Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 10/07

20070250839 - Method and apparatus for composite user interface generation: A method for directing messages between a composite user interface and at least one source application. A message is to be directed to a predetermined set of services, each service executes a command specified by the message and the message comprises details of the predetermined set of services. Each service... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20070250840 - Computing system and method to perform run-time extension for world wide web application: A computing system including a script module to perform a run-time extension to modify the functionality of a corresponding World Wide Web (WWW) application object is described. The script module modifies the functionality of the corresponding WWW application object without modifying the functionality of other WWW application objects of the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250841 - Multi-modal interface: A system for synchronizing application programs which together provide a multi-modal user interface, which comprises multiple application programs which provide the various interface of the multi-modal interface and which are in communication with a synchronization manager. Means are provided to detect status changes in the application programs and to communicate... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070250842 - Methods of customizing navigation systems: Methods of providing customizable access to a navigation device, and a navigation device, are disclosed herein. For example, in at least one embodiment, the method may include providing a software development kit (SDK), including at least one application programming interface and at least one platform independent procedure call library; processing... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070245355 - Electric device and control method of the device: In correspondence with a registration request from an external device, notification setting to notify an external device of status information in an electric device is registered and a period in which the notification setting is valid is decided. In accordance with occurrence of event, the status information is notified to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070245354 - Job completion notifying device providing notification of completion of a job when job execution is completed: It is determined whether a job stored in an image forming apparatus is completed or not. When a result is YES, it is determined whether an uncompleted job of the same user as the completed job is present in a queue of the jobs. When a result is YES, it... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070245353 - Secure integration of a local and a remote application: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for integrating a local application-program-generated graphical visualization with a remotely generated web page displayed locally by a web browser. In this embodiment, the locally executing web browser is modified to invoke an event-handling routine upon rendering each web page. When target... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070245356 - Method and apparatus for a support platform: An apparatus and methods for enabling a support person to receive and review information relating to multiple remote nodes and multiple applications running on each node. The apparatus comprises a presentation component accessed by the support person or administrator, and engine installed on each remote node. The engine comprises a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070245357 - Management system and method for managing distributed resources: The new management system is characterized in that autonomic Correlation Services (74-76) are introduced that manage different functional parts of the managed system in cooperation with workflow engine (88), whereby each Correlation Service (74-76) employs a Correlation Engine (174, 175) and a set of rules (184, 185, 186) that describe... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070245359 - Communication control apparatus, communication control program, and communication driver registration method: The present invention has been made to provide a communication control apparatus, a communication control program, and a communication driver registration method allowing communication between an application supporting a predetermined connection method and a peripheral device supporting a different connection method from that of the application. An information processing apparatus... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070245360 - Portable networking interface method and apparatus for distributed switching system: An apparatus and method to provide a portable networking interface for distributed switching systems. Two Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are defined for communication to a Forwarding Database Distribution Library (FDDL). The FDDL sits between network client applications and the switch device driver in order to provide a uniform interface to... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20070245358 - Web installer driver: An improved system and method for installing a printer driver on a remote information terminal through a network are provided. A method for providing a network-based driver management service is also provided.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070240164 - Command line pipelining: Piping command line functions. A method may be practiced in a computing system. The method includes acts for performing functions using a single command line utility capable of performing multiple functions. The command line utility is able to accept output of the command line utility as arguments for functions performed... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070240165 - System and method for aggregating data from multiple sources to provide a single cim object: Method and system for aggregating data regarding a system component from multiple data sources to provide a single aggregated Common Information Model (“CIM”) object are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises requesting data regarding a system component from a first one of the data sources; upon receipt of the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070240168 - Apparatus and method for modifying an initial event queue for extending an xml processor's feature set: A method and apparatus for modifying an events queue for extending an extended mark-up language (XML) processor's feature set are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the parsing of an XML document to generate an initial event queue. During parsing of the XML document, an event associated with a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070240167 - Apparatus, system, and method for non-intrusive monitoring of business events: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for the non-intrusive monitoring of business events on a middleware server. The steps to non-intrusively monitor business events on a middleware server include: monitoring business event traffic on a middleware server based on at least one business process probe that specifies an event... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070240170 - Computer implemented method and system for processing an event notification within a notification infrastructure of a database system using a persistent queue: A computer implemented method for processing an event notification within a notification infrastructure of a database system based on a client specified quality of service designation. The designation may indicate reliable transmission in which case a persistent internal queue is used. The method includes enqueuing an event notification into a... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070240169 - Computer implemented method for removing an event registration within an event notification infrastructure: A computer implemented method and system for automatically removing an event registration within an event notification infrastructure of a database system is disclosed. The method includes removing an event registration from an event queue automatically if a specified active period of time has elapsed. Further, the method includes removing an... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070240166 - System and method of providing inter-application communications: A method of operating an operating system for providing inter-application communications between a publisher application and a subscriber application. The method includes receiving a publication request from the publisher application at an operating system, receiving a subscriber application from the subscriber application at the operating system, performing an operating system... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070240171 - Device, method, and computer program product for accessing a non-native application executing in virtual machine environment: Embodiments of the invention provide a virtual machine application program (VMAPI) interface logically disposed between a non-native application executing in the virtual machine environment and a native middleware application, such as a native high-availability middleware application. The VMAPI is registered as a proxy component with the native middleware application by... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070240172 - Dynamic portal registration of generic data source: A generic portal template includes properties that are common to all system templates. Using the generic portal template, a connector framework is exploited in order to expose every type of external information system generically and to make available to a portal its exposed metadata, methods, and other properties dynamically. The... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070240173 - Data acquisition engine and system for an appliance: A system comprising a memory heap generated dynamically by useful software and a data acquisition engine. The memory heap comprises a plurality of event structures, each including at least one each of pointers into memory external to the event structure, event operators, and arguments. The data acquisition engine is configured... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070234368 - Providing a wrapper around native synchronization objects: A facility for managing a synchronization mechanism that supports initialization, acquisition, release, and deletion operations is described. When a thread seeks to perform the acquisition operation, the facility permits performance of the acquisition operation only if the initialization operation has been performed more recently than the deletion operation. When a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070234369 - Policy based message aggregation framework: Messages generated by an originating application are aggregated into batches based on a configuration policy. The configuration policy contains business logic used to aggregate messages into a batch. Once a batch is complete, it is formatted into a single stream output and sent to a destination application designed to receive... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070234370 - Information processing system, information processing method, program, and storage medium: An information processing system capable of communicating with a printing apparatus which returns from power saving by external access, and having first and second access units adapted to access the printing apparatus, includes a requesting unit adapted to request notification of event occurrence generated by processing by the first access... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070234371 - System and method for enterprise application interactions: An application view control can allow users of a software tool to interact with Enterprise applications using simple Java APIs. This can allow a user who is not an expert in the use of a given Enterprise system to utilize its capabilities in a manner a Java programmer can understand.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070234372 - Management system for usb audio device cluster: The present invention provides a management system for USB (universal serial bus) audio device cluster, and various connection examples. The present invention includes several non-distinct USB audio devices on single system, each USB audio still seems as an independent device in the system and also has its corresponding vendor's driver.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070234373 - Field device managing system and field device managing method: A field device managing system for managing the field device performs communication with a field device by using application software. A virtual application mechanism obtains information for specifying an object application to start the object application and obtains information for specifying an object HART (highway addressable remote transducer) device to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP