Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 11/08

20080295110 - Framework for startup of local instance of remote application: Methods and apparatuses enable local execution of a remote application on a client device. An applet or plugin is started in response to beginning execution of a web browser. The applet includes code that initiates introspective invoking of the remote application from the web browser. The invoking may include accessing... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080295111 - Method and apparatus for checkpoint and restarting a stream in a software partition: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for a checkpoint process associated with a device driver in a workload partitioned environment. In response to initiation of a checkpoint process, a stream is frozen. The stream comprises a set of kernel modules driving a device. Freezing the stream prevents... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080295112 - Secure inter-process communication channel: Methods and apparatuses enable secure inter-process communication between processes. The processes may be of different privilege levels. A first process can open a control or bind channel, which enables a second process to establish a connection with the first process. The second process connects to the first process via the... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080295113 - Managing memory resident objects to optimize a runtime environment: Systems and methods for optimizing memory management in a runtime environment are provided. The method comprises monitoring one or more objects loaded into primary memory of a computing system to determine if at least a first object can be removed from the primary memory; instantiating a proxy object to replace... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080295114 - Method and apparatus for execution control of computer programs: A method for execution control of a user application program utilizing control program and management software is provided. This execution control is provided without a need to modify or recompile the user application program. The invention provides ability to save states during the execution of an application program and provides... Agent: Pramod Vasant Argade

20080295115 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing apparatus that executes, on the basis of a command transmitted from a driver apparatus, predetermined processing corresponding to the command includes a setting-information acquiring unit that acquires setting information indicating setting contents of processing instructed by the driver apparatus, a setting-information displaying unit that displays the setting... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080295116 - Driver apparatus, process control method, process control program: A driver apparatus that causes plural functions executable in an image processing apparatus to be executed in accordance with a setting content set in a setting screen corresponding to each function, includes: a switch instruction determination unit configured to determine whether, during a period after a setting operation in a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080295117 - Method and a system for incorporating reliable messaging in web services client applications via an api: A method and a system that incorporate Web services reliable messaging in a Web services client application via an application programming interface (API). The method includes obtaining a Web services proxy object from the client application and using this object for creation of a logical sequence from a sequence factory.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080295118 - Universal user input/output application layers: Files on a secondary storage are accessed using alternative IO subroutines that buffer IO requests made by a user and mimic the IO subroutines provided by an operating system. The buffer used by the alternative IO subroutines is maintained by the user and not the operating system. User applications are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080295120 - Asynchronous remote procedure calling method and computer product in shared-memory multiprocessor: A first processor makes a procedure call, specifying an address of a procedure in an address space controlled by a second processor and an address of procedure control information generated in an address space controlled by the first processor. The second processor executes the procedure present at the address specified... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080295119 - User interface independent remote interface data loader: Methods and apparatuses enable providing asynchronous data loading from a remote or separate interface. A data loader provides a synchronous interface for receiving and queuing requests to execute functions on a distributed object tree. The data loader dequeues and executes the functions asynchronously with respect to the requests for execution.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288954 - System, method and computer program product for sharing information in a distributed framework: A system, method and computer program product are provided for sharing information in a distributed system. After information is received, it is stored on a bulletin board. In use, the information is shared, in real-time, among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080288955 - Method and system for managing preferences in a client portlet container: A system for managing preferences in a portlet container. In response to receiving remote preferences for a portlet, the remote preferences are merged with default preferences for the portlet to form a preference set for the portlet. In response to receiving user preferences for the portlet, the user preferences are... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080288959 - Message sending method, message sending device and message transmission system: A message sending method is disclosed includes: receiving a message containing a plurality of requested programs, the plurality of requested programs being provided by a plurality of content service systems; separating the received message containing the plurality of requested programs into a plurality of sub-messages; and sending the separated plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080288957 - Method and system for optimizing communication in mpi programs for an execution environment: A system and method for mapping application tasks to processors in a computing environment that takes into account the hardware communication topology of a machine and an application communication pattern. The hardware communication topology (HCT) is defined according to hardware parameters affecting communication between two tasks, such as connectivity, bandwidth... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288956 - Method for processing of application transaction in a web services framework: A system and method are provided to perform tentative updating for transactions suing the Web Services Reliable Messaging protocol. From a protocol layer of a client side web services framework persists a message from an application transaction (a reversion message) in a persistent storage unit. The web services framework forwards... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288958 - Near field communication host controller interface: Provided is a communication interface between an NFCH and an NFC device and a method for controlling an NFC HCI. In the method, a command message is transmitted from the host to the device. The command message includes one of recording data, reading data of the device, requesting the device... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080288960 - Shortcut in reliable communication: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for messaging. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include initiating a call from a first application to a second application. The method may determine whether the first application is local to the second application. A... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080288961 - Industry vertical rfid database models: An RFID event tracking and management system provides a standardized approach that can be utilized by various industry verticals. A series of industry-specific data models can be built upon a common data model using an object-oriented database and relational mapping tool. Using the industry-specific data models, an object-oriented database is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080288962 - Method and system for dynamic remote injection of in-process agents into virtual machine based applications: A method and system for dynamic and adaptive deployment of in-process agents to virtual machine based applications which may run on remote hosts is provided. A bootstrap agent is injected into the application, using standardized interfaces provided by virtual machine based systems like Sun Microsystems' Java or Microsoft's .NET. Said... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080288963 - Selective event registration: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, register each partition in a logically-partitioned computer to send local events to an aggregation component and register a first partition to send events associated with a group of partitions to the aggregation component. In various embodiments, the group may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080288964 - Methods and systems for centralizing an application process: Provided are methods and systems for centralizing an application process.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

20080288965 - Application search tool for rapid prototyping and development of new applications: A code search tool greatly reduces time, cost, and other resource expenditures associated with implementing a new application. The tool is a search, navigation and visualization tool that accepts high-level processing concepts as inputs to identify, rank, and return the code of relevant existing applications. A software developer may use... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080288966 - Call control enabler abstracted from underlying network technologies: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for controlling a media session. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a communication session can comprise receiving a request to perform a call control function from an application via a northbound interface of a call control enabler. The northbound interface... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080288967 - Procedure calling method, procedure calling program, and computer product: In a shared-memory multiprocessor having plural processors that share a shared memory, each have an address space that is respectively independent in the shared memory and are configured to be capable of inter-processor communication using a bus, a first processor makes a procedure call to a second processor by specifying... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080282256 - Apparatus for inter partition communication within a logical partitioned data processing system: A method and structure for inter partition communication within a logical partitioned data processing system are provided. Each partition is configured for an inter partition communication area (IPCA) allocated from partition's own system memory. Each partition's IPCA combined together forms a non-contiguous block of memory which is treated as a... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080282255 - Highly-available application operation method and system, and method and system of changing application version on line: By releasing a part of execution environment that contains a leaked resource, a failure is avoided while the remaining part of execution environment in a memory and the like prevents performance degradation that results from a cold cache. This invention provides a highly available application operation method for replacing a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080282258 - Sharing the common session between two applications on the same server: A method of automatically sharing session data between two or more applications executing on a common server. Each application has a respective session. A copy of all session data of a first application's session is stored in a servlet context resident on the server. The stored session data is copied... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080282257 - Transient fault detection by integrating an srmt code and a non srmt code in a single application: Disclosed is a method for running a first code generated by a Software-based Redundant Multi-Threading (SRMT) compiler along with a second code generated by a normal compiler at runtime, the first code including a first function and a second function, the second code including a third function. The method comprises... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080282259 - Declarative concurrency and coordination scheme for software services: A method and system are provided for declaring concurrency of the execution of one or more processes. The processes may include messages and/or methods associated with services. Messages may post to a queue in a concurrency control. Instructions are executed responsive to the posting of the messages. Any number of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282261 - Application module for managing interactions of distributed modality components: A method for managing application modalities using dialogue states can include the step of asserting a set of activation conditions associated with a dialogue state of an application. Each of the activation conditions can be linked to at least one programmatic action, wherein different programmatic actions can be executed by... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080282260 - Dynamic dispatch for classes and interfaces: Dynamic dispatch for classes and interfaces is encapsulated in a class-less scripting language. A plurality of mechanisms are employed to facilitate dynamic polymorphism. One or more target language constructs such as dictionary objects, prototype objects and/or derived types are utilized to capture class and interface method implementations. These constructs are... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080282262 - Automatic and configurable loading of loosely coupled service oriented software components: An apparatus and method provide for providing services using an attribute. In one example, the attribute may hide complexity of an underlying infrastructure and may call methods in the infrastructure to locate partner services. Any number of partner services may include a policy in which a pre-existing instance of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282263 - Virtual event interface to support platform-wide performance optimization: A performance analyzer analyzes occurrences of virtual events generated by platform components. A user may define and select the virtual events to be analyzed. The performance analyzer comprises a virtual event provider manager and a plurality of virtual event provider drivers, Each of the virtual event provider drivers is associated... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080282267 - Dynamic application instance placement in data center environments: Techniques are disclosed for determining placements of application instances on computing resources in a computing system such that the application instances can be executed thereon. By way of example, a method for determining an application instance placement in a set of machines under one or more resource constraints includes the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080282266 - Method and arrangement for re-loading a class: The method is for deploying an input class in a computer readable memory. A state class is created that has at least one field and at least one proxy method and a behavior class version that includes at least one method on the basis of the input class. At least... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080282265 - Method and system for non-intrusive monitoring of library components: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for monitoring components in a library by tracking the movement of library components. By tracking the movement of library components, the degradation of library components can be monitored and the reliability of library components determined, allowing unreliable components to be bypassed or... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080282264 - Secure and scalable solid state disk system: A solid state disk system is disclosed. The system comprises a user token and at least one level secure virtual storage controller, coupled to the host system. The system includes a plurality of virtual storage devices coupled to at least one secure virtual storage controller. A system and method in... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080282268 - Application module and remote management server with parameter description model: An application module (114) is remotely installed on a customer device (101) and remotely configured from a remote management server (102). The application module (114) thereto comprises a parameter model (120) with model parameters (121) that can be communicated automatically between the remote management client (113) residing in the customer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080276250 - Context information associated with message flows in a messaging system: Method, parser, messaging system, computer program and computer program product for handling context information associated with a message flow in a messaging system, the message flow having processing nodes for processing the message. A request is received at the parser to perform a first operation associated with the message. An... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080276249 - Inter-process communication methods and apparatus for building scalable/redundant telecommunications systems: A messaging entity within a messaging system may facilitate registration with the messaging system by software components. The messaging entity may facilitate unicast communication between registered software components. The messaging entity may facilitate registration for multicast events by software components. The messaging entity may facilitate multicast communication between registered software... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080276248 - Visibility-aware services: The present visibility-aware service reduces power-intensive activities when a window associated with the visibility-aware service is not visible. The window is not visible when the window is minimized or when the window is switched from a foreground position to a background position on a display.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080276251 - Method and system for page exception programming utilizing metadata: A method and system for automatically generating page exception programming based on user-defined rules is disclosed. A page specific metadata in a PDL file can be evaluated against specific rules to automatically create page exception programming. An embedded PDL device control instructions can also be evaluated and converted into page... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080276253 - Automated event correlation: Events captured at an application are compared to event correlation instances, wherein an event correlation instance represents a relationship between events of components of the application. The event of a plurality of events that is a potential root cause event of the plurality of events is determined. The potential root... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080276252 - Kernel event visualization: A visualization system may receive first data indicating a first occurrence of a first event. The first event may be associated with a first kernel at a first time. The second event may relate to a processor operation, a memory operation, a disk operation, and the like. The visualization system... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080276254 - System and method for interprocess communication in electronic devices: In an electronic device, a method of enabling a first application to employ an action/data handler of a second application includes registering the handler of the second application, receiving an incoming request for the handler from the first application, matching the handler in the request to the handler registered by... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080276255 - Alternate communication path between essni server and cec: An enterprise network interface client application and a local, central electronic complex (CEC) in a dual CEC environment implement an alternative method of communication. Upon a send failure of a command to a first CEC in the environment, the command is sent to a second CEC using a CEC to... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080276256 - Method and system for speeding up mutual exclusion: In a multiprocessor computer system, a lock operation is maintained with a thread using non-atomic instructions. Identifiers are assigned to each thread. Flags in conjunction with the thread identifiers are used to determine the continuity of the lock with a thread. However, in the event continuity of the lock with... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080276258 - Method and apparatus for dynamically assigning i/o device in virtual machine system: A method and apparatus for dynamic assigning I/O device in virtual machine system, the virtual machine system comprises a service OS, a hypervisor and at least one guest OS. The service OS contains a device model module, the device model module providing an access platform for I/O device to the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080276257 - System and method for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications: A computer system, and related components including network interface devices, as well as methods for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the computer system includes a network interface device, and a bus driver in communication with the network interface... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20080276260 - Adaptive user interface verification: User interface verification may be provided. First, a known good file may be received. Next, an automation may be run on an application program to place the application program in a predetermined state. Data from the known good file may then be compared to data corresponding to a user interface... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080276259 - Command interaction mapping in a computing device: An intermediate software layer, which is preferably provided by a device manufacturer, processes a list of commands and actions provided by a generic application, and assigns them to various input mechanisms, and constructs appropriate menus to display on the screen of the device. Where the application supports multiple windows, views... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20080276261 - Data parallel computing on multiple processors: A method and an apparatus that allocate one or more physical compute devices such as CPUs or GPUs attached to a host processing unit running an application for executing one or more threads of the application are described. The allocation may be based on data representing a processing capability requirement... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080276263 - Method and apparatus for grid enabling standard applications: Disclosed are a method of and system for adapting a computer program to make use of a grid based system of resources, said grid based system using a given set of grid protocols. The method comprises the steps of providing a profile of the computer program; and providing a grid... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080276262 - Parallel runtime execution on multiple processors: A method and an apparatus that schedule a plurality of executables in a schedule queue for execution in one or more physical compute devices such as CPUs or GPUs concurrently are described. One or more executables are compiled online from a source having an existing executable for a type of... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP