Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 10/07

20070250833 - Managing virtual machines with system-wide policies: An administrative authority for virtual machines can send one or more delegated policy settings to a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager can in turn send management instructions that include the one or more policy settings to one or more virtual machine hosts. As such, a user's request for... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070250834 - Information processing device including manipulation task reservation function, manipulation task reservation processing program and manipulation task reservation processing method: The present invention provides an information processing device which can set a function execution request from a user to be automatically executed later in the case where the function execution request cannot be immediately processed due to a busy state of the device and the like, and in particular, the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070250835 - Grid computing system, information processing apparatus, job execution request generating apparatus, control method, and recording medium: MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS A grid computing system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which comprises an index value storing part for storing an index value indicative of the throughput of the information processing apparatus itself; a request acquiring part for acquiring a job execution request that... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070250838 - Computer workload redistribution: The present invention provides for redistributing workloads among computers to optimize resource utilization. Utilization by software workloads of computer resources is monitored to yield utilization data. A utilization chronology is updated using the utilization data. The chronology is analyzed to yield resource utilization predictions. The workloads are redistributed among the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250836 - Method for expanding data flow: A method for expanding data flow applied in a network system comprising at least one client, at least two load balancers and at least one server. A first load balancer can automatically confirms whether it is overloaded or not and edit a hash table accordingly, so as to activate a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070250837 - System and method for adjusting multiple resources across multiple workloads: Increased workload performance is obtained by coordinating a multi-resource computer system such that demands for resources are arbitrated across all available resources and all applications such that the proper resource will be adjusted regardless of which resource is needed to improve workload performance. In operation, a measurement is taken for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070245348 - Virtual machine self-service restrictions: The embodiments contemplate a system and method for a restriction of virtual machines for a group of one or more users. A predefined policy may include a restriction related to the group, as well as a measure of enforcement to initiate in the event of a violation of the restriction.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070245349 - Method and apparatus for provisioning tasks using a provisioning bridge server: The present invention is directed to technology for interacting with provisioning systems. An entity has an associated job code attribute that corresponds to a set of external resources. In one embodiment, an Identity System assigns the job code attribute to the entity. The external resources may be supported by different... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070245350 - System and method for placing a processor into a gradual slow mode of operation: A system and method for placing a processor into a gradual slow down mode of operation are provided. The gradual slow down mode of operation comprises a plurality of stages of slow down operation of an issue unit in a processor in which the issuance of instructions is slowed in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070245351 - Methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system: Methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system are described herein. In an embodiment, resource requesters can request, within a time window, resources over a computer network before the resources are available. The resources can then be allocated in batch mode when the resources are available.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070245352 - Method and apparatus for orchestrated web service proxy: A load balancer or other network device in a server farm acts as a web services proxy and performs service orchestration among servers and other resources within the server farm. The load balancer receives an initial service request from a client and is able to optimize orchestration by assigning component... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070240157 - Method, apparatus, mobile terminal and computer program product for safe application termination in a virtual machine: A method of providing termination of threads in a virtual machine includes defining one or more of a protected set of code segments and an unprotected set of code segments, deferring termination of a thread that has been identified for termination in response to the thread being located in the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070240159 - Image processor: An image processor keeps itself capable of executing a communication process with an external apparatus even in an energy-saving state, and offers a job reservation function while reducing power consumption as much as possible. The image processor has an energization switching circuit that makes switchover separately in energizing/deenergizing each of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070240158 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing threads on a processor that supports transactional memory: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that synchronizes threads on a multi-threaded processor. The system starts by executing instructions from a multi-threaded program using a first thread and a second thread. When the first thread reaches a predetermined location in the multi-threaded program, the first thread executes... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070240160 - Managing execution of programs by multiple computing systems: Techniques are described for managing the execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as computing systems organized into multiple groups. A program execution service manages the program execution on behalf of multiple customers or other users, and selects appropriate computing systems to execute one or more instances of program,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070240162 - Methods and apparatus for managing computing deployment in presence of variable workload: Automated or autonomic techniques for managing deployment of one or more resources in a computing environment based on varying workload levels. The automated techniques may comprise predicting a future workload level based on data associated with the computing environment. Then, an estimation is performed to determine whether a current resource... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070240161 - System and method for dynamic allocation of resources in a computing grid: A system for dynamically allocating resources in a computing grid is provided. The system comprises a resource management component, a service level agreement (SLA) management component and a job scheduling component. The resource management component is configured to determine availability of a set of resources in a computing grid, for... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070240163 - Processor power and thermal management: A method for reducing power consumption and heat generation in a computer system employs a substitute idle task that puts the processor into a dormant mode, e.g., sleep, nap, or doze mode. The substitute idle task replaces a conventional operating system idle task. The substitute idle task may have a... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser

20070234355 - Monitoring of virtual operating systems: Hypervisors are a new technology in the industry that enable multiple Operating Systems to co-exist on a single client. The use of a hypervisor provides a novel approach to determining the operability of an Operating System. Each Operating System is a virtualized Operating System, with its own IP address. According... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070234358 - Program for controlling a virtual computer and computer system for virtulization technology: Provided is the virtual computer system including an emulation module for emulating an operation based on an operation code for executing the operation of hardware of a server system, an exception event handler module for calling the emulation module when an exception event is generated by a CPU, a code... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070234357 - Method, apparatus and system for processor frequency governers to comprehend virtualized platforms: A method, apparatus and system enable processor frequency governors to comprehend virtualized platforms. Specifically, in one embodiment, the processor frequency governor in a virtual host may be para-virtualized. As a result, the processor frequency governor may run in a partition on the virtualized platform and nonetheless collect and process central... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070234356 - System and method for support of personal computing in a public computing infrastructure: A method and system for support of personal computing in a public computing infrastructure. The system including a plurality of computers to be used by patrons of a public computing infrastructure. The system also includes one or more servers coupled to the plurality of computers via a network connection. Each... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070234360 - Hypervisor control of power and thermal for client systems: Hypervisors are a new technology in the industry that enable multiple Operating Systems to co-exist on a single client. The use of a hypervisor provides a novel approach to thermal fan control. The hypervisor is able to fire up a maintenance Operating System on demand or have it running from... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070234361 - Method, system and computer program for scheduling execution of work units with policy based extension of long-term plan: A solution for scheduling execution of jobs is proposed In this case, a long-term plan expressed in terms of streams of jobs is created in advance (for example, for some months). An actual production plan (for a production period P(p) typically of one day) is then generated by extracting a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070234359 - Isolation of application execution: The resources needed by an application to execute are declared by the application. When the application is activated, only the declared resources are made available to the application because only the declared resources are connected to the execution environment. Accessibility to resources may be controlled by the operating system by... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070234362 - Virtualized network: A virtualized network that provides real-to-virtual correspondence without technically designed artificial systems of any kind. The virtualized network includes a plurality of virtualized entities (VENTs), each VENT a program together with its corresponding real entity contained in the real world and exactly mimicking the action of its real entity counterpart.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070234363 - Batch scheduling: There is provided a method to schedule execution of a plurality of batch jobs by a computer system. The method includes: reading one or more constraints that constrain the execution of the plurality of batch jobs by the computer system and a current load on the computer system; grouping the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070234364 - Post-processing phase in a distributed computing system: A method and apparatus for processing a computing job in a distributed processing system. A control process sends a message to an instance of an application instructing the application instance to divide the job into assignments for processing by various application instances. The application instance divides the job in a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070234365 - Computer resource management for workloads or applications based on service level objectives: A resource allocation method and system for efficiently allocating compute resources. The method includes providing a workload manager and installing a workload in the computer system. During the installing, a service level goal for the workload is provided to the workload manager, and the workload manager assigns a first resource... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070234366 - Landscape reorganization algorithm for dynamic load balancing: A method and system for reorganizing a distributed computing landscape for dynamic load balancing is presented. A method includes the steps of collecting information about resource usage by a plurality of hosts in a distributed computing system, and generating a target distribution of the resource usage for the distributed computing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070234367 - Task-graph for process synchronization and control: Systems and methods are disclosed for testing applications or code. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for testing an application on one or more different hosts on a processor using a task graph including a parent task and one or more child tasks. The task graph can... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.