Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 12/07

20070300232 - Omnimodal messaging system: A messaging server application system handles message creation, receipt, and response for any sort of digitizable message in any format. It typically operates as a core application and application infrastructure in a communications network or networks in the multiple sender, receiver and user modes of the same or varying design... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070300233 - Computer data communications in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for computer data communications in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of a message stream from a contributing client device to a feed adapter, including authenticating the contributing client device, authorizing the contributing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070300235 - Reliable messaging using a message stream in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using a message stream in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter; receiving, in a transport... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070300234 - Selecting application messages from an active feed adapter and a backup feed adapter for application-level data processing in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Selecting application messages from redundant feed adapters for application-level data processing in a high speed, low latency data communications environment, including brokering establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter; brokering establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070300236 - Method and system for providing a customized network: The present invention comprises a method, system, and computer-readable medium for providing a secure computer network for the real time transfer of data. The data is grouped and stored as per user preferences. The data being transmitted is encrypted, decrypted, and validated by the system (assuming user identifications/passwords are verified).... Agent: Rudoler & Derosa LLC Attn: Docket Clerk

20070300237 - Facilitating access to application data at an application server by a wireless communication device: To facilitate access to application data at an application server by a wireless communication device, a first markup language document describing routines for accessing the data is used to generate a second markup language document. The second document may describe invocations of the routines, data to be passed as parameters... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070300238 - Adapting software programs to operate in software transactional memory environments: Embodiments of a system and method for adapting software programs to operate in software transactional memory (STM) environments are described. Embodiments include a software transactional memory (STM) adapter system including, in one embodiment, a version of a binary rewriting tool. The STM adapter system provides a simple-to-use application programming interface... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory, LLP Intellevate

20070300239 - Dynamic application instance placement in data center environments: Techniques are disclosed for determining placements of application instances on computing resources in a computing system such that the application instances can be executed thereon. By way of example, a method for determining an application instance placement in a set of machines under one or more resource constraints includes the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070300240 - System and method for managing web services: A system for managing a plurality of web services of a service oriented architecture (SOA) comprising a registry including a description of each of the plurality of web services registered in the registry, a service filter adapted to filter at least one request of a client invoking at least one... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070300241 - Enabling efficient input/output (i/o) virtualization: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method to virtualize input/output comprises configuring an input/output adapter using a back-end driver component running back-end in a privileged operating system address space through a setup/control path. The method also comprises registering with the input/output adapter using the back-end driver... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070300242 - Automated execution of a business service as an electronic service: A method defines an execution of a business service by an electronic service. The method includes steps of: defining at least one canonical data schema containing data type specifications in an electronic services registry; defining at least one electronic service interface specification in the electronic services registry, the electronic service... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070300243 - Modular caching method and system for enabling offline functionality of server-client systems: A method of managing a cache in a server-client system, defining potential cacheable service-calls and associating them with validity condition, storing all cacheable service-call responses in the cache and providing service-call responses to service-calls that have a valid matching service-call response stored in the cache, further loading the cache according... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070300244 - Optimized delivery of web application code: Application code for deployment to a client over a data link is optimized to minimize download time by supplying only the application code with a particular object that is required by the object. In a web application that includes multiple pages, the HTML and JAVASCRIPT are scanned to identify code... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070294703 - System and method for migration of information from a legacy to a replacement information handling system: Migration of user information from a legacy information handling system to a replacement information handling system, including user operating system configuration settings, is performed by copying an image of a legacy hard disk drive to a replacement hard disk drive. Legacy hardware drivers are removed from the image copied to... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070294704 - Build-time and run-time mapping of the common information model to the java management extension model: A compiler converts managed object format code or common information model extensible markup language code to instances that can be implemented by management extension models such as Java Management Extension MBeans. The instances which are generated by the compiler interface work together with a meta-model service that exposes the semantics... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070294705 - Methods and systems for conducting research operations: Methods and systems for setting up, promoting, operating, maintaining and/or terminating a research operation carried out with the use of a PUA are disclosed.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070294706 - Methods and systems for initiating a research panel of persons operating under a group agreement: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070294707 - Enhancing or replacing host operating system functionality by leveraging guest operating system functionality: Techniques for enhancing or replacing host operating system functionality by leveraging guest operating system functionality are disclosed. Incoming data is received from a computing resource of a host operating system, and, before the incoming data is transmitted to a higher-level module in the host operating system, the incoming data is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070294708 - System, method and program tool to reset an application: A computer program product and system for deleting objects used or managed by an application or application instance is disclosed. First program instructions identify the objects. Second program instructions write an executable program to delete the objects which were identified. There are wide variety of objects than can be deleted... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070294709 - Locally providing globally consistent information to communications layers: Globally consistent information is locally provided to communications layers. Globally consistent information is stored in a Network Availability Matrix, which is locally accessible by a communications layer. If an event is detected, the communications layer is automatically notified by the Network Availability Matrix, and is able to use the information... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070294710 - Simple bluetooth software development kit: A software tool and method implementing an application program interface (API) for adding Bluetooth wireless functionality to a user interface module are provided. The A software development kit (SDK) provides a layered framework that defines a plurality of interacting software layers for communicating data and commands between a user interface... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070294711 - Locating services using compiled scopes: In a computing environment incorporating multiple computing systems capable of intercommunication, a computing system assists in locating a service offered by other computing system(s). For instance, upon receiving a query that represents a scope of a service to be located, the scope represented in the query may be compared with... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070288934 - Apparatus, system, and method for asynchronous complex inbound transactions from sap applications using service oriented architecture: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing inbound transactions from an SAP application. A transaction ID module is included that receives a transaction identifier (“TID”) associated with an event from an SAP application by way of an ALE interface for an asynchronous transaction. A recording module is included... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070288933 - Rating and settlements engine: A rating and settlements engine synthesizes activity data to discover ratable events. The ratable events are processed to produce a rated event. In a described implementation, the ratable events are discovered responsive to an event-generation plug-in.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070288935 - Cluster computing support for application programs: A computer cluster system comprising a plurality of nodes and a software package comprising a user interface and a kernel for interpreting program code instructions is provided. In one embodiment, a cluster node module is configured to communicate with the kernel and other cluster node modules. The cluster node module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070288936 - External device and operating method applied thereto: An external device is used with a backend host operated with an operating system. The external device has a program and receives incoming data. The external device is operated with the backend host according to an operating method including the following steps. Firstly, the external device is connected to the... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070288938 - Sharing data between partitions in a partitionable system: A system for sharing data between partitions is provided. The system comprises a plurality of partitions and a storage accessible to the plurality of partitions. Each partition comprises an inter-partition data sharing logic comprising one or more registers that receive data packets for sharing between partitions, and a connection to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070288937 - Virtual device driver: Performance of automated testing and diagnosis of software associated with a digitizer is provided. Testing involves receiving a request packet from a driver of a digitizer. The request packet may be stored in a queue of a virtual driver associated with the driver of the digitizer. A data file configured... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070288939 - Detecting deadlocks in interop-debugging: A method and system for implementing detecting deadlocks in interop-debugging is described herein. One or more synchronization objects that an application program interface (API) could block on are identified. A canary thread that takes one or more of the synchronization objects is created. The canary thread is called to take... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070288940 - Profiling api shims: A method and system for profiling API shims is described herein. The system includes a profiler, a profiling application program interface (API), and a profiling shim. The profiling shim intercepts communications between the profiler and the profiling API. Calls from and to the profiler are chained through the profiling shim.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070288941 - Sharing kernel services among kernels: Sharing kernel services among kernels, including receiving, by a partition manager from an application in a logical partition, a first system call for a kernel service from a first kernel, the first system call having form and content compatible with the first kernel, generating, in dependence upon the first system... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070288942 - System and method for exporting formatted transactional data from a database system: A database and data processing system for transactional and other data allows such data to be exported in various different formats as required by other systems. As an example, the exported data can be loaded into a business's general ledger. Data can be exported in different formats, quite flexibly with... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070288943 - Apparatus, system, and method for asynchronous outbound transaction event processing into an sap application using service oriented architecture: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing outbound transactions in a service oriented architecture. An execution module is included to receive a J2EE Connector Architecture (“J2C”) execute command associated with a service data object (“SDO”) containing transaction data from a client application. A conversion module is included to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070288944 - Program start-up unit, program start-up method, recording medium with start-up processing program recorded, and integrated circuit: A program start-up unit is provided which is capable of starting up a program at high speed and reducing the consumption of a memory. This program start-up unit analyzes the link relation between an application program and a shared library in the whole system, specifies a combination in which the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070283362 - Common thread server: Disclosed are a method, system, and program product for calling a Common Thread Object from a running process. This is done by comprising invoking a Thread Invocation Object from the running process; creating a Generic Request Object from the Thread Invocation Object and populating the Generic Request Object with Common... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (customer No.w/ibm/svl)

20070283364 - Runtime extension framework: The present invention is a novel device, system, and method for runtime extension framework architecture for extending a system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a runtime extension framework architecture may have an event manager for identifying and coordinating handling of events. The architecture may have two... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070283363 - Method for managing events: A method for managing event entries (ABC, XYZ), which are assigned to events, by means of a digital tachograph (1) electronically records personal data concerning the operation of a commercial vehicle. Conventional methods are very limited in their capabilities, particularly with regard to influencing by a user. A solution for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070283365 - Non-centralized middleware channel structures for improved throughput efficiency: A method and apparatus are disclosed for separating the functionality of middleware (320) in a device with embedded resources (341,342) so that data transfer between embedded resources used by an object (330) resident in a general purpose processor (310) of the device takes place directly, thereby minimizing bandwidth overhead at... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070283366 - Storage system: When a logical volume in a first storage box is transferred to a second storage box, information of an access object such as a network communication protocol possessed by a host which communicates with the first storage box is changed to change a network route for accessing the transferred logical... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070283367 - Method and system for improved computer network efficiency in use of remote procedure call applications: An invention is disclosed for improved computer network efficiency in use of remote procedure call (RPC) client/server applications functioning within dynamic virtual networks. Specifically, a method and system are disclosed for use of an RPC mapping program to provide a client with the network communications protocol address(es) having the highest... Agent: Gerald J. Iwanejko, Jr.

20070283368 - Artifact management for an extensible runtime environment: A solution for managing a set of artifacts for a runtime environment is provided, which enables improved tooling that supports runtime extensions to a runtime environment. In one embodiment, an extension handler is obtained for a runtime extension to the runtime environment. The runtime extension comprises a program code that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC