Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 10/06

20060242649 - Methods and apparatus for message oriented invocation: The invention relates to data processing apparatus and methods for method oriented invocation (MOI) of data processing service modules. MOI Adapters and methods interface compound messages with service modules that process them, advantageously reducing memory and processing time utilization. Compound messages may be progressively parsed and processed, identifying the constituent...

20060242651 - Activity-based pc adaptability: A method and system for adapting system behavior based on activities. An activities engine determines or is informed of the current activity and instructs a notification component to notify registered programs (also known as notification consumers) about the current activity. Upon receipt of the notification, the notification consumers modify their...

20060242652 - Configurable alert notification system and method: A configurable alert notification communications system including an audio receiver for detecting a discrete signal transmitted by a message dispatch system, and a computer connected to the audio receiver for recording, in a first format, an audio message associated with the discrete signal. The audio message in the first format...

20060242650 - Real time control system: A real-time control system for executing exactly a cyclic task, preventing a delay of the processing start time due to accumulation of a plurality of overhead times, thereby executing control enabling a more detailed response and control enabling a quick and reliable response to a plurality of instructions is provided....

20060242653 - Request-response handling system for web-based applications: A high-level system for developing web-based applications which when completed provide a common set of request and response handling processes to support multiple sets of business logic tools. An abstraction layer within the request-response framework permits the development of separate, application-appending tools which address only their core business logic-related functions,...

20060242654 - Process and apparatus for sharing inline caches: A technique for dynamic dispatch involves adapting a method at a dispatch point to reference a state cache. State of the state cache may be associated with an object type and a method signature. When a method is adapted at the dispatch point to reference a state cache, the reference...

20060242655 - Extensible object model: An extensible object model enables extending the standard methods and/or properties of an extensible object for an application through an extension object proffered at run time by an extension package Information about the extension package is registered in a database when the package is installed, and the database is used...

20060236325 - Mobile device client: A device client that supports customer care and distribution of update packages to electronic devices makes it possible to efficiently manage and update firmware and software in electronic devices. A terminal management/device management server employs extensions to an industry standard device management protocol to update configuration information, to provision the...

20060236326 - Multimedia player for grave marker: A multimedia player is used in conjunction with a grave marker to pay tribute to a decedent. A main body portion of the player supports an opaque solar panel portion that also provides a barrier protecting a video screen on the main body portion of the multimedia player from sunlight...

20060236327 - Gui-based api for test systems: A GUI-based API for a test system provides a user-friendly interface for generating API function calls in one of several different programming languages, as selected by the user. The GUI-based API prompts the user to select from a list of valid API functions, which are generated based on the test...

20060236328 - Integrated graphical user interface server for use with multiple client applications: The graphical user interface or associated components for two or more different applications are integrated to provide a unified graphical user interface. Applications for different purposes or from different sources are run on a same processor, system or network. Programming calls are used to generate a common graphical user interface....

20060230410 - Methods and systems for developing and testing speech applications: A system and method for facilitating the efficient development, testing and implementation of speech applications is disclosed which separates the speech user interface from the business logic. A speech user interface description is created devoid of business logic in the form of a machine readable markup language directly executable by...

20060230411 - Resource accessing with locking: Thread usage is managed when locking resources during the possibly-contentious accessing of such resources. In a described implementation, a thread that is executing a corresponding access request is not suspended when its corresponding access request is delayed because a targeted resource is currently locked for accessing by another thread. Instead,...

20060225080 - Methods and apparatus for managing a buffer of events in the background: A background event buffer manager (BEBM) for ordering and accounting for events in a data processing system having a processor includes a port for receiving event identifications (IDs) from a device, a queuing function enabled for queuing event IDs received, and a notification function for notifying the processor of queued...

20060225081 - Method for managing a peripheral and computer system using same: The invention concerns a method for managing a peripheral enabling direct transmission by the source equipment (1), through a network interface (10), without their being treated by a peripheral pilot, data (2) written in a content description language. The peripheral (3) interprets the data reviewed by a network interface (11)...

20060225082 - Synchronous ril proxy: A hardware-independent proxy layer for synchronous processing of commands in a mobile telephone is disclosed. Such synchronous processing may include receiving a function call of an application program interface (API) that is associated with a function to be performed by a mobile telephone, waiting to receive from a driver layer...

20060225083 - System and method for motion picture print forensics: A system, apparatus, and method are directed towards managing motion picture film print marking and tracking using a reel changeover marking (RCM) to encode a unique identifier. In one embodiment, an Encoded RCM (ERCM) is located within a print during a print duplication process. The ERCM is arranged to persist...