Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 12/06

20060294518 - Method, apparatus and system for a lightweight virtual machine monitor: A lightweight virtual machine monitor (“LVMM”) allocates devices on a virtual host. In one embodiment, the LVMM identifies a primary and a secondary VM on the virtual host. The LVMM may expose various devices on the virtual host directly to the primary VM and provide these devices as virtual devices... Agent: Intel Corporation

20060294517 - Network interface sharing among multiple virtual machines: Multiple virtual instances of a hardware network interface can be provided and associated with virtual machines implemented by a computer system. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving a packet from a hardware network interface at a service processor of such a host computer system, and identifying one of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294516 - System and method for converting a target computing device to a virtual machine in response to a detected event: A system and method for converting a target computing device to a virtual machine are provided. A conversion event is detected to initiate a conversion of a target computing device to a virtual machine. An assessment of the physical and software assets of a target computing device are obtained. A... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060294519 - Virtual machine control method and program thereof: Disclosed is a virtual machine control method for switching and executing multiple programs jointly shared between at least one CPU and memory. The method is comprised of a process for setting a first memory protection table for defining a memory area accessible by a first program executed on the CPU,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060294520 - System and method of controlling power in a multi-threaded processor: A multithreaded processor device is disclosed and includes a plurality of execution units to execute a plurality of program threads and includes a global low power detection circuit. The global low power detection circuit includes an input that is responsive to each of the plurality of program threads. The input... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060294521 - Mechanism for dynamic registration of files in a batch-processing-oriented environment: To detect files which are generated unnecessarily or no longer required, and for reliable file versioning, in a batch-processing-oriented environment, a dynamic batch processing system is proposed. The system includes a batch processing control component to process batch processing control instructions, which include the call of at least one program,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060294522 - Class scheduler: A method and apparatus for enabling a general purpose operating system to maximize the probability of time-sensitive threads, e.g., multimedia threads, gaining access to CPU resources quickly enough to meet the demands of time-sensitive tasks while allowing time-insensitive threads to meet the demands of time-insensitive tasks, is disclosed. The priorities... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060294524 - Allocation of processor resources in an emulated computing environment: In an emulated computing environment, a method is provided for allocating resources of the host computer system among multiple virtual machines resident on the host computer system. On the basis of the proportional weight of each virtual machine, a proportional share of resources is allocated for each virtual machine. If,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060294525 - Ambiguous virtual channels: An apparatus comprises a first plurality of buffers configured to store operations belonging to a first virtual channel and a control circuit coupled to the first plurality of buffers. The first virtual channel includes first operations and second operations, wherein each of the first operations depend on at least one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20060294523 - Touch wake for electronic devices: A system to generate a wakeup signal for a low power device: The system includes a capacitor, the capacitance of which changes when a user touches the device by placing a finger or hand near a certain location on the device. The capacitor is cyclically charged to a pre-established value... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20060288345 - Fault tolerant and combinatorial software environment system, method and medium: A fault tolerant software environment, in which various program components (e.g., portions of computer programs, applications, etc) are objectized into entities represented by “codons.” This allows for improper syntax to occur, enabling, for example, combinatorial operations such as genetic programming. The present invention also contemplates such features as the ability... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060288347 - Exploiting entity relationships in proximity-based scheduling applications: Entity relationships are created, discovered, and applied in proximity-based scheduling applications. When a signal is received from an entity in proximity to a user of a data processing system, the signal is compared against previously recorded signals. If a signal match is found, the entity generating the signal is identified... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20060288346 - Job scheduling system and method: In at least some embodiments, a method comprises computing an initial schedule of jobs to be run on a computing system using a mathematical program and monitoring the computing system. The method also comprises, based on the monitoring, determining, using the mathematical program used to compute the initial schedule, whether... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060288348 - Virtual computer systems and computer virtualization programs: Disclosed are a virtual computer system and method, wherein computer resources are automatically and optimally allocated to logical partitions according to loads to be accomplished by operating systems in the logical partitions and setting information based on a knowledge of workloads that run on the operating systems. Load measuring modules... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060288351 - Facilitating bulk lock-unbiasing in an object-based system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates bulk lock-unbiasing for objects within an object-based computing system. The system maintains an epoch, which is a field containing a timestamp, for a biasable object class and each instance of the biasable object class. If the epoch for the... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20060288350 - Multi-thread multimedia processing: Systems and/or methods are described that enable multi-threaded multimedia processing. These systems and/or methods may, in some embodiments, allocate threads for components of a multimedia pipeline based on input/output characteristics of the components. These systems and/or methods may also allocate threads and priorities for those threads based on a relative... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060288349 - Programmable scheduling interval: In some embodiments, the invention involves a platform-based firmware to provide a programmable scheduling timer interval. Dynamic scheduling intervals for non-interrupt driven device drivers and services utilize polling to determine device activity. In at least one embodiment, the disclosed subject matter reduces power consumption of a platform by decreasing the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060282835 - Systems and methods for managing tasks and reminders: A supervisor adds to a subordinate's tasks, verifies completion and/or awards incentives upon completion for tasks managed by a task management device. The subordinate can also add tasks and/or reminders. Each task/reminder can have various prompts to the subordinate, a completion time/window, a prompt frequency/interval, a task repetition frequency./interval, and/or... Agent: Lathrop & Clark LLP

20060282836 - System and method for implementing distributed priority inheritance: Priority inheritance is implemented across a distributed system, preferably by use of a mutual exclusion object, referred to as a pseudo-mutex, which provides operations for communicating priority of a task which is held to a different connected processor or node of a network and generating a dummy local command of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060282837 - method for global resource sharing having logically linked means and integrated functionality for building solutions: A resources sharing container having logic-linking mechanism for logically linking program code to pages, pages to applications and applications to solutions. The resources sharing container will have the ability to create finished solutions by using its logic functionalities (logic-linking, resources code, enhancements, etc.), application requirements (application pages and their programming... Agent: John Almeida

20060277543 - Reduced instruction set for java virtual machines: Techniques for implementing virtual machine instructions suitable for execution in virtual machines are disclosed. The inventive virtual machine instructions can effectively represent the complete set of operations performed by the conventional Java Bytecode instruction set. Moreover, the operations performed by conventional instructions can be performed by relatively fewer inventive virtual...

20060277544 - Groupware time tracking: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses enabling groupware to track time associated with a workflow task. A workflow object representing a workflow task is provided. The workflow object is associating with a time period, a project code, and an identifier of a groupware client user participating in...

20060277545 - Stream processor including dma controller used in data processing apparatus: In a stream processor, an input direct memory access circuit is adapted to receive a task command and task data in correspondence with a task from an external memory. A processor unit is adapted to receive the task command and the task data from the input direct memory access circuit...

20060277546 - Detecting virtualization: In a program executing on a processor based system, obtaining one or more samples of the frequency at which a processor of the system is executing, comparing each sample to at least one of a predetermined set of frequencies and determining whether the program is executing on a virtual machine...

20060277549 - Method and apparatus for capacity optimization and planning in an on-demand computing environment: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the best cluster of computing resources to handle each of a plurality of workloads by optimally grouping multiple workloads and determining the best resource cluster to handle each group....

20060277547 - Task management system: A judgment unit judges whether or not an execution of a registration target task gaining an access to a specified resource can be completed before an elapse of deadline time thereof even if an execution start timing of the registration target task is delayed when registering the task. A registration...

20060277548 - Task management system: A task management system for executing a task selected from tasks structuring a task combination, includes a judging unit for judging whether there is a task combination switchover request or not, a switchover unit for switching over the task combination after completing an execution of a specified task in the...

20060277551 - Administration of locks for critical sections of computer programs in a computer that supports a multiplicity of logical partitions: Administration of locks for critical sections of computer programs in a computer that supports a multiplicity of logical partitions that include determining by a thread executing on a virtual processor executing in a time slice on a physical processor whether an expected lock time for a critical section of the...

20060277550 - Expected wait time augmentation system and method: An expected wait time augmentation system generates an expected wait value representing a time duration expected to elapse before a subject client is connected to a resource for servicing. The expected wait time augmentation system comprises an interface to a work force management system for obtaining resource availability data and...

20060277552 - Facilitating handling of exceptions in a program implementing a m-on-n threading model: A method for facilitating handling of exceptions in object code transformed from a 1-to-1 threading model to a M-to-N threading model comprises transforming object code having a 1-to-1 threading model to a M-to-N threading model, saving context of a Runnable section of the object code into a context object in...