Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 06/06

20060143609 - System and method for managing memory of java session objects: A method for managing a session with a client is described in which the method receives from the client a request for the session. The session is handled with a first virtual machine. The method places the session state information for the session into an object located in the first...

20060143608 - Thread monitoring using shared memory: A system and method to monitor worker threads within a Java virtual machine. At least one program is executed on the Java virtual machine to perform a task. A worker thread of the Java virtual machine is assigned to perform the task. Status information for the worker thread is generated...

20060143612 - Deskside device-based suspend/resume process: A screen saver is run from the deskside device of a workstation used by a first user, rather than from a blade being used by the first user. Screen saver software and the necessary hardware to run the screen saver are located on the deskside device, thereby making the screen...

20060143611 - Distribution of integrated business process models: A process modeling tool provides a process designer with the ability to design an integrated business process model that includes a series of tasks for achieving a desired result. The process modeling tool allows the process designer to associate sub-sets of the tasks with entities who will perform the task...

20060143613 - Email integrated task processor: The present system provides a task manager that extracts information relating to tasks from a task oriented email. The system then integrates the task within the system by connecting the email programs, the task management programs, and a database, to automatically send emails and provide links to documents all related...

20060143610 - Method and apparatus for detecting deadlocks: A procedure identifies multiple threads associated with a process and pauses execution of a first thread associated with the process. A determination is made regarding whether the first thread is attempting to access a first resource. If the first thread is attempting to access a first resource, the procedure identifies...

20060143614 - Method for effecting a software service in a system of a software system landscape and computer system: The invention concerns a method for effecting a software service in at least one of a plurality of logical systems of a software system landscape, wherein the logical systems are interconnected by logical transport paths, each logical system has associated therewith one of a plurality of system roles and the...

20060143615 - Multimedia processing system and multimedia processing method: A multimedia processing system includes a host CPU, a host memory which stores a multimedia processing program group, and a display controller. The host CPU reads a multimedia processing program from the multimedia processing program group stored in the host memory and transmits the multimedia processing program to the display...

20060143616 - System and method for performing multi-task processing: The present invention provides a technique for improving the processing efficiency of a processor in a multi-tasking processing system. A first scheduler generates an event processing unit by linking one or a plurality of events that are capable of being executed by the system under the same context. A second...

20060143617 - Method, apparatus and system for dynamic allocation of virtual platform resources: A method, apparatus and system for transparent and dynamic resource allocation in a virtualized environment is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention enables a resource allocation module to dynamically evaluate resource requests from various clients and allocate the resources on a virtual host as available. The resource allocation module...

20060136911 - Method, apparatus and system for enhacing the usability of virtual machines: A method, apparatus and system for improving usability of virtual machines is described. A console module on a VM host may continuously monitor incoming data (e.g., files and/or attachments) and make automatic determinations regarding how and/or whether to intercept, route, redirect and/or deliver the data (e.g., where to store files,...

20060136910 - Method, apparatus and system for improving security in a virtual machine host: A method, apparatus and system for improving security on a virtual machines host is described. A shared file system on the host may include annotations usable by a service module to access files across VMs and to enforce security policies. The service module may additionally enable a unified user interface...

20060136912 - Method, apparatus and system for transparent unification of virtual machines: A method, apparatus and system for transparently unifying virtual machines (“VMs”) is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention enables a user to interact with various applications on a VM host while unaware of the VM structure on the VM host. The user may be presented with a unified desktop...

20060136913 - Method, system and computer program product for an automatic resource management of a virtual machine: A method for an automatic resource management of a virtual machine located as a layer between a physical hardware and at least one guest system, wherein the virtual machine provides an independent virtual hardware for each guest system running on the physical hardware. A data set is provided to the...

20060136914 - Application server system and method: An application server system is provided having a core engine connecting one or more protocol providers to one or more applications. In a preferred embodiment, the one or more applications run on a respective one or more virtual machines having their own execution threads. A thread pool may be used...

20060136921 - Architecture for a computer-based development environment with self-contained components and a threading model: A method, a device and a system arrangement are disclosed for generating self-contained software components having in each case synchronous and/or asynchronous interfaces with an internal threading model. The concept disclosed enables all necessary synchronization mechanisms to be provided automatically. The concept is based on an asynchronous operation manager used...

20060136918 - Decomposition of tasks into extensible and customizable business activities: A method for organizing task data used in customer relationship management systems in which task data is decomposed into a set of business activity classes including a set of business task classes, where the business task classes are combined through association or multiple inheritance to create the business activity class....

20060136917 - Grid managed application branching: A method includes, in a grid network, maintaining a list of applications that can solve a task, the list referencing at least one primary application and a plurality of secondary applications used to solve the task, executing the task with the primary application in response to a request to solve...

20060136915 - Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple threads for execution in a shared microprocessor pipeline: An apparatus and method for scheduling execution of multiple threads on a shared processor resource is described in connection with a multithreaded multiprocessor chip. Using a thread selection policy that switches between available threads every cycle to give priority to the least recently executed or scheduled threads, different threads are...

20060136916 - Method and apparatus for transaction performance and availability management based on program component monitor plugins and transaction performance monitors: A plug-in program for monitoring an application having a set of threads. A parameter is associated with each thread. The plug-in program causes an individual thread associated with the application to be terminated if a corresponding parameter violates a threshold. The thread is terminated without interfering with the execution of...

20060136920 - Program control process for an information processing apparatus: In an information processing apparatus which executes first and second threads which executes methods, the first thread transmits a stop instruction for terminating execution of the second thread to the second thread. In response to the reception of the stop instruction, the second thread terminates execution of a first method...

20060136919 - System and method for controlling thread suspension in a multithreaded processor: A multi-thread processor including a processing core. The processing core including multiple threads and a scheduler. The scheduler includes a thread state register. The thread state register being capable of storing a selective wait state for a selected one of the threads. A method of scheduling threads in a multi-thread...

20060136922 - System and method for task management of rule geverned tasks: System and methods for task management of rule bases tasks. The task management system of the invention includes various modules that work together to accomplish task monitoring, scheduling, prioritization, compliance and reporting. A task management module facilitates the development of task compliance by scheduling and prioritizing tasks based on the...

20060136923 - System for distributed task execution: A method for use in a distributed system for processing a knowbot program that has the ability to move from node to node in the distributed system. In the method, an operating environment in each of the nodes provides service facilities useful to the knowbot program. And,.in the operating environment,...

20060136926 - Allocating locks in a distributed environment: A system and method for managing the allocation of resources and locks to client computer systems. The system and method provides server-side control features related to resource requests for locked resources, such as establishing an expected lifetime property so that the sever may notify requesting clients as to the expected...

20060136925 - Method and apparatus for shared resource management in a multiprocessing system: In a multiprocessor, access to shared resources is provided by a semaphore control mechanism, herein dislosed. The semaphore control mechanism provides for a high degree of programmable firmware reuse requiring relatively few modifications from a uniprocessor. The semaphore control mechanism receives one or more semaphore modification requests from one or...

20060136924 - Workflow process management system including shadow process instances: A workflow management system, computer, and method has associated with it one or more shadow process instances. The system invokes these shadow process instances through internal logic, or at the behest of a user. Each such instance can be identified through unique parameters. The shadow process instances can be grouped,...

20060136930 - Generic application server and method of operation therefor: A generic application server is capable of simultaneously receiving requests, processing requested work, and returning results using multiple, conceptual thread pools. In addition, functions are programmable as state machines. While executing such a function, when a worker thread encounters a potentially blocking condition, the thread issues an asynchronous request for...

20060136927 - Models for monitoring of streaming server performance: Methods and systems thereof for monitoring a streaming media server are described. Calibration data for the server is used to identify a server resource that reaches its respective limit before other server resources reach their respective limits as loads on the server are increased. The calibration data characterizes usage of...

20060136928 - System and method for associating workload management definitions with computing containers: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of computing containers having processing resources for executing software workloads, a plurality of management processes for controlling access to the processing resources according to workload policy definitions, a data container for storing a plurality of workload policy definitions and associations between the...

20060136929 - System and method for replacing an inoperable master workload management process: In one embodiment, a method comprises executing respective workload management processes within a plurality of computing compartments to allocate at least processor resources to applications executed within the plurality of computing compartments, selecting a master workload management process to reallocate processor resources between the plurality of computing compartments in response...

20060130060 - System and method to deprivilege components of a virtual machine monitor: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system to deprivilege components of a virtual machine monitor and enable deprivileged service virtual machines (SVMs) to handle selected trapped events. An embodiment of the invention is a hybrid VMM operating on a platform with hardware virtualization support. The hybrid VMM utilizes features...

20060130059 - Timer offsetting mechanism in a virtual machine environment: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to transition control to a virtual machine (VM) from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), calculating an offset value, receiving, during operation of the VM, a request for a current value of the timer, adjusting the current value of the timer based...

20060130063 - Fast platform independent inter-process communication: A system and method are described for performing data processing using shared memory. In one embodiment, a request to perform a transaction is received at a memory. The memory includes a shared memory to provide a common access to a plurality of components including a plurality of work processes and...

20060130062 - Scheduling threads in a multi-threaded computer: Scheduling threads in a multi-threaded computer including selecting for awakening a thread that is waiting for a lock, the thread having an assigned virtual processor; determining whether the assigned virtual processor is running; and if the assigned virtual processor is not running, assigning the thread to run on another virtual...

20060130061 - Use of rollback rcu with read-side modifications to rcu-protected data structures: A method, apparatus and program storage device for performing a return/rollback process for RCU-protected data structures is provided that includes checking a user-level state of a preempted thread having a RCU read-side critical section, and executing the critical section of the thread after preemption when the user-level state of the...

20060130064 - Method providing server affinity and client stickiness in a server load balancing device without tcp termination and without keeping flow states: A method of routing data from a client through one or more load-balancing routers to a selected load-balanced server among a plurality of servers in a network involves: receiving, at a load balancing node in a path from the client to the plurality of servers, a first packet of a...

20060130065 - Centralized identity management system and method for delegating resource management in a technology outsourcing environment: Delegating resource management to customers in a technology outsourcing environment includes providing the customer with a secured user interface (e.g., HTML pages) for selecting one or more parameters (e.g., User Ids, application name and version, etc.) associated with a resource management task (e.g., password management). The parameters are used to...

20060130066 - Increased performance of grid applications: A method includes identifying a component within a non-distributed grid-enabled software application that can be isolated and independently executed during an execution of the software application on a first compute resource within a grid network, replacing the isolatable component in the software application with a proxy, and executing the software...

20060130067 - Method, system and program product for approximating resource consumption of a computer system: Under the present invention, a computer work gradient matrix (hereinafter “matrix”) is developed by applying a set of background loading levels and a set of elemental work increments to a computer system, and then measuring the resource consumption of the computer system based thereon. Task work path(s) are also constructed...

20060130068 - Method and apparatus for protected graphics generation: Presently disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating graphics in a protected manner by establishing a user graphics partition while in an executive context. Once the user context is established, an operating mode is switched to the user context and then executing a user graphics program while in the...

20060117316 - Hardware multithreading systems and methods: According to some embodiments, a multithreaded microcontroller includes a thread control unit comprising thread control hardware (logic) configured to perform a number of multithreading system calls essentially in real time, e.g. in one or a few clock cycles. System calls can include mutex lock, wait condition, and signal instructions. The...

20060117319 - Connection of an application to a resource manager selected from a plurality of resource managers: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for determining which resource manager of a plurality of resource managers are suitable for an application to connect to, one or more resource managers being suitable. A request is received from an application for a connection to a resource manager. Application hint...

20060117318 - Modular event-driven processing: Each of a plurality of thread boundaries comprises functionality to be performed for a given event by a single thread. A plurality of queues through which events may be routed may be coupled to the thread boundaries. A plurality of tasks may be configured in a defined relationship, each task...

20060117317 - On-demand utility services utilizing yield management: Techniques for provision of on-demand utility services utilizing a yield management framework are disclosed. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a system for managing one or more computing resources associated with a computing center comprises: (i) a resource management subsystem for managing the one or more computing...

20060117320 - Sharing dynamically changing resources in software systems: A system and method for sharing a set of resources among a plurality of processes, comprising creating a version of a resource for each one of the plurality of processes that requires access to the resource wherein a version of the resource is one of: 1) a representation of the...