Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 11/08

20080295064 - Rapid development of distributed web service: Development tools and a methodology for efficient development of distributed web services. A tool tracks changes in packages used to create images deployed for testing. Rather than build a complete image for each change, a current image may be created by substituting changed packages in a previously created image. Another... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080295065 - System and method for resolving interdependencies between heterogeneous artifacts in a software system: An improved solution for resolving interdependencies between heterogeneous artifacts in software systems is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for finding dependencies in a software system is provided, wherein the method includes: obtaining an input resource, wherein the resource includes a plurality of entry points to the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080295067 - Flexible access to metamodels, metadata, and other program resources: A system and method for enabling a Meta Object Facility (MOF) and a Java Metadata Interface (JMI) compliant service to access program resources. A system includes a metamodel repository and an application server. The metamodel repository is configured to store the program resources including metadata and one or more metamodels.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080295068 - Method and apparatus for frame-based knowledge representation in the unified modeling language (uml): According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method and system for emulating a knowledge representation in a Unified Modeling Language (UML) environment. A Meta-Object Facility metamodel and UML profile are grounded in a foundation ontology. The elements representing the knowledge representation ontology are mapped to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080295066 - Programming model for modular development: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a programming model for modular development. A definition feature is provided that allows a definition to be specified for a particular method that is part of an application. A production feature allows a functionality implementation to be specified for the particular method... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295071 - Method for developing software code and estimating processor execution time: A method (1) of developing software code for executing on a target digital processor uses a memory in which it maintains data structures having elements, each of the elements storing data which is represented by a label, and at least some links between the elements are created by the target... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080295070 - Native access to foreign code environment: Mechanisms afford access to a foreign code environment from a native computer programming language. A program includes an attribute or declarative tag identifying foreign code associated with a native program construct. The attribute is subsequently morphed into script code that matches the calling convention and/or semantics of a related native... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080295069 - User-extensible rule-based source code modification: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to parsing for source code porting and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for a user-extensible rule-based source code modification tool. According to an aspect of the present invention, an automated parsing tool... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080295072 - Assets and effects: A method of operating a set of devices comprises receiving a real-world description in the form of an instruction set of a markup language (300), the description including asset terms (200) and effect terms (202), requesting assets and effects according to the description (304), modifying at least one asset according... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080295073 - Program product providing a configuration specification language having clone latch support: Methods, data processing systems, and program products supporting the insertion of clone latches within a digital design are disclosed. According to one method, a parent latch within the digital design is specified in an HDL statement in one of the HDL files representing a digital design. In addition, a clone... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080295074 - Data management interface with configurable plugins: A method and apparatus for managing data. A data management interface that delegates data operations to one or more plugins is configured, each plugin being associated with a distinct data operation. A new plugin is identified. The data management interface is reconfigured to enable the new plugin, the reconfiguring being... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080295075 - Integrated software development system, method for validation, computer arrangement and computer program product: An integrated software development system including an interface description language adapted to specify constraints on input parameters, a program analyzer adapted to identify input parameters of a software program, and a validation enforcement system adapted to enforce that an interface description in the interface description language complying with a predefined... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20080295076 - Graphical user interface testing: Graphical user interface testing is provided. User interface (UI) build data and text data are transformed into a testable data format, such as XML, by a UI parser. The transformed UI data may be stored to a backend server where stored procedures and functions may be utilized to analyze the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080295077 - Method and system for remotely debugging a hung or crashed computing system: A method and system for debugging a computer upon a kernel hang and/or upon a software failure, the method comprising executing a debugger on a remote computer, connecting the hung or crashed computer to the remote computer with a communications link, and debugging the hung or crashed computer with the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080295078 - In-process debugging using external debugging infrastructure: An in-process debugging experience can be implemented using an infrastructure that supports out-of-process debugging. A program that is to be debugged may be written in a command-line language that receives and processes input through an input loop. The interpreter for the language runs in a first process. A helper program... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295079 - System and method for verifying and testing system requirements: There is provided in accordance with embodiments of the present invention a method and a system for testing and verifying a requirements specification of a system comprising describing the requirements specification in a REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING LANGUAGE (REL), simulating an execution of a scenario of the REL, and identifying logical faults... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080295080 - Program maintenance support device, program maintenance supporting method, 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 RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080295081 - Framework for conditionally executing code in an application using conditions in the framework and in the application: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for returning a return code to an error hook in an application using a framework. An identifier and a pass-through are received from the error hook. The error hook is software code in the application. The pass-through is a set... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080295082 - Program re-writing apparatus: A program re-writing method which re-writes an inputted program into a program for a processor for controlling whether or not a process is executed based on a yes or no execution flag, said program re-writing method including: inserting a comparison process into the inputted program, the comparison process comparing first... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080295083 - Explicit delimitation of semantic scope: Systems and methods are provided with respect to computer programming. Program behavior can be tuned to provide a seamless mixture of semantic behavior across a single program language syntax. Semantic behavior can be explicitly specified at arbitrary levels of syntactic granularity (e.g. expressions, members, types, compilation units . . .... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080295084 - Software protection apparatus and protection method thereof: A software protection apparatus and its protection method are disclosed. The software protection apparatus includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit has a program area and a data area. The program area is used to save an executable. The processing unit generates a reference pointer based... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080295085 - Integrated code review tool: A code review tool system includes a developer on a developer node, a reviewer on a reviewer node, and a server on a server node. The developer node and the reviewer node include an integrated code review tool. The integrated code review tool includes functionality for a developer to specify... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295087 - Firmware upgrade system and control method thereof: A firmware upgrade system searches for and upgrades to a new version of firmware without a user's attendance. The firmware upgrade system includes a user terminal to generate a search command signal while unattended by the user to initiate a search for a new version of electric appliance firmware, and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080295086 - Systems and methods for patching computer programs: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for patching computer programs. In one example, a patch is virtually installed to a computing device having a base file system and configuration, a computer program, and a patch layering subsystem. The virtual installation may include storing content of the patch to... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080295088 - Interception proxy-based approach for in-service software upgrade: A system for an in-service software upgrade is disclosed. The system consists of a processor, a first version of a software process, a second version of the software process, and a proxy software process. When executed by the processor, the proxy software process can intercept a message intended for the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080295089 - Manufacturing system software version management: Version management for manufacturing system software involves a two-part data structure, having two identifiers that are separately and automatically modified, depending upon the changes or modifications that are made, respectively, to top-level and lower-level subsets of manufacturing system programs. According to various other aspects of the present invention, methods for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080295090 - Software configuration manager: A system configuration process is implemented to verify that each component implemented in a processing system is compatible and includes the appropriate software version. Electronic modules or components of the system are queried as part of a pre-operation check for their installed software version data. The verification is completed by... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080295091 - Broadcast download system via broadband power line communication: A method of providing a software patch to an electronic device. A device containing a software patch for an electronic device may be plugged to an electrical outlet. A plurality of electronic devices may be queried, over a power line through the electrical outlet, for identifying the electronic device requiring... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barner LLP

20080295093 - Method and module for dynamic hosting of software applications in a gateway between an operator network and a local area network: A method for dynamic hosting of software applications in a system comprising local area networks and an operator network delivering services to users, wherein each local network comprises user terminals and a gateway which is connected to the operator network, establishing a communication channel between the network operator and the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080295092 - Techniques for automatically installing and configuring database applications: Techniques for automatically installing an application on a device on a network include sending, to a server, data indicating device resources on the device. The device requests a database application from the server. The device downloads from the server an initial customized value for a configuration parameter based on the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080288913 - Software cinema: The invention comprises a system and method for employing video in development processes. A new theory of operation for mapping video to formal models is disclosed. The present invention combines a runtime component and an object memory with an transformer component and offers several inputs and outputs. At least one... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080288914 - Method and software for collaboration: A method and software to allow direct input for projects, either by all users of a network, a defined group of users, or various populations in between. The projects may be, e.g., collaborative design efforts, marketing efforts for a given product, and so on. The system provides a software and... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080288915 - Determining destinations of a dynamic branch: A method, a translator, and a computer-readable medium for translating compiled programming code from a first code state to a second code state are disclosed. The programming code in the first state has a plurality of basic blocks, where each basic block has a set of instructions. At least one... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080288916 - Method of visualizing modifications of a hierarchical state diagram: Hierarchical state diagrams are reflected in a tree structure with the initial state of the diagram represented as the parent node, intermediate states represented as intermediate levels of the hierarchy, and final states represented as the lowest level in the hierarchy. Information on the modification(s) on a child or subsequent... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080288917 - Smart generator: The Smart Generator of the present invention allows the designer/developer/user to model the EJB components in a natural way without being concerned with implementation-specific details. The developer models the business objects using a UML drawing tool and the Smart Generator creates a set of classes that implements these objects with... Agent: C. Andrew Lm Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080288919 - Encoding of symbol table in an executable: A method of compiling source code is described in which symbol information is retained in the optimized object code and the executable file. This symbol information is retained in the form of function calls which return memory locations and enable an application to query where variable or function data is... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080288918 - Web service tool based on business object layer: A system for generating a Web service includes a graphical user interface to guide a designer to create a Web service in pre-defined stages. The graphical user interface receives an input that selects an object and associated attributes from a repository of pre-defined business objects. The system includes a Web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288920 - Apparatus for generating job network flow from job control statement described in job control language and its method: An apparatus interprets dependency between JCL files as a logical expression, performs deduction for the logical expression to solve the dependency, and converts the JCL files into a job network in consideration of the above information. The apparatus reads the JCL files, analyzes dependency between the JCL files, and interprets... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080288921 - Transformations for software obfuscation and individualization: Methods and systems for software obfuscation are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the obfuscation includes integrating the checker code with product code to form integrated code. The product code includes a first portion that provides desired functionalities to a software product, while the checker code includes a second portion that... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080288922 - System for generating a tutorial application: The invention relates to the field of source code development and in particular a method and system for generating a tutorial application from one or more selected source code elements. The invention provides for a user to select one or source code elements and one or more data elements to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080288923 - Source program analysis device and method: There is provided an analyzing apparatus for finding the possibility of dividing up and executing a source program using debugging information generated when compiling the source program and memory access information generated by running object code on a simulator. The analyzing apparatus includes: a memory that stores block IDs for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288924 - Remotely handling exceptions through staf: An apparatus for communicating between a child test program and a parent test program in a test environment. A child test framework is provided to catch an exception thrown by the child test program. In addition, a marshalling component is provided in communication with the child test program and the... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080288926 - Computer implemented method and system for accurate, efficient and adaptive calling context profiling: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for profiling the execution of an application that is both space-and time-efficient and highly accurate. A computer implemented method for profiling the execution of an application includes sampling execution characteristics of the application at a plurality of sampling points to provide... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080288925 - Method for generating test cases for software program: The method for generating test cases for a software program includes the step of setting a plurality of reference points in accordance with a sentence of the software program. The tracing pairs each including an initial test case as well as its adjacent vertex are set if one of them... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080288927 - Methods and apparatus for testing software with real-time source data from a projectile: Methods and apparatus for testing software with real-time source data from a projectile according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a real-time data source, a signal processor, a recordable medium, and a testing platform. The signal processor receives real-time data from a real-time data source... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080288928 - Methods and systems for converting application code in turbine control systems: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems and methods for converting application code in a turbine control system. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for converting a turbine control system may be provided for. The method may include providing a first application code format including... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080288929 - Method and apparatus for run-time statistics dependent program execution using source-coding: Disclosed are a method and system for optimized, dynamic data-dependent program execution. The disclosed system comprises a statistics computer which computes statistics of the incoming data at the current time instant, where the said statistics include the probability distribution of the incoming data, the probability distribution over program modules induced... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288930 - Computer-implemented method and system for improved data flow analysis and optimization: A computer-implemented method and system for improved data flow analysis and optimization are disclosed. The method and system generates data flow analysis information from vectorized processing components, the data flow analysis information including an input information set and an output information set, generates hole information from the vectorized processing components,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288931 - Using dynamic call graphs for creating state machines: A method and system capable of creating UML protocol state machine for classes and interfaces of a software, by instrumenting the software to obtain a call graph comprising classes and interfaces and respective values associated with class variables and interface variables; identifying particular classes and interfaces in the call graph;... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080288932 - System and method for identifying oppotunities for refactoring in an object-oriented program: There is described a technique for rearranging entities in an object oriented program. The proposed technique includes computing a property set for an entity, in a set of entities belonging to classes in said object-oriented program. The next step comprises identifying an entity having a maximum cardinality of the computed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080288933 - Method for start-up and/or reconfiguration of a programmable field-device: An installed hardware of a measuring field device includes at least one transducer reacting during operation to a chemical and/or physical, measured variable of a pourable and/or flowable medium, especially a pourable or flowable bulk good, liquid, gas or the like, as well as a microcomputer communicating during operation with... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080288934 - Patch application apparatus and program: A patch application method restores a file not to be authorized to change by applying a patch to an original state after applying the patch. A patch application program applies a patch to a part of patch application target files in a system extracts information about the target files from... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080288935 - Program version management taking into account system stability: A method of managing program versions by acquiring information about a program supplied via a network, comparing the program of a latest version with the program of a currently used version, and deciding whether or not to perform or prompt an update of the program includes determining whether or not... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080288936 - Communication apparatus, data processing system, control method for communication apparatus, control method for data processing system, and program therefor: A communication apparatus that, when distributing data to a plurality of apparatuses, enable use of the data distributed to each of the plurality of apparatuses without being bound by a prescribed time as in the prior arts. Control is provided so as not to execute at least one portion of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080288937 - Enabling software service in a hosted environment: A method and system are disclosed for providing use of a given software application in a hosted computing environment. This hosted environment includes a host domain including a host server and a host database, and a customer domain including first and second customer servers. The first customer server includes a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288938 - Methods and systems for provisioning software: The present invention provides a unified provisioning environment, which comprehensively manages the tasks related to software provisioning. In particular, the present invention manages software provisioning using a hierarchy of commands. The lowest level in the hierarchy comprises distribution commands, which primarily handle base operating system specific tasks of provisioning. The... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080288939 - Methods and systems for provisioning software: The present invention provides a unified provisioning environment, which comprehensively manages the tasks related to software provisioning. In particular, the present invention manages software provisioning using a hierarchy of commands. The lowest level in the hierarchy comprises distribution commands, which primarily handle base operating system specific tasks of provisioning. The... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080282219 - Service oriented application development and support: The system and method provide for software design and development that result in applications that are service-oriented. The systems provide for architecture development, integration, and maintenance using an SOA approach, and in particular an approach that provides for service-oriented development of applications (SODA). Such systems include numerous beneficial and advantageous... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080282220 - Model elements in software tools as automatons in a software customization system and method: Presented is a system and method for the integration of existing software development tools into a software customization system, where each software development tool has its own model of its software artifacts. The invention allows models in an external software development tool to become software artifacts within a software customization... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20080282221 - Accelerating model checking via synchrony: A system and method for program verification by model checking in concurrent programs includes modeling each of a plurality of program threads as a circuit model, and generating a full circuit for an entire program by combining the circuit models including constraints which enforce synchronous execution of the program threads.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080282222 - Xml push and remote execution of a wireless applications: A method is provided for facilitating generation of a wireless application capable of receiving messages from a server-side application. The method comprising the following steps. A structured data file defining the wireless application is parsed for identifying at least one exposed function. Message definitions are generated in accordance with the... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080282223 - Xml push and remote execution of a wireless applications: A method is provided for facilitating generation of a server-side application capable of calling a function of a wireless application on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps. A structured data file defining the wireless application is retrieved. The structured data file is parsed for identifying exposed functions.... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080282224 - Type and property definition support for software: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to type and property definition support for software. In aspects, new types can be added to an application model after the software has been created without changing the software. After software is created and embodied in computer code, a new type definition... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282225 - Visualization of information using landmasses: The present invention relates to the visualization of complex information using a set of navigable landmasses. A method for generating a visualization of a programming code base using a set of navigable landmasses in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: representing each of a plurality of different... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080282226 - Methods and apparatus for displaying a dynamically updated set of test data items derived from volatile or nonvolatile storage: In one embodiment, a computer determines a plurality of data types associated with different ones of a plurality of test data items, and based on the determined data types, i) logs a first set of the plurality of test data items to volatile storage, and ii) logs a second set... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20080282227 - System and method for device skinning: A plugin for an Integrated Design Environment is provided, including a set of commands for defining an appearance of a UI design window in the Integrated Design Environment. The appearance of the application design window simulates a display screen of a portable electronic device and the set of commands being... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080282228 - Quality management framework for a software lifecycle: A quality management framework (hereinafter referred as “framework”) for a software project lifecycle is provided. The framework enables generation of at least one software program while ensuring compliances with at least one standard. The plurality of items of the library includes tool an organization chart depository, a policy depository, a... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC 3rd Block

20080282229 - Apparatus and method of detecting errors in embedded software: A method and apparatus for detecting errors in an application software of an embedded system are provided. The method of detecting errors in an application software includes determining a development language of the application software and an operating system on which the application software is executed; replacing an error detection... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080282230 - Product, method and system for using window authentication in testing graphical user interface applications: The invention discloses an authentication technique for allowing an automated testing program to determine whether a failure during software application testing is caused by an event unrelated to the test, in order to improve correction of programming defects discovered using automated testing. Specifically, a product, method and system is provided... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20080282231 - Automated software testing framework using independent test scripts: A software testing framework for testing independent scenarios of software applications can comprise independent test scripts, business rules repositories, and test data sources. Independent test scripts can be used to test screens of the software application. Business rules repositories can be stored separately from independent test scripts and from test... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080282232 - Iterative, non-uniform profiling method for automatically refining performance bottleneck regions in scientific code: A method for profiling performance of a system includes steps of: monitoring execution of the system at multiple points during the system's operation; analyzing results derived from the monitoring in order to provide analyzed results; reconfiguring the monitoring non-uniformly according to the analyzed results; and repeatedly performing iterations of the... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080282233 - Rapid application innovation utilizing an orthogonal programming component: Embodiments are provided to utilize an orthogonal or independent programming component to rapidly develop new features for use in computer application programs through the testing of new application program concepts on a server. In one embodiment, the orthogonal programming component intercepts a request to access an application program stored on... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080282234 - Dynamic emulation mode switching: In at least some embodiments, a computing system includes a processor and a debug module coupled to the processor. The debug module controls an emulation environment for debugging code, the emulation environment having a first mode that enables time-critical code to execute while non-time-critical code is halted and a second... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080282235 - Facilitating assessment of a test suite of a software product: Facilitating assessment of a test suite of a software product. In an embodiment, an inventory is maintained containing the features of the software product and one or more execution flows operative when a feature is provided by the software product. Information related to execution flows for which test scripts are... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080282236 - Process flow analysis based on processing artifacts: A plurality of reporting elements are applied to a process, which reporting elements, during operation of the process, generate processing artifacts each including a coordination identification (relative to a specific item flowing through the process), a service identification and a time stamp. Thereafter, flow of the item through the process... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20080282237 - Method and apparatus for generating execution equivalence information: A method of compiling code includes identifying blocks of code that are execution equivalence pairs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080282238 - Static type for late binding: A static type computer language provides optional dynamic typing triggered by a unique static type. The unique static type can be utilized anywhere other types can be employed to identify programmatic elements that are late bound. As a result, static types can be analyzed at compile time while deferring analysis... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080282239 - Apparatus and method to update code in an information storage and retrieval system while that system remains in normal operation: A method to update code in an information storage and retrieval system comprising one or more processors, and existing code, where that existing code includes a Concurrent Code Load having (N) phases, where that Concurrent Code Load invokes an as yet unwritten Temporal Coupling File. The method provides a code... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080282240 - Backup method for portable terminal apparatus: A backup method for a portable terminal apparatus includes the following steps. Firstly, a program folder is searched to get a filename of at least one shortcut file corresponding to software. Next, the backup method is to judge whether the shortcut file is up-to-date or not, and to judge whether... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080276217 - Program and method for displaying relationships between objects: A computer program that provides users with an easy-to-understand overall view of relationships between objects. A data loader reads relationship information out of an object descriptor database and loads view-related object descriptors into a working memory, where the relationship information describes relationships between objects. A data sorter sorts the view-related... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080276218 - Metadata driven user interface system and method: A metadata driven user interface system and method are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a software-based customer relationship management system and method may include the metadata driven user interface system.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080276219 - Apparatus and method for providing a condition builder interface: An apparatus and method for providing a user interface through which a user may generate a conditional expression are provided. The user interface provides guidance to a user as to the proper parts of the conditional expression to include in the conditional expression as the user constructs the conditional expression.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080276220 - Application interface on multiple processors: A method and an apparatus that execute a parallel computing program in a programming language for a parallel computing architecture are described. The parallel computing program is stored in memory in a system with parallel processors. The system includes a host processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080276221 - Method and apparatus for relations planning and validation: A method and apparatus for validating at least one rule in a system containing objects related by relationships. The objects can be software components and the relationships can be a containing relationship or a dependency relationship. The input and output of the system can be of pre-defined or user-specific formats,... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080276222 - Control method of system monitoring device, program, and computer system: A system monitoring device retains hardware state information of a computer system and OS software state information of a hardware control instruction given by OS software and monitors and controls the entire computer system. When state change of the hardware state information and OS software state information is recognized, save... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080276223 - Dynamic source code analyzer: The invention is an improved integrated development environment (IDE). In particular, the improved IDE comprises a text editor, a source code analyzer, a rule database, and a solution database. The rule database stores source code patterns that represent classes of bugs, while the solution database stores source code patterns that... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080276224 - Method and apparatus for completing functional testing: The Functional Tester Plug-in (FTP) extracts information from a data base to enhance automated testing tools to accommodate changes to the computer environment and so that a simulation can be fully executed even if an exception occurs. The FTP accesses the test script and static data store created by a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080276225 - Testing executable logic: A computer-implemented method for performing testing on executable logic includes providing, in a test framework, an instance of at least one object that is associated with an object-processing framework. The test framework has at least one interface that is common with the object-processing framework. The method includes calling a logic... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080276226 - Device, method and computer program product for evaluating a debugger script: A method for evaluating a debugger script, the method includes: (i) receiving a debugger script that includes a first debugger breakpoint that is associated with a certain program line number; and determining a validity of the first debugger breakpoint in response to a comparision between expected content associated with the... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20080276227 - Method and system for adaptive, generic code instrumentation using run-time or load-time generated inheritance information for diagnosis and monitoring application performance and failure: The present system and method provides a system for generic, run-time adaptive placement of bytecode instrumentation, taking object oriented inheritance relationships into account. Said inheritance relationships are stored in an inheritance repository. The inheritance repository that mirrors the structure of the monitored application is created at run-time and updated if... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080276228 - System and method for static analysis using fault paths: A system and method for analyzing a program includes determining possible bug paths in a program based on statistical analysis of test cases. A static analysis is then performed only on the possible bug paths. The bugs are then located in the program.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080276229 - Incremental model refinement and transformation in generating commerce applications using a model driven architecture: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for profile mapped model transformation for model driven architecture (MDA) development of service provisioning applications can be provided. Them method can include mapping elements of a platform independent domain specific model to a platform specific domain specific model for a target platform... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080276230 - Processing bundle file using virtual xml document: A method, system and computer program product for processing a bundle file are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for processing a bundle file comprises: parsing the bundle file into bundle entries; creating a virtual XML file element to represent a bundle entry in a virtual XML document; and... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080276231 - Method and apparatus for dependency injection by static code generation: The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and apparatus for dependency injection by static transformation. Information about a first software module among several software modules is identified. The first software module has a dependency on at least one other software module among the several software modules. Information about the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080276232 - Processor dedicated code handling in a multi-processor environment: Code handling, such as interpreting language instructions or performing “just-in-time” compilation, is performed using a heterogeneous processing environment that shares a common memory. In a heterogeneous processing environment that includes a plurality of processors, one of the processors is programmed to perform a dedicated code-handling task, such as perform just-in-time... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080276233 - Method and system for collecting data to support installed software applications: A method and system for collecting data to support a software application are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving as an input a software application. Installation data is retrieved from the software application. The method further comprises encoding within the installation data a description of support data to... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080276234 - Data center edition system and method: A data center edition system and method are provided.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP