Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 11/07

20070277180 - Electronic network service architecture: A method implementable in an electronic system for enabling a runtime environment to provide a service to a mobile agent object includes providing a service interface characterizing a method for providing the service to the mobile agent object. A service-description interface operable to provide a description of the service is... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070277179 - Information processing apparatus, communication processing method, and computer program: A method and apparatus performing smooth message transfer between operating systems (OS's) are provided. In a multi-OS environment, message transfer control is performed by switching a message area of a physical address space from a mapping state to a message area in a logical partition address space in a message... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070277181 - System and method for uniform distributed destinations: The present invention enables enable uniform distributed destination, which greatly simplifies the management and development of distributed destination applications and permits the configuration of a clustered resource to be adjusted dynamically to meet the changing configuration of the cluster. In a uniform distributed destination, member destinations will be allocated uniformly,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070277182 - Methods and apparatus for sampling usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network: Methods and apparatus for sampling usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network. A method is provided to perform usage tracking in a data network. The method includes determining a targeted set of terminals from a pool of terminals on the data network, and transmitting tracking parameters... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070277183 - Communication terminal and program therefor: In a communication terminal where a running application is not managed by an OS (operating system), a message is received without a communication connection being established, and if the message is destined for a running application, receipt of the message is notified to the running application. In mobile device MS,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070277184 - Data processing program and data processing device: A processor functions as changing means for changing a processing priority level of one of an encode function thread T2 for encoding data and other processes in accordance with the processing rate of the encode function thread T2. It is preferable that the changing means is operable to change the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070271572 - Messaging mechanism for inter processor communication: An apparatus and method are provided for connecting a host Enterprise System Connection Architecture (ESCON) Input/Output (I/O) interface to a cache of a data storage system. The apparatus includes (a) a set of at least 4 pipelines, each pipeline being coupled on a first end to the host ESCON I/O... Agent: Bainwood Huang And Associates LLC

20070271573 - Evaluating event-generated data using append-only tables: Techniques are provided for evaluating base events, compound events, and logical update events in an event processing system. In one embodiment, the base events, compound events, and logical update events are definitions in a particular syntax language that specify conditions for evaluating input event data. In this embodiment, base event... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070266392 - Inter process communication in a computing device: An operating system for a computing device comprises a kernel portion having a punish and subscribe facility for retrieving a property published by a first process and notifying the retrieved property to one or more further processes requesting to subscribe to that property. By providing the publish and subscribe mechanism... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070266393 - Method of optimizing propagation of non-persistent messages from a source database management system to a destination database management system: A method of optimizing propagation of non-persistent messages from a source database management system (DBMS) to a destination database management system (DBMS) is described and provided. The method comprises receiving one or more non-persistent messages from a source non-persistent message queue of the source DBMS at a destination non-persistent message... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070266394 - Device and a method for processing events and actions: A device operating as a finite state machine and provided for processing events and actions relating to at least one object to be moved between an initial and a final state. The device comprising a processing member connected to a memory. The initial and final states are integrated into at... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070261059 - Array-based memory abstraction: Array based memory abstraction in a multiprocessor computing system is disclosed. A plurality of memory resources are operably connected to an interconnect fabric. In a plurality of memory blocks, each memory block represents a contiguous portion of the plurality of memory resources. A cell is operably connected to the interconnect... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070261060 - Integration of disparate applications on a network: A system is implementable in a network including a plurality of electronic devices coupled to each other via a communication medium. The system includes a first mobile agent object executable on an electronic device of the plurality and operable to perform a first operation on a data set. A second... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070261064 - Apparatus, method and system for managing event information: An apparatus, method, and system for managing event information are provided. The apparatus for managing event information includes an event management module which receives event information on an event generated in an event generator located in the same network in a multicast manner, and manages the received event information, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070261062 - Building system event manager: A method is provided that includes receiving a plurality of event records, each including operating data of at least one of a building system and a building system controller; storing an event record queuing instruction; and ordering an event record queue by applying the event record queuing instruction to each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070261061 - System and method of aggregating and consolidating security event data: A method and system are provided that enable the processing of security event data is provided. In a first version, instructions for processing security event data are software encoded in separate modules. The software is organized into discrete modules and executed by an information technology system. The software as executed... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20070261063 - Work item event procession: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, monitors the flow of events between a front-end application and a backend server. In one approach is technology, a new event is received at the backend server. This new event has an event type, which is used to set a new... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070261065 - Framework for generating pre-packaged business integration component group pattern-based applications: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program usable program code for managing a number of application integration components. A first command is issued to a first application group. The first application group includes a first subset of application integration components selected from a number of application integration components. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070261066 - Method and system for extension registry filtering: A set of attached extensions is reduced before it is exposed to the code of a processing extension point to which the extensions are attached. An application calls an extension registry to obtain a list of available extensions attached to a given extension point, and filter functionality is integrated into... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070261067 - Winsock apis: To improve upon existing Winsock implementations, the claimed system and method adapts an existing Winsock system to use out-of-process NSP services. The claimed method and system provides asynchronous Winsock Next calls to provide client application processing flexibility. Further, the claimed method and system provides additional structures for passing additional NSP... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070256080 - Xml/soap interprocess intercontroller communication: A method and system for interprocess communication (IPC) (300), which includes converting a message from the source computer process (310) into an extensible markup language (XML) document, and encoding the XML document into a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message. The SOAP message is transmitted to the destination computer process... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070256082 - Monitoring and controlling applications executing in a computing node: A method and system for monitoring and controlling applications executing on computing nodes of a computing system. A status request process, one or more control processes, an untrusted application and one other application are executed on a computing node. The status request process receives and processes requests for the statuses... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070256081 - System and method for management of jobs in a cluster environment: A system and method for management of jobs in the cluster environment is provided. Each node a cluster executes a job manager that interfaces with a replicated database to enable cluster wide management of jobs within the cluster. Jobs are queued in the replicated database and retrieved by a job... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070256084 - Systems and methods for providing a generic audit trail service: Systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed for providing a generic audit trail service for a plurality of business objects, at least two of the plurality of business objects being of different business object types. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving, at an application... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070256083 - Systems and methods of accessing information across distributed computing components: In one embodiment the present invention includes a systems and methods of accessing information across distributed computing components. In one embodiment, a first software component has associated information and references to information associated with other software components that provide inputs to the first software component. Information about downstream software components... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20070256085 - Device types and units for a home automation data transfer system: A system layer interface provides an abstraction interface to implement the system layer, and applications to interface with the network transport layer without requiring the developer to understand or work with the network transport layer functionality directly. A software architecture implements human-readable device types and human-readable units for network devices... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070256086 - Discovery and integration of jini services in non-java clients: A system of forming a bridge between non Java services and a Jini (™) interface. A non Java service is encapsulated using special code which makes it look like a Java service. Other aspects are also automatically formed. The Java service is automatically published with a broker such as a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070256087 - Efficient linking and loading for late binding and platform retargeting: A method of producing an executable image from an object file without shared library support from the operating system, wherein the executable image requires a shared library file in order to resolve at least one of the symbols called for in the object file. A method of optimizing the loading... Agent: Microsoft Corporation