Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 02/07

20070044098 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An information processing apparatus capable of executing an application includes system state transition managing means for managing a transition of a state which depends on a system on which the application can operate, application state transition managing means for defining the state transition of the application using a primitive element... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070044101 - Job scheduling system for print processing: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070044100 - Method and system for replicating schedules for virtualization: A discussion for improving USB device virtualization by giving virtual machines (VMs) direct access to USB devices with a combined hardware and software solution, including providing a set of PCI configuration registers and operational registers for each VM, providing an interrupt request line for each VM, and using a new... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070044099 - Prompting for execution or delay of scheduled job: The present invention provides for the adjustment of the timing of a scheduled job including determining when the execution time of a scheduled job is within a predetermined time period. Prior to this time, a job execution notification is generated and submitted to an end user. The notification includes a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070044102 - A method and system for performing fair-share preemption: A method and apparatus for performing fair-share preemption in a distributed computing environment is disclosed. The invention allows the suspension of jobs in a preempt-able set and the transfer of their respective resources, e.g. either hardware or software resources, to jobs in a preempting set. These activities are performed, all... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070044103 - Inter-thread communication of lock protected data: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes issuing, by a first thread at a first programmable unit of a set of multiple multi-threaded programmable units integrated within a single die, a request for a lock associated with data. The method also includes receiving, by the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070044104 - Adaptive scheduling and management of work processing in a target context in resource contention: A computing environment and techniques are provided for processing work out of order in one or more processing contexts. The processing techniques include: determining, for a processing context having an associated stack of waiting resources, whether a last-in listed resource in the stack of waiting resource is available, and if... Agent: James R. Nock IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20070044105 - Symmetric multiprocessor operating system for execution on non-independent lightweight thread contexts: A multiprocessing system is disclosed. The system includes a multithreading microprocessor, including a plurality of thread contexts (TCs), each comprising a first control indicator for controlling whether the TC is exempt from servicing interrupt requests to an exception domain for the plurality of TCs, and a virtual processing element (VPE),... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070044106 - Symmetric multiprocessor operating system for execution on non-independent lightweight thread contexts: A multiprocessing system is disclosed. The system includes a multithreading microprocessor having a plurality of thread contexts (TCs), a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) shared by the plurality of TCs, and an instruction scheduler, coupled to the plurality of TCs, configured to dispatch to execution units, in a multithreaded fashion, instructions... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070038998 - Archiving data in a virtual application environment: A computer system suitable for archiving data with a corresponding application program in a virtual application environment is presented. The computer system includes a processor, a memory, and a storage. The computer system also includes an operating system, data to be archived, and an application program that correspond to the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070038997 - Exclusive access for secure audio program: Executing a monitor on a platform, the monitor capable of providing exclusive, secure access to an audio I/O device of the platform, executing a first partition on the platform, providing an audio device model in the first partition by directly mapping the audio I/O device from the monitor to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070038996 - Remote i/o for virtualized systems: A virtualized system including a processing sub-system including a plurality of partitions and operating systems and a virtualization layer, each partition running its own operating system and having assigned its own partition ID, and an I/O emulation entity connected to the processing sub-system through a bus and connected to a... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070039000 - Lock order determination method and system: A lock order determination method and system are described. A thread is executed including an attempt to acquire a lock. The highest lockorder held by a thread prior to attempting to acquire the lock is determined. The lockorder for the lock relative to the determined highest lockorder held is set.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070038999 - System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices: A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements. The system includes a task distribution device that distributes tasks to a synchrony group comprising a plurality of devices that are to perform the tasks distributed by the task distribution device... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070039002 - Method and apparatus for dispatching tasks in a non-uniform memory access (numa) computer system: A dispatcher for a non-uniform memory access computer system dispatches threads from a common ready queue not associated with any CPU, but favors the dispatching of a thread to a CPU having a shorter memory access time. Preferably, the system comprises multiple discrete nodes, each having a local memory and... Agent: Roy W. Truelson

20070039001 - Method and system for tuning a taskscheduling process: A method of tuning a task scheduling algorithm for assigning tasks to resources of a workforce management system, the scheduling algorithm being arranged for calculating a work plan on the basis of resources availability and tasks to be carried out by the resources and as a function of predetermined scheduling... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070039003 - Job management apparatus, job management method, and job management program: There is provided a technique capable of reducing load to management of jobs which are made executable based on licenses. The job management apparatus manages jobs being executed and to be executed, based on licenses, and comprises: a detection section that detects the number of unused licenses, based on used... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070039004 - Decentralized coordination of resource usage in multi-agent systems: Systems and methods operable on a network to coordinate resource utilization amongst agents in a multi-agent systems in a decentralized manner. In one embodiment, this includes interconnected agents that circulate coordination keys amongst coordination group members. The coordination key includes information defining the coordination group, resources coordinated by group members,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070039006 - Method for data communication: In a method for carrying out cyclic and conflict-free data communication for the subscribers of a data bus, which transmits data in non-overlapping time periods within a subscriber cycle interval and processes jobs, and whose fixed transmission time slots in a planning phase are allocated within the subscriber cycle interval,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070039005 - Method for selecting and controlling second work process during first work process in multitasking mobile terminal: Provided is a method for controlling a plurality of work processes in a multitaksing mobile terminal, and more particularly, a method for selecting a second work process during a first work process and controlling a predetermined function of the selected second work process. In the controlling method, icons corresponding to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070033589 - Controlling virtual time: A catch-up mode that runs a virtual programmable interrupt timer faster than a nominal rate to prevent time loss in a virtual machine can be implemented. If time loss is determined, a catch-up mode can be initiated to cause increased firings, beyond a nominal rate, of the programmable interrupt timer... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070033590 - Task computing: An apparatus provides computing sources of functionality, each computing source of functionality presents a service and exists in any computing environment of the apparatus. The apparatus associates a semantic service description (SSD) with the service. The SSD has a semantic description of the service, including a semantic description of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070033592 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for adaptive process dispatch in a computer system having a plurality of processors: A run-time feature set of a process or a thread is generated and compared to at least one processor feature set. Each processor feature set represents zero or more optional hardware features supported by one or more processors, whereas the run-time feature set represents zero or more optional hardware features... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070033591 - System and method for schedule quality assessment: According to one embodiment, a method for evaluating schedule data is provided that includes filtering schedule data to identify a grouping of records. The grouping of records is associated with a measurable parameter. At least one reportable parameter indicative of the quality of the schedule data is calculated for the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070033593 - System and method for wireless broadband context switching: A method for switching between instruction contexts within a time interval in a multi-mode wireless broadband processing system. The method can include executing critical task operations that complete execution within a time interval, a critical task including a plurality of critical task operations, executing non-critical task operations that are able... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070028239 - Dynamic performance management for virtual servers: One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method for enabling dynamic performance management for virtual servers. The method can include automatically detecting when a first physical server is operating beyond a threshold. Note that a plurality of virtual servers is operating on the first physical server. Also, it... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070028237 - Method, system and program product for capturing central processing unit (cpu) utilization for a virtual machine: The present invention allows CPU utilization for a virtual machine (VM) to be captured from a perspective of a host. Specifically, under the present invention, a work request having a set (e.g., one or more) of jobs is received by a host and allocated to a virtual machine on a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070028238 - Virtualization event processing in a layered virtualization architecture: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for processing virtualization events in a layered virtualization architecture are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a event logic and evaluation logic. The event logic is to recognize a virtualization event. The evaluation logic is to determine whether to transfer control from a child... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070028240 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus for processing a plurality of threads: A user enters a signal requesting monitoring of information related to a thread. An operating system sets a stop flag at “1” in the thread. If the thread in which the stop flag is set is being executed by a processor, its context is saved in a main memory and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070028241 - Scheduled job execution management: Scheduled jobs can be managed by monitoring the veracity of the data sets processed by these jobs. A multi-processing environment includes remote processing devices generating the data sets. A central processing device executes scheduled job, also known as batch processes, using the data sets. For each of the scheduled jobs,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070028242 - General interface with arbitrary job managers: A method, system and computer program product is disclosed for providing a distributed computing environment in which an arbitrary job manager or scheduler is able to be plugged. In the distributed computing environment, a job is created in a storage location to include one or more technical computing tasks and... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070028243 - A method or apparatus for determining the memory usage of a program: A method and apparatus for determining the memory usage of a program is disclosed in which a first and second programs are run, the memory-allocation of the second program is increased and the performance of the first or second programs is monitored against predetermined performance criteria. When the performance of... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070028244 - Computer system para-virtualization using a hypervisor that is implemented in a partition of the host system: A virtualization infrastructure that allows multiple guest partitions to run within a host hardware partition. The host system is divided into distinct logical or virtual partitions and special infrastructure partitions are implemented to control resource management and to control physical I/O device drivers that are, in turn, used by operating... Agent: Unisys Corporation