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Data processing: software development, installation, and management June invention type 06/09

20090164969 - Framework: A software framework arranged to build an executable scheme is provided. The framework comprises at least one of software tool and at least one parameter associated with the or each tool. The framework is arranged to (i) allow the selection of at least one software tool from a plurality of... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090164970 - System for managing automated report versions: Disclosed systems manage the modification of objects such as automated reports. Access to modified versions of an automated report is controlled during the modification life cycle. A developer checks out a copy of an automated report and stores minor versions of the automated report during modification. A major version of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090164971 - Convention based uml modeling tool: Within the exemplary embodiments a user is presented with a GUI comprising a main modeling interface window wherein a convention-based model is constructed. The GUI further comprises and an icon repository window wherein the basic modeling tools that are provided within the exemplary embodiments are displayed to the user. Using... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20090164972 - System and method for generating runtime metadata for use in the development of mobile device applications: A system and method for generating runtime metadata for use in the development of mobile device applications. A metadata file, such as an XML file that is used to capture the metadata for a database associated with a mobile device application, is used to generate initialization code. This initialization code,... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090164973 - Contract programming for code error reduction: In one embodiment, a computer system provides an application programming interface (API) for augmenting an application API. A computer system receives software code written in a second programming language indicating a user's intention to augment an application API with contracts from a contract API written in a first programming language.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090164974 - Quality measure tool for a composite application: A method for estimating a quality measure of a composite application is presented. The method may include receiving a set of sequence diagrams describing interactions between pairs of components in a composite application. Each sequence diagram may describe a functional use case of the composite application. Component quality metrics may... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090164977 - Extensible and unobtrusive script performance monitoring and measurement: A method, system and apparatus for the extensible and unobtrusive performance monitoring and measurement for scripts executing through a script engine. A script performance monitoring and measurement system can include a script engine programmed to execute a provided script and a script processor configured to provide a script to the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090164975 - Fuzzing encoded data: A test tool is provided for testing a software component. The tool receives data structured and formatted for processing by the software component. The structured data might conform to a schema defining valid inputs that the software component is able to parse/process. The test tool selects a discrete part of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090164976 - Multi-threaded debugger support: A method and information processing system facilitate debugging of a multi-threaded application. A control program request associated with at least one thread of a process that has been designated for debugging is generated. The control program request is placed into a memory buffer associated with the thread by the debugger.... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090164980 - Cluster application trace: A system and method for tracing a clustered application are disclosed. A server system hosts the clustered application, and an instance tracer manages a shared memory segment for one or more nodes within an instance of each process of the clustered application. The instance tracer is adapted to serialize trace... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090164978 - Method and system for providing post-mortem service level debugging: A computer program product comprises a computer useable medium. The computer useable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to configure an interceptor at a service invocation point corresponding to a component service of a... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090164979 - System landscape trace: This disclosure provides various implementations for supporting multiple system and application tracing. In one aspect, software can generate a globally unique identifier (GUID) for a first business process associated with a trace and transmit the GUID to a remote computer for association with a second business process related to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090164981 - Template based asynchrony debugging configuration: A system and method for debugging a running process of an application or component are disclosed. A debugging agent runs one or more templates. Each template is configured with a breakpoint set defined in debugging code for stopping execution of the running process according to one or more breakpoints. One... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090164982 - Method and system for transforming binaries to use different instructions: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for transforming binaries to use different instructions. The method includes identifying an instruction in the binary, where the instruction is an unimplemented instruction of an instruction set of a processor. The method further includes replacing the instruction with emulation... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090164983 - Programming library usage capturing and representation: A computer system may provide various resources to users through one or more programming libraries, such as application programming interfaces (APIs), in order to standardize access to such resources through various general-purpose mechanisms. These programming libraries may be operated by other programs, such as task-specific user interfaces, through which a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090164984 - Analysis of a legacy source code application: A method of analyzing a legacy source code application is described. The method comprises traversing a generated set of entries of a module hash array, a summary count catalog, and an occurrence location catalog to determine duplicate lines of code of the legacy source code application. The method also comprises... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090164985 - Compiling workflows into instructions for a state correlation engine: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compiling workflows into instructions for a state correlation engine. In general, data characterizing a workflow of a process is received and a network representation of event-condition-action rules representing the workflow is generated. The workflow of the process may be modeled in accordance... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090164986 - Extended package scheme to support application program downloading, and system and method for application porogram service using the same: Provided is a package scheme to support application program downloading and a method and a system for an application program download service using the same in a system such as a TV-Anytime system. A method for forming a package capable of supporting application program downloading includes the steps of: a)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090164987 - System and method for updating a dual layer browser: A method and system are provided for updating a dual layer browser which displays a hierarchy of nodes. The method or system provides a first layer or “browser provider” which receives various changed data notifications, determines which changed data notifications affect the current browser display, and sends the required notifications... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090164988 - Systems and methods for reusing sap adaptors in non-supported releases: An adaptor provides functionality in a second version of a software to a first version by determining at least one functionality available in the second version but not available in the first version; determining a reuse or adaptation of an adaptor framework in the first version; mapping the functionality of... Agent: Tran & Associates

20090164989 - Method for producing and application-specific installation package from device objects: A method for producing an application-specific installation package from device objects provided via the Internet and for integrating the installation package into an object-based, management, or configuration, system for servicing or monitoring field devices of automation technology. An original installation description file is provided via the Internet, wherein the original... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090158238 - Method and apparatus for providing api service and making api mash-up, and computer readable recording medium thereof: The present invention provides an open application program interface (API) service. A method of providing the API service includes generating meta-data for executing an API, generating resource data for generating a mash-up of the API, generating description data corresponding to the API, the meta-data, and the resource data, and generating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090158237 - Method and apparatus for the design and development of service-oriented architecture (soa) solutions: A method is provided for designing and developing an SOA solution that comprises implementing a business process layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to perform service composition and service decomposition; implementing a service component layer having a second set of ABBs and configured to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090158239 - Method and system for a context aware mechanism for use in presence and location: A method for execution in a computing execution environment for the creation of aspects from a service or application, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service, the method comprising: defining related service aspects; inserting or encapsulating service aspects as named aspects into a context... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090158241 - Generating a management pack at program build time: Technologies are described herein for generating a management pack at program build time. Data is received that defines one or more events generated by the application program. Data is also received that defines one or more management classes for the application program. When a request to build the program is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090158242 - Library of services to guarantee transaction processing application is fully transactional: A transaction processing development methodology employs a transaction processing development framework to facilitate development of a desired transaction processing application in a particular business area. A library of service adaptors is provided. At least a first portion of the service adaptors are generically applicable to transaction processing applications that are... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090158240 - Method and apparatus for modeling and managing quality of service (qos) in a service-oriented architecture (soa) environment: A method is provided for implementing data-driven QoS control in design and development of an SOA solution. The method comprises implementing a QoS layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to specify a QoS requirement definition to be propagated through a set of components of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090158244 - Detecting aspectual behavior in unified modeling language artifacts: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for detecting aspectual behavior in unified modeling language artifacts. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises representing static and dynamic characteristics of the artifacts in a set of production rules and creating a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090158246 - Method and system for building transactional applications using an integrated development environment: A transaction processing development methodology employs a transaction processing development framework to facilitate development of a desired transaction processing application. A plurality of service adaptors are provided. An infrastructure is provided via which a user defined business logic of the desired transaction processing application may be provided to the transaction... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090158245 - Modeling user perceived use case affinity: A system, method and program product for creating a UML model of a user interface environment, such as a website. A UML design system is disclosed that includes: a system for defining use cases within the UML model; a system for associating an affinity representing a user-perceived relationship between use... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090158243 - System and method for specification and implementation of mvc (model-view-controller) based web applications.: A system and method for requirement specification for entire MVC (Model-View-Controller) based web applications, by providing processes and artifacts that are suitable for each of the areas of concerns, and cohesively combining them with standard object modeling. Some of the areas provided for include general static as well as the... Agent: Akinola Bolarinwa

20090158248 - Compiler and runtime for heterogeneous multiprocessor systems: Presented are embodiments of methods and systems for library-based compilation and dispatch to automatically spread computations of a program across heterogeneous cores in a processing system. The source program contains a parallel-programming keyword, such as mapreduce, from a high-level, library-oriented parallel programming language. The compiler inserts one or more calls... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090158247 - Method and system for the efficient unrolling of loop nests with an imperfect nest structure: A computer implemented method system and computer program product for efficient unrolling of imperfect loop nests. A virtual iteration space can be determined based on a UF (Unroll Factor) and the iteration space for each dimension of a nested loop can be divided into a residual iteration space and a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090158249 - System and method for testing a software module: Systems and methods are described for testing a software module. The method comprises receiving a modified software module for use as part of a software application which includes a plurality of constituent software modules, replacing at least one of the constituent software modules with the modified software module to generate... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090158250 - Systems, methods and computer program products for operation history management for hpc programs optimization: Systems, methods and computer program products for operation history management for high performance computing programs optimization. Exemplary embodiments include a method including in response to saving an operation history creating a pseudo-change file that includes marks above and below an operation area in order to specify an operation object, creating... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090158251 - Techniques for query and dml over relational tables using spreadsheet applications: In one embodiment, a database server receives a request from a spreadsheet application to open a file with spreadsheet data. The spreadsheet data is stored in one or more relational tables in one or more relational databases that are managed by the database server. In response to the request, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090158252 - Method for creating an approximation graph relating to the behavior of the man-machine interface of an application: An approximation graph for behaviors of the man/machine interface of an application that is obtained automatically by this method can be defined as follows: the nodes (N1, N2, N3) of the graph represent sets of screen objects encoding screens for display during execution of the application and characterized by a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090158253 - Method and system for automatically identifying the source of copied software: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for automatically identifying the source of copied software. A single identifying marker can be embedded in a common code base associated with different software application products. A suspected copy of a product can be fed to an automated tool, which extracts the type of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090158254 - Automatic creative proposal generating and filtering system and manufacturing method thereof and multiple components combining method: The present invention discloses an automatic method and system for generating and filtering out the innovation proposals. Particularly, it is about a system, which generates all the possible element code sets, compares them to the code sets of existing objects or documents, and then filters out the novel element code... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090158255 - Test method and test device for unit code using unit test code: The present invention relates to a test method and device for unit codes in a computer program using unit test codes. A unit code test method according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving unit test codes to be searched; searching the unit test codes through a search engine;... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090158256 - Feeding test metrics into an integrated development environment to aid software developers to improve code quality: A method, apparatus and program product for using test results to improve code quality are provided. An IDE or program operable with an IDE retrieves automated test results for a code sequence. The IDE or separate program detects the code sequence during source code development in an IDE. The test... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090158257 - Systems and methods for graphics hardware design debugging and verification: Disclosed are systems and methods for debugging and analyzing graphics hardware designs. Hardware designs are represented by a software model implemented in a programming language. Graphics operations can be executed in the software model as well as in reference software models to allow a user to analyze the accuracy of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090158258 - Instrumentation information gathering system and method: Description of a instrumentation information gathering system and method are presented in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. The present invention instrumentation information gathering systems and methods can be utilized to facilitate efficient and flexible instrumentation information gathering. In one embodiment, a static variable associated with instrumentation information is... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090158259 - Deterministic pseudo-random fault event recordation and injection tool: A method is presented for recording and injecting a fault event during execution of a computer program. The method may include detecting a method call event during execution of the program, incrementing a counter to produce a counter value, and determining, based on a program execution state, a fault event... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090158260 - Apparatus and method for automatically analyzing program for detecting malicious codes triggered under specific event/context: The automatic program analyzing apparatus includes an automatic analysis engine for analyzing statements in a program and generating program execution information by forcefully executing each statement in the program; an execution information database for storing the program execution information generated by the automatic analysis engine; an execution flow analyzer for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090158261 - Computer-implemented method of releasing battery state estimation software: A computer implemented method of facilely releasing a BSE software module adapted for execution by an electronic control unit having an update model of the BSE software and a controller having an embedded desktop model of the BSE software, includes a plurality of autonomously performed steps resulting in the compiling... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090158263 - Device and method for automatically optimizing composite applications having orchestrated activities: A device (D) is intended for optimizing composite applications comprising at least two orchestrated activities participating to at least one process. This device (D) comprises i) an analyzing means (AM) arranged for determining orchestrated activities contained into a composite application to be optimized and dependencies between these activities, and ii)... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090158262 - Efficient compilation and execution of imperative-query languages: A system which combines sequential and iterative source code is provided. The system decides which type of processing would be most suitable for all portions of the source code, regardless of type. The system can adjust that decision based on the specific nature of the constructs within the source code,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090158264 - Configuring a shared library to accommodate relocatable data in a pervasive device: A method, system, architecture and apparatus for generating a shared library for a pervasive device target platform which can accommodate relocatable data. A tool chain in furtherance of this purpose can be arranged in accordance with the present invention to include a compiler programmed to compile source code into a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20090158266 - Deployment tool for increasing efficiency in a production computer system: A method is presented for deploying a component onto a production computer system. The method may include identifying one or more alterations associated with deployment of a first application onto a first computer system, where the first application on the first computer system is substantially similar to a second application... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090158265 - Implementation of advanced endpoint functions within third party software by using a plug-in approach: Embodiments described herein generally relate to a method of updating a software routine with subprograms and subroutines that can be accessed by an end user on an as-needed basis. In one embodiment, a method of providing a control function for a semiconductor process to a pre-existing software architecture is described.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20090158267 - System and method for inserting authorized code into a program: A system and method for inserting authorized code into a program during execution of the program is provided. The system is installed in a computer. The computer includes a storage device for storing an IoC container, the program, the authorized code, and a configuration file. The system is configured for... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090158268 - Software distribution method and system: A software distribution method (300b) and a corresponding system are proposed. In a software distribution application, packages including instructions specifying the actions to be carried out on each target computer for installing or removing selected software products are prepared in a central site; typically, the actions are conditioned to a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090158269 - Software configuration based on entitlement records: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to software license management and provide a method, system and computer program product for authorizing customer managed software installation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorizing customer managed software installation based on entitlement records can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090158271 - Installing method, installer, and installing program: An installer generates an application list containing application program type of each application, generates, based on the application list, a configuration file containing predetermined items set for all the installed applications and predetermined item set for respective installed applications, sets a common item in a registry, sets the number of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090158270 - System and method for creating platform-specific self-extracting client packages using a production server: System and method for creating platform-specific self-extracting client packages using a production server are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises compiling a source file on a first build server comprising a first computing platform to produce a first executable seed file for the first computing platform and compiling the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090158272 - Configuration management center: A device receives configuration information associated with software to be installed in a network, builds a software package based on the configuration information, determines one or more devices of the network to perform installation of the software package, sends a command, to perform installation of the software package, to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090158274 - Software development kit for a medical device and web-based server: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090158273 - Systems and methods to distribute software for client receivers of a content distribution system: A content distribution system employs IP multicast techniques to facilitate in identifying software dynamically, and to facilitate in downloading the software from the appropriate server to diverse client receivers. The clients monitor multicasts from a server and utilize a master/slave hierarchy technique to assist in requesting desired software blocks. The... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090150851 - Developing java server components without restarting the application server: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for developing components, such as Java server components, without restarting the application server hosting those components. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include providing a component comprising an implementation class and... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090150853 - Device and method for automatically building applications from specifications and from off-the-shelf components selected by semantic analysis: A device (D), intended for building applications from specifications (AS) and software components, comprises i) a storing means (SM) for storing semantic software components, made of a software component associated to a semantic description comprising at least one pertinent term for defining each public operation this software component is able... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090150852 - Method of actively managing software design decisions: A method of actively managing software design decisions including identifying design model elements from a given requirements model, computing a design model element type for each of the design model elements, accessing reference architecture to locate one or more decision templates, confirming that a scope of the decision template is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090150855 - Computer method and apparatus for model transformation reapply: Provided is a method and system for model transformation reapply. Through a programming model transformation, a target model is generated. The target model has one or more model elements. As manual changes are made to the target model, parts of the target model are marked as non-changeable by annotations. The... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090150854 - Computer method and apparatus for providing model to model transformation using an mda approach: A Model Transformation Authoring Framework (MTAF)method and apparatus for authoring and providing model-to-model transformations from one domain to another domain is disclosed. Given a domain and a target domain, at least the given domain having a respective structured hierarchy, the invention system enables a user to specify a declarative mapping... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090150859 - Dynamic validation of models using constraint targets: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to model validation for modeling tools and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for dynamic validation of models using constraint targets. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic validation of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090150858 - Extensible context based user interface simplification: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to modeling tools and provide a method, system and computer program product for extensible context based user interface simplification of modeling components for a modeling tool. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for extensible context based... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090150860 - Method and system for combining quality assurance and model transformations in a business-driven development environment: A system for combining quality assurance and model transformations in a business-driven development environment includes a host system executing a business modeling application, a transformation framework including a transformation programming interface (TPI) and a quality assurance framework executing on top of the business modeling application, and a plurality of transformation... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090150857 - Performance software instrumentation and analysis for electronic design automation: Various methods and apparatuses are described that provide instrumentation and analysis of an electronic design. A method for providing performance instrumentation and analysis of the electronic design includes defining a first and second set of intended software instrumentation test points and an associated first and second set of performance analysis... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20090150856 - Uml profile transformation authoring method and system: A method and apparatus for authoring model-to-model transformations of programming models involving profiles is disclosed. Using a declarative mapping between a given profile of a subject programming model and a target profile of a target programming model, transformation of the given profile is specified and results in a declarative specification.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090150861 - Visualization of implicit relationships in a trace query for model driven development: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to traceability visualization in a model driven development (MDD) tool and provide a method, system and computer program product for visualization of implicit relationships in a trace query for MDD. In an embodiment of the invention, a method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090150862 - User-specified semantics for parallel operations with a time-explicit programming language: In a computer programming language environment wherein operations are specified in one or more parallel frame sequences of frames arranged on a time scale, a programming language provides user-specifiable semantics for defining the start times for starting the frames and the end times for ending the frames. A method may... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090150864 - Declarative object identity: Systems and methods are described that enhance a programming language by introducing support for declarative object identity in both class declarations and object literals. An exemplary system includes a memory that stores code associated with a computer program and a component coupled to the memory. The component is configured to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150863 - Type checking for object-oriented programming languages: Type checking between an object class and a target class may comprise getting an object header from an object, and checking from the object header a result of a first time type checking between a class of the object and a target class specified by a hotspot in the first... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150866 - Enforcing legal holds of heterogeneous objects for litigation: Software for managing legal holds on objects identifies a target object to associate with a particular legal hold. The example software is further operable to automatically communicate with a lookup table to verify a hold record associated with the target object. In another example, the software for managing legal holds... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090150865 - Method and system for activating features and functions of a consolidated software application: A system and method for activating selected features and functions of a software application during installation of software.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20090150867 - method for enhancing functionality of an automated testing tool: A method for enhancing functionality of an automated testing tool. Embodiments of the present invention provide for dynamically adjusting a date in an automated testing tool. System time in a system time format is adjusted according to a date offset. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of formatting... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090150868 - Method and system for capturing movie shots at the time of an automated graphical user interface test failure: A method of capturing movie shots at the time of an automated Graphical User Interface (GUI) test failure. When an automated GUI test application performs an action during a test of a GUI, the GUI test application adds a text description of the action to a test log and captures... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090150869 - System and method of monitoring dynamic scopes in synchronous and asynchronous calls: A system and method for monitoring dynamic scopes in a runtime environment is disclosed. The system and method utilizes an algorithm which may be applied to both synchronous and asynchronous invocations. The method comprises determining an initial scope of a source component, the initial scope being a scope of the... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090150870 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced template debug: A template debug mechanism is provided for executing an operation on at least one breakpoint within a program that includes a template. In one embodiment, in response to a first selection, a breakpoint is set in all expansions of the template and a multiple breakpoints icon is displayed. Preferably, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090150871 - Method and apparatus for defining and instrumenting reusable java server page code snippets for website testing and production: Reusable JSP code snippets are defined and instrumented for Website testing and production. A user may define tile definitions in a markup language file for a number of JSP code snippets to be included in a store page. Upon receiving store inputs comprising tile definitions and jar files for the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090150872 - Dynamic code update: A process for updating a computer program is provided in which a code update procedure is performed during the execution of one or more components of the program by an execution environment that is operable to execute a plurality of program components in a plurality of sequential frames of execution.... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090150873 - Information processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus has an interpreter environment which dynamically executes programs configured based on a command set defined independently from a native command group, in a native environment. In the native environment input data streams are divided into multiple stages and intermediate data streams are generated for each of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090150874 - Binary programmable method for application performance data collection: A method for application performance data collection includes steps or acts of: customizing a performance tool for collecting application performance data of an application; modifying the application by inserting the performance tool while the application does not need to be rebuilt from the source; executing the application; and collecting the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090150875 - Efficient object profiling for optimizing object locality: A computer-implementable method, system and apparatus. The frequency of reference to an object, also known as “hotness,” can be collected as a part of a profiling phase during a runtime operation of data-processing system by permitting each reference to the object during the runtime operation to randomly guess a predetermined... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090150876 - Object set optimization using dependency information: A method for optimizing dependencies for a set of objects includes: automatically detecting dependencies among a set of objects, where each of the objects in the set includes at least one linkable file; adding the detected dependencies to a dependency list; and removing dependencies from the dependency list for any... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090150877 - Data driven communication protocol grammar: An application software is provided which communicates with one or more resources having resource specific communication grammars. Grammar for each resource specific communication grammar is provided in a location external to the application software and is used by the application software to generate a communication stack for communicating with the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20090150878 - Method and system for updating the software of multiple network nodes: A method and system for updating a group of network nodes, such as a group of MFPs, with replacement software in a manner that improves network performance and the predictability of a completion time for installation of the replacement software involves throttling distribution of a software update package to avoid... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090150879 - Sharing files among different virtual machine images: A system for sharing files among different virtual machine images includes a processor, a memory, and an input/output subsystem. The processor is configured for: a) creating a first virtual image; b) determining whether there exists a second virtual image similar to the first virtual image; c) comparing the files of... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090150881 - Building and installing dynamic installation packages using a declarative authoring tool: Building a package for installing a software application on a data processing system with a distributed architecture is provided. The installation package is built using an authoring tool based on a declarative model. A descriptor is used to define a desired configuration of the system The installation package is built... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090150880 - Printer driver installing method, recordable medium recorded with program executing the installing method, image forming apparatus and host apparatus thereof: A printer driver installing method installs a driver program which corresponds to an image forming apparatus in a host apparatus which is connected to the image forming apparatus, and includes selecting installation of the driver program, controlling the image forming apparatus to receive an installer information, authorizing by using the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090150882 - System and method for software application installation: Disclose is a method and system for software installation based on an installation profile indicator. A software installation system server may store or be functionally associated with sets of related software application image blocks in a software image repository. The repository may include a single image file (“unified image” or... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20090144694 - Framework for managing complex operations: An operations management environment is integrated with an information technology infrastructure through an adaptor, the integration occurring while the information technology infrastructure performs one or more tasks. Data from the information technology infrastructure is received through the adapter. Relationships between the artifacts included in the information technology infrastructure are modeled... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090144695 - Method for ensuring consistency during software development: A method and system for checking consistency of a software system during software system development is disclosed. The software system comprises a source code and a plurality of design diagrams. The source code is represented as a source perspective diagram. A relational meta-model of the software system is prepared based... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20090144696 - Code completion for object relational mapping query language (oql) queries: Techniques for developing database applications are described herein. According to one embodiment, an object-relational mapping (ORM) query language (OQL) statement is received via a first window which is entered from a user for querying an underlying database, where the OQL statement is written in a customized query language that is... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144697 - Refractor inner class with object-oriented program optimizer tool for reduced footprint and faster application start: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system for reducing the number of inner classes in a compiled computer program written in an object-oriented programming language. An outer class of the compiled computer program is received, wherein the outer class contains an inner class, wherein the outer... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144699 - Log file analysis and evaluation tool: A method is provided for automatically evaluating a log file of a software module. Prior to an execution of a first version of a software module, the method comprises evaluating all possible messages or events that can occur in a log file of the first version of the software module,... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090144698 - Prioritizing quality improvements to source code: An exemplary method includes receiving source code having a plurality of code segments, providing a desired level of quality for the source code, analyzing the source code to assign a complexity measure to each of the plurality of code segments and assigning a level of code coverage to each of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090144700 - Method and system for preparing software offerings having software application code and post-install configuration information: Embodiments relate generally to a method of generating a post-installation configuration for a software application offering. The method includes receiving a request for a post-installation configuration for a software application and determining a software distribution in which the software application will operate. The method also includes determining a set of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090144701 - Methods and systems for providing configuration data: Systems and methods provide real time and interactive software configuration. A configuration support module is configured to provide configuration data associated with software being configured by a user. The configuration support module is configured to store configuration data associated with different entities related to users. The entities can be a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090144702 - System and program product for determining java software code plagiarism and infringement: An analysis tool extracts class data from Java objects within a potential plagiarizing Java program and the original Java program, and then compares classes common to the potential plagiarizing program and the original across various performance metrics. Similarities disclosed by the analysis tool are output for user or programmatic comparison... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090144703 - Method and system for versioning a software system: A versioning system and a versioning scheme verify compatibility between a plurality of entities. The versioning scheme comprises two version numbers—model version number and code version number. Model version number and code version number of each entity is maintained to determine the compatibility between a plurality of entities at the... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20090144704 - Comparison of interfaces between software components: The invention relates to a method for testing the compatibility between two software components of a control device network, a technical interface description being assigned to each software component, this interface description having a specified description standard, and each description standard having a hierarchical position in an hereditary hierarchy of... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090144705 - Debugging device and debugging method: A debugging device configured to debug a program includes an analysis section configured to analyze information of a code that does not need to be debugged in which a predetermined processing instruction is described, the code being generated by optimization of a compiler for a source code of the program,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090144706 - Identifying potential lock conditions in transactional software applications: Methods, systems, and products for testing a transactional software application which interacts with a database structure. The software application includes a plurality of application units, which are adapted to be executed at least in part concurrently. The method includes executing the software application. Executing the software application includes executing a... Agent: Jo Katherine D'ambrosio D'ambrosio & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20090144707 - Method for client-side aggregation of asynchronous, context-sensitive request operations for java server pages (jsp): A method, system, and computer program product for efficiently fulfilling java server page (JSP) requests for dynamic web content, in a computer network system. An asynchronous processing (AP) utility pre-defines a number of custom classes to enable the asynchronous processing of requests. A JSP which contains a custom “async:include” tag... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090144708 - Multi-attribute dynamic link library packaging: A system for packaging a dynamically linked computer program function includes a compiler configured to compile a source file iteratively to create a plurality of corresponding object files, the source file associated with a specific computer program function having an established an attribute, with each attribute exhibiting a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090144709 - Reducing stack space consumption via head-call optimization: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for reducing stack space consumption via a head-call optimization. When compiling the source code of a computer application, a compiler application may be configured to analyze program flow to identify a “head-call” within any functions included in the program source code. Once identified,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090144710 - Method and apparatus for transforming java native interface function calls into simpler operations during just-in-time compilation: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for transforming Java Native Interface function calls to constants, internal just-in-time compiler operations or simpler intermediate representation. A compiler generates a plurality of intermediate representations for a plurality of native interface function calls. During inlining of native code, matching is performed on... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144711 - System and method for common compiler services based on an open services gateway initiative architecture: A system and method for common compiler services based on an Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) architecture are constructed on an OSGi framework for processing and registering a server page source file. The method includes: transmitting a compilation request signal associated with the server page source file to a common... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090144712 - Path specializations for runtime code with phase behavior: Mechanism that employs code cloning and specialized code execution for barriers to minimize runtime overhead. This is facilitated by duplicating code and inserting specializations of the barriers in the code copies. The mechanism is effective for garbage collection when the garbage collection executes through different phases, and the barrier behavior... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144713 - Techniques for program performance analysis: Techniques are provided for measuring metrics relating to the execution of a computer program and for providing program analysis tools and methods for conducting program analysis. In particular, an execution environment is provided, which, in addition to being able to execute instructions expressed in a programming language, is operable to... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090144714 - Automatic deployment of java classes using byte code instrumentation: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for Java class automatic deployment using byte code instrumentation technology. One or more classloaders are instrumented with byte code instrumentation code such that a class loading event is received when a class is loaded. If a determination is made... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144716 - Patch attachment facility: A computer-based system can comprise a patch management system to a load patch to a software program; and an installer to install components of the software program. The installer can interpret metadata to instruct the patch management system to automatically load the patch to the software program.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144715 - Synchronous bus download of tv software update: TV software can be updated by receiving updated from a USB drive or wirelessly, in either case preferably over a synchronous bus for speedier data transfer.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090144717 - Integration of an external software application(s) with a scale software application: A Scale Integration Framework that allows secondary applications installed on a PC-based scale or at a remote location to interact with a Scale Application that controls the scale equipment in accordance with applicable requirements. The scale integration framework comprises a plurality of Integration Points within the Scale Application such that... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090144718 - Systems and methods for updating software appliances: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for updating software appliances. A client can host a software appliance, such a Linux™ software appliance, which a user wishes to update to a newer version. Instead of performing an in-place update by installing a new version that deletes the configuration state and/or user... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090144720 - Cluster software upgrades: A device, system, and method are directed towards upgrading software on a cluster. A cluster of nodes is divided into two partitions. The first partition is brought offline, and the software on each of its nodes is updated. The nodes are partially initialized and form an offline cluster, leaving uninitialized... Agent: Ellard Thomas Roush

20090144719 - Using system fingerprints to accelerate package dependency resolution: A computer system can be updated and/or reconfigured quickly by preparing a list of attributes of the system and computing a fingerprint based on the list. The fingerprint serves as a key to a database of precomputed upgrade plans. If a matching plan is found, it can be executed to... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144722 - Automatic full install upgrade of a network appliance: A method and apparatus for upgrading a network appliance. In one embodiment, a network appliance determines that it should be upgraded using a full install image. The network appliance then reserves an upgrade staging area in its memory device, downloads the full install image from a server to the upgrade... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144721 - System and method for providing software upgrades: A method and system provide a business scenario. The method includes executing a first deployment unit on a first application platform. The method includes replacing an original second deployment with an upgraded second deployment unit on an upgraded second application platform. The method includes executing the upgraded second deployment unit.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090144723 - Dynamic updateable web toolbar: A toolbar that persists in a browser window across multiple Web pages during a browsing session is displayed. This toolbar includes multiple toolbar buttons. An updated toolbar is automatically received from a remote toolbar source that is independent of the multiple Web pages, and this updated toolbar includes a change... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144724 - Dynamic updates of message consumers: A message is received at a message consumer, the received message having a component dependency identification that indicates a version of a software component that is necessary to process the message. The version of the software component is automatically downloaded if the message consumer does not already include the version... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144725 - Method and system for software installation: A method for installing software on an information handling system (IHS) is provided, the method including receiving data associated with a plurality of hardware components and a plurality of software components, providing a plurality of software devices corresponding to the data, transferring the plurality of software devices to a virtual... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090144726 - Use of aliasing in an installer: An installer can use an alias to indicate a combined software program. The combined program can include multiple software products. The software products can each be independently runnable. The alias can be used by the installer system to install the multiple software products automatically.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144727 - Interpreted multiple product installation: An installer can do a combined installation of multiple software products. The installer can do a combined pre-install phase, a combined install phase, and a combined post-install phase for the multiple software products.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144728 - Module based software system linking runtime to install time: A software product can comprise multiple components. At least one component comprising multiple feature sets. The feature sets can each define multiple OSGi bundles. The installation can include installing the OSGi bundles as indicated by the feature sets. The runtime can include loading the OSGi bundles as indicated by the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144729 - Portable business process deployment model across different application servers: A method and apparatus for providing portability of a business process deployment model across different application servers. In one embodiment, a method may include determining which application server will be used for deploying a business process as a web application, and invoking an implementation framework of application server interfaces that... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144730 - Software deployment method and system, software deployment server and user server: A software deployment method creates and provides an installation parameter file for each computer to be deployed according to a software deployment task. The installation parameter file of each computer to be deployed is used to guide a network installation of software on the computer. A corresponding software deployment system,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)