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

20090276789 - Universal client and framework: A universal client, a universal descriptive message, and a communication framework which enables the use of the universal descriptive message and universal client. The universal client and universal descriptive message eliminate the need for multiple individual application clients by allowing for multiple client applications to communicate with a device using... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090276792 - Data sharing between applications where only one application knows the business purpose of the data: A method and system for sharing data between a calling application and a callee application. A callee application receives a request for processing data owned and stored by the calling application in a data table. The callee application receives a document to which containers that include data elements from the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090276790 - Method and apparatus for triggering expiration of a data tag device: The present invention discloses an active data tag device (100) which includes an expiration event generator (108), and a memory (106) which has tag data (116) stored therein. Upon the occurrence (614) of and expiration event, the tag disables access to the tag data.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090276791 - Techniques for facilitating server callbacks: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for facilitating server callbacks. A request is received from a client computer to monitor for one or more events for the client computer. The server computer monitors for the one or more events and detects one or more occurrences of the events. Information regarding... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276793 - Method and apparatus for device driver state storage during diagnostic phase: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, data processing system and computer program product for running a diagnostic test on an I/O adapter. The data processing system communicates a stop command to a functional device driver; wherein the functional device driver is configured to communicate with the I/O adapter.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o The Rolnik Law Firm, P.C.

20090276794 - System and method for providing interoperability between different programming protocols: Systems and methods for providing interoperability of systems are provided. One embodiment may be seen as instantiating a server in a container having instances of Enterprise Java™ Beans (EJB), and accessing the EJB through the local interface of the EJB. Since the EJB is accessed from within the container, the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Tkhr Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276795 - Virtual automata: Computer-based machines can be modeled after a virtual automaton. The virtual automaton defines processes that are not bound statically to particular behavior but rather perform a lookup at runtime to bind behavior to a specific process mechanism. In accordance with one aspect, binding can be dependent upon runtime context information... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

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