Data processing: software development, installation, and management inventions

20090271760 - Method for application development: A process and method for application development that conforms with Rapid Application Development (RAD) requirements and Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 3 requirements. An application development process that conforms with Rapid Application Development (RAD) requirements and Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Capability Maturity Model... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20090271761 - Generative programming system and method employing focused grammars: A system and method may employ, focused grammars to facilitate automated generation of computer programs. Such implementation of focused grammars enables a new form of symbolic regression referred to as generative programming or automated programming. The search through the space of possible programs may be guided by a streak search... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090271762 - Business software application system and method: A business software application system and method are provided.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090271763 - Method for protecting user-managed memory using an exception: Techniques for providing safe user-managed memory are provided The techniques include performing memory allocation in constant time, performing memory de-allocation in constant time, performing memory access overhead for safety checking in constant time, and using the memory allocation, memory de-allocation and memory access overhead to protect at least one memory... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271764 - System and method for managing computer environment setup requests: A system for managing requests for setting up computer test environments includes a setup request database storing the test environment setup requests and a request management module which provides a standardized user interface screen to submit the requests. If the request submitted by a user does not contain all of... Agent: Afs/ Visa

20090271765 - Consumer and producer specific semantics of shared object protocols: Determining how to perform operations specified in executable code. A method may include accessing a language context. The language context is related to a consumer location in executable code. The language context specifies an operation to be performed on one or more objects. The method includes sending a message requesting... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090271767 - Method and an apparatus for evaluating a tool: A method is disclosed for evaluating a tool used in a system including steps of providing top-level-challenges to be met by the tool in at least one life cycle phase of the system to enhance a productivity of the given system. In at least one embodiment, each top-level-challenge can be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090271766 - Methods, systems and computer program products for improving program performance by anti-refactoring: A method for developing a computer program product includes: evaluating one or more refactoring actions to determine a performance attribute; associating the performance attribute with a refactoring action used in computer code; and undoing the refactoring action of the computer code based on the performance attribute.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090271768 - Discriminating program code updates after merging for live review: A method for dynamically discriminating a program code patch update after merging a patch file into unmodified source code for dynamic review. The method includes providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable a user to merge a source code patch file into an existing, pre-modified version of source code... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090271769 - Detecting irregular performing code within computer programs: A computer-implemented method of finding portions of a computer program exhibiting irregular performance can include detecting an entry into a function of a computer program under test indicating a current execution of the function and, responsive to detecting an exit from the function, determining a count of a computing resource... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC

20090271770 - Method, system, and computer program product for generating unit testing scripts: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for generating unit testing scripts. The method includes receiving programming code having a condition expressed therein, and transforming the code by wrapping the condition into a mock function. The mock function receives a Boolean argument as an input and provides a... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090271771 - System and methods for distributed execution of computer executable programs utilizing asymmetric translation: Dynamic program translation is utilized to convert an executable program in a first language executable representation to a second language executable representation that is either optimal or essentially required for execution within a defined execution environment on a client computer system. A dynamic translator, typically executed on a first computer... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20090271772 - Using hardware interrupts to drive dynamic binary code recompilation: A method, computer system, and computer program product for using one or more hardware interrupts to drive dynamic binary code recompilation. The execution of a plurality of instructions is monitored to detect a problematic instruction. In response to detecting the problematic instruction, a hardware interrupt is thrown to a dynamic... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271773 - Method of and instruction set for executing operations on a device: A method for executing operations on a device includes executing one or more bytecode language instructions associated with a mobile agent. The mobile agent includes a state of a virtual machine and the bytecode language includes instructions such WARP, MESG, ESEL, ALERT, BROWSE, CAPS, SLEEP, and GPS,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090271774 - System and method for the distribution of a program among cooperating processing elements: A Veil program analyzes the source code and/or data of an existing sequential target program and determines how best to distribute the target program and data among the processing elements of a multi-processing element computing system. The Veil program analyzes source code loops, data sizes and types to prepare a... Agent: Larson And Larson

20090271775 - Optimizing just-in-time compiling for a java application executing on a compute node: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for optimizing just-in-time (‘JIT’) compiling for a Java application executing on a compute node, the compute node having installed upon it a Java Virtual Machine (‘JVM’) capable of supporting the Java application, that include: identifying, by an application manager, a particular portion of the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090271776 - Dynamic management of operating system resources: A method for dynamically managing operating system resources of a computing device. Each of the operating system resources have one or more data elements. The method includes: at an observer module of the operating system, monitoring stability and/or usage of the one or more data elements of each of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271778 - Apparatus and methods for transport optimization for widget content delivery: Apparatus and methods for transport optimization for widget content delivery includes obtaining updated content corresponding to a mobile widget having a plurality of informational hierarchical depths, and obtaining user navigation pattern historical data corresponding to the mobile widget, wherein the user navigation pattern historical data corresponds to the plurality of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090271777 - Method for distributing update modules for computer software over a network: A method for distributing update modules for computer software has been developed. The method includes requesting and receiving a list of updated software modules stored on a network server. The user then determines if each updated module is presently installed on the user's system. If the updated module is not... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20090271779 - Updating a file using differences and file format therefor: A method for updating a local file and format for the local to be updated is described. An update file, which is a newer version of the local file, is accessible from a server over a network. A list of new hash values corresponding to data blocks of the update... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090271780 - Automatic complete firmware upgrade: A method for automatic firmware upgrade on a target embedded system connected to a TFTP server and a web console is disclosed. The method includes generating a single image from Linux kernel image and file system image and providing single image name as input to web console for firmware upgrade.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090271781 - Method, system, terminal and device management server for installing software components: A method, system, and apparatus for installing software components are provided. The method includes a terminal which receives a software component package delivered by a Device Management (DM) server directly or a download address of the component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, where... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090271782 - Mechanism for determining applicability of software packages for installation: Mechanism for determining applicability of a software package for installation is described herein. In one embodiment, a process is provided to retrieve authentication information of a component from an installation descriptor file, where the descriptor file describes installation information of the software package. The software package may include one or... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271783 - Electronic device and user interface display method thereof: An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs. The electronic device displays... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265681 - Ranking and optimizing automated test scripts: Technologies are described herein for ranking and optimizing test scripts utilized in the automated testing of software products. A score is calculated for each test script from various metrics collected from executions of the test script. Metrics utilized in calculating the score for a test script may include those indicating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265682 - Method for transforming data from a model into a secondary model to optimize code generation: A method for generating code includes receiving an eclipse modeling framework (EMF) model representing data in a structure from a source code application, parsing data from an EMF model, transforming parsed data into a secondary model, the secondary model being configured for a destination data structure, and generating code through... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090265683 - Methods and systems for supporting multiple deployment models of enterprise business applications: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for supporting multiple deployment models for enterprise business applications. In one embodiment, the method may include designating pillars associated with an enterprise business application. Each pillar may include application units which comprise logical groupings for application units used in the enterprise business application.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090265684 - Systems and methods for graphically developing rules for transforming models between description notations: Systems and methods are graphically developing rules for transforming models between different description notations. The transformation rules may be used to transform a model in a source description notation to a new model in a target description notation. In one embodiment, graphical constructs are provided including symbols in the source... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265685 - Symbolic forward and reverse differentiation: The symbolic differentiation technique described herein uses operator overloading and two simple recursive procedures, both the forward and reverse forms of differentiation, to create purely symbolic derivatives. The symbolic derivative expressions can be translated into a program in an arbitrary source language, such as C# or C++, and this program... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265686 - System and method for managing resources using a compositional programming model: A system and method for managing resources in a programming environment includes providing mutable entities including related data including triples, listening for changes in the related data, and triggering a first construct in accordance with the changes in the related data to update the mutable entities. Updates are propagated from... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090265687 - System and method for updating initialization parameters for application software from within a software development environment: A computer implemented method for updating initialization parameters for application software from within a software development environment. The method involves changing a value of at least one initialization parameter contained in a configuration file of a developer computer system. The method also involves starting application software deployed on an application... Agent: Ibm - Patents C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090265688 - Circuits and methods for mobility of effectful program fragments: Methods for mobility of effectful program fragments including a method for serializing and deserializing effectful program fragments, and a method for utilizing a program fragment in a type-directed way.... Agent: Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. Patent Property Department

20090265689 - Generic validation test famework for graphical user interfaces: A scalable system and method is described that automatically identifies one or more generic tests for testing a GUI. A generic test case is written once instead of writing test cases for every single page or assembly. Each page has a corresponding page type. Each generic test is mapped to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090265690 - Method and system for validating a knowledge package: A method for validating a knowledge package involves generating the knowledge package, where the knowledge package includes guidelines for obtaining and installing software deliverables. The method further involves obtaining the software deliverables based on the guidelines in the knowledge package, performing a test installation of the software deliverables on a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090265691 - Granular measurement of processor performance in executing sections of software code: Processor performance in executing a section of software code is measured. A clock associated with the section of software code. It is detected that the section of software code is beginning to be executed. In response, the clock associated with the section of software code is started. It is then... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090265692 - Active property checking: An exemplary method includes providing software for testing; during execution of the software, performing a symbolic execution of the software to produce path constraints; injecting issue constraints into the software where each issue constraint comprises a coded formula; solving the constraints using a constraint solver; based at least in part... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090265695 - Method and apparatus for analyzing program execution path: An apparatus that analyzes execution paths of a target program includes a setting unit, a detecting unit, a determining unit, and a plurality of buffers. The setting unit stores a condition for determining whether or not to record events caused by execution of the target program. The detecting unit detects... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265694 - Method and system for test failure analysis prioritization for software code testing in automated test execution: A method and system for software code testing for an automated test execution environment is provided. Testing involves importing test case information into a tooling environment based on code coverage and targeted testing, the test information including test name and code coverage data including classes and methods exercised by the... Agent: Ibm-acc-washington C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090265693 - Method and system for test run prioritization for software code testing in automated test execution: A method and system for software code testing for an automated test execution environment is provided. Testing involves importing test case information into a tooling environment based on code coverage and targeted testing, the test information including test name and code coverage data including classes and methods exercised by the... Agent: Ibm-acc-washington C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090265696 - Just-ahead-of-time compilation: Pre-compiling postdominating functions. Some embodiments may be practiced in a computing environment including a runtime compilation. For example one method includes acts for compiling functions. The method includes determining that a function of an application has been called. A control flow graph is used to determine one or more postdominance... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090265697 - Methods, devices and software applications for facilitating a development of a computer program: A software development application determines whether routine name and version number parameters have been identified (33). If so, the application determines whether the specified version of the routine can be accessed (35). If the specified version cannot be accessed, the application locates a substitute version of the routine (37) and... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090265699 - Methods and systems for embedding upgrade steps for layered architectures: Techniques for upgrading software associated with layered architectures are described. Based on runtime and/or installation dependencies between the layers, upgrade operations are ordered and performed.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090265698 - Stacked hardware abstraction layer methods for maintaining software/hardware backward compatibility: In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides methods for maintaining software/hardware backward compatibility across multiple versions in a modular and scalable manner. More specifically, the present invention provides, stacked hardware abstraction layer methods for maintaining software/hardware backward compatibility for networking equipment and the like.... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090265700 - Method and system for updating firmware of terminals in a broadcast system: A method and apparatus for updating firmware of terminals in a mobile broadcast system including a Broadcast Service Distribution/Adaptation fragment (BSDA) and a Broadcast service Subscription Management (BSM). The method includes requesting creation of a content fragment, by the BSM, by transmitting a firmware package file for a firmware update... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090265701 - Method and system for platform-agnostic software installation: A method for platform-agnostic software installation involves obtaining a knowledge package, where the knowledge package includes guidelines for obtaining and installing software deliverables. The method further involves obtaining a profile, where the profile includes platform-agnostic data indicating a desired system state. The method further involves distributing the knowledge package and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090265702 - Method of reinstalling a computer based on frequency of application utilization: A system and method for efficiently reinstalling computer software, which tracks frequency of utilization for each software application loaded onto the computer and reinstalls applications based on frequency of utilization, with the option to reinstall a computer operating system first or to reinstall computer applications along with libraries, so that... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090265703 - System and method for application portability: A data processing system having a processor and accessible memory, the data processing system executing a first operating system, the data processing system also having an application and virtualized application environment, the application and virtualized application environment capable of being packaged and moved to a second data processing system. There... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090265704 - Application management for reducing energy costs: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing and executing applications in a clustered server system. In one embodiment, an application may be installed at an application server having the associated lowest energy cost of maintenance, thereby lowering the cost of operating the system. In... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090265705 - System and method for developing and deploying computer applications over a network: A stateful method of processing an XML markup document within a distributed computing system, includes the steps of: receiving the XML markup document by the CRE, parsing and holding the XML document's state by the CRE, receiving XML commands by the CRE, performing operations comprised in the XML commands upon... Agent: Akc Patents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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