Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 05/07

20070124730 - Apparatus and method for measuring and reporting processor capacity and processor usage in a computer system with processors of different speed and/or architecture: In a computer system that includes multiple processors, each processor in a computer system is assigned a processor class. Processor capacity and usage are monitored according to the class assigned to the processor. Capacity and usage are reported on a class-by-class basis so that the capacity and performance of different... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070124729 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing an anchor pointer in an operating system context structure for improving the efficiency of accessing thread specific data: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing an anchor pointer in an operating system context structure for improving the efficiency of accessing thread specific data is provided. A kernel thread context structure is maintained in memory. A thread accesses a pointer memory in the kernel specific context structure... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070124728 - Passing work between threads: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes passing work, such as a packet, between threads of a multi-threaded system.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070124731 - System architecture for distributed computing: In one aspect, the present invention features a system including a local computing device in communication with a distributed computing system, the local computing device configured to perform computations for a first portion of a computer software application and to send a second portion of the application for computation on... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070124732 - Compiler-based scheduling optimization hints for user-level threads: Method, apparatus and system embodiments to schedule user-level OS-independent “shreds” without intervention of an operating system. For at least one embodiment, the shred is scheduled for execution by a scheduler routine rather than the operating system. The scheduler routine may receive compiler-generated hints from a compiler. The compiler hints may... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070124734 - Maintaining coherency in a symbiotic computing system and method of operation thereof: A symbiotic computing system includes a plurality of symbiotic partners that are communicatively coupled with one another and each of which has a respective instance of a managed resource. One (or more) of the symbiotic partners receive input that affects a respective instance of the managed resource. Based upon the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070124733 - Resource management in a multi-processor system: A method and apparatus is provided for use by a scheduler of a multi-processor data processing system to select task preemption points based on main memory requirements. There are three alternative preferred embodiments, depending on the allocation of tasks to processors: (1) Fixed Allocation: every task is allocated to a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124735 - Method and system for scheduling requests in a non-first in first out (fifo) order in a network: A method and a system for scheduling requests generated for a plurality of mobile devices in a communication network (100) has been disclosed. The requests are generated for a transmission opportunity. The method includes computing a sort metric (302) for each request, based on an information update. A lead-time is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070124736 - Acceleration threads on idle os-visible thread execution units: Disclosed are embodiments of a system, methods and mechanism for using idle thread units to perform acceleration threads that are transparent to the operating system. When the operating system scheduler has no work to schedule on the idle thread units, the operating system may issue a halt or monitor/mwait or... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070118834 - Method and storage medium for virtualization of device self-description information using in-transit modification: A method for changing self-description data of a functional device in a computing system. The method may include virtualizing the functional device to create a virtual functional device, and adding, changing, or removing information in the self-description information sent from a functional device as a part of virtualization of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070118835 - Task context direct indexing in a protocol engine: A method and apparatus for managing task context is provided. Upon initialization, a protocol engine provides context resources available for processing tasks to a task issuer. Based on available context resources, the task issuer creates and manages a free list of available task context indices and assigns an index to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070118836 - Cooperative scheduling using coroutines and threads: A database system may provide definition of a first plurality of tasks associated with coroutine execution, and a second plurality of tasks associated with task-specific thread execution. Also provided may be spawning of a control thread and a plurality of threads, each of the plurality of threads associated with one... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070118837 - Method and apparatus for preventing livelocks in processor selection of load requests: A method, and apparatus are provided for preventing livelocks in processor selection of load requests in a multiprocessor (MP) system. On random occasions a selection mechanism is changed for first holding up all requests and then a random selection is made. Then a round robin selection mechanism is used for... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070118838 - Task execution controller, task execution control method, and program: A task execution controller includes a task group judging unit and a priority control unit. The task group judging unit judges whether a first task and a second task belong to a same group, upon a request from the second task to access a resource that is shared among the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070118839 - Method and apparatus for grid project modeling language: A method and apparatus for modeling grid projects, such that their network and node resources may be readily determinable for simulation, scheduling, and control purposes. A model of a grid project is generated using a standardized grid project modeling language that sets forth a sequence of grid project phases. Within... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070118840 - Remote copy storage device system and a remote copy method: Overload of communication lines and the drop of through-put of task processing in a center computer is prevented. The center computer executes a plurality of task processing, writes the execution result to a center storage device and remote copies the same data to a plurality of remote storage devices. At... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070113227 - Efficient operating system operation on a hypervisor: An operating system is described that is capable of ascertaining whether it is executing in a virtual machine environment and is further capable of modifying its behavior to operate more efficiently and provide optimal behavior in a virtual machine environment. An operating system is enlightened so that it is aware... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070113228 - Method and system for carrying multiple suspended runtime images: A portable device is connected to a host system that operates according to a first industry standard architecture (e.g., a personal computer built according to the IBM Personal Computer standard). The user initiates a session in the host system using the software and data in the portable device. The user... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070113231 - Multi processor and task scheduling method: A multi processor (107) includes a plurality of processor elements (103, 104, 105) and has a processing portion (210) capable of executing an application software and serving to carry out a process for determining a task to be assigned to the processor elements at a request given from the application... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070113230 - Synchronized high-assurance circuits: A high-assurance system for processing information is disclosed. The high-assurance system comprising first and second processors, a task matching circuit, and first and second outputs. The task matching circuit configured to determine a software routine is ready for execution on the first processor, and delay the first processor until the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070113229 - Thread aware distributed software system for a multi-processor: A single chip architecture with multiple programmable processors is described. Each processor has a small and fast acting kernel-based operating system which has primitives for performing only fundamental functions of multi-processing. Many distributed threads may be executed simultaneously on many processors while allowing the device to be programmed as a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070113233 - Program thread synchronization: The present invention is a method of and system for program thread synchronization. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing program threads for one or more processors is provided. An address for data for each of a plurality of program threads to be synchronized is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070113232 - Program thread syncronization: The present invention is a method of and system for program thread synchronization. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing program threads for one or more processors is provided. An instruction cache line for is determined each of a plurality of program threads to be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070113234 - Resource adapter classloading: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for loading a class with a resource adapter classloader and enabling the class to be accessible by other components that interconnect with the resource adapter. In an embodiment, a method for loading a class with a resource adapter classloader is... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070106986 - Secure virtual-machine monitor: Embodiments of the present invention provide secure virtual-machine monitors and secure, base-level operating systems that, in turn, provide secure execution environments for guest operating systems and certain special functions that can interface directly to base-level operating systems. Security is accomplished by employing a small, verifiable component of a secure foundation... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070106987 - Information processing apparatus and method: A task cooperation processing method acquires a processing flow in which cooperation processing by a plurality of tasks is defined. Input information associated with the amount of data to be processed by the acquired processing flow is set. The task cooperation processing method calculates an estimation time required for the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070106988 - Symmetric multiprocessor operating system for execution on non-independent lightweight thread contexts: a multiprocessing system, including a multithreading microprocessor and a multiprocessor operating system (OS), is disclosed. The microprocessor includes a plurality of thread contexts (TCs) configured as an array, each having a program counter, a general purpose register set for executing a thread, and a register for storing an index of... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070106989 - Symmetric multiprocessor operating system for execution on non-independent lightweight thread contexts: A multiprocessing system, including a multithreading microprocessor and a multiprocessor operating system (OS), is disclosed. The microprocessor includes a plurality of thread contexts (TCs), each having a program counter and a general purpose register set for executing a thread. The OS includes a data structure having an entry for each... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070106990 - Symmetric multiprocessor operating system for execution on non-independent lightweight thread contexts: A multiprocessing system including a multithreading microprocessor and multiprocessor operating system (OS) is disclosed. The microprocessor includes a first and a second plurality of thread contexts (TCs), each TC having a program counter and a general purpose register set for executing a thread. The microprocessor also includes a first and... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070106991 - Mobile telecommunication handset capable of implementing multitasking and method for implementing multitasking in a mobile telecommunication handset: A mobile telecommunication handset capable of implementing multitasking and a method for implementing multitasking in a mobile telecommunication are provided that makes it possible to implement multitasking even if sufficient memory and resources are not available. The mobile telecommunication handset includes a keypad having multitasking-specific function keys, a memory storing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070106994 - Co-allocating a reservation spanning different compute resources types: A system and method of reserving resources in a compute environment are disclosed. The method embodiment comprises receiving a request for resources within a computer environment, determining at least one completion time associated with at least one resource type required by the request, and reserving resources within the computer environment... Agent: Law Office Of Thomas M. Isaacson, LLC

20070106993 - Computer security method having operating system virtualization allowing multiple operating system instances to securely share single machine resources: This invention relates generally to computer security and more particularly to operating system virtualization achieved by inserting a hypervisor layer between the operating system and the underlying hardware that is responsible for allowing multiple operating system instances and their running applications to share the resources of a single machine.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070106992 - Computerized system and method for resource allocation: Computerized information system and method having multiple virtual machines share common resources such as the system storage resources. The system contains a host computer executing multiple virtual machines, system resources organized into multiple resource groups, and a resource controller associating a resource group with a virtual machine executing on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070106995 - Information processing method, apparatus and system: In an information processing method of registering a processing flow, which defines cooperation processing of a plurality of tasks, in a manner that the processing flow can be shared by a plurality of users, a new processing flow is registered in association with a first user in response to a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070101323 - Automatic virtual machine adjustments to network changes: Network configuration settings for an virtual guest environment are adjusted in response to detecting a change in a networking environment. The changes in the networking environment may be detected through updated host operating system settings or other means. After detecting a change, virtual machine software may initiate reconfiguration of virtual... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070101324 - Instrumentation to find the thread or process responsible for an application failure: An application programming interface (API) that leverages operating system instrumentation to provide a chain of threads and processes may alleviate some debugging complications. Specifically, the chain may start with the first thread in the process that experienced the original failure and end with the last thread upon which the first... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070101330 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus includes a logic circuit, a processor, and a holding unit. While executing a first task, the logic circuit requests the processor to execute processing. The logic circuit executes a second task while the processor is executing the requested processing. After the processor issues a result of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070101326 - Dynamic change of thread contention scope assignment: A system and computer-implemented method of converting a contention scope attribute of a user thread executing in a multithreaded environment are described. The method includes dynamically converting the contention scope attribute of the user thread running in the multithreaded environment between a process scope and a system scope. In changing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070101327 - Method and system for providing a potential deadlock source code debugger warning: A method and system for providing a potential deadlock source code debugger warning are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided in which whether a potential deadlock condition exists is determined in response to a receipt of a request to resume a single selected thread of a plurality... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070101328 - Sequencing a single task sequence across multiple operating environments: Techniques for preserving state information across multiple operating environments on a machine are provided. A task engine creates and utilizes a task environment to preserve state information through multiple operating environments while sequencing the actions in a task sequence. During task sequence execution, the task environment is maintained in the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070101325 - System and method for utilizing a remote memory to perform an interface save/restore procedure: A system and method for utilizing a remote memory device to perform an interface save/restore procedure in an electronic device includes a processor that begins to execute a first task in conjunction with a host interface of a display controller. The processor subsequently receives an interrupt request for executing a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070101329 - Workflow verification system and method thereof: A workflow verification system and a method are provided. A weight factor of a first workflow node, weight factors of a plurality of workflow nodes, and a weight factor of a second workflow node are calculated from a workflow to compare the weight factor of the first workflow node, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070101331 - Batch processing for wizards: Disclosed herein are systems and techniques to provide for batch processing of wizards. In general, the techniques may include a computer-implemented method that comprises presenting a wizard to a user to perform a step-by-step process, with each step associated with a step type and the step type being one of... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070101337 - Data processor with performance controls: A data processor and method of controlling the performance of a data processor are provided. The data processor includes a memory that is operable to store at least two of the application programs and that can be executed on the data processor. A performance module is operable to monitor a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070101334 - Dynamic policy manager method, system, and computer program product for optimizing fractional resource allocation: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for optimizing the fractional allocation of a computing resource among multiple partitions in a data processing system. Multiple processing attributes are defined. A policy is generated for a first partition. The policy includes the definition of the processing attributes. Current... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070101335 - Identifying separate threads executing within a single process: A computer-readable medium bearing computer-executable instructions which, when executed on a computer, carry out a method for handling a request for an operating system service is presented. The method comprises receiving a request for execution of an operating system service. The corresponding operating system service is then identified. A unique... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070101332 - Method and apparatus for resource-based thread allocation in a multiprocessor computer system: Thread entries are stored in a memory of the system to indicate executed instruction threads. Uses of processing resources by the respective instruction threads are detected and history entries for the threads are stored in a memory of the system. Such history entries indicate whether respective processing resources have been... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20070101336 - Method and apparatus for scheduling jobs on a network: An apparatus and method for scheduling a job process on at least one node in a server data processing network. The scheduling is based on a state of at least two nodes in the network as well as a cost metric of installing a required application on at least one... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070101333 - System and method of arbitrating access of threads to shared resources within a data processing system: A first collection of threads which represent a collection of tasks to be executed by at least one of a collection of processing units is monitored. In response to detecting a request by a thread among the first collection of threads to access a shared resource locked by a second... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070101338 - Detection, diagnosis and resolution of deadlocks and hangs: A computer configured for managing multiple processing threads is susceptible to deadlocks or hangs when resources needed by one process are locked by another process that is not progressing. Locking relationships are created and released so quickly that rigidly monitoring these relationships would consume more computer power than are being... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070101339 - System for and method of multi-dimensional resource management: A method, system and program product for managing system resources in a system with a potentially large number of resources and tasks that need exclusive use of the resources in order to run. The system is comprised of a means of describing resources and resource selection criteria, a means of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070101340 - Method and mobile terminal for performing multiple tasks without conflict: A mobile terminal capable of multitasking, which includes a determination unit that determines whether a module requested to be loaded into a new task is the same as a module already loaded in a first task and an anti-conflict unit that prevents the same module from being twice loaded.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C