Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 01/07

20070022421 - Operating systems: A method of enabling multiple different operating systems to run concurrently on the same computer, comprising selecting a first operating system to have a relatively high priority (the realtime operating system. such as C5); selecting at least one secondary operating system to have a relatively lower priority (the general purpose... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070022422 - Facilitating communication and synchronization between main and scout threads: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for communicating and performing synchronization operations between a main thread and a helper-thread. The system starts by executing a program in a main thread. Upon encountering a loop which has associated helper-thread code, the system commences the execution of the code... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070022423 - Enhanced method for handling preemption points: A method and apparatus is provided for use by a scheduler of a multi-processing data processing system to select task preemption points based on main memory requirements and exclusive resource usage that is cost-effective and that maintains system consistency and, in particular, enables additional preemption strategies in which: matching synchronization... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070022424 - Technique for processing a computer program: The present invention is directed to a method for processing, in a computer system, a computer program having a plurality of operations. The method features calling a dynamic programming routine to generate a schedule for executing a subgroup of the plurality of operations by modeling operations of a computational processor... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070022426 - Dynamic application placement with allocation restrictions, vertical stacking and even load distribution: A solution to a variant of a class constrained multiple knapsack problem. Previous solutions require that memory demand of every application be identical and do not consider minimizing placement changes. Previous techniques do not consider optimizing placement to improve load balancing as is described subsequently. Thus, the present invention provides... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070022427 - Hypervisor virtualization of os console and operator panel: A logically partitioned data processing system in which shared resources are emulated to provide each partition a separate copy of the shared resource is provided. In one embodiment, the logically partitioned data processing system includes a plurality of logical partitions, a plurality of operating systems executing within the data processing... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070022425 - System and method for providing advanced reservations in a compute environment: A system and method are disclosed for dynamically reserving resources within a duster environment. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for resources in the duster environment, monitoring events after receiving the request for resources and based on the monitored events, dynamically modifying at least one of... Agent: Thomas M. Isaacson The Law Office Of Thomas M. Isaacson

20070022428 - Context switching method, device, program, recording medium, and central processing unit: In an application in which context switching often occurs such as in a real time OS, it is possible to significantly reduce the overhead caused by the context switching. The OS issues a Swap instruction and a context switch starts. The Swap instruction is issued together with a thread (i.e.,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070022429 - Lock sequencing: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a processor that includes multiple multi-threaded programmable units integrated on a single die. The die also includes circuitry communicatively coupled to the programmable units that reorders and grants lock requests received from the threads based on an order in which the threads... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070016904 - Facilitating processing within computing environments supporting pageable guests: Processing within a computing environment that supports pageable guests is facilitated. Processing is facilitated in many ways, including, but not limited to, associating guest and host state information with guest blocks of storage; maintaining the state information in control blocks in host memory; enabling the changing of states; and using... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070016905 - Blocking local sense synchronization barrier: A blocking local sense synchronization barrier is provided. The local sense variable is not processor private or global, but truly local to the synchronization barrier function. Safe deletion is provided by making sure the last operation a thread performs on a barrier is a write. Just before returning, threads increment... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070016906 - Efficient hardware allocation of processes to processors: A dispatcher module has a queue to store task requests. The dispatcher also has a task arbiter to select a current task for assignment from the task requests and a unit arbiter to identify and assign the task to an available processing unit, such that the current task is not... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070016907 - Method, system and computer program for automatic provisioning of resources to scheduled jobs: A solution for allowing a scheduler (205) to interact with a provisioner (250) is proposed. Particularly, the scheduler submits different jobs for execution according to a predefined plan (225); for this purpose, each job requires a workstation with specific characteristics. In the proposed solution, the available workstations are partitioned into... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070016908 - Parallel operation apparatus: A main processor includes a notification control unit that receives a time setting and prevents the reception of a processing completion notification for a predetermined time. Upon instructing a sub processor to start processing, the main processor sets the predetermined time in the notification control unit when switching task processing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070011676 - Architecture and system for secure host management: According to some embodiments, a resource data record associated with diagnostic code to manage a manageable resource is exposed, and the resource data record is discovered. The diagnostic code is loaded into a management platform based on the resource data record. The diagnostic code may be loaded from a location... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070011677 - Method for performing a software process, controller and lithographic apparatus: A method for performing a software process, such as a real time software process, is disclosed, the process having a plurality of tasks, the method including starting a task of the plurality of tasks of the process, monitoring a progress of the started task, comparing the progress with a desired... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070011675 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for managing multiple step processes triggered by a signal: A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing multiple step processes triggered by a signal is disclosed. Status records are created for each process step. When an error occurs, error status record in recorded in the status record. A user may then use the status record to identify the... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070011678 - Methods and systems for managing shared tasks: A template that lists a shared task is received at a first device. The template is also distributed in parallel to a plurality of other devices. When information indicating that the action has been performed is received, the template is updated at the first device and also at the other... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070011679 - Peripheral apparatus control system, information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and program: When a communication link is disconnected during a printing operation of a print job due to deteriorated radio wave conditions, a printer can prevent and/or reduce incorrect print or other malfunction occurring in response to a print control command included in the print job. Furthermore, in a state monitor function... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070011680 - Method for estimating cost when placing operations within a modulo scheduler when scheduling for processors with a large number of function units or reconfigurable data paths: A process for scheduling operations using a cost function is provided. A number of scheduling options are determined for an operation and a cost is computed for each scheduling option. The process then schedules the operation based on a computed cost.... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20070011681 - Method, device and system for processing task in device management: The present invention provides an improved method, device and system for task processing in a device management. In the present invention, when the current state or the operation of the terminal device is interrupted by an abnormal condition, the improved method includes the steps of checking if any scheduler task... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070011682 - Affinization of transaction types: The present invention relates to a system and method for improving the efficiency of transaction processing systems by associating each one of plurality of transaction types with a respective central processing unit.... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070011683 - Real-time self tuning of planned actions in a distributed environment: Automatic programming, scheduling, and control of planned activities at “worker nodes” in a distributed environment are provided by a “real-time self tuner” (RTST). The RTST provides self-tuning of controlled interoperation among an interconnected set of distributed components (i.e., worker nodes) including, for example, home appliances, security systems, lighting, sensor networks,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070011685 - Load balancer management: Load balancer management is described herein. In one implementation a load balancer system includes servers for hosting content on a network site, disparate load balancers that manage the servers to substantially balance data communications across the servers, and a load balancer management service which includes an application program interface (API)... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070011684 - Mechanism to optimize speculative parallel threading: A method to optimize speculative parallel thread execution comprises selecting a plurality of partition candidate pairs for speculative parallel thread execution, transforming each partition candidate pair of the plurality of partition candidate pairs to improve the expected performance gain of each pair, and selecting a set of one or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006224 - Controlled execution of a program used for a virtual machine on a portable data carrier: In a method for the controlled execution of a program (26), the program (26) being intended for a virtual machine (VM, VM′), on a portable data carrier, wherein the data carrier has a processor that executes at least a first and a second virtual machine (VM, VM′), the program (26)... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070006226 - Failure management for a virtualized computing environment: For failure management for multiple operating systems in a virtual environment, an external virtual machine or agent is provided that has been granted rights to full physical memory space to perform a crashdump for the machine. To avoid exposing secret information during a crashdump, private information for a virtual machine... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070006227 - Method, apparatus and system for bi-directional communication between a virtual machine monitor and an acpi-compliant guest operating system: A method, apparatus and system enable bi-directional communications between a virtual machine monitor (“VMM”) and an Advanced Configuration & Power Interface (“ACPI”) compliant guest operating system. In one embodiment, a virtual machine (“VM”) may be designated as the owner of the host platform (“Policy VM”). The Policy VM may communicate... Agent: Intel Corporation

20070006225 - System and method for converting a target computing device to a virtual machine: A system and method for converting a target computing device to a virtual machine are provided. An assessment of the physical and software assets of a target computing device are obtained. A data image of the target computing device is deployed on an instance of a virtual machine. The virtual... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070006228 - System and method to optimize os context switching by instruction group trapping: In some embodiments, the invention involves saving limited context information when transitioning between virtual machines. A predetermined set of instructions and events cause a trap. A bit or flag is set to indicate that the event has occurred within a virtual machine. The virtual machine monitor determines whether specific register... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006231 - Mechanism for instruction set based thread execution on a plurality of instruction sequencers: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes managing user-level threads on a first instruction sequencer in response to executing user-level instructions on a second instruction sequencer that is under control of an application level program. A first user-level thread is run on the second instruction sequencer and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006230 - Method and apparatus for a guest to access a privileged register: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for guest processes to access registers are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface to a first register, shadow logic, evaluation logic, and exit logic. The shadow logic is to, in response to a guest attempt to write data to the first register,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006229 - Method and apparatus for scheduling periodic tasks based on synthetic homogenization: Methods and systems are disclosed for scheduling one or more tasks to be performed by a resource modeled as a mathematical group. One or more tasks to be performed by a resource modeled as a mathematical group are scheduled by selecting a coset representative k of a subgroup of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070006232 - Method and system for a ticket lock using a dynamically reconfigurable distributed polling area: A method and system for a ticket lock implementation using a dynamically reconfigurable distributed polling area is described. The method includes polling a memory location for a value to indicate whether one of a plurality of threads may have exclusive access to a section of code, periodically checking a mapping... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006233 - Queueing events in an interactive media environment: An arrangement is provided where all applications in an interactive media environment run on a single application thread in a media player. Event queues are utilized to schedule the application thread's processing of workitems corresponding to events that occur in the environment. Workitems include methods to be invoked when the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006234 - Batch processing support apparatus and method, and storage medium storing program therefor: A batch processing support apparatus for supporting batch processing in which a batch of individual processing tasks are sequentially executed, comprises a list display that displays a list of a plurality of individual processing tasks and batch processing tasks in which the plurality individual processing tasks are sequentially combined; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070006235 - Task scheduling to devices with same connection address: Methods of scheduling tasks in computer systems architectures are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include comparing a connection address of a first node with a connection address of a second node, determining that the connection address of the first node matches the connection address of the second node,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman