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

20090241125 - Data manipulation command method and system: A data manipulation method and system. The method includes receiving and storing by a computing system, configuration data and a first list comprising first group of data objects. The computing system generates a second list associated with the first list. The second list comprises a second group of data objects... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090241126 - Service and commerce based cookies and notification: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system alert a real world representative of an action within a virtual world. An indication of an avatar within a virtual world interacting with a virtual object is received. Responsive to the avatar interacting with a virtual object,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090241127 - Method and system for providing access to active objects: A method and system is provided for allowing a Java™ application to use active objects on the Symbian™ platform through the Java™ Native Interface (JNI). An active scheduler is started under Symbian™ and transferred into a separate thread after the first call to it has been made. Although the scheduler... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090241128 - Controlling navigation of application logic using annotated application code: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for processing application code. In one embodiment, a call is received to invoke a set of methods of annotated application code. The annotated application code includes a set of annotations specifying a selection of the set of methods. A selected... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090241129 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including a content data acquisition part for acquiring content data containing location information of a script file capable of reading secure information in an IC chip from a service providing server, a file reading part for reading the script file from a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090241130 - Virtual interfacing device and related method for controlling the same: To reduce product development cost, a virtual interfacing device for virtualization of a hardware device of an electronic product operating in an operating system providing a driving unit corresponding to the hardware device is provided. The virtual interfacing device relays communication between the hardware device and a Java application and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090241132 - Information processing apparatus and device controller driving/controlling method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a system memory, a device controller, a basic input/output system and a device driver. The device driver of the information processing apparatus forms its own data structure for communication control in the system memory separately from the basic input/output system, saves... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090241131 - Module interrogation: Module interrogation techniques are described in which modules configured to rely upon one or more operating system features are interrogated to determine which features are used and by which modules. A module is loaded that is configured to interact with a plurality of features provided by an operating system. Using... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090241135 - Method for creating a native application for mobile communications device in real-time: A software client (139) for executing an application on a mobile communications device, the software client (139) comprising: a receiver module (140) to receive a file containing mark up language to define the application; a parser (141) to parse the file in order to generate the application during run time... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090241133 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictively downloading background assets with file-not-present tolerance in a virtual world application. According to one aspect for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application, the method includes compiling a manifest... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090241134 - Remote storage service api: Techniques are disclosed to provide an application programming interface to access data stored in a remote storage service. The data may be of any type, and is stored in core objects.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090241136 - Method to precondition a storage controller for automated data collection based on host input: An FTDC interface with the host or user. The interface can include a command application programming interface (API) or a data storage Command-Line Interface (DS CLI)/Graphical User Interface (GUI). In certain embodiments, the FTDC interface allows a host or user to customize a desired FTDC on a two-tiered system. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20090241137 - Service enablement based upon microformats: Computer applications commonly have various services that improve application functionality for a user. Different services can be applied to other sources, such as other applications, and users can perform functionality upon the other sources. This not only provides a user with greater options in using a source, but can also... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090235275 - Apparatus, system, and method for communicating interactive forms and reports in messaging applications: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for communicating interactive forms and reports in messaging applications. The apparatus for communicating interactive forms and reports in messaging applications is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of selecting a markup language instruction, copying the markup... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090235276 - Definition of an integrated notion of a message scenario for several messaging components: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for monitoring messages being exchanged at runtime between two or more applications via a message exchange infrastructure are presented. A scenario definition for one or more messages is provided, the scenario definition including a number of scenario conditions that are associated with... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090235277 - Device proxy method and related apparatus for a universal plug and play network system: To eliminate inconvenience of manual setup for a device without a universal plug and play (UPnP) function, the present invention provides a proxy method for automatically introducing a non-UPnP device into a UPnP network system including a control point. The non-UPnP device includes media information and a plurality of services... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090235278 - Method for tracking and/or verifying message passing in a simulation environment: A message tracking and verifying system for verifying the correctness of messages being passed may comprise a tracking module for tracking a request message and a verifying module for verifying a response message. The tracking module may be configured to store a calculated source address and a calculated response address... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090235279 - Processing apparatus and method: A processing apparatus for processing elements, which are contained in a message received via a network, by an application is provided. The apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select, in accordance with the number of elements contained in the received message, whether conversion of an element to a form... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090235280 - Event extraction system for electronic messages: An event extraction system includes a temporal module which extracts temporal expressions in text content of an electronic mail message. A calendar entry generation module generates a candidate calendar entry based on an extracted temporal expression and presents it to a user for consideration as a calendar entry. The candidate... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090235281 - Handheld electronic device, input device and method thereof, and display device and method thereof: A handheld electronic device, an input device and an input method thereof, and a display device and a display method thereof are provided. A display interface in the display device is divided into at least two portions so as to display the operation images of different application programs in the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090235282 - Application remote control: Application remote control is affected across execution contexts. In one instance, input can be acquired from controlled applications and employed by other applications. Additionally or alternatively, remote control can be employed to test applications while minimizing unintended changes to applications under test caused by observation.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090235284 - Cross-platform compatibility framework for computer applications: A computer with a platform that reduces cross-platform compatibility issues associated with executable computer components. A context for a component to be executed on a computer is detected. The context may be detected by searching metadata associated with the component and locating the context therein. If the context is not... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090235283 - Global api deployment and routing: A method and a system are provided for implementing a global application program interface and providing routing to a number of services. A global traffic manager may receive an application program interface call from an originating processing device via an open public network. The global traffic manager may return an... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090235285 - Method and apparatus for generating mashup graph, and method and apparatus for recommending mashup service: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a mashup graph. The method includes receiving a set of services and collecting application programmable interfaces (APIs) of the services, and generating a mashup graph by using the collected APIs according to information regarding connections between the APIs and weights between the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090235286 - Software radio device: A software radio device according to the present invention has plural executing devices constituting the software radio device as a whole, each of the executing devices executing application software by a board computer. In the software radio device, first application software executed by at least one first executing device of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090228897 - Bidirectional control of media players: Systems, methods, and computer program products for bidirectional control between two or more media players. A first media player is launched on a computer system either manually or automatically. A second media player is subsequently launched. Inter-process communication is established between the first and second media players. The second media... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090228896 - Transparent integration of application components: Differing implementations associated with components of dissimilar execution environments are mediated to facilitate component integration. A host is provided to facilitate native interaction with foreign components by translating between native and foreign communications. Policies can be specified by either or both of a native and foreign component that control interaction.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090228898 - Service oriented architecture: A computer system and method of using a service oriented architecture (SOA) which runs business service application in a distributed network. The system has a channel dependent client layer containing a presentation layer and an application control layer, a channel independent service layer containing a business service layer and a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090228899 - Method and apparatus for dynamically brokering object messages among object models: The present invention dynamically brokers object messages between object models. An mediating component provides a bridge between object models such that messages can be transmitted in either direction between object models. The mediating component can be resident on a client machine, a server machine, or both. The mediating component can... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090228900 - Systems and methods for application programming using persistent objects: An application programming system includes a number of processors operable to execute software processes, a communication channel between the number of processors, and a registry of object co-operable to create an executable software application. The objects have characteristics which are dynamically alterable at run-time without requiring recompilation of code and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090228903 - Data event sending method and apparatus and event processing system: The present invention is directed to an apparatus, system, methods, and computer-program product for sending a data event so that a work flow event can be correlated with a data event. According to one embodiment of the invention, a data event sending apparatus can be provided. The apparatus can include... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090228902 - Technique for monitoring activity within an integrated circuit: A technique to monitor events within a computer system or integrated circuit. In one embodiment, a software-accessible event monitoring storage and hardware-specific monitoring logic are selectable and their corresponding outputs may be monitored by accessing a counter to count events corresponding to each of software-accessible storage and hardware-specific monitoring logic.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090228901 - Touch event model: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, software, devices and APIs for defining touch events for application level software. Furthermore, some embodiments are directed to simplifying the recognition of single and multiple touch events for applications running in multi-touch enabled devices. To simplify the recognition of single and... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20090228904 - Declarative support for asynchronous methods: Asynchronous methods and calls are produced automatically as a function of a declarative indication of intent. A method annotated with an asynchronous attribute or method call including a special asynchronous function can be identified. Subsequently, an asynchronous version of an identified synchronous method or call is generated automatically. Assistance is... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090228906 - Native support for manipulation of multimedia content by an application: The present disclosure generally relates to providing third party applications a standardized framework for integrating multimedia content. In particular, in some embodiments application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that allow the third party application to easily integrate multimedia content.... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090228905 - State management of operating system and applications: A method and a processing device may be provided for state management of an operating system and applications. A framework may be provided for separating behaviorless state information from code or instructions for executing a method. Applications may have instances of state information derived from, or completely different from, instances... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090222838 - Techniques for dynamic contact information: Techniques involving contact information are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a contact entry generation module and an entry updating module. The contact entry generation module creates a contact entry having a location-specific information field. The entry updating module obtains an update for the location-specific information field from a... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090222839 - Methods and systems for diagnostic control of a device: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for automatically loading diagnostic controlling applications for a device.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090222840 - Apparatus and method for maintaining script logs across multiple frames and workflows: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a scripting language framework. A script is run within the scripting language framework. The script defines an application characterized by a hierarchy of frames in a user interface window. A sub-frame log for a sub-frame in the hierarchy of frames... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090222841 - Acceleration of receive data throughput of a usb device: This invention proposes a procedure by which one or more number of IRPs (IO Request Packets) can be always kept pending with the USB Host controller in order to get the incoming data as soon as it arrives. When data arrives the USB Host Controller and driver will complete the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090222842 - System, method and apparatus for controlling multiple applications and services on a digital electronic device: A services and application controller (“SAC”) is provided for digital electronic devices. The SAC includes four interfaces which respectively interact with four different environments, namely an application interface that interacts with application environments and applications, an extension interface that interacts with engines and enablers, a platform interface that interacts with... Agent: Cyr & Associates, P.A.

20090222843 - Automatic command statistic system and method: An automatic command statistic system includes a detecting module, a determining module, and a recording module. The detecting module detects a command called by a user of an application and one or more calling associations of the called command. The determining module determines if the called command falls into a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss