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

20080104611 - Method and system for sharing data between portlets within a portal: The present invention relates to a method and respective system for sharing data between portlets within a portal. In general, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: generating a visual representation, indicating for a predetermined first portlet a portlet property indicating whether or not the first... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080104613 - Adverse event data capture software, systems and methodologies: Electronic capture of adverse event information includes selective input of adverse event information into a machine in response to prompt provided to the user based on a site visit. Such adverse event information is forwardable to a location over a communication link. The machine produces one or more alerts, if... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080104612 - Mirroring of conversation stubs: A computer implemented method and computer program product for managing conversational input. The process authenticates a user on a device in a set of communication devices for manipulating conversation stubs. The process monitors an exchange of conversation for a triggering event on the device in a set of communication devices.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104614 - Method and apparatus for multiple slaves to receive data from multiple masters in a data processing system: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing requests for data by processes in a data processing system. Requests for data from the processes in slave mode are tracked. Data received by a device driver is stored, wherein the data may originate from multiple masters. The data is sent to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104617 - Extensible user interface: A user interface is provided for rendering platform data to an output device. The data is sent to the user interface from the protocol along with self-describing rendering information. This information can be in a transform format, such as extensible stylesheet language (XSL) and the like, and/or code-based language such... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104615 - Health integration platform api: An application program interface (API) is provided for requesting, storing, and otherwise accessing data within a health integration network. The API facilitates secure and seamless access to the centrally-stored data by offering authentication/authorization, as well as the ability to receive requests in an extensible language format, such as XML, and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104616 - Method and system for providing a report connector: A method includes transforming, by a report connector according to at least one input mapping rule of the report connector, first input data received by a first application to create second input data for a specific report of a plurality of existing reports of a second application. The method also... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080104619 - Application connector parallelism in enterprise application integration systems: A system for responding to requests for processing made by an integration broker to an application having a single threaded application programmer interface, comprising receiving a request for processing; determining whether the received request is event-triggered or call-triggered; sending the request to a slave process assigned to event-triggered requests, when... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080104618 - Event-driven/service oriented online testing: Event driven/service oriented online testing facilitates the configuration, development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. Event driven/service oriented online testing may include a module for an online testing platform that may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080098405 - Protocol processing device and method: The SPD according to exemplary embodiments of the invention may interface with different buses and computer system architectures to enable deployment in a wide variety of devices. Heterogeneous network (300) using SPDs in various computing devices. Desktop computers (302), mobile systems (such as cell phones) (304), mainframes (306), workstations (308),... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080098406 - Delivering certified messages to message servers: A method and a system for delivering certified messages to message servers are provided. In example embodiments, a message request including message information may be received from an application. The message information may identify a message template in a message template database using an identifier comprising multiple fields. The message... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080098407 - System and method for managing distributed objects as a single representation: An architecture and method for managing at least two distinct machines (or objects) in which resources are shared as a single entity (or object) in an agent-based system. The agent-based system comprising a controller, a local agent coupled to the controller, and at least one clustered machine. The at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080098408 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing automated execution of pre-defined events: Embodiments relate to a method, system, and storage medium for providing automated execution of pre-defined events over a network. The method includes receiving a profile for a requestor of an event to be executed. The profile includes one or more of a personal identifier, a communications address of the requester,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080098410 - Interlocked plug and play with power management for operating systems: The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with implementing PnP and/or power management functionality. The layer operates at a level between low-level device drivers and more complex operating system tasks. The subject... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080098409 - Method and apparatus for smart memory pass-through communication: Enhanced functionality is provided in memory devices by enhancing the control logic to recognize predetermined data sequences. Standard (legacy) device operations are used to communicate the predetermined data sequences, thereby allowing existing device drivers to be used with the enhanced devices.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080098411 - Remote management and monitoring of an application-specific display device: A communications device comprising an embedded application-specific device driver for an application-specific display and an embedded remote access application that execute on a processor. The embedded application-specific device driver is configured to communicate data with a communication (COM) port via a serial port and to provide a video signal to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080098412 - Pluggable dom implementation: Techniques for implementing a scalable DOM and a pluggable DOM are provided. A scalable DOM implementation manages a DOM tree in memory to free unreferenced nodes, avoid generating nodes unnecessarily, and avoid storing multiple versions of the same data on disk. A pluggable DOM implementation includes an abstract interface that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080092145 - Secure operating system switching: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for secure operating system switching. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a second operating system of a plurality of operating systems that is to be active next; causing a memory access controller to enable exclusive access to a portion of memory for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080092146 - Computing machine: An architecture for a scalable computing machine built using configurable processing elements, such as FPGAs, is provided. The machine can enable implementation of large scale computing applications using a heterogeneous combination of hardware accelerators and embedded microprocessors spread across many FPGAs, all interconnected by a flexible communication network structure.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080092147 - Method for determining deadlocks in secondary processes: Disclosed is a method for determining deadlocks in secondary processes for a system model that is described in an object-oriented manner. The method includes the following: a) all active objects of the object-oriented system model are extracted; b) the transitions between the objects are identified; c) the state-waiting relations between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080092148 - Apparatus and method for splitting endpoint address translation cache management responsibilities between a device driver and device driver services: An apparatus and method for splitting responsibilities for communicating with an endpoint between a device driver and device driver services are provided. With the apparatus and method, the device driver is responsible for managing queues for communicating requests between applications in a logical partition and the endpoint. The device driver... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080092149 - Modular architecture for a device interface component: An interface component, which is operable to allow one or more application programs to interact with device functions and corresponding method, that is stored in computer readable medium includes three distinct layers. The component includes a device (telephony) client operable to provide a plurality of interfaces to an application program,... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080092150 - Data platform web services application programming interface: A system and method for implementing functions customized for a branded company are disclosed. A data platform includes a function database which initially receives, and stores, a standardized interface module, such as an application programming interface (API). The standardized interface module includes a plurality of elements, a subset of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080092151 - Method and apparatus for handling dynamically linked function calls with respect to program code conversion: A technique is provided for handling dynamically linked subject function calls arranged pass subject control flow to an intermediate control structure such as a procedure linkage table, then to subject linker code for modifying link information associated with the subject function calls during translation of subject code into target code... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080086735 - Method and system for providing a client access to an external service via an application services platform: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing a client access to an external service via an application services platform. These mechanisms and methods for providing a client access to an external service via an application services platform can enable embodiments to provide effective access to... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080086736 - Information messaging and collaboration system: An information messaging and collaboration system is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for interactive content retrieval and display, the method comprises steps of: providing a plurality of portlets for retrieval of content for display in a user interface; mapping a message action to a first... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080086737 - Locally providing globally consistent information to communications layers: Globally consistent information is locally provided to communications layers. Globally consistent information is stored in a Network Availability Matrix, which is locally accessible by a communications layer. If an event is detected, the communications layer is automatically notified by the Network Availability Matrix, and is able to use the information... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080086738 - Mechanisms for executing a computer program: An operating system is arranged to provide system services to an application requesting them, the services being selected from a predetermined system service group. The operating system includes main memory allocation logic, mass memory allocation logic, an application interface, via which the application program can request system services from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc