Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 07/08

20080184225 - Automatic optimization for 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

20080184228 - Concurrent web based multi-task support for a standalone system or for an central controlled virtual system: To support one or multiple users to perform multiple concurrent tasks within a single web-browser for system like CCDSVM, the software modules on systems of CCDSVM require to work and communicate together to collect resource information of CCDSVM, and to display them in each user's web-browser, and further to allow... Agent: Sheng Tai (ted) Tsao

20080184226 - Controller system and method therefor: A controller system controlling a controlled target includes a user status detection mechanism which detects status of a user of the controlled target. The system also includes a controlled target status detection mechanism which detects status of the controlled target, and a control mechanism. The control mechanism controls the controlled... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184229 - Method and apparatus for using virtual machine technology for managing parallel communicating applications: A method (and system) for managing a distributed-memory parallel application running on multiple servers, includes dynamically moving a plurality of executable program components, where each of the plurality of executable program components are running on one of a plurality of virtual machines, using migration of the virtual machines between physical... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080184224 - Method and apparatus to perform segmentation off-load between two logical partitions: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for virtual segmentation off-load in a logically partitioned data processing system. A data transmission protocol stack formats a data message for segmentation off-load to form a virtual segmentation off-load package. The size of the data message is larger than a size... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080184227 - Processor capping method in virtual machine system: In a processor capping method in a virtual machine system, a complement virtual machine is created having a possessive processor time equal to the difference of subtraction of a possessive processor time given to the processor capping enabled virtual machine from a possessive processor time of the whole physical computer;... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080184233 - Abstracting a multithreaded processor core to a single threaded processor core: In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method to abstract a multithreaded processor core to single threaded processor core include performing the steps of: viewing, by an operating system, a first hardware thread and a second hardware thread in a processor core; and viewing, by a user application,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184234 - Adaptive client/server control protocol: In various embodiments of the present invention, tiered command-propagation methods are employed within client computers to ensure that monitoring-and-management-related commands are reliably propagated from server computers to client computers. When possible, command propagation is initiated by server computers through a notification process. When the notification process is inoperable, client computers... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184235 - Image processing device, jpb processing method, and program: Each of a plurality of image processing devices (MFPs) included in an image processing system which includes a storage as well. (1) When the user requests processing a job, (2) the job data is stored in the storage. (3) Each MFP confirms that there is an unprocessed job to be... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080184236 - Image processing system, image processing device, job processing method, and recording medium: An image processing system including: storage; image processing devices; and job divider dividing an unprocessed job into partial jobs and store them into storage. Each image processing device includes: a first judging part to judge whether partial job stored in the storage can be processed by own device; a transmitter... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080184231 - Method and system for analyzing process models: A method and system are described for analyzing process models. An example method includes determining a first perspective based on a first goal of a user. The method further includes selecting a first task definition related to the first perspective, obtaining one or more process models, wherein each process model... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080184230 - Systems and methods for determining power consumption profiles for resource users and using the profiles for resource allocation: According to one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of resources. The resources may be any limited-capacity computing resource that is capable of serving a computing demand of a resource user. A resource user refers to any entity which consumes computing capacity of a resource. The system comprises at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184232 - Target thread selection in a multi-threaded process: In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method for a target thread selection in a multi-threaded process perform the steps of receiving a signal that may or may not be masked by threads in the process; and searching a thread subset for a target thread that can handle... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184237 - Data processing apparatus and application launching method: According to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus comprising: an operating system that manages a correlation between a specific button and a predetermined application allocated for the specific button, and that starts the predetermined application when the specific button is depressed; a storage area that stores data with respect to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080184244 - Data processing system and method: A method of optimizing an application in a system having a plurality of processors, the method comprising: analyzing the application for a first period to obtain a first activity analysis; selecting one of the processors based on the activity analysis for running the application; and binding the application to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184243 - Data processing system and operating system: Management programs for concealing differences in hardware configuration and OS are operated and stayed resident every OS. A database manipulated by the management programs is prepared. The database defines correspondences between tasks for hardware control and software processing, which are processed under the control of the OSs and their attached... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080184238 - Dynamically controlling the number of busy waiters in a synchronization object: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and a method of dynamically controlling the number of busy waiters in for a synchronization object. The apparatus and method perform the steps of increasing a number of allowed busy waiters if there is a waiter in a sleep state and there... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184242 - Information apparatus, information processing method and computer-readable storage medium: An information and method acquiring an environment information relevant to an execution of a predetermined process determining a processing condition based on the environment information and executing the process in accordance with the processing condition at predetermined timing.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080184239 - Multi-threaded detection of a game software debugger: An anti-debugging mechanism is implemented into a game application, such that the anti-debugging mechanism is difficult to detect, difficult to bypass, and difficult to remove. The anti-debugging mechanism is implemented in a simulated thread pool. The anti-debugging mechanism executes on a different thread than the thread on which the game... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080184240 - System and method for processor thread allocation using delay-costs: A computer system includes a plurality of multi-threaded processors, and a scheduler. The multi-threaded processors each have a set of hardware threads forming a pool of hardware threads. The scheduler allocates hardware threads of the pool of hardware threads to one or more guest operating systems based on priorities of... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080184241 - Techniques for automated balancing of tasks across multiple computers: Techniques are provided for determining a schedule for performing tasks. Each of the tasks to be scheduled is registered. The schedule includes tasks to be performed for a plurality of devices using at least one shared resource. The schedule is determined for performing the tasks in accordance with resources used... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080184245 - Method and system for task-based video analytics processing: A task-based video analytics system and method are provided, which can include dynamic allocation and sharing of video analytics resources. Video analytics tasks are created in response to trigger information, which can be based on stored business rules, events and/or data of interest. The tasks are forwarded to a video... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080184246 - Scheduling threads in multiprocessor computer: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for scheduling threads in a multiprocessor computer. Embodiments include selecting a thread in a ready queue to be dispatched to a processor and determining whether an interrupt mask flag is set in a thread control block associated with the thread. If the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080184247 - Method and system for resource allocation: A method of allocating a resource in a computer system having a plurality of operating systems, and related system, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) operating to facilitate interactions between at least one of the plurality of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184253 - Method, system and computer program product for optimizing allocation of resources on partitions of a data processing system: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing allocation of resources to partitions of a data processing system are disclosed. The method includes creating a first virtual central processing unit and a second virtual central processing unit, wherein at least one of the set of the first virtual processing... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080184252 - Methods and apparatus for detecting deadlock in multithreading programs: A method of detecting deadlock in a multithreading program is provided. An invocation graph is constructed having a single root and a plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more functions written in code of the multithreading program. A resource graph is computed in accordance with one or more resource... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080184248 - Optimization of job scheduling for resource clusters with access control and usage reporting: A user is enabled to reserve computer resources using a calendaring graphical user interface (GUI). The calendaring GUI enables viewing of resources currently in use and/or reserved for future use, and/or available for scheduling, that is stored within a scheduling data store. The user may employ the calendaring GUI to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080184250 - Synchronizing workflows: Processes are often cross-functional and involve the flow of information between several functional areas. For example, an order fulfillment process may require input from sales, logistics and manufacturing. Existing workflow engines, which do not use constraint programming techniques, are able to model such cross-functional processes only where the workflows are... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080184251 - System and method for document processing quota management: The subject application is directed to a system and method for document processing device resource management. Resource utilization data representing resources used in connection with each document processing operation is first received. The received resource utilization data is then stored. Statistical utilization data is then calculated in accordance with the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080184249 - System, method and program for managing locks: Managing locks under conditions wherein there is a first shared hold on a lock. There is a first pending request for a first exclusive hold on the lock; the first pending request for said first exclusive hold is made after the first shared hold was granted. There is a second... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080184257 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a self-tunable parameter used for dynamically yielding an idle processor: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for dynamically determining when to yield a processor that is assigned to perform particular work but that is currently idle. A particular processor is assigned to perform work. A determination is made regarding whether the processor is currently idle. If the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080184256 - Processor packing in an smp server to conserve energy: A data processing system includes a power supply, a plurality of processors wherein each processor is separately powerable by the power supply under operating system control. The operating system determines periodically a measure of system utilization and controls the switches to alter the number of active (powered) processors where the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (dwl) C/o Lally & Lally, L.L.P.

20080184255 - Storage apparatus and load distribution method: A storage apparatus having plural control processors that interpret and process requests sent from a host computer includes a distribution judgment unit for judging, after a control processor receives a request sent from the host computer, whether or not to allocate processing relevant to the request from the control processor... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080184254 - Systems, methods and apparatus for load balancing across computer nodes of heathcare imaging devices: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments healthcare imaging processing applications are allocated to computing resources in reference to criteria.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080184258 - Data processing system: Multiple operating systems are operated on a multi-core system without applying any changes to the operating systems, and unauthorized function invocation and unauthorized data access among the operating systems are detected, thereby assuring high reliability. Access authorization is checked at two levels. At the upper level, a database managed by... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080178176 - Architecture for supporting attestation of a virtual machine in a single step: The presented method allows a virtual TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE (TPM) instance to map the Platform Configuration Registers (PCR) register state of a parent virtual TPM instance into its own register space and export the state of those registers to applications inside the virtual machine associated with the virtual TPM instance.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080178177 - Method and apparatus for operating a massively parallel computer system to utilize idle processor capability at process synchronization points: Individual components of a parallel system perform system maintenance operations during the times that the components are idle waiting for synchronization with other components. When all applicable components reach synchronization, further performance of system maintenance is suspended until the component is again idle at another synchronization point. Preferably, the component... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080178178 - System and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires: The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic budget by optimally allocating disaster management resources to disaster events belonging to scenarios associated with occurrence probabilities. According... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080178180 - Computer system and method for processing data using continuous processing task: A computing method and system is presented that modifies a standard operating system utilizing two or more processing units to execute continuous processing tasks; such as processing or generating continuous audio, video or other types of data. One of the processors is tasked with running the operating system while each... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, Plc

20080178184 - Concurrent web based multi-task support for control management system: To support one or multiple users to perform multiple concurrent tasks within a single web-browser for system like CCDSVM, the software modules on systems of CCDSVM require to work and communicate together to collect resource information of CCDSVM, and to display them in each user's web-browser, and further to allow... Agent: Sheng Tai (ted) Tsao

20080178181 - Processing tasks with failure recovery: A method and apparatus is provided for processing tasks with failure recovery. The method includes storing one or more tasks in a queue, wherein each task has an associated exit routine, and determining at least one task to process based on a priority scheme. The method further includes processing the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080178183 - Scheduling threads in a multi-processor computer: Scheduling threads in a multi-processor computer system including establishing an interrupt threshold for a thread, where the interrupt threshold represents a maximum permissible number of interrupts during thread execution on a processor; executing the thread on a current processor, where the thread has thread affinity for one or more processors... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080178179 - System and method for automating and scheduling remote data transfer and computation for high performance computing: The invention pertains to a system and method for a set of middleware components for supporting the execution of computational applications on high-performance computing platform. A specific embodiment of this invention was used to deploy a financial risk application on Blue Gene/L parallel supercomputer. The invention is relevant to any... Agent: Stephen Kaufman Ibm Corporation

20080178182 - Work state returning apparatus, work state returning method, and computer product: A computer system has a dual structure including a current system and an auxiliary system. When the current system stops because of server down, a setting module of the auxiliary system acquires an operation log and an operation management procedure from the current system and analyzes the operation log to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080178185 - Apparatus and method for controlling data recovery: A control apparatus comprises a priority determination unit for determining the priority of each of a plurality of applications that use data in different logical volumes constituting a volume group, and a restoration instruction unit for issuing a restoration instruction to a storage system to execute restoration on the plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080178186 - Apparatus and methods for performing computer system maintenance and notification activities in an opportunistic manner: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for performing computer system maintenance and notification activities in an opportunistic manner during time periods identified by a user when the user expects not to be using the computer system. In methods and systems of the present invention, the user prioritizes computer system... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080178188 - Critical resource management: In one embodiment, a method of managing critical resource usage in a storage network comprises receiving, in a storage controller, an input/output operation from a host, wherein the input/output operation identifies a storage unit, placing the input/output operation in a waiting queue, determining a maximum queue depth for at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080178189 - Efficient detection of sources of increasing memory consumption: A method for detecting increasing memory consumption of an application program is provided. The method includes monitoring memory consumption at an allocation site and updating an allocation site threshold value each time the memory consumption increases. The method further includes increasing a growth period counter each time the allocation site... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080178187 - Method and computer program product for job selection and resource alolocation of a massively parallel processor: A method for job selection and resource allocation of massively parallel processors, the method includes: providing to a constraint satisfaction problem solver multiple domains, variables, and constraints representative of a massively parallel processor, of queued job requests and of jobs being processed by the massively parallel processor, and generating, by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080178190 - Method and system to aggregate evaluation of at least one metric across a plurality of resources: A method to aggregate evaluation of at least one metric across a plurality of resources may include determining an aggregate evaluation of a selected metric for a group of resources of the plurality of resources. The method may also include adjusting the aggregate evaluation of the selected metric in response... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, Pllc For Ibm

20080178191 - 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

20080178192 - Affinity dispatching load balancer with precise cpu consumption data: A computer-implemented method for distributing a plurality of tasks over a plurality of processing nodes in a processor network includes the following steps: calculating a task process consumption value for the tasks; calculating a measured node processor consumption value for the nodes; calculating a target node processor consumption value for... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.a.

20080178193 - Workflow decision management including identifying user reaction to workflows: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments typically include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a derived scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern. In typical embodiments the derived scenario has... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080172666 - Virtual computer system and scheduling method thereof: Each virtual computer is arranged to have an exclusive-use timer mechanism in a physical computer in the form of a virtual timer with a physical timer as a timer source. Upon execution of virtual computer scheduling processing, a hypervisor uses information, such as “virtual timer value” or “accumulation of processor... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080172667 - Parallel processing system by os for single processors and parallel processing program: In a parallel processing system by an OS for single processors which operates an OS for single processors and an existing application for single processors on a multiprocessor to realize parallel processing by the multiprocessor with respect to the application, with the multiprocessor being logically divided into two groups of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080172668 - Profile-based cpu/core affinity: An automated system and method is provided for optimizing utilization of multiple processing resources available within a computer system by an application executing on the computer system. The multiple processing resources may include multiple CPUs or multiple cores within one or more CPUs. Activities performed by the application during execution... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080172669 - System capable of executing workflows on target applications and method thereof: A system (100) capable of executing one or more workflows on a target application include: a context manager application (101) having a communications module (120) capable of receiving information regarding a first workflow of the one or more workflows. The first workflow includes: (1) two or more groups of one... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20080172670 - Method and apparatus for reducing contention for computer system resources using soft locks: A soft lock mechanism controls access by multiple processes to a shared resource to make simultaneous access an unlikely event, while not necessarily preventing simultaneous access. Preferably, the soft lock contains a next_free_time field, specifying when the soft lock will next be available, and a lock_duration, specifying a sufficiently long... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080172671 - Method and system for efficient management of resource utilization data in on-demand computing: The present invention is based on the main ideas that different sub-intervals of a resource utilization time series are to be summarized with different granularity in the time axis, depending on the values of the series over that interval. Therefore, periods of high resource utilization are represented with higher time... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080172673 - Prediction based resource matching for grid environments: A method, grid computing environment, and information processing system for managing resource requests includes receiving information associated with at least one of a current and a past grid workload of a grid computing environment. Information associated with available resource capacity of at least one resource for processing grid workload is... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080172672 - Recommending moving resources in a partitioned computer: In an embodiment, a partition is discovered that transferred more than a threshold amount of data between the partition and a first resource. A determination is made that the partition transferred more than a threshold amount of data with a second resource. A determination is made that the data path... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080172674 - Apparatus and method for distributed dataflow execution in a distributed environment: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to assess system cache resources, inter-process communication requirements and staging requirements to divide an extract, transform, load (ETL) dataflow task into a plurality of sub-tasks. The sub-tasks are then executed in parallel on distributed resources.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080168438 - Co-routines native to a virtual execution environment: A virtual machine is extended to include native support for co-routines. In this manner, high-level programmers are afforded access to such functionality. More particularly, supplied is a mechanism inside the virtual machine to enable method/function state to be maintained and subsequently restored. Consequently, a method/function can be called multiple times... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080168439 - Electronic item management and archival system and method of operating the same: An electronic item management and archival system for managing and archiving items. Each item includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. The system includes a server configured to receive items, archive at least one of the received items to an archive, and retrieve at least... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080168441 - Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer-readable recording medium: A data processing apparatus including a data inputting part for inputting target data, a data processing part for processing the target data input by the data inputting part, and a data outputting part for outputting the target data processed by the data processing part is disclosed that includes an interface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080168440 - Integrating discovery functionality within a 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

20080168445 - Measuring processor use in a hardware multithreading processor environment: In a multiprocessor system where each processor has the capacity to executing multiple hardware threads, a method, system, and program for monitoring the percentage usage of the total capacity of the physical processors is provided. A processor capacity monitor calculates a logical usage percentage of each of the available hardware... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080168444 - Memory leakage management: Methods, systems, and media to enhance memory leakage management by identifying a suspect allocation pattern during execution of a task, which may be indicative of memory leakage and implementing measures to protect against memory leakage based upon the suspect allocation pattern, are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments may detect a suspect... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080168442 - Method and apparatus for monitoring data-processing system: A system management method in a system management apparatus for a distributed computing system having a plurality of computers, said system management method including: storing relations between a job and a job importance level of the job for ones of jobs handled by the distributed computing system; in response to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080168443 - Virtual devices using a plurality of processors: An approach is provided to allow virtual devices that use a plurality of processors in a multiprocessor systems, such as the BE environment. Using this method, a synergistic processing unit (SPU) can either be dedicated to performing a particular function (i.e., audio, video, etc.) or a single SPU can be... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080168446 - Method and apparatus for handling service requests in a data processing system: A method for handling service requests in a data processing system is disclosed. In response to a service request, a priority of the service request is determined by mapping a context of the service request to a service level agreement (SLA). SLA-aware and timeout-conscious and preemptive and replayable lock manager... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080168449 - Method and system for associating metadata with content: There is provided a method for associating metadata with content. According to one embodiment, the content is created for a scheduled event, where the metadata includes at least one metadata tag correlated to an event time period of the scheduled event. The method includes receiving content having a known time... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080168448 - Preventing deadlocks: A deadlock prevention mode indicator is provided, wherein the deadlock prevention mode indicator is a lock that can be held in a shared mode or in an exclusive mode by one or more of a plurality of threads, and wherein the plurality of threads can cause deadlocks while acquiring a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080168450 - Printing system, method for controlling the printing system, printing apparatus, and storage medium: When two or more print jobs are present, a printing system allows a user to perform a test print of a designated print job prior to execution of other print jobs. The printing system selects a print job to be processed by a printer unit from a plurality of print... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080168447 - Scheduling of execution units: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein an execution unit requests additional execution time from a kernel to prevent the execution unit from being swapped out during an execution of a critical section. The kernel determines whether the execution unit has previously avoided yielding execution to other... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080168451 - Topology aware grid services scheduler architecture: The invention provides a system/method of processing client requests over a computer network of hosts, that includes creating persistent containers in the hosts, creating objects in the containers, grouping the containers into grid container arrays, grouping objects within containers that are within a single grid container array into grid object... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080168452 - Adaptive command scheduling: A system for enhancing command scheduling is provided. In particular embodiments, the system includes a processor and a scheduler that receives commands from the processor for accessing a storage device. The scheduler receives a set of commands, some of which have a deadline, and the scheduler is configured to determine... Agent: Steven J. Cahill/ Hitachi Gst

20080168456 - Method of analyzing non-preemptive dram transactions in real-time unified memory architectures: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for determining access to non-preemptive DRAM devices. This method comprises determining real time need... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080168455 - Method, medium and apparatus scheduling tasks in a real time operating system: A scheduling method, medium and apparatus are provided. In the scheduling method, medium and apparatus, it is possible to prevent the possibility that the order between the priorities of the tasks represented by the expired timers and the tasks requested by the interrupt is reversed while also not deteriorating the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168454 - Multi-tasking method according to simple priority inheritance scheme and embedded system therefor: Provided are a multi-tasking method of performing a plurality of tasks according to priority of each of the plurality of tasks, and an embedded system therefor. It is determined whether a resource that is to be used by a current task is being used by another task, a priority of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168453 - Work prioritization system and method: A work prioritization system and method that includes determining a task false positive rate for the work task. The work prioritization system and method may further include determining an event materiality score based on the task false positive rate and prioritizing the work task within the plurality of work tasks... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080168461 - Association of memory access through protection attributes that are associated to an access control level on a pci adapter that supports virtualization: A method, system, and computer program product for sharing adapter resources among multiple operating system instances. The present invention provides a mechanism for dynamically allocating virtualized I/O adapter resources. The present invention separates the operation of adapter resource allocation from adapter resource management. Protection attributes within the adapter resource context... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080168460 - Method and apparatus for preventing stack overflow in embedded system: Provided is a method and apparatus for preventing a stack overflow in an embedded system. The method of preventing a stack overflow includes: reading a maximum stack usage of at least one function for executing a requested operation from maximum stack usages of functions provided from a kernel, which are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168462 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation among classifiers in classification systems: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource allocation among data analysis functions in a classification system are provided. Each of the data analysis functions is characterized as a set of operating points in accordance with at least one of resource requirements and analysis quality. An operating point for each of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080168459 - Method and system for performing inventory scan: A method of performing an inventory scan of target data processing systems (115) for ascertaining the presence therein of prerequisite resources, wherein the prerequisite resources are resources necessary for the execution, by the target data processing systems, of predetermined activities. The method comprising: upon sending (525) to a target data... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080168457 - Method for trading resources between partitions of a data processing system: A method is provided for a data processing system configured to include multiple logical partitions, wherein resources of the system are selectively allocated among respective partitions. In the method, an entity such as a Partition Load Manager or a separate background process is used to manage resources based on locality... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080168458 - Systems and methods for managing semantic locks: In one embodiment, a system for managing semantic locks and semantic lock requests for a resource is provided. Access to the resource is controlled such that compatible lock requests can access the resource and incompatible lock requests are queued.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080168465 - Data processing system and semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit and data processing system using the same which can reduce the overhead required in access to the local memory accompanying task switching to a processor, wherein first processors to which assignment of a task are controlled by a second processor includes a buffer memory as a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080168464 - Method and apparatus for facilitating pipeline throughput: In an embodiment of the present invention there is provided a method of facilitating pipelines throughput in a pipeline processor system including at least one producer processor/consumer processor pair. The method includes the step of controlling (22) the producer processor/consumer processor pair to allow them to run out-of-sync without violating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080168466 - Multi-core processor: An algorithm in a multi-core processor having a plurality of cores for deciding processing allocation to each core to distribute the processing load thereof, and an efficient processing allocation algorithm simplified for software engineers are established. In order to achieve the above processing load distribution, the multi-core processor includes a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080168463 - System and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic: A system and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic and, more particularly, to a system and method of load balancing tasks over a grid environment including, for example, CPU utilization, traffic over a network and other functions. The method comprises defining cause and effect relations associated with input variables... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080163205 - Controlling virtual machines based on activity state: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for controlling virtual machines based on activity state are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes virtual machine entry logic and activity state evaluation logic. The virtual machine entry logic is to transfer control of the apparatus from a host to a guest. The... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080163210 - Dynamic virtual machine generation: Methods and apparatuses enable creation of a virtual machine (VM) clone initiated through application or service logic. The application requests generation of a VM clone from within the runtime execution of the application. The request is serviced by a VM generator, which identifies a state of the VM to clone... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080163204 - Method and apparatus for inventory and/or policy-based management of virtual machines on a computing device: Methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems for an inventory agent and/or a policy agent of a computing device are described herein. In various embodiments, the inventory agent may be adapted to determine a count of a plurality of virtual machines on the computing device and notify an inventory server of the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080163211 - Method of selecting one of execution schedules of guest oses and virtual machine monitor employing the method: In a virtual machine system, a plurality of guest OSes are time-divisionally executed under virtual machine execution environments provided by a virtual machine monitor (VMM). The VMM specifies a group of guest OSes that intercommunicate with each other via a communication interface provided by the VMM. Then, the VMM sets... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080163209 - Methods and apparatus for remeasuring a virtual machine monitor: A data processing system supports remeasurement of a virtual machine monitor (VMM). In one example process, the VMM may obtain a secret value from a trusted platform module (TPM) of the processing system. The VMM may provide the secret value from the VMM to a measurement agent executing in system... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080163207 - Moveable access control list (acl) mechanisms for hypervisors and virtual machines and virtual port firewalls: A method (and system) which provides virtual machine migration with filtered network connectivity and control of network security of a virtual machine by enforcing network security and routing at a hypervisor layer at which the virtual machine partition is executed, and which is independent of guest operating systems.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080163208 - Virtual machine creation for removable storage devices: According to some embodiments, a removable storage device may be detected at a computer platform. The removable storage device may then be authenticated as a trusted device, and a secure virtual machine environment may be created within the computer platform in connection with the removable storage device.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080163203 - Virtual machine dispatching to maintain memory affinity: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for dispatching virtual processors. A determination is made as to whether a physical processor in a set of physical processors is idle, and, if so, a determination is made as to whether an affinity map for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080163206 - Virtualizing the execution of homogeneous parallel systems on heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms: A method of virtual processing includes running a virtual processor (1), which when the virtual processor (1) encounters a faulting instruction unmaps the virtual processor (1) from the physical processor (A), and generates a list of other of the physical processors that could execute the instruction. Then determines if one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080163213 - Method and a system for composing an optimally-grained set of service functions: Disclosed is a computer program product for managing granularity of a computing infrastructure, wherein the program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to: identify at least one set of service functions suited to characterization by one or more sets of metrics; create a representation of at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080163214 - Online task monitoring tool: A system for a task monitoring tool is provided. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to display one or more tasks using... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080163217 - Optimized preemption and reservation of software locks: An approach is provided that reserves a software lock for a waiting thread is presented. When a software lock is released by a first thread, a second thread that is waiting for the same resource controlled by the software lock is woken up. In addition, a reservation to the software... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080163212 - Paralleled management mode integrity checks: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for providing a management mode integrity check are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080163216 - Pointer renaming in workqueuing execution model: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes initializing a queue for a master thread. A cyclic pointer buffer is created based on heap variables in arguments in the master thread. At least one heap variable is passed from the master thread to a slave thread.... Agent: Ryder Ip Law C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080163215 - Thread queuing method and apparatus: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a request to generate a thread and supplying a request to a queue in response at least to the received request. The method may further include fetching a plurality of instructions in response at least in part to the request supplied to the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080163218 - Configuration and execution of mass data run objects: Systems and processes may perform actions on a huge set of business objects, often in a batch process. A mass data run object may be instantiated based, at least in part, on a batch process request in a service-oriented architecture. Mass data run objects may include, potentially among other things,... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080163220 - Efficient and consistent software transactional memory: A method and apparatus for efficient and consistent validation/conflict detection in a Software Transactional Memory (STM) system is herein described. A version check barrier is inserted after a load to compare versions of loaded values before and after the load. In addition, a global timestamp (GTS) is utilized to track... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080163221 - Method and system for dividing and executing on-line transaction processing in distributed environment: A method, system and computer program capable of executing a transaction in a scalable manner by dividing and then executing the transaction in a distributed environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a system divides and then executes a transaction in a distributed environment. The system includes means which divides... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080163222 - Parallel apply processing in data replication with preservation of transaction integrity and source ordering of dependent updates: A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program for handling transaction messages in asynchronous data replication in a database system is disclosed. The computer program provides a high speed parallel apply of transactional changes to a target node such that the parallel nature of the application of changes does... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080163219 - System and method of external interaction with a batch processing system: A system and method for interaction with a remote server is described. Using an enterprise scheduler, jobs and other tasks may be scheduled on a remote server. Typically, the enterprise scheduler and remote server communicate through an API which servers as an interpreter between them. A Java API is used... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080163223 - Correlating macro and error data for debugging program error event: A solution for managing a program execution is provided. During execution of a program, macro data and error data can be generated and stored. The macro data includes a set of execution entries, each of which includes data for a user interface task for a user interface object and a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080163225 - Method and/or system for task scheduling: Embodiments of a method and/or system for task scheduling is disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080163224 - Modeling interrupts in a business process: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to process modeling of a process flow interruption and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for modeling interrupts in a business process. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for modeling interrupts... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080163226 - Power management using adaptive thermal throttling: In some embodiments, a chip includes a scheduler, transmitters, receivers, and control circuitry. The schedule schedules signals to be transmitted outside the chip and the transmitters transmit the scheduled signals outside the chip. The receivers receive signals including signals with temperature information related to a temperature outside the chip. The... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP 7th Floor

20080163227 - Server and client, and update supporting and performing methods thereof: A server connected to a plurality of clients, the server including: a server interface unit to notify the clients of an update plan; a scheduling unit to generate an update schedule for each client transmitting a request for time assignment when the request for time assignment is received from each... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080163228 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and server: An information processing method includes: accepting a request for execution of a new task; identifying at least either one of a processing time required for the new task and a bus bandwidth required for processing the new task; making at least either one of comparisons between a total required processing... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080163229 - Method of analyzing non-preemptive dram transactions in real-time unified memory architectures: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for determining access to non-preemptive DRAM devices. This method comprises determining real time need... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080163230 - Method and apparatus for selection among multiple execution threads: Methods and apparatus for selecting and prioritizing execution threads for consideration of resource allocation include eliminating threads for consideration from all the running execution threads: if they have no available entries in their associated reorder buffers, or if they have exceeded their threshold for entry allocations in the issue window,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080163233 - Method and apparatus for service load consolidation, and computer product: A load distribution rate is calculated among resources utilized in a service based on load information for each resource utilized in the service. If it is determined that loads of the service distributed to the resources are excessively distributed and that the loads are to be consolidated, a resource having... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080163231 - Method and system for geolocation assisted operations management: Provided are a method and system for providing a resource to a geolocated asset in need of the resource, comprising providing data of one or more providers of the resource including the location of the providers; determining that the asset needs the resource; locating the asset using the telematics device;... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080163237 - Method of changing system configuration in shared-nothing database management system: A shared-nothing database management system employs a method of adding and removing a database server without significantly affecting the processing performance for accessing a table from a user or an application. A scheduler module creates a schedule which separately handles the addition of a CPU resource and the addition of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080163236 - Method, system, and computer program product for virtual adapter destruction on a physical adapter that supports virtual adapters: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a physical adapter is provided. A mechanism is provided for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080163234 - Methods and systems for identifying application system storage resources: The invention provides methods, apparatus, systems and computer program code (software) products operable in a digital processing environment, and more particularly a digital storage environment, for enabling a mapping from a set of applications to storage elements used in the digital storage environment, and to provide a hierarchical image of... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080163235 - System and method for control architecture: A system to provide control architecture comprises a control, a client and a client container. The control can hold client-side resources for an appropriate resource scope to achieve optimal performance and utilization of resources, wherein access to the client-side resources is parameterized by metadata annotation declared on the control. The... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080163232 - Virtualized environment allocation system and method: A virtualized environment allocation system comprises a computer system having a plurality of virtualized stacks, the computer system configured to have a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices coupled thereto, and an allocation controller configured to allocate at least one of the plurality of I/O devices to a first of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080163238 - Dynamic load balancing architecture: A system and method to perform dynamic balancing of task loads are described. A plurality of task files stored within a storage device are organized in descending order based on a respective processing time parameter associated with each task file, which characterizes the length of time necessary for processing of... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20080163239 - Method for dynamic load balancing on partitioned systems: Methods, systems and apparatuses to dynamically balance execution loads on a partitioned system among processor cores or among partitions.... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080163241 - Light weight task switching when a shared memory condition is signaled: An approach that uses a handler to detect asynchronous lock line reservation lost events, and switching tasks based upon whether a condition is true or a mutex lock is acquired is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) invokes a first thread and, during execution, the first thread requests external data... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080163240 - Using performance monitor to optimize system performance: An approach that optimizes system performance using performance monitors is presented. The system gathers thread performance data using performance monitors for threads running on either a first ISA processor or a second ISA processor. Multiple first processors and multiple second processors may be included in a single computer system. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen