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Data processing: software development, installation, and management February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/09

20090055795 - System to monitor and maintain balance of factory quality attributes within a software factory operating environment: A System to Maintain Balance of Factory Quality Attributes with Software Factory Operating Environment provides the means to determine if a deliverable will meet the needs of a client's project. The process includes the identification and measurement of different parameters of a software factory, including specified architectural features, and compares... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090055796 - Business object acting as a logically central source for collaboration on objectives: This disclosure provides various embodiments of a system, method, and software for implementing a logically centralized source for collaboration on objectives. In one aspect, the method identifies one or more requirements and requirement statuses associated with a business entity for use in a business object stored within a logically centralized... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090055797 - Method and computer program product for viewing extendible models for legacy applications: A method and computer program product of incrementally visualizing graphical extensible models for legacy software applications via a user interface are provided. A graph of nodes and connections showing only the highest level of details are presented. Each node that contains additional, lower level, details is shown with an expansion... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090055798 - Method and apparatus for address taken refinement using control flow information: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for obtaining aliasing information for a target variable in a computer program. A control flow graph representing the computer program is partitioned into an taken address portion that includes all reachable nodes in which an address of the target variable is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090055799 - System and method for source code sectional locking for improved management: A system and method of managing source code and, more particularly, a system and method for locking sections of source code to eliminate conflicts during concurrent use by multiple users. The method includes locking a first section of a file and at least a second section of the file to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090055800 - Modular integration of distinct type systems for the compilation of programs: A method for extending functionality of a compiler includes: receiving a first source file written in a language that supports multiple system types, wherein the first source file includes a plurality of source constructs associated with parameter types of the multiple type systems; annotating each of the plurality of source... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090055801 - Computer readable storage medium that stores a test specifications creating program, test specifications creating apparatus and test specifications creating method: Providing test specification for testing a Web application by receiving unfinished test specifications data describing a series of screen transition specifications included in a test case for a Web application to be installed in a Web server, obtaining a response including an output item, which can be obtained as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090055802 - Selective monitoring of software applications: An application monitoring system autonomously selects routines for performance monitoring based on characteristics of the content of the routines. These characteristics are preferably related to aspects of routines that are likely candidates for performance improvement, such as repetitive loops, event waits, synchronized blocks, and on. Routines that appear to be... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090055804 - Method and device for automatically evaluating the quality of a software source code: A method and device are disclosed for automatically evaluating a software source code quality, wherein evaluation rules and/or metrics for evaluating the software source code are pre-set. The source code is inspected with the aid of a set of evaluation rules and/or metrics, wherein the set contains at least one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090055803 - Semiconductor test program debug device: It is possible to provide a semiconductor test program debug device capable of reducing the unnecessary facilities when using a semiconductor test device or a semiconductor test program of different specification. The semiconductor test program debug device 300 includes a virtual device 80 for simulating operation of the device under... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090055805 - Method and system for testing software: A method and system are disclosed for testing the cpu scalability of a software application. The method comprises the steps of running the software application a plurality of times on a computer system such that each time the software application is ran on the computer system, a different number of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090055806 - Techniques for employing aspect advice based on an object state: A technique of employing advice with base code includes parsing an object state filter in an advice pointcut of the advice and generating a subroutine to evaluate whether an object state meets the object state filter. The subroutine, one or more bound aspect parameters, and an advice body of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055807 - Fast image loading mechanism in cell spu: The present invention provides a method and system for loading and running program images rapidly in a multi-processor system. The method comprises the steps of: starting in a synergistic processor a synergistic processing program listener, which is configured to listen to a notification from a main processor; calling in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090055809 - Binary library: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes receiving, during a computer programming process for a software program, a specification of a software module having a defined functionality for use by the software program. The software module is stored in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090055808 - Load time resolution for dynamic binding languages: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to load time resolutions and provide a method, system and computer program product for load time resolution of AOT compiled class references in a dynamic binding executing environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of resolving... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090055810 - Method and system for compilation and execution of software codes: The method and system disclosed herein is for compiling and executing a plurality of software codes. The requests from users are parsed and loaded using a set of child processes or a thread pool. A request handler is used to handle the compilation and execution requests from the user. Requests... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090055811 - Reducing the run-time cost ofinvoking a server page: The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for reducing the run-time cost of invoking a server page. The system can include a server page translation unit configured to translate a server page document into program code. The system also can include a program code compiler configured to compile... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090055812 - Ldap server performance object creation and use thereof: A system in which a plurality of performance objects are stored in computer memory, where each performance objects contains at least one input template and a corresponding optimized code path program product. A template matcher intercepts an input set destined to a directory server, and then determines a match between... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090055813 - Method for enabling profile-based call site tailor-ing using profile gathering of cloned functions: Methods and systems for computer program optimization utilize function cloning in program code, such as post-linked code. Each function call is directed to a different cloned version of the called function. Conventional profiling methods such as hardware event sampling, basic block profiling, and edge profiling may then be applied to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090055814 - Just-in-time compiler support for interruptible code: A computer implemented method for performing inlining in a just-in-time compiler. Compilation of a first code of a program is begun. The first code is one of an interruptible code and a non-interruptible code. A try region is established around a second code of the program to form a wrapped... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090055815 - Eliminate maximum operation in loop bounds with loop versioning: A method and computer program product for eliminating maximum and minimum expressions within loop bounds are provided. A loop in a code is identified. The loop is determined to meet conditions, which require an upper loop bound and a lower loop bound to contain maximum and minimum expressions, loop-invariant operands,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090055816 - Information processing apparatus, update method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage part configured to store therein an update process executing program core which is a partial program configuring an update process executing program applied to an update process for a data processing program stored in the information processing apparatus; and a control part configured... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090055818 - Method for supporting, software support agent and computer system: Information can be automatically collected related to running of software. The collected information can be packed into a message format of a messaging software. The collected information related to running of the software can be sent by using the messaging software.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Lotus

20090055817 - Software update syndication: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for distributing software packages to one or more clients. Providing software to one or more clients can comprise generating a software package and publishing the package to a media accessible by the one or more clients. A description of the software package can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090055819 - Method and an apparatus to conduct software release: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to conduct software release have been presented. In one embodiment, a user submits a request to conduct software release on a set of servers. Each of the servers has a distinct platform. In response to the request, a set of commands in... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090055820 - Processing system capable of downloading firmware code and being tested at same site during mp phase: A processing system capable of downloading a firmware code and being tested at the same site during a mass production phase includes: a processor for performing operations of the processing system, where the processor has a plurality of terminals as communication terminals of the processing system, and is capable of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090049421 - Automatic and transparent memoization: Functions are memoized automatically and transparently. Memoized code can be injected automatically within a program to facilitate efficient and/or expeditious execution thereof, among other things. The memoized code can intercept calls to an original function and return values in accordance with the code. Accordingly, callers of the function need not... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090049422 - Method and system for modeling and developing a software application: A method and system for modeling and developing software applications. Modeling and developing a programmatic interface includes defining an application framework with property, behavior and event elements, creating enabling services and system entities each including at least one element, listing the enabling services and system entities themselves as elements, providing... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090049423 - Javascripttm programming extension: A JavaScript™ programming extension is provided. An example JavaScript™ programming extension comprises a code generator and a JavaScript™ reference converter. The code generator may be configured to access an existing JavaScript™ file, validate JavaScript™ definitions in the existing JavaScript™ file, and generate a Java™ representation of the existing JavaScript™ file.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090049424 - Type generic graphical programming: A system and method for creating and using type generic graphical programs. The method may include storing a first graphical program on a memory medium. The first graphical program may have been created based on user input. The first graphical program may include a plurality of nodes and interconnections between... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20090049425 - Code obfuscation by reference linking: A method of obfuscating executable computer code to impede reverse-engineering, by interrupting the software's execution flow and replacing in-line code with calls to subroutines that do not represent logical program blocks. Embodiments of the present invention introduce decoy code to confuse attackers, and computed branching to relocated code so that... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090049426 - Reusing an application object: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for reusing an application object for use with an application program, in which the object can be reused without causing nonconformity in the consistency or security, even if the object to be reused is updated. An example of a method includes detecting... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20090049427 - Method to recognize gui object in globalized environment: A method and apparatus for identifying GUI widgets of software are provided, comprising: during runtime of the software, determining a GUI window object and an ID thereof, determining all GUI widgets or all GUI widgets belonging to a same type in the GUI window object; partitioning the display area of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090049428 - Error tracing with context history: Trace messages generated during execution of programming code are logged in a trace log. The logged trace messages logged during execution of a portion of the programming code are deleted from the trace log when the portion of programming code executes without an error. The logged trace messages are kept... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090049429 - Method and system for tracing individual transactions at the granularity level of method calls throughout distributed heterogeneous applications without source code modifications: The present invention provides a method and system for tracing and monitoring of distributed transactions spanning multiple threads or processes, running on multiple host systems, connected by a computer network. The correlation of distributed transactions is based on information that uniquely may identify execution paths within a virtual machine, additional... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20090049430 - Verifying that binary object file has been generated from source files: For a source file on which basis a binary object file has been generated, a digital signature is generated for the source file, and the digital signature is stored. The digital signature may be secure hash algorithm (SHA) hash values. The binary object file is output. To verify that the... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20090049431 - Method and compiler of compiling a program: The present invention provides a method and a compiler of compiling a source program. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of compiling a source program comprising: identifying a hint related to vector aligning when syntax analyzing said source program; and generating a simplified... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090049432 - Method and apparatus to improve the running time of short running applications by effectively interleaving compilation with computation in a just-in-time environment: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing just-in-time compilation. The process designates a set of compilation threads for exclusively performing compilation functions associated with an application. A set of computation threads is designated for executing the application. Processor cycles are dynamically allocated during runtime between the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090049433 - Method and apparatus for ordering code based on critical sections: A method of compiling code includes ordering instructions that protect and release critical sections in the code to improve parallel execution of the code according to an intrinsic order of the critical sections. According to one embodiment, the intrinsic order of the critical sections in the code is determined from... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090049435 - Parallel processing of distributed arrays: A computing device-implemented method includes initiating a single programming language, and identifying, via the single programming language, one or more data distribution schemes for executing a program. The method also includes transforming, via the single programming language, the program into a parallel program with an optimum data distribution scheme selected... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090049434 - Program translating apparatus and compiler program: A program translating apparatus and compiler program of this invention translates program source code into intermediate code containing multiple instructions, extracts at least one combination of two parallelization candidate instructions from the intermediate code, extracts, for each parallelization candidate instruction, a dependency related instruction having a dependency relation with the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090049436 - Method for visualizing the execution of a software program: A method for visualizing the execution of a software program especially in an embedded system. A plurality of interconnected program modules are displayed on a display device wherein at least one of the modules has at least two mutually exclusive different modes of functionality. A unique color is assigned to... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090049437 - Method for configuring a computer program: m

20090049438 - Method for optimizing migration of software applications to address needs: An exemplary method (which can be computer implemented) for enhancing migration of software applications from a source system environment to a destination system environment includes the steps of translating needs into requirements for the destination system, capturing deployment and configuration of the software applications in the source system environment and... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090049440 - Method for the transmission of program updates for program-controlled devices in a communication network: The invention is characterized in that a user profile for a program-controlled device is updated on a regular basis. The program is updated in accordance with said user profile. One advantage of the invention lies in the fact that peak loads of communication networks caused by the simultaneous transmission of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090049439 - Welding-type power supply with boot loader: A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power are disclosed. They include a source of welding-type power and at least one welding system peripheral. Each includes a network module that has boot loader software. A network is connected to the two network modules, and the network has connection for updates... Agent: Corrigan Law Office

20090049441 - Remote update system for elevator control program: Obtained is a remote update system for an elevator control program, which is capable of sequentially realizing update of control programs of a plurality of elevators with reduced communication time and costs without stopping the plurality of elevators at the same time. A server 10 delivers to a representative elevator... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090049442 - Data processing apparatus and software program activation method: A data processing apparatus includes an installation unit configured to install software programs, an activation unit configured to activate a plurality of software programs including one or more software programs installed by the installation unit to complete an installation work for the one or more software programs, and a display... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090044169 - Method, framework, and program product for formatting and serving web content: The present invention provides an approach and corresponding framework that separates data from its formatting/view by generating the dynamic JavaScript (data) as a set (e.g., at least one) of JavaScript (data) objects, without any HTML formatting. Then, a set of JavaScript functions can be created that takes the set of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090044168 - Method, system and program product for generating requirement relationships for designing a solution: A method, system and program product for generating requirement patterns for designing a domain based solution. The method includes inputting, into a pattern tool, requirements for designing a solution based on a defined domain context, the requirements including attributes and specifications. The method further includes determining relationship requirement patterns using... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20090044170 - Automated application modeling for application virtualization: Automated application modeling for application virtualization (auto-modeling) may be incorporated into an application installer and/or other suitable component of a computer operating system. Auto-modeling may be performed by an auto-modeling agent. The auto-modeling agent may employ one or more of multiple auto-modeling strategies. The auto-modeling agent may assess one or... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090044171 - Continuous time mode-driven simulations in a graphical modeling environment: A system, computer-readable medium, and method includes providing a control flow graph including at least one condition. An update control flow graph is automatically generated based on the provided control flow graph, where execution of the update control flow graph includes an evaluation of the condition. The update control flow... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090044172 - Generation of a program code in a load format and provision of an executable program code: In a method for generating program code in a load format for a portable data carrier, a pseudo library is used, which differs from the library located on the data carrier in such a way that at least some of the internal workings of the library located on the data... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090044173 - Automatic computing system, execution environment control: To realize an autonomic system and method of improving the quality of a piece of software and solving problems with respect to operations in stages of a software life cycle. There are provided a pattern catalog 20 in which information on execution environments 11 to 14 in the stages of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090044174 - Dynamic detection of atomic-set-serializability violations: A method, an information processing system, and a computer readable medium, are used to detect atomic-set serializability violations in an execution of a program. A set of classes associated with a program to be analyzed is identified. The set of classes include a set of fields. At least one subset... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090044175 - Real-time watch device and method: The real-time watch device for displaying a value in a memory used by a target system during execution of a program in the target system, includes: a watch information acquisition section for acquiring registered watch information; a memory access section for reading a value stored at a received memory address... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090044176 - Method and computer program product for dynamically and precisely discovering deliquent memory operations: A method and computer product for dynamically and precisely discovering delinquent memory operations through integration of compilers, performance monitoring tools, and analysis tools are provided. The method includes compiling an application, and linking the application with a tracing library to generate executable, compiler annotated information and linker mapping information. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090044177 - Method and apparatus for profile enhanced source code analyzer results: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating enhanced source code analyzer results. The process receives a plurality of results generated by a static code analysis for a computer program. Profile data associated with the computer program is received. A priority for each result in the plurality... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090044178 - Automated semantic-based updates to modified code base: An apparatus and program product generate difference data representative of modifications made to one release of a standard code base to facilitate the adaptation of later releases of the standard code base. The difference data is generated at least in part in connection with canonical parsing of a modified version... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090044180 - Device for performing parallel processing of distributed arrays: A device for performing parallel processing includes a processor to initiate a single programming language, and identify, via the single programming language, one or more data distribution schemes for executing a program. The processor also transforms, via the single programming language, the program into a parallel program with an optimum... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090044179 - Media for performing parallel processing of distributed arrays: One or more computer-readable media store executable instructions that, when executed by processing logic, perform parallel processing. The media store one or more instructions for initiating a single programming language, and identifying, via the single programming language, one or more data distribution schemes for executing a program. The media also... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090044181 - Graphics tools for interactive analysis of three-dimensional machine data: Methods for displaying machine data are described including a method for displaying machine data as a virtual three-dimensional image showing a three-dimensional graph having three axes such that the data in the graph may be rotated about one or more of the axes to give a data analyst a better... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090044182 - Method and apparatus for determining the state of a computing device: According to embodiments described in the specification, a method and apparatus, for determining the state of a computing device is described, by first determining at least one unique code associated with at least one file resident on the computing device, the at least one unique code representative of a state... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090044183 - Method and apparatus for updating the state of a computing device: According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, and apparatus for updating the state of a computing device by first receiving a message processable by the computing device, the message comprising data for instructing the computing device to request at least one update file from at least one remote... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090044184 - Software update from off air broadcast: The present invention concerns a system comprising a server, a digital recorder, a memory, an optical disc and a drive. The server may be configured to broadcast a software update through an off air network. The digital recorder may be configured to receive an off air download and download the... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090044185 - Workflow-based user interface system for mobile devices management: Embodiments of a workflow-based user interface for defining and managing functions implemented on mobile devices are described. A method under an embodiment utilizes a workflow-based mobile device management user interface. The method utilizes a pluggable workflow framework to achieve mobile device management externalization. The mobile device management platform is required... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090037875 - Rapidly assembling and deploying selected software solutions: Methods and Systems are provided for assembling a software information technology (IT) solution using a graphical user interface (GUI) based development environment. Software solution building blocks (e.g., plug-ins) are selected and stored in a catalog of solutions within the development environment. Meta data is generated for each of the selected... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20090037876 - Visible white space in program code: White space is made visible in a code editor to facilitate identification thereof via color, symbols, characters and/or the like. Further, white space can be explicitly identified and distinctly presented of various types including significant, insignificant and editor introduced. White space information can also be employed to aid code compilation... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090037877 - Method for providing data to a digital processing means: A method for providing generic formatted data to at least one digital data processor, configured to translate generic formatted data into specific formatted data. The generic formatted data includes data relative to logical blocks, at least one of the logical blocks corresponding to an object to be processed directly or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090037878 - Web application development tool: Method, system and computer program product are provided to increase the efficiency of the development of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. A project may be divided into modules which may be developed by independent teams. The files within each module are classified as independent of resources in other modules or... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090037879 - Method and system for integrating model-based and search-based automatic software configuration: Techniques are disclosed for integrating a model-based approach with a search-based approach for automatic configuration of a computer system. For example, in one such technique, a method for automatically configuring at least one computer system includes obtaining at least one model describing one or more effects of at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090037880 - System, method, and computer program product for configuring a goal: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for configuring a goal. Information associated with different aspects of a goal is received utilizing a plurality of graphical user interfaces. In use, a previous one of the graphical user interfaces progresses to a subsequent one of the graphical user interfaces... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090037881 - Systems and methods for testing the functionality of a web-based application: A web-based application testing method and system provides a graphical user interface via a web page with user-selectable options of performable testing steps organized in a logical testing hierarchy. Options selected by users are converted into a text-based test script. The text-based test script is executed in a specified environment... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090037882 - Techniques for determining a web browser state: A technique for determining a browser state during a web page test includes providing, from a test automation tool, a first input to a web page provided via a browser. The technique also includes detecting, with a network monitoring tool, outgoing traffic from the browser associated with the first input... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090037883 - Testing framework to highlight functionality component changes: A computer program product stored on machine-readable media, the product including machine executable instructions for tracking a defect during development of a software work product, the computer program product including instructions for displaying the defect; identifying a component of the work product including the defect; displaying information related to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090037884 - Method for automatically creating a behavior pattern of a computer program for model-based testing techniques: A method is provided for creating a behavior pattern of a computer program which comprises at least one source code with a plurality of program operations which are arranged in a logical succession and the source code is provided with annotations. Each annotation is referencing to a respective program operation... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090037886 - Apparatus and method for evaluating a free-running trace stream: A system includes a processor to generate a free-running trace stream and a probe with a real-time decoder to dynamically detect a trigger included in the free-running trace stream.... Agent: Mips C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20090037887 - Compiler-inserted predicated tracing: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method of generating an executable program which includes inserting predicated calls to trace routines during compilation of the source code. Each predicated call comprises a function call that is conditional upon a value stored in a predicate register. The object code generated from compiling... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037885 - Emulating execution of divergent program execution paths: Methods, systems, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform methods in accordance with embodiments hereof, for emulating execution of divergent program execution paths to determine whether any “would be” program defects exist in a particular divergent program execution path and/or to determine the nature... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090037888 - Simulation of program execution to detect problem such as deadlock: A method of simulating software by use of a computer includes executing a program inclusive of a plurality of threads by a hardware model implemented as software on a software simulator, utilizing a monitor function of the simulator to collect information about accesses by monitoring accesses made by the plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090037894 - System and method for software logging: System and method for providing logging information associated with development of executable program code. The method may include inserting a plurality of logging information elements into program code, the plurality of logging information elements having at least one logging parameter associated with the program code. In one embodiment, filtering criteria... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090037895 - Instance interfaces and mix-ins for dynamic languages: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for using contracts in dynamic languages. For example, a contract can be directly associated with an object. The contract can then be used to provide type safety for the object. As another example, contracts can be used with mix-ins. A declaration for a contract... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090037897 - Installing and upgrading an application in a computer system: A method of distributing and executing upgrade/installation instructions as data objects. These instructions can then be completed automatically requesting user interaction only when required. This method would allow someone with little knowledge of the application and/or internal implementation of said application to perform an upgrade to the application.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090037896 - Legacy application decommissioning framework: A legacy application decommissioner provides developers a tool to decommission and migrate legacy application functionality in a phased approach. The decommissioner identifies core web services that invoke legacy applications through an accessibility layer that monitors operator interaction with the application. The decommissioner then defines, creates, and deploys a web service... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione