Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 06/06

20060143618 - Connection manager that supports failover protection: A method is described that involves identifying which session a received request pertains to. The method also involves referring to information maintained for the session. The information comprises first information that identifies a queue that provides notifications of requests to a worker node that is assigned to handle the session....

20060143619 - Connection manager for handling message oriented protocol-based requests: A connection manager includes a dispatcher that dispatches requests to worker nodes in an application server. The connection manager receives client requests and dispatches the requests on different channels multiplexed over the same session to worker nodes coupled by a request/response shared memory to the connection manager....

20060143620 - Object space with active objects: A technique for facilitating coordination of actions by multiple programs involves providing an execution environment for active objects. The execution environment may be an object space. Client programs may write active objects to the object space, which execute on behalf of the client programs. The client programs may obtain the...

20060143621 - Self-installing pcmcia network card: A method and system for facilitating the installation of device drivers for computer cards, such as PC Cards, is disclosed. The driver(s) are stored in a non-volatile memory of the card. Optionally, a driver installation program is stored in the memory or on firmware of the card. Storing the driver(s)...

20060143622 - Method and apparatus for running different types of applications on a wireless mobile device: A method and wireless mobile device runs different types of applications and groups a set of common application interfaces (APIs) that are associated with an application type to produce an application container (902). The wireless mobile device and method translates calls between at least one of the linked or grouped...

20060136931 - Method and system for communicating between application software: A system and method for communicating across multiple heterogeneous hosts using a two-tier software infrastructure where messaging software is used to handle all intra- and inter-host messaging and application software is divided into functional blocks called software entities where these entities communicate with one another through the messaging software. The...

20060136932 - Monitoring messages in a distributed data processing system: Methods, systems, and products are provided for monitoring messages in a distributed data processing system. Embodiments typically include putting a message containing a monitoring token on a queue on a server; receiving a call to get the message from the queue on the server; determining, with an API exit running...

20060136933 - Server-side eventing for managed server applications: The present invention relates to a system for generating events for a server application executing in a first process on a server computer. The system includes a server event service on the server computer executing in a second process independent of the first process. The server event service has a...

20060136934 - Method, apparatus and system for instructing a virtual device from a virtual machine: A method, apparatus and system for a virtual machine to issue an instruction to a virtual device, such virtual device being monitored by a management core of a virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine may instruct the virtual device to enter into for example a chat mode, a statistic mode,...

20060136935 - Framework for managing components: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a framework for managing software components. The framework uses a framework state model with model state transitions and implements one or more interfaces. Each component implements a respective component state model that is a projection of the framework state model and one...

20060130069 - Reliably transferring queued application messages: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for reliably and securely transferring queued application messages. Application messages are (e.g.,. binary or text) encoded and then encapsulated in transfer messages, enqueue messages, and dequeue responses such that composable protocol elements used in application messages can be reused...

20060130070 - System and method of event correlation: What is disclosed is a method of configuring an event correlation system, which includes routing an event stream received from an input of the event correlation system to a filter, processing the event stream through a first correlation algorithm within the filter to provide a correlated output stream, wherein the...

20060130071 - Method, system and program product for correlating data between operating environments: A data correlation technique is provided for a computing environment having multiple independent operating environments. The technique includes associating by a first operating environment a first key to a set of data to be obtained responsive to an identified event within the computing environment; obtaining by a second operating environment...

20060130072 - Extensible architecture for auxiliary displays: Described is a system and method by which an auxiliary computing device having an auxiliary display platform that displays information corresponding to data that originated on the main computer system may be extended by a device manufacturer. Extended hardware is added to the device, such as a radio receiver and/or...

20060130073 - System configuration and process in a control system for identifying nonequivalent functionality between the software of a device and the assigned device driver: The invention relates to a process in a control system for identifying nonequivalent functionality between a device software and an assigned device driver, in which information (TR-ID) identifying a given version of the device driver and/or information (SW-ID) identifying a given version of the device software is transmitted between a...

20060130074 - Virtual storage device driver: Disclosed is a method for a method for automating testing tasks which would otherwise have to be done manually using actual hardware by providing the capability to dynamically create many types of storage devices with different storage media, thus eliminating the need to have test machines with the actual hardware....

20060130075 - Method and system for exchanging data between computer systems and auxiliary displays: Described is a system and method by which application programs running on a main computer system communicate with an auxiliary display device (such as a cell phone, pocket-sized computer, alarm clock, television, digital picture frame and so forth) to provide viewable information on the device, remote control capabilities, and notifications....

20060130076 - Code linking system: Methods and apparatus for linking a set of code modules for execution includes determining one or more code modules to be executed, ascertaining a hierarchical order in which the one or more code modules are to be executed, loading the one or more code modules to be executed, and building...

20060117321 - Interface for application components: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture, wherein a first application and a second application are executed in a first process space in a node, wherein a third application is capable of executing in a second process space. A common interface to the first, the second, and the...

20060117322 - Apparatus, system, and method for converting a synchronous interface into an asynchronous interface: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for converting a synchronous interface into an asynchronous interface. The apparatus includes a receive module, a generate module, and a return module. The receive module receives a request for a transaction from a synchronous requester, the generate module generates a delaying object and...

20060117323 - Method, system and computer program product for controlling objects on a computer system: An object management module, method and computer software product for managing a plurality of objects stored on a computer network having a plurality of network components are provided. For each object in the plurality of objects, an associated object identifier is determined using all bytes in the object such that...

20060117324 - System and method for controlling a robot: The present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system and method for controlling robots (41) using a high-level programming language. The invention defines three programming languages, i.e., two high-level languages and a low-level language. A first high-level programming language is referred to herein as a robot scenario language (RSL) (20),...

20060117325 - System and method for interrupt handling: A system, methodology and/or computer architecture that facilitates processing device interrupts (including level-triggered interrupts) in a user-mode process is provided. The kernel interrupt handler can cause a dedicated thread in the process to wake and invoke the driver interrupt service routine. This thread can then return control to the kernel...