Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 05/08

20080127182 - Managing memory pages during virtual machine migration: A method, system and computer-readable medium is presented for migrating a virtual machine, from a first computer to a second computer, in a manner that avoids fatal page faults in the second computer. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of determining which memory pages of virtual memory... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080127181 - Use of fixed-function device as general-purpose platform through virtualization: Virtualization of features present on a general-purpose computing device in order to expand the use of a fixed-function device, such as a game console, into a general-purpose application platform. Hardware capabilities are virtualized in order to run a general-purpose operating system on a fixed-function device that typically lacks physical implementations... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080127183 - Document workflows and routing services using modular filters: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for providing document workflows and routing services using modular filters are described. In some aspects, the tools may initiate a workflow from a first modular processing filter within a pipeline of modular processing filters. The pipeline may be included within a device driver. The tools... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080127184 - Method and apparatus for facilitating communication between a managed system and management systems: The invention includes an apparatus and associated methods for facilitating communication between a managed system and management systems. The apparatus includes at least one protocol agent and a management layer. A protocol agent is adapted for communicating with at least one management system using a protocol. The protocol agent includes... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080127185 - Process modeling and simulation for delegated resources: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to process modeling and simulation and provide a method, system and apparatus for process modeling and simulation for delegated roles. In an embodiment of the invention, a processing modeling method for delegated resources can be provided. The method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20080127186 - System for analyzing batch processes: The present invention is directed to a batch system for managing and analyzing batch runs of a batch process in a process cell. The batch system includes a computer readable medium, a plurality of batch management routines and a plurality of batch analysis routines stored on the computer readable medium... Agent: Abb Inc.

20080127187 - Trace buffer with a processor: A method includes storing a first transaction entry to a first software configurable storage location, storing a second transaction entry to a second software configurable storage location, determining that a first transaction indicated by the first transaction entry has occurred, determining that a second transaction indicated by the second transaction... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080127189 - 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.

20080127188 - Discovery directives: A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080127190 - Method and system for processing a scheduling task in device management: A method, device, device management server and system for processing a scheduling task in device management are provided. The method includes: a device management server delivering a scheduling task; a device monitoring an execution condition of the scheduling task; the device reporting information on execution of the task; if the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080127191 - Request type grid computing: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for providing access to a grid computing environment. In one environment, requests include resource specific criteria used to identify a particular grid resource to perform the request. In another embodiment, a request includes a queue criterion used to identify one of a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080127194 - Job allocation program and job allocation method: A job allocation program controls each of processors to store a record, which contains job information and a priority, into a table in a memory; to specify the record with the highest priority; to execute the specified job; to delete the record of the executed job from the table; to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080127192 - Method and system for using multiple-core integrated circuits: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for using a multi-core integrated circuit having cores with differing performance characteristics. The cores are arranged into high and low performance groups and tasks are assigned according to their priority to either a high or low performance group.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080127193 - Scheduling method for executing jobs, scheduling apparatus for executing jobs, rewritable recording medium on which scheduling program for executing jobs is recorded: A scheduling method for inputting jobs into queues provided for each of a plurality of information processing devices in a distributed processing system includes inputting jobs into each queue. A queue selection reference value is calculated for each queue, based on a predicted time at which processing of a job... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080127197 - Method and system for on-demand scratch register renaming: A method and processor for performing on-demand scratch register reallocation by dynamically adjusting the number of scratch registers from within the pool of rename registers includes initially allocating from a set of physical registers one or more architected registers and a pool of one or more rename registers and allocating... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080127195 - Project-process-transformer: A system and method visually depict the status of a process. The process may include a number of phases and projects that are selected to be monitored. Process attribute data may be collected pertaining to the phases and projects, and may be stored in a multi-dimensional database. A process template... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080127196 - Request type grid computing: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for providing access to a grid computing environment. In one environment, requests include resource specific criteria used to identify a particular grid resource to perform the request. In another embodiment, a request includes a queue criterion used to identify one of a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080127198 - Fine granularity exchange level load balancing in a multiprocessor storage area network: Fine granularity exchange level load balancing may be performed in a device in a storage area network in order to ensure that processors in a multi-core environment are not overloaded. This may be accomplished by assigning input/outputs relating to a particular exchange to a specific processor, and maintaining that association... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080127199 - Storage sub-system, host computer, storage system, load balancing method and load balancing program: To provide a storage system capable of performing load balancing processing in which a host computer and a storage sub-system cooperate with each other. A controller of the storage sub-system includes functions of generating and updating periodically a load balancing request table, and sending the load balancing request table to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080127200 - Techniques for program execution:

20080127201 - Electronic unit for saving state of task to be run in stack: In an electronic unit having a stack in memory and adapted to run a plurality of tasks in accordance with a multitask operating system and to save context data in the stack, a scheduling unit schedules the plurality of tasks for wakeup so as to execute the plurality of tasks.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080120616 - Interactive audio task system with interrupt recovery and confirmations: Embodiments of the present invention improve interactive audio task execution in mobile systems such as vehicles, for example. In one embodiment, task interrupt handling is provided to allow user's to resume task execution at or near the point in the task where the interrupt occurred. In one embodiment, a user's... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.c.

20080120615 - Pseudo-multithread framework for xpsdrv filter pipeline: A method is provided for allowing a single threaded filter in a print driver to execute feature commands in a parallel mode, thereby creating a pseudo-multithreaded infrastructure which decreases overall processing latency for a print job. The method includes getting and parsing a document sequence print ticket for a document... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080120618 - Issuing syncpoints during execution of a batch application to minimize or eliminate periods of record unavailability due to batch related record locking: The present invention discloses a solution that automatically decomposes a batch process into multiple units of work without changing code of a preexisting batch application. In the solution, the batch application is first analyzed to identify a set of processing segments or units of work, where each unit of work... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080120617 - Systems and methods for constructing change plans from component interactions: Techniques for constructing change plans from one or more component interactions are provided. For example, one computer-implemented technique includes observing at least one interaction between two or more components of at least one distributed computing system, consolidating the at least one interaction into at least one interaction pattern, and using... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080120619 - Real time monitoring and tracing of scheduler decisions: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to enabling a user to analyze real-time scheduling decisions of resources in a computing environment. A scheduler component maps jobs to resources, and schedule jobs for execution. In one embodiment, the scheduler component continually iterates, based on job characteristics, available resources, required resources,... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080120620 - Systems and methods for scheduling, processing, and monitoring tasks: A computer-implemented method for performing a process is provided. The method comprises: (a) receiving a request to perform a process, the process comprising a plurality of tasks and at least a scheduler rule; (b) receiving a plurality of checkpoints associated with the process, each checkpoint comprising checkpoint state data and... Agent: Marianne M. Downing Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080120621 - Resource management apparatus and radio network controller: A resource management apparatus includes a resource management part to manage an amount of resources used and an amount of virtual resources of each of a plurality of processing units, a selection and control part to select a processing unit having a smallest sum of the amount of resources used... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080120622 - Method for automatic throttling of work producers: A method for automatic throttling of work producers by actively monitoring the amount and rate at which work is both produced and consumed relative to a threshold value, the consumer thread can calculate the subset of the ‘N’ threads which can be placed in a temporary sleep condition, wherein the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080120623 - Work-flow apparatus, work-flow process, and computer-readable medium storing work-flow program: In a work-flow process, a work-flow apparatus, and a computer-readable medium storing a work-flow program for delivering work requests to stations in an organization: a station in charge of executing each work request is determined by comparing the work request with work definitions, and the work request is delivered to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080115127 - Apparatus and method for carrying out information processing by virtualization: According to one embodiment, a virtual processing portion, which has a work processing portion that issues a request for process using a hardware resource and which operates as a virtual computer, includes a hardware resource managing portion having a manager that collectively manages hardware resources of respective information processing apparatuses... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080115125 - Optimizing static dictionary usage for signal compression and for hypertext transfer protocol compression in a wireless network: Methods and apparatus including a virtual machine and a compression network platform are provided especially for improving the application of compression algorithms and unique identifiers for algorithms, bytecode and HTTP common phrases of HTTP messages utilized to advantage in wireless networks. In particular, a given virtual machine need only identify... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080115126 - System software update method: Provided is a computer system including a first server and a storage system. In the first server, a first virtual server and a second virtual server are operated. Upon reception of a request to boot the first virtual server, the second virtual server judges whether system software of the first... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080115133 - Apparatus and method for managing execution of active x control: An apparatus and method for managing the execution of ActiveX control are provided. The apparatus includes a server list managing module for managing an approved server list for allowing the execution of predetermined ActiveX control and a disapproved server list for disallowing the execution of predetermined ActiveX control, an API... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080115132 - Data processing device and method for monitoring correct operation of a data processing device: A method for monitoring the correct operations of a data processing device including changing a subsystem from an authorized state to an unauthorized state, executing the partial operating sequence, and resetting any subsystem state from the unauthorized state to the authorized state.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080115131 - Express task manager system and method: An express task manager system and method are provided that uses a data store of process/files associated with an application information so that the express task manager is able to provide additional information about a process/file listed in the task manager.... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080115130 - Method and system for launching applications in response to the closure of other applications: A method and system of automatically launching at least one second operation in response to the closure of a first operation of a computer. The method and system may include associating a first operation with at least one second operation. The method and system may also include determining whether the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080115129 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing shadow objects with relocated resources: A method, apparatus and computer program product implement a shadow object when migrating or relocating a resource from one location to a new location. A user selected task on a resource is identified and analyzed to determine whether the task changes a location of the resource. When determined that the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080115128 - Method, system and computer program product for implementing shadow queues for recovery of messages: A method, system and computer program product for handling an electronic message in a data processing system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving an electronic message and storing the electronic message in a message store. An address of the electronic message is stored in a primary queue and the address... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080115134 - Repair of system defects with reduced application downtime: A system comprising a first subsystem adapted to provide a service by executing a first code stored on the first subsystem. The system further comprises a second subsystem, communicably coupled to the first subsystem, on which a second code associated with the first code is stored. The second subsystem produces... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080115135 - Supporting etl processing in bpel-based processes: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for integrating and data activities in a process flow. A data transformation activity is invoked through local or remote invocation. The data transformation activity is part of a process flow defined in a standard business process execution language format... Agent: Mollborn Patents Attn: Ibm

20080115136 - Auto-restart processing in an ims batch application: A transfer of control to a batch application is intercepted, wherein a batch front-end routine receives control in place of the batch application and performs initialization processing. This initialization processing comprises issuing a DLI restart call and issuing a DLI checkpoint call. If the DLI restart call returns a checkpoint... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080115139 - Barrier-based access to a shared resource in a massively parallel computer system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize a barrier-based mechanism for arbitrating access to a shared resource in a massively parallel computer system. In a first processor among a plurality of processors in a massively parallel computer system, the number of times a barrier has been entered by processors in... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080115138 - Systems and methods for implementing reliability, availability and serviceability in a computer system: Embodiments include systems and methods for processing Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) events in a computer system. Embodiments comprise processing critical events in a first portion of a Management Interrupt (MI) period. The MI period is chosen to be not greater than a maximum tolerable Operating System (OS) latency period.... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, Pllc C/o Intellevate

20080115137 - Systems and methods for providing collision detection in a memory system: Systems and methods for providing collision detection in a memory system including a memory system for storing and retrieving data for a processing system. The memory system includes resource scheduling conflict logic for monitoring one or more memory resources for detecting resource scheduling conflicts. The memory system also includes error... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080115140 - Allocating processing units to processing clusters to generate simulated diffraction signals: In allocating processing units, first and second requests for jobs are obtained. First and second numbers of processing units requested are determined. First and second numbers of available processing units are determined. When the first number of available processing units is non-zero, the first number of available number of processing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080115141 - Dynamic resource management: Instead of initially deploying a full set of static data resources to a client device, when notification of an error experienced by the client device is made, a determination is made as to whether that error is frequently concurring. In such a case, the resource associated that error is scheduled... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080115142 - System to resolve scheduling constraints: A system may associate a first activity of a group of activities with a first resource, a first start time on the first resource, and a first end time on the first resource, associate a second activity of the group of activities with a second resource, a second start time... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080115143 - Job execution method, job execution system, and job execution program: To implement job execution in which resource assignment and change of the assignment can be dynamically and autonomously performed so as to meet requirements of a job in a job and resource environment in which the operational status cannot be forecasted in advance. A job that can be divided into... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080115144 - Method and apparatus for web based storage on demand: The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure provides a plurality of host systems with a scalable dynamically expandable distributed virtual storage pool, which includes a virtual storage automatic construct protocol. The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure includes one or more IP SAN units, the management console, the distributing control management station and the... Agent: Sheng (ted) Tai Tsao

20080109804 - Additional uses of virtualization for disaster recovery and prevention: Methods directed to computer disaster recovery and prevention using virtual machine and related technologies. Storage is reduced in disaster recovery dress rehearsal and testing simplified by using copy-on-write and redirection of intercepted reads and writes. Disasters arising from program changes are prevented by comparison and analysis of intercepted calls to... Agent: Richard W. Bloomstein

20080109805 - System for determining unreturned standby resource usage: An apparatus, program product and method for determining unreturned standby resource usage. Unreturned standby resource data is monitored and stored separately from other standby resource data for billing and other accounting purposes.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080109806 - Method and system for executing system management flows: Orders are processed within an Order Processing Environment which includes an Order Processing Container, Relationship Registry, and Factory Registry. The Order Processing Environment is extended by a Reference Resolvement Function Component. The RRFC provides the basic functionality for resolving References defined in the Order Document at runtime and make the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080109808 - Document scheduling and publication processes for a versioned environment: Document scheduling architecture for automatic publication and removal from publication of a document. A document can be developed, approved, and scheduled for automatic viewing and removal from viewing using start data and end data that are represented as job definitions. Based on a triggering event, the jobs are selected and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109807 - Managing sequenced lock requests: A method according to one embodiment may include determining if a sequence number of a first thread matches a current sequence number of a lock. If the sequence number of the first thread does not match the current sequence number, the method further includes placing the first thread into a... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Portfolio Ip

20080109809 - Multithreaded processor: Provided is a multithreaded processor that can accurately estimate processing time necessary for each thread, and a multithreaded processor that simultaneously executes instruction streams, the multithreaded processor including: a computing unit group that executes instructions; an instruction scheduler that groups the instructions into groups for each of the instruction streams,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080109811 - Computer system management and throughput maximization in the presence of power constraints: Methods are provided for maximizing the throughput of a computer system in the presence of one or more power constraints. Throughput is maximized by repeatedly or continuously optimizing task scheduling and assignment for each of a plurality of components of a computer system. The components include a plurality of central... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Tuscon Division

20080109810 - Parallel engine support in display driver model: Systems and methods that independently control divided and/or isolated processing resources of a Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). Synchronization primitives for processing are shared among such resources to process interaction with the engines and their associated different requirements (e.g. different language). Accordingly, independent threads can be created against particular nodes (e.g.,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080109813 - Resource assignment method, resource assignment program and management computer: In order to improve the unbalance of loads imposed on individual database servers at the time of executing individual SQL processing phases, a management computer partitions an inputted query request into the processing phases which are units executable in parallel, calculates resource costs needed for executing the processing phases, assigns... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080109812 - Method for managing access to shared resources in a multi-processor environment: The invention relates to a method for managing access to shared resources within a multi-processor or multi-computer environment, including while these processors are working in a physical parallelism. Such an access management is particularly useful for carrying out a control of the accesses to such resources, for example for shared... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080109814 - Apparatus and method for balancing load in multi-core processor system: An apparatus and method to balance a load in a multi-core processor system. The apparatus includes a data channel module which includes a queue, and which transmits data between a plurality of threads and transmits queue state information regarding the queue, and a data channel management module which periodically analyzes... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080109815 - Task distribution method: A method for distributing a task to plural processors is provided. A distribution rule of distributing plural tasks to sub processors or the main processor, respectively, is previously written in a program code of an application configured to include plural tasks. At the time of executing the application, the main... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080109816 - Method, processing unit and data processing system for microprocessor communication in a multi-processor system: A processor communication register (PCR) contained in each processor within a multiprocessor system provides enhanced processor communication. Each PCR stores identical processor communication information that is useful in pipelined or parallel multi-processing. Each processor has exclusive rights to store to a sector within each PCR and has continuous access to... Agent: Bracewell & Patterson, L.l.p.

20080109817 - Schedule control program and schedule control method: A schedule control program that is capable of allocating threads to CPUs so as to effectively use caches. When a thread is executed, the execution start time and the CPU number of a CPU that executes the thread are stored. When an interrupted thread is re-allocated to a CPU to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080104589 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104590 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104591 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104586 - Allowing virtual machine to discover virtual status thereof: A host computing device has a virtual machine (VM) instantiated thereon. The VM has a virtual application instantiated thereon and a virtual processor. The host also has a virtual machine monitor (VMM) instantiated thereon to oversee the VM and to intercept instructions from a virtual entity comprising one of the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080104588 - Creation of temporary virtual machine clones of multiple operating systems: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for creating operating systems for Virtual Machines. The apparatus and method perform acts including: cloning a guest operating system (OS) that is supported in a first Virtual Machine in order to create a cloned guest OS, and performing maintenance on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104592 - High-level virtual machine for fast xml parsing and validation: A computer-implemented method of processing an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document can include loading an execution plan into a virtual machine, wherein the execution plan represents an XML schema, and loading an XML document into the virtual machine. XML processing functions available within the virtual machine can be selectively invoked... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080104587 - Migrating a virtual machine from a first physical machine in response to receiving a command to lower a power mode of the first physical machine: A command is received to place a first physical machine into a lower power mode. The first physical machine has a virtual machine. In response to the received command, a procedure is performed to migrate the virtual machine from the first physical machine to a second physical machine.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104594 - Information processing apparatus and method thereof: Information of a user group used to distribute the execution result of a job of an image forming apparatus is held in a memory. The execution result of the job appended with result appropriating destination information required to specify a user group to which the execution result of the job... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080104595 - Method for enhancing efficiency in mutual exclusion: A system of the present invention includes: a memory device which includes a first memory area for storing first information indicating that a first task acquires or attempts to acquire a lock, and a second memory area for storing second information indicating that a second task acquires or attempts to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080104593 - Thread hand off: Systems, methods, and devices, including computer executable instructions for transferring threads are described. The method comprises determining an idle processor by checking a handoff state of the processor prior to placing an identified runnable thread in a run queue of an idle processor. The method also comprises transferring the runnable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104596 - Multimedia b2b opportunity and error detection and resolution engine: A method and system for automatically handling exceptions in a business-to-business transaction. E-commerce internet gateways through which the business-to-business transaction passes are monitored for exceptions. When an exception is detected, an intelligent contact manager automatically determines and then locates the representative(s) authorized to resolve this exception. A unified communication system... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080104597 - Restarting failed ims auto-restart batch applications: A transfer of control to a batch application is intercepted, wherein a batch front-end routine receives control in place of the batch application and performs initialization processing. This initialization processing comprises issuing a DLI restart call and issuing a DLI checkpoint call. If the DLI restart call returns a checkpoint... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080104598 - Systems and methods for operation scheduling: An operation scheduling method employed in a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises first and second functions, and each function corresponds to an instruction set. Each instruction set comprises at least one instruction block and corresponds to a block execution state. The method comprises: (a) determining whether the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080104599 - Method to optimize effective page number to real page number translation path from page table entries match resumption of execution stream: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing EPN to RPN translation when a data miss occurs. The method, system and computer program product take advantage of the high-likelihood of finding the matching PTE in the first half of the PTEG and utilize early data-coming signals from the L2... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104600 - Operating system for a computing device: An operating system for a computing device includes a scheduler incorporating an algorithm for ordering the running of threads of execution having different priorities. The operating system is also arranged to provide a list of threads which are scheduled to run on the device, ordered by priority. At least one... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080104601 - Scheduler for multiple software tasks to share reconfigurable hardware: Software tasks executing on a computer system, such as run-time applications in a real-time operating system (RTOS), are scheduled with respect to requested use of a reconfigurable hardware device on the system. Configuration data associated with the software tasks may be loaded or unloaded based on a priority level associated... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080104602 - Task switching control method and computer system: The task switching control method of the present invention is a task switching control method in a computer system in which plural tasks run, and includes a detection step of detecting a wakeup request of a task, a first resource obtainment step of obtaining first resource data which is data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104604 - Apparatus and method for increasing the utilization by the processors on the shared resources: The present invention provides an apparatus and method that increases the utilization by the processors on the shared resources. It provides the minimum latency in a multiprocessor system during exchanging the usage right between multi-processors on a shared resource. The apparatus provides a timer mailbox including a timer. The timer... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080104603 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing dynamic authority to tasks on a resource: A method, apparatus and computer program product implement dynamic authority for a user to perform tasks on a resource. A user selected task on a resource is identified and analyzed to determine whether the task changes a state of the resource. When determined that the task changes a state of... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080104605 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic placement of heterogeneous workloads: Techniques for managing a system of heterogeneous applications are provided. A plurality of applications is classified into a plurality of application types. One or more of the plurality of applications in each of the plurality of application types are classified into one or more collections. A utility function of possible... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080104606 - Apparatus and method for updating i/o capability of a logically-partitioned computer system: A hosting partition update mechanism allows updating I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system in a way that minimally affects the performance and availability of I/O in the computer system. When an update is needed, a new hosting partition is created with the desired update(s). I/O adapters in the current... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080104607 - Session persistence in dynamic node allocation computing environments: Exemplary computer system architectures and methods are described. In some embodiments, a computer network comprises a computing engine including a plurality of compute nodes and a load balancer coupled to the computing engine and including a processor and a memory module. The memory module comprises logic instructions which, when executed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104608 - Starting up at least one virtual machine in a physical machine by a load balancer: A system has plural physical machines that contain virtual machines. A load balancer receives a request from a client. In response to the request, it is determined whether at least one additional virtual machine should be started up. In response to determining that at least one additional virtual machine should... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104609 - System and method for load balancing distributed simulations in virtual environments: A device comprises two or more nodes for processing a simulation of a virtual interactive environment. The two or more nodes comprising at least one component to determine workload amongst at least a first node and a second node the two or more nodes. The at least one component further... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104610 - Hardware threads processor core utilization: A determination of processor core utilization by a plurality of hardware threads over a time interval is made through a division of a length of the time interval by a total count of the plurality of hardware threads.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company