Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 12/08

20080320491 - Method of receiving/transmitting event message, controlled device, and controlled point: An event message transmitting method performed in a controlled device (CD) which is controlled by a control point (CP) is provided, in which an application is received from the CP via a network according to a network protocol, the received application is installed according to a framework of an execution... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320490 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing sub-process resource management: An apparatus for providing sub-process resource management includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to communicate with a process being executed by an operating system, to receive information regarding a resource associated with an isolated sub-process within the process, to establish an association between the resource and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080320492 - Apparatus and methods using intelligent wake mechanisms: An embodiment of the present invention provides a network interface card (NIC), comprising an intelligent wake mechanism and a device driver associated with the intelligent wake mechanism and configured to agree with embedded software on a set of wake codes and wake behaviors associated with the wake codes such that... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080320493 - System and method for using a mobile agent object to collect data: Method and system for collecting and filtering messages received at an event source platform and delivering the filtered messages to a collection host platform. According to one embodiment, the system uses a mobile agent object to filter messages received at an event source platform. The mobile agent object determines a... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080320494 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and data processing program: In reference, update, and insertion processing, the lock of an un-transferred object is released, and then the lock of a transferred object is set when the pointer is traced for transfer between objects to thereby improve the parallel execution capability of the reference, update, and insertion. At that time, the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080320496 - Method for improving temporal consistency and snapshot recency in a monitored real-time software-reporting-application architecture: An object-oriented software application is provided for receiving updates that change state of an object model and reporting those updates to requesting users. The application includes a database application for storing data; an object model driver for writing updates into the database; a notification system for notifying about the updates;... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080320495 - System and method for detecting pattern of events occurred in information system: There is provided a system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which includes a storage device where at least one piece of pattern data indicating an occurrence pattern of events to be detected in the information processing apparatus is stored, a generation section that specifies a collection... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080320497 - Service mobility for composed components: A system and method for exchanging components between platforms is described. As a user terminal changes location or preferences, the user terminal may be provided with a new platform that supports desired services. A method and system that relates to migrating one or more components that provide composite services from... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080320498 - High performance script behavior detection through browser shimming: The behavior of browser applications, such as web browsers, can be controlled in part by script-based instructions present within documents read by those browsers. To analyze such scripts in an efficient manner, a script analyzer can identify the scripts in the document, divide them into script modules, and order the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320499 - Method and system for direct insertion of a virtual machine driver: A method and system for a communication network containing both trusted peers and untrusted hosts within the network. Trusted peers can collaborate with each other to observe and monitor the activity of the untrusted hosts. In addition, a trusted peer instantiated with a virtual machine can have an operating system... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080320501 - Aggregate personal computer system: Described is an aggregate computer system that operates by sharing devices of networked computing machines. A consumer machine uses a real device of a producer machine as a virtual device, by coupling the real driver of the real device over the network to a virtual driver of the consumer machine.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320500 - Remote human interface device in an aggregate computer system: Described is a technology by which a human interface device (e.g., a keyboard or mouse) physically coupled to a first computing machine controls a second computing machine in an aggregated computer system. When the first computing machine enters a device producer state with respect to the human interface device, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320502 - Providing information about software components: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing information about software components. In aspects, an interface is provided via which processes may request component information. The interface is publicly exposed and is callable by both local and remote procedures. In response to a request received at the interface,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320503 - Url namespace to support multiple-protocol processing within worker processes: A server system in typical operation has a process manager, multiple listeners (each to receive requests for its protocols) and multiple worker processes that are each able to handle requests in multiple protocols. At server start-up, each listener connects with the process manager via a pipe published by the process... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313645 - Automatic mutual exclusion: An automatic mutual exclusion computer programming system is disclosed which allows a programmer to produce concurrent programming code that is synchronized by default without the need to write any synchronization code. The programmer creates asynchronous methods which are not permitted make changes to shared memory that they cannot reverse, and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080313646 - Storage-device discovery protocol: A system and method may include a first storage device supporting a first set of functions and a second storage device supporting a second set of functions different from the first set of functions. The first and second storage devices may be configured to provide a common interface to enable... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080313647 - Thread virtualization techniques: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for virtualizing threads. An operating system thread is virtualized by intercepting accesses of the operating system thread state and emulating a normal operating system behavior. A kernel mode thread state is virtualized by intercepting kernel accesses of the kernel mode thread state and emulating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313649 - Efficient web services application status self-control system on image-forming device: Techniques and systems for controlling resources used by a device's web services applications are disclosed. In one technique, web services applications release their allocated resources and enter a “sleep mode” after being inactive for a specified period of time. In one technique, a device maintains a shared pool of memory... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080313648 - Protection and communication abstractions for web browsers: Systems and methodologies for accessing resources associated with a Web-based application in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein may include a browser that obtains at least first resources from a first domain and second resources from a second domain and a resource management component that facilitates controlled communication... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313650 - Mutable application experience and user interface: A dynamic and interchangeable set of application behaviors is implemented upon the same underlying software engine. Downloadable data provider behavior descriptors configure the UI generation application dynamically on demand to meet needs that are unknown at ship time, or otherwise cannot be predicted in advance—inputs, formats, contents, and the optimal... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313651 - Event queuing and consumption: Techniques are described to provide event queuing and consumption. In an implementation, events received at an event router are queued after determining that a switch is to be performed from a first event consumer to a second event consumer. Events previously queued at the first event consumer are communicated to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313652 - Notifying user mode scheduler of blocking events: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for detecting and handling blocking events. A user mode thread is assigned a dedicated backing thread. System calls are made on the dedicated backing thread. The kernel detects when a system call results in a blocking event. A core that the dedicated backing thread... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313654 - Input/output control apparatus, input/output control system, and input/output control method: An input/output control apparatus includes: a request acceptance unit configured to accept a switch request for requesting to change an operating system occupying any one of the input device and the output device; a control information generator unit configured to generate control information including any one of input destination information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080313653 - Printer data stream tunneling for print workcell device control: A system and method are disclosed for a printing system that embeds tunneled messages into a data stream transferred along a data path. The embedded messages direct the operation of an associated system or device along the data path. The embedded messages are inserted No Operation or similar commands embedded... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080313655 - Processing received data: A computer system comprising hardware including a data interface for interfacing between the computer system and a data source; a memory; a first operating system capable of communicating with the hardware; and a second operating system capable of supporting a user-level application and being configured to communicate with the hardware... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080313656 - User mode stack disassociation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for allowing a user mode stack to be shared by multiple contexts. A user mode stack can be shared between execution contexts that are guaranteed to not need the user mode stack at the same time. For example, each user mode portion of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313657 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing tray devices: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing tray devices. A tray slot module creates a tray slot object of a tray slot class that extends a SMI-S CIM CIM_Slot class. The tray slot object describes a tray slot. A tray physical package module creates a tray physical package... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080313658 - Intelligent dynamic multi-zone single expander connecting dual ported drives: A single fibre channel switch or serial attached SCSI expander applies zoning on the initiator ports to each of the two ports of one or more drives. The fibre channel switch or serial attached SCSI expander uses zoning to connect both ports of each drive to a single expander and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080313659 - Page and device-optimized cascading style sheets: An arrangement for generating page and/or device-optimized cascading style sheets (“CSS”) is disclosed in which CSS blocks are provided in a collection of one or more files. In an illustrative example, the collection of files is arranged as XML (extensible Markup Language) files. Each CSS block is marked with attributes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313661 - Administering an epoch initiated for remote memory access: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering an epoch initiated for remote memory access that include: initiating, by an origin application messaging module on an origin compute node, one or more data transfers to a target compute node for the epoch; initiating, by the origin application messaging module after... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080313660 - Apparatus, system, and method for soap access to data source procedures: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for web service access to a remote data source procedure. The method includes receiving a web service request from a client and identifying the procedure call identifier within the web service request. The web service request includes a procedure call identifier and zero... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080307429 - Apparatus, system, and method for autonomously maintaining a single system image in a parallel systems complex: An apparatus, system, and method for autonomously maintaining a single system image in a parallel systems complex. A computer program product causes the relevant systems in a parallel systems complex to receive requests with a global scope from a user. The request is sent to each IMS system in the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080307430 - System and method for a multiple disciplinary normalization of source for metadata integration with etl processing layer of complex data across multiple claim engine sources in support of the creation of universal/enterprise healthcare claims record: Exemplary illustrative embodiments provide for a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for mapping data. The mapping is defined by a user and maps a source datum to a target datum having a target attribute. The mapping is defined using metadata. Source specific information is omitted from... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080307431 - Automatic adjustment of time a consumer waits to access data from queue during a waiting phase and transmission phase at the queue: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for automatic adjustment of time a consumer waits to access data from a queue during a waiting phase and transmission phase at the queue. A determination is made as to whether a queue is in a waiting phase or a transmission phase... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080307433 - Locking or loading an object node: A method includes receiving identification of an object that includes a plurality of nodes. The object is modeled to provide for association of any of the plurality of nodes into a lock group such that nodes of the lock group are locked together. Identification of a first group of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080307434 - 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

20080307432 - Method and apparatus for exchanging data using data transformation: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program product for exchanging data using data transformation are provided. A first data binding component receives data from a function selector. A set of data bindings capable of invocation by the first data binding component is available. The function selector determines a content... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080307436 - Distributed publish-subscribe event system with routing of published events according to routing tables updated during a subscription process: A publish-subscribe event system for a set of communicating machines, where when a machine receives an event, whether a published event or a subscription event, it publishes locally the received event by an inter-process communication in the machine. In this way, the event is made available to other processes on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080307435 - Event processing finite state engine and language: In various embodiments, a method for processing event streams includes receiving a finite state machine defined in response to a set of processing components, a set of states, and a set of entry points. Event data associated with an event stream is also received. The event data is processes according... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080307437 - Method and system for time bounding notification delivery in an event driven system: The present invention is directed to a method and system for preventing unnecessary delays during notification delivery process in an event driven system. The unnecessary delays may be caused by waiting for event completion acknowledgments for an unbounded time. Notifications (event handle requests) may be dispatched to all interested parties... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080307439 - Reducing memory accesses in processing tcp/ip packets: A method, computer program product and system for processing TCP/IP packets. A TCP protocol stack may store a payload of a received TCP/IP packet in a data fragment list. The TCP protocol stack may further read the header of the received packet to extract a value used to index into... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20080307438 - Status hub used by autonomic application servers: A method for serving applications including receiving a component status publication and acquiring a client request. The component status publication can specify a usage level for an application component. A server response for the client request can be selected from among a multitude of possible server responses based at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080307440 - Input/output control apparatus, input/output control system, and input/output control method: An input/output control apparatus includes: a request acceptance unit configured to accept a switch request for requesting to change an operating system occupying any one of the input device and the output device; a control information generator unit configured to generate control information including any one of input destination information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307443 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, program, and recording medium: If a new device object matching at least a portion of device information concerning a device of an existing device object is detected, the device information of the existing device object is acquired, and the existing device object is deleted. Device information of the new device object is updated by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080307442 - Simultaneous sharing of system resources by multiple input devices: There is disclosed a method, system and apparatus for enabling the sharing of computer system resources by multiple input devices. The multiple input devices utilize a device driver for all of the multiple input devices, with the method comprising: the device driver allocating a device identifier to each of the... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080307441 - System and method for call stack sampling combined with node and instruction tracing: A system and method for Java™ call stack sampling combined with native sampling is presented. A kernel-mode device driver records and stores sampled context information that includes a program counter, a thread identifier, and a process identifier. The sampling thread receives a notification from the kernel-mode device driver, and proceeds... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080307444 - Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage: A storage router (56) and storage network (50) provide virtual local storage on remote SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) to Fibre Channel devices. A plurality of Fibre Channel devices, such as workstations (58), are connected to a Fibre Channel transport medium (52), and a plurality of SCSI storage devices... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080307445 - Method and apparatus for providing a unified system for interaction with cellular and internet protocol devices: A method of providing a unified system for interaction with cellular and internet protocol devices. The method includes receiving device position information from an Access Point (AP), receiving a service request for the device from a cellular based service system, and providing information to the device responsive to the service... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080307446 - Interoperable managed and unmanaged code in a document environment: Managed and unmanaged code may operate in a document environment by enabling managed code to be called by unmanaged code. The managed code may make functions available to unmanaged code by creating a type library and loading the type library into a running object table using a filename identifier. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301702 - Automated generation of different script versions: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for automated generation of different script versions. Received scripts can include comments containing descriptive data from which instructions for implementing specified further functionality (e.g., debugging, testing, tracing, etc.) can be inferred. Received scripts can also include anonymous function names.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080301701 - Detecting and modifying security settings for deploying web applications: Various implementations are described herein for detecting and modifying security settings on a computing device to run a web application using a web browser. A loader application detects security settings on the computing device, determines if the security settings will allow the web application to run and function correctly on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301703 - Apparatus and methods to access information associated with a process control system: Example apparatus and methods to access information associated with a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves receiving a first user-defined parameter name to reference a first datum value in a first data source. The first one of a plurality of data source interfaces is enabled to... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080301704 - Controlling data transfers from an origin compute node to a target compute node: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for controlling data transfers from an origin compute node to a target compute node that include: receiving, by an application messaging module on the target compute node, an indication of a data transfer from an origin compute node to the target compute node; and... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080301706 - Flow control protocol: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A message credit account of a sender is maintained. The message credit account of the sender is debited when a message is received from the sender to... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301705 - Persistence of common reliable messaging data: Method and system for processing single WS-RM sequence by a plurality of clustered application server instances, sharing persisted RM sequence data related to WS-RM protocol. The common RM sequence data, associated with a plurality of RM requests is cached in a buffer that is associated with an application server instance.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301707 - Rules engine for a persistent message store: A method and apparatus for using a persistent message store in a distributed computing system. A message is stored in a persistent message store, wherein the message is a copy of an original message transmitted from a message producer to a message consumer in a distributed computing system. A command... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301709 - Queuing for thread pools using number of bytes: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A building block layer is coupled to the application programming interface. A channel layer is coupled to the building block layer. A transport protocol stack is coupled... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301708 - Shared storage for multi-threaded ordered queues in an interconnect: In one embodiment, payload of multiple threads between intellectual property (IP) cores of an integrated circuit are transferred, by buffering the payload using a number of order queues. Each of the queues is guaranteed access to a minimum number of buffer entries that make up the queue. Each queue is... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20080301710 - Class loader for managing a network: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for managing a network with a non-system class loader via remote method invocation are described. A method includes transferring the Java remote method invocation (RMI) call to a network element in order to obtain a version of the management software associated with the network element. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301711 - Providing a pojo-based microcontainer for an application server: A method and apparatus for using a microcontainer as a Plain-Old-Java-Object (POJO) based kernel in an application server. In one embodiment, the method includes dynamically construct deployed objects of a deployment from aspects. The method further includes providing a runtime infrastructure by dynamically constructing kernel objects of an application server... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301712 - Verification of loadable objects: A method and apparatus for verifying loadable objects. A request is received from an application to load a first loadable object into memory. A first signature value is calculated for the first loadable object. The first loadable object is loaded into memory if the first signature value matches one of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301713 - Systems and methods for electronic evidence management with service control points and agents: Systems and methods are provided for capturing electronic evidence using one or more agents and at least one service control point. The systems and methods comprise deploying the one or more agents to one or more sources of electronic evidence. One or more events are transmitted from the at least... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301714 - Detecting the ready state of a user interface element: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to detecting the ready state of a user interface element. In aspects, a synchronization object is created to indicate when a user interface element is ready. Data is then loaded into the user interface element. After the data is loaded, an indication... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301715 - Information processing apparatus, failure notification circuit, and failure notification method: An information processing apparatus includes a failure-definition information storage unit for pre-storing failure-definition information including failure information regarding failures in the information processing apparatus and identification information regarding whether or not the failures can be fixed by a user who uses the information processing apparatus. The failure information and the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080301716 - Industrial controller automation interface: An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20080301718 - Enhanced native contact book application: An electronic device that includes a native contact book application, at least one Java application for providing one or more functions relating to information included in the native contact book application, and a content handler serving as an interface between operations of the native contact book application and operations of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080301717 - Visualizing a memory footprint of an application program: A memory footprint interface visibly displays one or more memory footprints of an application program during a selected time interval. In one implementation, the memory footprint interface receives one or more application program address traces, which include data regarding minimum and maximum memory addresses that are being accessed during execution... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080301719 - Mapping of dynamic link libraries in computing devices: A remapping component is provided for facilitating a link between an executable and a function held in a new dynamic link library (DLL) in a computing device. The remapping component is provided with a relocation instruction arranged to update, upon loading, an export data table entry for the remapping component... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP