Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 05/08

20080127204 - system for portion of a day out of office notification: A system for generating an electronic notice programmed to display a portion of a day out of the office notice. The system including an application server node configured to execute a personal information management application. An application programming interface is programmatically associated with the personal information management application for allowing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080127206 - Conducting client-server inter-process communication: Conducting client-server inter-process communications is disclosed. Such communications include initiating an inter-process communication thread that is separate from a main client inter-process communication thread, where the inter-process communication thread that is separate from the main client inter-process communication thread establishes a connection with a server. A client communication port is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080127205 - Exception handling for collaborating process models: Implementations are described for exception handling for collaborating process models. Once an error or other exception is determined during execution of a process model, a collaborating process model is determined to be notified. The collaborating process model and the process model may be executing in a collaborating orchestration engine and... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080127203 - Method for implementing mpi-2 one sided communication: A method for implementing Message Passing Interface (MPI-2) one-sided communication by using Low-level Applications Programming Interface (LAPI) active messaging capabilities, including providing at least three data transfer types, one of which is used to send a message with a message header greater than one packet where Data Gather and Scatter... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080127210 - Method of configuring intelligent electronic devices to facilitate standardized communication messages among a plurality of ieds within a network: Provided is a system and method of configuring IEDs to facilitate standardized communication messages among a plurality of IEDs within a power system network based on the IEC 61850 standard. A description file is described for an intelligent electronic device configured in accordance with the IEC-61850 standard. The description file... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20080127209 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing persistence in a messaging network: Provided are method, apparatus and computer program product for managing persistence in a messaging network. A determination of whether to save data relating to a message-based communication to persistent storage at a message server is made with reference to characteristics of at least one messaging client involved in the message-based... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080127208 - Methods, apparatus and computer program product for managing persistence in a messaging system: Provided are method, apparatus and computer program product for managing persistence within a messaging system. The method includes evaluating the messaging system's exposure to risk of losing messages. Data relating to nominally-persistent messages held in the system is saved to persistent storage if an evaluating step determines that the exposure... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080127202 - Stateless asynchronous message transmission: In one embodiment of this invention, a computer system performs a method for stateless asynchronous message transmission. The method involves a first software application instantiating a listener communication thread for communication with a process of a second software application. The method involves receiving an event notification from a sender communication... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080127207 - System and method for consolidating middleware functionality: A method for marshalling data from multiple middleware applications to an implementation includes receiving first data from a first middleware application, the first data having a first format of multiple available formats. A first path is selected from multiple paths based on the first format, the multiple paths corresponding to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080127214 - Contention detection with counter rollover: In a system such as a multiple computer system where memory locations (A, B, C) can be substantially simultaneously updated from difference sources, an updating count (C, C1) is provided indicative of the sequence of each updating message or signal (195, 295) in a stream of such updating messages or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080127213 - Contention resolution with counter rollover: In a system such as a multiple computer system where memory locations (A, B, C) can be substantially simultaneously updated from difference sources, an updating count (C, C1) is provided indicative of the sequence of each updating message or signal (195, 295) in a stream of such updating messages or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080127212 - Memory leak detecting method, memory leak detecting device and memory leak detecting program: A memory leak detecting method includes steps of corresponding an accepted request with an identifier to be specified to the accepted request to store a history of an executed processing in request trace information; deleting correspondence information of the accepted request and an object to be created when the object... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080127211 - Merging realtime data flows: A method, apparatus and system to receive at a first message source a first message in a first data flow from a first messaging layer, provide data wrapped in a first data message reconfigurable iterator from the first message source to a first table in the primary data flow and... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080127215 - Software creating method: A power supervisory control operation object of an abstract class comprises a trigger object, an input object, an operation object and an output object as function objects. The power supervisory control operation object does not contain the entities of the function objects therein, and holds only the reference information to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080127219 - Enhancement of assured event delivery mechanism to eliminate external xa store requirement: Aspects of the present invention provide a method, system, computer usable program code, and computer implemented method for assured event delivery in an enterprise information system. The method comprises mapping the capabilities of the enterprise information system onto an interface, wherein the mapping allows the enterprise information system to be... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080127218 - Event dispatcher based on subscriber dependencies: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that dispatch events in a particular order. The event dispatcher receives an event trigger for an event from an event publisher. The event dispatcher uses a reverse topological sort on a module dependency tree to produce a sorted list of modules. The sorted list... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080127217 - Mechanism for developing ajax applications using java swing framework and method for using the same: In one embodiment, a mechanism makes use of AJax to enable Swing applications deployable as Internet applications that runs on a J2EE server. The mechanism enables an application developer to develop and deploy Swing applications to the J2EE server while providing users with the equivalent of a Rich Internet Application... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Oracle

20080127216 - Task based debugger (transacation-event-job-trigger): The embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus, method, etc. for a task based debugger (transaction-event-job-trigger). More specifically, an integrated event monitor for a SOC comprises functional cores each having a functional debug logic element. The cores are connected to an interconnect structure that links the functional debug logic elements.... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080127220 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating an input-value-specific loadable instance of an application: Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating an input-value-specific loadable instance of an application are disclosed. One method provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for receiving an identifier associated with an application. One or more metadata input parameters are identified and a value is received for each identified input... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20080127226 - Device communication interface system: The device communication interface obtains a device driver corresponding to a device connected to the input and output interface from a server on a communication network via a communication interface, and outputs information, which is input via the input and output interface and the device driver from the device, via... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080127227 - Method and system for protocol offload in paravirtualized systems: Certain aspects of a method and system for protocol offload in paravirtualized systems may be disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the method may include preposting of application buffers to a front-end driver rather than to a NIC in a paravirtualized system. The NIC may be enabled to place the received offloaded... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080127224 - Method of pre-processing for dynamic removal of a graphics display device from a computing apparatus: In a method of pre-processing for dynamic removal of a graphics display device from a computing apparatus, upon receipt of a command to remove the graphics display device, an address of the graphics display device to be removed is obtained based on the command. A driver module of the graphics... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080127225 - Methods, devices and computer program products for automatically installing device drivers from a peripheral device onto a host computer: One or more custom device drivers for a peripheral device may be installed from the peripheral device onto a host computer. Upon connecting the peripheral device to the host computer, an operating system of the host computer is exposed to a default configuration of the peripheral device that contains only... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080127222 - Multiple lun support for sata devices: An exemplary embodiment provides for a device driver embodied in a computer readable medium. The device driver includes instructions operative to cause a programmable processor to receive a command and perform a determination as to whether the command is a drive command or a media changer command. The command is... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080127223 - System and method for communications operations: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in communications operations. A first device might, for example, receive from a second device an inquiry response that includes information conveying when the second device will be listening. The first device might, for instance, employ the information in dispatching a page at a time... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080127221 - System and method for providing execute-in-place functionality: s

20080127228 - Bypassing class drivers through virtual driver enablement: A virtual driver is enabled and a class driver is bypassed to provide at least one functionality different than that of the bypassed class driver. A filter driver is initialized in the stack of a class driver in order to bypass the class driver. The filter driver receives inputs associated... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080127229 - Multiple interface standard support for redundant array of independent disks: A method for supporting multiple interface standards in a connection between a computer system and a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) unit is disclosed. The method includes receiving a message indicating an initialization routine and reading a first indicator associated with a first interface standard. The method further includes... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080127232 - Diameter protocol and sh interface support for sip server architecture: A SIP server can be distributed over a cluster network and handle the processing of various SIP communications. A Diameter protocol web application can be deployed on the engine tier of the SIP server for enabling communication between the SIP server and an HSS. A profile service API can be... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080127231 - Integrated out-of-office assistant reminder tool: In one embodiment, a method includes scanning, by an automated tool, a set of application programs and/or systems associated with a user, the set including one or more action items calendared in a relevant time period that includes one or more days when the user intends to be out of... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080127230 - Method and system for transmitting data: A data transmission system and method. The data is associated with an application and the application is used in connection with accessing a business process. The business process is associated with an activity time period, commencing with an opening time and ending with a closing time. One or more requests... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20080127233 - Method and machine-readable medium for building distributed software: In a method for building distributed software, a single computer program may be written which includes distinct sets of routines defining operation at distinct computing devices (or types of computing devices) in a distributed system. Direct calls may be made between routines, even if the routines define operation of distinct... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080127234 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for a remote request dispatcher extension framework for container based programming models: A method, system, and computer program product for a remote request dispatcher (RRD) extension framework to transparently invoke container technologies in a multiple application server environment is provided. The method includes executing a local component on a local application server that contains a reference to a remote component on a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080127236 - Apparatus, system, and method for supporting service components written in non-native runtime code in a service component architecture: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for supporting service components written in non-native runtime code in a Service Component Architecture (“SCA”). A read module is included to read an implementation type definition having metadata identifying executable code that executes a new implementation type. A receive module is included to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080127235 - Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamic linkage: A method of dynamic linkage including: receiving a request to launch a program; checking a system memory for the program; reserving a unique memory block of the system memory for the program and loading the program into the unique memory block if the program is not found in the memory... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080120624 - Computer system for detecting object updates: A computer system is used to run one or more programs. It includes a memory having at least a first heap and a second heap in which objects are stored, with a first object being stored on the first heap. A write barrier is provided for detecting that said the... Agent: Gregory M. Doudnikoff Ibm Corp, Ip Law Dept T81/503

20080120625 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric that protect ownership transfer with non-uniform protection windows: In a data processing system, a plurality of agents communicate operations therebetween. Each operation includes a request and a combined response representing a system-wide response to the request. Latencies of requests and combined responses between the plurality of agents are observed. Each of the plurality of agents is configured with... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080120626 - Methods and apparatuses for providing a hardware accelerated web engine: Methods and apparatuses for providing hardware acceleration of a web browser are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of operating a web browser on a computer system includes analyzing a data stream having a plurality of fragments. The method further includes determining what fragments of the data stream should be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080120627 - Method for detecting race conditions involving heap memory access: A method for detecting race conditions involving heap memory access including a plurality of threads being tracked. At runtime a plurality of APIs utilized to create and destroy thread synchronization objects are intercepted, and each synchronization object created via the APIs is tracked. A bit field is created that contains... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080120628 - User interface collaboration framework: A user interface (UI) collaboration system enables a plurality of application clients to collaborate in a heterogeneous environment. The system includes, but is not limited to, a server, a first application interface (API), and a second API. The first API is coupled to the server and is associated with a... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080115145 - Method and system for a digital signal processor debugging during power transitions: Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including (but not limited to) fox processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. A method and system control transferring data between debugging registers and digital signal processor processes in association with a power transition sequence of the digital... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080115146 - Serial communications protocol for safety critical systems: A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules in a safety critical system, such as a medical system, is provided. The design comprises providing a media connection between software modules, wherein the software modules employ a communications protocol and participate in a bi-directional master-slave... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080115147 - Device architecture to support multiple protocols: A method and apparatus for adding support, to a device, for a new protocol which the device did not previously support is provided. Protocol information, which identifies how to add support for the protocol to the device, is stored. A protocol manager may read the protocol information and perform actions... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080115148 - File delivery session handling: The invention relates generally to resource delivery over digital communication systems.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080115149 - System and method for providing context information: The present disclosure provides a system and method of providing context information. Context information is automatically retrieved by monitoring at least one application program executable on a computing system, so as to detect an event associated with the application program, identifying information corresponding to the detected event, and retrieving, automatically... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080115150 - Methods for applications to utilize cross operating system features under virtualized system environments: Systems and methods for applications to utilize cross operating system features. Exemplary embodiments include a method for applications to utilize cross operating system features under system environments, the method including providing a communication stack in a provider system, generating protocol stack calls from an application in a consumer system, intercepting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Tuscon Division

20080115151 - Display management for communication devices with multiple displays: Within a communication device having a plurality of displays, a method of controlling the displays can include, responsive to receiving an event from an application within a display manager, determining whether a single event or multiple events are pending (430). If a single event is pending, the method can include... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080115152 - Server-controlled heartbeats: A client-side device is capable of wirelessly sending heartbeats to a server-side device. The server-side device is capable of instruction the client-side device when and at what frequency to send a next heartbeat. Additionally, the server-side device is capable of instructing the client-side device how to send a next heartbeat.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080115153 - Public variable interface system: A system for interfacing information between subsystems of an embedded software system with subsystem independence. It is a public variable system that defines a simple, extensible framework for interfacing between product subsystems such as control engines, input/output subsystems, and communications protocols. Server subsystems within the embedded software system are given... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080109819 - Communication system, message processing computer and method for processing a message: In one aspect, a communication system comprising a message processing computer and a plurality of communication networks, respectively provided with an interface computer that is respectively coupled to the message processing computer in order to reproduce a data flow between the respective interface computer and the message processing computer is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080109820 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for lending e-mail space: An e-mail is received for a first user's e-mailbox that increases accumulated storage volume of e-mails beyond a capacity limit. Available storage space indications are accessed for e-mailboxes of other users designated as overflow e-mailboxes. Overflow e-mailbox designation indicates agreement by a user to loan at least a portion of... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080109818 - Shortcut ip communications between software entities in a single operating system: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for performing efficient communication between software entities residing in the same operating system using conventional network communications APIs are disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment, when a software entity (e.g., a process) attempts to communicate through a networking API, the operating... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080109822 - Detecting entity changes in a storage area network environment: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for detecting entity changes in a storage area network. A discovery module probes a plurality of entities of the storage area network to detect an event in response to a policy, stores attributes of the probed entities, and reports the event with a... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080109824 - Method and system for complex event processing: A method for complex event processing is disclosed. An event correlation engine detects various event correlation rules to analyze events to be detected and then retrieves event processing languages from an event definition storage module to implement and receive other relative events using a process engine.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109825 - Method for automatically notifying of schedule by portable terminal: A method for automatically notifying of a schedule by a portable terminal includes the steps of detecting an integrated schedule notification event, extracting normal schedules corresponding to a period of time, and displaying all extracted normal schedules corresponding to the period of time as the integrated schedule at the starting... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080109823 - Methods, systems, and computer products for download status notification: Methods, systems, and computer products for download notification including identifying content for download, requesting a download of the content to a device and requesting a notification related to the status of the download.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080109821 - Notification of events using mms in a portable communication device: The present invention relates to a method of using playable electronic media messages for notification of events in a portable communication device, such a portable communication device as well as a computer program product and a computer program element for performing the method. The portable communication device (10) comprises an... Agent: Brian E. Ledell Harrity Snyder LLP

20080109826 - Massage display device, computing device, massage display program storage medium, and computing program storage medium: A message display device provided with a display section includes: an event acquisition section for acquiring an event that triggers display of a message on the display section and is associated with the message; a data acquisition section for acquiring a type of an application program and a display mode... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080109828 - Application component communication apparatus of sca-based system and method thereof: An application component communication method and an apparatus using the same are provided to an SCA-based system for efficiently performing data communication between SCA-based application components by using a dynamic connection manager. The application component communication apparatus includes an application module provided in the SCA-based system and driven, an application... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109827 - Method and apparatus for allowing restarted programs to use old process identifications and thread identifications: A data processing system allows processes to be checkpointed and restarted. The system saves the old process and thread identifications in a process table. When an application makes a system call passing the old process and/or thread identifications as parameters, the system performs a mapping algorithm to supply the system... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080109829 - Control and communications architecture: An industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a link layer that includes one or more ports that can communicate via one or more communication protocols. An application layer communicates with one or more network objects and a core layer bridges the application layer and the link layer.... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080109830 - Software architecture system with embedded virtual router: The invention relates to a network system of at least two appliances, each appliance configured to perform a cycle of operation on an article, and each appliance having its own software architecture. An embedded virtual router enables communication among appliance components independent of the architecture of the software.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair Pc

20080109832 - Clipboard augmentation with references: Systems, methods, and data structures for augmenting data placed on the clipboard with additional data are disclosed. Where the data placed on the clipboard may include one or more references to other information, such systems, methods, or data structures may retrieve data referred to by a reference and place such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109831 - System and method for a non-sequential undo mechanism: A system and method for a non-sequential undo mechanism is presented. An action removal manager stores program states and action descriptions that it receives from a user in a program log corresponding to a software application. In turn, the action removal manager allows the user to remove an action from... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Svl (jvl) C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20080104611 - Method and system for sharing data between portlets within a portal: The present invention relates to a method and respective system for sharing data between portlets within a portal. In general, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: generating a visual representation, indicating for a predetermined first portlet a portlet property indicating whether or not the first... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080104613 - Adverse event data capture software, systems and methodologies: Electronic capture of adverse event information includes selective input of adverse event information into a machine in response to prompt provided to the user based on a site visit. Such adverse event information is forwardable to a location over a communication link. The machine produces one or more alerts, if... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080104612 - Mirroring of conversation stubs: A computer implemented method and computer program product for managing conversational input. The process authenticates a user on a device in a set of communication devices for manipulating conversation stubs. The process monitors an exchange of conversation for a triggering event on the device in a set of communication devices.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104614 - Method and apparatus for multiple slaves to receive data from multiple masters in a data processing system: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing requests for data by processes in a data processing system. Requests for data from the processes in slave mode are tracked. Data received by a device driver is stored, wherein the data may originate from multiple masters. The data is sent to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104617 - Extensible user interface: A user interface is provided for rendering platform data to an output device. The data is sent to the user interface from the protocol along with self-describing rendering information. This information can be in a transform format, such as extensible stylesheet language (XSL) and the like, and/or code-based language such... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104615 - Health integration platform api: An application program interface (API) is provided for requesting, storing, and otherwise accessing data within a health integration network. The API facilitates secure and seamless access to the centrally-stored data by offering authentication/authorization, as well as the ability to receive requests in an extensible language format, such as XML, and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104616 - Method and system for providing a report connector: A method includes transforming, by a report connector according to at least one input mapping rule of the report connector, first input data received by a first application to create second input data for a specific report of a plurality of existing reports of a second application. The method also... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080104619 - Application connector parallelism in enterprise application integration systems: A system for responding to requests for processing made by an integration broker to an application having a single threaded application programmer interface, comprising receiving a request for processing; determining whether the received request is event-triggered or call-triggered; sending the request to a slave process assigned to event-triggered requests, when... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080104618 - Event-driven/service oriented online testing: Event driven/service oriented online testing facilitates the configuration, development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. Event driven/service oriented online testing may include a module for an online testing platform that may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..