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Data processing: software development, installation, and management October categorized by USPTO classification 10/09

20090259985 - System development planning tool: A system for planning and managing a software development project uses an extreme programming (XP) process and includes a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying graphs and for entering, displaying and modifying underlying planning data. In one embodiment, the GUI includes first, second and third windows. The first window displays... Agent: Qwest Communications International Inc.

20090259986 - Class selectable design sharing: In one illustrative embodiment, there is a computer implemented method for class selectable design sharing. The computer implemented method comprises, obtaining a set of classes for a design model from a source system, and identifying desired classes from the set of classes to form an identified subset of classes. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090259987 - Method, system and computer program product for recommending components based on common usage patterns: A method of recommending a next component includes: identifying one or more candidate software applications based on a first similarity metric, wherein the one or more candidate software applications include one or more reusable software components; identifying one or more candidate software components from the one or more reusable software... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090259988 - Using a menu slideshow framework for generating a custom menu-driven slideshow containing definable content: A computer program product that includes a project object. The project object can be configured for linearly organizing a series of custom self-contained content. The project object can be a compliable object that includes at least one menu framework object and a set of project data objects. The menu framework... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cha

20090259989 - Layered static program analysis framework for software testing: A method for analyzing a set of potential bug statements in source code. The method including obtaining a set of static program analyses; recursively reducing the set of potential bug statements in the source code by: selecting a static program analysis for each recursion from the set of static program... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090259990 - Mobile device software management method and apparatus: Mobile device software is managed by providing an interface between a plurality of software module handlers and a plurality of software modules. The interface is invoked responsive to a software module event such as the installation, removal, activation or modification of a software module. The interface identifies the software module... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090259991 - Method and apparatus for processing configuration information and a platform system: A configuration information processing method includes: receiving a policy identifier sent by a user, where the policy identifier represents the configuration information which the user requests to obtain; obtaining the source information and combination policy information according to the policy identifier; searching for the corresponding configuration sources according to the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090259992 - Testing notification-based software applications: A solution is proposed for testing a notification-based software application in a service oriented data processing environment (e.g., implementing the WS-Notification specification). The software application includes one or more notification producers. Each notification producer is adapted to distribute notification messages (e.g., of the SOAP type) to notification consumers that are... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cam

20090259994 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for analyzing program memory operations: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a memory; and a processor configured to monitor operations of at least one program related to the memory and analyze memory operations of the at least one program based at least in part on the monitoring is... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090259993 - Sandbox support for metadata in running applications: Techniques for using a sandbox to test changes to the metadata of a metadata-driven application. In one set of embodiments, a mainline and a sandbox are created in a runtime environment of a metadata-driven application. The mainline is configured to include a mainline version of a metadata document of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090259995 - Apparatus and method for standardizing textual elements of an unstructured text: In one embodiment the present invention includes a method for standardizing certain textual elements of an unstructured text to enhance the use of the unstructured text as a data source for an analytical processing tool. In accordance with one or more user-defined pre-processing directives, a pre-processing logic identifies textual elements... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090259996 - Partitioning cuda code for execution by a general purpose processor: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for translating application programs written using a parallel programming model for execution on multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) for execution by general purpose central processing unit (CPU). Portions of the application program that rely on specific features of the multi-core... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090259997 - Variance analysis for translating cuda code for execution by a general purpose processor: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for translating application programs written using a parallel programming model for execution on multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) for execution by general purpose central processing unit (CPU). Portions of the application program that rely on specific features of the multi-core... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090259998 - Method, system and computer program for identifying and reusing component aggregates: A method of automatically identifying entity aggregates for use in creating entity libraries is provided. The method includes: identifying one or more sub-entities of a first application; identifying one or more sub-entities of a second application; determining common usage patterns between the one or more sub-entities of the first application... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090259999 - Method and system for applying a patch during application execution: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that applies a patch to an application during execution of the application. During operation, the system obtains source code for the patch and constructs a shared library from the source code. Next, the system dynamically loads the shared library into the... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090260000 - Method, apparatus, and manufacture for software difference comparison: A computer program for software difference comparison is provided. The program extracts data from the files on the hard disk, including data such as symbols extracted from symbol tables, APIs extracted from help files, and/or configuration information. This information may be collected at two or more different times, for example,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090260001 - Apparatus and method for upgrading firmware on internet sharing device: An apparatus and method for upgrading firmware on an internet sharing device. The apparatus includes a memory that stores information for getting access to a firmware server, a lookup part that gets access to the firmware server and looks up a new version of firmware using the information stored in... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090260003 - Application packaging device and method for controlling the same: End user license agreements included in a plurality of encrypted applications are extracted from the applications. In this way, acceptances of the end user license agreements are obtained from a user without waiting completion of decryption of the plurality of encrypted applications.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090260002 - Software option selection and validation system: The present disclosure discloses a method for providing an activation of a requested software option associated with a base system software. The method may include receiving a request for an activation of a requested software option including an option part number for the requested software option. The software option being... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090260004 - Computer program updates for mobile computing device: A system and method for updating a computer program on a mobile computing device comprises uploading of packages to a repository, wherein each package comprises update data for a different portion of the computer program, a server identifying portions of the computer program to be updated on a device based... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090260005 - System and method for providing service: A system includes user accommodation apparatuses at various locations and a central apparatus. A user accommodation apparatus concerned accepts a use request from a user of a terminal, and determines which one of the user accommodation apparatuses the user is currently associated with, based on first information managed by the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090254876 - Concept-oriented software engineering system and method for identifying, extracting, organizing, inferring and querying software system facts: Software system facts comprising concepts, concept instances and relationships within the software system are identified and stored in a repository. The software system facts are extracted from artifacts comprising the software system or are provided through explicit definition. Architectures of the software system are recovered from the stored software system... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090254877 - Concept-oriented software engineering system and method for identifying, extracting, organizing, inferring and querying software system facts: Software system facts comprising concepts, concept instances and relationships within the software system are identified and stored in a repository. The software system facts are extracted from artifacts comprising the software system or are provided through explicit definition. Architectures of the software system are recovered from the stored software system... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090254878 - Executable code generated from common source code: A computer system generates first executable code in a first programming language based on common source code, where the first executable code is configured to execute at a server in the client-server environment. Then, the computer system executes the first executable to produce relational objects that constitute a tree hierarchy,... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090254879 - Method and system for assuring data integrity in data-driven software: Described herein is a system and method for developing data-driven software, which references coded values. Coded values may include resource identifiers such as icons, bitmaps, localized strings, menus, screens, and sounds. According to certain aspects of the present invention, a build process is presented that creates a robust way for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090254880 - Techniques for offering and applying code modifications: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for offering and applying source code modifications based upon a context of a user in a development environment. For example, code snippets can be offered to the user and customized programmatically. A code editor accepts user input comprising source code. Code snippets of sample... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254881 - Code generation techniques for administrative tasks: Techniques for using a declarative programming language to automatically generate imperative language computer programs (such as the get, set, enable, and disable commands of the Windows® PowerShell scripting language) that perform administrative tasks of computing environments. A code generator 150 is operative to process a declarative language document, which includes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254882 - Methods and devices for iterative binary coding and decoding of xml type documents: The invention concerns iterative binary coding/decoding for a document comprising values to code or to decode. For the coding, after having created (400) a dictionary on the basis of the values to code, differences between consecutive elements of the dictionary created are calculated (440). These creating and calculating steps are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090254884 - Identification of topics in source code: Topics in source code can be identified using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) by receiving source code, identifying domain specific keywords from the source code, generating a keyword matrix, processing the keyword matrix and the source code using LDA, and outputting a list of topics. The list of topics is output... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090254883 - Metadata-integrated debugger: A method, system and computer program product for software debugging using annotation metadata. A set of metadata comprising source code annotation information for a software program is maintained, together with data/metadata relationships between individual units of the metadata and individual units of the source code. A software debugging point is... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20090254885 - System and a method for managing configurations of automatic tests: The present invention is a new and innovative system and method for managing and organizing the set of configurations of tests independently of the definition and execution of scenario suit of the tests. The proposed system and method enable managing the setups and teardown configurations for any type of test... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090254886 - Virtual debug port in single-chip computer system: The invention is a method and apparatus for debugging of software on an array-type single chip computer system 16 without provision of dedicated debugging hardware on the chip. This is accomplished by suitable operating instructions that cause a hardware portion of array 16 to operate as a virtual background debug... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090254887 - Testing software applications with progress tracking: Method, computer program products and systems for testing a software application by providing one or more test units. Each test unit is adapted to verity a feature of the software application. A weight is assigned to each test unit. A theoretical sequence of execution of the test units is determined... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090254888 - Debug tours for software debugging: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to source code debugging and provide a method, system and computer program product for debug tours for debugging source code. In an embodiment of the invention, a debugger data processing system can be provided. The system can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090254889 - Just-in-time dynamic instrumentation: Just-in-time dynamic instrumentation of a running software system may be achieved by registering one or more instrumentation probe handlers in an inactive state wherein the probe handlers reside in a memory space associated with the software system but are not instrumented into the software system. The probe handlers may each... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20090254890 - Apparatus and method for generating install-less software from installation package of software: Disclosed is a system and method for completely converting software into a form that can be used without an installation process by using an operating system and a converted software generating module which are disposed at a remote place. The software converting system for generating a converted software executable without... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090254891 - Automatic reverse engineering of input formats: Systems and methods for automatically reverse engineering an input data format using dynamic data flow analysis. Combining input data with a simulated execution of the binary program using the input data and analyzing the use of the data by the program to generate a BNL-like grammar representing the input data... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090254892 - Compiling method and compiler: A compiling method for compiling software which is adapted to output an intermediate result at a given timing, the compiling method includes extracting, by a computer, a process block related to parallel processing and conditional branch from a processing sequence included in a source code of a software which is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090254893 - Compiler optimized function variants for use when return codes are ignored: A mechanism and functionality are provided for generating and using compiler optimized function variants. These variants may be used, for example, in situations where return values of functions called by code are not thereafter used by the code calling the functions. In particular, for a function called by computer code,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090254894 - Method and apparatus for workflow based high availability analysis: Techniques are disclosed for workflow based high availability analysis in computing systems. For example, a computer-implemented method for analyzing an information network infrastructure to identify one or more availability weak points includes the following steps. A workflow specification is provided based on one or more user-visible processes and an application... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090254895 - Prefetching irregular data references for software controlled caches: Prefetching irregular memory references into a software controlled cache is provided. A compiler analyzes source code to identify at least one of a plurality of loops that contain an irregular memory reference. The compiler determines if the irregular memory reference within the at least one loop is a candidate for... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090254896 - Simplifying bundling of fixes used to resolve errors in pre-installed software: Simplifying the bundling of fixes used to resolve errors in pre-installed software. A user is first enabled to specify a list of fixes that are to be included in the bundle as a group. The availability of each of the list of fixes is then determined, with the fixes that... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090254897 - Updating firmware on mobile electronice devices: A system for updating firmware on electronic devices, including an electronic device, including a processor, a storage coupled with the processor for storing a current image of firmware that includes programmed instructions for the processor and a baseline image of firmware, an update utility coupled with the processor for instructing... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20090254898 - Converting a device from one system to another: Re-purposing a computer from one operating system to another is both simplified and made less susceptible to error by moving original system firmware to a backup location and then installing both new firmware and the new operating system in one process. Because the original firmware is maintained and accessible, should... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254899 - Method for virtualizing software applications: A method for virtualizing of software applications. The method comprises initializing a virtual environment created by a virtual engine executed over a computer; creating a new data file; launching an installation process of a software application to be virtualized, wherein the installation process runs in the virtual environment; during the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090254900 - Network system, computers, and method and program for providing and executing applications in network system: To provide a network system or the like that makes it possible for a client terminal to use an application without being influenced by the quality of circuits or the like and having a simple configuration, and that also makes it possible for a user to easily search a desired... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090249277 - Method for creating unified binary files: A method for creating a unified binary file that may be executed on a plurality of hardware platforms. The unified binary file includes hardware independent code and a plurality of hardware dependent binary files for a variety of hardware platforms. When the unified binary file is executed on a supported... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20090249278 - Method and system for implementing a complete sap system landscape on ibm system i: A method of implementing a complete SAP system landscape on IBM System i is provided. This method involves preselecting at least one value-added reseller (VAR) for participation in implementing the complete SAP system landscape on IBM System i. The VAR then selects values for flexible parameters according to needs of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20090249279 - Software appliance framework: m

20090249280 - Upgrading simple applications to full scale solutions: The architecture provides development tools for the occasional developer to build a substantial portion of an application interface for accessing and interacting with actual data. The lack in knowledge of the occasional developer to complete the project is then supplemented by a development service provider such that experienced developers complete... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090249284 - Automation for virtualized it environments: A system automatically builds custom virtual appliances and/or other computing environments and their components, where applicable, based on user requirements and may offer a service for hosting, maintaining, monitoring and managing such appliances remotely. These virtual appliances may be delivered over a network, such as the Internet, and can be... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20090249282 - Cross platform compositional widgets: Mechanisms are afforded for supporting cross platform widgets. A generic widget can be converted into a specialized widget of a corresponding platform. Dually, a specialized widget can be generalized to a generic widget for subsequent deployment on the same or different host. Furthermore, support is provided for compositional widgets across... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090249283 - Modelling software appliance: c

20090249281 - Performance-related decision support for model-driven engineering: A performance analysis model may be determined based on a development model associated with development of a software process, the development model defining an execution of the software process, and the performance analysis model being annotated with performance data characterizing the execution. At least one user-specified performance profile characterizing performance... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090249285 - Automatic generation of run-time instrumenter: A method and apparatus for automatically generating a run-time instrumenter are disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, an off-line analyzer first determines instrumentation locations for a program under test in accordance with a method called the Super Nested Block Method. After the instrumentation locations have been determined, source code... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090249286 - Method for dynamically streaming an xslt transformation: A method in one embodiment includes receiving an XSLT transformation; analyzing the transformation for determining which information about the input is required to generate code that is streaming with respect to the rest of the input; calculating an algorithm which when given the required input information will then execute the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Ibms

20090249288 - Rebuildable service-oriented applications: A method includes receiving a selection of a predefined implementation variation for a variable service component in at least one computing device configured to implement a service-oriented application; and executing source code associated with the variable service component in response to receiving the selection, wherein the source code performs a... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20090249287 - System and method for an infrastructure that enables provisioning of dynamic business applications: A system and method for providing an infrastructure that can be provisioned for use with dynamic business applications. In accordance with an embodiment, the business application infrastructure comprises a plurality of drop-in components which can be added or provisioned as necessary to create a dynamic business application. For example, an... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090249289 - Detecting memory errors using write integrity testing: Methods of detecting memory errors using write integrity testing are described. In an embodiment, additional analysis is performed when a program is compiled. This analysis identifies a set of objects which can be written by each instruction in the program. Additional code is then inserted into the program so that,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090249290 - Method and system for managing enterprise content: A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090249291 - Method to transfer annotation across versions of the data: A method, apparatus, and article are provided for managing migration of annotations between versions of source code. Annotations associated with patterns of source code are identified. A comparison of the modified source code is conducted in conjunction with the identified annotations in a prior version of the source code to... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, Llc

20090249292 - Processing strings based on whether the strings are short strings or long strings: The specification of a string within source code written in a programming language is received. The source code is processed for ultimate execution of a computer program encompassing the source code, by at least performing the following. It is determined whether the string specified is a short string or a... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja (japan)

20090249293 - Defining workflow processing using a static class-level network in object-oriented classes: Methods for configuring a computer-implemented workflow process in a computing environment include defining a workflow class using an underlying object oriented programming language of the computing environment as a metalanguage, and extending the workflow class with a static class-level model that defines a flow network,... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090249294 - Converting rules in a rule-based system to ontological information: A method and system provides one or more product type descriptions, and constructs a map between the sub-conditions of the product type descriptions and constructs in a Web Ontological Language (OWL). The method converts the product type description rules into new OWL classes by creating a new OWL class for... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, Llc

20090249296 - Instantiating a composite application for different target platforms: A method, system, and computer program product for instantiating a composite application for different target platforms. In an exemplary manner, a template that describes a composite application having a plurality of application components is created. The template includes a composite application component assembly descriptor and a plurality of platform-specific handlers.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090249295 - System for estimating a software product release time from version information: Systems and processes for migration of data stored in a label-based software configuration management (CM) system to records of a time-based CM system in a manner that permits for identification, in the time-based system, of contents of releases. In some exemplary implementations, techniques operating according to some of the principles... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090249297 - Method and system for automated testing of computer applications: A system includes a testing device to test a computer application in conjunction with a testing tool, the testing device including a test automation engine to initiate a test, the test automation engine including a programmable data source that is testing tool universal, the programmable data source including one or... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090249298 - Evaluation of software based on change history: A method for software processing includes obtaining change information, which records changes that have been performed in respective locations in software code. The change information is processed so as to assign to at least some of the locations respective priorities, which are indicative of respective likelihoods that the locations contain... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090249299 - Evaluation of software based on review history: m

20090249300 - Event set recording: Recording of functional steps resulting from actions in an application is desirable for performing functional testing or user interface automation of an application. However, certain events that may result from actions occurring in an application are often difficult to record, which may lead to playback failure. Further, a user's intent... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090249301 - Method and apparatus for testing soft error rate of an application program: Techniques are provided for determining consequences of an injected fault on a system running a given application program or operating system, in order to measure the software impact of a hardware soft error on the application program/operating system. The application program software is emulated instruction-by-instruction, where source operands are randomly... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090249304 - Code instrumentation method and code instrumentation apparatus: A code instrumentation method and a code instrumentation apparatus for instrumenting object codes of programs to enable memory access tracing. The code instrumentation method includes: identifying an object code block to be executed circularly in object codes; identifying at least one memory access instruction in the object code block where... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20090249302 - Method and apparatus to trace and correlate data trace and instruction trace for out-of-order processors: In a data processing system, a marked bit is used to identify a data access instruction throughout the pipeline to indicate that the instruction meets user-specified criteria (e.g., a meets a data address range of interest). Based on the marked bit, an in-order program correlation message is generated which indicates... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090249303 - Random access to historical program state for enhanced debugging: A method in one embodiment includes: executing a program; performing testing on the program; logging every input to the program during the testing; logging every result during testing of the program; storing the logged results; and allowing a user to search the logged results. If a failure occurs during the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Ibms

20090249306 - Off-line program analysis and run-time instrumentation: A technique is disclosed for determining off-line the number and location of instrumentation probes to be inserted into a program under testing, and subsequently instrumenting the program at run-time based on the off-line analysis. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, an off-line analyzer first determines instrumentation locations for a program... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090249305 - Super nested block method to minimize coverage testing overhead: A method for determining the number and location of instrumentation probes to be inserted into a program is disclosed. The method advantageously inserts the minimum number of probes that are required to obtain execution coverage for every node in the program's control-flow graph. In addition, the method requires only one... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090249307 - Program analysis apparatus, program analysis method, and program storage medium: There is provided with an apparatus which includes: an inputting unit which inputs a target program and address definition data, a first analyzer which generates definition-reference data associating a line number of a statement, an address of a definition variable and an address of a reference variable; a second analyzer... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090249308 - Efficient encoding of instrumented data in real-time concurrent systems: A mechanism for encoding and reporting instrumented data is disclosed that requires less storage space and incurs less processor overhead than other methods of the prior art. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a bit vector in shared memory corresponds to nodes of a program's control-flow graph that have been... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090249309 - Efficient program instrumentation: A method for determining the number and location of instrumentation probes to be inserted into a program is disclosed. The method advantageously inserts the minimum number of probes that are required to obtain execution coverage for every node in the program's control-flow graph. In addition, the method requires only type... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, Llc

20090249310 - Automatic code transformation with state transformer monads: Stateful computations are transformed into stateless computations automatically to facilitate scalability. Programmers can write code in a traditional imperative stateful style, which is subsequently transformed automatically into a stateless, state transformer monadic style. After the transformation, state is passed as an additional argument in a call and returns as a... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090249311 - Sharing a native module of compiled code using an abstraction module of interpreted code in a virtual machine environment: Interpreted code modules configured to be executed within a virtual machine can be identified. Each of the interpreted code modules can be configured to interact with a native module such that dependency information for the native module can be programmatically utilized by each of the interpreted code modules. An abstraction... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a. Ibm-rsw

20090249314 - Computer assisted data collection for surveys and the like: An exemplary MMIC (“Multi-Mode Interviewing Capability”) survey program is a computerized tool that supports various traditional modes of collecting interview data, including telephone interviewing, written interviewing, and personal interviewing, and can be used to manage the whole interview process from questionnaire design, sample management, and fieldwork monitoring to final dataset... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090249315 - Object storage and synchronization hooks for occasionally-connected devices: A system may include an application programming interface (API) layer, a cache layer, and an object storage/access layer. The API layer may expose an interface to store a business object and an interface to retrieve the business object, and may transmit a request to store the business object and a... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20090249312 - Process generation approach and system for an integrated telecom platform: An approach for process generation for computer telephony integration (CTI) of an integrated telecom platform, including the following steps. Step 1: The process input module receives the flow chart input by a user and saves it as a flow chart record file; Step 2: the process coversion module coverts the... Agent: Eric Chan

20090249313 - System and method for prioritizing the compilation of bytecode modules during installation of a software application: A system and method for compiling part of the bytecode for a software application into native code at install time when the software application is installed on a particular computer are described. According to one embodiment of the method, usage information for the software application may be received. The usage... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert, Goetzel/symantec

20090249316 - Combining static and dynamic compilation to remove delinquent loads: A method for combined static and dynamic compilation of program code to remove delinquent loads can include statically compiling source code into executable code with instrumented sections each being suspected of including a delinquent load, and also into a separate intermediate language representation with annotated portions each corresponding to one... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20090249317 - Xslt-specific jit compiler: An Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) processing environment receives an XSLT style sheet and an Extensible Markup Language (XML) input document. The XSLT style sheet is compiled into XSL byte code fragments. A just-in-time (JIT) compiler in the XSLT processing environment compiles the XSL byte code fragments into native code.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090249318 - Data transfer optimized software cache for irregular memory references: Mechanisms are provided for optimizing irregular memory references in computer code. These mechanisms may parse the computer code to identify memory references in the computer code. These mechanisms may further classify the memory references in the computer code as either regular memory references or irregular memory references. Moreover, the mechanisms... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090249320 - Display control device capable of automatically updating firmware and method thereof: A display control device with automatic firmware update and an update method thereof are provided to update the firmware of the display control device rapidly and automatically, thereby improving user convenience and reducing user waiting time. The display control device comprises a transmission interface unit, a memory interface unit, a... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20090249319 - Testing method of baseboard management controller: A testing method of baseboard management controller (BMC) is used for testing firmware stability of a BMC in a server. The testing method includes initializing a plurality of virtual operating systems; setting a plurality of virtual intelligent platform management interfaces (IPMIs) and a virtual BMC in the virtual operating systems;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090249321 - Apparatus and methods for widget update scheduling: Methods and apparatus for scheduling a content update of a mobile widget are provided. The method may include receiving a widget update consideration. The method may also include generating a content update schedule for a mobile widget based on the update consideration. Further, the method may include storing the generated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090249323 - Address book sharing system and method for non-verbally adding address book contents using the same: An address book sharing system includes a vehicle, a short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit embedded in the vehicle, and a short-range enabled wireless device. The short-range enabled wireless device is configured to be paired with the short-range enabled in-vehicle telematics unit when positioned in the vehicle, and to download an... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.c.

20090249325 - Network software normalization: A fire detection system includes at least one existing fire detection unit, at least one replacement fire detection unit, control circuitry associated with the at least one existing fire detection unit, control circuitry associated with the at least one replacement fire detection unit, a graphical user interface associated with the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090249322 - Techniques for updating software: Techniques for updating software include downloading a software image update from a first data structure wherein the software update image includes one or more content identifiers. Content is then downloaded from a second data structure based on the one or more content identifiers. The content may then be output during... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090249324 - Virtualized application image patching: Virtual applications are automatically kept up to date with the current version of a virtual application. Instead of the client having to obtain the entire version of the current virtual application, the client obtains the portions of the current virtual application that are changed from its version of the virtual... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090249326 - system for signaling an application to a host device and method therefor: An application is signaled to a host device using descriptors incorporated into an application information table. Only applications intended for a certain host device are downloaded to that host device. The descriptors allow the host to identify applications that are addressed to the host based on attributes of the host.... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, Pllc

20090249327 - Method for metering an extensible license for java applications: A method in one embodiment includes using a class loader, detecting an entry point to a Java application; using a class loader, detecting each entry point extension to the Java application; and contacting a third party license server for acquiring a license for each of the Java application and extension... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Ibms

20090249328 - Component-based software installation: A system and method for automated management of a multi-component software installation. The software product comprises multiple components that can operate independently, but which may operate better (e.g., with more or different functionality) if able to call another component (a “supplying” component). A persistent data store records the installation status... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP