Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 09/07

20070226748 - Information processing device: An information processing device includes an acquiring unit, an image page selecting unit, a reducing unit, and an outputting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a file including a plurality of pages. At least one of a character and an image is carried on each page. The image page selecting unit... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC

20070226753 - Computer directory system having an application integration driver infrastructure: An application integration driver infrastructure for facilitating the use of a distributed directory running in a computer network is provided. The infrastructure can transform specific directory events into a vendor-neutral data identification system and then use vendor-neutral transformation technologies to transform the neutral data identification into a specific application's data... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20070226752 - Ensuring thread affinity for interprocess communication in a managed code environment: A remote procedure call channel for interprocess communication in a managed code environment ensures thread-affinity on both sides of an interprocess communication. Using the channel, calls from a first process to a second process are guaranteed to run on a same thread in a target process. Furthermore, calls from the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070226749 - Method for configuring an electronic device: A method for automatically configuring an electronic device Including receiving at an electronic device a command identifying first data; automatically determining a property of the identified first data; automatically identifying an executable from the determined property; and operating on the identified first data using the identified executable.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070226754 - Methods and apparatus for creation of parsing rules: Techniques for parsing rule creation are provided. A technique for constructing one or more message parsing rules may comprise the following steps. First, message data representing past messages, for example, associated with a network, an application and/or a system being analyzed, is obtained. For example, this may involve reading the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070226750 - Pipelined processing of rdma-type network transactions: A computer system such as a server pipelines RNIC interface (RI) management/control operations such as memory registration operations to hide from network applications the latency in performing RDMA work requests caused in part by delays in processing the memory registration operations and the time required to execute the registration operations... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070226751 - Systems and methods for providing an enterprise services description language: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing a language for defining a service. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for making a call to the service having a business object. Moreover, the method may include formatting a message based on a language, the language... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070226755 - System and method for event-based information flow in software development processes: A method including receiving a plurality of event descriptors, each event descriptor of the plurality of event descriptors corresponding to a respective event relevant to a software development process, transmitting the plurality of event descriptors to a subscriber; and receiving a subscription message from a subscriber, the subscription message including... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070226756 - Data location management in high density packaging: A high density storage enclosure includes a plurality of storage devices, such as hard disk drives, positioned within a cooling airflow. Data to be stored to a storage device is received and a determination is made as to the expected usage of the data relative to other data stored on... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070226757 - Apparatus and methods for a simplified, multi-client sas port for management of other devices in an enhanced sas device: Apparatus and associated methods for a simplified multi-client initiator/target within a SAS device. Features and aspects hereof provide a simplified initiator/target component to enable cost reduction and simplification of SAS devices requiring only limited initiator/target functionality. In one embodiment, a SAS expander may incorporate simplified SSP/STP/SMP initiator/target features and aspects... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070226758 - Method and apparatus for generating and using location-independent distributed object references: Location-independent references include a live reference containing a location of a remote object and a universally unique identifier (UUID) which provides a unique global reference to that remote object. If a method call to the remote object using the live reference fails, the UUID is used to obtain a new... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070220526 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A method of decoding character strings within a message to reference data is provided. The method includes receiving the message to reference the data transmitted by an object carousel, wherein the message is a broadcast inter ORB protocol (BIOP) message, determining information regarding an encoding system used to encode the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220527 - Managed application execution application programming interface and schema: Managed application programming interfaces (APIs), schemas and procedures receives a managed API call from an application, and maps the managed API call to an unmanaged API call. Managed data types and managed data objects of the managed API call are mapped to corresponding unmanaged data types and data objects. A... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220528 - Application execution in a network based environment: Authored code executable on a server in a network based environment invokes APIs (application program interfaces) that are also adapted to be invoked in a non-distributed operating environment such that the authored code receives the same results and/or events as if executed on a server in the non-distributed operating environment.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070220529 - Method and system for automated invocation of device functionalities in a network: A method and system that enable an automatic invocation of device functionalities on devices in a network. Invocation mechanisms are provided to support heterogeneous invocation mechanisms including new invocation mechanisms. Invocation mechanisms using scripts can be added without the need for recompilation of support systems such as home-networking middleware systems.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070220530 - Power management architectures: The present invention discloses a power management architecture, the present invention comprises a user spacer located over a Kernel space, wherein the user space includes a PM (power management) aware application over a PM library having a PM manager; and the Kernel space having an interface over an APM daemon... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070220531 - Method and system for shimming com objects: An intermediate object layer can be used to shim the interfaces of an object so that a calling application can request services from the object without referencing the object. The intermediate object layer holds a reference to the object. The intermediate object layer also includes a method for releasing the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070214459 - System integration system and method: The present invention provides a system and method that facilitates system integration through standardized messages. In one embodiment, standardized-message processing is enabled through the configuration of internal and external integration objects through a user interface.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214460 - Method and system for dynamic event matching: A method for dynamic event matching. A domain model for each domain is defined. Individual requirements and preferences of a user are modeled to create a personal model. Dynamic requirements of a specific domain for the user are modeled. A dynamic event is generated. The dynamic event is obtained using... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070214461 - System and method for transparently processing multimedia data: A multimedia data processing system and method which transparently processes video and/or audio streams in real-time. The operation of a system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention does not require any intervention from, or involvement of, either the producer of the video and/or audio stream, or the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214462 - Application programming interface (api)for sensory events: An Applications Programming Interface (API) provides coordinate and movement information of an object within a sensory field. The API can provide touchless APT methods for identifying a position, a displacement, a velocity, an acceleration, and a length of time an object is within a sensory field. The API can include... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070214463 - Method, apparatus, and system for implementing view caching in a framework to support web-based applications: According to one aspect of the present invention, a system is provided for implementing view caching 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 of browser-side objects... Agent: Csa LLP

20070209038 - Conflict avoidance and resolution in a distributed computing system: Conflict avoidance and conflict detection and resolution methods are provided for transaction processing in a distributed computing system. For conflict avoidance, first data for a transaction is generated in a first computing system and is used in executing a dependent process for the transaction in a second computing system that... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070209039 - Message queue control program and message queuing system: When a queue start instruction is input, a message queue control program starts a process of asynchronous communication and allocates a queue on a memory. Messages received from a message transmitting side application are stored into the queue. When a message receiving side application requires, the messages are transferred. When... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070209040 - Asynchronous context data messaging: An acceleration engine that stores context data is operatively disposed between a network and at least one web server. Incoming requests from the network are inspected by the acceleration engine and passed on to the web server. If the inspection reveals a reference to context data, the acceleration engine retrieves... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070209041 - Cross-reference service: A method and system for providing an integration environment in which integration processes can be developed independent of integration servers and applications. The integration environment provides an application service interface for each application that is independent of the integration servers. An integration process that is developed to use the application... Agent: Csa LLP

20070209042 - Grid computing architecture & associated method of invoking/registering network services for subscription: A mediator host is provided for identifying services of networked resources which are available for invocation in a grid computing architecture. A mediator host Application Program Interface (API) is configured to receive a service registry query and related resource query. The API identifies the service registry query and related resource... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070209044 - Method and apparatus for supporting development of broker program, and computer product: A broker-program generating unit generates a broker program by using an interface-definition-language file defining interface definition information concerning a plurality of applications described in various programming languages. The broker program is installed in a middleware platform that absorbs and hides a common object request broker architecture, and brokers an interaction... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070209043 - Routing calls via reflective interfaces and a proxy: A dynamic proxy object is disclosed that is capable of intercepting calls from a calling object to a target object. The dynamic proxy can imitate the target object so that even though the calling object may be of a different version or type from the target object, it can still... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)