Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 07/09

20090193388 - Software development support apparatus, program and method: Public design information used for designing the design information is stored as reference design information 210 into a developer design information storage part 202 (S5). When a developer requests publication of the design information that has used the reference design information 210, the design information is stored as public design... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090193389 - Realtime creation of datasets in model based testing: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that tests a software program. During operation, the system creates a behavioral model of the software program using branches, decisions, and options. Next, the system applies a weight assignment technique to the behavioral model to create a set of global identifiers... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193390 - Techniques for modeling variables in subprograms of hardware description language programs: A method, system and computer program product for modeling variables in subprograms of a HDL program. A subprogram is provided with an initial value of a variable of an element being modeled and the subprogram is stored in memory of a data processing system. In response to a subprogram call,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090193391 - Model-based testing using branches, decisions , and options: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that tests a software program. During operation, the system creates a behavioral model of the software program using branches, decisions, and options. Next, the system generates a test case from the behavioral model and executes the test case on the software... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193392 - Dynamic intermediate language modification and replacement: Embodiments are directed to providing intermediate language (IL) code on a per-method basis for at least one method of a binary. In one embodiment, a computer system selects a method from among various methods included in a binary file, where the methods are configured to perform various intended functions for... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090193393 - Automatically generating rest clients from rest resources: The present invention discloses a method and system for creating REST clients using existing REST export information. The invention can provide a wizard able to dynamically generate REST client code. The REST client code can include source code, such as HTML and JAVA SCRIPT starting points that can be further... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090193394 - Subsystem architecture for providing support services for software applications: A subsystem architecture is described that provides support services for software applications of a system. The subsystem architecture includes local infrastructure components, which provide infrastructure services to the software applications. Each local infrastructure component corresponds to a single software application and is independent from another of the local infrastructure components.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090193395 - Software testing and development methodology using maturity levels: A software development methodology is to develop a software product including a plurality of units. Unit tests are generated according to a unit test framework. The unit test framework comprises a plurality of subsequently narrowing maturity levels, each maturity level outlining how a unit test at that level should be... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090193396 - Debugging a statechart for a real time target: System and method for debugging a statechart on a target device. The statechart may be created or displayed on a display and may include a plurality of state icons connected by wires. One or more debugging operations may be specified for the statechart. The statechart may be executed on the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090193397 - Method and apparatus for facilitating diagnostic logging for software components: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates diagnostic logging for software components. During operation, the system receives program code for a software component that was generated from an object model, where a key attribute has been specified for the object model. During execution of the program... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193398 - System and method for integrated artifact management: A system and associated method for availing literate programming in a software development environment. An integrated artifact manager processes a retrieval request and a storage request pursuant to a user group associated with respective interface. A developer user uses an integrated development environment interface. A commentator user uses a wiki... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090193399 - Performance improvements for nested virtual machines: Nested virtual machines cooperate with one another to improve system performance. In particular, an outer virtual machine performs tasks on behalf of an inner virtual machine to improve system performance. One such task includes translation of instructions for the inner virtual machine.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090193400 - Interprocedural register allocation for global variables: A method of compiling a computer program with interprocedural register allocation for global variables. The method of compiling includes a front-end phase, an interprocedural analysis phase, and a back-end phase. The interprocedural analysis phase receives intermediate representations from the front-end phase, processes the intermediate representations together to compute interprocedural information,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193401 - Path-sensitive analysis through infeasible-path detection and syntactic language refinement: A system and method for infeasible path detection includes performing a static analysis on a program to prove a property of the program. If the property is not proved, infeasible paths in the program are determined by performing a path-insensitive abstract interpretation. Information about such infeasible paths is used to... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090193402 - Iterative compilation supporting entity instance-specific compiler option variations: Optimizing a computer program by setting a first compiler optimization configuration for a first entity of a computer program, setting a second compiler optimization configuration for a second entity of the computer program, where the first and second entities are of the same type and where the first and second... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090193403 - Dynamic creation of client-side environment for problem analysis: The dynamic creation of a client-side environment for problem analysis includes the delivery and installation of a cohesive file structure to a client-side machine, the cohesive file structure including a data structure containing data files and an analyzer tool.... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090193404 - Method and apparatus for inlining native functions into compiled java code: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for inlining native functions into compiled Java code. A conversion engine is provided by the present invention for converting the intermediate representation of native functions to the just-in-time (JIT) compiler's intermediate representation. With the converted intermediate representation, an inliner recursively inlines the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090193405 - Method and apparatus for partitioning programs to balance memory latency: A method of compiling code that includes partitioning instructions in the code among a plurality of processors based on memory access latency associated with the instructions is disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, partitioning instructions includes partitioning memory access dependence chains. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090193406 - Bulk search index updates: Embodiments of the present invention perform bulk updates of a search index for an information repository. In embodiments, a batched set of update requests is run and a set of documents to be updated based on the set of requests is identified. In embodiments, a bulk update method to use... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP

20090193408 - Interface and method for interfacing element management server in wireless telecommunication system: Disclosed is an interface for interfacing an element management server in a wireless telecommunication system and a method for the same. The element management server for managing an ACR and an RAS, which are elements of the wireless telecommunication system, are adapted to interwork with the ACR and the RAS,... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090193407 - Methods and systems for automatic patch creation for client updates: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of implementing software version management for automatically updating a client system. The method includes establishing a server system and one or more client systems within a network and installing binaries on the server system and the one or more client systems.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090193410 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090193409 - Per user updates: An update system may receive and apply updates to a client device on a per user basis, where an update may be applied to one user but not another. The user specific updates may make changes to user specific areas of the client device, such as user registries or areas... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193412 - Computer-readable medium, information processing apparatus, display control method: A computer-readable medium causes an information processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of setting processing for making a setting in accordance with a predetermined sequence to perform processing including a first display control process including displaying a corresponding setting image for each of the plurality of setting processing, an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090193411 - Method and system for assessing deployment and un-deployment of software installations: A method and system for assessing deployment and un-deployment of a software application installation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving as an input a software application installation. Native code is extracted from the software application installation and executed. Information regarding the execution of the native code is... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090187879 - Architecture for data validation: A data validation architecture is provided that minimizes duplicate code and enables easy creation of new validations using a high-performance and scalable design. Such an architecture provides sufficient flexibility to disable certain validations when they are not applicable to the flow, interpret validation failures differently according to requirements of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090187880 - Customized networked-based commerce system packages: A method for building a client commerce system for a client networked environment can include the steps of: collecting one or more business requirements for the client commerce system, gathering one or more characteristics of the client networked environment, retrieving an initial client commerce system, and modifying the initial client... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090187881 - Difference log production for model merging: Methods and apparatus are provided for production of a difference log in a data processing system The difference log defines differences between process models defined in system memory. For each of the process models, model structure data provided in memory defines a hierarchy of SESE regions representing the structure of... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090187882 - Live bidirectional synchronizing of a visual and a textual representation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed performing a bidirectional synchronization between a visual representation and a textual representation. A visual representation of a file is synchronized with a textual representation of a file using a same delta propagation that is used to synchronize the textual representation with the visual representation.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187883 - Method and system for guided inconsistency resolution in a model-driven software environment: A method and system for guided resolution of inter-model inconsistencies are provided. A method includes grouping inconsistencies, detected as a result of a model-driven software development process, into model partitions within a list by analyzing relationships between the underlying models and identifying model partitions that are capable of being processed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090187884 - Refining tail call optimizations at link-time: A method and apparatuses for allowing additional tail call optimizations. The compiler generates both optimized and non-optimized code for tail call candidates. At a later time when there is more information (e.g. regarding program bounds), a decision and a modification to the executable code is made, implementing one of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090187885 - Calling functions as methods: A method and apparatus for converting a method call to a function call. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an argument list from a function that has been called by a subroutine call. The method further comprises determining whether the subroutine call is a method call from the argument... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090187886 - Declartive commands using workflows: Declaratively implementing a command. A method includes declaring an input gesture in a declarative programming language. Declaring an input gesture includes declaring one or more user performed actions. A command name is declared in a declarative programming language. A workflow is declared in a declarative programming language. Declaring a workflow... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090187887 - Block count based procedure layout and splitting: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for block count based procedure layout and splitting. Embodiments of the invention utilize code block counts to provide a total ordering of code blocks that improves execution time of generated procedure code by minimizing branches along more frequently executed... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090187888 - Method for singleton process control: A method for singleton process control in a computer environment is provided. A process identification (PID) for a background process is stored in a first temporary file. The PID is stored by a parent process and subsequently accessed by the background process. The background process is exited if an active... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090187890 - Method and system for associating profiler data with a reference clock: A computer implemented method, apparatus and program product for analyzing performance data particular to an algorithm using a profiler algorithm, and automatically associates the performance data with a reference clock time. The performance data may be automatically associated with a tag, also associated with the reference clock time. Using the... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090187889 - Method and system for inconsistency resolution with cycle detection in a model-driven software environment: A method and system for inconsistency resolution in a model-driven software development environment are provided. A method includes performing a safety analysis for resolutions in response to detected inconsistencies to determine whether the resolution, if implemented, will lead to a resolution cycle when applied to a given inconsistency. The determination... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090187892 - Apparatus and program for test case generation: A test case generation apparatus checks if there is a source code inspected portion in a model that is used to generate a test case. The inspected portion in the model is determined based on inspection information, and, when the inspected portion is found in the model, the inspected portion... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090187891 - Verification of input/output hardware configuration: A method for verifying an input/output (I/O) hardware configuration is provided. A verification command is processed. The verification command includes a software device address range associated with a logical control unit (LCU) of the I/O hardware. The LCU utilizes a first logical path. The software device address range utilizing the... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090187893 - Coordinating chores in a multiprocessing environment: The coordination and execution of chores in a multiprocessing environment. The coordination of chores is accomplished utilizing a compiler generated correlation that relates blocks of code that execute chores and blocks of code in which the chore can be realized. By tracking the execution of the program and using the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090187894 - Method, apparatus or software for identifying dependencies between components for a given build of a componentised product: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for identifying dependencies between components for a given build of a componentised product in which the results of testing of combinations of existing and new components that comprise the product are used to identify dependencies between new components.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187895 - Device, method, program, and recording medium for converting program: Provided is a program converting device that facilitates processing of assigning each of process units to be executed in parallel, with information (a relative priority, for example) that directs an OS or a scheduler regarding processing performance to be allocated to all or a part of the process units. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090187896 - Compiler device, program, and recording medium: Compiler device for optimizing program which manipulates a character string includes append instruction detection unit, store code generation unit, and append code generation unit. The append instruction detection unit detects an append instruction which appends a character string to a string variable for storing a character string, in the program.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090187897 - Compiling method and compiling program: The compiling method and compiling program which can delete a redundantly generated function, regardless of whether or not a class object is generated and whether or not calling is performed is a compiling method for converting an input program written in an object-oriented language and having at least one class... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090187898 - Method for securely updating an autorun program and portable electronic entity executing it: e

20090187900 - Information processing apparatus, system, method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a list which makes the version of software correspond to mapping information, a first determination unit configured to, when updating the version of the software, determine by referring to the list, whether mapping information corresponding to a version before... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090187899 - Method for intelligent patch scheduling using historic averages of virtual i/o utilization and predictive modeling: A method for intelligent patch scheduling for a virtual (I/O) server is provided. Virtual I/O performance indicators of a virtual I/O server are monitored. The performance indicators are stored in a database. Historic averages of the performance indicators are maintained in the database. Patches to be applied to a client... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090187901 - Communication system, communication device, and management server device: A communication system includes: a communication device configured to operate various functions using software programs stored in a software storage unit; a management server device configured to send an updating software program corresponding to one of the software programs; an operation information obtaining unit configured to obtain operation information of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090183137 - Method and framework for securing a source code base: A framework for securing a source code base during the development phase of a software development lifecycle is provided. The framework includes an aspect package module and a validator package module. The aspect package module integrates security routines into the source code base. The aspect package module includes a custom... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090183138 - System and method for mobile software application development and deployment: A technique is introduced for developing and deploying an application in a mobile domain. In operation, a mobile data model may be accessed, and a portion of the mobile data model may selected to be instantiated at a distributed device in order to create a mobile data store at the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090183139 - Enumeration classes: In an embodiment, a technique for acquiring a class definition of a class, the class associated with an enumeration, the enumeration enumerating a partial list of instances of the class; generating a data structure based on the class definition, the data structure associating one or more identifiers with an instance... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090183140 - Automatic generation of application domain specific graphical programs: System and method for generating an application domain specific graphical program. A graphical user interface (GUI) for specifying functionality of a graphical program in an application domain is displayed, where the GUI corresponds specifically to the application domain. User input to the GUI specifying the functionality of the graphical program... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin,

20090183141 - Application program development assisting method, program, and information processing apparatus: A method, program, and information processing apparatus for detecting an inconsistency in an application program before the application program is implemented. The described is detecting a consistency or inconsistency in the design of screen transition of an application program, by generating a control flow graph for the application program, calculating... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090183142 - Debugging lazily evaluated program components: A system and method for facilitating debugging a computer program is provided. Mechanisms of the present invention facilitate presenting information and enable a developer to interact with a lazily evaluated program component. A debugging system may display data associated with a lazily evaluated program component, and may enable the programmer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183143 - Method and apparatus for generating test cases of software system: A method and an apparatus for generating test cases of a software system. The method includes the steps of: tracing a user request to acquire IT events related to each service and/or component invocation; forming IT transactions based on correlation information in IT events; correlating said IT transactions based on... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090183144 - Method and system for providing a componentized resource adapter architecture: 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 adapter such that the adapter is specific to a data source, provides a... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090183146 - Specification, abstraction, and enforcement in a data center operating system: An exemplary data center architecture includes a services abstraction, a data sources abstraction, an internal applications abstraction and a core administration abstraction for static and dynamic enforcement of data center polices based on compliance with a property set, a specification set or a property set and a specification set. Such... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090183145 - Techniques for reducing down time in updating applications with metadata: A method and apparatus for reducing down time in updating applications with metadata is provided. The application contains both code and metadata. A copy of the application is made. A software update is installed on the copy of the application. During installation, the original application continues to run and service... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090183147 - User interface improvements for medical devices: A method and system is disclosed for operating a medical device with or without a cassette in place. A method is disclosed for adding additional VTBI to an ongoing infusion without stopping the infusion and with maintaining the infusion parameters. A method and system is disclosed for changing the CCA... Agent: Brian R. Woodworth

20090183149 - Data imaging system and methods: A method performed by a network device may include receiving index information from a second network device identifying an updated application, querying a third network device for the identified updated application, receiving the identified updated application from the third network device, storing the identified updated application received from the third... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090183148 - Remote installation: A remote delivery system for delivering software is provided. The system includes a software receiving system; and a software delivery system operable to automatically deliver software to the receiving system. The software delivery system is operable to determine a delivery time, the delivery time being a function of timing information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090183150 - System and method for software product versioning packaging, distribution, and patching: A system and method for software product versioning, packaging, distribution, and patching. The system provides for convergence of registry models, adding critical information to a home registry and simplifying processing algorithms in the install framework. In accordance with an embodiment, a product alias element is added to a Product Provisioning... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090183151 - Obtaining software for a handheld device: Techniques for improved installation of software on handheld devices. In one embodiment, a handheld device is coupled with a computer that has a client software application. The client software application can support installing software applications onto the handheld device. The client software application can determine if the handheld device is... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090178020 - Creating customized applications using templates having points of variability: A method, system, apparatus and article of manufacture for producing a customized application. In a preferred method of the invention, a selection of components can be identified which are to be deployed to form the customized application. Within the selection of components, points of variability can be specified which can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090178019 - System and method for multi-level security filtering of model representations: A system and method for multi-level security filtering of model representations. Elements of an architecture and systems engineering model have associated security characteristics identifying the required level of security that a user must have in order to be able to obtain access to information about that element of the model.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090178021 - Systems and methods for modeling and generating test requirements for software applications: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are described for modeling the requirements of software to generate test requirements. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises generating a model of the requirements using a tree graph model, identifying primary paths of the tree graph model using an algorithm, and creating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090178022 - Systems and methods for watermarking software and other media: Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect electronic content by identifying the content's source, thus enabling unauthorized copies... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090178023 - Device and method for building compilable and executable applications from specifications expressed by classes: A device (D) is intended for building compilable and executable applications (AP) from high-level representations of classes, each class storing data and/or implementing at least one public function and/or being able to activate at least one chosen public function of at least one other class. This device (D) comprises a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090178024 - Method, computer program product, and system for merging multiple same class instance states: A method, computer program product, and system for enabling the merging of a plurality of instance variables into a new composite same-class instance having the same instance variables with values determined by a user. Same-class instances are arranged in tabular format and are provided with selection buttons to allow the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090178025 - Graphical programming environment with first model of computation that includes a structure supporting second model of computation: System and method for creating a graphical program that uses multiple models of computation (MoC). A first plurality of graphical program elements is assembled in a graphical program in response to first input, where the assembled first plurality of graphical program elements have a first MoC. A structure is displayed... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090178027 - Layered architecture for mobile terminals: Software architecture for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system and for other applications. The software architecture includes a plurality of layers arranged in order from layers providing higher level services to layers providing lower level services, at least one software module in each layer, and interface means for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090178026 - Self-describing re-usable software components: Technologies are presented herein for self-describing re-usable software components. Metadata is generated and published with a re-usable software component that identifies the capabilities of the software component, identifies other software components that the re-usable software component may be integrated with, and identifies mechanisms for integrating the re-usable software component with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090178028 - Method and system for invoking just-in-time debugger: A method and system for invoking Just-In-Time debugger is described, which can provide more efficient JIT debugging for complex code mixed applications. A method for invoking a Just-In-Time (JIT) debugger according to one embodiment includes checking a code type of a code address where a JIT debugging request is triggered... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Ibm

20090178029 - Dependent object framework for junit testing: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for testing a software application component. A dependent object framework is provided. The dependent object framework includes a set of static methods, a set of dependent object files, and a set of properties files. A test program is received.... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090178030 - System, method and program for executing a debugger: A method for controlling a debugger, the method includes: determining whether to execute a certain breakpoint of the debugger in view of certain breakpoint conditional information and in view of at least one previous visit, during the execution of the debugger, to at least one other breakpoint of the debugger;... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090178031 - Method and system for presenting and analyzing software source code through intermediate representation: The present invention provides a method and system for producing intermediate representation of source code listings with possibly mixed syntaxes to assist software development applications in presenting and analyzing the source code listings through reading the intermediate representation. A source code processor calls Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to preserve source... Agent: Kan Zhao

20090178032 - Mining for performance data for systems with dynamic compilers: In an example data mining process, performance data for instructions that execute in a data processing system is obtained. The performance data may comprise instruction addresses and corresponding performance information. A dump that comprises the instructions and corresponding instruction addresses may also be obtained. Common code segments in the dump... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090178033 - System and method to update device driver or firmware using a hypervisor environment without system shutdown: A system, method, and program product is provided that has a virtualized environment provided by a hypervisor. In the virtualized environment, one or more guest operating systems operate simultaneously with a privileged operating system. One of the guest operating systems identifies a device software update, such as a device driver... Agent: Lenovo - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20090178034 - Implementation tool combining pre-configuration and questionnaire: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for configuration of an application program using a set of pre-configuration data and a questionnaire. In one embodiment, a method for delivering configuration information for an application, can comprise saving a set of configuration information related to the application. A set of one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090178035 - Simplifying the deployment and serviceability of commercial software environments: An information processing system includes a preparation machine with an installed image; an execution machine on which the installed image is virtually installed; and a virtualizer for virtualizing the installed image on the execution machine to produce a virtually installed image by using a hierarchy of selective virtualizers, wherein the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090172631 - Method of adding a functionality to an executable first module of a program package: a redirection is permanently provided in the first module as a function of the reference thus determined such that a modified executable first module is present, wherein, when the internal function is requested during execution, a redirection is made to the auxiliary code which causes the functionality to be provided... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090172632 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing external domain independent modeling framework in a system design: Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for implementing external domain independent modeling framework in a system design. In some embodiments, the method or system comprises importing an external model in an external format into the framework while substantially preserving some or all of the interpretation of the... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090172633 - Methods of transforming application layer structure as objects: Embodiments consistent with the invention transform business application logic entities or structures into OOP structures that represent the data, relationships, and operations of the business application structures. The business application structures are transformed from the application level, including consideration of the business application logic and relationships. In one embodiment, transformation... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090172634 - Interactive loop configuration in a behavioral synthesis tool: A behavioral synthesis tool for generating an integrated circuit design is described. The behavioral synthesis tool allows a designer to interactively allocate loop configuration information without having to modify a source code description of the integrated circuit. The behavioral synthesis tool reads the source code description and generates a synthesis... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090172635 - System and method for allowing the creation of composite applications through the wiring of loosely coupled existing or custom components of disparate technologies: The present invention provides a system and method for allowing integration of loosely coupled components for applications requiring templates and, more specifically, for utilizing the property broker and component technology to solve the missing sandbox model for Lotus Notes out of the box templates on the rich client. It utilizes... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090172636 - Interactive development tool and debugger for web services: A development environment, comprising: text editing means (810); an interface (860) for passing amended code to a live running application (880) on a Java EE platform, and for receiving an exception in the event that said exception is generated by the application; means (830) for parsing said received exception in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090172637 - Markup-based language for manifests: Applications are deployed with manifests authored in a markup-based language to leverage the benefits afforded thereby. Application manifests are simple and easily expressible without requiring a complex implementation. Markup elements or tags can be mapped directly to objects or an object hierarchy visible to programmers to enable fine grain control.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090172638 - Adding functionality to existing code at exits: New code is added to existing object code in order to add new functionality. For example, a call to start a profiler function can be added at the beginning of a Java method and a call to stop the profiler function can be added at the exits of the Java... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090172639 - Firmware integrity verification: In some embodiments, the integrity of firmware stored in a non-volatile memory is verified prior to initiation of a firmware reset vector. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172640 - Medical device with full options and selective enablement/disablement: According to one embodiment, a programmable medical device includes a storage means for storing a plurality of software modules operable to control one or more medical functions of the device. The device is configured to receive a plurality of commands. An operational state of each of the software modules is... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090172641 - Recycled version number values in flash memory: Various embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for assigning a plurality of version number values to instances of a logical entity of a memory device. Each version number value of the plurality version number values may be separately assigned to one of the instances of the logical entity. The version... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/micron

20090172642 - System and method for debugging a computer program: A method for debugging a computer program is provided. The method pushes a plurality of registers into a stack, and calculates a jump-from address and a jump-to address for each jump according to values of the registers. The jump-from address and the jump-to address are then stored into a storage... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090172643 - Program verification apparatus, program verification method, and program storage medium: A program verification apparatus includes: a program executing unit executing a program; a variable monitoring unit monitoring a plurality of variables in the program to obtain monitor values of the variables; a target variable determiner determining one or more target variables out of the variables; a constraint condition storage storing... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090172645 - Call stack evaluation to assure proper framework access: A computer program product, system and method for verifying a call stack is provided and includes framework modules accessing an image of a call stack, verifying the call stack is compatible with a called framework module, and performing a default operation if the call stack is not compatible with a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090172644 - Software flow tracking using multiple threads: Methods, systems and machine readable media are disclosed for performing dynamic information flow tracking. One method includes executing operations of a program with a main thread, and tracking the main thread's execution of the operations of the program with a tracking thread. The method further includes updating, with the tracking... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090172646 - Method for dynamic discovery of code segments in instrumented binary modules: A method for dynamic discovery of code segments in instrumented binary modules is provided. A program comprising code segments is received. Potential code segments are determined, and the program is instrumented at potential code segments for dynamic code discovery. The instrumented program is run. In response to executing the potential... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090172647 - System and method for model driven unit testing environment: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for software program testing using a unit testing environment. A model having qualifiers is created using a modeling tool. A markup language meta-model is generated using the earlier created model. A unit test, generated using the markup language... Agent: Sap Ag

20090172648 - Byte code analysis library: A method to obtain offline source code is described. The system implementing the method extracts metadata from offline source code an constructs a logical model of the extracted metadata.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172649 - Automation of software verification: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for automatic test generation for a compiler. In one approach, the method, system and computer program product represent a test case for the compiler in a structure with one or more elements of a programming language, associate at least one syntactic... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090172650 - System and method for comparing partially decompiled software: A method and computer program product for generating a suspect abstract syntax tree by partially decompiling a compiled software module. The suspect abstract syntax tree is compared to one or more reference abstract syntax trees.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172651 - Creating and using deltas to modify existing computer code: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to creating and using deltas to modify existing computer code. In aspects, computer code may be translated into a higher level language to make it easier for a software developer to modify the computer code. The translated computer code may be presented... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090172653 - Compiling and inserting code snippets at runtime: Method, computer readable medium, and system for specifying before-compiled code, compiling the before-compiled code into a compiled code snippet, specifying an insertion point in a compiled code block of a computer program, and inserting the compiled code snippet into the compiled code block at the specified insertion point while the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090172652 - Method and apparatus for portable stub generation: Method and apparatus for automatically generating intermediate-level interfaces between program methods written in a platform-independent language and program methods written in a native language. A portable stub generator generates stubs in an intermediate, tokenized internal representation. The stub generator is portable across platforms as the stubs it generates are not... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090172654 - Program translation and transactional memory formation: Disclosed are methods, machine readable medium and systems that dynamically translate binary programs. The dynamic binary translation may include identifying a hot code trace of a program. The translation may further include determining a completion ratio for the hot code trace. The translation may also include packaging the hot code... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090172656 - Circuit device and method of providing a programmable power supply: In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes a plurality of network ports, power regulator circuitry coupled to the plurality of network ports, and a control input adapted to receive software updates. The circuit device further includes a memory adapted to store a plurality of instructions, including processor operating system... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090172655 - System, method and article of manufacture for using shadow installations of software modules during distributed system upgrade: A method, system and article of manufacture for upgrade of a software module executed in a distributed software computer system using shadow installations of software modules for minimum downtime. A first software module is executed on a first host and a second software module is executed on a second host,... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP Seventh Floor

20090172658 - Application installation: A method for installing an application includes detecting the initiation of a connection between a peripheral device and a client. An application state is determined. An active application state is an indication that the application has previously been installed. Upon a determination that the application state is not active, the... Agent: Zarian Midgley & Johnson PLLC

20090172657 - System, method, apparatus, mobile terminal and computer program product for providing secure mixed-language components to a system dynamically: An apparatus for receiving secure-mixed language libraries for usage in a platform is provided. The apparatus includes a processing element that is configured to execute a platform which includes one or more packages containing one or more non-native applications and one or more libraries. The one or more libraries may... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090172659 - Video game forward compatibility including software patching: Methods for updating video game software or handheld game devices, and systems for performing the methods. In some embodiments a first handheld game device with a later version of a game update software of a second handheld game device with an earlier version of the game.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP