Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 09/08

20080235708 - Selectively updating web pages on a mobile client: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling the selective updating of web pages provided to a mobile client using, for example, AJAX technology. The system, method, and computer program product are optionally further extended to harmonize synchronization of data retrieved by other methods with data updated... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080235709 - Bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers: There is disclosed a method, computer program and bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers together. A subscription is made to receive request messages on one or more topics from a first broker. A subscription is made to receive all messages published at either the first or the second broker... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080235710 - Distributed pluggable middleware services: Plug-in configurable middleware is provided for managing distributed applications. The middleware includes at least one core runtime engine configured as a plurality of concurrent instantiations on one or more hosts within a distributed architecture. These hosts can represent separate nodes or a single node within the architecture. Each core runtime... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080235711 - Coordinating instances of a thread or other service in emulation: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining a software flaw indication resulting from an emulation of a first instance of a thread at least partly in response to a first input from a user interface or indicating a virtually instantiated service via a data flow... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20080235713 - Distributed processing system and method: A method is disclosed that receives a function call at an application program interface. The method selects a first processor of a plurality of processors to execute the function call. The method further executes a first transmit function associated with a bus coupled to the first processor. The first transmit... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080235712 - Hardware object request broker on a chip for generating separate control and data channels for improved throughput efficiency: A method and apparatus are disclosed for separating the functionality of middleware (320) in a device with embedded resources (341,342) so that data transfer between embedded resources used by an object (330) resident in a general purpose processor (310) of the device takes place directly, thereby minimizing bandwidth overhead at... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080229324 - System and method for sharing e-service resource of digital home: A system and a method for sharing the e-service resources of a digital home are provided. Two different Java e-service platforms are built in the same Java Virtual Machine. One Java e-service platform supplies a broadband service channel, for example the Open Service Gateway platform, and another Java e-service platform... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080229323 - Systems and methods for error detection: Systems and methods for error detection shown are described. The method can include receiving, at a computing device of an end-user, a web page including a script embedded by a network appliance, the script having instructions that when executed by the computing device registers for notification of a browser error... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080229325 - Method and apparatus to use unmapped cache for interprocess communication: A processing system features random access memory (RAM) and a processor. The processor features cache memory and multiple processing cores. The processor also features cache unmapping logic that can receive an unmap request calling for creation of a memory segment to be used as a shared memory segment to reside... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080229328 - Computer program product for dynamically optimized handling of messages received from a message transmission backbone by a data processing system node: A method, system, and computer program product for handling messages on a message transmission backbone within a distributed data processing system is disclosed. A filter module generates an allowable message types data structure, and stores the allowable message types data structure in a memory. Each entry of the allowable message... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080229326 - Hardware communications infrastructure supporting location transparency and dynamic partial reconfiguration: A communication system according to one aspect of the present invention, comprises one or more integrated circuits. The one or more integrated circuits comprise at least one of a local integrated circuit and a remote integrated circuit. At least one sending application hardware module located on the local integrated circuit... Agent: Venable LLP

20080229327 - Information processing apparatus, information processing mehtod and computer program product: An information processing apparatus includes a user interface layer that accepts from a user an input of a request for executing a process and an input of operation information at the time of performing the process; an application layer including a plurality of applications that each perform the process according... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080229329 - Method, apparatus and computer program for administering messages which a consuming application fails to process: Disclosed is a method for administering messages. In response to a determination that one or more consuming applications have failed to process the same message on a queue a predetermined number of times, the message is made unavailable to consuming applications. Responsive to determining that a predetermined number of messages... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080229330 - Method and apparatus for implementing container managed batch jobs in an enterprise java bean environment: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for creating and running batch jobs in an object oriented environment, such as a J2EE environment. A request to execute a batch job is received. A deployment descriptor file is processed to identify a batch bean to be invoked. This batch job session... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229331 - Browser elements for communicating with other browser elements and with external applications:

20080229333 - Method, system and storage medium for implementing a message board cache system: A message board cache system comprising: a database containing message board information; a notification system in communication with the database, the notification system generating a notification when data in the database is altered or deleted; a web application executing a message board interface, the web application receiving the notification from... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20080229332 - Registering an event: A computer-implemented method for registering an event includes detecting occurrence of at least one event to be registered in a sequence. The sequence is to have entries for occurred events, each of the entries being a number indicating at least one of the occurred events and being associated with an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080229334 - System and method for subscription management in a messaging system: A method and system for message subscription management is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a subscription request from a subscriber to a publisher. The subscription request is intercepted and redirected to a broker. Upon intercepting the subscription request, additional information, which includes an instruction to send event... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080229335 - Network media device: A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from one or more sources (e.g., a multimedia website or a multimedia server computer) at a first time, stores it to long-term storage within the device and transmits the stored multimedia data to one or more designated multimedia playback devices... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080229336 - Method, apparatus and software for measuring the performance of a runtime platform in response to a process call from a software application: A method, apparatus or software is disclosed for monitoring the performance that an application program receives from a runtime platform.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080222650 - Method and system for recovering stranded outbound messages: A method for recovering and requeueing lost messages is disclosed. The lost messages are intended for delivery from a first computer program to a second computer program but are instead stranded in locations internal to the first program. The method extracts one or more of these stranded messages from the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080222652 - Method and apparatus for data transfer across a network: Provided are methods, computer programs and apparatus for communication in a distributed object-oriented data processing environment. Requests for retrieval of data items from another data processing apparatus include embedded objects having executable class functions for performing operations at the target data processing apparatus. This has the advantages of the request... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080222651 - Multiple message source electronic data interchange (edi) enveloper with batching support: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to EDI enveloping and provide a method, system and computer program product for multiple message source EDI enveloping with batching support. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-format EDI enveloping can include receiving messages from... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080222655 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus is provided that is capable of transferring a file to a receiving apparatus without a file location in the receiving apparatus being specified by a user every time the user stores the file and that is capable of automatically transmitting an e-mail notifying the file location... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080222653 - Method and system for time-sliced aggregation of data: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for aggregating event data in order to reduce the amount of storage space necessary to store event data for later use in statistical analyses of the event data. The raw event data is analyzed and, for each event ID within a time period, a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080222657 - Notification method and apparatus in a data processing system: An method of, apparatus for, or storage device medium having instructions for publishing a first notification within a data processing system where the data processing system comprises a first source generating the first notification, a first destination device, and a second destination device. The source may be a storage unit,... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, Pc - Ibm

20080222656 - System and method for event driven browser launch: Systems and methods for providing event driven browser launch are provided. In exemplary embodiments one or more communication data variables associated with a communication are received. Browser launch settings for an individual associated with the communication are reviewed to determine a time to launch a browser. The browser may then... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080222654 - Techniques to manage event notifications: Techniques to manage event notifications are described. An apparatus may comprise a server having an event notification component. The event notification component may have an event agent component to receive a message indicating a change event for line of business (LOB) data, and convert the change event to a defined... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222659 - Abstracting operating environment from operating system: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for abstracting an operating environment from an operating system running in the operating environment. Within an operating environment, an operating environment abstraction layer abstracts and exposes operating environment resources to an operating system. Accordingly, appropriately configured operating environment abstraction... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080222658 - Method and apparatus for widget and widget-container distribution control based on content rules: A method includes receiving an instruction used to define a widget-container containing a service module associated with a widget. The widget-container is a procedural software framework configured to be executed at a widget-container processing device in response to a reference to the widget-container being accessed from a content aggregation point.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080222660 - Processing of data of a plurality of applications with a single client application: The present invention is directed to a method, a system, an interface entity, and a client application for processing data of a plurality of applications in a single client application.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080222661 - Failover and load balancing: Furthermore, provided are techniques for dynamic load balancing implemented in a filter driver. The filter driver determines a data transfer speed for each of multiple data paths. The filter driver updates a load balancing share for each of the multiple data paths based on the data transfer speed of each... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20080222662 - Method for testing device descriptions for field devices of automation technology: A method for testing device descriptions for field devices of automation technology, which are executed in a frame application running on a computer unit, provides, between the frame application and the device descriptions, a test component, which, on the one hand, is transparent for the communication between the frame application... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080222664 - Dynamic method selection based on declarative requirements of interaction scope: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that dynamically implement method selections based on declarative requirements and interaction scope. Requirements that describe when each of multiple methods that can perform a particular operation should be called can be declared using a declarative syntax. Based upon a program event, the system determines... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222663 - Policy-based direct memory access control: A computer that operates in a metered mode for normal use and a restricted mode uses an input/output memory management unit (I/O MMU) in conjunction with a security policy to determine which peripheral devices are allowed direct memory access during the restricted mode of operation. During restricted mode operation, non-authorized... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080222665 - System and method for support of legacy communications protocols in a smart card: In general, the invention relates to a converter. The converter includes logic for reading annotations in a source program, where the annotations provide a mapping between method names for methods invoked using messages in a legacy protocol and a native protocol. The converter further includes logic for creating a mapping... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080216089 - Checkpoint/resume/restart safe methods in a data processing system to establish, to restore and to release shared memory regions: A method is provided in which checkpointing operations are carried out in data processing systems running multiple processes which employ shared memory in a manner which preserves data coherence and integrity but which places no timing restrictions or constraints which require coordination of checkpointing operations. Data structures within local process... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080216091 - Autonomic method and apparatus for hardware assist for patching code: A method, apparatus and computer instructions for hardware assist for autonomically patching code. The present invention provides hardware microcode to a new type of metadata to selectively identify instructions to be patched for specific performance optimization functions. The present invention also provides a new flag in the machine status register... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080216090 - Jms integration into an application server: A JMS implementation integrates into an application server based on the JCA Architecture. A JMS Connection is integrated based on one implementation of a JCA which sets transactional context for the JMS Connection to “no transaction”, and the JMS Session is integrated based on a second implementation of the JCA... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20080216092 - System and method for opportunistic image sharing: A system for requesting data from another includes means for automatically appending a request for certain information to an outgoing message. In one embodiment, an e-mail editor provides the sender-user with an option for causing the email to include a request for missing or desired contact information, such as a... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080216094 - Event handling system: An event handling system to schedule and translate semantic deductions form Intelligent Agents and sensors into events capable of being made observable by a Recipient system such as monitor that provides a particular view of virtual objects and events is disclosed. The event handling system also encapsulates the system's notion... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080216095 - Graphics for end to end component mapping and problem-solving in a network environment: An example of a solution provided here comprises receiving as input at least one event (chosen from an event generated by an application probe, and an event generated by a component probe), and providing graphical output based on said inputs, whereby a user correlates a component problem with a performance... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080216093 - Method, system and computer program for monitoring components in a service framework: A solution is proposed for monitoring usage of bundles in the OSGi environment. For this purpose, an event notification interface of the OSGi environment is exploited. Particularly, each event relating to a change of state of a bundle (such as its addition, removal, starting and stopping) is detected by an... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080216096 - Virtual computer system supporting trusted computing and method for implementing trusted computation thereon: A virtual machine system supporting trusted computing includes a virtual machine monitor, a hardware and multiple operating systems (OSs). Said multiple OSs include at least a trusted OS, and at least a distrusted OS, a redirecting pipe is set in the virtual machine monitor, the redirecting pipe is adapted to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080216099 - System for generating optimized computer data field conversion routines: A system converts data from input field types to output field types. The system receives a plurality of input attributes and output attributes from an application program, dynamically generates a plurality of data field conversion routines for each set of input attributes and output attributes, and stores the plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080216098 - Systems, methods and computer porograms for determining dependencies between logical components in a data processing system or network: Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for determining run-time dependencies between logical components of a data processing environment. Components of the data processing environment are monitored by monitoring agents accessing run-time activity data via APIs of the managed system. A dependency generator identifies correlations between the run-time activity of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080216097 - Techniques for managing a storage environment: Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e.g., ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080216100 - Method and apparatus for software upgrade in a digital television receiving device: A method and an apparatus for software upgrade in a digital television receiving device are disclosed. The method includes multiplexing service software into a transport stream according to a predefined protocol,extracting by the digital television receiving device data of the service software from the transport stream and storing the data,... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080216101 - Partial dynamic implementation of java interfaces: A system and method for implementing dynamic interfaces in a JAVA program including methods having a common implementation and other methods to be handled independently. The system comprises a first dynamic proxy object implementing an invocation handler for providing default implementations; a separate object providing implementations of any method in... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20080216102 - Cross application domain late binding to non-local types: A system allows a non-virtual method of a base class inherited by a derived class to be effectively overridden so that code developed to access the method via the base class accesses the overriding behavior. The system replaces an instance of the derived class with a dynamic object and transparent... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft