Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) inventions 07/09

20090193429 - Method to identify unique host applications running within a storage controller: A method for operating a controller includes receiving a command associated with at least one operation, determining a CPU channel path based on the received command, determining a unique job identifier based on the received command, and determining a state based on the received command. In addition, the method includes... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090193430 - Method, system, and program product for tracking interactive text-message communications: Methods, program products and systems are provided for selectively synchronizing and tracking networked or internet communication message items. An interactive communication application presents a message entry interface enabling a user to select a discrete question for tracking, creating tracking thread. The message is presented by visually distinguishing the tracked question... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090193431 - Processing of mtom messages: For an outbound message from a Web services application program, a determination as to whether the Web service pipeline for that application program includes a security handler is made. If it does not, then binary data fields in the application data structure are identified and used to create one or... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090193435 - Converter for converting communication method and/or communication protocol: A communication converter for converting a communication method and/or a communication protocol in order to enable communication between a medical device and a medical support control device for controlling the medical device, comprising: a storage unit for storing a command list for the medical device; an obtainment unit for obtaining... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090193433 - Integrating operational and business support systems with a service delivery platform: A service-oriented approach provides for an integration of components that would otherwise be considered different and unrelated components, such as runtime, business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS), and third party components. Such integration allows messages to be transformed and passed between components as necessary to perform a particular... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090193434 - Isolation of user-interactive components: The isolation of user-interactive components form the logical components of an exemplary computing application environment is provided. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary computing application environment comprises one or more user interface (UI) elements that run on an exemplary user-interface processing thread and application logic that illustratively operatively runs asynchronously... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090193432 - Service-oriented architecture component processing model: A service-oriented architecture can include a service provider comprising a plurality of service objects, each service object comprising a self-describing, self-contained, platform independent, modular unit of application logic. The service oriented architecture further includes a service object among the plurality of service objects that is a service implementation having a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090193436 - Alarm display system of cluster storage system and method thereof: An alarm display system of a cluster storage system and a method thereof are described. A reasonable single abnormal event processing manner is adopted to classify the alarm priority through abnormal events detected by different nodes sharing a common device in the cluster storage system, and analyze load of each... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090193437 - Concurrently responding to events: As indicated above, the present approach provides an automated communication method and system for concurrently responding to a plurality of events using multiple rules with multiple messaging (notification) timelines (patterns) per event, operating under the constraint of each respective event's dynamic duration or lifespan while considering the state of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090193438 - Method and apparatus for processing event in home network: Provided are a method and apparatus for notifying a specific device, which requests a service, of an event if the event relating to the service occurs in a home network. An event notification message that is multicasted in the home network includes a device ID that requests a service relating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193439 - Managing component programs within a service application: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform methods in accordance with embodiments hereof, for managing component programs within a service application according to a service model. Initially, configuration settings, which can be administered to the component programs, are extracted from the service model.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090193440 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090193441 - 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

20090193442 - 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

20090193443 - Method and system for enhancing ms exchange (mapi) end user experiences in a split proxy environment: A split proxy is configured for managing asynchronous MAPI communications between a client and a server by establishing a queuing structure for MAPI messages that make up the communications. The MAPI messages are subsequently exchanged between the client and the server using the queuing structure. Multiple remote procedure calls (RPCs)... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090193444 - Techniques for creating and managing extensions: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing extensions. An extension manager is operable to interact with and manage extensions in at least two categories, such as operative extensions and cooperative extensions. The extension manager loads zero or more extensions from a first set of extensions into a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193445 - Method and system for providing support for software applications: A method and system for providing support for a Java™ based software application in a communication system. The communication system includes a support server communicating with an application server. The Java™ based software application has a plurality of instances installed on the application server. The method includes receiving a first... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090187920 - Configurable message pipelines: In accordance with certain aspects of configurable message pipelines, a service allows one or more applications running on a system to communicate with one or more other systems. The service includes a port having a send pipeline to allow the one or more applications to send messages to the one... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090187918 - Methods and apparatus for securing frames from other frames: A method includes placing an accent in a frame, and only letting frames with the same accent communicate with each other. This accenting is removed using an accent key immediately prior to a compilation operation. The accenting can be performed by performing an XOR operation on a data stream using... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090187919 - Service oriented architecture-based scim platform: Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM)-type functionality is provided at a horizontal service layer in an Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based approach. SCIM composition is provided at multiple levels, including the level of composition where servlets have full access to the context information of the service layer. SCIM composition also occurs at... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090187917 - Transfer of data from transactional data sources to partitioned databases in restartable environments: Method, system, and computer program product for transferring data from transactional data sources to partitioned databases are provided. One or more messages from a transactional data source are read. Each message includes one or more records to be inserted into a database comprising a plurality of partitions. One of the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090187921 - Method for providing stand-in objects: A method for providing stand-in objects, where relationships among objects are automatically resolved in an object oriented relational database model without the necessity of retrieving data from the database until it is needed. A “fault” class is defined, as well as fault objects whose data haven t yet been fetched... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090187923 - Distributing event processing in event relationship networks: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for distributing event processing are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An analysis is performed of the event information flowing from one event relationship network subnet to another event relationship network subnet in an event relationship network. Strength of a relationship... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090187922 - System and method for time tracking: A method for tracking time, including obtaining a plurality of tasks; identify a first open event and a first close event associated with a first file; identifying a start idle event and an end idle event associated with the first file after identifying the first open event; generating a first... Agent: Osha - Liang L.L.P. (intuit)

20090187924 - Resolving sas timing issues for long-distance sas extender: This invention extends the distance at which a SAS extender can function. The distance is increased a large amount over the traditional 10 meters. As a result timers will not go off before the response can make a trip back. This is accomplished by emulating as a SAS expander, using... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090187925 - Driver that efficiently regulates current in a plurality of led strings: A light-emitting diode (LED) driver according to the present invention consists of a voltage pre-regulator and multiple linear current regulators with an adaptively-controlled drive voltage. In this LED driver, the efficiency maximization is achieved by eliminating the sensing of the voltage drops across the linear regulators, i.e., by removing the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090187926 - Method and system for providing a data exchange service provider interface: A computer program product comprises a computer useable medium. The computer useable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to provide a data interface between an adapter component and one or more application interface components... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090187927 - Method for invoking uoml instructions: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for encapsulating Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML) into an Application Programming Interface (API), including: mapping an object of an UOML operation to a data type of a programming language, mapping the UOML operation to an API function prototype in the programming language,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20090187928 - Primary application advertising layer: The present invention relates to a method that allows master web applications integrated into web slave applications to advertise products or services overcoming limitations related to the reduced advertising space available in the master application. The method also allows users to avoid disruption problems when working simultaneously with master and... Agent: Rextide, Inc

20090187929 - Remote monitoring and management ordering system for an information technology remote services management environment: An apparatus for providing remote services to an integrated information technology environment. The apparatus comprises a remote management platform. The remote management platform comprises a service delivery platform which comprises a plug in module. The plug in module is configurable to comprise a plurality of service functions. The plug in... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090183170 - Event-driven component integration framework for implementing distributed systems: An event driven component, in a distributed system of software components, utilizes a buffered port. Within the distributed system of software components are the event-driven component; accepting means for accepting input events arriving at an input gateway; a coarse-grained component for providing a coarse-grained function that provides a set of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090183171 - Secure and extensible policy-driven application platform: System of evaluating security of script content. A processor executes computer-executable instructions for defining a policy for the script content in a web page. The script content provides interactions between a user and other content within the web page. The defined policy indicates an execution boundary of the script content.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090183172 - Middleware bridge system and method: This invention relates to a middleware bridge system, for bridging a kernel space module and a user space middleware having a user space interface, including: a kernel space bridge manager, for providing a kernel space interface to receive function call request from the kernel space module; an user space bridge... Agent: Venable LLP

20090183174 - Gathering state information for an application and kernel components called by the application: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for gathering state information for an application and kernel components called by the application. An implementation of a component to execute in a kernel space is instantiated in a user space. An application invokes a call to the component in the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090183173 - Method and system for determining a host machine by a virtual machine: A method and system provide information by which a host machine on which a virtual machine is running can be determined via a messaging channel between the virtual machines running on the host machine and the host machine. The virtual machine can then determine whether or not it should be... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090183175 - Systems and methods for receiving and sending messages about changes to data attributes: Systems and methods for receiving and sending messages about changes to data attributes are described. A message that includes all common data attributes associated with a first reference object is received. The data attributes in the message are mapped to common data attributes in a second reference object. The type... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090183178 - Application execution terminal: An application execution terminal makes a suggestion to start either an application or a profile which is associated with an event detected in reception and playback of a content on the basis of event processing rules in which a suggestion to start either an application or a profile which is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090183176 - Client side social network response tracking: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to response subscriptions and provide a method, system and computer program product for response tracking across social networks. In one embodiment of the invention, a social networking response tracking method can be provided. The method can be performed... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090183177 - Multi-event type monitoring and searching: Multiple event types are monitored for events, and surveillance data is stored for each event. Surveillance data for a primary event of one event type can be presented to a user, and surveillance data for a set of related events corresponding to another event type can be presented based on... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090183179 - User and business communication and discovery platform: A platform enables a business to learn about a user based on characteristics of the user and without knowing the identity of the user. The business specifies characteristics of users of interest to the business. When a platform user begins a session, a process representing the platform user interacts with... Agent: Brenda Pomerance Law Office Of Brenda Pomerance

20090183180 - High-performance virtual machine networking: A virtual machine (VM) runs on system hardware, which includes a physical network interface device that enables transfer of packets between the VM and a destination over a network. A virtual machine monitor (VMM) exports a hardware interface to the VM and runs on a kernel, which forms a system... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090183181 - Gathering pages allocated to an application to include in checkpoint information: Provided are a method, system, and program for gathering pages allocated to an application to include in checkpoint information. A call from an application is intercepted to allocate memory pages to cause indication of pages allocated to the application that have modified data. An operation is initiated to create checkpoint... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090183182 - Dynamic composition of virtualized applications: Various embodiments enable an application to be run on a computing device via dynamic composition of a virtual application image on a client device. The virtual application image is constructed using one or more application components retrieved from a local storage location and/or a remote resource, such as a network... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183183 - System and method for flexible device driver resource allocation: A system and method for flexible device driver resource allocation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for allocating device driver resources in a data processing system includes statically allocating hardware resource pools to device drivers on a rigid basis during initialization of the data processing system, and dynamically altering... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090183185 - Declarative and extensible process definition: An enterprise application may operate on a platform that is able to execute a solution pack that may have various configurable items incorporated into the solution pack. During runtime, the platform may present the configurable items in a user interface. The items may be embedded within the solution pack, which... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183184 - Declarative instance based access control for application resources with persisted attributes and state: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for declarative instance based access control for persistent application resources in a multi-tier application. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instance based access control in a persistent application resource can be provided. The method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090183186 - Methods and systems for providing, to a first application executed by a first operating system, an interface for communicating with at least one application executed by a second operating system: A method for providing, to a first application executed by a first operating system, an interface for communicating with at least one application executed by a second operating system includes providing, by a first interface object executed by the first operating system, a mechanism for external communication with a first... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090183187 - Providing command line interface using a remote interface: A method and system to invoke business logic via a remote interface is described. The remote interface is used as a single point of entry to the business logic for both local and remote connectivity.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090178056 - Implicit interaction of portal application components: The present invention relates to the field of network portals and in particular to a method and system for exchanging data between components of one or more composite applications implemented on a portal server, wherein the components are programmed independently from each other. An embodiment of the invention includes: automatically... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090178057 - Wireless device operating system (os) application programmer's interface (api): The application relates to various aspects for modeling software, preferably for use in wireless communication devices. One aspect relates to targeting a software model to a plurality of different operating systems/operating system combinations. Another aspect relates to abstracting the operating environment to an operating system/operating system combination. Another aspect relates... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090178058 - Application aware networking: A computer implemented system and method provide for the dynamic bandwidth allocation shift from an end user's committed rate. A service provider receives a request to enhance bandwidth between an end user and a content provider. The service provider queries endpoint information for the end user and identifies the committed... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090178059 - Method and system for providing consistency in processing data streams: A system for providing consistency guarantees in a data stream processing engine. Consistency tracking information is attached to data streams coming into the data stream processing engine. The consistency tracking information is propagated through a plurality of streaming operators that process the data streams within the data stream processing engine.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090178060 - Method, apparatus and system for automatic loading of a network stack: The disclosure provides a method for loading software in an information handling system (IHS). The method includes registering a kernel entity with an interface to receive a first notification when a socket library utilized for a communication protocol is requested and initializing software after receiving the first notification.... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090178062 - Framework and methods for providing communication services to client applications: The disclosed implementations provide an infrastructure and methods for providing communication services to an application through an Application Programming Interface (API).... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090178063 - Messaging proxy system: A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- Softwired

20090178061 - Methods and systems for filtering encrypted traffic: Application programming interface (API) hooks are injected into an application program executing at a client during run-time. Responsive to these hooks, data intended for encryption prior to transmission from the client is diverted, for example for content filtering, compression, etc., prior to being encrypted. In the case of encrypted data... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090172694 - Cache management: A number of applications can be run by the computing system. Such applications can execute independently from each other and can also each independently manage a corresponding set of content stored on the LSD. One of the advantages presented by the invention is the ability of the LSD to inform... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/ Sandisk

20090172695 - Service bus architecture: In embodiments, an implementation of a service oriented architecture is provided including an application service bus capable of approximating point-to-point performance by reducing the format transformation of application messages by way of relaying them in a native format when the message format of a consumer application and/or service provider application... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090172696 - Service-based content management: The present invention leverages and modifies service-oriented architecture and concepts to provide an enterprise content management (ECM) system as a service. This allows organizations (potential customers) to be provided with a service as opposed to purchasing a software product. In the present invention, it is disclosed how to build a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090172697 - Apparatus and method for managing a cluster of computers: A system has a set of servers utilizing different operating systems to constitute a cross-platform system. A central management server has a set of objects characterizing the set of servers. The set of objects have relationship edges to related objects. A server intelligence agent coordinates the start-up of the central... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090172699 - Architectural design for service procurement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing service procurement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090172698 - Method and system for providing keyboard, video, and mouse switching: A method and system for providing keyboard, video, and mouse switching includes establishing a basic input/output system (BIOS) agent and an operating system (OS) agent on a server of a plurality of servers. The basic input/output system agent routes input/output data between the server and a remote keyboard, remote video... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090172703 - Capture method and capture device: A capture method and a capture device are capable of efficiently analyzing problems in software of an application software to be captured. A capture method for retrieving screen data displayed on a screen causes a computer to capture screen data displayed on the screen, acquire utilization data of a CPU... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090172701 - Managing contact list status notifications in collaboration systems to reduce network traffic: An awareness notification management system including a contact list manager managing an awareness service subscriber contact list including an active sublist for active contacts and an archive sublist for disabled contacts, and an awareness manager for monitoring the status contact list members, where the awareness manager is configured to access... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090172702 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172700 - Parallel processing of triggering rules in sip event notification filters: A system for processing triggering rules in SIP event notification filters, including an XPath processor configured to collect a set of XPath expressions from at least one trigger of at least one SIP event notification filter of at least one subscribers in a set of subscribers who are subscribed to... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090172705 - Apparatus and method for preservation of usb keyboard: Provided are a data security apparatus and method for a USB keyboard. The data security apparatus includes: a USB keyboard security driver for selecting a driver for a USB keyboard from USB devices connected to a personal computer, and replacing a data processing function address in a USB hub driver... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090172704 - Model-based datacenter management: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for model-based data center management. In embodiments, a request to perform a management operation on a device in a data center is received and available paths to the device are determined. The paths are determined based on an artifact storing a topology of the data... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090172706 - Sas expander based persistent connections: Embodiments of the present invention provide for creating and using persistent connections in SAS networks. A persistent connection may be a connection that persists for longer than the usual SAS connection. More specifically, it is a connection that is not subject to periodic tear downs by SAS devices according to... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090172707 - Method and system for supporting multiple display devices: A method and a system for supporting multiple display adapters in the WDDM architecture are provided. A driver wrapper serves as the interface between the OS and the display drivers. The driver wrapper hides the display drivers from the knowledge of the OS and provides the standard display driver interface... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090172710 - Method and system for enabling a mini program on a computing device to access an auxiliary system: A method and system for enabling a mini program on a computing device to access an auxiliary system are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention is implemented on a computer system, which includes an auxiliary system configured to drive an auxiliary display and a computing device that is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090172708 - Method and system for enabling a sideshow device to support enhanced features: A method and system for enabling an auxiliary system, such as a SideShow device, to support enhanced features is provided. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of emulating a physical communication channel to establish a virtual communication channel, encapsulating data associated... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090172709 - Text editor virtual backing store: At an interface between a text engine and a first client application, text and first client application properties associated with the text may be received from the first client application. Then the interface may map the first client application properties associated with the text to text engine properties associated with... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090172711 - Device for coordinating displays on a security system: The inventive system and method for enabling external applications to display data in the security system has a table with a plurality of rules and an interface for processing the external application data for display, such that when an alert occurs in the security system, one of the rules defines... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090172712 - Bios runtime services interface: A method and article of manufacture for accessing at least one unexposed runtime service.... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090172714 - Method and apparatus for collecting metadata during session recording: Text that appears in sessions presented on a computer screen is indexed to enable future text-based search of the session content. During the recording, a text capture algorithm is used to capture any text data presented on any window on the computer screen, either in a selective or in an... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090172715 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172713 - On-demand emulation via user-level exception handling: Methods and apparatuses enable on-demand instruction emulation via user-level exception handling. A non-supported instruction triggers an exception during runtime of a program. In response to the exception, a user-level or application-level exception handler is launched, instead of a kernel-level handler. Then the exception handler can execute at the application layer... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP