Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 08/07

20070204272 - Synchronization of communication connection state with communication user interface: The present invention provides a user interface and method for communicating using multiple communication channels of different media types. The method include obtaining an event communicated via an incoming communication channel, where the event corresponds to a work item available to an agent. A notification of the work item is... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070204273 - Context-sensitive user interface: The present invention provides a user interface and method for communicating using multiple communication channels of different media types. The method include obtaining an event communicated via an incoming communication channel, where the event corresponds to a work item available to an agent. A notification of the work item is... Agent: Csa LLP

20070204274 - Method and system for kernel level filtering: An embodiment of the invention pertains to a method of filtering messages in a kernel of an operating system. The method includes receiving message traffic from network and determining information that indicates contents of each message in the kernel. The method also includes selectively passing the message from the kernel... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070204275 - Method and system for reliable message delivery: The present invention guarantees that messages in a distributed computing environment are successfully delivered from an application sending data to an application receiving the data by maintaining a fault tolerant message delivery system in the event of system failure. This method of reliable message delivery uses at least four separate... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070204276 - Method and apparatus for buffering requests to web services using annotations: A web service can use annotations to set up a buffer queue for requests.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070204277 - Computer program and method for managing implementation of a process: A method (54) utilizing a computing system (30) for managing implementation of a process (34) enables selection of a procedure (58) that includes hierarchically ordered events (68), each representing a portion of the process (34). Each event (68) has a set (76) of associated event outcomes (62), each being linked... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070204278 - Driver services publication: Described is a system and method for determining a driver method including an identification of the driver method, searching a plurality of instantiated drivers for the identification of the driver method, wherein each of the instantiated drivers publish methods offered by the instantiated driver, each method including the identification and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070204279 - Method and system for outbound web services: A method and system for client applications to invoke the services of server applications. A business service system allows a user of a client application to specify the provider of a business service and to specify the communications protocols and transport mechanisms to be used when invoking such business services.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070204280 - Method, apparatus, and system for implementing a framework to support a web-based application: According to one aspect of the present invention, a system is provided to support a web-based application. The system comprising a set of server-side objects managed by an object manager (OM), the set of server-side objects including a global session object providing access to a repository, a server-side business object,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070198987 - Api for obtaining unambiguous representation of objects in a relational database: Various techniques for providing an application program interface (API) that facilitates the retrieval of information stored in a configuration repository directly from the configuration repository are provided. The API provides a direct channel of communication into the configuration repository through which a user can obtain an unambiguous representation of the... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198989 - Simultaneous api exposure for messages: Embodiments described herein provide for a message object that simultaneously exposes an XML view and Type view for a message infoset. In this embodiment, interaction with a message can occur using either an XML or Type application program interface (API), which are synced. More specifically, embodiments herein provide or expose... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070198990 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A client receiving a data stream via broadcasting is provided. The client includes a receiver which receives an object carousal that comprises data and a broadcast inter ORB protocol (BIOP) message, a processor which retrieves a transmission code set information from the BIOP message, wherein the transmission code set information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198991 - Microcontrol architecture for a system on a chip (soc): A data processing system includes a main processor that runs an operating system; a microcontrol processor coupled to the main processor that controls a first plurality of hardware processes as directed by the main processor, and a switching matrix controlled by the microcontrol processor and coupled between input ports and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070198988 - Multiple application integration: An application integration system used to integrate a plurality of applications includes a plurality of integration adapters, each communicating with an application and an integration engine including a messaging broker, an integration database and a schema mapping. database. The application integration system also uses a plurality of tools and components... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070198992 - Changing submitted asynchronous business events to synchronous business events in a business processing system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for changing submitted asynchronous business events to synchronous business events in a business processing system. A first business event is received in the business system. The first business event is then established as a first asynchronous business event. Thereafter, a second... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070198993 - Communication system event handling systems and techniques: Communication system event handling systems and techniques are disclosed. A generic event handling agent is provided, and controls transfer of event information between an interface to an event information processing system and a plurality of component modules. Each component module is operable to collect event information from a respective type... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070198994 - Document framework: Various embodiments provide for document framework. In some embodiments, the document framework allows document element modeling at various levels to allow reuse of document elements when modeling document types and generating documents from document models.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070198996 - System and method for driving peripheral devices: A driver installation free system including a peripheral storing a device driver, a host, an operation system, an application interface and a middleware is provided. When the peripheral device is coupled with the host, the middleware utilizes the bus driver to read a configuration of the peripheral device, the driver... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070198995 - System and method for automated delivery of software: The present invention discloses system and method for delivery of software from a device to a host system, with the software enabling the host system to communicate with the device. The method of the present invention uses an electronic component/storage device associated with the device (or provides one if none... Agent: Don Carnegie Suite 5a Pmb540

20070198999 - Communications device, electronic apparatus, information processing system, application executing method, and recording medium: A communications device is disclosed that includes a communication part configured to perform communications with an electronic apparatus, and an application related to the electronic apparatus. The communication part notifies the application of an event occurring in the electronic apparatus in response to reception thereof, and transmits a request to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070198997 - Customer framework for embedded applications: The present invention provides a framework so that software can be embedded into a telecommunications semiconductor device such as an integrated circuit or into a chip. The framework is an API. The telecommunications device may support a telecommunications protocol, e.g. a wireless protocol such as BT. For example the BT... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070198998 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for preserving locked pages in memory when in user mode: A method, apparatus and program storage device for preserving locked pages in memory when in user mode. A user command daemon is provided for executing a command string received from a user application. A socket interface is disposed between the user command daemon and the application for routing signals between... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070199003 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A method is provided for transmitting an object including data and a message to reference the data by an object carousel. The method includes inserting information in the message, wherein the information indicates an encoding system used to encode character strings within the message; and broadcasting the data and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199004 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A server supporting structures of objects represented in various languages in a broadcast data stream is provided. The server includes a generator which generates an object carousal that comprises data and a broadcast inter ORB protocol (BIOP) message; a processor which inserts transmission code set information into the BIOP message... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199005 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A method is provided for transmission and reception, by an object carousel, of an object including data and a message to reference the data. The method includes inserting into the message information regarding an encoding system used to encode character strings within the message; transmitting the data and the message... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199001 - Method and system for reading data, related network and computer program product therefor: A system for receiving data, such as data from streaming protocols arranged in client requests, includes a plurality of worker threads for receiving the data; a master thread configured for assigning a given worker thread to handling an incoming client request; a parser module configured for parsing the data of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070199006 - 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

20070199000 - Software system with controlled access to objects: A computer system configured to intercept method calls placed on an object. By intercepting method calls, processing may be performed on a method call-by-method call basis. As part of the processing, metadata for an object is consulted to partition the methods for that object into subsets. The processing performed in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070199002 - Systems and methods for an extensible software proxy: A system and method for creating a proxy object capable of communication with an external entity, comprising specifying a proxy object definition for the proxy object wherein the proxy object definition defines a first function for communicating with the external entity, specifying at least one implementation class for the proxy... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070192768 - Computer processing and programming method using dynamic block, streaming and synchronizing data handling: A computer processing and programming method calls for creating a plurality of software entities (“molecules”) which can be dynamically configured to process data autonomously. The molecules can send and receive signals indicating the state of a molecule, whether or not a processing task is fulfilled, the results of a processing... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20070192769 - Program, method, and apparatus for managing applications: A program for managing applications that can replace application resources deployed over a multi-layered system with a single action. Upon receipt of a request for establishing an environment for a service, a target platform determining means consults group management data to identify server computers belonging to server groups corresponding to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070192770 - Method for facilitating unification of event framework views and system comprising same: An object model comprises a data store and a plurality of event framework information objects. The data store including a plurality of event information objects each defining server event information for a respective one of a plurality of unique events exhibited by a server during operation. The plurality of event... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070192771 - Aggregate drivers for a configurable media-independent server: One or more third party channel drivers interface with a centralized communication application server. An aggregate channel driver (ACD) is included in a channel driver to implement commands and command parameters that are supported by a particular core channel driver (CCD), but not by the communication server. The ACD can... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192772 - System, method and apparatus for modularized transformation processing in a network environment: Embodiments of the invention provide a system, method and apparatus for modularized transformation processing in a client-server network environment. In one embodiment, a network transaction between a client and a server is broken down into non-transformation and transformation stages, each handled by a module that can be plug-in to an... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070192773 - Shell operation flow change: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide also provide for some special cases of asynchronous control signals that change the shell operation flow. For example, signal messages may be used to terminate, pause, resume, or otherwise modify... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070192774 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: Provided is a system includes a transmitting device which transmits by an object carousel an object including a data and a message to reference the data, and a receiving device which receives the object, wherein the message is a broadcast inter ORB protocol (BIOP) message. The transmitting device includes a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070180454 - Input/output control apparatus, input/output control system, and input/output control method: An input/output control apparatus includes: a request acceptance unit configured to accept a switch request for requesting to change an operating system occupying any one of the input device and the output device; a control information generator unit configured to generate control information including any one of input destination information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070180455 - Qualitatively annotated code: Data associated with at least one module of code may be annotated in such a manner as to provide guidance regarding usage of the module.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation