Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions

20080109783 - Resource assessment method and system: A resource assessment method and system. The method comprises identifying at least one information technology resource, providing characteristics of the information technology resource, maintaining a database of characteristics of at least one software product, generating a data collector software tool based on the characteristics of the information technology resource and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080109784 - Non-destructive automated xml file builders: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the manual modification of automatically generated source code and provide a method, system and computer program product for the non-destructive generation of markup defining an artifact in an integrated development environment. In one embodiment of the invention,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080109785 - Graphical program having graphical and/or textual specification of event handler procedures for program objects: The present invention relates to a program-development environment that allows developers to seamlessly switch between a visual programming paradigm and a textual programming paradigm, thereby permitting developers to choose the paradigm best suited for creating each aspect of the desired program. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be generated by... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080109786 - Method and apparatus for analyzing structured document: It is possible to realize a high-speed syntax analysis even when a different structured document is inputted to a job system each time. An analysis result table for holding a result of a syntax analysis of “a frequently appearing character string in the structured document” is added to an XML... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109787 - Method and system for function reference of development tool: A function reference method of a development tool and a system thereof are disclosed. According to the function reference method, new function database and classified data are described with a text file or a database format file. After the file is read by an add-in module of the development tool,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080109788 - System and method for remotely administering a computer network: In accordance with the teachings herein, systems and methods are provided for administering a plurality of computers over a wide area network (WAN). A system for administering a plurality of computers over a WAN may include software instructions configured to allow a user to define a script, software instructions configured... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080109789 - Method and apparatus for achieving efficient upgrade of insurance products: A system for managing products comprising a plurality of components is provided. In one embodiment, the system further comprises a plurality of parameters governing the interaction among said components and an interface for receiving user input concerning said components; wherein said components and parameters are objects defined and stored externally;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080109790 - Determining causes of software regressions based on regression and delta information: Techniques for isolating software regressions are provided. In one approach, QTrace is used to generate DTrace scripts to gather timing information of one or more portions of source code during a test of particular version of a program. Based on results of one or more tests of multiple versions of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20080109791 - Method, system and computer program for tracing impact of errors in software applications: A solution for managing errors in software applications is proposed. Typically, the software application is represented (during its analysis and design phases) by means of different models—for example, of the UML type. The same models are also exploited to represent the impact of any errors in the software application. For... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080109792 - Tracing the execution path of a computer program: The invention relates to tracing the execution path of a computer program comprising at least one module including a plurality of instructions. At least one of these instructions is a branch instruction. Each branch instruction is identified and evaluated to be one of true and false. An evaluation of true... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080109793 - Verifying loaded module during debugging: A debugger traps a module load operation and computes a hash of the loaded module. The hash is compared with a hash of a module file, and a warning is issued if the checksums are different. Systems and software implementing similar methods are also described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080109794 - Method for signaling runtime events to an automated test script: An embodiment of the present invention relates to using a test script to test a program under test (PUT) based on instrumenting the program under test by inserting state inspection code into predefined points of interest associated with test initialization points, test start points, and test completion points. A test... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080109795 - C/c++ language extensions for general-purpose graphics processing unit: A general-purpose programming environment allows users to program a GPU as a general-purpose computation engine using familiar C/C++ programming constructs. Users may use declaration specifiers to identify which portions of a program are to be compiled for a CPU or a GPU. Specifically, functions, objects and variables may be specified... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080109796 - Method and apparatus for associating user-specified data with events in a data space profiler: A system and method for profiling a software application may include means for operating on context-specific data and costs. The system may include a descriptor apparatus for specifying identifiers of extended address elements to be profiled and locations for storing corresponding data values. In some embodiments, a list of variables... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20080109799 - Information processing method and recording medium: An information processing method for an information processing apparatus which acquires a software component controlling an image forming apparatus from an external device and updates the software component, wherein the software component is classified by function unit of the image forming apparatus, and the function unit is caused to correspond... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080109798 - Methods for performing resilient firmware upgrades to a functioning memory: This invention relates generally to methods and computer readable media for upgrading firmware stored in a non-volatile memory, in phases, and restoring firmware in-situ to compensate for failed firmware upgrades. In various embodiments, methods and computer readable media can upgrade and restore the firmware as the non-volatile memory remains functioning.... Agent: Winston & Strawn, LLP

20080109797 - Optimized call center operations method and system: The present invention provides an optimized system and method for electronically operating a call center. The system includes three major logical components, including a technology component with one or more third party software products, an in-house tools component, and a knowledge management component. Each of the plurality of third party... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080109800 - Intelligent transmitter and software update method for same: When there is no agreement between the version of version update data stored in the master memory and the version information of software stored in a slave memory, the version update data is transferred to the slave side thereby rewriting the software stored in the slave memory. By updating the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080109801 - Dynamically generating installable software artifacts in a canonical form: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to application deployment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for deploying installable software artifacts in canonical form. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying installable software artifacts in canonical... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080109802 - Self-healing cross development environment: An apparatus, computer system program product and method implement self-healing functionality in a cross development environment to maximize the availability and minimize interoperability problems between disparate software development environments that are coupled to one another via such an environment. In particular, dynamically-modifiable mapping data structures are used to interface multiple... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080109803 - Systems and methods for packaging files having automatic conversion across platforms: A mechanism for sharing files, and sets of related files, or packages of files, in a multi-host, multi-platform environment is provided. A public package client handles user requests to perform operations on a software package. Additionally, information about the package and the files contained therein may be obtained. A server,... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.c.

20080104569 - Converged call flow modeling and converged web service interface design: An interface design tool may include a traditional call flow design view and a traditional WSDL interface design view. The call flow design view may allow for the grouping of the call flow into segments or exchanges, and allow for labeling of each message in the segment. The tooling then... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104570 - System and method for computer-aided graph-based dependency analysis: The present invention is directed to a system and methods for analyzing dependencies. The dependencies that may be analyzed include, for example, dependencies among methods or procedures in software source code, or in system configuration or deployment. A layered system is provided, comprising a back-end layer, abstraction layer and user... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080104571 - Graphical object programming methods using graphical directional indicators: Methods for graphically programming a computer environment involve using one or graphical directional indicators in the computer environment to program one or more processing elements to perform a user-defined computer operation.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080104572 - Dispatch api that permits midlets to initiate dispatch calls: The present invention can include a method for initiating a dispatch call. The method can include a step of receiving a dispatch call request from a MIDlet disposed within a JAVA ME environment of a communication device, such as a mobile telephony device. The method can determine whether the MIDlet... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080104573 - Software build validation before check-in: In one embodiment of this invention, a computer system performs a method for validating a software build before check-in. A computer system accesses an existing software build of a software application that includes one or more existing binary files. The computer system accesses one or more updated binary files from... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080104574 - Parameter management using compiler directives: A method, system, architecture and apparatus for managing program function parameters using compiler directives. A parameter management system can include a compiler coupled to a primary symbol-type dictionary and a supplemental symbol-type dictionary containing parameter data for specific function calls of corresponding generic type functions. Notably, directive processing logic can... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104575 - Agent for implementing automated compatibility test: A method (400) of testing a device (105). The method can include receiving from the device a test request identifying at least one test to be performed on the device. The test request can be received in accordance with a first communications protocol. The test request can be communicated to... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080104576 - Method and arrangement for locating input domain boundaries: A method and system for identifying a boundary value of an input domain in a system under test. The method comprises step of selecting at least one data field for testing. At least one initial input value is set for the selected at least one data field and a test... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Royal W. Craig

20080104577 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a relative measure of build quality for a built system: Determining a relative measure of build quality for a built product based on analysis of historical test data from test cases applied to a series of builds of the built product, by identifying one or more first sets of test results, each first set of test results being derived from... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080104578 - Using ghost agents in an environment supported by customer service providers: A method for supporting an application can include the step of receiving a problem indication relating to the application. The method can also identify a host within a grid environment, wherein a host can be a software object used by said application. A ghost agent can be associated with the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080104579 - Systems and methods of transforming xml schemas: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods of transforming XML schemas. One embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of translating schemas comprising specifying one or more first schema elements in a first schema, specifying one or more operations corresponding to the one or more first schema... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080104580 - Method, apparatus and computer program for validating source code: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for validating a function call in source code, a valid function call referencing a message in a message bundle using a message key specified in the function call, the valid function call operable to produce output using the referenced message. First... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080104581 - Computer method and apparatus for merging software configurations when a change set spans multiple artifacts: Computer method, apparatus and system for merging software configurations. The invention system and method includes a workspace providing a work environment in which to perform operations on a subject software configuration. The workspace identifies a change set of current changes being made to the subject software configuration. A merge tool... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080104582 - System for providing software related information, apparatus for processing description data, and software componet: A system for providing software related information is constructed from a client terminal to be used by a software developer and a description data providing server that provides description data for describing how to use a software component to the client terminal via a communication network. The software component is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080104583 - Dynamic software configuration: A method and apparatus are provided that allow the user to quickly load new versions of applications on a scan tool. The latest versions of the applications that a scan tool can operate are loaded onto a memory device. The scan tool verifies which versions of the applications are authorized... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080104584 - Upgrade service system: A wireless apparatus or the like downloads upgrade content information and an upgrade key generated from a production number of the user apparatus which are generated by an upgrade key support center apparatus to perform upgrading, and the upgrade key support center apparatus periodically acquires apparatus information of the wireless... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080104585 - Information processor and information updating method: Prior to updating of an information processing program that stores a program update module for updating a wireless interface driver or the information processing program used for communications with a router, a printer stores the minimal information necessary for communications such as the wireless interface driver or setting information (SSID,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098344 - Software inspection management tool: A software inspection management tool for monitoring inspection rates of code, the tool including: a display device for displaying a primary window having a plurality of functions; a first function being used for defining a new package by; a second function being used for opening an existing package; an inspection... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080098345 - Accessing extensible markup language documents: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for accessing extensible markup language (XML) documents. A method includes enabling an array syntax within an object-oriented programming language to retrieve data from an extensible markup language (XML) document, the array syntax including defined object types, a tag name of an individual child... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080098346 - Mapping web services description language documents to xquery functions: Using a WSDL document to exchange an interface definition for back-end business logic includes automatically mapping various elements of the WSDL document to corresponding XQuery elements to generate an XQuery interface definition “skeleton”. From such an XQuery interface skeleton, an XQuery statement can be generated by filling in the body... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080098347 - Model checking of non-terminating software programs: A method for verifying software program code includes specifying a property that the software program code is expected to satisfy. The software program code and the property are transformed into an initial logical formula in a static single assignment (SSA) form, the formula including variables. A loop in the software... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080098348 - Software domain model that enables simultaneous independent development of software components: One embodiment of the present invention provides a software domain model that enables simultaneous independent development of software components. A system using this model includes a first component, a second component, and a core layer that defines an item that can be accessed by the first and second components. Both... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080098349 - Traceability in a modeling environment: Exemplary embodiments employ a mapping among entities that are related to each other. The entities may include a graphical model, generated code, a generated report, a requirements document and/or an intermediate representation. The mapping may facilitate graphical identifications between parts of one entity that maps to part of another entity.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080098350 - Method of generating c code on the basis of uml specifications: The method in accordance with the invention is characterized in that a detailed implementation model is produced in the UML language, that the data of this model are structured to render them utilizable by the scripts generation tool “ModelInAction” (termed “MIA” and produced by the company Sodifrance), and that this... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080098351 - Module class subsets for industrial control: A system that facilitates module design in an industrial environment is provided. The system includes a module component that defines operations to control an industrial process. At least one class component is defined within the module that identifies a generic operation for the module, where the class component executes one... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080098353 - System and method to graphically facilitate speech enabled user interfaces: A graphical development environment for developing the program flow of an application, The environment is controlled by a plurality of icons, some of which are detailed sub-routines used to control the proper returns in systems in which speech recognition is utilized. In one embodiment, a loop construct is used with... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080098352 - User configureable language independent code assist method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product: A code assist function which suggests candidates responsive to a parsing of a partial program instruction statement by determining a current cursor position in the partial program instruction statement; parsing the partial program instruction statement before the current cursor position; generating a list of candidates to be inserted at the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080098354 - Modular management blade system and code updating method: A modular management blade (MMB) system used to monitor the voltage, temperature and fan rotational speed in a blade server chassis is provided. The modular management blade system comprises a first modular management blade and a second modular management blade. The first modular management blade comprises a first memory unit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080098355 - Integrated configuration of cross organizational business processes: Embodiments of configuring elements of a first ES and a second ES in mechanisms are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080098356 - Translation viewer for project documentation and editing: A software documentation system is provided. This includes a selection component that detects a project component within a context of a current language. A translation viewer displays alternative language documentation associated with the detected project component, where the translation viewer can be associated with an editor that is linked to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080098357 - Phantom information commands: A method of capture of program metadata in near real time consistent with certain embodiments involves monitoring remote control commands to detect an activate command that activates a mode of operation having potential for selection of a program; upon receipt of the activate command, further monitoring remote control commands for... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080098359 - Manipulation of trace sessions based on address parameters: A method and apparatus for manipulation of trace sessions based on address parameters. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request for a performance trace session for a computer application. A parameter is generated to designate the performance trace session. A call is received to an address of the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080098361 - Method and apparatus for filtering software tests: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that generates a test for a class under test. The system first receives an operation sequence to be applied to the class under test. The system then generates one or more operation subsequences from the received operation sequence. Next, the system filters... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080098358 - Method and system for providing a common structure for trace data: A method for providing a common structure for trace data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating non-compatible trace data at a first provider, converting the non-compatible trace data into a first compatible trace data, generating a second compatible trace data at a second provider, and storing the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080098360 - System and method for automatically determining relationships between software artifacts using multiple evidence sources: A method (which can be computer implemented) for inferring whether at least a first relationship exists between at least first and second entities includes the steps of applying a first assessor to obtain a first confidence level pertaining to putative existence of said at least first relationship between said at... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080098362 - Software testing method: A method for testing a software product comprises initiating a breakpoint in the software product, and executing a probe routine. The executing of the probe routine comprises creating a single step state stack, and repetitively; identifying data to be protected, disabling interrupts, writing the data to the single step state... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080098363 - Database breakpoint apparatus and method: An apparatus and method define the concept of a “database breakpoint.” One or more conditions in the database are specified as a database breakpoint in a debug environment for debugging a computer program that accesses the database. When the database conditions exist, one or more debug functions may be performed... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080098364 - Method and apparatus for automatic application profiling: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for profiling an application. Data is collected for analyzing performance of the application using a device driver for a profiler in an operating system kernel in response to the application executing in a virtual machine. Data is stored in a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098365 - Performance analyzer: A method for performance analysis of a system may include capturing data including callee stack information and persisting the callee stack information in a form that can be queried. The method may also include generating a performance analysis report in response to a query.... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080098366 - Assertion tester: Included is a method for testing an assertion written for a logic program that can be simulated in a simulation program. Embodiments of the method include receiving the assertion independent from the logic program and independent from the simulation program, wherein the assertion includes at least one variable from the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080098368 - Automatic native generation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically generating native images for a virtual machine environment. A virtual machine environment is provided where application libraries are distributed in an intermediate language format and then compiled at a later point in time. An automatic native generation service is provided that monitors... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080098367 - System and method for transferring code to a data producer: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that selectively transfers code to a data producer in a networked system. In this system, the data producer generates data and then sends the data to a device. The device receives the data from the data producer, and then uses code... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080098370 - Formal language and translator for parallel processing of data: The present invention, in an example embodiment, provides a special-purpose formal language and translator for the parallel processing of large databases in a distributed system. The special-purpose language has features of both a declarative programming language and a procedural programming language and supports the co-grouping of tables, each with an... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080098369 - Process automation system and method employing property attachment techniques: In addition, advanced report generation techniques are described below in which the report generation process is logically separated into a data gathering stage and a report generation stage. The data gathering stage extracts certain specified properties and diagnostic information from each job step. The extracted information is then stored in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080098371 - Method, computer program product, and device for selectively allocating memory: Expressions are selectively retrieved from memory during compilation by scanning code for expressions that can be effectively accessed directly from highly cached memory without needing to be loaded into a register, e.g., expressions that are not modified by the rest of the code. The scanning may include examining the use... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080098372 - Program converting apparatus, method, and program: Program converting methods, apparatus and systems including a code analysis unit for performing lexical and syntactic analyses of a source code of an execution program, an optimization unit for transforming this execution program, and an output code generation unit for converting the transformed execution program into a machine language code.... Agent: Louis P. Herzberg Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20080098373 - Processing an xml feed with extensible or non-typed elements: A computerized system that implements a type system can process one or more XML documents that comprise unknown schema elements, which may not correlate within one or more types in the type system. In one implementation, for example, a computer system receives one or more XML document feeds and deserializes... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080098374 - Method and apparatus for performing dynamic optimization for software transactional memory: c

20080098375 - Runtime optimization of distributed execution graph: A general purpose high-performance distributed execution engine for coarse-grained data-parallel applications is proposed that allows developers to easily create large-scale distributed applications without requiring them to master concurrency techniques beyond being able to draw a graph of the data-dependencies of their algorithms. Based on the graph, a job manager intelligently... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080098376 - Method, computer program product, and device for reducing delays in data processing: Data processing delay is reduced during data processing, using compiler optimization. Blocks of code are scanned in an order from blocks recurring most often to blocks recurring least often. In an order from blocks recurring most often to block recurring least often, shifts are inserted before arithmetic references, such that... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080098377 - Compiler neutral linking solution for c++ code: The present invention provides a solution where interactions between different C++ modules can be reduced to interactions written in the C programming language. This permits code linking the difference C++ software modules to be written in the C programming language. Because naming conventions for linking symbols are standardized for the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080098378 - File attributes for flexible linking: The object file format and linker are enhanced to provide file attributes to allow flexible selection and placement of objects.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080098379 - System and method of configuring computer settings: A computer settings configuration system and method for configuring computer settings are provided. The computer settings configuration system comprises a loading module for loading into computer readable memory a subset of computer setting variables and a modification module for modifying computer system settings corresponding with the subset of computer setting... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080098380 - System, method, and device for updating programmable electronic equipment with a transport device from a deployment server via the internet or other communication medium: A method, system, and device for updating and debugging the firmware of a microcontroller or FPGAs resident on PCB assemblies contained within OEM machines is disclosed. The system comprises a portable, configurable transport device with two interface adapters. The first adapter is a programming adapter for interfacing the device with... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080098381 - Systems and methods for firmware update in a data processing device: A firmware update method for a data processing device is provided. The data processing device comprises a MBR (master boot record) which targets an OS (operating system) loader of a first OS, and boots the data processing device in the first OS. A virtual disc comprising a loading module, a... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080098382 - Method and system for management of interim software fixes: A method of organizing interim software fixes is disclosed. The method includes communicating with a user to understand a first software operation problem and determining if a first interim software fix to remedy the first software operation problem exists within an archive comprising a plurality of interim software fixes. In... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080098383 - Method for installing a new version of a hearing-device fitting-software package on a computer system: m

20080098384 - Information processing apparatus and method, and data communication system and method: A client obtains license information. The client has a client module for using content under conditions defined in the license information. When the client module is updated and a new function is added, the client obtains updating license information including permission of the new function. The client is allowed to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098387 - Automation tool for application installations: Methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems for identifying, by a state machine, a first module installation of a first module of a plurality of modules of one or more applications, at least a subset of the modules each having one or more installation relationships with one or more other modules of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080098386 - Methodology of individualized software deployment for hardware-independent personal computer mass deployment: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code are provided for individualized software deployment. A solution engine receives a set of software applications and a software legend from a customer. The software legend identifies which software applications are to be deployed to each of a set of personal... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080098388 - Safe flashing: In accordance with the present invention, when a flashing is initiated a flashcode can be uploaded (310) to a flash only area of a reprogrammable non-volatile storage medium. Then, it is verified (320) whether the flashcode has been uploaded correctly to the flash only area. If the flashcode has not... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080098385 - System and method for server migration synchronization: A system and method for managing the migration of software components among test servers that form a distributed software test environment to ensure that the software components in each of the test servers represent a production environment except for software components being tested. The system further ensures that component changes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080098389 - Image forming apparatus and methods used in the image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which applications can be installed is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes an application information obtaining part for obtaining application information that is used for determining whether an application is installable in the image forming apparatus.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098390 - Guaranteeing authentic firmware for purposes of cloning: A computer program product for cloning an authentic master firmware to create a child firmware, the instructions for implementing a method include receiving cloning instructions; locating a secure source including the authentic master firmware; and cloning the authentic master firmware to create the child firmware.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20080092108 - Method and system for a quality software management process: A quality management framework system and method for operating a quality plan in a product development organization having quality objectives. The system includes a plurality of computer implemented tools accessible by users for operating a plurality of quality processes. Data relative to the quality processes is collected and aggregated to... Agent: David R. Irvin IBM Corporation

20080092107 - Software development and sales life-cycle services: Software developers compete with larger software publishers using a system and method for certifying, protecting, licensing, packaging, distributing, promoting, monetizing, and supporting software applications. A certification module determines compliance with mandatory criteria. A protection module enables the developer to specify portions of the application subject to protection against malfeasance. A... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080092110 - Enhanced ui operations leveraging derivative visual representation: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates manipulation of three-dimensional (3D) objects displayed in a two-dimensional (2D) display. During operation, the system displays perspectively a 3D object in a 2D display based on a coordinate system with an X-axis along a horizontal direction on the 2D... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080092111 - User-defined hierarchies of user-defined classes of graphical objects in a graphical modeling environment: The present invention allows a user to graphically define a hierarchy of user-defined, executable classes of graphical objects that can be implemented in a graphical model. The present invention supports the features of inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism. Further, descendant classes of graphical objects can graphically extend the behavior and/or structure... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080092109 - User-defined hierarchies of user-defined classes of graphical objects in a graphical modeling environment: The present invention allows a user to graphically define a hierarchy of user-defined, executable classes of graphical objects that can be implemented in a graphical model. The present invention supports the features of inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism. Further, descendant classes of graphical objects can graphically extend the behavior and/or structure... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080092112 - Method and apparatus for generating code for an extract, transform, and load (etl) data flow: Methods, computer program products, and system for generating code for an extract, transform, and load (ETL) data flow are provided. In one implementation, the method includes receiving an ETL data flow representing a logical transformation and flow of data, placing a staging table at a pre-determined location in the ETL... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080092113 - System and method for configuring a programmable electronic device to include an execution engine: An electronic device configuration that models a dynamical system can be produced by compiling program code written in a specialized modeling language into directed flow graph data, and then transforming the directed flow graph data into device configuration data. The device configuration data represents an electronic device configuration that includes... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080092114 - Computer program, program executing device, program generation processing program, status display processing program, and the like: A high-reliability computer program, a program executing device, a program creating program for creating a high-reliability computer program, and a state displaying program are provided. The computer program is constituted of a set of capsule programs having the same structure and executed by a computer. Each capsule program allows a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080092115 - Enterprise performance management software system having dynamic code generation: An enterprise software system provides dynamic code generation techniques that facilitate quick and efficient resolution of multi-dimensional data demands. The system includes an object store that stores a first object that references multi-dimensional data and an object model that receives a request for multi-dimensional data referenced by the first object.... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080092116 - Extensible automation development environment: The present invention provides an extensible automation development environment. A full development environment in its own right, the environment, in addition to supporting its own native objects, allows the integration of foreign (or “custom”) automation objects. Custom commands and custom events are also integrated into the environment and are handled... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080092117 - Editor with commands for automatically disabling and enabling program code portions: A method (300) of editing program code is proposed. The program code consists of main instructions written in a high-level language. Typically, the program code further includes one or more sets of service instructions, which are not directly connected to a desired algorithm (such as tracing instructions for debugging purposes,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080092118 - Correlating events emitted by software components: The present invention improves correlation of events emitted by software components during a thread of execution. Each software component invoked during the thread registers with a correlation information manager associated with the thread of execution and then deregisters from said correlation information manager when it ceases to participate in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080092119 - System, method, and computer readable medium for universal software testing: An automated software testing and validation system allows testing of a software application under test (SAUT) regardless of the dynamic nature of the SAUT. An abstracted set of hierarchal or linear objects model certain regions of the SAUT. Automated test scripts utilize theses regions to intuitively navigate and identify potions... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080092120 - Size and effort estimation in testing applications: Size of a software application testing project is determined, and person/hours required for the testing project is estimated. The software application is sized by counting the number of different parameter types that occur within testing activities associated with the application. The parameter type numbers are then divided by a scaling... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080092121 - Performance visualization including hierarchical display of performance data: Systems and methods provide a display indicating performance characteristics of a computer application. The display may include a call graph having nodes that represent subunits of the application. A first set of statistics for the subunit may be represented in the size or dimensions of the node. A second set... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080092122 - Automated performance monitoring: Performance tracking of computing systems can be provided by monitoring, determining performance states, and displaying health information. Capacity planning recommendations can be provided by monitoring performance of a software application, determining a plurality of performance state transitions of the software application, and, based on the transitions, making capacity planning recommendations.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080092123 - Computer software test coverage analysis: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for performing software testing. A first set of traces is compressed to form a first set of compressed traces. The first set of compressed traces is compared to a plurality of additional traces to identify a set of partially matching... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080092124 - Code generation for complex arithmetic reduction for architectures lacking cross data-path support: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for compiling source code for performing a complex operation followed by a complex reduction operation. A method is determined for generating executable code for performing the complex operation and the complex reduction operation. Executable code is generated for computing sub-products,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080092125 - Sparse vectorization without hardware gather / scatter: A target operation in a normalized target loop, susceptible of vectorization and which may, after compilation into a vectorized form, seek to operate on data in nonconsecutive physical memory, is identified in source code. Hardware instructions are inserted into executable code generated from the source code, directing a system that... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080092126 - Input of program instructions in imperative programming languages: The invention relates to a programming surface for imperative, procedural languages. A further prerequisite is a graphical user interface (GUI). The programming surface for the input of program code can be used with known programming languages such as Visual Basic, Java, C++. In the case of the programming surface, there... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080092127 - Grid-enabled ant compatible with both stand-alone and grid-based computing systems: A grid-enabled ANT system that includes ANT XML task files that can run on both grid-enabled machines or stand-alone computers is disclosed. A network file server is used to store files accessed during the build process, and ANT's standard XML tagging and parameters are used, thus enabling the user to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (syl-end) C/o Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP

20080092128 - Method for transparent on-line dynamic binary optimization: A generalized on-line solution for achieving transparent binary optimization using pre-existing profiling facilities and virtual memory remapping of text regions. An optimization environment is initialized which comprises a debugger program, a profiling facility, and an optimizer. A running target program is attached to the debugger program, wherein the debugger program... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080092129 - Incorporating functionality from an object file into an existing binary file: Functionality from an object file can be incorporated into an already existing binary file. Functions from the object file can be intelligently inserted into the binary file with the guidance of control flow analysis of both the binary file and the object file. Symbols not defined in the symbol table... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20080092130 - Information processing apparatus, data management method and data management program: An information processing apparatus capable of easily extending the data item of the data used by the software of the apparatus, and the data managing method and the data managing program for the apparatus are disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes one or more storage units storing data used by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080092131 - Centralized management of human machine interface applications in an object-based supervisory process control and manufacturing information system environment: A system is disclosed for facilitating centralized management of human machine interface (HMI) components distributable across multiple nodes of the system. The system includes a centralized configuration storage for managing a set of HMI templates deployable to a set of remote nodes including HMI facilities. The deployed HMI instances are... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080092132 - Firmware download: Disclosed are apparatus and methodology subject matters for upgrading firmware associated with one or more metrology devices and adjunct devices. Methods are disclosed for broadcast transmission of portions of a firmware image file from an originating device over a network connecting multiple devices to be upgraded. The entire image file... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080092133 - Installation utility system and method: An installation manifest defines associations of one or more application installation files with operating system installation files. An installation manager determines an installation type for a software installation on a device and provides installation options related to the determined installation type.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080092134 - Method and process for using common preinstallation environment for heterogeneous operating systems: A system and method is disclosed for the uniform installation of one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous operating systems (operating systems) on a predetermined information handling system. A common preinstallation environment (CPE) is implemented, comprising a host preinstallation environment (HPE) and one or more native preinstallation environments (NPEs).... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080092135 - Customizable frequency converter: A frequency converter (100) comprises a processor (102), memory (104) and basic software (106) in the memory, the execution of which software implements the basic functionality of the frequency converter. For application-specific customization, the memory of the frequency converter is arranged to include application software (108) that contains callable functions... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080092136 - System and method for using a preprocessor to determine dependencies between j2ee components: A system and method for using a preprocessor to determine dependencies between J2EE components. The preprocessor can analyze a running J2EE application, and look at the deployment descriptor information associated with that application. The levels of indirection within the deployed application are followed to determine the actual configuration information used... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP