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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) August inventions list 08/09

20090217293 - Message-oriented middleware provider having multiple server instances: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for a Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) provider having multiple logical MOM server instances. In an embodiment, the MOM provider having multiple logical MOM server instances is implemented on an application server. Each MOM server instance may include a session container to manage one or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090217291 - Performance neutral heartbeat for a multi-tasking multi-processor environment: A computer program product, apparatus and method for providing a performance neutral heartbeat in a computer communication system, the computer program product including a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method including maintaining a send flag,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217292 - System and method for testing devices: A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via either a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090217294 - Single program call message retrieval: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for single program code message retrieval for message queues. In an embodiment of the invention, a message queue data processing system can be configured for single program code message retrieval for message queues. The system can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090217295 - system and method for extensible document processing: The subject application is directed to a system and method for extensible document processing. The startup of a plurality of document processing services on an associated document processing device is controlled via a service startup manager. Each of the document processing services is then interfaced with a control system via... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090217296 - Benefit analysis of implementing virtual machines: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for determining the benefit of implementing virtualization technology. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for determining the benefit of implementing virtualization technology. The method may include receiving information gathered using one or more agents. Based on the received... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c.

20090217297 - Building call tree branches: The claimed subject matter provides systems and mechanisms that create frame accurate call trees for threads. The system can include devices that determine the thread on which a break point or event halted execution, identifies a location of the event that halted execution, sets break points at multiple locations during... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090217300 - Communicating with a processor event facility: A system and method for communicating with a processor event facility are provided. The system and method make use of a channel interface as the primary mechanism for communicating with the processor event facility. The channel interface provides channels for communicating with processor facilities, memory flow control facilities, machine state... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090217299 - Communication server with a service logic execution environment: A server of a communication network provides a service to a plurality of users. In the server, a service logic execution environment is stored. The service logic execution environment includes an event router and a service application, which service application includes at least a first component and a second component.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090217298 - Data processor device supporting selectable exceptions and method thereof: A processor begins exception processing in response to an exception event. Exception processing by the processor is halted during exception processing to facilitate debugging. The exception event can be a reset exception event or an interrupt exception event. Normal exception processing by the data processor can be resumed after debugging,... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090217301 - Identity persistence via executable scripts: Computing devices, computer-readable media, and methods are provided for generating and persisting a user identity associated with a client in a client-server network. A request for an identity script, the identity script comprising computer-executable instructions for creating one or more cookies, is sent from a client to a server. A... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090217303 - Test script transformation analyzer with change guide engine: A script analyzer with change guide generates accurate test scripts for evolving applications. Applications often have complex graphical user interfaces for which the permutations and combinations of GUI elements give rise to an enormous field of potential commands and command sequences to be tested. Furthermore, these applications change over time,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090217302 - Test script transformation architecture: A test script transformation architecture helps generate accurate test scripts for evolving applications. Applications often have complex graphical user interfaces for which the permutations and combinations of GUI elements give rise to an enormous field of potential commands and command sequences to be tested. Furthermore, these applications change over time,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090217304 - Method of switching functions of a device without attaching and detaching the device: According to different VID/PIDs stored in a device descriptor of a USB composite device, various functions and corresponding drivers are assigned and switched. Therefore, the switches of functions are achieved without detaching and attaching the USB composite device. Possible problems while switching operation systems of different platforms are overcome. And... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090217305 - Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and computer-readable storage medium storing computer program: A printing control apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain management information that manages use of document data, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain attribute information relating to an attribute of management information obtained by the obtaining unit, an embedding unit configured to embed the management information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090217306 - Dynamic resolution of dependent components: The dynamic resolution of dependent components of a plug-in including, during a runtime of an application, dynamically accessing, for a plug-in invoked by the application, a manifest listing classes capable of providing an interface for the plug-in, and dependent components that provide functionality to the plug-in, and dynamically instantiating a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090217307 - Information processing system: A first information processing apparatus (superordinate model) comprises emulation driver program storing means which stores, in advance, an emulation driver program for: receiving a command issued by a second-device-using application program created for a second information processing apparatus (subordinate model); and controlling a first device mounted on the first information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20090217311 - Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating data flow between a first application programming interface and a second application programming: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating data flow between a first application programming interface (“API”) and a second API. The function receiving module receives a first function call from a calling application. The first function call is directed at one or more files comprising an API signature... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090217309 - Graphical user interface application comparator: A graphical user interface (GUI) application comparator helps application designers create error free graphical user interface applications (GAPs). The comparator finds differences in the GUI elements used to compose an interface between a current GAP version and a subsequent GAP version. One benefit is that a test script writer may... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090217310 - Methods for integrating and managing one or more features in an application and systems thereof: A method, computer readable medium, and system for integrating and managing one or more features in an application includes obtaining data from at least one application provider system with at least one application and from one or more feature provider systems with one or more features. The obtained data is... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20090217308 - System startup with applications using configurable options: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for system startup with applications using configurable options. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises obtaining a set of application entries and determining whether a set of property entries exist for the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090217312 - Synchronization of data: A method and a system for the synchronization of data between applications are provided. Data is exchanged at least partially between the applications, the exchanged data being synchronized with the data that is present in the respective application. To simplify the synchronization process, according to the invention an identification that... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090217313 - Web service registing system with service evaluation and utility knowledge: A web service registering system with service evaluation and utility knowledge is disclosed. The system includes a service interface, a database, a UDDI service register machine and a core integrating module. A service user can generate a function calling message corresponding to a target service of a service provider via... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090210883 - Network on chip low latency, high bandwidth application messaging interconnect: Data processing on a network on chip (‘NOC’) that includes integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers, with each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller, where each memory communications controller controlling communications between an IP... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090210884 - Processing of data to determine compatability in an input/output processing system: A computer program product, an apparatus, and a method for processing communications between a control unit and a channel subsystem in an input/output processing system are provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210885 - System & method for controlling the disposition of computer-based objects: A secure object manager obtains, from an authorized person, a specification for disposition of at least one object, and creates first instructions, pertaining to the disposition, for a remote secure-object agent on a remote system. A copy of the object and the first instructions are sent to a remote secure-object... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090210886 - Method and system for defining financial transaction notification preferences: A method and system for defining financial transaction notification preferences is disclosed. A computer-implemented method for defining notification preferences using a financial transaction notification message served to a user on a mobile device and using properties of the financial transaction includes the steps of serving the financial transaction notification message,... Agent: Schein & Cai LLP James Cai

20090210887 - Radio frequency identification business-aware framework: A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has developed for Business-Aware Framework (BizAF) including a BESpec to define a process of obtaining information from at least one of RFID middleware, an EPCIS, an ONS, and an EPCIS DS of an architecture component defined in EPCNetwork in developing a real-time RFID event-based application,... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20090210889 - Method circuit and system for interfacing with an electronic device: According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an interface apparatus for a multi-application electronic device, including a human interface surface having integrated presentation and sensing elements, such that the device has substantially full functionality for substantially all applications without the use of other human interfaces.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090210888 - Software isolated device driver architecture: A device driver includes a hypervisor stub and a virtual machine driver module. The device driver may access device registers while operating within a virtual machine to promote system stability while providing a low-latency software response from the system upon interrupts. Upon receipt of an interrupt, the hypervisor stub may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210890 - Real-time data collection via hierarchical web page parsing: Methods and systems for instrumenting a web page to collect information on user actions associated with the web page and any of the elements contained therein are provided. For an element contained in the web page for which user actions are to be instrumented, include a single piece of instrumentation... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090204973 - Method and system for providing preemptive response routing: A computer program product comprises a computer usable medium. The computer usable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to receive a request from a calling service. Further, the computer is caused to determine reply-to... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090204974 - Method and system of preventing silent data corruption: A method and system of avoiding silent data corruption in a request-response messaging system where a requester relies on tags to match request messages with response messages. The silent data corruption occurring if the requester process a response message after a tag used with the response message was reused with... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090204975 - Performance indicator for measuring responsiveness of user interface applications to user input: A method for measuring application responsiveness measures the time elapsed between receiving and processing a trailing tag message inserted into the application's message queue. The method receives a message, generates a trailing tag message associated with the message, and inserts the trailing tag message into the application's message queue. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090204976 - System and method of reconstructing complex custom objects: A system and method is provided for reconstructing one or more collections of objects across platforms. More particularly, Java Annotations are used to assist a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) wizard in reconstructing a collection of objects. In implementation, the system and method parses the object types such that a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204977 - Event management system: The present invention is directed to an event management system for managing event notifications between disparate systems. Specifically, the present invention is directed to: capture event notifications from any external systems or devices capable of generating an event notification; process said event notifications through a multitude of user-configurable settings including... Agent: Dennison Associates

20090204979 - Network system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: An information processing apparatus can easily delete drivers which become unnecessary as a result of removal of a peripheral device shared on a network or cancellation of a sharing setting. A driver deletion notification including the designation of a driver is input via an external network. In response to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204978 - Synchronizing split user-mode/kernel-mode device driver architecture: A device driver includes a kernel mode and a user-mode module. The device driver may access device registers while operating in user-mode to promote system stability while providing a low-latency software response from the system upon interrupts. The device driver may include kernel stubs that are loaded into the operating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204981 - Cluster system, server cluster, cluster member, method for making cluster member redundant and load distributing method: A protocol process to a reception traffic is executed by cluster members of a current use system and a backup system. The backup system discards the reception traffic subjected to the protocol process and only the current use system transfers the reception traffic to an AP. The AP makes an... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090204980 - Method for implementing ejection-safe api interception: A DLL that includes an API hook is injected into the address space of a target computer process called by an application program. Upon termination of the application program, computer-readable instructions describing a process for filtering exceptions returned from the target computer process are stored in memory locations accessible to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204973 - Method and system for providing preemptive response routing: A computer program product comprises a computer usable medium. The computer usable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to receive a request from a calling service. Further, the computer is caused to determine reply-to... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090204974 - Method and system of preventing silent data corruption: A method and system of avoiding silent data corruption in a request-response messaging system where a requester relies on tags to match request messages with response messages. The silent data corruption occurring if the requester process a response message after a tag used with the response message was reused with... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090204975 - Performance indicator for measuring responsiveness of user interface applications to user input: A method for measuring application responsiveness measures the time elapsed between receiving and processing a trailing tag message inserted into the application's message queue. The method receives a message, generates a trailing tag message associated with the message, and inserts the trailing tag message into the application's message queue. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090204976 - System and method of reconstructing complex custom objects: A system and method is provided for reconstructing one or more collections of objects across platforms. More particularly, Java Annotations are used to assist a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) wizard in reconstructing a collection of objects. In implementation, the system and method parses the object types such that a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204977 - Event management system: The present invention is directed to an event management system for managing event notifications between disparate systems. Specifically, the present invention is directed to: capture event notifications from any external systems or devices capable of generating an event notification; process said event notifications through a multitude of user-configurable settings including... Agent: Dennison Associates

20090204979 - Network system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: An information processing apparatus can easily delete drivers which become unnecessary as a result of removal of a peripheral device shared on a network or cancellation of a sharing setting. A driver deletion notification including the designation of a driver is input via an external network. In response to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204978 - Synchronizing split user-mode/kernel-mode device driver architecture: A device driver includes a kernel mode and a user-mode module. The device driver may access device registers while operating in user-mode to promote system stability while providing a low-latency software response from the system upon interrupts. The device driver may include kernel stubs that are loaded into the operating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204981 - Cluster system, server cluster, cluster member, method for making cluster member redundant and load distributing method: A protocol process to a reception traffic is executed by cluster members of a current use system and a backup system. The backup system discards the reception traffic subjected to the protocol process and only the current use system transfers the reception traffic to an AP. The AP makes an... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090204980 - Method for implementing ejection-safe api interception: A DLL that includes an API hook is injected into the address space of a target computer process called by an application program. Upon termination of the application program, computer-readable instructions describing a process for filtering exceptions returned from the target computer process are stored in memory locations accessible to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090199205 - Configurable graphics virtual machine based display system: A graphics virtual machine display system for an aircraft is provided. The graphics virtual machine display system includes a registry. An initialization block is in communication with the registry for instantiating a graphics widget. A rendering block is in communication with the initialization block for rendering the graphics widget. An... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090199206 - Data storage medium and method for contactless communication between the data storage medium and a reader: The present invention relates to a method and an accordingly set tip data carrier for contactless, in particular parallel, communication of a reading device (200) with at least two communication-ready applications (10, 20, 30) located on a portable data carrier (100). A first communication-readiness signal is generated for a first... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090199203 - Interacting with applications via an instant messaging client to perform application specific tasks: The present invention discloses a solution for interacting with applications via an instant messaging client to perform application specific tasks. An instant messaging client refers to any client able to communicate in real-time or near real-time using messages, such as an Instant Messaging (IM) client, a chat client, a text... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090199202 - Methods and systems for asynchronous system calls: Embodiments relate generally to a method of managing asynchronous system calls. The method includes instantiating an asynchronous data structure in a user space and passing the asynchronous data structure to the kernel for execution as an asynchronous system call. The method also includes executing the asynchronous system call in the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090199204 - Systems and methods for constructing protocol state machines to determine the validity of an implementation of a service interface: A system is provided for constructing an implementation protocol given (a) a partner interaction protocol describing possible sequences of messages between two interacting parties, (b) one or more protocols of message exchange patterns of operations of a service interface, and (c) an implementation mapping that maps the input and output... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090199209 - Mechanism for guaranteeing delivery of multi-packet gsm message: A target task ensures complete delivery of a global shared memory (GSM) message from an originating task to the target task. The target task's HFI receives a first of multiple GSM packets generated from a single GSM message sent from the originating task. The HFI logic assigns a sequence number... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090199207 - Priority messaging and priority scheduling: Systems and methods that set priority levels to messaging systems initiated between end points (e.g., two SQL point services) thru service brokers. A priority component can apply priority at a session level to add priority capabilities on top of service brokers, and enable setting priority for all the messages in... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090199208 - Queued message dispatch: Embodiments described herein allow a service component author to write service components without having to handle incoming messages being received at any time. This may be facilitated by a message dispatch engine that dispatches messages from the incoming message queue only when the destination service component has indicated that it... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090199210 - Transaction management in a web service messaging environment: A method and apparatus for managing database transactions in a web service messaging environment. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a web service call indicating a beginning of a database transaction from a client, and creating a database transaction in response to this web service call. The method further... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090199211 - Global, dynamic, remote and central system for database driver configuration: A system, method and computer program product for database driver for the global, dynamic, remote and centralized configuration of database drivers. In an embodiment of the invention the system includes a remote controller host and a central controller disposed in the remote controller host. A plurality of application hosts and... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090199212 - Configuration interface manager: A method and system for managing configuration interfaces. In one embodiment, a system includes a user interface for receiving a user login, causing a configuration process to be invoked, and receiving user input for managing the configuration process. A log file is used to store log file information in response... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090199213 - Automatic connections between application components: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for automatic connections between application components.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090199214 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor: An image processing apparatus capable of previously checking a setting mistake when a macro button is generated and preventing a macro using a reserved word from being inappropriately executed. A macro acquisition unit obtains the macro. A user information acquisition unit obtains user information associated with a user of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090199215 - Framework for computing device with auxiliary display: A computer system with an architecture and protocol that facilitate ready integration with an auxiliary display device. The auxiliary display device is coupled to the computer system over a transport, such as Bluetooth, USB or TCP/IP. From an application level gadget, control of the display device is through a programming... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090199216 - Multi-level driver configuration: A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided in which the Operating System (OS) driver is divided into two parts, viz. an upper level OS driver and a lower level OS driver. The lower level OS driver sets up the adapter hardware and any adapter hardware work-around. The upper... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20090199217 - Method and system for overriding potential competing optimization algorithms within layers of device drivers: A method, system, and computer program product for managing data optimization routines in device drivers in a data transmission path. In a data transmission path, data optimization routines associated with device drivers are identified. When data is received in the data transmission path, a determination is made whether a data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090199218 - System and method for adaptable provisioning of generic application content: The current state of art for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning typically consists of a rigid set of operations that are suited to deliver a fixed content type. The runtime environment on the terminal is designed to handle a limited set of predefined content types and incapable of any content-adaptive or customized... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090199220 - Calling services from a remote client: Making a service implementation accessible for a client application in a service oriented architecture. The method may include extracting an interface definition language file from the service implementation, which defines the interface information to be provided by the client application to access the service implementation during runtime. The method may... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090199219 - Operating system for a computing device with handheld and extended computing units: A handheld computing unit includes a processing module, a main memory interface coupled to main memory, a baseband processing module, an RF section, I/O interfaces, a bus structure, and a connection structure. The main memory includes an operating system section and a user section. The operating system section stores at... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison