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

20070174841 - Firmware socket module for fpga-based pipeline processing: A firmware socket module is deployed on a reconfigurable logic device, wherein the firmware socket module has a communication path between itself and an entry point into a data processing pipeline, wherein the firmware socket module is configured to provide both commands and target data to the entry point in... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070174842 - Object in, object out technique: The present invention discloses a technique for processing input objects to generate output objects. Initially, an input object is received. The received input object contains input data and one input function. A type of the received input object is determined. Based on the determined type, it is ascertained whether the... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20070174845 - Asp.net http runtime: An HTTP request handling runtime includes a context object and an event pipeline for processing an HTTP request received at a host application from a client application. The context object logically represents the HTTP request and encapsulates at least one property associated with the received HTTP request. The context object... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070174843 - Distributed memory type information processing system: The invention relates to a distributed memory type arrangement, wherein elements stored in various memories are inputted/outputted with unified processing and communication. The system includes a data transmission route for transmitting a value of a memory module to another memory module. A PMM memory has a list of values arranged... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070174844 - System and algorithm for monitoring event specification and event subscription models: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for monitoring event specification and monitoring event subscription. Monitorable events are defined in a context of execution of a monitored component. Monitorable points of execution of the monitored component are identified, wherein events can be generated from the monitorable... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070174846 - System and method for intercepting, instrumenting and characterizing usage of an application programming interface: A system and method for generically intercepting any type of application programming interface (API) events. The API event interception system includes an intercept library and an API. The application program calls the API to process the client event generated. The API receives the request for service from the application program... Agent: L.joy Griebenow Hewlett-packard Company

20070174847 - Transfers of information in a communications network: The invention features various techniques for managing transfers of information in public packet switched communications networks. In one aspect, the invention provides a system for identifying updated items of network-based information, such as pages, to users in a network. A master server receives the data from each of a plurality... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070174850 - Method and system for hba assisted storage virtualization: Certain aspects of a method and system for host bus adapter assisted storage virtualization are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include loading storage virtualization functionality into one or more of: a storage driver, a network driver, a network interface card (NIC), and a host bus adapter. A SCSI request... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070174848 - Agentive representation in mobile services: A computer having a software agent for representing a person in the virtual environment. The software agent has one or more application specific modules each of which represents application specific features of the agent. In addition, the agent has a core module which contains one or more functional groups which... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070174849 - Non-disruptive multipath device driver update system and method: A non-disruptive multipath device driver update system and method are provided. An additional layer device driver is provided between applications running on host system and the multipath device driver such that when an upgrade or update operation is performed on a multipath device driver, the layer device driver redirects I/O... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070174851 - N-port virtualization driver-based application programming interface and split driver implementation: An API in an NPIV-compatible SAN is disclosed that includes functions for creating a vlink, replicating driver software for managing the vlink, monitoring resources in an HBA, or removing a target so that resources can be freed up for other vlinks. The API is part of a driver that communicates... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070174852 - Application interface including dynamic transform definitions: An application programming interface configured to transform data responsive to a transform process definition. The transform process definition is interpreted concurrently with the transformation process. This interpretation dynamically determines navigation within, and processing of, the data to be transformed. Under control of the transform process definition, a transform engine is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070174853 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for facilitating the interoperability of virtual machines: Embodiments of this invention concern an apparatus, method and computer program product for managing the interoperability between objects in multiple virtual machines that are written to support different languages, such as .NET and Java. In particular, objects or programs running inside a virtual machine are allowed to create, control, and... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070169128 - Electronic device for automatically continuing to provide service: An object to the present invention is to provide an electronic device capable of continuing to provide a service. The electronic device of the present invention comprises an application recognizing section for recognizing an application held by the other electronic device, an application unexecutability detecting section for detecting whether or... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070169129 - Automated application configuration using device-provided data: Described is a technology by which a device pre-enables application programs of a computer system to work with the device when the device is connected to the computer system. A set of data is obtained from a device, such as by an installer at installation time. The set of data... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070162912 - Cluster communication manager: A cluster manager application program library includes an event handler to communicate an event from an application server instance to which the library is linked to a message server in a cluster of application server instances. The library further includes a notification handler to receive at the application server instance... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070162913 - System and method for triggering a process on an enterprise system: A system and method for triggering a process in an enterprise system. The present invention includes a computer-implemented method, in which an application triggers the execution of a process in response to an external signal indicating a status change. An alternate method includes executing a process in response to an... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070162914 - Efficient super cluster implementation for solving connected problems in a distributed environment: Embodiments herein present a system, method, etc. for an efficient super cluster implementation for solving connected problems in a distributed environment. More specifically, the system adapts computing latency to communication latency, wherein the system comprises VPPs wrapped within OCW layers. The VPPs represent a subset of an overall computer task;... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070157212 - Context key routing for parallel processing in an application serving environment: In alternate embodiments, the invention is a message-passing process for routing communications between a transmitting parallel process and a receiving parallel process executing in an application server environment, or a machine or computer-readable memory having the message-passing process programmed therein, the message-passing process comprising: linking a context key to an... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070157211 - Instruction set architecture-based inter-sequencer communications with a heterogeneous resource: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for directly communicating between an accelerator and an instruction sequencer coupled thereto, where the accelerator is a heterogeneous resource with respect to the instruction sequencer. An interface may be used to provide the communication between these resources. Via such a communication... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070157214 - Lock-free double-ended queue based on a dynamic ring: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing operations on a lock-free double-ended queue (deque). This deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of nodes formed into a ring, so that node pointers in one direction form an inner ring, and node pointers in the other... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070157213 - Method and system for providing message oriented middleware-dedicated instances: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for separate and dedicated instances for Message Oriented Middleware-related processes. In one embodiment, a standard instance having standard nodes having an application load and an MOM load is identified. The MOM load is separated from each of the standard nodes. The MOM load... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070157215 - Methods and systems of verifying ems compliance via nms interface: A test harness tests an element management system (EMS) via a network management system (NMS) interface for compliance with a particular interface standard. The test harness may be used by a party other than a vendor of the EMS to verify compliance of the EMS to the particular interface standard,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070157216 - Multimodal or multi-device configuration: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, system and machine-readable media for dynamic configuration and/or support for application using multiple modes and/or devices. Generally speaking, dynamic configuration and/or support for an application using multiple modes and/or devices can comprise accessing a multimodal and/or multi-device application via a user agent of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070157217 - Dynamic loading and activation of functional objects in a wireless device: A wireless communications device is provided. The wireless communications device, pre-loaded with static objects, may be operated under user direction to wirelessly download and install dynamic objects. The device includes various initiators, which request execution of an object by submitting a unique target identifier to an object manager, whereupon the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated