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

20080209438 - Method and apparatus for a service control layer: This invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for managing a service message in a service oriented architecture system including a service provider, a service consumer and a set of control services, the method, system and computer program product comprising the following steps: receiving a service message;... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080209439 - Method for carrying out the data transfer between program elements of a process, buffer object for carrying out the data transfer, and printing system: In a method or system for implementation of a transfer of data between two program elements of a process, a buffer object is provided between and linking two program elements. The buffer object comprises a buffer and control methods. A control method of a buffer object informs one of the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080209440 - Distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions: A distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions is provided. A stateful publish-subscribe system extends the functionality of the content-based approach to include more general state-valued expressions. Stateful subscriptions may refer to one or more message histories and may include more complex expressions. Therefore, subscribers may receive different information than that... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080209443 - Apparatus and method for displaying process operation: A process operation display apparatus includes a storage section configured to store a process control table in which a set of a process ID of a process and a user ID of a user is written. An event trace data outputting section detects events of about execution start and execution... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080209441 - Context-driven dynamic subscription based on user selections: Methods and systems for allowing dynamic subscription updates by an event notification service are presented.... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20080209442 - System and method for screen orientation in a rich media environment: A method of displaying content on a device comprises detecting a screen orientation change event, determining if one or more applications are configured to accommodate a screen orientation change, and triggering a screen orientation adjustment in a rich media engine. The screen orientation change event may be a hardware change... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080209446 - Design tool for converting legacy applications to web services: A design tool assists with the conversion of legacy applications to web services. The design tool provides a flexible and visual design environment through which web services are defined, created, and deployed for controlling a legacy application. As a result, the legacy applications may be made accessible through web services... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080209444 - Method, system and program product for defining imports into and exports out from a database system using spread sheets by use of a control language: The present invention provides a vehicle for the exchange of data between a database and an independent spreadsheet. Specifically, the present invention may be used to import data from a database to a spreadsheet and/or to export data to a spreadsheet. To facilitate this exchange, one or more controls are... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080209445 - Methods and systems for automatically determining configuration parameters: Techniques are disclosed for automatically determining one or more configuration parameters associated with one or more programs executable by a computing system. For example, in a system including at least one application and at least one parameter which affects a behavior of the at least one application, a method for... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080209447 - Pooling stateful session enterprise java beans for reuse: A method of interfacing with a remote engine can include the step of instantiating at least one stateful bean, such as a stateful session Enterprise Java Bean. For each stateful bean instance, an engine can be allocated. Each stateful bean instance can be associated with an allocated engine, where each... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080209448 - Apparatus, system, and method for extending a device driver to facilitate a network connection to a remote event manager: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing a network interface to a small computer system interface (“SCSI”) storage device driver. The method includes detecting an event in one of a storage device and a SCSI device driver of the storage device and comparing an event identifier associated with... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080209449 - Setting device for setting allocation information of setting item in setting screen of device driver: A setting device for setting allocation information of a setting item allocated in a setting screen of a device driver, the setting screen being adapted for altering a controlling condition of a target device. At an administrator terminal, allocation information setting application is activated upon execution of allocation information setting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080209450 - Method to enable infiniband network bootstrap: Firmware of an InfiniBand (IB) host computer device provides a representation of an IB Host Channel Adapter (HCA) within the hierarchical data structure during system initialization. An ib-boot support package encapsulates arguments for booting over an IB network using an ibport device. The ib-boot support package supports use of one... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209451 - Methods for analyzing, limiting, and enhancing access to an internet api, web service, and data: The invention includes an API gateway server that monitors and controls the distribution of API elements from API sources to application developers based on a distribution rule set.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080209452 - Method and apparatus for notification on an electronic handheld device using an attention manager: A method and system for notification in a palm-sized computer system. Specifically, the present invention discloses an Attention Manager that manages application demand for a user's attention. The Attention Manager receives multiple attention requests from varying applications. With each new attention request received that indicates a record needs a user's... Agent: Berry & Associates P.c.

20080209453 - System and method for reducing the start-up time of mhp applications: A system and method is provided for reducing the start-up time of MHP applications based on the MHP 1.0.x standard through exploiting the custom Classloader and persistent storage capabilities of MHP 1.0.x. A generic wrapper class is created that allows any MHP 1.0.x application to copy itself to, and run... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080201722 - Method and system for unsafe content tracking: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for registering and categorizing content in a network. Certain embodiments provide a method for registering and categorizing content passing through a gateway in a network. The method includes registering content at a network gateway. Registering includes an initial categorization of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080201723 - Method of automatically managing associations between services in a distributed environment: The invention relates to a method of automatically managing associations in a distributed environment between components requesting services and components providing services, comprising the following steps: dynamically discovering required services by means of a distributed service discovery protocol, advertising services provided by means of a distributed service discovery protocol, and... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080201724 - Computer system events interface: A computer system events interface is described. In embodiment(s), the computer system events interface includes event indicators that each indicate a past computer event. An event indicator is selectable to initiate an information display pertaining to a corresponding past computer event. The computer system events interface can also include additional... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201725 - Address reduction for data storage enclosures: A data storage enclosure management system of a plurality of service processors is configured to communicate externally via a pair of FC-AL loops. Lead and subsidiary service processors are defined and lead service processors connect to ones of the FC-AL loops with an FC-AL address, and the lead and subsidiary... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080201727 - Driver configuration: A method and apparatus for performing driver configuration operations without a system reboot is disclosed. In one embodiment, a network server's adapter driver receives a request to change a configuration of a selected instance of a plurality of instances. In response, the adapter driver may then determine if there is... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080201726 - Information processing apparatus storing driver, control program, and medium storing control program: A server apparatus manages a device driver for enabling any of a plurality of devices to which a plurality of client apparatuses are connected on a network. The server apparatus stores, for each client apparatus, a device driver that can be installed to the client apparatus in association with the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080201728 - Data handling system: There is described a data handling system (700, 710) for monitoring and/or managing a complex system (200, 250, 310). The handling system (700, 710) comprises computing hardware (700) operable to execute support software products (750) for assimilating information and/or data from the complex system (250, 310) and for sending information... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080196038 - Utilizing a first managed process to host at least a second managed process: A system and method for utilizing a first managed process to host at least a second managed process is disclosed. The technology initially provides a first managed process. The first managed process hosting at least a second managed process. An unmanaged process is then provided to facilitate communication between the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080196039 - Method, apparatus and software for managing a transactional message queue: Provided are a method, apparatus and a computer program for managing message queues. Message streaming is enabled in a transactional messaging system that supports priority ordering of messages, without the need for complex locking mechanisms. Any messages which are transferred from a message queue to a message consumer after the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080196040 - Enterprise clipboard with context: Systems and methods that interact with an enterprise clipboard are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to acquire an object item and logic to acquire information about the object item. The information may be metadata and/or contextual information. The example system embodiment includes logic to create a context associated... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, Llc

20080196041 - event queue in a logical partition: An information processing system is provided which includes a plurality of system resources, and an event queue having a maximum number of entries. An event recording mechanism of the information processing system is operable to make entries regarding events in the event queue, wherein the entries are limited to a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080196042 - System and computer program product for just-in-time publishing via a publish/subscribe messaging system having message publishing controls: A system and program product having at least one subscriber subscribing to topics from one or more data sources. The number of subscriptions for each data source are registered in a table in real time. Upon detecting subscription activity, a matching routine compares the number of subscriptions registered for the... Agent: John E. Campbell Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080196044 - Automatically enabling information to be displayed after a processor-based system is turned off: A system enables personal information manager (PIM) applications to continue to provide alerts and other time sensitive information even when the system upon which the PIM is stored is turned off. Automatically data may be transferred from a first processor-based system to a second processor-based system to implement time sensitive... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080196043 - System and method for host and virtual machine administration: Methods, architectures, software/firmware and systems for enabling concurrent administration of host operating systems and virtual machine-hosted operating systems. Techniques are disclosed for monitoring and reporting various administrative data (e.g., performance data, event data, log data, etc.), as well as enabling allocation and reallocation of system resources, such as physical memory... Agent: Law Office Of R. Alan Burnett

20080196046 - Method and apparatus for providing information content for display on a client device: A method and apparatus are provided that process information content for display on a client device. The information content includes scripting commands that are not executable on the client device. A function of the scripting commands is determined. The scripting commands are replaced in the information content with browser commands... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080196045 - Smart progress indicator for script processing: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to progress indication and provide a method, system and computer program product for intelligent progress indication for script processing. In one embodiment, a progress indication data processing system can be provided. The system can include a script execution... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080196047 - Display device, electronic device having the same, and method thereof: An electronic device includes a central processing unit (“CPU”), first and second display panels, and first and second display panel drivers. The CPU provides an image signal and an input control signal. The first and second display panels respectively display images. The first and second display panel drivers drive the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080196048 - Interface module: An interface module between a communication module and a number of instances of business logic modules of a software engine comprises first and second functional elements. The first functional element receives incoming data from the communications module and selects which of the instances of business logic modules to forward the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080189719 - Operation processor apparatus: A cross call send control unit (XCSC) of an external interface unit of each CPU controls cross call transmission issued by a CPU core unit to another CPU. The XCSC has a register for keeping the processing state of the processing relating to the cross call directly associated with an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080189720 - Apparatus and method for communicating with a network adapter using a queue data structure and cached address translations: An apparatus and method for communicating with a network adapter using a queue data structure are provided. With the apparatus and method, a device driver invokes device driver services for initializing address translation and protection table (ATPT) entries in a root complex for the queue data structure. The device driver... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080189721 - Emergency notification system: Methods, systems, servers, and communications devices for emergency notification are provided. An administrator login is received and input of an emergency notification is received. A selection corresponding to multiple client devices is received. The emergency notification is transmitted to the multiple client devices. The emergency notification causes an interruption at... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080189722 - Generic device driver replacement: Some device drivers support the “least common denominator” features of a device, such as a generic VGA driver which does not provide access to higher resolution or other features supported by a video card. It may be difficult for computer users to know when an enhanced driver is available. A... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189723 - Raid array data member copy offload in high density packaging: A computer-implemented method replaces a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array member storage device configured in high density packaging. The high density packaging includes a plurality of field-replaceable units (FRUs). Each FRU has an associated plurality of storage devices. A first spare storage device of a first FRU is... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080189724 - Real time collaboration using embedded data visualizations: Scorecard data is received, processed, and visualizations provided by a performance metric application. Real time collaboration between users is facilitated through context based selections from the visualizations through one or more communication applications. Performance metric application may be embedded in the communication application or vice versa through local implementation or... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)