Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 01/09

20090031323 - Communication system and method: A communication system and method are disclosed. The system includes a client application executable on a first communication node and a data repository. The client application is configured to accept an identifier of a file to be communicated to a remote recipient, and to store the file in the data... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090031322 - Method and apparatus for communication between application programs: A communication apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a transmission message to be transmitted from a first application to a second application, a determination unit configured to determine whether the second application is present in the same area as the first application, an encoding unit configured to encode... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090031324 - System and method of compact messaging in network communications by removing tags and utilizing predefined message definitions: A method of compact messaging between a schema-based service and a device over a network, the device and the service having a predetermined knowledge of element descriptors shared between the device and the service based on a structured definition language. The method comprises the steps of: establishing communication between the... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090031325 - Direct memory access transfer completion notification: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for DMA transfer completion notification that include: inserting, by an origin DMA on an origin node in an origin injection FIFO, a data descriptor for an application message; inserting, by the origin DMA, a reflection descriptor in the origin injection FIFO, the reflection descriptor... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090031327 - Method for performing real-time analytics using a business rules engine on real-time heterogenous materialized data views: A method for performing real-time analytics using a business rules engine on real time heterogeneous materialized data views is disclosed. The method comprises processing of rows produced by views corresponding to events. The rows are processed according to business rules by a view engine. Views with conditions equivalent to rule... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a.

20090031326 - System for identifying content of digital data: A system for identifying a work represented by digital data. This system detects events in data of the content of an unknown work and measures a metric between the events. The system then compares the detected events and metrics from an unknown work with the events and metrics of a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090031328 - Facilitating interaction between video renderers and graphics device drivers: Facilitating interaction may be enabled through communication protocols and/or APIs that permit information regarding image processing capabilities of associated graphics hardware to be exchanged between graphics device drivers and video renders. In a first exemplary media implementation, electronically-executable instructions thereof for a video renderer precipitate actions including: issuing a query... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20090031329 - Auxiliary output device, portable computer having the same, and method for switching operating systems of the same: A method for switching from an OS of a portable computer to another OS of an auxiliary output device, and the portable computer containing the auxiliary output device, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the auxiliary input/output device includes a control unit configured to control a data storage unit of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090031330 - Method and apparatus for installing printer drivers of image forming apparatuses in printing environment employing universal printer driver: A method of installing printer drivers of image forming apparatuses in an environment that employs a universal printer driver is provided. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an environment for using printer drivers of image forming apparatuses that is convenient to a user by deleting printer drivers of image forming... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090031331 - Web client endpoint emulator: A web services endpoint emulator for testing and developing web server client program, which generates a service interface and makes the interface available for client consumption. Service interfaces are exposed with configuration options for each service. The configuration options produced by the invention includes pre-configured responses or the ability to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090025009 - Co-execution of objects from divergent runtime environments: Systems and methods are described that permit objects from runtime environments that are incompatible with one another to be co-executed on a computing machine. Depending on which object can service the request, a generic proxy may send the request to the proxy of the particular runtime environment associated with that... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090025008 - Ipmi systems and electronic apparatus using the same: Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) systems are disclosed, in which a baseboard management controller (BMC) is coupled to a first memory device and a server system, such that the BMC accesses the first memory device to provide a first set of functions and accesses a second memory device from the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090025010 - Systems and methods for providing centralized subscriber session state information: Systems and methods for providing centralized subscriber session state information are provided. The system includes multiple local session state store servers associated with one or more access control servers and a global location store. When access to a network is attempted, the local session state store server receives an access... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090025011 - Inter-process communication at a mobile device: Communication between interfaces to remotely executed applications, i.e., Inter-Process Communication, may be enabled at a wireless device through the association of a message stored in an outbound message queue with an indication of a local interface to a remote application, to which interface the message is to be passed. A... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20090025012 - Master data completion for incoming xml-messages: A method and system for collaboration in an inventory supply network. Received messages prompt a call to an independent master data competition module. Missing data is resolved independently from the calling service class. The resolve message is then passed to a business object layer to process the message.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090025013 - Information notification apparatus, method and program: An information notification apparatus includes a unit storing at least one determination rule including a determination condition and a type, the determination condition being for determining a first operation state to be executed on a computer by a user, and the type indicating one type of information notification corresponding to... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20090025014 - Data transfer method and system: A data transfer method and an Internet Small Computer Systems Interface controller are disclosed. At least one mirror iSCSI controller is preset for each iSCSI controller. The mirror iSCSI controller detects failure of the mirrored iSCSI controller corresponding to the mirror iSCSI controller, and adds service information of the mirrored... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090025015 - Adding function to device driver: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect an additional function data file including a description of an added function that is provided in addition to an already-installed device driver, a storing unit configured to store the detected additional function data file in an information storage area... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090025016 - Methods of populating a third-party document with digital information content: Methods of populating a document with digital information content. An information management software application is launched on a computer-based platform and a data drop window or a base format document is opened such that digital files, having digital data content, may be easily dragged and dropped (or pasted) into data... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090025017 - Simplifying interaction with multiple applications when using forms via a common interface: Simplifying interaction with multiple applications when using forms via a common interface. In one embodiment, a mapping data indicating the forms used for corresponding combinations of an action and a class of data is maintained. On receiving an action identifier and a class identifier from a user using a common... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090019452 - Resource management method and system with active associations: A method (300) and a corresponding system for managing associations in the CIM model are proposed. An association is modeled by a particular class, which includes two or more references to other classes; the association is implemented by a corresponding provider. Whenever a management application (such as a performance monitor)... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090019453 - Automatically arranging objects in a graphical program block diagram: Various embodiments of a system and method for automatically arranging or positioning objects in a block diagram of a graphical program are described. A graphical programming development environment or other software application may be operable to automatically analyze a block diagram of a graphical program, e.g., in order to determine... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20090019454 - Apparatus and method for inter-object communication: An apparatus and method for managing inter-object communication are provided. With the apparatus and method, objects obtain licenses to interact with one another via a licensing framework. When an object wishes to enter into an interaction with another object, the first object sends its license to the second object. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090019455 - Messaging interface system for serving a message to a target system: A system is disclosed for serving a message to a target system. A database message is converted to a common data model to conform to at least two systems and an architecture of the target system. The common data model is transformed into a specified data type of the architecture... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090019457 - Administering devices with domain state objects: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include receiving a domain state object, identifying an action in dependence upon the domain state object, and executing the action. In many exemplary embodiments, receiving a domain state object includes receiving a signal to download... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090019456 - Parallel event processing in a database system: Techniques for processing events in parallel are provided. Multiple publishers publish events in parallel to a plurality of channels. Each channel is a queue that maintains a list of events that are awaiting to be processed by one or more slave processes. In one approach, all events that need to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090019458 - Apparatus, system, and method for seamless multiple format metadata abstraction: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing seamless multiple format metadata abstraction. A metadata application programming interface (API) is provided to abstract metadata from an incoming business object and provide it to an adapter for processing. The metadata API is configured to operate on multiple metadata formats such... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090019460 - Application programming interface (api) for handling errors in packets received by a wireless communications receiver: Packets of information may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion (400) that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion (401) that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The second portion also maintains a group of inbound packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019461 - Application programming interface (api) for restoring a default scan list in a wireless communications receiver: A signal may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion (400) that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion (401) that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The first portion may invoke an application program interface (API 1402)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019462 - Methods and systems for converged service creation and execution environment applications: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for a converged service creation and execution application. In an embodiment, an application is coupled to an application server. One or more open application programming interfaces are coupled to the application server, and service session management logic is also coupled... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090019459 - Systems and methods for providing a modification history for a location within a data store: A storage management device can receive a request for a modification history for a location within a data store, determine one or more times at which at least a portion of data stored at the location was modified, and transmit the one or more determined times.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP / Symantec Corporation Intellectual Property Dept.

20090013330 - Methods and devices for sending transmission-time or reception-time information for a transmitted or received message: Upon reception of a message which is relevant to synchronization, the circuitry in a device forms a piece of reception-time information and this information is inserted into or appended to the received message and forwarded such that the reception-time information can be received by at least one synchronization application in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090013329 - Thread communications: The invention relates to a device comprising a processor, the processor comprising: an execution unit for executing multiple threads, each thread comprising a sequence of instructions; and a plurality of sets of thread registers, each set arranged to store information relating to a respective one of the plurality of threads.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013332 - Special \"legacy board\" device: A unique display device called a “Legacy Board”. The device is used in remembering and memorializing the lives of loved ones. The device is related to apparatus and methods to hold a collection of family pictures, documents, artwork and other memorabilia and is used to showcase occasions such as births,... Agent: Ritchison Law Offices, PC

20090013331 - Token protocol: The invention provides a method of transmitting tokens over a link between processors, the link comprising a one-line and a zero-line wherein a logical transition on the one-line indicates a logic-one and a logical transition on the zero-line indicates a logic zero. The method comprises: transmitting a first portion of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013334 - Apparatus for presenting event flows using sequence diagrams: A method and system for presenting event associations between events from one or more event flows on a display screen of a computer, the method comprising: constructing a sequence diagram representation, the representation having timelines for the event flows and directional paths between the timelines for the event associations; and,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090013333 - Input management system and method: The present invention is directed to a method, medium and system for use in a computing environment for managing input information. The system for facilitating input management in a computerized environment may include an input manager for processing events received from an input provider. The system may additionally include a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090013335 - Sensor process management methods and systems: Sensor process management methods and systems are provided. Firstly, a sensor identification and a specific identification are received from a SDR (Sensor Data Record). The specific identification corresponds to one of the multiple sensor modes of a sensor. Then, a ProbeInfo table element is selected according to the sensor identification,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090013336 - Method and system for building compound extensible ajax applications: A method of building compound extensible Asynchronous JavaScript And eXtensible Markup Language (AJAX) applications. A server-side web component utility searches an extension registry for Jazz web User Interface (UI) components and generates cached strings of JavaScript code based on the Jazz web UI components. When a browser accesses a Jazz... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090013337 - Apparatus, system, and method for switching data library managers: A device, method, and system for switching library managers of a data library while maintaining data library storage devices online. A library manager accepts and executes data transaction commands for access to data residing on the storage devices of the data library. A transition manager module receives a directive to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090007138 - Static execution of statements in a program: Provided are techniques for static execution of statements. Information from an execution file that describes statements that have been bound to a database during a previous execution of those statements dynamically and describes metadata about the statements is loaded. While executing a program that includes statements, for each of the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090007140 - Reducing layering overhead in collective communication operations: A communication method for collective operations is provided which eliminates the need for a three layered structure. Instead, the method of the present invention employs a control structure which is specifically designed to keep track of the progress of the collective communication operations and the facilities for the handling of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090007139 - Running add-on components in virtual enviroments: Systems and methods for running add-on components in virtual environments are described. An add-on component can be executed in a virtual environment by setting up a communication link between a component proxy in the host operating system and a server process running in the virtual environment. The server process executes... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090007141 - Message passing with a limited number of dma byte counters: A method for passing messages in a parallel computer system constructed as a plurality of compute nodes interconnected as a network where each compute node includes a DMA engine but includes only a limited number of byte counters for tracking a number of bytes that are sent or received by... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090007142 - Activity monitoring without accessing a process object: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and program product that allows for monitoring of the progress of process without alterations to the existing application. There are provided a mapping logic generating unit 14 that refers to a mapping definition stored in a mapping definition storage unit 11 for mapping an object... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090007145 - Dashboard maintenance/outage correlation: A device receives multiple products associated with a customer of a network and provided by the network, matches the multiple products with multiple maintenance events, and displays multiple visual indicators indicating status of the multiple maintenance events.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090007144 - Generalized wbem/cim indication provider simulation engine: A simulator of WBEM/CIM indication providers conforming to the CIM Indication Provider object specification simulates both the CIM indication provider and the means to drive the associated CIM events. The simulator comprises three functionally unique pieces: one or more CIM indication provider drivers, one or more CIM event trigger drivers,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090007146 - Method and system to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events: A method to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events may include consolidating each of the plurality of events to form a multi-personality event. Each event may be emitted from a respective one of a plurality of components forming an event producer in response to an incident affecting the event... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20090007143 - Server quota notification: A system that enables notification of a critical quota status related to a mail (or Exchange) server is provided. The system can employ parameters directly from a mail server or, alternatively, from a stats store located within a client device to trigger generation and delivery of a quota full (or... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090007149 - Aggregating storage elements using a virtual controller: Apparatus and method for aggregating storage elements. In accordance with various embodiments, a virtual storage space is formed across a plurality of storage elements each comprising an array of data storage devices. A virtual controller comprises a first storage element aggregator (SEA) configured to issue a first command to a... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group

20090007147 - Enabling a third party application to participate in migration of a virtualized application instance: In one embodiment, an operating system manages virtualized instances of hardware resources and migration enabled applications partitioned into one of multiple partitions with a separate operating system kernel running in each of the partitions. A migration event controller of the operating system manages the checkpoint and restart process during migration... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090007148 - Search tool that aggregates disparate tools unifying communication: A user entering information in an application might desire functionality not supported by that application. Based on an input or a subset of the input, a functionality associated with a different application can be automatically applied within a current application. Sometimes, a particular application or mode of communication can be... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090007153 - Hybrid resource manager: A hybrid resource manager is provided for use in a computing environment. The hybrid resource manager serves as the single resource manager that cooperates with an operating system to manage each of the individual device drivers associated with the various functions of a multifunction hardware device. In one example the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090007152 - Management of external hardware appliances in a distributed operating system: Embodiments are provided to manage external hardware appliances from a distributed operating system interface in a computer network using a driver model to communicate with device drivers associated with the external hardware appliances. In one embodiment, a request to manage an external hardware appliance in the computer network may be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090007150 - Method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of interrupt delivery at runtime in a network system: Processor affinity of an application/thread may be used to deliver an interrupt caused by the application/thread to a best processor at runtime. The processor to which the interrupt is delivered may either run the target application/thread or be located in the same socket as the processor that runs the target... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090007151 - Printing for virtualized applications: Procedures for printing virtualized applications are discussed. In implementations, a spooler is associated with an established virtual environment including a virtualized application. The spooler may be associated by making a native spooler, installed on a computing system aware of the virtual environment. In other implementations, the spooler may be virtualized... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090007154 - Sas expander-side optimization for the re-discovery process: A simplification of the re-discovery process for initiators due to changes in the network is disclosed. If an initiator subscribes to change reports from a SAS expander, when that SAS expander detects a change in the network, it sends an SMP command back to the initiator, indicating the specific change... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090007155 - Expander-based solution to the dynamic stp address problem: The persistent binding of STP SAS addresses to SATA devices is disclosed so that SATA devices can be moved to different insertion points (ports) within a SAS expander and still properly receive I/O requests. When a SATA device is inserted into the SAS expander, it is interrogated to obtain information... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090007156 - Data processing method for application layer: The present invention discloses a data processing method for application layer based on a living network control protocol. The data processing method for application layer which is based on a predetermined protocol composed of at least a lower layer and an application layer includes the steps of: receiving a predetermined... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090007158 - Emulating a display mode for a clone display: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a request to provide display information in a video graphics adapter (VGA) mode, determining if a flag corresponding to an enabled state of a clone display is active, and forwarding the request to a video electronics standards association (VESA)... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20090007159 - Interfaces for digital media processing: APIs discussed herein promote efficient and timely interoperability between hardware and software components within the media processing pipelines of media content players. A PhysMemDataStructure API facilitates a hardware component's direct access to information within a memory used by a software component, to enable the hardware component to use direct memory... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090007157 - Mapping data sources to a procedural api: Described are embodiments directed to use of workflows for developing management agents that connect operations of a data source to a procedural API of an application. The management agents include a workflow that corresponds to an operation of a data source. The workflow includes a number of activities that make... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090007160 - System and method for network-based computing: A network-based computing system that automates, simplifies, and optimizes the compilation, deployment, and execution of an application by any type of a client machine connected to a server via any type of a network connection. The system includes a client runtime environment, a server runtime environment and an object-oriented markup-business... Agent: Akc Patents

20090007162 - Flexible namespace prioritization: Access to resources on a computer may be provided by using a first namespace of resources and a second namespace of resources, where one or more names are common to both namespaces and those names refer to different respective instances of resources. A request is received for a first resource... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090007161 - Namespace merger: In a virtualization environment, there is often a need for an application to access different resources (e.g., files, configuration settings, etc.) on a computer by name. The needed resources can potentially come from any one of a plurality of discrete namespaces or containers of resources on the computer. A resource... Agent: Microsoft Corporation