Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 02/08

20080052709 - Method and system for protecting hard disk data in virtual context: The present invention discloses a method for protecting hard disk data in a virtual context, which comprises: a virtual machine monitor acquires information on a hard disk storage unit needed to be protected as instructed by a user; the virtual machine monitor acquires information on a hard disk storage unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080052708 - Data processing system with a plurality of subsystems and method thereof: A method of virtual dividing of data processing system and a data processing system, for providing a plurality of physical or virtual sub data processing systems under the same data processing system interface, wherein each of sub data processing systems can achieve different applications; the security of different sub data... Agent: Yang Xiumei C/o Zhong Juhang Network Information Center

20080052710 - User-friendly image processing system, mobile terminal, image processing apparatus, and recording medium: A printing system includes an image formation apparatus for executing a print job of forming an image that has been received, and upon completing the print job, transmitting a notification of completion to the print job transmission source, and a client terminal for transmitting, to the image formation apparatus, the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080052711 - Highly componentized system architecture with loadable virtual memory manager: The present invention is directed to a loadable virtual memory manager, and generally to a computer operating system capable of supporting application programs running in a computer having a working memory, the computer operating system including a kernel resident in the working memory at run time, and a loadable virtual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080052712 - Method and system for selecting optimal clusters for batch job submissions: A method and system for selecting optimal clusters for batch job submissions is provided. The method includes receiving a job request for a class and determining a number of jobs waiting in a queue for the class at each of a group of batch clusters. The method also includes determining... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080052713 - Method and system for distributing unused processor cycles within a dispatch window: A system for managing processor cycles. A set of uncapped partitions are identified that are ready-to-run in response to unused processor cycles being present in a dispatch window. A number of candidate partitions are identified from the identified set of uncapped partitions based on a history of usage where each... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052715 - Backfill scheduling of applications based on data of the applications: Backfill scheduling techniques are used to schedule execution of applications, either on a local computing unit or a remote unit. In determining whether a particular application is to be scheduled to execute on a local unit or a remote unit, the data associated with that application is considered. As examples,... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080052714 - Method, apparatus and software for managing processing for a plurality of processors: A method, apparatus or software for managing processing for a plurality of processors in a multi processor device is disclosed in which a plurality of jobs are assigned as pending jobs for processing by the processors. Each pending job and its associated task are identified. Processing is initiated by one... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080052716 - Method and apparatus to control priority preemption of tasks: A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program product for controlling preemption rates. A scheduler identifies a preemption interval in response to a plurality of processes being executed by a processor. Only a single preemption of a process occurs during the preemption interval. The scheduler preempts a currently... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052717 - Multitask managing apparatus and method in mobile communication system: A mobile communication system is provided. A multitask managing method in the mobile communication system, which includes determining if a specific key is input to switch a specific task of currently running tasks to a main task; when the specific key is input, displaying the currently running tasks together with... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080052719 - Resource management system: A resource management system for managing resources in a computing and/or communications resource infrastructure is disclosed. The system comprises a database for storing a model of the resource infrastructure. The database defines a set of resources provided by the infrastructure; a set of software applications operating within the infrastructure and... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080052720 - Dynamic query optimization: Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically adjusting computer resources, as appropriate, in response to predictions of query runtimes as well as for rendering costs of the computer resources actually utilized, which costs are consistent with consumer demands.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080052718 - Resource management: The invention relates to a method, device and system for management of resource in a communication network having a resource owner (RO) providing the resource and at least one resource user (RU) using the resource. According to the present invention a resource broker is introduced between the resource owner and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080052721 - Dynamic affinity mapping to reduce usage of less reliable resources: An information handling system and method of operating an information handling system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises monitoring a system resource for operation according to at least one operating parameter. When the system resource is operating outside of the operating parameter, an affinity parameter for the system... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080052722 - Information processing method and apparatus: An information processing apparatus, which executes processing tasks according to a job flow that defines the sequence by which the tasks are to be executed, obtains property data that describes restrictions on processes being executed by a given processing task that pertain to the data that is being manipulated by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080052723 - Load balancing algorithm: Load balancing is the problem of assigning tasks to a plurality of resources in a way such that the assignment is optimal in some sense. This problem has been of significant industrial importance where jobs, that require same or different amount of time on various machines, have to be assigned... Agent: Abhishek Khanna

20080052724 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: The function restriction information of a designated flow executor is acquired. The acquired function restriction information is analyzed. An operation screen that identifiably displays process contents executable by the flow executor in association with setting target functions to be set in the flow is displayed on the basis of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080052725 - Runtime code modification in a multi-threaded environment: A code region forming part of a computer program is modified during execution of the computer program by a plurality of threads. In one aspect, identical modification instructions are provided to each thread for modifying a site in the code region having a desirable idempotent atomic modification, and the modification... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080052726 - Application connector parallelism in enterprise application integration systems: A system and method for responding to requests for processing made by an integration broker to an application having a single threaded application programmer interface, comprising receiving a request for processing; determining whether the received request is event-triggered or call-triggered; sending the request to a slave process assigned to event-triggered... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080046885 - System and method for transferring data between virtual machines or other computer entities: A method for communication between first and second computer programs having a shared memory. The first computer program has a first work dispatcher for a first work queue. The second computer program has a second work dispatcher for a second work queue. Without causing an interrupt, a message or data... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080046886 - Auditing application activities: A compiled application may be audited by analyzing the compiled application to identify methods that may be called during execution of the compiled application. The identified methods may be correlated with controllable activities, i.e., those activities facilitated by public APIs. An audit report may be used to report to a... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080046887 - Method and apparatus to manage multi-computer supply: A method and structure for determining a listing of host processors on a network to perform a parallel application, including determining a listing of all possible hosts on the network for performing the parallel application, determining for each of the possible hosts a current capacity and a current utilization, calculating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080046888 - Framework for rule-based execution and scheduling of tasks in mobile devices: A system is provided. The system comprises a component to receive a device management object. The device management object includes a rule node containing a rule that promotes control of execution of a task on a mobile device based on a parameter in a node in the device management object.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080046889 - Deallocation of computer data in a multithreaded computer: An apparatus, program product and method support the deallocation of a data structure in a multithreaded computer without requiring the use of computationally expensive semaphores or spin locks. Specifically, access to a data structure is governed by a shared pointer that, when a request is received to deallocate the data... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080046891 - Cooperative asymmetric multiprocessing for embedded systems: Cooperative Asymmetric Multiprocessing allows for operating systems to function independently of each other on multiple processors sharing common resources in an embedded system. However, some degree of cooperation is required because there are resources with single instances shared across both cores, such as interrupt controller, boot sequencer, DMA engines, etc.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080046890 - Method and apparatus for balancing workloads in a cluster: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a dynamic cluster. Processor usage is monitored in the dynamic cluster, wherein applications execute on partitions in the dynamic cluster. In response to a determination that the processor usage exceeds a threshold level, applications are rebalanced within the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080046892 - Method and apparatus to manage multi-computer supply: A method and structure for determining a listing of host processors on a network to perform a parallel application, including determining a listing of all possible hosts on the network for performing the parallel application, determining for each of the possible hosts a current capacity and a current utilization, calculating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080046893 - Methods for running priority-based application threads on a realtime component: Systems and methods for processing priority-based application threads on a realtime component are described. A mixing component submits blank buffers to the realtime component. The mixing component receives application thread data according to a priority-based schedule and writes the data using a second real-time thread to the buffers before the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046895 - Affinity dispatching load balancer with precise cpu consumption data: A computer-implemented method for distributing a plurality of tasks over a plurality of processing nodes in a processor network includes the following steps: calculating a task process consumption value for the tasks; calculating a measured node processor consumption value for the nodes; calculating a target node processor consumption value for... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080046894 - Management for a heterogeneous pool of processors for the assignment of additional load: An exemplary method implements load management for large granularity processes on application processors, APs. First data associated with the primary processes running on each AP is periodically collected, where the first data is proportional to processor occupancy, PO, for the primary processes running on each AP. Second data associated with... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080040715 - Virtualizing performance counters: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for virtualizing performance counters are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a counter, a counter enable storage location, counter enable logic, and virtual machine control logic. The counter enable storage location is store a counter enable indicator. The counter enable logic is to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080040716 - Universal appliance: A universal appliance combines the benefits of a fixed-function CE device with the generality of a PC. The universal appliance includes a host environment for supporting fixed functions and virtual machines that can provide general computing capabilities (e.g., a Windows® OS). The user can select fixed functions and virtual machines... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040717 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for transaction recovery: Method, apparatus and computer program product for transaction resolution in a system comprising a transaction manager, a plurality of resource managers and a connection distributor for distributing transaction requests from the transaction manager amongst the plurality of resource managers. The transaction manager is allocated a first resource manager via which... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080040719 - Electronic device, control method and control program: An electronic device that exercises control over processes arbitrary in number for execution using a control program, including: storage means for forming each of the processes for execution by the electronic device with any of various combinations of a plurality of unit processes, creating, for each of the processes, the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080040718 - Method and apparatus for queuing data flows: In a data system, such as a cable modem termination system, different-priority flows are scheduled to be routed to their logical destinations by factoring both the priority level and the time spent in queue. The time that each packet of each flow spends waiting for transmission is normalized such that... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080040720 - Efficiently boosting priority of read-copy update readers in a real-time data processing system: A technique for efficiently boosting the priority of a preemptable data reader in order to eliminate impediments to grace period processing that defers the destruction of one or more shared data elements that may be referenced by the reader until the reader is no longer capable of referencing the data... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080040724 - Instruction dispatching method and apparatus: A system, apparatus and method for instruction dispatch on a multi-thread processing device are described herein. The instruction dispatching method includes, in an instruction execution period having a plurality of execution cycles, successively fetching and issuing an instruction for each of a plurality of instruction execution threads according to an... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080040721 - Method and system for creating and utilizing virtual hardware resources: A data-processing method and system generally comprises identifying a plurality of hardware resources associated with a data-processing apparatus, time-slicing the plurality of hardware resources. Thereafter the plurality of active hardware resources can be allocated among a plurality of active hardware resources associated with the data-processing apparatus, thereby allowing a limited... Agent: Peter Scott, Senior Corporate Counsel Lsi Logic Corporation

20080040723 - Method and system for writing and reading application data: The present invention relates to backup solutions in electronic computing systems and in particular to a method and respective system for managing the storage of application data on a removable storage medium and mounting the removable medium on a according driver device, wherein the application data is cached in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080040722 - Compiler system, method and software for a resilient integrated circuit architecture: The exemplary embodiments provide a compiler for a resilient integrated circuit. An exemplary IC comprises a plurality of composite circuit elements, a state machine element (SME), and a plurality of communication elements. Each composite circuit element comprises an element interface and a selected circuit element which may vary by element... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20080040725 - Method and apparatus for a parallel model of tasks including abstracted execution and software development: Parallel processing is implemented by the deconstruction of a task into a set of dependency nodes in a dependency map. Brokers are used to dynamically identify and assign workers (processing units capable of performing work) to each of the nodes. Each node may be associated with a contract and/or a... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080034364 - Sharing live appliances: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for publishing, subscribing to, or playing live appliances. A live appliance includes a current virtual machine image. In publishing, a proxy file of a live appliance file type is provided to the publisher. The type is mapped to a live... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034365 - System and method for providing hardware virtualization in a virtual machine environment: A system and method for providing hardware virtualization and resource management in a virtual machine environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an application server environment includes a computer system, application server, and virtual machine (for example, a Java Virtual Machine or JVM). In accordance with an embodiment, a virtualization layer... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080034366 - Virtual computer system with dynamic resource reallocation: A virtual computer system including a reallocation means, in which a plurality of LPAR are operated by logically dividing physical resources composing a physical computer exclusively or in time dividing manner so as to dynamically change reallocation of physical resources among each of LPARs. Based on load conditions measured by... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080034367 - Message processing in a service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080034368 - A system and method for schedule interrupt cost analysis: A system and method for performing cost analysis on airplane schedule interruptions comprises entering data relating to schedule interrupt events. All schedule interrupt events for a specified period of time are then summarized. Partial schedule interrupt event counts are removed when calculating average delay hours associated with a particular schedule... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080034369 - Method and apparatus for processing jobs on an enterprise-wide computer system: A method and apparatus for processing jobs on an enterprise-wide computer system. The computer system uses a portal architecture to allow a user to view a wide variety of content retrieved from a variety of different computer systems. The computer system is configured such that a plurality of users can... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080034370 - Method for balancing resource sharing and application latency within a data processing system: A technique for managing application workloads in a data processing system includes establishing a reserve resource allocation of a data processing resource for use by a data processing application having a need to utilize the resource, sharing a portion of the resource that is not part of the reserve resource... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080034371 - Using police threads to detect dependence violations to reduce speculative parallelization overhead: A method for detecting a dependence violation in an application that involves executing a plurality of sections of the application in parallel, and logging memory transactions that occur while executing the plurality of sections to obtain a plurality of logs and a plurality of temporary results, where the plurality of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun