Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 03/08

20080077936 - Method and apparatus for automatically launching an application from a browser: Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically launching an application from a browser. According to one aspect of the invention, content in a browser having one or more tabbed viewing panes is processed by determining if a user indicates that contents of a selected viewing pane should be duplicated in... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080077937 - Multipath accessible semiconductor memory device with host interface between processors: A multipath accessible semiconductor memory device provides an interface function between processors. The memory device may include a memory cell array having a shared memory area operationally coupled to two or more ports that are independently accessible by two or more processors, an access path forming unit to form a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080077938 - Method of implementing a state tracking mechanism in a communications session between a server and a client system: A method of implementing a state tracking mechanism in a communications session between a server and a client system, wherein, in the course of the communications session, application data is provided to the client system in accessible form only if the client system has a valid value of state tracking... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080077939 - Solution for modifying a queue manager to support smart aliasing which permits extensible software to execute against queued data without application modifications: The present invention discloses a queue manager that includes a smart alias function. The smart alias function can associate a queue name with two or more queues. The queues associated with the queue name for a given operation can be dependent upon programmatically determinable conditions. For example, the queue name... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080077940 - High level operational support system: A high level Operational Support System (OSS) framework provides the infrastructure and analytical system to enable all applications and systems to be managed dynamically at runtime regardless of platform or programming technology. Applications are automatically discovered and managed. Java applications have the additional advantage of auto-inspection (through reflection) to determine... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20080077941 - Common component framework: A Common Component Framework (CCF) provides a container interface and a component interface for communication in a multi-tiered software application. Component context data may be transmitted to and from a container describing a current state of a component executing within the container. Context data may correspond to a specific entity... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080077942 - System, method, and api for automatic digital library creation: A system, method, and API for automatic digital library creation is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a storage server: receives data from a plurality of authorities; determines content that meets a thematic profile of a user based at least on: data received from... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080077943 - Computing device with redundant, dissimilar operating systems: The adverse impact of system abnormalities, such as crashes or other failures or problems, is minimized by switching control of a computing device from a first operating system to a second operating system in the event a system abnormality is detected. For example, if a system abnormality causes a processor... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080077944 - Plug-in architecture for exporting digital images: A method and apparatus for allowing applications to access edited image data from an image editing application are disclosed herein. When the user desires to export edited images, the user causes the image editing application to display a plug-in user interface (UI). The plug-in UI may allow the user to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080077945 - System and method for providing a graphical user interface for disparate applications: A system for providing a graphical user interface that enables a user to send data to and view data from multiple, disparate applications. The system includes a display organizer that presents the user with a view of widgets on a screen. The widgets display data from the disparate applications and... Agent: Smith Moore LLP

20080072237 - Navigating applications in an interactive computing device: An interactive computing device is provided with a single step back navigation model. With the navigation model of the present invention only a single previous state that will be accessible with a BACK key or button on the device is remembered. This retains the ability for the user to be... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080072238 - Object synchronization in shared object space: A system for synchronizing shared objects among multiple applications each running inside its own virtual machine.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080072239 - Method and apparatus for non-intrusive web application integration to streamline enterprise business process: A method and apparatus for capturing Web page events of a client in a computer network, for performing Web event analysis of user interface event messages from a client to generate a Web application event message, and for capturing and analyzing Web page events of a client to generate a... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080072240 - Change notification agent: A computer-implemented method and framework for administrating data objects in an information technology architecture comprising data objects and applications, wherein each application processes at least one of the data objects, the data objects being subject to changes, and wherein entries representative of data objects are registered in a first data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080072241 - Evaluation systems and methods for coordinating software agents: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for associating a first mobile agent with a first security policy and a second mobile agent with a second security policy or for providing a first agent with code for responding to situational information about the first agent and... Agent: Searete LLC

20080072242 - Method and system for managing tables that are used by network processors to control traffic through a network: A method for managing tables that are used by network processors to control network traffic through a network. The method comprises including a first table management software application in a first network processor, in which the first table management software is dedicated to managing only tables associated with the first... Agent:

20080072243 - System and method for automating the transfer of data from a web interface to another: A script-based scenario designer application for automating the data transfer from one web interface to another. The script-based scenario designer receives sender and receiver web interface addresses from a user, displays the sender web interface to the user; monitors user interactions with the sender web interface, such as the entering... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080072244 - Injecting proxy components using blueprints: A software component deployed in a distributed system includes a stub that enables the component to be used remotely. The stub can include its own proxy (or at least a sufficient description of it) that is automatically and dynamically injected to the remote environment. Thus, native proxies do not need... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080066078 - Method and system for web-based operating environment: Embodiments of methods and systems for a web-based operating environment are described. A web-based operating environment of a web site may be accessed. The web-based operating environment may be loaded within a single instance of a web browser. The web site may include a plurality of available applications identified by... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080066079 - Context-exchange mechanism for accumulating and propagating contextual information between applications: The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal including a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. In order to increase the user comfort, a context exchange mechanism... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080066080 - Remote management of an electronic presence: A platform provides an intuitive and integrated management tool for disparate communications channels. Media such as web sites, web logs, electronic mail, instant messaging, and short messaging services may be combined and controlled through a single access point. The user interface for the access point may itself be deployed for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080066081 - Object monitoring system in shared object space: The present invention relates to a system for monitoring an object space shared among plural applications.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080066082 - Event alerting system using a dynamic local grouping, and a method thereof: Disclosed is an event alerting system and method using dynamic local grouping for 1:N event alerting. The event alerting method for an event alerting server to transmit an event message to clients connected on a network includes a) receiving an event alerting request from clients having generated events, or generating... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080066083 - Methods and apparatus for event logging in an information network: Methods and apparatus for logging, analysis, and reporting of events such as reboots in a client device (e.g., consumer premises equipment in a cable network) using applications. In one aspect, an improved event logging and monitoring system is provided within the device with which the application(s) can interface to record... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski, Esq. Gazdzinski & Associates

20080066084 - Image forming apparatus and methods used in the image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which applications can be installed is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes an application information obtaining part for obtaining application information that is used for determining whether an application is installable in the image forming apparatus.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080066085 - Systems and methods for operating a peripheral record playback device in a networked multimedia system: Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the remote devices to operate the peripheral device, such as a DVD player, VCR, or camcoder, via the primary device and the network. The peripheral... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept. Ms 4.3.510

20080066086 - Remotely controlling playback of media content on a wireless communication device: A communications network comprises a computer having a control panel application with controls for remotely controlling playback on a web browser of a wireless communication device; a wireless communications device; and data connection means between the computer and the device, such as a wireless network, Bluetooth®, or USB. The device... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080066087 - Combining resources of multiple bios roms and managing them as a single entity: A method and related computer program product for combining resources of multiple RAID controllers and managing them as a single entity, comprising searching the RAID controllers for the most appropriate version of the firmware to be executed, determining whether a more appropriate version of the firmware was previously loaded into... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080066088 - Method for improving the communication of the human interface device: The present invention discloses a method for improving the communication of the Human Interface Device (HID), by simulating the bulk endpoint into the interrupt endpoint, to increase the communication speed of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) device, which is designed to work as an HID.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080066089 - Portable terminal, methods, programs and storage media for program startup management: An IP server sends e-mail to a mobile device MS. This e-mail includes an application specifier that specifies startup of a Java application stored in mobile device MS. On the other hand, the ADF for the Java application stored in mobile device MS includes trusted source data containing a plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080059974 - Computing system, computing method, user program system, library program system, program and storage medium containing program: A numerical data transfer section transfers numerical data and its format as input values for computation from a user program system to a library program system, gives it a name, and registers/manages it. In addition, a computation request section transfers information on the content of the computation from the user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080059975 - Message processing: The present invention provides a method for processing messages that is able to receive messages, such as XML messages, and process them according to their content. In particular, the handler resolver is used to determine the type of handler or handlers which should be triggered as a result of, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059976 - Communication device, communication method, and program: A communication device for managing a key necessary for secure near field communication includes an IC card function executing unit, a reader/writer function executing unit, a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a function execution controlling unit. The IC card function executing unit executes a function of an IC card.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080059977 - Method and system for identifying suspect links between objects: Techniques are provided for identifying suspect links between objects from multiple domains. A plurality of links that associates a collection of requirement objects with a set of configuration management objects is stored. The collection of requirement objects is defined in a requirement management system for a software product, and the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080059978 - Communication system and communication apparatus and control method thereof: A client device issues an event notification request to a service-providing apparatus, and notifies the service-providing apparatus whether an event processing unit which processes the event for which the notification request has been issued is active. Upon detecting the occurrence of an event, the service-providing apparatus searches for client devices... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080059979 - Control device and development system thereof: There is chosen a software configuration in which a communication driver has a function of outputting received data to the input information conversion part of a sensor driver and an input information conversion part outputs the same data to an application program in a format enabling processing by the application... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059980 - Network device: In a network device constituting a distributed application environment, the network device includes a communication unit for communicating with others via a network, a storage unit, and an operation control unit for reading an operating system from the storage unit to operate and reading an application from the storage unit... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080059981 - Driving of a multifunction device: This method of connecting a multifunction device to a computer is characterized in that it comprises transmitting, by said device, a device identifier to said computer; executing, by said computer, a driver of the device associated with said device identifier; obtaining of a list of the functions of the device... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP