Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 04/07

20070094672 - Methods and apparatus for communicating changes between a user-interface and an executing application, using property paths: A method for detecting a change in a current state of a property associated with an element of a user-interface includes the step of associating the element with a property path including a concatenation of a plurality of identifiers defining a path through a plurality of application components to a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070094673 - Configuration of isolated extensions and device drivers: Described herein are one or more implementations for describing and/or addressing the configuration requirements of applications, extensions, device drivers, and other components of a software system.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070094674 - Method and apparatus for making inter-process procedure calls through shared memory: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates making an inter-process procedure call through a shared memory that is shared between a client process and a server process, wherein the client makes the inter-process procedure call as if the client is making a local procedure call, but... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070094675 - Object mobility: The present application discloses generally software applications that may be implemented as multiple mobile application objects distributed amongst a network of interconnected devices, and in particular to methods and schemes for enabling object mobility. In one aspect there is disclosed, a method of processing an initial software application to form... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094676 - Object oriented communication between isolates: A computer implemented method and machine readable media for managing a registry of bound objects for inter-Xlet communication (IXC) is described. A request from a first Xlet to bind an exported object name with a remote reference is received. A number of objects exported by the first Xlet is compared... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070089115 - High performance navigator for parsing inputs of a message: Example embodiments provide a high performance navigator configured to lightly touch on the elements or input of a message, without necessarily having to build an entire tree structure for each input within the message. In addition, as portions of the inputs are identified as requiring further details, only those stub... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070089116 - Method for assuring event record integrity: A method for assuring event record integrity including registering at least one callback function, the callback function being associated with a first callback function identifier, receiving an event having a second callback function identifier, identifying the callback function based on matching the second callback function identifier to the first callback... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070089117 - Implementation system for business applications: This invention relates to a business application (2) based on at least one callable functional service (3, 13, 23, 33). The system comprises a man-machine interface (4) for controlling the application (2), a server (5) running the application, a server (6, 16, 26, 36) hosting the service and a server... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070089118 - Method and device for controlling communications, and computer product: A gateway unit is provided between a client Application Program (AP) and a server AP. The gateway unit includes a client linking unit that receives an RPC request from the client AP, a server linking unit that receives a response from the server AP, and a server AP activating unit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070083872 - System, method, and computer program product for system event notification and tracking: A method, and corresponding hardware and software implementations, including receiving an event notification; transmitting a supplemented event notification corresponding to the event notification to a first client data processing system; receiving event resolution data; transmitting the event resolution data to at least the first client data processing system; and storing... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20070083873 - Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing device driver architecture: Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing may be accomplished by establishing one or more virtual channels with a multiplexing device function driver and a multifunction device coupled to a bus, determining one or more functions to be activated on the device, and for each activated function, launching a second-tier function driver... Agent: Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP

20070083874 - Providing new functionality while maintaining backward compatibility: The invention discloses a system method for providing new functionality to an operating system while maintaining backward compatibility with existing applications. The invention can provide new functionality while maintaining backward compatibility without a requirement to change any syntax of an API and without having to create new APIs for all... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070083875 - Method of delegating activity in service oriented architectures using continuations: A computer implemented method of delegating activities in a service oriented architecture of distributed computing systems. An activity specification is defined. The activity specification contains a set of service invocations. The activity specification is transformed into continuation passing style to form an activity. The activity is then executed using an... Agent: Duke W. Yee