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

20090271802 - Application and verb resource management: A computer program product is provided. The product including a computer readable storage medium including computer readable program code for controlling access to computer memory. the computer readable program code including first instructions for communicating work queue elements with an application layer and with a verb layer, wherein the application... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman, Intellectual Property Law Dept IBM Corporation

20090271804 - Control unit and program for same: The first memory of a control unit has a control program stored therein, and an update of the control program is performed at a predetermined timing. After the update of the control program, the second memory in the control unit is referred to, and an event code stored in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090271803 - Method for providing dynamic information with a mouse pointer in a graphical user interface: A method for presenting dynamic information to the user in conjunction with a mouse pointer in a graphical user interface is provided. The dynamic information is generated by applications and services that would like to notify the user about various events. Once a configuration is loaded, events from applications are... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090271805 - Method and system for integrating at least one multimedia devices with an electronic device: A computer-implemented method and system for integrating at least one multimedia device with an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory module loaded with audio drivers, video drivers and control drivers. The method includes retrieving the at least one multimedia device connected thereto to identify audio data,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090271806 - Techniques to modify a document using a latent transfer surface: Techniques to modify a document using a latent transfer surface are described. An apparatus may comprise a document editing subsystem comprising a transfer surface creation module operative to embed a latent transfer surface in the document. A transfer control module may be communicatively coupled to the transfer surface creation module.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271807 - Selectively generating program objects on remote node of a multi-node computer system: Embodiments of the invention enable application programs running across multiple compute nodes of a highly-parallel system to selectively migrate objects from one node to another. For example, when an object becomes too large, a node containing the object may migrate the object to another node, thereby freeing memory space. Whether... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090265715 - Vex - virtual extension framework: Extensions to operating systems or software applications can be hosted in virtual environments to fault isolate the extension. A generic proxy extension invoked by a host process can coordinate the invocation of an appropriate extension in a virtual process that can provide the same support APIs as the host process.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090265716 - System and method for feature addition to an application: A system (10) for providing a feature to a software application (12) comprises an intercepting component (14) and a service providing component (18). The service providing component (18) comprises code adapted for providing said feature to said application (12). The intercepting component (14) comprises code adapted for intercepting a first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090265717 - Container context information propagation in an aspect-oriented environment: A service context associated with a container is pushed to a thread executing an asynchronous aspect outside of the container. A thread may be initiated outside of the container to asynchronously run the aspect. The service context(s) associated with the container may be communicated to the thread executing the aspect... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090265718 - Method and system for dynamic software reconfiguration triggered by component- or system- initiated events: A method for handling events in compositional applications represented as processing graphs, including: receiving an event notification; modifying a planning domain according to the event notification; generating a new processing graph for a previously deployed processing graph by using the modified planning domain; determining if the new processing graph is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090265719 - Application macro recording utilizing method interception: Method interception is utilized to generate macros. A recorder is injected within application code. The recorder intercepts a call to a method, captures information, and calls the original method. A macro can be generated subsequently as a function of the captured information. In one instance, macros can be utilized to... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090265720 - Extensible private driver interface: A computer with an extensible framework for facilitating communication between a software component installed on the computer and a device driver that executes functions in response to vendor-specific command objects (e.g., OIDs). The framework defines data structures and a standardized format for defining and implementing private interfaces. After selecting a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090265721 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a device that performs data processing; and processors, each processor including a device driver corresponding to the device. A device driver set in correspondence with at least one processor has a resource-state holding unit that manages a resource flag indicating which processor is using or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265722 - Method and system for dynamically switching between different device configurations: A method for dynamically switching between different device configurations to improve the utilization of the device and save the cost. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the current configuration information of a device connected to a host; and if the current configuration of the device does not meet the... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20090265723 - Electronic device and control method of the same: An electronic apparatus is provided with a system 1 and a main body section 3. The main body section 3 is provided with a conventional application management section 17 and conventional applications (CURRENT-A) 11, (CURRENT-B) 15. Furthermore, the main body section is provided with resources of graphic 31, working memory... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090265724 - System eliminating hardware duplication during application testing of an internal storage array across different operating systems: A method for capturing data comprising the steps of (A) handling a call for a first operating system at a storage library, (B) routing the call from the storage library to a controller firmware, (C) sending a response to the call from the controller firmware to the storage library, and... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20090260019 - Web content customization via adaptation web services: A user agent in a Web access device transmits an HTTP request for Web content to an origin server. The request contains a set of capabilities of the Web access device. A content authoring mechanism and adaptation determination service on the origin server process the request to determine what transformation... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090260020 - Automated scripting methods and media: A method for automated scripting includes providing a first menu corresponding to a first object, wherein the first object is a message queue (MQ) object. A first parameter for the first object is received. A second parameter is also received, wherein the second parameter is entered by a user in... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090260022 - Widget authoring and editing environment: An authoring environment for creating and/or editing user interface elements such as widgets used in a unified interest layer. The authoring environment facilitates creation of widgets that have a consistent appearance and mechanism, and allows third-party developers to easily create widgets that have a look and feel that is consistent... Agent: Apple/fenwick

20090260021 - Workflow managed composite applications: A portal view generation system can receive a request from a user for a portal view of a portal site. The system determines which resources the user can access based on the user's permission level on the resources. The system further determines the user's authentication level. Each of the portal... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cam

20090260023 - Multiplexing reserved ports: Included are embodiments for multiplexing reserved ports. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving (732) a request to communicate with a host (502) and determining (736) whether a mapping exists between the host (502) and a first remote procedure call (RPC) client handle (506). Some embodiments include in... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090260024 - Process information management system: An information management system is provided. The information management system includes a common process portal, which may, in one example architecture, be provided as a web-based application. The portal includes a variety of modules to enable housing of information such as process documentation. The portal also provides for the seamless... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090254920 - Extended dynamic optimization of connection establishment and message progress processing in a multi-fabric message passing interface implementation: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a system that can optimize message passing by, at least in part, automatically determining a minimum number of fabrics and virtual channels to be activated to handle pending connection requests and data transfer requests, and preventing processing of new connection requests and data... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090254921 - Synchronizing business transaction records from asynchronous messages received out of sequence: A method for processing business transaction orders received asynchronously. The method includes receiving a first message for a business object, the business object comprising an order between a first party and a second party, and storing the business object including a first entity within a data store. The method further... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090254922 - Method for efficient location of corba objects based on unmarshaled object key in a request: Disclosed are methods and threads for responding to a request to perform an operation on a server object as may be provided in software form within an object request broker (ORB) server library or an ORB server. The specified object is identified by a marshaled object key in a conventional... Agent: Kokka & Backus, PC

20090254923 - Mechanism that provides more efficient event handler processing: Disclosed is an apparatus, method, service product, and program product which each provide an enhanced, registration-based event handler mechanism. Listener programs are located and compiled before notification is needed. When notification is ultimately required, the pre-located listeners can be called directly without incurring the performance expense associated with first locating... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090254924 - Operating system interfaces for virtual wifi and softap capable drivers: Some embodiments of the invention provide an interface between programmed instructions (e.g., an operating system) and a miniport driver configured to communicate with radio hardware on a computer. The interface may include components operable to invoke various wireless connectivity-related functionality implemented by the radio hardware and/or miniport driver. The functionality... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090254925 - System and method for configuring drivers: Driver systems and methods are provided, such as those that include identifying a process corner of a driver; and configuring the driver based on the identified process corner. Further embodiments provide a method that includes detecting a process corner of a driver, setting a reference voltage of a calibration circuit... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (micron Technology, Inc.)

20090254926 - Registering network applications with an api framework: A method for registering a network application with an application programming interface (API) framework. In operation, a registrar may send a registration message that associates a namespace with the network application to the API framework. In one implementation, the namespace associated with the network application may be a uniform resource... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254927 - Techniques for deploying virtual software applications on desktop computers: A method for bridging between virtual applications and an operating system of a host computer. The method comprises retrieving virtual applications and settings of the virtual applications assigned to a user logged onto the host computer; downloading shadow files of the virtual applications assigned to the user; integrating each of... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC