts a processor type from the file's header which identifies whether the file should execute on the PU or a synergistic processing... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080235680 - In-page installer: A method of notifying a user about the existence of relevant software and facilitating the installation of such software using a browser. A user's interactions with the browser are monitored to determine a context for a given browsing session, and it is determined whether software relevant to the context is... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080235681 - System, method and apparatus for retrieving schedule information from a remote location for an electronic calendar: A user device accesses a webpage (hosted on a schedule host server) to identify a calendar or schedule of interest for downloading for incorporation into a calendar application within the user device (or otherwise identifies the calendar or schedule from a message received at the user device). A single click... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080229274 - Automating construction of a data-source interface for component applications: A method is provided for creating a messaging description document from at least a portion of an existing application. The method comprises the following steps. The application is analyzed for application messages. Message elements are generated in the messaging description document in accordance with the application messages. A mapping document... Agent: Michael V. Cacenco

20080229276 - Automatic composition of model transformations: Techniques for composition of model transformations from a predetermined set of model transformations. A state machine is provided in memory. The states are defined in the state machine in terms of predetermined model attributes. In response to specification of a target state for an input model to be transformed, an... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080229277 - Data locations template based application-data association and its use for policy based management: Method and system are disclosed for automatically discovering associations between applications and data in multi-tiered distributed systems. The method in one aspect uses a machine-readable specification of a model or template that describes use and transformation of data by software components. The method additionally utilizes a model of system configuration... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080229275 - Method and system for process composition: A method and system for model composition. A business process model defined by a plurality of tasks may be accessed. A plurality of available executable elements capable of implementing the plurality of tasks may be identified. Each of the plurality of available executable elements may be capable of providing functionality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080229278 - Component-based development: A method is provided for adapting a software component. The method includes the steps of extracting a component specification comprising binary code and metadata from a first component; creating a context-oriented adaptation specification; adapting at least part of the first component in accordance with the context-oriented adaptation specification and an... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080229279 - Method for automatic generation of schema mapping application code: A method for automatic generation of schema mapping application code. The method includes loading a code generation tool with source and target schemas. The method further includes defining the mapping specification between the source and the target. The method proceeds by triggering the code generation tool. Afterwards, the method proceeds... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080229280 - Systems and methods for composing custom applications from software components: Embodiment the present invention includes systems and methods for composing custom applications from software components. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of composing a software application comprising selecting a plurality of software components, wherein each software component includes a predefined functionality, determining the compatibility of the selected... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group PC

20080229281 - Method for data exchange between medical apparatuses: In a method, a device and a system as well as a modality and a computer program product for integration of a data object into a medical data set, the data object and the medical data set are associated with a patient examination. The medical data set is formatted according... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080229282 - Patch-aware editor: A system and method for receiving an origin file corresponding to source code, modifying the source code to create a modified source code, creating a modified file corresponding to the modified source code and comparing the modified file to the origin file. A system having an editor for editing source... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080229283 - Application software flight recorder tester client: Apparatus for testing a first software application, the apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media, comprises a processor to execute the first software application and a second software application concurrently; a user interface circuit to receive first signals representing actions of a tester of the first software application; and a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080229284 - Method and apparatus for testing software: Techniques are provided for testing new software slated to be deployed on a target machine population with a number of target machines having a number of existing software programs. Method steps can include obtaining a list of depending software programs on selected ones of the target machines. The list can... Agent: Ryan, Mason, Lewis, LLP

20080229285 - Apparatus and method for manipulating variable states: The invention includes a computer readable storage medium with executable instructions to run a segment of code and identify associated variables. The segment of code is stopped at a predetermined breakpoint and state values that correspond to the associated variables are identified. A variable is selected from the associated variables... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080229287 - Method and process to automatically perform test builds of translated files for a software product: A method, apparatus, and computer program instructions for automatically performing test builds of natural language translated files for a software product. When a translated file is received from a translator, a test build of the translated file is executed in a translation test build environment, wherein the translation test build... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229286 - System and method for scalable flow and context-sensitive pointer alias analysis: A system and method for pointer analysis for computer program verification includes forming a subset or cluster of pointers from pointers in a program by applying increasingly accurate alias analyses in a cascaded fashion such that each analysis works on a subset of pointers generated by a previous analysis's results.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080229288 - Software plugin modules for device testing: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: one or more plugins each adapted to execute on the computer, wherein each plugin comprises a monitor module adapted to monitor data exchanged between one or more applications executing on the computer and a respective device driver executing on the computer, and... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080229289 - Bitmapped data string conversions: A method for converting bitmapped messages in one codeset into a message of another codesets is disclosed. In one step a bitmapped message is parsed into a bitmapped field and a data field. The binary representation of the bitmapped field is used to determine which data elements are present within... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080229290 - Automatic formatting of computer program source code: A method and system is provided for auto formatting changes to computer program source code stored in a code repository. The code comprises a plurality of separately identifiable sections each of which includes non-functional formatting information which differs between at least some of the sections. In response to a user... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229291 - Compiler implemented software cache apparatus and method in which non-aliased explicitly fetched data are excluded: A compiler implemented software cache apparatus and method in which non-aliased explicitly fetched data are excluded are provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, a compiler uses a forward data flow analysis to prove that there is no alias between the cached data and explicitly fetched data. Explicitly fetched... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080229292 - Validator-driven architecture of an xml parsing and validating solution: A method for parsing a document in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format includes identifying data via the XML format, defining a tag set including a plurality of tags, defining a tokenizer that produces one token at a time, parsing the XML document via a parser, validating the XML document... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080229293 - Data reporting application programming interfaces in an xml parser generator for xml validation and deserialization: A method for interfacing with an XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser generator to generate deserialization information interleaved with XML parsing and validation, including: providing an XML parser generator with information about the schema which the instance data conforms to; providing a data reporting application programming interface (API) and a generator... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080229294 - Method and system for managing heuristic properties: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for managing heuristic properties for controlling an optimization transformation in a compiler or in other heuristically controlled software in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for controlling an optimization transformation in heuristically controlled software includes defining at least one... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229295 - Ensuring maximum code motion of accesses to dma buffers: A “kill” intrinsic that may be used in programs for designating specific data objects as having been “killed” by a preceding action is provided. The concept of a data object being “killed” is that the compiler is informed that no operations (e.g., loads and stores) on that data object, or... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080229296 - Work analysis device and recording medium recording work analysis program: A device analyzes a flow of a computer system by identifying transition relations each representing a relation between two of data sets that have been updated, based upon workflow information. Transition information indicate a number of occurrences of each transition relation, with respect to each analysis unit period. Change information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080229297 - Method and system for reducing memory reference overhead associated with treadprivate variables in parallel programs: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for accessing threadprivate memory for threadprivate variables in a parallel program during program compilation. A computer implemented method for accessing threadprivate variables in a parallel program during program compilation includes aggregating threadprivate variables in the program, replacing references of the threadprivate... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229298 - Compiler method for employing multiple autonomous synergistic processors to simultaneously operate on longer vectors of data: A compiler includes a mechanism for employing multiple synergistic processors to execute long vectors. The compiler receives a single source program. The compiler identifies vectorizable loop code in the single source program and extracts the vectorizable loop code from the single source program. The compiler then compiles the extracted vectorizable... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229299 - Adaptive class loading: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, determine the classes that are needed during a first invocation of an application and preload those classes during a subsequent invocation of the application. In various embodiments, the classes may be preloaded if they are within a specified package, if... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080229300 - Method and apparatus for inserting code fixes into applications at runtime: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for inserting code fixes into applications at runtime. One aspect of the present invention leverages capability of a just-in-time-instrumentation monitoring component to receive a code fix during execution of applications and insert code fixes into applications. Another aspect of the present... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229301 - Out-of-band patch management system: A computer system is disclosed that includes a primary processor and a service processor operable regardless of a power state of the computer system. A non-volatile memory device is communicatively coupled to the primary processor and the service processor. The non-volatile memory device stores firmware which includes a first list... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080229302 - System and method for universal access to and protection of personal digital content: A method of accessing content on a local trusted network from trusted and untrusted environments. The method includes assigning a software system associated with the local trusted network a unique name; associating the unique name with a local address and a dynamic external address; routing client communications to the software... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080229303 - Method, system and computer program for distributing customized software products: A solution for distributing software products in a data processing system is disclosed. A set of models of each software product is to be distributed (for example, of the UML type) is provided; each model includes an indication of relationships among a plurality of available logical items (representing functions provided... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080229304 - Method and arrangement for spread of applications: It is provided a mechanism for improving the procedure for a first communication device to send a message to a second device, the message including a link to an application server where the second device is requested to perform down load an application. A method in a first communications device... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080222598 - Using a system of annotations to generate views and adapters: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for using annotations in contracts to generate views and adapters. A framework is provided that supports annotations that can be used in a contract to allow a user to express how one or more members of the contract should be represented in at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222600 - Apparatus and method for component-based software development: An apparatus and method for component-based software development, which can provide a development environment and a graphical user interface for systematically developing already prepared software based on a component. The apparatus for component-based software development includes a graphical-user-interface-providing unit to provide a graphical user interface to generate any one of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080222599 - Web services mashup designer: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating mashups using a visual mashup designer application. The system can interact with a mashup component wrapper creation process to create a wrapper for a selected web service. A design surface displays a graphical representation of components that can be used to create... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222601 - Method and system for processing data contained within cobol or pl/i record description entries and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method: A method and system for processing data contained within COBOL or PL/I record description entries and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method are provided. The method includes receiving a first COBOL or PL/I software instruction which includes a first set of criteria for a first data field... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080222602 - Declarative object identity using relation types: The present invention provides a programming model based on a relational view of the heap which defines identity declaratively, obviating the need for equals( ) and hashcode( ) methods. Each element in the heap (called a tuple) belongs to a relation type and relates an immutable identity to mutable state.... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080222603 - Addressing managed elements in a common information model environment: Systems and methods disclosed herein are operable to receive a command line; parse the command line; and map tokens in the command line to a target entity that corresponds to a Common Information Model (CIM) name. The target entity is an instance of a managed element.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080222604 - Methods and apparatus for life-cycle management: The invention provides in some aspects a digital data processor executing management software that controls overall operation of the device, including, installation, configuration, updating, and/or other modifications of its software, hardware and configuration files and other “assets.” The management software validates changes to those assets (e.g., software updates and configuration... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080222605 - Program maintenance support device and program for the same: The present invention includes program storing unit 11 for storing a program, parsing/dependence-information generating unit 12 for generating dependence information and a syntax tree for a program, dependence-information storing unit 13 for storing dependence information, syntax-tree storing unit 14 for storing a syntax tree, dependence-information tracking unit 17 for extracting... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080222606 - Guided development and testing for computer code: A method and apparatus for a guided procedure development and testing for computer code. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a component for a software program, and storing the component in an inactive state. A new version of the software program is built, the new version being limited to... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080222609 - Automated software testing system: A system and method for testing an application includes modules capable of reading data from one or more data tables and providing the data as input to the application. The input data is correlated by test case, so that each module may provide different input data for each test case.... Agent: Accenture Indy 33391 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222607 - Extending portability of java code through the use of aop: A computer-implementable method, system and computer-usable medium for extending the portability of code to a limited-class environment are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: identifying any full-version-only objects that are not in a reduced-version of a language, wherein the reduced-version of the language comprises a... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080222608 - Method and system for managing software testing: The present invention provides a method and a system for managing a computer software testing process and permitting interactive involvement with test case data. The system manages interactions with manual test cases, presenting the test cases for display and providing a means for collecting execution results data for the entire... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080222611 - Generic validation layer for object properties: A validation layer that facilitates the automatic annotation of object properties by the object with a validation attribute (e.g., FieldValidation), thereby specifying a set of validation rules declaratively, and scenarios under which these validation rules should fire. During build time, the validation layer iterates through each module and associated module... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222610 - Intelligent processing tools: A method and system capable of executing software for recording and playback of actions associated with events occurring during execution of the software configured for processing a software, wherein the software comprises a set instructions for performing one or more system requirements and generating an output; recording an event at... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080222612 - Embedded systems debugging: The invention relates to a data processing system comprising a central processing unit, a first memory coupled to the central processing unit for storing variable data values, an eventing engine coupled to the central processing unit and the memory to monitor in real-time at least one of the variable data... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080222613 - Method and apparatus for data processing: A method and system can include multiple data handling stages for manipulating tracked information associated with content distributed to users and/or computers, such as static objects, media objects, and/or software objects, for example. The content can be distributed as widget instances and the associated tracked information can be received over... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080222614 - Preferential path profiling: This paper describes preferential path profiling, which enables profiling a specified subset of all possible program paths with very low overhead. Preferential path profiling compactly identifies paths of interest using an array. More specifically, PPP assigns a unique and compact path index identifier to all interesting paths that can be... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080222615 - Processing application data: Electronic devices and methods of processing and preparing processing application data are disclosed. Application data are operated on a first electronic device (2a) and a copy of said application data is operated on at least another electronic device (2b). A method call for modifying application data on the first device... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080222616 - Software translation: A computer implemented method for automatically translating a first source code associated with a first programming language to a second source code associated with a second programming language wherein the first and second source codes are associated with the same functionality, the method comprising the steps of: parsing the first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080222618 - Methods for user interface generation and application modification: A method of generating a user interface for presentation to a user. The method comprises executing a first application computer program to provide a user interface, executing agent computer program code to interrogate and modify said user interface during execution of said first application computer program, and presenting said modified... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080222617 - Server side application integration framework: A flexible, platform-independent integration infrastructure is provided. The integration infrastructure may include an integration bridge and at least one plug-in, where the at least one plug-in may include translation rules, mapping rules, and other information associated with a component coupled to the plug-in. The translation rules, mapping rules, and other... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080222619 - Detection of errors caused by interactions of independent software vendor code with host code: A method is provided for isolating errors which occur when code supplied by independent software vendors (ISV code) interacts with code supplied by a primary vendor (host code). Code suspected of containing ISV code with host code is executed. If the results are in error, the code is scanned and... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, Pc - Ibm

20080222620 - Parallel programming computing system: A computing system receives a program created by a technical computing environment, analyzes the program, generates multiple program portions based on the analysis of the program, dynamically allocates the multiple program portions to multiple software units of execution for parallel programming, receives multiple results associated with the multiple program portions... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080222621 - Method of automatically building a customised software application for a specific type of wireless computing device: A customised software application can be built for a specific type of Wireless Computing Device by (a) automatically determining attributes of that type of Wireless Computing Device; (b) automatically determining which Software Components from a library of Software Components are compatible with that type of Wireless Computing Device based on... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080222622 - Isolating, managing and communicating with user interface elements: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow a user interface in a managed runtime environment to display content from two or more different partitioned process spaces. A software application having a user interface operates a managed runtime environment. A window handle allows a user interface of the application to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222623 - Efficient code generation using loop peeling for simd loop code with multiple misaligned statements: An approach is provided for vectorizing misaligned references in compiled code for SIMD architectures that support only aligned loads and stores. In this framework, 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... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080222624 - Method and apparatus for classpath optimization in a java runtime environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program are provided by the aspects of the present invention. Aspects of the present invention identify required classes of a software program in the import statements in the source code. Next, the aspects of the present invention identify an element... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222626 - Method, apparatus, and program product for autonomic patch risk assessment: An automatic risk assessment system is provided that determines a risk for the patch based on collected activity metrics, file weights, a list of files affected by the patch, and other factors. An application monitor collects metrics from the application to determine the level of activity of the application or... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222625 - Smart contact list: An application for a mobile communications device includes a contact list application providing contact list operations for contact details of at least one contact, the contact details including at least one instance of updatable contact data associated with the contact, and an updater updating the updatable contact data from an... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080222627 - Static extensibility models with dynamic languages and scripts: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for generating add-in bridges that allow hosts to be extended using a dynamic language. The system programmatically determines static requirements that an add-in is required to implement in order to integrate with a particular host. The system programmatically generates the add-in bridge to conform... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222628 - Method and apparatus for a browser with offline web-application architecture: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing an offline version of an online application. In one embodiment, the process initiates an online application on a connected client device using a specific operating environment associated with... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222629 - Method and device arrangement for managing the use profile of a terminal device: The invention relates to a method, device arrangement, server (15), terminal device (11) and a computer program product for changing the use profile of a single terminal device (11) of a cellular network. In the method according to the invention, there is a server (15) connected to a telecommunications network,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080222630 - Customer relationship management portal system and method: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080222631 - Compliance management method and system: A compliance method and system. The method includes receiving by computing system compliance data comprising a plurality of compliance rules from a plurality of different compliance domains. The plurality of compliance rules are converted from said text format to a first plurality of program objects. Attributes for the first plurality... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080216049 - Software component-based architecture for applications with execution platform affording acces to the metaprogram level: The present invention pertains to a software component-based architecture for applications with execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, and in particular for developing and executing man-machine interfaces, and it is characterized in that it is an architecture with components explicitly defining all the characteristics of the components, practically... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080216050 - Method and system for accessing a resource implemented in a computer network: The present invention relates to method and system for accessing a resource implemented in a computer network, wherein a plurality of different runtime environments exist used by either one of the resources or by a systems management application accessing one of the resources, wherein the different runtime environments require the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080216051 - System and method of interlocking to protect software-mediated program and device behaviours: Methods and devices for thwarting code and control flow based attacks on software. The source code of a subject piece of software is automatically divided into basic blocks of logic. Selected basic blocks are amended so that their outputs are extended. Similarly, other basic blocks are amended such that their... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20080216052 - Application program interface for network software platform: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions that make available support for processing XML documents for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080216053 - Testing measurements: Embodiments of the invention include an arbiter facility included in a test script. The arbiter facility includes properties defining a method for evaluating the status of a step or process, a method for evaluating verification point results and the steps to execute during execution of the test script. The arbiter... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080216054 - Storing and restoring snapshots of a computer process: A method to trace a variable or other expression through a computer program is disclosed. A user determines the variable and the conditions upon which activity of the variable will be monitored. As a result of the invention, every time that variable is referenced in a memory operation or other... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080216056 - Fully integrated software change request system which includes but not limited to the following modules: change request, migration request, work flow engine project, collaboration, code movement, document tracking, code execution, status notification and: The SDLC request management system is installed on a server and accessed by a plurality of users over a communication network. A request to work on a piece of software is entered by a user in the change request module. Based on the predefined setting of a default workflow, the... Agent: Stephen Bate

20080216055 - Proactive performance management for multi-user enterprise software systems: The invention provides, in some aspects, systems for proactive management of development and performance of a software application based on monitoring it (and/or one or more of its components) during the course of development or execution. Those systems signal alerts upon determining that actual or expected usage of the application... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080216057 - Recording medium storing monitoring program, monitoring method, and monitoring system: A recording medium readable by an information processing apparatus, has recorded thereon a monitoring program for monitoring an operation status of a monitoring target program that runs on an information processing apparatus having a processor and a memory. The monitoring program causes the information processing apparatus to obtain, at a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080216058 - Method for validating a graphical workflow translation: A method for validating a translation of a graphical workflow of activities into an arbitrary, but structured language uses as input a term of a high level graphically expressed language having a number of graphical elements related logically to each other and analyzes its content and/or structure in order to... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080216059 - Automatic generation of functional emulators for web service: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for emulating web service operations are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes the steps of: collecting Web Services Description Language (WSDL) based descriptors of selected web service operations; receiving range and diversity descriptors for the selected web service operations; and... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080216060 - System for translating diverse programming languages: A computer language translator that translates all or any portion thereof of source code in an original computer language to source code in a target computer language, which may then be translated back to the original language while still maintaining concept, syntax, form of expression, and formatting of the original... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080216061 - Inferring function calls in an ambiguous language computer program: An ambiguous usage of a name in a statement of a computer program is resolved at least partially by adding to an entry statement thereof a definition that includes the ambiguously used name followed by constructing a definition-use graph, followed by checking whether or not an edge from the added... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20080216062 - Method for configuring a dependency graph for dynamic by-pass instruction scheduling: There is disclosed a method and system for configuring a data dependency graph (DDG) to handle instruction scheduling in computer architectures permitting dynamic by-pass execution, and for performing dynamic by-pass scheduling utilizing such a configured DDG. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a heuristic function is used to... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080216063 - Compiler for java and .net: A computer implemented method analyzing a first code in a first managed computer language and generating intermediate code in a completed language. The intermediate code into linking code that allows the second code in a second managed runtime language to interact with the first code.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080216064 - Method, architecture and software of meta-operating system, operating systems and applications for parallel computing platforms: A method, architecture, and tangible medium storing computer readable software provides a meta-operating system, native operating systems and native applications which have been designed to operate upon one or more parallel computing platforms. The meta-operating system provides for an abstracted model of a standard operating system designed to manage one... Agent: Matthew E. Burr

20080216065 - Information processing device, patch code application system, electronic instrument, and patch code application method: An information processing device includes a CPU, a ROM that stores an execution code executed by the CPU, an address management memory that stores address information relating to a code read from the CPU, and a patch code memory that stores a patch code that corrects the execution code. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080216066 - Program upgrade system and method for ota-capable mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for updating a program of a mobile terminal using an Over-The-Air (OTA) programming mechanism is provided. The program upgrade apparatus includes a first memory for storing a reference version of the program and at least one upgrade package; a second memory for loading an upgrade version... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080216067 - Arrangement and method for programming motor vehicles: A reprogrammable system arranged in a motor vehicle includes a data network that connects a plurality of control-units arranged in the vehicle for controlling vehicle systems. At least a first control-unit of the control-units is provided with a reprogrammable memory for storing software, which directs the first control-unit in controlling... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080216068 - Method and system for migrating information between information handling systems: A system for migrating information includes a first information handling system (“IHS”). The first IHS is for, in response to a first boot event, booting from a computer readable medium, bypassing the first IHS' user authentication requirement, and establishing a connection between the first IHS and a second IHS. The... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080216069 - Provisioning of software components via workflow management systems: For a software component to be installed on a target computer system a product dependency graph is determined which identifies additional software components required by the to-be-installed software component as prerequisite or corequisite software components. For each of these software components a corresponding installation facility is determined. Then a process... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080216070 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify relevant keywords, searching a database for reference materials relating to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill