Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 04/07

20070094659 - System and method for recovering from a failure of a virtual machine: A system and method is disclosed for the management of virtual machines in the nodes of a cluster network. An active virtual machine and a standby virtual machine are provided. In operation, a delta file is periodically created in the active node. The delta files include an indication of the... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070094660 - Background thread processing in a multithread digital signal processor: Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. The disclosed method and system provide background thread processing in a multithread digital signal processor for backgrounding and other background operations. The method and system form a background thread interrupt... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070094663 - Flexible ordered execution mechanism for multi-threaded processors: A multi-threaded processor adapted to perform ordered execution, wherein the execution of threads, or code portions, is delayed if, and only if, execution of a thread would violate the ordered execution of a program. The processor initializes a Global Start Register and a Global Finish Register; saves an initial value... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070094662 - Method and apparatus for a multidimensional grid scheduler: A method and apparatus for scheduling execution of a grid project in accordance with multiple dimensions of dynamic load factors. The present invention provides a mechanism for determining grid node availability based on both processor load and network traffic loads on the nodes in a grid of computing devices. This... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070094661 - Techniques for task management using presence: Techniques for scheduling a task include receiving task data and quorum data. Task data describes tasks to be performed by one or more participants. Quorum data indicates a participant set of one or more participants to perform each task. Current user data may also be received. Current user data describes... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070094664 - Programmable priority for concurrent multi-threaded processors: A first thread processor of a multi-thread processor system is operable to execute a first process, and a second thread processor of the multi-thread processor system is operable to execute a second process. A control register is operable to store priority information that is individually associated with at least one... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070094670 - Method and an apparatus for providing automatic emergency mode plan generation in a utility computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to providing emergency mode plan generation in a utility computing environment (UCE). In one embodiment, information that describes criticality of applications is received. Information is received that indicates one or more resources assigned for use by one or more of the applications can no... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094668 - Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating resources used by software: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods and apparatuses are described for dynamically allocating resources used by software. In one embodiment, a script is received for a first piece of software. The script is associated with a system. The script enables the piece of software to respond to dynamic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094667 - Method for accessing, by application programs, resources residing inside an application isolation environment: In a method for accessing, by application programs, resources provided by an operating system, a process receives a request for a resource and an identifier associated with the resource. It is determined that the requested resource resides inside an application isolation environment. The request for the resource and the identifier... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070094666 - Resource managing method, resource managing apparatus, resource managing program, and storage medium: When an application APP1 is using a resource, a resource manager (ResMan) may receive a resource acquisition request from an application APP2 (in step S5). The resource manager then determines whether the applications APP1 and APP2 are in conflict with one another about resource usage (in step S6). An acquisition-denied... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070094669 - Shared resource acquisition: A technology for exclusively acquiring a shared resource is disclosed. In one method approach, the method determines that a shared resource is available to be exclusively acquired by a first thread. The method also prevents partial execution of operations by a second thread, during operations to exclusively acquire the shared... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070094665 - System and method of co-allocating a reservation spanning different compute resources types: A system and method of co-allocating resources within a compute environment are disclosed. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for a reservation for a first type of resource, analyzing constraints and guarantees associated with the first type of resource, identifying a first group of resources that... Agent: Law Office Of Thomas M. Isaacson, LLC

20070094671 - Load balancing interfaces: Interfaces are provided to notify of conditions pertaining to memory management. Thus, efforts to avoid time-outs during execution of code in a managed execution environment may be implemented.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070089111 - Virtual environment manager: A virtual environment manager (“VEM”) simplifies the usability of virtual machines and provides users with an enhanced design for creating and/or for managing virtual machines (“VMs”). For example, a user can select description information and management information to be included in descriptors and according to which a VEM will create... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070089112 - Barrel-incrementer-based round-robin apparatus and instruction dispatch scheduler employing same for use in multithreading microprocessor: An apparatus for selecting one of N requestors of a shared resource in a round-robin fashion is disclosed. One or more of the N requesters may be disabled from being selected in a selection cycle. The apparatus includes a first input that receives a first value specifying which of the... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070089113 - Circuit substrate production method and system, substrate used therein, and circuit substrate using the same: A circuit substrate production method in which a substrate produced by a substrate manufacturer (1) is delivered to a subsequent mounting manufacturer (2) for mounting electronic components at the mounting manufacturer (2) to thereby produce a circuit substrate. A substrate board (5) is employed which is separated into, via substrate... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070089114 - Real time scheduling system for operating system: In one embodiment of the present invention, there is presented computer readable media for servicing at least one task. The machine readable media stores a plurality of instructions, where the plurality of instructions further comprises an operating system. The operating system treats a first request from a task at a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070083862 - Direct-memory access between input/output device and physical memory within virtual machine environment: Direct memory access (DMA) is provided between input/output (I/O) devices and memory within virtual machine (VM) environments. A computing device includes an I/O device, an operating system (OS) running on a VM of the computing device, a device driver for the I/O device, a VM manager (VMM), I/O translation hardware,... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070083865 - Context switching device: Provided is a context switching device capable of reducing conflicts among accesses due to retrieving and saving of contexts by plural processors. The context switching device has: a transfer unit which transfers context data, according to one of (i) the first transfer mode in which the context data is transferred... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070083863 - Method and system for restrained budget use: A method (60) for controlling multiple tasks in a real-time operating system (110, 170) assigns priorities to two or more tasks (114, 115; 174, 175). A first task (114; 174) is assigned to be a More Important Task. A second task (115; 175) is assigned to be a Less Important... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070083864 - State management method and portable terminal: A state management method for managing the states of the first and second tasks based on a first table for managing a state of a first task which belongs to a first system and a second table for managing a state of a second task which belongs to a second... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070083866 - Leveraging advanced queues to implement event based job scheduling: A job scheduling technique that allows jobs to be launched as a result of messages which are not targeted specifically at the job, and for jobs to be interrelated in complex ways.... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070083867 - Method and system to recover from control block hangs in a heterogenous multiprocessor environment: Disclosed are a method and system that use state tracking constructs along with additional constructs to identify and recover control blocks inadvertently left locked that caused a hang condition in a multi-processing computing system. The preferred embodiment of the invention uses a task control blocks (TCBs) for processing units (PUs)... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070083868 - Methods and architectures for resource management: Resource management architectures implemented in computer systems to manage resources are described. In one embodiment, a general architecture includes a resource manager and multiple resource providers that support one or s more resource consumers such as a system component or application. Each provider is associated with a resource and acts... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070083869 - Resource unit allocation: A method of processing allocation and deallocation requests in a computing environment. The method forms an Allocation Queue of requests for resource allocations, a Deallocation Queue of requests for resource deallocations, a Pending Queue of requests for resource allocation which cannot be met immediately, and a Cancel Queue of requests... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070083870 - Methods and apparatus for task sharing among a plurality of processors: A method is disclosed which may include issuing a plurality of instructions in a processing pipeline of a first processor within a multiprocessor system; determining whether a second processor in the multiprocessor system is in at least one of a running state and a waiting state; and transferring at least... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070083871 - Scheduling operations called by a task on a real-time or non-real-time processor: Provided is a method, system, and program for scheduling operations called by a task on a real-time or non-real-time processor. Execution durations are provided for operations. A call is received from a task for an operation. A determination is made of a latency requirement for a first processor and of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070079308 - Managing virtual machines: According to one embodiment, a method for managing one or more virtual machines includes generating a request for at least one performance characteristic for at least one virtual machine, the at least one virtual machine being associated with a processing group, the processing group including one or more processing modules;... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070079307 - Virtual machine based network carriers: A system and method is disclosed for the secure transfer of data by carrier virtual machines between participating physical hosts through a virtual network (VNET) implemented on one or more internal and/or external networks. The method of the invention can provide additional security controls, comprising parameters that may include, but... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070079309 - Task generation using information handling system: A system and method for generating sequences of manual operations, using a structured process and grammar, suitable for implementation in systems integration. The method of the invention allows manual operations can be defined locally, or by remote subject matter experts (SMEs), using a Manual Operations Grammar, with the system allowing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP