Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 03/08

20080077916 - Virtual heterogeneous channel for message passing: A technique includes using a virtual channel between a first process and a second process to communicate messages between the processes. Each message contains protocol data and user data. All of the protocol data is communicated over a first channel associated with the virtual channel, and the user data is... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080077917 - Virtual machine system and a method for sharing a graphics card amongst virtual machines: The present invention provides a virtual machine system and a method for sharing a graphics card amongst virtual machines. A VMM of the virtual machine system is provided with a resource-converting module, which converts data exchanged between a graphics card drive module of a GOS in the foreground and the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080077918 - Apparatus and method for packet based storage virtualization: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for data processing and virtualization. The method and apparatus are configured to receive communications, separate a command communication from a data communication, parallel process the command communication and the data communication, generate at least one virtual command based on the command communication,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080077919 - Logically partitioned multifunctional apparatus: A multifunctional apparatus includes a hardware resource, a plurality of functional systems, and a hypervisor. The hypervisor partitions the hardware resource into a plurality of logical partitions and allocates the plurality of logical partitions respectively to the plurality of functional systems.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080077921 - Effective use of a hardware barrier synchronization register for protocol synchronization: A barrier synchronization register, accessible to the nodes in a distributed data processing system, has portions thereof allotted to threads which are present in multiple groups. The barrier synchronization register portion allotted to a given thread has stored therein, over time, group identifier numbers. In this way the state space... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080077922 - Multi-level memory architecture: The present invention provides a method and system for providing multi-level memory protection. The method includes defining a hierarchy of one or more parent process and their respective child processes. The method further includes building a data structure for defining access rights of each of the parent process and their... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080077924 - System and method for distributing and executing program code in a control unit network: A system and a method for distributing and executing program code in a control unit network, in which at least one of the units is able to detect a defect in its hardware and is able to transmit its code to at least one other control unit in the network,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080077920 - System for suggesting training: A system for suggesting training includes generating a process flow model made-up of tasks, identifying a target task in the process flow model that fails or is not performed according to one or more predefined criteria, identifying critical tasks which are necessary to perform the target task, and suggesting training... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080077923 - Methods for synchronous code retrieval from an asynchronous source: The present invention discloses methods for delivering code to a host system including the steps of: accepting a CPU request, from a host-system processor of the host system, for a code segment; initiating a retrieval process to retrieve the code segment; upon expiration of a predetermined time, checking whether the... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080077925 - Fault tolerant system for execution of parallel jobs: The present invention provides a fault tolerant system and method for parallel job execution. In the proposed solution the job state and the state transition control are decoupled. The job execution infrastructure maintains the state information for all the executing jobs, and the job control units, one per-job, control the... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080077926 - Multi-threaded processing using path locks: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a thread scheduler data that indicates a first thread is to execute next a particular instruction path in software to access a particular portion of a shared computational resource. The thread scheduler determines whether a different second thread is exclusively eligible to... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080077928 - Multiprocessor system: A multiprocessor system includes a processor unit including a core A including a first processing mechanism for improving processing performance of data processing and a PM unit for collecting usage information of hardware resources being used or used in data processing and a core B having a second processing mechanism... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077927 - Entitlement management system: An entitlement management system for distributing spare CPU processor resources to a plurality of deployment groups operating in a data processing system, the system comprising: a deployment group entitlement component comprising: an allocation component for allocating a plurality of micro-partitions to a deployment group; a determining component for identifying spare... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080077929 - Runtime-resource management: A runtime-resource management method, system, and product for managing resources available to application components in a portable device. The method, system, and product provide for loading one or more new application components into a portable device only if maximum runtime resources required by the one or more new application components... Agent: Ibm Corporation (syl-rsw) C/o Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP

20080077931 - Load distributing apparatus: A load distributing apparatus according to the present invention is directed to a load distributing apparatus for supplying a processing, for which a request was issued from a client terminal, to multiple information processing apparatuses. The load distributing apparatus includes load monitoring means for monitoring operating states of the multiple... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077930 - Workload partitioning in a parallel system with hetergeneous alignment constraints: A process, compiler, computer program product and system for workload partitioning in a heterogeneous system. The process includes determining heterogeneous alignment constraints in the workload, partitioning a portion of tasks to a processing element sensitive to alignment constraints, and partitioning a remaining portion of tasks to a processing element not... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080077932 - Mechanism for automatically managing the resource consumption of transactional workloads: The present invention relates to a method of workload management in a computer system (100), in which units of work (152) are organized into service classes (121), to which a certain amount of system resources (140) is provided, and in which a number of service class periods (122) is associated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080077933 - Implementation of composite services: An example embodiment includes a device assigned to fulfill a task of a composite service. The device may include a processing unit to determine a further device to fulfill a further task of the composite service. The further device may have a transactional property that complies with a transactional requirement... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080077934 - Method and apparatus for thread-safe handlers for checkpoints and restarts: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for executing a handler in a multi-threaded process handling a number of threads in a manner that avoids deadlocks. A value equal to the number of threads executing in the data processing system is set. The value is decremented each time a lock count... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080077935 - Method and system for automated handling of resolvable and non-resolvable errors in execution of system management flows consisting of system management tasks: The present invention provides a method and system for automated handling of resolvable and non-resolvable errors in the execution of system management flows by enhancing Workflow Engines (30) by an Error Handling component (40) and by adding a supportive Error Handling Layer (60,90,100) to invoked system management tasks which serves... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080072222 - Client outsourcing service: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing computers. The computers are deployed on a network for use by users in response to forming a contractual agreement to provide outsourcing management of the computers. The computers include virtual machines. A computing environment of a user is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080072224 - Enhanced store facility list system and operation: A method is provided for recording a list of facilities available to a program executing on an information processing system. In such method a storage location and a length of data are defined for recording the list of facilities by a program being executed on the information processing system. An... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080072221 - Event stream conditioning: A distributed event processing system that can organize (e.g., order) input streams regardless of actual time of receipt is provided. This order may simply be arrival order or given explicitly on a specific event attribute, such as a timestamp or sequence number. Traditional standing event queries, such as a temporal... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080072223 - Method and apparatus for supporting assignment of devices of virtual machines: A processing system includes at least one processing unit, at least one bus, and at least one device on the bus. A virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the processing system determines whether a base address register (BAR) of the device specifies a barred region size of less than one page.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080072225 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus capable of acquiring a user's document operation history and searching for a related document even when documents and information to be searched for are managed under plural and different systems and applications is disclosed, including a document operation event acquiring section acquiring the document operation event... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080072226 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for transaction based load balancing: In a packet-based transaction processing system, workload is balanced across multiple computer systems. A plurality of packets is received from a plurality of clients over a plurality of communications sessions. Each of the plurality of packets includes a portion of a transaction involving a financial transaction instrument that requires authorization.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080072227 - Processor with hardware solution for priority inversion: A method for preventing priority inversion in a processor system having an operating system operable in a plurality of contexts is provided. The method comprises: providing a plurality of context control registers with each context control register being associated with a corresponding one context for controlling execution of the context;... Agent: Donald J. Lenkszus

20080072228 - System and method for delayed priority boost: A system and method is provided for delaying a priority boost of an execution thread. When a thread prepares to enter a critical section of code, such as when the thread utilizes a shared system resource, a user mode accessible data area is updated indicating that the thread is in... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080072231 - Resource management apparatus: A resource management apparatus has a plurality of resource bidding sections and a bidding management section. Each of the resource bidding sections is provided for a plurality of application programs respectively, and generates the bid price of a resource using information of a quality parameter indicating the quality of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080072229 - System administration method and apparatus: A system, device, and method are provided for managing one or more computer resource systems. More specifically, the present invention provides for the automated maintenance of a computer resource and gradual change of management policies based upon a state of the computer resource. Moreover, the present invention is capable of... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080072232 - Methods and apparatus for selecting a server to process a request: The invention is directed to techniques for selecting a resource from several resources to process a request from a client. A client sends the request to a data communications device (e.g., network device or switch), which measures usage information from usage meters associated with each resource (e.g., server). The data... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080072230 - System and method of providing system jobs within a compute environment: The invention relates to systems, methods and computer-readable media for using system jobs for performing actions outside the constraints of batch compute jobs submitted to a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. The method for modifying a compute environment from a system job comprises associating a system... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20080072234 - Method and apparatus for executing commands from a drawing/graphics editor using task interaction pattern recognition: A system and method for generating graphical images and drawing images utilizing a drawing editor having a plurality of functions that manipulate data from which the screen display is generated is disclosed. A plurality of task modes are designated and each function that manipulates data is associated with one of... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080072233 - Method, computer program, and system for processing several document processing jobs: In a method for processing of a plurality of document processing jobs in a computer-aided document processing system, job chaperone data are generated that identify a preferred job processing apparatus relative to other job processing apparatuses of a same type in a job provider computer with respect to a document... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080072235 - Method for locating, resolving and invoking software functions: A method to locate, resolve, and invoke software functions, wherein the method forms a request comprising a resource identifier, resolves the request to an endpoint, evaluates the request by the endpoint to generate a resource representation.... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20080072236 - Data processing system: A data processing system comprising an operating system for supporting processes, such that the process are associated with one or more resources and the operating system being arranged to police the accessing by processes of resources so as to inhibit a process from accessing resources with which it is not... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080066065 - Software robot apparatus: A software robot apparatus (sobot apparatus) with a genetic code is disclosed. The sobot apparatus includes an application module, an artificial animated object engine, a sobot protocol module, an update agent, an update protocol module, a network interface, a sobot player, a script engine, a player database, a repository interface,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080066067 - Enterprise performance management software system having action-based data capture: Techniques are described of entering and presenting data in an enterprise planning and performance management system. As disclosed herein, the techniques facilitate the capture and entry of data into an underlying multidimensional dataset through action-based forms. In addition, the techniques allow reviewers to use spreadsheet-like views of the captured data.... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080066066 - Task queue suitable for processing systems that use multiple processing units and shared memory: A processing system includes a task queue to serve as a circular buffer. Each record in the queue may include a status field and a task field. A producer thread in the processing system may determine whether the queue is full, based on the status field in the record at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080066068 - System and method for prepreparing a transaction process involving a chain of servers in a circular flow: A system and method for allowing transaction callback processing to be synchronized or to take effect prior to completion of a transaction or message. Additional objects that will take part in the transaction can be registered on any server during the transaction's active phase. After the commit function is called,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080066069 - Thread interception and analysis: Apparatus and methods for intercepting and analyzing threads are disclosed. In one embodiment, a thread data recorder is configured to instrument one or more existing functions by modifying computer executable instructions in the functions to intercept threads calling the functions. In one possible implementation, the number of existing functions instrumented... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080066071 - Capturing effort level by task upon check-in to source control management system: Techniques are provided for capturing the ID of a work item, and the corresponding effort level information, as a part of the actual check-in process of the artifacts into the underlying change management system. This effort information can then be propagated to an external system for subsequent reporting and analysis.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080066070 - Method and system for the dynamic scheduling of jobs in a computing system: A method of executing jobs includes obtaining a first plurality of scheduled jobs, setting a first trigger threshold based on at least one of the first plurality of scheduled jobs, executing the first plurality of scheduled jobs, receiving a submitted job during the execution of the first plurality of scheduled... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080066072 - Work allocation model: A system and method for allocating, processes to a plurality of resources analyses an available resource capacity for a plurality of resources, generates resource assignment sets and corresponding schedule parameters, and generates a control parameter for each resource assignment set. The control parameter is based on corresponding weighting parameters and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066073 - Dynamic network load balancing using roundtrip heuristic: Described is a technology by which a relative load of network traffic handling is determined between servers of a cluster, based upon time values that correspond to the time taken by each server to handle a packet. Load may then be transferred between the servers based upon the relative load,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080066074 - System and method for securely saving a program context to a shared memory: A system, method and program product for securely saving a program context to a shared memory is presented. A secured program running on an special purpose processor core running in isolation mode is interrupted. The isolated special purpose processor core is included in a heterogeneous processing environment, that includes purpose... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080066075 - System and method for securely saving and restoring a context of a secure program loader: A system, method and program product that securely saves and restores the context of a secure program loader is presented. An interrupt is sent to a secured program running on an special purpose processor core that is running in isolation mode. The special purpose processor core is included in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080066076 - Assisting people and computer programs with time and task management: Disclosed is a method and system that automatically prompts a user or computer program for tasks, subtasks and supertasks of tasks, expected durations to complete tasks, deadlines, and priorities of the tasks. The invention automatically prompts the user or computer program at regular intervals for the current task and the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080066077 - Cooperatively multitasking in an interrupt free computing environment: Multitasking in a hardware interrupt free environment. Event indicators are employed to multitask between processes of the environment. Processes to be multitasked register with one another, and then during processing, one of the processes toggles an event indicator to allow another process to execute. The toggling allows the processes to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesitti P.C.

20080059962 - Image-forming apparatus, control server, and image-forming system: An image-forming apparatus configured to be controlled based on access-control information and to perform a flow which includes performance a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus based on flow setting information, where flow setting information designates an order of performance of the plurality of functions of the image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080059963 - Synchronisation of execution threads on a multi-threaded processor: Method and apparatus are provided for a synchronising execution of a plurality of threads on a multi-threaded processor. Each thread is provided with a number of synchronisation points corresponding to points where it is advantageous or preferable that execution should be synchronised with another thread. Execution of a thread is... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080059964 - System and method for managing service interactions: A system and method for managing service interactions launches a process that is defined by a programming abstraction based on a syntax of a general purpose programming language. Interaction with a service, such as a web-based service, is initiated and the process requests the service to perform an action. Execution... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080059965 - Mechanism for executing nested transactions in an execution environment supporting flat transactions only: Disclosed is a means and a method for executing a nested transaction in an execution environment supporting flat transactions only. To process a StartTransaction operation within a nested transaction it is suggested to check whether the StartTransaction operation is on the first nesting level of the nested transactions. An actual... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080059966 - Dependent instruction thread scheduling: A thread scheduler includes context units for managing the execution of threads where each context unit includes a load reference counter for maintaining a counter value indicative of a difference between a number of data requests and a number of data returns associated with the particular context unit. A context... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080059967 - Workflow management system, workflow management method, workflow management program, and recording medium: A workflow management system for managing a workflow constituted of plural hierarchically segment tasks is disclosed. The workflow management system includes a storage unit that stores task information; a calculation unit that acquires the task information from the storage unit and calculates a critical path of the workflow from information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059968 - Mechanism for on-line prediction of future performance measurements in a computer system: Disclosed are a method and system for predicting future values of a target metric associated with a task executed on a computer system. The method comprises the steps of, over a given period of time, measuring at least one defined metric, transforming that measurement into a value for a predictor... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080059969 - Efficient enforced resource consumption rate limits: A method for enforcing a consumption rate limit for a resource in a data processing system includes receiving a first request for consumption of the resource; calculating an accumulated resource availability using the consumption rate limit; in response to a determination that the accumulated resource availability is sufficient to satisfy... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080059971 - Grouping resource allocation commands in a logically-partitioned system: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determine a group associated with a command, wherein the command comprises a resource-allocating command in a logically-partitioned electronic device and determine when to perform the command based on the group. By grouping commands and scheduling the commands based on... Agent: James R. Nock IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080059970 - Methods and system for managing recycling of recyclable material: A method and system for managing a recycling entity is included. The method includes obtaining entity data associated with at least one entity. The at least one entity is operable to recycle a quantifiable measure of recyclable material. The method also includes obtaining resource data associated with resources associated with... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080059972 - Automated capacity provisioning method using historical performance data: An automated system obtains performance data of a computer system having partitioned servers. The performance data includes a performance rating and a current measured utilization of each server, actual workload (e.g. transaction arrival rate), and actual service levels (e.g. response time or transaction processing rate). From the data, automated system... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080059973 - Thread interception and analysis: Apparatus and methods for intercepting and analyzing threads are disclosed. In one embodiment, a thread data recorder is configured to instrument one or more existing functions by modifying computer executable instructions in the functions to intercept threads calling the functions. In one possible implementation, the number of existing functions instrumented... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC