Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 01/08

20080028416 - System and method for controlling local computer applications using a web interface: A system for a user to control one or more Local Applications of a Computing Device via a Web Browser, said system comprising: the Computing Device and one or more Local Applications located thereon, wherein said Local Applications are capable of accessing resources located on said Computing Device; an Interpreter... Agent: Kohn & Associates, PLLC

20080028417 - Integrated instrument driver network: An application development environment is provided. A selection of instruments is provided. A selection of an instrument is received. The selected instrument is automatically queried for an identification information of an instrument driver. An absence of the instrument driver is determined in the application development environment. The instrument driver is... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080022289 - Method and system for regulating communication traffic using a limiter thread: A methodology for using multiple execution threads to regulate message traffic is presented. An application thread spawns a limiter thread, and each have access in shared memory to a message count that reflects a number of messages that are transmitted by the application thread within a regulated time period. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080022290 - Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program: A data processing device includes means (103) for receiving a signal of an object identifier uniquely assigned to an object, and means (104) for executing a plurality of application programs corresponding to the received object identifier. A plurality of applications can be processed on the basis of an object identifier... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080022291 - Device and method for computer display synthesis: A device and method for computer display synthesis are provided. The device collects the display output information of each operation system; according to the content of each operation system display windows register, the device synthesizes the display information of each operation system to the corresponding windows for displaying, outputs the... Agent: Raymond Yat Chan

20080022292 - Computing device having a multiple process architecture for running plug-in code modules: A computing device is provided with a multiple process architecture for running plug-in code modules in their own dedicated processes for increasing both the security and reliability of software systems using plug-in design patterns.... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080022293 - Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using a dynamic linked library of multiple formats and multiple protocols with intelligent formatter: A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080016513 - Drawing resources: This disclosure relates to drawing within a computer environment using a drawing resource. The computer environment includes a managed code portion and a native code portion. The computer environment compares a draw parameter call value being passed from the managed code portion to the native code portion with a stored... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080016514 - Method and system for accessing drawing resources: This disclosure relates to drawing within a computer environment using a drawing resource. The computer environment includes a managed code portion and a native code portion. The computer environment compares a draw parameter call value being passed from the managed code portion to the native code portion with a stored... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080016515 - System, method and apparatus for troubleshooting an ip network: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for troubleshooting one or more communications between a first device and a second device. A monitoring device disposed between the first device and the second device receives a message associated with the communication(s), analyzes the received message and stores the analyzed... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080016516 - Systems and methods for using application services: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for executing, by a first framework, a service provided by a second framework. The method may include initiating, by the first framework, a request to access the service provided by the second framework. The method may also include identifying metadata for... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080016517 - Launcher for software applications: A method for executing an application in an application class library by an application launcher software component, the application launcher software component having associated a name, the method comprising the steps of: deriving a unique application class identifier from the name of the application launcher software component; and instantiating an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080016518 - Network apparatus, terminal apparatus, program, and recording medium: A network apparatus connected to at least one terminal apparatus via a network is disclosed. The terminal apparatus instructs operation of hardware unique to the network apparatus. The network apparatus includes an interface part for communicating with the terminal apparatus by using the same protocol as the terminal apparatus. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080016519 - Screen transition program generating method and device: A screen transition program generating device searches a processing program corresponding to an event in a screen defining file, which is source code to define the screen, when a user provides instructions to create an executable file for preview, and changes a processing program corresponding to the searched event into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080016520 - Host device having merged plug-in function and method of generating merged plug-in: A host device having a merged plug-in function and a method of generating a merged plug-in. A storage unit stores a plurality of plug-ins necessary to process respective jobs. A plug-in generator is used to generate a merged plug-in to process a new job by associating respective jobs of selected... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080010644 - Registration in a de-coupled environment: A method, system and computer program product for registration in a de-coupled environment or system may include providing an identity of a spawned component to a manager. The method, system and computer program product may also include taking a predetermined action in response to the spawned component failing to report... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080010645 - System and method for scheduling and coordinating tasks across application processes using shared memory: A system and method for scheduling and coordinating tasks between a master application and a slave application includes: receiving a request from an application program; determining whether the request includes an embedded subtask; extracting the subtask and sending the subtask to a shared memory space for retrieval by the slave... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080010646 - Extensible device driver: A device driver module for supporting the use of an external device by a computing device which executes an operating system, the device driver module including an initialization portion which is called by the operating system, whereupon the initialization portion detects the presence of a driver plug-in module, obtains information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080010647 - Network storage device: The invention concerns a network storage device for communicating data between a network and a storage unit. The network storage device comprises an embedded system processor adapted to manage the storage space of the storage unit, an network interface component and a storage unit management processor adapted to organise storage... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080010648 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080010649 - Method of loading software with an intermediate object oriented language in a portable device: The invention relates to a method for loading a software having several modules loadable in the non-volatile memory of a portable digital device. The loading of at least one module includes testing the existence of a data structure associated with the module in the non-volatile memory and, when necessary, to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC