Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 06/08

20080155535 - Infrastructure by contract: One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method that can include generating a repository of computing system architecture designs. An offer can be generated to instantiate a host environment for an application, wherein the offer includes a plurality of options. A selection of an option of the offer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080155536 - Method and apparatus for multithreaded guest operating system execution through a multithreaded host virtual machine monitor: Methods and apparatus for virtualization of guest operating systems (OSs) include allocating virtual machines (VMs). The VMs are assigned to each of the available hardware threads and resumed or launched for the first time. If scheduling of additional VMs is required upon exiting the VM context, another VM is selected... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080155537 - Methods and systems for automatic inference and adaptation of virtualized computing environments: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for automatic inference and adaptation of a virtualized computer environment. Certain embodiments of a system include a virtual topology and traffic inference framework tool adapted to monitor traffic for an application on a virtual network to produce a view of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080155539 - Automated data processing reconstruction system and method: A data processing system performs a procedure including respective tasks, each respective task including one of producing and processing a respective data object. The system comprises memory; and a processor having program instructions for maintaining a respective data structure for each respective one of the tasks. The data structure includes... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080155538 - Computer usage management system and method: A manager tool system and method are provided wherein the use of the computer system by a user is controlled and monitored. The system also requires the user to engage in a learning process during the use of the computer system in order to be able to continue using the... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080155544 - Device and method for managing process task failures: The field of the invention is that of process task failure management. The invention relates to an execution failure management method for tasks APi of a process, the process comprising a number of tasks equal to N, i denoting an index identifying the tasks and being an integer number between... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080155543 - Image processing apparatus using a license, license management system, and control method therefor: According to the present invention, it is possible to execute a process by an image processing apparatus while a user does not need to pay attention to a license necessary for executing application software for every image processing apparatus. In accordance with a description content of a statement of job... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155541 - Multi-threaded device and facility manager: Techniques are provided for implementing the WS-DeviceProfile standard as a multi-threaded process (“DFM”) executing on a multi-function peripheral (“MFP”). The DFM takes care of the discovery of devices and services on a network. The DFM also acts as a facility manager. The DFM implements various web services in a single... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080155542 - Operating systems: A method of enabling multiple different operating systems to run concurrently on the same RISC (e.g. ARM) computer, comprising selecting a first operating system to have a relatively high priority (the realtime operating system, such as C5); selecting at least one secondary operating system to have a relatively lower priority... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080155540 - Secure processing of secure information in a non-secure environment: A secured process sourcing and work management system for processing secure information in a non-secure environment is disclosed. The system permits a user, referred to herein as a customer or requester, to submit a project, involving a human intelligence task (“HIT”), referred to as a task or task specification, to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080155548 - Autonomic logging support: A system, method and article of manufacture for event management in data processing systems and more particularly to managing events occurring in data processing systems in order to provide an effective logging mechanism. One embodiment provides a method of generating log file entries for events occurring during execution of a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080155545 - Method and system for scheduling workload in databases: A method for scheduling a workload comprising a plurality of transactions relating to a database management system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining a log space amount required by each transaction in the workload, estimating the total log space required for executing the workload based on the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080155546 - Method of controlling thread access to a synchronization object: A method of controlling thread access to a synchronization object is described. The method comprises waking a sleeping first thread after release, by a second thread, of a synchronization object in a normal state and causing, by the first thread, the synchronization object to transition to a want-lock state, the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080155547 - Transactional calendar: A transactional calendar can be used to interact with online services that perform any type of tasks. The calendar's user interface has features for choosing a service to invoke. When the calendar invokes the service, information such as the date and time currently selected on the calendar is automatically passed... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080155549 - Method and apparatus for adjusting sleep time of fixed high-priority threads: A sleep function capable of putting a fixed high-priority thread to sleep within a time-window is disclosed. After a sleep request has been made by a fixed high-priority thread via the sleep function, a determination is made whether or not the fixed high-priority thread is awoken before a requested sleep... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080155550 - System and method for backfilling with system-generated predictions rather than user runtime estimates: A system and method for performing backfilling on an incoming flow of incoming parallel programs provided by a population of clients to a facility, the system comprising a computer-controlled prediction functionality operative to generate a current run-time prediction for at least some of the incoming parallel programs, a backfiller performing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080155551 - Apparatus and computer program product for managing resource: In an apparatus for resource management, a resource bidding unit calculates a bid price indicating a virtual price of a resource for each of application programs to consume or supply within a predetermined unit-time, and makes a bidding by inputting the calculated bid price. A bidding management unit allocates a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080155552 - Server, client, load balancing system and load balancing method thereof: A server, a client, a load balancing system and a load balancing method thereof, the load balancing system including a plurality of servers to process network traffic; and a client to transmit a connection request signal to each of the plurality of servers, and to connect to a server transmitting... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080155553 - Recovery action management system: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for resource recovery. The method comprises associating at least one bit with at least one block of memory. The bit denotes a borrow status for the block of memory. The bit is set for resource recovery. A resource recovery... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080148257 - Exception handling: A system that re-plans jobs based at least in part on user preferences in response to system component errors includes an exception handler that receives an exception from one of a plurality of components executing a plan to process a job. The system further includes a planner that creates a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080148256 - Http transaction replay: A method and system are provided to replay an HTTP transaction that is comprised of multiple events. Each event is identified and organized based upon transaction of events over the course of time. The events of the transaction are replayed and organized into an order dependent relationship. The number of... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, Llc

20080148258 - Implementing a web service application on a multi-functional peripheral with multiple threads: Techniques are provided for efficiently processing SOAP requests at a Web service application (WSA) of a multi-functional device (MFP). In one technique, a WSA includes at least three threads. An external request processing thread processes SOAP requests from different client applications. A request processing thread processes a SOAP request according... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080148259 - Structured exception handling for application-managed thread units: Methods, data structures, instructions, and techniques for structured exception handling for user-level threads in a multi-threading system are provided. Registered filter routines may be dispatched to a thread unit not managed by the operating system (OS). The dispatch may occur by allowing an OS-managed thread unit (proxy) to invoke the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080148261 - Batch handling for background file processing: The embodiments of the present invention provide for proxy batch processing by invoking proxy applications and a single instance of an action application that is adapted to perform a wait function. In some embodiments, in addition to proxy applications, an intermediate application is invoked. The intermediate application is typically adapted... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080148260 - Data operating device and its method: A database operating device and its method. A program for the operation can be easily developed and its debug maintenance is easily conducted. A transaction including at least one processing for operating a database is defined in an application layer. A memory area used only for the defined transaction is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080148262 - Method and apparatus for executing a long transaction: A system that executes a long transaction in a system with limited transactional hardware resources. During operation, the system executes the long transaction in a non transactional mode, which does not use transactional hardware resources. The system defers stores generated during the long transaction so that the stores are not... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080148263 - Method and apparatus for successive data processing by information exchange: A successive data processing method and apparatus is provided. A data processing apparatus, when connected to a data management apparatus, transmits apparatus information of the data processing apparatus, selects target process data, transmits target process information of the selected target process data, processes the target process data, and transmits process... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080148264 - Cron time processing implementation for scheduling tasks within a multi-tiered enterprise network: A computer implemented system and method for scheduling jobs. A method according to one embodiment includes the operations of: determining a first possible execution time of a job from a data object containing a job timing entry; determining if a specified base time is less than a first possible execution... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080148265 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and job issuing method: An image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses installed in a plurality of areas and in communication with one another via a network includes a management unit configured to manage level information indicating a level related to information management with respect to each of the plurality of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080148267 - Method and apparatus for preventing the omission and repeated execution of schedule information due to a time change: Provided is a method and apparatus for managing a schedule of a terminal based on a local time. It is possible to prevent schedule information from a schedule of a terminal from being repeatedly processed or from being missed, when the local time changes due to the movement of the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080148266 - Method and system for reducing difference in the time of retrieval of data retrieved from different sources: A solution for retrieving data from a plurality of different sources, wherein the data are retrieved from the different sources by means of respective data retrieval jobs having respective execution times. A data retrieval jobs execution list is built by ordering the data retrieval jobs to be executed in order... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080148268 - Data processing apparatus, data processing system, method therefor, and program: A server acquires data representing the number of jobs on the daily and hourly basis for several weeks held by itself and by clients. An apparatus for executing scheduling calculates the total number of jobs on the daily basis from the acquired data representing the number of jobs on the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080148271 - Assigning tasks to threads requiring limited resources using programmable queues: Systems, methods and computer program products for assigning tasks to threads in a server process, where many threads require access to limited resources, are described herein. The system includes one or more programmable queues. Enqueued in each queue are a plurality tuples that correspond to tasks. The invention attempts to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080148273 - Dynamic voltage scaling scheduling mechanism for sporadic, hard real-time tasks with resource sharing: A dynamic voltage scaling scheduling method executes one of the steps. When one task in the delayed task set requires for being executed, a working voltage required for executing the task is increased, and the task is removed from the delayed task set; when one task in the delayed task... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080148272 - Job allocation program, method and apparatus: This job allocation method for allocating jobs to each computer that processes the job without intensively managing a load state of each computer includes: identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080148270 - Method and implementation for storage provisioning planning: A method for storage provisioning planning including integrating capacity and provisioning planning operations. Afterwards, the method proceeds by switching via policy between integrated capacity and provisioning planning operations. The method further includes constructing an end-to-end resource model and selecting a plurality of pools based on the end-to-end resource model. Subsequently,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080148269 - Method for correlating processor usage to customer billing in an on-demand server with real-time allocation/deallocation of processing resources: The invention is directed to a method for correlating processor usage to customer billing in an on-demand server with real-time allocation/deallocation of processing resources. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a plurality of processors, each processor having thermal control circuit (TCC) logic; determining... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro Llc

20080148274 - Scheduling compatible threads in a simultaneous multi-threading processor using cycle per instruction value occurred during identified time interval: Identifying compatible threads in a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processor environment is provided by calculating a performance metric, such as cycles per instruction (CPI), that occurs when two threads are running on the SMT processor. The CPI that is achieved when both threads were executing on the SMT processor is determined.... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080141246 - Process attachable virtual machines: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for using process attachable virtual machines to provide isolation between user sessions in a scalable manner, enabling a server to robustly process requests corresponding to a large number of user sessions. The methods and apparatus include initializing a process attachable virtual machine for... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080141250 - Distributed taskflow architecture: A method, a system and a product are disclosed for executing a taskflow in a distributed taskflow architecture and for providing the latter. In at least one embodiment, the taskflow is generated by interconnecting modular tasks, having a synchronization mechanism in order to be able to execute the taskflow on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080141248 - High availability, high performance software component architecture: The architecture comprises a primary configuration (21) and at least one secondary configuration (22) to take over from the primary configuration in the event of a failure thereof, the primary configuration (21) comprising at least one task processing component (28) and a first client component (231) and the secondary configuration... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080141249 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting an extraordinary behavior: An apparatus detects detecting when an extraordinary behavior is performed when a monitoring task is executed on an information processing apparatus. The detecting apparatus includes: an obtaining section for obtaining a measurement data including an executing timing and an execution time for each occasion of execution when the monitoring task... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080141247 - System and method for information management: The vast majority of today's busy families with computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cell phones (all modern computing devices classified generally as computers), still use wall calendars, sticky notes, and kitchen message boards to coordinate their everyday activities. The complexity of family schedules and household information, ease of use,... Agent: Thiagarajan Saravanan

20080141255 - 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

20080141251 - Binding processes in a non-uniform memory access system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for binding a process to a selected node of a multi-node system. Input/output activity statistics for a process are retrieved from a set of probes. The set of probes detects a flow of data through an input/output device utilized by... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080141252 - Cascaded delayed execution pipeline: Improved techniques for executing instructions in a pipelined manner that may reduce stalls that occur when executing dependent instructions are provided. Stalls may be reduced by utilizing a cascaded arrangement of pipelines with execution units that are delayed with respect to each other. This cascaded delayed arrangement allows dependent instructions... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080141253 - Cascaded delayed float/vector execution pipeline: Improved techniques for executing instructions in a pipelined manner that may reduce stalls that occur when executing dependent instructions are provided. Stalls may be reduced by utilizing a cascaded arrangement of pipelines with execution units that are delayed with respect to each other. This cascaded delayed arrangement allows dependent instructions... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080141254 - System and method for monitoring a workflow process: An exemplary method for controlling a workflow is provided. The method includes: setting a check-status schedule and a reminder timer for each task of the workflow process; checking whether any task of the workflow process is in an incomplete state according to the check-status schedule; obtaining an operator name and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080141258 - Method and system for enhanced scheduling of memory access requests: The forgoing objects are achieved as is now described. In information storage systems in which data retrieval requires movement of at least one physical element, a measurable amount of energy and time are required to reposition that physical element in response to each data write or read request. After selecting... Agent: Bracewell & Patterson, L.l.p.

20080141257 - Method of launching low-priority tasks: A driver is provided to manage launching of tasks at different levels of priority and within the parameters of the firmware interface. The driver includes two anchors for managing the tasks, a dispatcher and an agent. The dispatcher operates at a medium priority level and manages communication from a remote... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, Llc

20080141256 - System and method to improve sequential serial attached small computer system interface storage device performance: A system, computer-implementable method, and computer-readable medium for improving sequential serial attached small computer system interface storage device performance. According to a preferred embodiment, a microprocessor within a target device receives a collection of tasks from at least one initiator device via a collection of initiator paths. The target device... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080141263 - Embedded agent framework and method of providing ubiquitous services using the same: An embedded agent framework installed in an embedded system includes: a plurality of service execution agents executing services requested by the embedded system; a system interface agent converting a service request generated by the embedded system into a format understandable by the embedded agent framework (EAF); a service control agent... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080141259 - Method and system for processing jobs with two dual-role devices: A collaboration request may be sent to a host or a peripheral when a job is to be processed. The job may include one or more tasks. The host determines which device is better suited to act as host by analyzing the type of task or job to be executed... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080141261 - Resource management system, resource information providing method and program: To provide a resource management system capable of stably providing most recently updated resource information at a high speed. A resource information update unit collects resource information from a plurality of agents by means of agent connection management unit according to an update schedule of resource information stored in a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080141262 - System, apparatus, and method for managing a service: A service managing system includes a plurality of business computers, and a service managing apparatus communicably connected to the business computers. A processing unit in the service managing apparatus references influence information, configuration information, and operating process information stored in a storage unit, when the processing unit instructs a start-up... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080141260 - User mode file system serialization and reliability: An operating system is provided. The system includes an agent components (SIAC) and one or more set-based access components (SBAC). An interface component is employed by the agent component to process kernel mode requests from a user mode application when communicating with a storage platform. Re-try components can be provided... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080141264 - Methods and systems for load balancing of virtual machines in clustered processors using storage related load information: Methods and systems for generating storage related load factor information for load balancing of multiple virtual machines operable in a cluster of multiple physical processors (such as a blade center). Load factor information is generated within a storage system relating to operation of the storage system as a whole and... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080141265 - Power management method for platform and that platform: A method for power management of a platform by scheduling a job, which is a set of instructions for completion of a task, given to a device, the method including a) when a given event occurs, analyzing the event according to workloads, b) calculating a scheduling period of a job... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080141267 - Cooperative scheduling of multiple partitions in a single time window: Described is a method for determining whether a first partition selected to run in a time window is a member of a transaction, the transaction including at least one further partition, determining a tail partition from among the at least one further partition and scheduling the tail partition to run... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080141266 - Process isolation using protection domains: A first plurality of operating system processes is assigned to a first protection domain, and a second plurality of operating system processes is assigned to a second protection domain. One or more hardware protection mechanisms are used to prevent the first plurality of operating system processes from accessing the memory... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080141269 - Electronic device and method for performing multiple processes with the electronic device: The invention relates to an electronic device (1) and a method for carrying out several processes with said electronic device (1), by means of which rapid solution times may be achieved in a resource-saving manner, whereby, in operation, said electronic device (1) carries out first and second processes (P1, P2),... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080141268 - Utility function execution using scout threads: A method and mechanism for using threads in a computing system. A multithreaded computing system is configured to execute a first thread and a second thread. The first and second threads are configured to operate in a producer-consumer relationship. The second thread is configured to execute utility type functions in... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20080134173 - Allocation of resources on computer systems: A method, computer program product, and system for allocating resources on computer systems are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for displaying a resource allocation matrix, the resource allocation matrix including a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells indicating a quantity of one of... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080134177 - Compliance-based adaptations in managed virtual systems: Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134178 - Control and management of virtual systems: Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134176 - Enforcement of compliance policies in managed virtual systems: Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134172 - Jvm system scope initializer: In an embodiment of the present invention the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) System Scope Initializer works on the premise of generating one JVM instance to be used by all processes system wide. An advantage in the present invention is that all processes that would normally otherwise have to instantiate a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080134174 - Reduction of operational costs of virtual tlbs: Various operations are disclosed for improving the operational efficiency of a virtual translation look-aside buffer (TLB) in a virtual machine environment. For example, operations are disclosed that allow for determination of whether present entries in shadow page tables (SPTs) are stale by comparing shadowed guest page table (GPT) entries against... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080134175 - Registering and accessing virtual systems for use in a managed system: Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134182 - Computer readable storage medium for protection against interleaving transactions using a transaction manager: A transaction manager maintains an enlistment data structure used for managing resource object enlistment. A transaction manager may receive an enlistment request initiated from a resource object. Upon receiving the request, the transaction manager will determine if the resource object is already enlisted. If the resource object is already enlisted,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080134179 - Image processing apparatus, job management method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to select one of the constituent functions and add a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080134181 - Program-level performance tuning: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment request a program or programs to tune themselves to run faster or slower if a service class is not meeting its performance goal. In an embodiment, the program is repeatedly requested to incrementally tune itself until the performance goal... Agent: Grant A. Johnson Ibm Corporation

20080134180 - Simultaneous multi-threaded (smt) processor supporting thread-execution-state-sensitive supervisory commands: A processor supporting thread-execution-state-sensitive supervisory commands provides a mechanism for executing supervisory commands for live threads. The commands may be sent from a service processor or another primary processor in the system or may be supplied by the processor itself through supervisory software control. Since the state of execution of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.l.c.

20080134183 - Method and assignment of transaction branches by resource name aliasing: The Java transaction API for use with global transaction can use a system using alias for the branch ID. The alias can allow multiple branch IDs for single resource.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080134188 - 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)

20080134187 - Hardware scheduled smp architectures: A symmetric multiprocessor system employing a hardware constituted real-time operating system.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, Llc (necl)

20080134186 - Job processing method and image processing system: An ACT generation unit (208) in an access control apparatus generates an ACT in a form in which the ACT includes function restriction information based on the time period. At this time, in response to an ACT request from a client PC, a list (401) which describes function restriction information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080134189 - Job scheduling amongst multiple computers: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which each computer (M1, M2, Mn, Mn+1) operates a different portion of an application program (15) written to be executed on only a single computer, said computers being interconnected via a communications network (53). An instruction such as “new thread ( )” which... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080134184 - Methods and apparatus for estimating fair cache miss rates on a chip multiprocessor: A caching estimator process identifies a thread for determining the fair cache miss rate of the thread. The caching estimator process executes the thread concurrently on the chip multiprocessor with a plurality of peer threads to measure the actual cache miss rates of the respective threads while executing concurrently. Additionally,... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080134185 - Methods and apparatus for scheduling applications on a chip multiprocessor: A thread scheduler identifies a thread operable to be scheduled by a scheduling policy for execution on the chip multiprocessor. The thread scheduler estimates, for the thread, a performance value that is based on runtime statistics of the thread for a shared resource on the chip multiprocessor. Additionally, the thread... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080134192 - Apparatus and method of dynamically repartitioning a computer system in response to partition workloads: A method, system and apparatus for dynamically repartitioning a partitioned computer system in response to workload demands are provided. In one embodiment, a monitoring software is used to monitor workloads on all resources in all the partitions. If a workload on a resource in a partition is determined to exceed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080134190 - Method and apparatus of resource access synchronization in a basic input and output system of a computer system: A basic input and output system (BIOS) for a computer system includes a main engine to call and run routines. Some of the routines require resource accesses. A synchronization module is provided to synchronize the resource accesses. The synchronization module allows concurrent resource accesses to different resources. A method of... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Portfolioip

20080134191 - Methods and apparatuses for core allocations: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to monitor core performance and integrated circuit chip temperatures in order to alternatively partition cores and core resources are disclosed. Embodiments generally comprise integrated circuit processors in chips that contain multiple cores or processing elements. In many system and apparatus embodiments, a module monitors either the... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, Pllc C/o Intellevate

20080134193 - System, method and apparatus for allocating resources by constraint selection: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for allocating resources with a linear programming model comprising an objective function and a set of constraints describing feasible allocations of the resources. The method ranks constraints based on a numerical measure derived from criteria selected from at least a first... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080134194 - Method for dynamic resource allocation in centrailized base stations: A method for realizing dynamic allocation of channel processing resources and load balancing in a centralized base station is disclosed, said centralized base station comprising a plurality of channel processing units independent of each other and remote radio frequency units connected to said channel processing units. The method comprises: dividing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080134195 - Parallel data processing architecture: A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080134196 - Apparatus, system, and method of a memory arrangement for speculative multithreading: The invention relates to a multiversion storage configuration which can store multiple values per speculative set of instructions for one storage position in order to enable the real-time precalculation and execution of the body of the set of instructions from a speculative instruction set. The invention also relates to the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080134197 - Method, apparatus and media for managing information model jobs: Methods, apparatus and media for managing jobs of an object-oriented information model. Managing includes maintaining and updating job status information resuming interrupted jobs following a reboot of the host system, issuing job references to clients, and manipulating job data for example, listing, retrieving, and/or deleting job data. Each job of... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080134198 - Workflow processing system and method with federated database system support: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for automatic workflow processing in a workflow processing computer system. A federated data management system support module receives a data management activity description, determines a set of set references associated with the data management activity, determines a set of... Agent: Mollborn Patents Attn: Ibm