Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 12/07

20070300221 - Accessing a printer resource provided by a real computer from within a virtual machine: A virtual printer driver or proxy printer driver executed by a virtual machine communicates with a real printer driver executed by a host computer to enable application programs executed by the virtual machine to print data on printers that are accessible by the host computer.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070300218 - Interrupt processing on virtualized platform: A technique to process interrupts on a virtualized platform. A plurality of virtual machines (VMs) runs on the virtualized platform having at least a processor. The VMs include a power VM. A VM scheduler schedules the VMs for execution on the virtualized platform according a scheduling policy. A virtualized interrupt... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070300220 - Remote network access via virtual machine: A virtual machine project manager creates a generic, i.e., not user-specific, virtual machine image file. Copies of this image file may be distributed to one or more users, each of whom may then use an automated procedure to generate a user-specific virtual machine image file and, thus, a user-specific virtual... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070300223 - Virtual machine system and method for switching hardware devices thereof: The present invention provides a virtual machine system and a method for switching hardware devices thereof. In the virtual machine system, the hardware devices are classified into all-time sharing devices, time division switching devices and all-time exclusive devices based on using fashions. For the time division switching devices, the method... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070300219 - Methods and systems for cpu virtualization: A method for running, on a processor in non-privileged mode, different computer programs P while, in a nominal mode, using privileged instructions including running a hypervisor program in privileged mode of the processor, the hypervisor program providing the computer programs P with services substantially equivalent to those available for running... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20070300222 - System for distributed media network and meta data server: A system and method of operation for a distributed media network and meta data server provides a low cost, efficient, reliable and versatile alternative to traditional media network systems. Multiple media data file servers are designated as primary or alternate data file servers for different media data media files. Related... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070300226 - Efficient ticket lock synchronization implementation using early wakeup in the presence of oversubscription: A turn-oriented thread and/or process synchronization facility obtains a ticket value from a monotonically increasing ticket counter and waits until a memory location contains a value equal to the ticket value, yielding the processor between polls of the memory location only if a difference between the ticket value and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070300224 - Method and apparatus to modify a task within a set of tasks: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for processing tasks. A set of one or more tasks is presented on a user interface, wherein the set of tasks are part of a process. A set of one or more policies are associated. Each respective policy is associated... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070300225 - Providing user information to introspection: User introspection is provided to help users achieve goals (e.g., work goals, personal goals) and become more effective at performing tasks. Activities can be monitored, logged, and compared to a set of goals or tasks. Feedback can be provided if a user has deviated from a specified goal or task,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070300227 - Managing execution of mixed workloads in a simultaneous multi-threaded (smt) enabled system: A method, system, and program are provided for managing execution of mixed workloads in a simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) enabled system. In one embodiment, in a SMT enabled processor system, having multiple processors each activated to interleave execution of multiple hardware threads on each processor, for ST workload, the kernel of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070300229 - Configurable application integrating service request and fulfillment process: A method and system for generating a plurality of concurrent solutions for a corresponding plurality of service requests each having one or more service types. The method comprises the steps of defining a set of said service types and a sequence of activities for each said service type; and for... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070300228 - Processor operational status management system: A system inhibits alert monitoring during a predefined time period such as system maintenance by suppressing automatic communication of false alert messages to systems, on call personnel and availability reports and enables future scheduling of planned maintenance events, as well as realtime suppression of alerting during a chosen period. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070300230 - Thread priority based on object creation rates: A method and apparatus for managing thread priority based on object creation rates. Embodiments of the invention provide a thread monitor configured to reduce the execution priority of a thread creating a sufficient number of new objects to be disruptive of system performance. Thus, although the thread may still create... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070300231 - System and method for using performance monitor to optimize system performance: A system, method, and program product that optimizes system performance using performance monitors is presented. The system gathers thread performance data using performance monitors for threads running on either a first ISA processor or a second ISA processor. Multiple first processors and multiple second processors may be included in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070294690 - Enhancing or replacing host operating system functionality by leveraging guest operating system functionality: Techniques for enhancing or replacing host operating system functionality by leveraging guest operating system functionality are disclosed. Incoming data is received from a computing resource of a host operating system, and, before the incoming data is transmitted to a higher-level module in the host operating system, the incoming data is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070294689 - Sharing resources of a partitioned system: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for allocating at least one dedicated core and at least one shareable core to a first partition of a system, where the cores are owned by the first partition. During operation, the shareable core(s) may be made dynamically available for use... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070294691 - Apparatus and method for program execution in portable communication terminal: An apparatus and method for controlling an execution of a program in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a history manager that manages history data required for executing the program, and a controller that estimates a required memory size for executing the program by obtaining a memory size being... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070294695 - Method, system, and apparatus for scheduling computer micro-jobs to execute at non-disruptive times: A method, system, and apparatus to divide a computing job into micro-jobs and allocate the execution of the micro-jobs to times when needed resources comply with one or more idleness criteria is provided. The micro-jobs are executed on an ongoing basis, but only when the resources needed by the micro-jobs... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070294696 - Multi-thread runtime system: A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. This enables greatly increased performance of high-performance... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070294693 - Scheduling thread execution among a plurality of processors based on evaluation of memory access data: Systems and methods for scheduling thread execution among a plurality of processors based on evaluation of memory access data can comprise collecting and evaluating memory access data corresponding to two or more threads. Based on the evaluation results, it can be determined whether to prospectively assign the two or more... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070294692 - Task assignment among multiple devices: A procedure identifies multiple objects or processes to be monitored and identifies multiple devices to monitor the multiple objects or execute the multiple processes. The procedure continues by identifying multiple tasks to be executed by the multiple devices and predicting a trajectory for each of the multiple objects. A determination... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070294694 - Techniques for hardware-assisted multi-threaded processing: Techniques for processing each of multiple threads that share a core processor include receiving an intra-thread register address from the core processor. This address contains C bits for accessing each of 2c registers for each thread. A thread ID is received from a thread scheduler external to the core processor.... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070294697 - Extensible job submission: Briefly, aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to job submission. In aspects, a client (which itself may be a scheduler) sends a request to a scheduler to execute a job. The client may indicate which extensions to a base job submission protocol the client supports. The scheduler may... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20070294701 - Computer implemented method and system for sharing resources among hierarchical containers of resources: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for sharing resources among a plurality of containers in a data processing system. A computer implemented method includes creating a shared container for at least one resource to be shared. Then the at least one resource to be shared is moved... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294699 - Conditionally reserving resources in an operating system: A facility is provided for conditionally reserving resources in an operating system. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication of a conditional reservation declarator that identifies at least a resource, an action, a condition, and a principal. The conditional reservation declarator can specify a directive that corresponds to the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070294700 - Exception view with context: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for the graphical presentation of the contextual relationship between a reported exception and its related resources and/or contributing factors. An exception view is presented to display an abnormally operating resource and the operational state of its related resources and/or contributing factors. Contextually related processes... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20070294698 - Allocation of resources in a computing device: In operation of a computing device, a secure handle is allocated to a process to enable the process to use a resource allocated to another process. The secure handle ensures that the process is not able to identify the resource and that further access to the resource is inhibited after... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070294702 - Method and apparatus for implementing atomicity of memory operations in dynamic multi-streaming processors: A multi-streaming processor has a plurality of streams for streaming one or more instruction threads, a set of functional resources for processing instructions from streams, and a lock mechanism for locking selected memory locations shared by streams of the processor, the hardware-lock mechanism operating to set a lock when an... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070283347 - System and method for collaborative hosting of applications, virtual machines, and data objects: To provide collaborative hosting of applications, the present invention first generates a virtual operating system image consisting of operating system code, application code, runtime code and supporting data repositories. The virtual operating system image may then be sent to and deploying on a physical computer or computer terminal at another... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070283348 - 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

20070283349 - Soft co-processors to provide a software service function off-load architecture in a multi-core processing environment: A method of distributing functions among a plurality of cores in a multi-core processing environment can include organizing cores of the multi-core processing environment into a plurality of different service pools. Each of the plurality of service pools can be associated with at least one function and have at least... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070283350 - System and method for adapting command line interface messaging in a virtual operating system environment: A system, method and computer-readable medium for adapting command line output message streams in a virtualized command line interface (CLI) environment. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a virtualized CLI command is entered and executed. The virtualized CLI command encapsulates a guest operating system command having an... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070283351 - Unified job processing of interdependent heterogeneous tasks: Methods and systems are provided for unified job processing of interdependent heterogeneous tasks within a domain containing a plurality of nodes. Jobs containing components to be processed in the domain are submitted and are identified by type. A job control flow associated with the job type is identified and used... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20070283353 - Selectively monitoring loads to support transactional program execution: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that selectively monitors load instructions to support transactional execution of a process, wherein changes made during the transactional execution are not committed to the architectural state of a processor until the transactional execution successfully completes. Upon encountering a load instruction during... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070283352 - Sub-task mechanism for development of task-based user interfaces: In one embodiment, a method for handling subtasks within a business task includes providing a plurality of user interfaces (UIs) pertaining to the business task having at least one subtask step. The subtask step has a subtask defined within the business task by an intermediate user to reuse a portion... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070283354 - Tracking customer defined workload of a computing environment: Workloads, as defined by customers, are tracked on an individual basis. This tracking enables a customer to identify the amount of resources consumed by a particular workload. The customer defines the workload to be tracked, and that workload is tracked using a Unit of Work value. The Unit of Work... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070283356 - Multi-threaded processor with deferred thread output control: A multi-threaded processor is provided that internally reorders output threads thereby avoiding the need for an external output reorder buffer. The multi-threaded processor writes its thread results back to an internal memory buffer to guarantee that thread results are outputted in the same order in which the threads are received.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070283357 - Techniques for reducing thread overhead for systems with multiple multi-theaded processors: Techniques for processing requests from a processing thread for a shared resource shared among threads on one or more processors include receiving a bundle of requests from a portion of a thread that is executed during a single wake interval on a particular processor. The bundle includes multiple commands for... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070283355 - Computer system, servers constituting the same, and job execution control method and program: [Constitution] A center server 100 which requests process servers on a grid computing network to execute jobs includes a scheduler section 110 which assigns a job to be executed to a process server and issues a job execution request, and a PS agent section 120 which manages information about the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070283358 - Method for controlling heterogeneous multiprocessor and multigrain parallelizing compiler: A heterogeneous multiprocessor system including a plurality of processor elements having mutually different instruction sets and structures avoids a specific processor element from being short of resources to improve throughput. An executable task is extracted based on a preset depending relationship between a plurality of tasks, and the plurality of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070283359 - Drawing resources: This disclosure relates to drawing within a computer environment using a drawing resource. The computer environment includes a managed code portion and a native code portion. The computer environment compares a draw parameter call value being passed from the managed code portion to the native code portion with a stored... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070283360 - Capacity management and predictive planning systems and methods thereof: A method, computer readable medium and system for capacity management and predictive planning includes monitoring one or more factors related to an overall load on at least one of one or more server systems and trending a rate of change of at least one of the one or more monitored... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070283361 - Processor time-sharing method: Method for sharing the execution time of a physical processor (1) between at least two computer programs, the processor including a specific execution mode, referred to as the secure mode, having exclusive access to specific resources (3, 8, 9), and a first computer program, referred to as secure program, being... Agent: Young & Thompson