Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 10/08

20080263564 - System and method for message service with unit-of-order: The present invention enables “unit-of-order”, which allows a message producer to group messages into a single unit. It guarantees that messages are not only delivered to consumers in order, they are also are processed in order. The unit-of-order will be delivered to consumers as one unit and only one consumer... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080263565 - System, method, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules: Systems, methods, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules is disclosed. Particularly, the disclosure relates to identifying data to be archived and assigning, inter alia, a destruction date to the identified data. Data for archival are identified using one or more defined retention rules. The retention rules... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263566 - Controlling communication within a container document: A system allows modules associated with different domains to communicate, such as within a container document. To transfer payload data from the first module associated with a first domain to a second module associated with a different domain, the first module adds the payload data as a text string to... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080263567 - Processing messages of agents: This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a message, by determining... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080263568 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes program memory means, application program execution means, and attitude detection means. The program memory means stores a plurality of application programs. The application program execution means executes an application program read out from the program memory means. The attitude detection means detects the attitude of the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080263569 - Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies: Technologies for an operating system identifying SSD and CSSD devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the SSD/CSSD device. Optimizations include disabling non-SSD/CSSD functionalities, such as HDD defragmentation, and by enabling SSD/CSSD specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263570 - Information processing apparatus, method of operating it, and computer readable information recording medium: A display part receives an input from a user and display a message to the user, a constraint processing part processes constraints among functions of a printer based on the input which the display part has received, and generates constraint information, and a message generating part manages a plurality of... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080263571 - Systems and methods for automated user-initiated invitations: A method for allowing a third-party application developer to utilize a subscriber for sending invitations to utilize a software application associated with the software developer, is disclosed. In accordance with this method, the third party application developer creates a software application. The software application is modified to include a communication... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080263572 - Fuzzing system and method of distributed computing environment (dce) remote procedure call (rpc): Provided are a fuzzing system and method of a distributed computing environment (DCE) remote procedure call (RPC) object. The fuzzing system includes a file manager, a random data generator, a RPC packet, and a packet injector. The file manager obtains necessary information by parsing and analyzing an idl file for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080263564 - System and method for message service with unit-of-order: The present invention enables “unit-of-order”, which allows a message producer to group messages into a single unit. It guarantees that messages are not only delivered to consumers in order, they are also are processed in order. The unit-of-order will be delivered to consumers as one unit and only one consumer... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080263565 - System, method, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules: Systems, methods, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules is disclosed. Particularly, the disclosure relates to identifying data to be archived and assigning, inter alia, a destruction date to the identified data. Data for archival are identified using one or more defined retention rules. The retention rules... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263566 - Controlling communication within a container document: A system allows modules associated with different domains to communicate, such as within a container document. To transfer payload data from the first module associated with a first domain to a second module associated with a different domain, the first module adds the payload data as a text string to... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080263567 - Processing messages of agents: This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a message, by determining... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080263568 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes program memory means, application program execution means, and attitude detection means. The program memory means stores a plurality of application programs. The application program execution means executes an application program read out from the program memory means. The attitude detection means detects the attitude of the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080263569 - Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies: Technologies for an operating system identifying SSD and CSSD devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the SSD/CSSD device. Optimizations include disabling non-SSD/CSSD functionalities, such as HDD defragmentation, and by enabling SSD/CSSD specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263570 - Information processing apparatus, method of operating it, and computer readable information recording medium: A display part receives an input from a user and display a message to the user, a constraint processing part processes constraints among functions of a printer based on the input which the display part has received, and generates constraint information, and a message generating part manages a plurality of... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080263571 - Systems and methods for automated user-initiated invitations: A method for allowing a third-party application developer to utilize a subscriber for sending invitations to utilize a software application associated with the software developer, is disclosed. In accordance with this method, the third party application developer creates a software application. The software application is modified to include a communication... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080263572 - Fuzzing system and method of distributed computing environment (dce) remote procedure call (rpc): Provided are a fuzzing system and method of a distributed computing environment (DCE) remote procedure call (RPC) object. The fuzzing system includes a file manager, a random data generator, a RPC packet, and a packet injector. The file manager obtains necessary information by parsing and analyzing an idl file for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080256552 - System and method for a cics application using a same program on a local system and a remote system: A system and method implemented in a Customer Information Control System (CICS) Application configured to process information residing on remote systems and display such information on a local system, using a same program residing on both the remote system(s) and the local system. The method includes, for example, sending programming... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080256553 - Dynamic subscription and message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes: A system for dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes includes a plurality of message queues, at least one topic/node table, a subscribing module, a publishing module, and other modules to send messages between one or more publisher and one or more subscribers. These modules... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080256555 - Developing controls for outlook add-ins: The forms hosting system allows a developer to design custom Outlook form regions containing standard and custom managed controls using popular development tools. The forms hosting system provides a runtime wrapper that appears to Outlook as a normal ActiveX control. When Outlook invokes the runtime wrapper control, the runtime wrapper... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080250423 - Method and apparatus for planning air refueling for aircraft: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for planning refueling. In one advantageous embodiment, the apparatus includes an air refueling plug-in application capable of calculating air refueling routes for a formation of aircraft and a plurality of plug-in applications. A framework capable of providing framework services to the air... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080250424 - Seamless window implementation for windows presentation foundation based applications: Described are systems and methods for implementing seamless window support for applications, such as applications based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). Seamless support for WPF applications can be implemented by remoting information associated with structural representation of the applications from a remote server to a remote client. The structural representation... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080250425 - Systems and methods for interfacing multiple types of object identifiers and object identifier readers to multiple types of applications: A method for interfacing an object identifier reader to at least one application is disclosed. The method may include receiving object identifier data from the object identifier reader. The object identifier data may include information and formatting characters. The method may then involve identifying the information in the object identifier... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080250426 - Systems and methods for interfacing multiple types of object identifiers and object identifier readers to multiple types of applications: A method for interfacing an object identifier reader to at least one application is disclosed. The method may include receiving object identifier data from the object identifier reader. The object identifier data may include information and formatting characters. The method may then involve identifying the information in the object identifier... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080250427 - Apparatus and method for generating verification specification of verification target program, and computer readable medium: There is provided with an apparatus which generates a verification specification for verifying a verification target program including functions operating one or more object, including: a first input unit configured to input a first specification describing a first finite state machine which defines transitions among plural states due to occurrences... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250429 - Application-specific mapping of input device elements: A method for carrying out application-specific mapping of input device elements (for example, human input device buttons). The method includes, from an application matching program, determining, for an application program, whether a control element event (for example, a mouse button click event) needs to carry out an action that is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080250428 - Configuration of devices within an instrument: A controller for an instrument includes a control program, an object that interfaces between the control program and the device, and a discovery process. The control program is used by the controller to provide software control of a device within the instrument. The object contains control information about the device... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080250430 - Method and corresponding apparatus for creation of print drivers in a network: Disclosed are methods of creating drivers for use in a network, the network including computers and devices, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The methods include providing a platform, the platform including: 1) a plurality of selectable communication components, each communication component relating to a type of network communication associated... Agent: Prass & Irving

20080250432 - Object-oriented operating system: An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer and a memory component in the computer. A code library is stored in the memory component. The code library includes computer... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080250433 - Object-oriented operating system: An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer and a memory component in the computer. A code library is stored in the memory component. The code library includes computer... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080250431 - System and method for displaying media files in a media application for a portable media device: A method is provided for use with a media application running on a wireless device. The method displays to a user a listing of media files available in a memory of the wireless device. The method comprises the steps of: determining locations in the memory to search for the available... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080250434 - Cics bms (basic message service) metamodel: A system for processing a transaction on an end user application and an application server. The system initiates the transaction on the end user application in a first language (such as a markup language) with a first application program (such as a Web browser). The system transmits the transaction to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080244612 - Method, system, and computer program product for invoking externally assisted calls from an isolated environment: A method of invoking power processor element (PPE) serviced C library functions on a synergistic processing element (SPE) running in isolated mode. When the SPE initiates a PPE-serviced function, an SPE stub routine allocates a parameter buffer in an open area of a local store (LS) memory within the SPE.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080244614 - Data processing system and a method of operating a rendering platform: A method of operating a rendering platform comprises receiving a rendering fragment at a rendering engine, passing an instruction from a rendering fragment to a callback component, and making a procedure call from the callback component to an external application according to the instruction. The method preferably includes registering one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080244613 - Method and system for processing messages in an application cluster: A method for processing a message that includes receiving the message by a plurality of resource adapters (RA), wherein each RA corresponds to a different application instance of a plurality of application instances, calculating, by each RA of the plurality of RAs, a selector string using an application instance selection... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080244615 - Method, apparatus, system, medium, and signals for supporting a multiple-party communication on a plurality of computer servers: Systems, apparatus and methods related to multiple-party communications conducted between client computers in a computer network. For example, a method and apparatus for supporting multiple-party communications in a computer network including a first server, at least a first client computer in communication with the first server, and a second server... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080244616 - System and method for message lifetime management: A system and method for message lifetime management. According to an embodiment of the invention, a front-end application process identifies during a user interface interaction cycle of the front-end application process at least one stateful message reported to the front-end application process by a back-end service process during a prior... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080244617 - Method and system for dynamic configuration of interceptors in a client-server environment: A computer implemented method/system of creating and managing one or more interceptors. The method comprises the steps of intrinsically chaining the interceptors, and storing state information, in at least one of the chained interceptors, directed to a reference to the next interceptor. A server computer in a client-sever environment that... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080244618 - Information processing apparatus and computer usable medim therefor: An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an event detecting unit to detect events, an event notifying information generating unit to generate event notifying information, an event notifying information storage to store the event notifying information in a predetermined arrangement, a client information list storage to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080244619 - External storage device and method of automatically operating the same: An external storage device and method of automatically operating the external storage device are provided. The external storage device includes a memory unit storing general data, a driver for operating the external storage device, an application program, an automatic execution program for executing the application program, and an automatic execution... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080244621 - Apparatus, system, and method for isolating a storage application from a network interface driver: An apparatus and system are provided for isolating a storage application from a network interface driver. The apparatus includes a definition module, an application interface, a translation module, and a data buffer. The definition module defines a set of storage application functions. The translation module translates each storage application function... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080244620 - Dynamic communication fabric zoning: A mechanism is provided for dynamically zoning or rezoning serially attached SCSI expanders using an intelligent failover mechanism. The mechanism uses serially attached SCSI (SAS) zoning by zoning off one port of the SAS hard disk drive to the initiator that does not “own” the resource. The drive will appear... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244622 - Printer driver program and printer system having same: A printer driver program which is improved in convenience of the form overlay function, and a printer system having the printer driver program are provided. A printer driver program, which is installed in a host computer and controls a print job request sent to a printer, wherein a computer is... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080244623 - Method, system and program product for dynamically integrating backend systems into a j2ee application server environment: A method, system and program product for dynamically integrating Backend System instances into a J2EE application server environment, is introduced. The method comprises deploying a J2C connector suitable for Backend System instances belonging to the same type of Backend Systems (A; B; C) into the J2EE application server environment by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080244624 - Software technique to correlate conceptually similar entities: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a framework with a common set of domain-specific entity identifier types that object models representing conceptually similar entities from a domain can use to correlate to model-specific object instances. A particular model-specific object instance of a particular one of the object models... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244625 - Method and apparatus for transferring data from an application to a destination: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for sending content from a first application to a second application. In response to a user input indicating a selection of content for transfer to the second application, the selection of the content is copied to form copied content. The copied content is then... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC