Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 01/08

20080028402 - Method of setting operation environment and computer system: In a method of setting an operation environment of a first computer using a first disk to a second computer using a second disk, an operation of the first computer is suspended. The method further includes producing a list of files contained in a copy image as at least a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080028399 - System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine cpu utilization of a network driver domain based on observed communication through a virtualized interface: A method comprises observing communication through a virtualized interface between at least one virtual machine (VM) and a driver domain. The method further comprises determining for each of the at least one VM, based on the observed communication through the virtualized interface, an amount of communication between the VM and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028398 - System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine cpu utilization of a network driver domain based on weighted communication: A method comprises observing communication through a virtualized interface between at least one virtual machine (VM) and a driver domain. Based on the observed communication through the virtualized interface, a weighted amount of communication between the VM and the driver domain is determined for each of the VM(s), wherein the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028397 - System and method for controlling aggregate cpu usage by virtual machines and driver domains: A method comprises determining an aggregate usage of CPU attributable to a given virtual machine (VM), wherein the aggregate usage of CPU attributable to the given VM includes a determined amount of CPU usage by a driver domain, such as by a network driver domain, that is attributable to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028400 - Virtualization comprising integration of host and guest user interfaces: A virtualization solution provides a streamlined end-to-end user experience through the integration of the host user interface and the guest user interface, hiding the complexities and incongruities of the underlying virtualization engine. The guest environment is controlled by a graphical user interface of the host system via an initialization menu,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080028401 - Software executables having virtual hardware, operating systems, and networks: Software executables having virtual hardware, operating systems, and networks are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a web browser running on a host operating system, a dispatcher that receives a first application to be run on a virtual operating... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080028404 - Apparatus and method for controlling operation of portable terminal having multimedia function: An apparatus and method for controlling an operation of a portable terminal having a multimedia function are provided. The apparatus includes a multimedia processor for performing the multimedia function when a controller is in a sleep mode wherein the controller is converted to an active mode when a specified key... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080028403 - Method and apparatus for communicating between threads: A method and apparatus for communicating between threads in a processor. The method includes reserving a first portion of a cache in a processor for an inbox. The inbox is associated with a first thread being executed by the processor. The method also includes receiving a packet from a second... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080028405 - Distribution of job in a portable format in distributed computing environments: A distributed computing system includes a device that creates a job to be performed by one or more workers, where the job includes a group of tasks. The device further encodes the job into a group of portable format files, where each portable format file includes one or more tasks... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080028406 - Process replication method and system: A process replication method for use in a multi-threaded computing environment, for improving application performance, reducing the number of deadlocks and fork safing code. The method comprises acquiring and locking available mutexes from a plurality of mutexes, determining whether any unavailable mutexes from the plurality of mutexes are held by... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028407 - Method and system for distribution of maintenance tasks in a mulitprocessor computer system: A method for distributing low-priority maintenance tasks in a computer system employing a plurality of central processing units. In an illustrative embodiment, an activity flag is assigned to each of the plurality of central processing units. After a network packet is received, it is processed in one of the plurality... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028408 - Logical partitioning and virtualization in a heterogeneous architecture: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for logical partitioning and virtualization in heterogeneous computer architecture. In one illustrative embodiment, a portion of a first set of processors of a first type is allocated to a partition in a heterogeneous logically partitioned system and a portion of a second... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080028412 - Method for the administration of resources: A method for the administration of resources, in which classes or instances, respectively, are assigned to the resources and a program receives a rule assigned to the class or instance, respectively, and applies it to the resource. It is made sure that only rules assigned to the class or instance,... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080028411 - System and method for controlling aggregate cpu usage by virtual machines and driver domains over a plurality of scheduling intervals: A method comprises determining an amount of central processing unit (CPU) usage by a driver domain on behalf of a given virtual machine (VM) over a measurement period. The method further comprises determining a share of CPU to schedule for the given VM for a plurality of future scheduling intervals... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028409 - System and method for determining allocation of resource access demands to different classes of service based at least in part on permitted degraded performance: A method comprises receiving into a planning tool a representative workload for a consumer. The method further comprises receiving into the planning tool quality of service desires of the consumer which define permitted degraded performance. In certain embodiments, the permitted degraded performance is time-limited wherein demands of the representative workload... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028410 - Systems and methods for flexibly controlling resource usage by a driver domain on behalf of a virtual machine: A method comprises determining a flexible limit on an amount of resource usage by a driver domain on behalf of a given virtual machine (VM). The method further comprises controlling the resource usage by the driver domain on behalf of the given VM so as not to exceed the flexible... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080028413 - Concurrent physical processor reassignment: Reassignment of a physical processor backing a logical processor is performed concurrently to the operation of the processor. The operating state of one physical processor is loaded on another physical processor, such that the logical processor is backed by a different physical processor. This reassignment is performed concurrent to processor... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080028414 - Efficient processing of operator graphs representing three-dimensional character animation: An operator graph representing three-dimensional animation can be analyzed to identify subgraphs of the operator graph in which operators are not required to operate in a serialized manner. Such a condition may arise, for example, when two operators are not dependent on each other for data. This condition may arise... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20080028415 - Methods and apparatus for sharing slack in a time-partitioned system: In a multitasking system executing real-time harmonic and dynamic tasks having various priority levels, slack is stolen from both timeline and reclaimed slack to enable the execution of high priority non-essential tasks on a best efforts basis. Counts of the amount of slack consumed, slack reclaimed, and periodic compute time... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080022277 - Method for controlling storage policy according to volume activity: A storage virtualization system is disclosed for performing data migration operations among the virtual LU (logical units) defined by the system. In one aspect of the present invention, the selection of a target virtual LU is based on a policy that makes a recommendation relating to the target virtual LU.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080022279 - Mobile communication terminal and method for controlling a background task: A mobile communication terminal and a method for controlling a background task is disclosed that can increase user convenience by controlling the background task simply. The method includes running foreground and background tasks simultaneously by a multitasking operation; inputting a selection key to directly call a task setting window for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080022278 - System and method for dynamically partitioning an application across multiple processing elements in a heterogeneous processing environment: A system and method for dividing an application into a number of logical program partitions is presented. Each of these logical program partitions are stored in a logical program package along with a execution monitor. The execution monitor runs in one of the processing environments of a heterogeneous processing environment.... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080022280 - Fair weighted proportional-share virtual time scheduler: A method comprises scheduling, by a weighted proportional-share virtual time processor scheduler, processor access to a first consumer during a time period in which a second consumer is blocked from processor access. When the second consumer becomes unblocked from processor access, the weighted proportional-share virtual time processor scheduler determines whether... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080022282 - System and method for evaluating performance of a workload manager: A system comprises a workload manager evaluator operable to receive a representative workload that is representative of competing workloads that share access to at least one shared computing resource. The workload manager evaluator is operable to evaluate performance of a scheduler that schedules access of the competing workloads to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080022281 - Trusted communications with child processes: A method to identify a child process to a parent process in an operating system includes obtaining a token and login identifier from the operating system. The parent process creates a remote procedure call communications endpoint to communicate with the child process. Thereafter, a child process is spawned by the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080022283 - Quality of service scheduling for simultaneous multi-threaded processors: A method and system for providing quality of service guarantees for simultaneous multithreaded processors are disclosed. Hardware and operating system communicate with one another providing information relating to thread attributes for threads executing on processing elements. The operating system controls scheduling of the threads based at least partly on the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080022284 - System and method for allocating capacity of shared resources to a workload: A method comprises defining a scheduler parameter for a maximum allocation of capacity of a shared resource to a consumer for a scheduling interval. Utilization of an allocated capacity of the shared resource by the consumer during a given scheduling interval is measured, and when the allocated capacity of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080022285 - System and method for evaluating a workload and its impact on performance of a workload manager: A system comprises a workload evaluator that is operable to receive a representative workload that is representative of competing demands for capacity of at least one shared computing resource. The workload evaluator evaluates the representative workload and computes a metric representing a degree of burstiness of demands present in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080022286 - Resource allocation in a numa architecture based on application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources: An apparatus, program product and method in which application program-specified resource allocation and allocation strength preferences are used to allocate hardware resources from a computer for that application program. The resource allocation preference is used to allocate hardware resources for the application program, while the allocation strength preference is used... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080022287 - Method and system for transferring budgets in a technique for restrained budget use: A method (10) for controlling multiple tasks in a real-time operating system (30) assigns levels of importance to two or more tasks (31, 32). A first task (31) is assigned to be a More Important Task. A second task (32) is assigned to be a Less Important Task. A Guaranteed... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080022288 - Signal processing appatatus: Signal stream processing jobs contain tasks (100), each task (100) to be performed by repeated execution of an operation that processes a chunk of data from a stream. Each job comprises a plurality of the tasks (100) in stream communication with one another. A plurality of processing units (10), which... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080016506 - Data management system: A data management system includes a client apparatus, an image processing server, and a database. The client apparatus sets whether to extract text data from a print rendering command. According to the data management system, an appropriate text extraction method can be set according to an application. When a setting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080016507 - Computer system: A computer system which includes a plurality of threads and a garbage collector that traces memory objects and identifies memory objects according to a three-color abstraction. The computer system also includes two methods of deleting compiled code in a self-modifying multi-threaded computer system. The computer system also utilizes a method... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080016508 - Distributed processing management apparatus, distributed processing management method and distributed processing management program: In a distributed processing management apparatus, server 3 has a node table 5, a job management table 6 and a job class table 7 in order to manage the resource status such as the CPU operating ratio of each node in every predetermined time period. When the operating ratio of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080016509 - Microcomputer system: A microcomputer system includes a CPU, a memory, and a runaway detector. The CPU includes a controller for outputting a task information signal. The task information signal is activated, if the CPU performs the most important task at the present time. A program for the most important task is stored... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080016510 - Event-driven flow control for a very high-speed switching node: A method for controlling the flows of data packets that are switched or routed at nodes of high-speed communication networks is disclosed. According to the invention, resource metering units are assigned to resources shared between devices of the switch or router e.g., shared memories or link bandwidths. When the occupancy... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080016511 - Method and computer program product for offloading processing tasks from software to hardware: Offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device. The computing task is then performed by the peripheral, thereby saving computer system resources for other computing tasks. In one preferred embodiment, the disclosed method is utilized in a layered... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080016512 - Program distribution method and computer system: Provided is a program distribution method in a managing computer for distributing a program to at least one apparatus each including a processor, a memory, and a communication interface. The method comprises steps of: storing program request information indicating a condition required for executing the program; judging whether an apparatus... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080010640 - Synchronisation of execution threads on a multi-threaded processor: A method and apparatus are provided for synchronising execution of a plurality of threads on a multi-threaded processor. Each thread is provided with a number of synchronisation points and execution of a thread is paused when it reaches a synchronisation point. It then waits for at least one other thread... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080010639 - System and method for remotely re-imaging a computer system: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for remotely re-imaging a computer system. In one example, a method is provided for executing a re-imaging process for replacing an original image on an active system of a remote computer system with a new image. The method includes receiving a... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080010641 - Apparatus and method for guaranteed batch event delivery in a process control system: A controller controls one or more process elements in a process control system. The controller also generates and buffers multiple events associated with operation of the controller. Each event is associated with a unique identifier, such as a numerical identifier. A supervisory device receives at least some of the events... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080010642 - Method, system and computer program for scheduling execution of work units with monitoring of progress thereof: A solution (400) for scheduling execution of jobs is proposed. The submission of the jobs is generally controlled according to a production plan (406), which specifies a required finish time of critical jobs. In the proposed solution, a current progress of each critical job is monitored (427-430)—such as comparing a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080010643 - Multiprocessor system and access right setting method in the multiprocessor system: An access of a processor having an access right to a shared resource is affected by the polling operation of a processor having no access right. A multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors, and a shared resource that can be accessed by the plural processors, the multiprocessor system includes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500