Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions 10/09

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