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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control November USPTO class patent listing 11/07

20070277173 - Job execution apparatus, job execution method and recording medium: A job execution apparatus, comprising: an accumulator unit to accumulate jobs with their destination information; an authentication unit to perform an authentication to permit a user to execute jobs transmitted to the user and accumulated in said accumulator unit, and said authentication unit is provided inside or outside of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070277172 - Program execution device: A program execution device is provided which, even when a currently executed application (program) abnormally terminates, can prevent the application from becoming unusable, and thereby improve user convenience. An MA management unit includes: an MA management unit main for receiving an instruction from an initialization subprogram and controlling the other... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070277174 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing z/os batch jobs with prerequisites: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing computer jobs with prerequisite jobs in a main frame computing system. A determination module is included that determines a job grouping of jobs for processing by a computer with a mainframe operating system. A grouping module is included to generate generating... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070277176 - 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

20070277175 - Method for multi-tasking multiple java virtual machines in a secure environment: The present invention allows construction of a secure, real-time operating system from a portable language such as Java that appears to be a Java virtual machine from a top perspective but provides a secure operating system from a bottom perspective. This allows portable languages, such as Java, to be used... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070277177 - Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable information recording medium recorded with information processing program: An object of the invention is to control the priorities of threads so that the respective threads optimize the information amount stored in a storage in an autonomous distributed manner, and to optimize the processing load of the entirety of a processing system without control overhead. The storage stores information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070277178 - Processor system and performance measurement method for processor system: A processor system includes a processor to execute a plurality of tasks by switching to one another, a task ID storage section to store a task ID to identify a task executed in the processor, an evaluation ID storage section to store an evaluation ID to be compared with an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070271560 - Deploying virtual machine to host based on workload characterizations: To determine whether to deploy a candidate VM to a candidate host, taking into consideration resources available from the candidate host and resources required by the candidate VM, a sub-rating is calculated for each of several resources available from the candidate host, where the sub-rating for the resource corresponds to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070271561 - Updating virtual machine with patch or the like: Each of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) is stored in a halted form in a library for retrieval from the library and re-starting on a host. Each re-started VM includes a plurality of software constructs, each of which is at least potentially non-current and requires a software update. To... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070271559 - Virtualization of infiniband host channel adapter interruptions: A method, system, program product and computer data structure for providing for two levels of server virtualization. A first hypervisor enables multiple logical partitions to share a set of resources and provides a first level of virtualization. A second hypervisor enables multiple, independent virtual machines to share the resources that... Agent: Eugene I. Shkurko IBM Corp. Intellectual Property Law

20070271565 - Anticipatory helper thread based code execution: A method and mechanism for using threads in a computing system. A multithreaded computing system is configured to execute a first thread and a second thread. Responsive to the first thread detecting a launch point for a function, the first thread is configured to provide an indication to the second... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070271567 - Apparatus and method for performing a task: An apparatus and method for performing a task, which can modify a task depending on devices connected through a network, are provided. The apparatus includes a task information storage unit, a device information determination unit, and a task information modification unit. The task information storage unit stores task information including... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070271566 - Extract cpu time facility: An efficient facility for determining resource usage, such as a processor time used by tasks. The determination is performed on behalf of user applications that do not require a call to operating system services. The facility includes an instruction that determines elapsed time and reports it to the user as... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070271563 - Method, apparatus, and program product for heuristic based affinity dispatching for shared processor partition dispatching: A mechanism is provided for determining whether to use cache affinity as a criterion for software thread dispatching in a shared processor logical partitioning data processing system. The server firmware may store data about when and/or how often logical processors are dispatched. Given these data, the operating system may collect... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070271564 - Method, apparatus, and program product for optimization of thread wake up for shared processor partitions: A mechanism is provided for biasing placement of a software thread on a currently idle and dispatched processor. The operating system starts with the last logical processor on which the software thread ran and determines whether that processor is idle and dispatched and considers each logical processor until a currently... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070271562 - Execution environment for data transformation applications: The execution environment provides for scalability where components will execute in parallel and exploit various patterns of parallelism. Dataflow applications are represented by reusable dataflow graphs called map components, while the executable version is called a prepared map. Using runtime properties the prepared map is executed in parallel with a... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070271569 - Distributed audio processing: Resources may be dynamically allocated in a distributed processing portable electronic communication device. The dynamic allocation may include receiving an instruction to process an audio processing task related to audio data; determining whether resources for processing the processing task are available at a first processing unit; performing the audio processing... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070271568 - Method of improving throughput in a system including sticky assignments: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that provide conditional assignments to access terminals over resources assigned to other access terminals. Further, methods and apparatuses are disclosed for processing resources to determine whether an access terminal should utilize resources that have bee conditionally assigned.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070271570 - Managing database utilities to improve throughput and concurrency: A method, computer program, and system are disclosed for executing a utility on a database system having a plurality of database system nodes. Each database system node has an existing load. An increased load on the database system required to execute the utility is determined. The existing load on each... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070271571 - Apparatus and methods for discriminating late software commands sent to hardware: Apparatus and methods for discriminating late software commands sent to hardware from software executed by a processor. The apparatus, in particular, includes a storage device configured to receive information concerning a timing requirement for software commands transmitted from a microprocessor, where the timing requirement is dependent on a system time.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070266383 - Method and system for virtual machine migration: Virtual machine (VM) technology allows multiple operating systems each deploying multiple applications to run on a single host. This invention presents an effective method and system for virtual machine migration from a source host to a target host. The method and system concern the migration of both the service VM... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20070266384 - Building computing applications based upon metadata: Associating a semantic service description (SSD) with a service, wherein the SSD comprises a semantic description of the service, including a semantic description of a parameter of the service, according to a computer interpretable language, and, as a service grounding, a mapping between the computer interpretable language expressing the SSD... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070266387 - Multithreaded computer system and multithread execution control method: A multithreaded computer system of the present invention includes a plurality of processor elements (PEs) 101 to 103, and a parallel processor control unit 200, which switches threads in each PE, and the parallel processor control unit 200 includes: a plurality of execution order registers, which hold, for each processor... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070266386 - One-time initialization: Aspects of the present invention are directed at providing safe and efficient ways for a program to perform a one-time initialization of a data item in a multi-threaded environment. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that allows a program to perform a synchronized initialization of a data... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070266385 - Performance level setting in a data processing system: A performance range of a processor in a data processing apparatus is dynamically varied by recalculating at least one performance-range limit in dependence upon a quality of service value for a give processing task. The processor performance level is varied by selecting from a plurality of possible performance levels of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070266389 - Launching hypervisor under running operating system: The launching of a hypervisor after there is already a running operating system. The operating system itself may launch the hypervisor. The running operating system may be used instead of the hypervisor to discover the physical resources running on the computing system. Other operating systems or operating system instances may... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070266388 - System and method for providing advanced reservations in a compute environment: A system and method are disclosed for dynamically reserving resources within a cluster environment. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for resources in the cluster 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 Isaacson, Irving, Stelacone & Prass, LLC

20070266390 - Automated management of application-specific tasks from the internet via distributed task manager agents in a local area network: Described is automated distributed management in a local area network of application tasks downloaded from the Internet an automatic task manager software agent operating on a network node in the local area network. An automatic task manager software agent is also communicatively coupled via the Internet for downloading at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070266391 - System and method for separating multi-workload processor utilization on a metered computer system: A computing system having multiple processors in which these processors are configured to support a plurality of workload types may provide processing metering by workload types. In such a system, metering provides a measure of the normalized processing throughput utilized by processing tasks for each workload type supported by the... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070261056 - Method for constructing job operation environment: To construct an operation environment for a job by deploying in a computer an operating system and various programs as a premise of operation of a job program of the job of which operation is to be started in a job system, there is selected an optimized construction procedure requiring... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070261055 - Method and system for the generic and flexible access of available tasks through a user interface: A task access system implements a methodology that facilitates one to explore and execute tasks possible in a network such as a home network environment. The system provides interfaces to access task information and supports several types of functionalities that help in customization of the task information based on the... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070261054 - Recovery mechanism for transactions: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for recovering from an incomplete transaction. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to detect incomplete transactions when recovering from a server crash or other catastrophic event. Some embodiments can automatically re-establish interrupted connections when incomplete transactions have been detected.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070261053 - System for multi threaded multi processor sharing of asynchronous hardware units: Methods and system for sharing a hardware resource in a computer system running at least one software process having multiple threads. A lock_indicator is provided in data structures within the computer system. A request is received to use the hardware resource by one of the threads that is defined to... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070261057 - Multi-threaded shared state variable control: A method for controlling sharing of resources in a multi-threaded environment includes entering a finite state machine state sequence; controlling resource-sharing threads using the finite state machine state sequence; and exiting the finite state machine state sequence when shared resource control is complete. A multi-threaded shared resource control system includes... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070261058 - Method and means for context-based measurement of worked time: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for a first individual to report worked time based on his context log containing information about contextual aspects, related to the first individual, as a function of time. From information from the context log, a context graph of the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070256073 - Extendable framework for distributed applications and data: A system and method are configured to provide a virtual application desktop and communication channel. The system includes a virtual machine executing on an operating system within which multiple applications can concurrently execute. A plurality of applications can each have a protected namespace and be configured to execute using the... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070256074 - Multi-tasking apparatus and method in portable terminal: An apparatus and method capable of performing multiple tasks in a portable terminal are provided, in which menu functions of the portable terminal can be implemented while continuing to play the music. The multi-tasking apparatus includes a controller for performing controlling to implement at least one menu function while playing... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070256076 - System and method for separating multiple workloads processing in a single computer operating environment: A computing system having multiple processors in which these processors are configured to support a plurality of workload types may provide processing metering by workload types. In such a system, a server control module provides a mechanism for automatically configuring processor sets for processing tasks of each workload type supported... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070256075 - Method, system, and memory for scheduling and cancelling tasks: A memory, system and method for task scheduling and execution, the memory containing a data structure including a scheduling file containing tasks scheduled for execution, and a cancelling file containing references to tasks which execution is cancelled. A scheduler module reads the scheduled tasks of the scheduling file and the... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070256077 - Fair share scheduling based on an individual user's resource usage and the tracking of that usage: Fair share scheduling to divide the total amount of available resource into a finite number of shares and allocate a portion of the shares to an individual user or group of users as a way to specify the resource proportion entitled by the user or group of users. The scheduling... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070256078 - Resource reservation system, method and program product used in distributed cluster environments: A system, method and program product is provided for reserving resources in a computing environment, and especially a distributed cluster environment. The method comprises the steps of analyzing specific requests relating to a received reservation and checking their sufficiency. Resource availability is then checking based on this information. Resources are... Agent: Lily Neff IBM Corporation - Ms P386

20070256079 - Context selection and activation mechanism for activating one of a group of inactive contexts in a processor core for servicing interrupts: A logic system in a data packet processor is provided for selecting and releasing one of a plurality of contexts. The selected and released context is dedicated for enabling the processing of interrupt service routines corresponding to interrupts generated in data packet processing and pending for service. The system comprises,... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.