Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 06/08

20080155554 - Managed execution environment for software application interfacing: Some embodiments are directed to controlling interactions between a host software program and a computer system by providing a managed execution environment running within the host software program. In one embodiment, a computer system integrates a managed execution environment within a host software program. The computer system uses the managed... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080155555 - Determining an extension to use to process an input object to a call in a program: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining an extension to use to process an input object to a call in a program. An association of parameter definitions is indicated with extensions, where each extension comprises a program capable of being selected to process at least one... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080155556 - Providing a business logic framework: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a business logic framework. In some implementations, a method includes identifying an event associated with business logic of an application framework. The application framework is associated with method framework logic and the business logic. One or more business objects are identified... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080155558 - Solution for checking a health of a computer system: Under the present invention, a configurable dictionary is provided. The configurable dictionary includes a set of objects that identify: (1) attribute conditions of the computer system to be checked; (2) associated locations within the computer system for checking the attribute conditions; and (3) actions to be taken based on results... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, Llc

20080155557 - Unified metamodel for web services description: In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include mapping, using a metamodel, one or more WSDL (Web Service Descriptor Language) statements associated with a web service to one or more metamodel objects. The one or more metamodel objects are used to generate a client proxy.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080155561 - Development environment for groupware integration with enterprise applications: This disclosure relates to application integration and, more particularly, groupware integration with enterprise applications. Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software to integrate one or more computer applications with one or more groupware applications. Some embodiments include a groupware integration engine that receives, stores, and sends messages between computer... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080155564 - Event correlation based trouble ticket resolution system incorporating adaptive rules optimization: A system and method for event correlation and adaptive rules optimization in the context of a trouble ticket resolution system. The adaptive rules optimizer incorporates learning principles that achieve a high degree of automation while leaving control in the hands of an operator. To mitigate the effects of possible errors,... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080155563 - Image-forming device, control method thereof, and storage medium of storing program to execute control method: An image-forming device comprises: a notification unit to notify another device of an event generated in the image-forming device; a registration unit to register a notification destination of the notification unit; a first determination unit to determine, in a case where a request for registering a notification destination is received... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155562 - Initiator notification method and apparatus: In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory system is disclosed to include at least one initiator, a SATA device, and an improved bridge device configured to facilitate communication between the at least one initiator and the SATA device and having at least one input port and operative to... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam And Lsi Corporation

20080155560 - Multiple-application transaction monitoring facility for debugging and performance tuning: A system, method, and program product is disclosed to monitor multiple applications, each application configured to process part of a TCP/IP-based transaction. The applications communicate with one another by way of a TCP/IP protocol. Each application is further configured to generate one or more events associated with the TCP/IP-based transaction.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080155559 - Portal eventing directory: The present invention provides methods and systems for maintaining consistency in portal namespaces and portal event naming. Some embodiments provide a way for developers to select an appropriate portal event when working in a specific namespace. Similarly, some embodiments allow developers to determine what namespaces are available for a given... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155565 - Automatic completion of command line arguments: A method and system for facilitating user interaction with a shell. In one embodiment, the method and system include receiving command input in a command line, wherein the command input comprises a partial command argument, wherein the partial command argument is followed by one of a space character and a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080155566 - Operation consistency maintenance method, system and program: To provide a technology capable of maintaining the consistency of a managed object even when an existing operation program is used for manipulation without modifying the existing operation program when the managed object itself on an execution base is expanded. An operation consistency maintenance method for an operation consistency maintenance... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080155567 - Data processing apparatus and a method of operating data processing apparatus for generating representations of availability status for application programs: A system and a method are disclosed for a data processing apparatus (200) is described which comprises a plurality of application programs (206, 210) configured to utilize an availability status of a user; and a presence engine (208). The presence engine (208) is configured to receive data representative of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080155569 - Electronic device and computer program: An electronic device comprises software including an operating system kernel and a device controller for controlling a hardware component, wherein the device controller is external to the operating system kernel. The software further comprises a communication driver integrated into the operating system kernel, the communication driver 206) including encoded instructions... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080155568 - Image processing system and processing method for use in image processing system: Image processing conditions that have been set are divided into a plurality of processes, and devices capable of executing the processes are searched for. Based on functions of devices that are found as a result of the search and the set image processing conditions, operation flows to be executed by... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155570 - Method to manage network printers and network system using the same: A management method of network printers and a network system using the same, which are capable of easily allowing a network manager to collect management information by allowing the network printers manufactured by different companies to be compatible with each other. When connections between object identifications of the network printers... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080155571 - Method and system for host software concurrent processing of a network connection using multiple central processing units: Certain aspects of a method and system for host software concurrent processing of a network connection using multiple central processing units (CPUs) may be disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the method may include a network system comprising a plurality of processors and a NIC. After completion of one or more received... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080155572 - Simplifying generation of device drivers for different user systems to facilitate communication with a hardware device: Generating device drivers for different user systems to facilitate communication with a hardware device. A device specification containing a program logic specifying the manner in, which external devices can communicate with the hardware device, is received as one input. A software specification specifying various characteristics of a runtime environment (e.g.,... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080155574 - Meta-data driven data access system: A meta-data driven data access system provides a calling application access to a plurality of data sources. The system includes a client API and a broker server. The client API receives a request for attribute data from the calling application. The client API accesses attribute structures in a local meta-data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080155575 - Method, system and computer program product for a lightweight directory access protocol client application program interface: A device, including a computer readable medium storing executable computer instructions for implementing an application program interface (API). The API including a function call for enabling communications between a calling application and a client on the device, the client communicating with a directory server. In another aspect, there is provided... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155576 - Providing alternative content in a windowed environment: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or extension to a window manager. In particular, the extension can provide for a window rotation feature that can be exposed as a rotate button. Additionally or alternatively, the rotation feature can be activated based upon a diverse set of conditions, events,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155573 - User-configurable variables: A method and a computer program product for managing user-configurable variables are provided. The method and the computer program product provide for defining a plurality of user-configurable variables in a computer program, providing an interface operable to be utilized in the computer program for each of the plurality of user-configurable... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080148276 - Dynamic location-specific distribution lists: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first interface arrangement that obtains information from at least one data source. The information is associated with the presence of an entity at a location. The apparatus also comprises a processing arrangement that automatically updates a dynamic distribution list that is associated with... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080148275 - Efficient order-preserving delivery of concurrent messages: A computer-implemented method for communication includes receiving over a network multiple ordered sequences of messages. Multiple processing threads are allocated for processing the received messages. Upon receiving each new message from the network, an ordered sequence to which the new message belongs is identified. While there is at least one... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080148277 - Optimizing calls from a managed runtime environment to microkernel extended functionality: A sequence of function calls may be executed as a single software component, rather than as individual method calls on a operating system, for example, in a microkernel system. Source code from a user application is parsed to identify a plurality of homogeneous function calls, for example, corresponding to sequence... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080148278 - Processing fast and slow soap requests differently in a web service application of a multi-functional peripheral: Techniques are provided for efficiently processing SOAP requests at a Web service application (WSA) of a multi-functional device (MFP). In one technique, a WSA includes at least three threads. An external request processing thread processes SOAP requests from different client applications. A request processing thread processes a SOAP request according... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080148279 - Web services device profile on a multi-service device: device and facility manager: A technique is provided for implementing multiple Web services on a multi-functional device (MFP) executing multiple service applications. A Device Facility Manager (DFM) executing on the MFP represents the MFP by responding to discovery, metadata, and logging requests with device location, metadata and logging information. When a client application discovers... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080148280 - Apparatus, system, and method for autonomically managing multiple queues: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for autonomically managing multiple queues in a data processing system. A receiver module receives a message that specifies a computing task. A time stamp module appends a time stamp recording a time the message is received to the message. An assignment module assigns... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080148282 - Mechanism and method to track oldest processor event: Method, apparatus and system embodiments provide a register to track the oldest exception event or sticky event in a processor. The processor may be an out-of-order processor. Dispatched instructions (or micro-ops) may be maintained in a queue, such as a reorder buffer (ROB), for in-order retirement. For at least one... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080148281 - Rdma (remote direct memory access) data transfer in a virtual environment: In an embodiment, a method is provided. In an embodiment, the method provides determining that a message has been placed in a send buffer; and transferring the message to an application on a second virtual machine by bypassing use of an operating system to process the message by directly placing... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080148284 - Apparatus and method for developing and executing applications with declarative objects: A data processing method includes declaring a server semantic object that specifies an operation independent of implementation. The server semantic object is delivered to a set of clients in different hardware environments. Each hardware environment stores a client semantic object specifying processing operations that implement the operation associated with the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080148283 - Method and apparatus for widget-container hosting and generation: A method includes receiving at least one of a widget or a reference to a widget, where the widget can be at least one of a static data object, a media object, or a software object. At least a portion of a widget container, which is a procedural software framework... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080148285 - Structuring library for developing man-machine interfaces: The structuring library of the invention is based on components for developing man-machine interfaces for command and control information systems comprising computer hardware, an operating system, and an execution environment for the development platform, and this library comprises, between the execution environment and the specific man-machine interface application, a technical... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080148288 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, and program: An information-processing apparatus determines whether a source of a registration request transmitted thereto exists on a network in a predetermined range, and changes the valid period of registration of notification destination information on the basis of the determination result. Alternatively, an information-processing apparatus determines whether a notification destination that should... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080148287 - Integrating eventing in a web service application of a multi-functional peripheral: Techniques are provided for efficiently processing SOAP requests at a Web service application (WSA) of a multi-functional device (MFP). In one technique, a WSA includes at least three threads. An external request processing thread processes SOAP requests from different client applications. A request processing thread processes a SOAP request according... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080148289 - Method and apparatus for distributed rule evaluation in a near real-time business intelligence system: A method is provided for performing an action, in a distributed environment, upon occurrence of a monitored event related to a set of data elements. The method includes providing a rule that includes an event identification component which specifies an event to be monitored and an action component which specifies... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080148286 - Polymorphic management of embedded devices using web interfaces: In some embodiments, a method for managing embedded devices may include one or more of the following steps: (a) loading an embedded web server module, (b) loading a first webpage when loading a first embedded module, (c) replacing the first webpage with a second webpage when a second embedded module... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080148290 - Accessing a platform independent input method editor from an underlying operating system: The invention relates to access to a platform independent input method editor or IME from an underlying operating system. Keystrokes received at an operating system input may be formed into a character sequence, and an operating system-based IME service module may call the platform independent IME to convert the character... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080148291 - Kernel functions for inter-processor communications in high performance multi-processor systems: In a multi-processor system with a high degree of inter processor communication, an operating system extension is described as a kernel function to poll a receive buffer. This is an opportunistic poll that continues to run in the user context after an application process has invoked the kernel with a... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.c. Alan W. Young

20080148292 - On-demand wrappers of application data: A wrapper can receive a request for application data. The wrapper wraps a first reference to an cross-session object and a second reference to a wrapper mapper object. Thereafter, the cross-section object can be accessed using the first reference and the wrapper mapper object is polled using the second reference... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080148293 - Configurable event broker: An event broker that receives various types of events in a particular device, and decodes the events to a common meaning form as a generic event that is accessible by various software applications in the device. The event broker includes a plurality of event receivers that receive the events on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080148294 - Information processing apparatus and method, computer program therefor, and computer-readable storage medium: Disclosed are an information processing apparatus and a server for communicating with this information processing apparatus. The apparatus, which is for communicating with a peripheral device, includes acquisition means for acquiring one item of identification information that specifies a peripheral device, the identification information being output by the peripheral device... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080148295 - System and method for migration of single root stateless virtual functions: A system and method for migration of single root stateless virtual functions are provided. A Single-Root PCI Configuration Manager (SR-PCIM) provides a system image (SI) with possible virtual function (VF) migration scenarios supported by the endpoint (EP). The SR-PCIM may be instructed that a stateless migration of a VF and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080148297 - Application management system and method of controlling the same: An object of this invention is to enable free customization of a component class executed by an application program. To achieve this object, an information processing apparatus executably stores an application program main body and a class library having a plurality of classes. The apparatus includes a unit which acquires... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080148298 - System and methods for providing granular security for locally running scripted environments and web applications: Various embodiments are described for an application runtime environment that provides secure safe access to local resources from web based applications when applications are locally hosted or cached or when a safe broker is needed to ensure that a trusted program is given access to specific functionality. The application runtime... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080148296 - Unified application programming interface for a process control system network: An application programming interface schema, method and system for communicating between first and second application programming interfaces within a process control system includes processing a call from a first application programming interface for a data request, translating the data request from the first application programming interface into one or more... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080148299 - Method and system for detecting work completion in loosely coupled components: A computer program product is disclosed. The computer program product includes a computer useable medium that has a computer readable program. The computer readable program when executive on a computer causes the computer to receive a request from a component to invoke a function. Further, the computer readable program, when... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, Pc

20080148300 - Providing policy-based operating system services in a hypervisor on a computing system: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing policy-based operating system services in a hypervisor on a computing system. The computing system includes at least one compute node. The compute node includes an operating system and a hypervisor. The operating system includes a kernel. The hypervisor comprising a kernel proxy... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080141270 - Middleware application environment: A software application framework includes a framework interface domain for interfacing a platform domain with application domain software of an application domain. The framework also includes a software application domain that includes a first application entity. The first application entity is adapted to interact with at least one of a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080141273 - Accessing application message data in a messaging environment: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for accessing application message data in a messaging environment that include: establishing a message model on a message sending device, the message model specifying a message format for interpreting application messages and including one or more field specifications, each field specification specifying a message... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080141272 - Application message conversion using a feed adapter: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclose for application message conversion using a feed adapter that include providing a feed adapter capable of application message conversion, the feed adapter comprising a plurality of conversion functions, each conversion function capable of converting data from one format to another format; establishing, on the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080141275 - Filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: establishing, in a transport engine of a subscribing client device, a transport layer constraint on application messages to be received by the subscribing client device from a feed adapter;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080141271 - Method and system for exchanging data between an input-output module and a processing unit: A method and system for managing exchange of data between at least one input-output (I/O) module and a processing unit is provided. The method at the at least one I/O module includes receiving (504) the data from at least one electronic equipment. The at least one electronic equipment is capable... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080141277 - Optimized interrupt delivery in a virtualized environment: Various operations are disclosed for improving the operational efficiency of interrupt handling in a virtualized environment. A virtualized interrupt controller may obviate the need for an explicit end-of-interrupt command by providing an automatic EOI capability even when a physical interrupt controller offers no such mechanism. The use of a message... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080141276 - Referencing message elements in an application message in a messaging environment: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for referencing message elements in an application message in a messaging environment that include: establishing a message model on a computer, the message model comprising message element specifications that each specify a message element for storing data in the application messages, each message element... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080141279 - Software development for parallel processing systems: Within a data processing system, a user-entered data declaration within a program source file is inspected to determine whether a first qualifier is provided with or omitted from the user-entered data declaration. If the first qualifier is provided, an unreserved data storage location disposed within a data-processing integrated-circuit (IC) device... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080141274 - Subscribing for application messages in a multicast messaging environment: Methods, systems, and products for subscribing for application messages in a multicast messaging environment as disclosed that include: requesting, by a message receiving device, a stream administration server to initialize a message subscription for application messages from a message sending device; receiving, in the message receiving device from the stream... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080141278 - System and method for enhanced spam detection: A service that leverages an innovatively extended version of Bayes' Theorem to provide comprehensive spam detection and optional spam elimination capabilities within established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, Wireless Application Protocol, and IP Multimedia Subsystem. The service may optionally leverage the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080141280 - Method for handling communication without centralized component within a fully distributed network: A method for distributing a message among a plurality of agents in a fully distributed system comprises: determining an address for the message by an agent based on the content of the message; selecting a path for transmitting the message according to said address by said agent; and sending the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080141282 - Control of interactions within virtual environmetns: A virtual object for use in an object oriented environment; the virtual object comprising at least a user-sensible aspect and further comprising at least a functional aspect; the said user-sensible aspect being encapsulated as a user-sensible encapsulation, separately from the functional aspect, which is encapsulated as a functional encapsulation.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080141281 - Trend groups and running profiles in real time analytics: A system. method and program product that utilizes running profiles and trend groups to analyze streams of event data in real time. A system is provided having a group profile processing system for generating a running group profile from a plurality of data event values, wherein each of the plurality... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080141283 - Application controlling apparatus and storage medium which stores software for the apparatus: An application controlling apparatus includes a basic application storage means 1 for storing basic applications 31 to 3n for implementing basic functions, a basic application execution means 2 for reading a basic application from the basic application storage means so as to make the basic application be executed, an extended... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080141284 - Device driver providing method, information device, and peripheral device: A device driver providing method of providing an information device including an external interface with a device driver for a peripheral device to be connected through the external interface, includes a first step in which, when the peripheral device is connected to the information device through the external interface, the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080141285 - Open home network framework and method for operating the same: Provided are an open home network framework and a method for operating the same. The method includes: forming an user application layer having interfaces to manage an individual service application software and a platform; forming a core framework layer having a framework management function based on an individual service control... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080141286 - System and method for proactive computer virus protection: A system, method, and computer readable medium for the proactive detection of malware in operating systems that receive application programming interface (API) calls is provided. A virtual operating environment for simulating the execution of programs and determining if the programs are malware is created. The virtual operating environment confines potential... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080134200 - Method and system for managing video devices: Hot deployable video management modules maintain a video device management platform by integrating independently developed support for new or updated video devices at runtime. A video device module loader builds a management interface for the new or updated video device associated with the management module based on attributes and operations... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080134199 - Workflow processing system and method with federated database system support: 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 cell 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

20080134201 - Distributed process control and excecution: A system and method for process execution in a distributed system. A central instance creates a generic process definition. A relevant portion of the process definition may be distributed to the various constituents of the system so that each constituent can execute a relevant portion of the process locally at... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080134202 - Event-based activation and deactivation of subscription matching: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and computer programs for event-based control of subscription matching in a publish/subscribe communications environment. Activation and/or deactivation events are associated with subscriptions at a publish/subscribe broker and are used to control when a subscription is active. The broker is responsive to temporally-unpredictable events, such... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080134203 - Event correlation: A message is buffered and processing statistics are associated with the message, including characterizations of whether a process instance is to process the message, a number of process instances handling the message, and a number of process instances that have processed the message. A process instance may be generated to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080134204 - System to support the heterogeneity in ubiquitous computing environment: The present invention provides a system for minimally reducing the additional development correction request of which various and diverse systems are required, in the integration platform for the ubiquitous environment construction, and for supporting the diversity of the ubiquitous computing environment which minimally reduces the burden in which developers are... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080134205 - Automated grouping of messages provided to an application using execution path similarity analysis: An application is monitored to identify different execution paths, e.g., sequences of invoked components, which occur due to the receipt of messages by the application. Similarities between the execution paths are determined based on a distance algorithm, in one approach, and execution paths which are similar are assigned to a... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080134206 - Developing layered platform components: Various embodiments provide for a layered approach to developing operating system platform components such as a color management system. This can be accomplished by providing new functionality and by utilizing an existing API module comprising existing APIs to receive input that can be associated with either current functionality, legacy functionality,... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080134207 - Parallelization and instrumentation in a producer graph oriented programming framework: Embodiments of parallelization and/or instrumentation in a producer graph oriented programming framework have been presented. In one embodiment, a request to run an application program is received, wherein object-oriented source code of the application program includes methods and producer dependency declarations, wherein the producer dependency declaration for a given method... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080134208 - Method, apparatus and media for indication management in an information model environment: A computer implemented method for managing an information handling system. The method may include one or more of: monitoring, with an object oriented model, the information handling system for an event; generating, with the object oriented model, an indication in response to the event; and/or allowing access to the indication... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080134209 - Automated grouping of messages provided to an application using string similarity analysis: Messages which are provided to an application are monitored. Similarities between the messages are determined based on a distance algorithm, in one approach, and messages which are similar are assigned to a common group. For example, the messages may be HTTP messages which include a URL, HTTP header parameters and/or... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080134210 - Distributed computer: distributed computer operating in accordance with a distributed application program made up from user-modifiable event-driven component processes is disclosed. Known distributed computers of this type carry out the modification of processes at a single computer leading to a lack of robustness in the operation of the distributed computer as a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080134213 - Event notifications relating to system failures in scalable systems: An availability system is provided that includes a hierarchy of controllers for providing event notifications relating to availability of components of a scalable MPP system. A controller receives a subscription from a child controller that identifies an event type and a generator. The controller stores in a subscription store an... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080134211 - Method and apparatus for application state synchronization: A method and an apparatus that synchronize an application state in a client with a data source in a backend system in an asynchronous manner are described. A response is sent to the client based on a priority determined according to a history of received update requests. When a notification... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080134212 - Method and system for performing a java interrupt: A method and system for performing a Java interrupt. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising executing a thread having a context on a stack based on a first program counter, detecting an interrupt while executing the thread (wherein execution of the thread is temporarily suspended), and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080134214 - Method for tracking an event through multiple module-specific files: A method and apparatus for tracking data associated with an event across multiple files includes generating a particular value upon occurrence of a particular event during a first process spawned from a first module. The particular value is unique among all events during processes spawned from all modules. First data... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

20080134215 - Methods for process control with change updates: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080134216 - Interface driver program for computer and recording medium therefor: The present invention provides a common interface among device drivers 5 operating in the kernel 8, for increasing data transfer speeds and improving data integrity. A common interface driver 7 is provided among device drivers 5, which control devices 6 connected to a computer. The common interface driver 7 operates... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080134218 - Apparatus and method for translating open vector graphic application program interface: Provided are an apparatus and method for OpenVG API translation, a mobile terminal comprising the translation apparatus, and a record medium storing the translation program. The apparatus comprises a data parsing unit, an OpenVG API script creating unit, and a raster image data output unit. The data parsing unit parses... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080134219 - Apparatus for maintaining resource integrity without a unified transaction manager in a software environment: An apparatus and method for maintaining integrity of data in a software environment are provided. With the apparatus and method, the individual software resources associated with a transaction are identified and the processing of these resources is started. As the processing of these resources terminates, their associated APIs return messages... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080134217 - Method and apparatus for persistent tool object: A method and an apparatus that execute executable codes to install a persistent object from a storage into an application server to access remote services in an EIS are described. The executable codes are based on relational properties for mapping an API (Application Programming Interface) function of an EIS to... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080134220 - Method and system for providing a configurable action launchpad: A method includes, during execution of a first application program in which a user interacts with the application program, executing a launchpad service that invokes another application program. When a user interface of the first application program is refreshed, a state of the launchpad service is determined based on the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080134221 - Dynamic linked library add-on features: Add-on functions to a software application are made through a single dynamic linked library (‘DLL’). After discovering, authenticating, and loading the DLL, the application may inspect the DLL to determine if it contains a function of a predetermined type. If the type is discovered, an object of the type may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation