Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 05/07

20070124737 - System, method, and computer program product for concurrent collaboration of media: A system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal for a real-time concurrent multi-user multi-way collaboration system that is able to incorporate one or more electronic devices including one or more portable devices that permits distributed users to easily and efficiently share both content and editorial input on such content.... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070124738 - Type bridges: Methods, systems, and computer program products for converting an object of one type to an object of another type that allow for the runtime operation of the conversion process to be altered or customized. The conversion may occur within an extensible serialization engine that serializes, deserializes, and transforms objects of... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070124739 - Compliance interface for compliant applications: A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070124740 - Systems and methods for adapting procedure calls to service providers: Systems and methods are provided for adapting a procedure call from a service manager to a service provider in a computer framework. An inbound procedure call is received, requesting an inbound procedure to operate on an object. Then, the inbound procedure is transformed to an outbound procedure based on a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070124741 - Computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting information between corba applications and servers utilizing http: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product in a data processing environment for transmitting information between a CORBA application executing within a client and a server utilizing HTTP are disclosed. An application that is being executed by a client requests a CORBA IDL stub to invoke a method. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070118841 - Monitoring message queues and starting processing applications: Allowing queue messages to be pulled by one or more applications. A method may be practiced, for example, in a computing environment including applications configured to receive messages from queues. The method includes correlating applications to queues by correlating queue names to application locations. A queue is monitored to discover... Agent: Rick D. Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070118842 - Dds-assisted corba discovery: A computer network environment that supports both Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Data Distribution Service (DDS) can employ the techniques described herein. The techniques relate to CORBA discovery, which enables clients to learn the location of a function or service maintained by a server in the computing environment.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070118844 - Designer and player for web services applications: In the computer field, method and apparatus for supporting web services so as to allow use of web services across organizations and allow use of the web services as a data source for a software application. This allows access to the database of another organization via web services with access... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118843 - Timeout helper framework: A timeout helper main thread is created for an outbound call associated with a container. The main thread creates a timeout helper worker thread. A local timer is started to detect a first timeout condition based on a first timeout interval. The worker thread initiates a client Object Request Broker... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070113235 - Adaptive mission profiling: In one aspect, the invention is a method for adaptive mission profiling. The method includes integrating mission components used in a mission and associating the mission components to metadata. The method also includes transferring messages from the mission components and determining a status of the mission based on the messages... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070113236 - Program flow method and method for expanding a program component system: A program flow method in a program component system, comprising a running time system and several components each having one program portion, the method comprising the following steps during the execution of the program portion of a first component: data acquisition by means of the running time system, of data... Agent: Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP

20070113237 - Method and device for event communication between documents: A method for sending data from a first to a second document when both documents are loaded by a user agent implemented on a client device. The method may comprise the execution of a script in the first document, said script providing the data to be sent to the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113238 - Service aggregation in a service oriented architecture: Various techniques for processing service operations and for developing a service interface in a service oriented data architecture are provided. When processing a service request, a first service implementation is executed in a first operation mode. The first service implementation calls at least one second service implementation, which is executed... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070106997 - Hybrid programming: Hybrid programming combines certain aspects of the synchronous calling nature of a thread-oriented programming model with certain aspects of the asynchronous calling nature of an event-oriented programming model by creating parallelized calls. In a described implementation, multiple synchronous calls are transformed into multiple asynchronous calls and encapsulated within a barrier... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070106996 - Inter-process communication mechanism: A system and method of inter-process communication are described. An IPC process executable by a processing device includes data storage, a message receiver, a data extractor, and a message transmitter. The data storage is accessible by a second process without interaction of the IPC process and is configured to enable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070106998 - Mobility system and method for messaging and inter-process communication: System, method, architecture, network device, and computer programs and computer program products for inter-process communications. Message structure, procedure for generating the message structure, applications of the message structure and messaging method for obtaining status, statistics, and other information and for performing an information or parameter set operation across one or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070106999 - Driver assisted asynchronous command processing: This invention discloses a method for assisting multi-threaded command execution by a driver in a multi-core, computer system, the method comprising distinguishing asynchronous commands from synchronous commands, buffering the asynchronous commands in a buffer, processing the synchronous commands directly in a CPU driver thread, processing the asynchronous commands from the... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070101341 - Event locality using queue services: An approach for reducing transport of messages between nodes of a multi-node system is presented wherein a message queue is associated with a queue service, and based on which node the message queue resides, one of the nodes is registered as hosting the associated queue service. In response to a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070101342 - Automated device driver management: Techniques for importing, managing, and deploying drivers are provided. When a machine is being re-imaged, a process on the machine scans for hardware devices on the machine and generates a list of hardware device IDs and compatible hardware device IDs for each scanned hardware device. The process then formulates a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070101344 - Callbacks for monitoring driver-level statistics: Callbacks can be used to allow applications to register a callback which can be implemented before, after or upon an exception within a method of a JDBC driver.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070101345 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program thereof: According to this invention, an information processing apparatus connected to a peripheral device, includes: a reception unit adapted to receive a network leaving message from the peripheral device; a first determination unit adapted to determine if a device driver corresponding to the peripheral device as a source of the network... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070101343 - Rebootless display driver upgrades: Systems and methods for rebootless updating of a IHV display driver are disclosed. According to such a method, first, the operating system stops the driver from running. Second, the system switches over to an interim or temporary display driver, which be a default driver provided with the operating system. Third,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)