Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions

20090293040 - System and method for communicating with a microcontroller: A system for communicating with a microprocessor includes an interface agent that facilitates a communications link between customized windows applications and a suite of development tools. The system allows for interactive hardware and software verification testing of a microcontroller or microprocessor contained within any type of platform, such as mass... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090293042 - Apparatus, method, and system of assisting software development: An apparatus, method, and system of assisting a user in the process of developing software having a function to access a web service are disclosed. A determination result is generated, which indicates whether an operation test of determining whether the software under development properly operates should be performed by a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090293041 - Software protection through interdependent parameter cloud constrained software execution: Methods and a tool or instrument for performing the methods of protecting a computer program with a parameter cloud are disclosed. A parameter cloud comprising a plurality of elements may be created. Called functions of a computer program may have defined expected parameter cloud states so that proper behavior of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090293043 - Development environment integration with version history tools: Instructions within an instruction set (such as source code for a software application) may be documented within many separate tools, such as a development environment, a version control system, and a bug report database. However, it may be inefficient to search for such information in many locations and through many... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090293044 - Graphical program code coverage: System and method for analyzing a graphical program. A graphical program is provided that includes a plurality of interconnected nodes that visually indicate functionality of the program. The graphical program includes a plurality of block diagrams arranged in a hierarchical manner, including a top-level block diagram and one or more... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090293045 - Dynamic collection attribute-based computer programming language methods: Simplified handling of dynamic collections having a variable number of elements at run time is achieved by providing for specification of collective properties of dynamic collections by a programmer. Such collective properties are distinct from type-member properties of the collection that follow from the types and type qualifiers of its... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090293046 - Notification-based constraint set translation to imperative execution: A method is provided for translating sets of constraint declarations to imperative code sequences based on defining an instantiatable object per set, inserting calls to a notification callback mechanism on state modification and defining calls in the constraint context as imperative code sequences that, in response to these callbacks, take... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090293048 - Computer analysis and runtime coherency checking: Compiler analysis and runtime coherency checking for reducing coherency problems is provided. Source code is analyzed to identify at least one of a plurality of loops that contains a memory reference. A determination is made as to whether the memory reference is an access to a global memory that should... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090293047 - Reducing runtime coherency checking with global data flow analysis: Reducing runtime coherency checking using global data flow analysis is provided. A determination is made as to whether a call is for at least one of a DMA get operation or a DMA put operation in response to the call being issued during execution of a compiled and optimized code.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090293049 - Method for constructing dynamic call graph of application: A method of generating a dynamic call graph of an application is disclosed. The method includes collecting information on what program code pages are accessed during each sampling period, defining parts of an executable program code which are accessible during each sampling period according to the collected information, defining a... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090293050 - System and method for changing variables at runtime: A system and associated method for changing the initial size of a variable where intermediate code contains a static method class which in turn contains the initial size of variable. Comparing a statistic with the initial size of the variable, the statistic being derived from all current instances of the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090293051 - Monitoring and dynamic tuning of target system performance: Methods and systems for remotely monitoring and tuning the performance of one or more target systems are provided. According to one embodiment, a separate tuning server receives data, such as profiling data, that has been collected regarding a target system. Then, if based on the data it is determined that... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090293052 - Apparatus and method for port adaptor for peripheral device software and data: t

20090293053 - Method and system for dynamic generation of computer system installation instructions: An automated system generates installation instructions for software installation on a multiple machine cluster system. Pre-configured instruction modules gather information about the components on the system to be installed. From this information, an instruction installation scenario is created for each machine in the cluster system. From this scenario, the system... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20090288061 - Emerging trends lifecycle management: A process (and corresponding system) that defines sequential steps for the introduction, validation, and testing of business applications of emerging technologies, for example mobile banking services, is provided. The innovation provides a definable model and process for rapid innovation with a quality emphasis through efficient pipeline management and performance measurements.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090288062 - Mechanism to support orphaned and partially configured objects: Mechanisms to support orphaned and partially configured objects are provided. A project includes a variety of objects. At least one object is designated as an orphaned object. The orphaned object lacks complete configuration details. Other objects of the project depend on the orphaned object and yet the other objects can... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090288064 - Method and apparatus for non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements: Techniques for non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements are disclosed. In one aspect of the techniques, ontology is defined to specify an application domain. A program interface (API) is also provided for creating raw features by a developer. Thus a module is provided for at least one form of statistical analysis... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20090288063 - Predication supporting code generation by indicating path associations of symmetrically placed write instructions: A predication technique for out-of-order instruction processing provides efficient out-of-order execution with low hardware overhead. A special op-code demarks unified regions of program code that contain predicated instructions that depend on the resolution of a condition. Field(s) or operand(s) associated with the special op-code indicate the number of instructions that... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20090288065 - Transparent type matching in a programming environment: Described is a technology in a programming (development and/or runtime) environment by which data type mismatches between the output and input of computer program software components (e.g., APIs) are detected, with the output transparently converted such that the converted input may be understood by the inputting component. When components are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288066 - Editing apparatus and method for test driven development: An editing apparatus for Test Driven Development (TDD) includes: a design model manager for managing a design model; a test code manager for managing test code; an implementation code manager for managing implementation code; and a TDD synchronization manager, as the design model or the test code is altered, for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090288067 - Augmenting programming languages with a type system: Described is a technology by which metadata augments a programming language such as JavaScript. Software components such as application programming interfaces are associated with metadata. When a software component is selected for use, such as when putting together a computer program in a graphical programming environment, its corresponding metadata is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288068 - Domain model concept for developing computer applications: Methods and systems for developing a computer application wherein a domain specific language is provided that allows for the developing of computer applications based on a configuration. In particular, the domain specific language pertains to calculation tasks. The developing of a computer application is performed at different levels or phases.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090288069 - Dynamic declarative application description: Embodiments described herein are directed to dynamically reconfiguring at least a portion of an operating software application. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an edit indicating that at least one portion of an operating software application is to be edited, where the edit includes changes that are to be... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090288070 - Maintenance for automated software testing: Embodiments of a maintenance mode for automated testing are provided. In this regard, an embodiment of a system, among others, comprises a software application; a test script for testing the software application; an object repository comprising objects belonging to the software application; and a maintenance mode, wherein if a step... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090288071 - Techniques for delivering third party updates: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for receiving and distributing updates for third party customers to end users. Input is received from a customer to login to a software update system. A software update is received from the customer. Metadata describing the software update is received from the customer. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288072 - Automatic tests of product documentation: A computer implemented method of software product documentation review involves importing a description of a structure of the product documentation for use in determining locations in the product documentation from which to extract code and/or command portions of the product documentation for testing and providing pre-defined test case stub files... Agent: King & Spalding

20090288073 - Edit time analyzer in a loosely typed textual language: Analyzing code written in a loosely typed language. User input specifying code for a script may be received. The specified code may be analyzed. More specifically, one or more code portions referenced by the specified code may be determined. Properties of symbols of the specified code and the one or... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090288074 - Resource conflict profiling: Analyzing usage patterns of resources by various execution contexts (such as threads) may be difficult due to the volume of information that may be involved. A profiling technique may focus on the detection of resource requests that result in a resource conflict, e.g., a request for access to a resource... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288075 - Parallelizing non-countable loops with hardware transactional memory: A system and method for speculatively parallelizing non-countable loops in a multi-threaded application. A multi-core processor receives instructions for a multi-threaded application. The application may contain non-countable loops. Non-countable loops have an iteration count value that cannot be determined prior to the execution of the non-countable loop, a loop index... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090288076 - Managing updates in a virtual file system: Updating a file system in a media player is disclosed. The media player or a portable medium in the media player may have instructions which cause the media player to request an update to a portable medium. The update is composed of multiple update components from an update server. In... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090288077 - Runtime versioning and distribution of dynamic web-elements: A product server downloads distributed application component from a resource server and updates an application at a predetermined synchronization time. Other aspects include associating a distributed application component and a local application component with a virtual path. If a product server is unable to access the local application component with... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090288078 - Method and apparatus for deploying applications: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for deploying packages. In response to a request to deploy a package for a software application containing metadata, a first portion of the metadata describing the package is processed. A second portion of the metadata relating to modification of a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090288079 - Automatic installation of a software product on a device: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for installing software include receiving a request to install a software product on a device and identifying the software product and the source of the software product based on the request. A message, which includes data identifying the software product and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090288081 - Download discovery for web servers: Facilitating installation of additional functionality on a web server. The method includes at a data store, receiving a request from a client to access programmatic code units. The data store includes programmatic code units. The programmatic code units are configured to provide additional web server functionality when installed at a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090288080 - Method of delivering software over a network: In a method of delivering software over a network a server presents a software feature selection list to a client. In response to selection of selected features from the software feature selection list, the server determines a set of software modules required to perform the selected features. The set of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090276752 - Method for communicating collaborative software development information: A method for communicating collaborative software development information including receiving a development of a software code via an integrated development environment (“IDE”) from one of a plurality of collaborative software developers, receiving information about the development of the software code via the IDE, storing the information on the storage device... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090276753 - Method and apparatus for simplified assembly of parametric information processing applications: A method for assembling parametric information processing applications, includes: receiving a composition request; composing a processing graph for the request, wherein the processing graph represents an application that includes at least one component; identifying a deployment parameter of the component and requesting a value of the parameter; receiving the parameter... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090276754 - Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system: A computing system is provided via which a specification of user-defined business logic of a desired transaction processing application may be provided, and the computing system ensures that a resulting configured system is fully transactional. The specification of user-defined business logic is provided as JAVA program instructions (or another programming... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276755 - Osgi dynamic bundle generation at runtime: A method of dynamically creating an OSGi bundle is provided, including determining a directory for creation of the OSGi bundle, a runtime environment, and an OSGi framework, determining a functionality and a data for the OSGi bundle based on the runtime environment and the OSGi framework, creating a JAR file... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090276756 - Method to apply persistence to selected attributes of static and dynamic operating system components: A process for managing customizations for components in a component tree includes for each customization associated with the parent of a component, matching the pathname of the component with the customization path. The process further includes associating the customization with the component, if the matching results in a partial match.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090276757 - Systems and methods for inference and management of software code architectures: Systems, computer program products, and methods for extracting, evaluating, and updating the architecture of a software system are provided. In an embodiment, the method operates by defining the planned architecture for the system and extracting the implemented software code architecture from the source code of the system. The method compares... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090276758 - Static profitability control for speculative automatic parallelization: A compilation method and mechanism for parallelizing program code. A method for compilation includes analyzing source code and identifying candidate code for parallelization. Having identified one or more suitable candidates, the profitability of parallelizing the candidate code is determined. If the profitability determination meets a predetermined criteria, then the candidate... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090276759 - Testing internationalized software using test resource file and test font: An efficient testing method is provided for internationalized software executed in a plurality of language environments. The method includes mock-translating an externalized resource file written in a first language of the internationalized software by converting characters of the first language to characters of a second language based on a conversion... Agent: Ibm - Rsw Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090276760 - Instrumentation of midp applications for one-device testing: A method for testing a MIDlet application with a test application includes a step of modifying the MIDlet application to form a modified MIDlet application which allows the test application to access one or more functions, variables, or classes from the MIDlet application. The MIDlet application is then bundled with... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090276762 - Method for the computer-assisted optimization of the resource utilization of a program: In accordance with 37 C.F.R. §1.125, a substitute specification has been included in lieu of substitute paragraphs in connection with the present Preliminary Amendment. The substitute specification is submitted in clean form, attached hereto, and is accompanied by a marked-up version showing the changes made to the original specification. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090276761 - Weighted performance metrics for financial software: Embodiments of a computer system that determines a performance metric are described. During operation, the computer system determines the performance metric for tasks performed by financial software during a time interval. This performance metric is based on a weighted summation of contributions from the tasks, and a given weight associated... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090276763 - Bounding resource consumption using abstract interpretation: Bounding resource consumption of code using abstract interpretation includes a static analysis to estimate a code's resource consumption in terms of units of resources utilized at any point during execution, expressed as a function of its scalar inputs. An instrumentation mechanism and an abstract interpretation mechanism are employed to compute... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090276764 - High-level hypermedia synthesis for adaptive web: A process for dynamically generating browser-ready code from a high-level code description of a web page written in a first predefined language having one or more adaptive features and from one or more constraints associated with a request for such browser-ready code.... Agent: Stikeman Elliott LLP

20090276765 - Compiler driven mechanism for registration and deregistration of memory pages: A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for registering and deregistering memory pages in a computer system. The method comprises the steps of hoisting register and deregister calls in a given routine where temporal locality is present to overlap computation and communication; using software pipelined registration and deregistration... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090276766 - Runtime profitability control for speculative automatic parallelization: A compilation method and mechanism for parallelizing program code. A method for compilation includes analyzing source code and identifying candidate code for parallelization. The method includes parallelizing the candidate code, in response to determining said profitability meets a predetermined criteria; and generating object code corresponding to the source code. The... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090276767 - computer system and a method of deploying an application in a computer system: A computer system has a runtime environment (e.g. Java) and a deployment unit (e.g. in a Spring framework layer) arranged to deploy the application into the runtime environment. The application comprises bundles (e.g. OSGi bundles) with manifest metadata having export statements defining exported packages. The deployment unit comprises a receiver... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090276768 - Software parameter management: A method and apparatus is disclosed for allowing the updating and overriding of software parameters used by one or more software programs. The parameters are preferably in cache. When the system needs any such parameter, it first checks cache, then a preferably remotely located database, and then, preferably a flat... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090276769 - Computer system and a method of deploying an application in a computer system: A computer system has a runtime environment (e.g. Java) and a deployment system (e.g. a Spring framework layer) arranged to deploy an application into the runtime environment. The application comprises bundles (e.g. OSGi bundles or JSR modules) each with manifest metadata defining dependencies for the respective bundle. A deployment management... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090276771 - Globally distributed utility computing cloud: Various techniques are disclosed for use in computing networks such as, for example, on-demand, grid and/or utility computing networks. Examples of at least a portion of the techniques (and/or related features, aspects, and/or benefits) disclosed herein include: techniques for migrating virtual appliances from a first server grid to a second... Agent: Law Office Dean E Wolf

20090276770 - Systems, methods and computer program products for automating packaging and provisioning of j2ee web modules to eclipse-based rich clients: Systems, methods and computer program products for automating packaging and provisioning of J2EE Web Modules to Eclipse-based Rich Clients. Exemplary embodiments include a method including deploying an application to an application server being packaged as a plugin, publishing the application to a dynamic update site, connecting to the dynamic update... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus