Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 01/07

20070022430 - A message generator: A message generator for use in a publish/subscribe system, the publish/subscribe system having a broker for receiving a plurality of messages from one or more publishers and a subscriber: the message generator comprising: a storage component for retaining the plurality of messages; and an aggregator for aggregating the plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070022431 - Method for executing computer programs in accordance with preset execution priority: A method for executing computer programs in accordance with a preset priority is provided. The method is applicable to a computer system connecting to a data storage, a plurality of device selection buttons, and a plurality of multimedia players. The data storage is installed with a plurality of device drivers,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070016909 - Optimizing server delivery of content by selective inclusion of optional data based on optimization criteria: Optimization constraints are used to select an appropriate content item from an available group of content items which are ordered in a specific manner to facilitate the proper selection of the content item, even if the exact item desired is not present. The server is then able to insert the... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20070016910 - A bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers: There is disclosed a method, computer program and bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers together. A subscription is made to receive request messages on one or more topics from a first broker. A subscription is made to receive all messages published at either the first or the second broker... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070016911 - Error processing system: An error processing system in a system for communicating messages from a plurality of source executable applications to a plurality of destination executable applications includes a repository for centrally storing data identifying errors encountered by the plurality of different destination executable applications in processing data in messages from one or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070016912 - Performance of channels used in communicating between senders and receivers: A plurality of batch lists are maintained by a channel in order to improve the efficiency of the channel in performing messaging between a sender and a receiver. For example, a Next Batch list is used to prefetch messages to be sent to the receiver from the sender; a Current... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070016913 - Computer device driver and method of operation: A computer device driver comprises a computer operating system including a structure configured to communicate with a device driver interface using a predefined protocol, and a device including a memory storing an embedded driver with device information. In one aspect, the memory is configured to store physical information and functional... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070016914 - Kernel validation layer: Systems and method of computer security are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes monitoring incoming kernel mode calls and identifying a kernel mode call to verify using a predetermined criterion. The method also includes validating the identified kernel mode call, and processing the kernel mode... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070016915 - Method, apparatus, and system for implementing caching of view custom options in a framework to support web-based applications: According to one aspect of the present invention, a system is provided for implementing caching of view custom options in a framework to support web-based applications. The system comprising a set of server-side objects managed by an object manager (OM) running on a server. The system further comprises a set... Agent: Csa LLP

20070011686 - Changing code execution path using kernel mode redirection: A mechanism for redirecting a code execution path in a running process. A one-byte interrupt instruction (e.g., INT 3) is inserted into the code path. The interrupt instruction passes control to a kernel handler, which after executing a replacement function, returns to continue executing the process. The replacement function resides... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070011687 - Inter-process message passing: The number of copies of a message to be transferred from one process to another process in a computer where each process has a differing address space may be reduced through the use of a message-passing data structure. The sending process generates an operating system service call to copy the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070011688 - System and method for developing software or a software component, as well as method for operating said software: To make functional expansions of business objects possible in a simple manner, it is proposed that one or more function units is assigned to the business object during the creation of the business object or after its creation, using meta knowledge. A function unit can thus be assigned to a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070011689 - Information processing unit, computer control method, and information storage medium: An information processing unit, a computer control method, and an information storage device are provided to acquire performance information during data processing and realize efficient data processing by changing data processing details as appropriate based on the information. An information processing unit includes: a data processing part 70 that processes... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070011690 - Generic software interface architecture: A software interface for a system provides an interface to software components of the system through a plurality of interface areas that are related to each other in a hierarchical manner. Each interface area provides an interface to the software components through one or more interface methods. The interface methods... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20070011691 - System, method and program product for invoking a remote method: The present invention provides a method, system and program product for invoking a remote method. Specifically, the invention provides an interface method object that may be used to map an application interface method call to a remote method call. The interface method object may be generated by retrieving an interface... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070006236 - Systems and methods for secure host resource management: Systems and methods are described herein to provide for secure host resource management on a computing device. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for management of one or more host device drivers from an isolated execution environment. Further embodiments include methods for querying and receiving event data from manageable resources... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070006238 - Managing application states in an interactive media environment: Applications are managed in an interactive media environment by the creation of a logical model for the lifetime of an application. The model is applicable to concurrently and/or consecutively running applications and governs the creation of applications, manipulation of applications by other applications, resource consumption, visibility of an application to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006237 - Using messages to extend crm functionality: A method of extending the functionality of an API in a CRM program and system to implement the method is disclosed. The method may allow a user to use request and response messages to be communicated with a single interface that may be exposed as a CRM web service module... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)