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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control October patent listing 10/08

20080263544 - Computer system and communication control method: A technology is provided, in which pair information of a virtual machine and a real machine on which the virtual machine operates are made related with each other, and are recorded into a shared memory partition of the virtual machine and a control function of virtual machine infrastructure, from the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080263546 - Image formation apparatus and program: An image formation apparatus that has a webpage viewing function includes a job receiver that receives a job execution instruction from a user terminal, a job analyzer that analyzes the received job execution instruction, a job executor that executes a job based on a result of the analysis, and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263549 - Managing locks and transactions: Under control of a first agent, a resource controlled by a second agent is locked with a first operation identifier. Under control of the second agent: a request is received to lock the resource controlled by the second agent with a second operation identifier for a client request for a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263548 - Process and implementation for dynamically determining probe enablement using out of process correlating token: The present invention addresses the problem of linking cross-process and cross-thread subtransactions into a single user transaction. The mechanism of the present invention employs bytecode inserted probes to dynamically detect out of process correlating tokens in an inbound request. The bytecode inserted probes retrieve the correlating token in the inbound... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263547 - Providing a service to a service requester: A data processing system for providing a service to a service requester is provided. The data processing system includes a filtering module to receive a request for a service from the service requester, and a ticket module to create a ticket. The ticket includes a risk profile level which is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263545 - Signal delivery to a process in a process group: A method of handling a signal for delivery to a process in a process group along with an apparatus and computer-readable medium storing instructions therefore are described. The method comprises obtaining a lock on a portion of a process group management structure and storing a signal to the process group... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263550 - A system and method for scheduled distribution of updated documents: The subject application is directed to a system and method for scheduled distribution of updated documents. Document data corresponding to at least one electronic document associated with a meeting is first stored in an associated data storage. Next, identification data representing each invitee to the meeting is stored in the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080263553 - Dynamic service level manager for image pools: An embodiment of the present invention relates to the field of computer technology, in particular it relates to a method for provisioning images for virtual machines, wherein for a predefined application type a pool of at least one image of a virtual machine performing said application is loaded in the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080263554 - Method and system for scheduling user-level i/o threads: The present invention is directed to a user-level thread scheduler that employs a service that propagates at the user level, continuously as it gets updated in the kernel, the kernel-level state necessary to determine if an I/O operation would block or not. In addition, the user-level thread schedulers used systems... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080263552 - Multithread processor and method of synchronization operations among threads to be used in same: The Thread Data Base 1 holds a thread identifier to uniquely identify a thread in the system. The Check means 3 lets, when no thread being a target exist in the same processor, a trap (TRAP) 10 occur. The Issue means 2, when a thread being a target exists in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080263551 - Optimization and utilization of media resources: Method for scheduling a new backup job within a backup application to optimize a utilization of a media resource of said backup application. The backup application includes one or more previously scheduled backup jobs. The backup application calculates a current load of the media resource as a function of the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080263555 - Task processing scheduling method and device for applying the method: The invention relates to a method for scheduling the processing of tasks and to the associated device, the processing of a task comprising a step for configuring resources required for executing the task and a step for executing the task on the thereby configured resources, the method comprising a selection... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080263561 - Information processing apparatus, computer and resource allocation method: The present invention provides a new resource allocation technique that allows for each partition to surely and automatically, without using manpower, use a proper amount of resources in accordance with the load when a structure is employed in which the inside of a computer is divided into a plurality of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080263558 - Method and apparatus for on-demand resource allocation and job management: The invention is a method and apparatus for on-demand resource planning for unified messaging services. In one embodiment, multiple clients are served by a single system, and existing system resources are allocated among all clients in a manner that optimizes system output and service provider profit without the need to... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263559 - Method and apparatus for utility-based dynamic resource allocation in a distributed computing system: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for allocation of finite computational resources amongst multiple entities, wherein the method is structured to optimize the business value of an enterprise providing computational services. One embodiment of the inventive method involves establishing, for each entity, a service level utility indicative... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263556 - Real-time system exception monitoring tool: Techniques for monitoring resources of a computer system are provided. A monitoring process collects and reports utilization data for one or more resources of a computer system, such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network I/O. Instead of reporting just an average of the collected data over a period of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080263557 - Scheduling method and system, corresponding computational grid and computer program product: A scheduler device schedules executions of jobs using resources of a computational grid. The scheduler is configured for identifying an equilibrium threshold between resources and jobs. Below the equilibrium threshold, the scheduler schedules the execution of the jobs using the resources of the computational grid according to Pareto-optimal strategies. Above... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080263560 - Structure for securing leased resources on a computer: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is for securing of leased resources on a computer. The design structure includes a computer for securing resources may comprise at least one processor, a plurality of resources, wherein each resource is associated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080263562 - Management information system for allocating contractors with requestors: A management information system, computer implemented method and computer product for allocating contractors and requestors. A networked server is provided which includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and a database operatively stored in the memory. The database comprises a first database component operative to maintain a plurality... Agent: Law Office Of Philip A Steiner

20080263563 - Method and apparatus for online sample interval determination: In one embodiment, functional system elements are added to an autonomic manager to enable automatic online sample interval selection. In another embodiment, a method for determining the sample interval by continually characterizing the system workload behavior includes monitoring the system data and analyzing the degree to which the workload is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20080263544 - Computer system and communication control method: A technology is provided, in which pair information of a virtual machine and a real machine on which the virtual machine operates are made related with each other, and are recorded into a shared memory partition of the virtual machine and a control function of virtual machine infrastructure, from the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080263546 - Image formation apparatus and program: An image formation apparatus that has a webpage viewing function includes a job receiver that receives a job execution instruction from a user terminal, a job analyzer that analyzes the received job execution instruction, a job executor that executes a job based on a result of the analysis, and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263549 - Managing locks and transactions: Under control of a first agent, a resource controlled by a second agent is locked with a first operation identifier. Under control of the second agent: a request is received to lock the resource controlled by the second agent with a second operation identifier for a client request for a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263548 - Process and implementation for dynamically determining probe enablement using out of process correlating token: The present invention addresses the problem of linking cross-process and cross-thread subtransactions into a single user transaction. The mechanism of the present invention employs bytecode inserted probes to dynamically detect out of process correlating tokens in an inbound request. The bytecode inserted probes retrieve the correlating token in the inbound... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263547 - Providing a service to a service requester: A data processing system for providing a service to a service requester is provided. The data processing system includes a filtering module to receive a request for a service from the service requester, and a ticket module to create a ticket. The ticket includes a risk profile level which is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263545 - Signal delivery to a process in a process group: A method of handling a signal for delivery to a process in a process group along with an apparatus and computer-readable medium storing instructions therefore are described. The method comprises obtaining a lock on a portion of a process group management structure and storing a signal to the process group... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263550 - A system and method for scheduled distribution of updated documents: The subject application is directed to a system and method for scheduled distribution of updated documents. Document data corresponding to at least one electronic document associated with a meeting is first stored in an associated data storage. Next, identification data representing each invitee to the meeting is stored in the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080263553 - Dynamic service level manager for image pools: An embodiment of the present invention relates to the field of computer technology, in particular it relates to a method for provisioning images for virtual machines, wherein for a predefined application type a pool of at least one image of a virtual machine performing said application is loaded in the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080263554 - Method and system for scheduling user-level i/o threads: The present invention is directed to a user-level thread scheduler that employs a service that propagates at the user level, continuously as it gets updated in the kernel, the kernel-level state necessary to determine if an I/O operation would block or not. In addition, the user-level thread schedulers used systems... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080263552 - Multithread processor and method of synchronization operations among threads to be used in same: The Thread Data Base 1 holds a thread identifier to uniquely identify a thread in the system. The Check means 3 lets, when no thread being a target exist in the same processor, a trap (TRAP) 10 occur. The Issue means 2, when a thread being a target exists in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080263551 - Optimization and utilization of media resources: Method for scheduling a new backup job within a backup application to optimize a utilization of a media resource of said backup application. The backup application includes one or more previously scheduled backup jobs. The backup application calculates a current load of the media resource as a function of the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080263555 - Task processing scheduling method and device for applying the method: The invention relates to a method for scheduling the processing of tasks and to the associated device, the processing of a task comprising a step for configuring resources required for executing the task and a step for executing the task on the thereby configured resources, the method comprising a selection... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080263561 - Information processing apparatus, computer and resource allocation method: The present invention provides a new resource allocation technique that allows for each partition to surely and automatically, without using manpower, use a proper amount of resources in accordance with the load when a structure is employed in which the inside of a computer is divided into a plurality of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080263558 - Method and apparatus for on-demand resource allocation and job management: The invention is a method and apparatus for on-demand resource planning for unified messaging services. In one embodiment, multiple clients are served by a single system, and existing system resources are allocated among all clients in a manner that optimizes system output and service provider profit without the need to... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263559 - Method and apparatus for utility-based dynamic resource allocation in a distributed computing system: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for allocation of finite computational resources amongst multiple entities, wherein the method is structured to optimize the business value of an enterprise providing computational services. One embodiment of the inventive method involves establishing, for each entity, a service level utility indicative... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263556 - Real-time system exception monitoring tool: Techniques for monitoring resources of a computer system are provided. A monitoring process collects and reports utilization data for one or more resources of a computer system, such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network I/O. Instead of reporting just an average of the collected data over a period of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080263557 - Scheduling method and system, corresponding computational grid and computer program product: A scheduler device schedules executions of jobs using resources of a computational grid. The scheduler is configured for identifying an equilibrium threshold between resources and jobs. Below the equilibrium threshold, the scheduler schedules the execution of the jobs using the resources of the computational grid according to Pareto-optimal strategies. Above... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080263560 - Structure for securing leased resources on a computer: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is for securing of leased resources on a computer. The design structure includes a computer for securing resources may comprise at least one processor, a plurality of resources, wherein each resource is associated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080263562 - Management information system for allocating contractors with requestors: A management information system, computer implemented method and computer product for allocating contractors and requestors. A networked server is provided which includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and a database operatively stored in the memory. The database comprises a first database component operative to maintain a plurality... Agent: Law Office Of Philip A Steiner

20080263563 - Method and apparatus for online sample interval determination: In one embodiment, functional system elements are added to an autonomic manager to enable automatic online sample interval selection. In another embodiment, a method for determining the sample interval by continually characterizing the system workload behavior includes monitoring the system data and analyzing the degree to which the workload is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20080256541 - Method and system for optimal batching in a production environment: A method for processing a plurality of jobs in a production environment may include receiving a plurality of Jobs and receiving one or more instructions into a workflow management system to process the plurality of jobs. The one or more instructions may include a setup characteristic. The method may also... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080256542 - Processor: In a processor including a plurality of register groups, while a task is being executed using one of the register groups, a context of a task to be executed next is restored into another one of the register groups. If the execution of the task currently being executed is suspended... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080256543 - Replicated state machine: A replicated state machine includes multiple state machine replicas. In response to a request from a client, the state machine replicas can execute a service for the request in parallel. Each of the state machine replicas is provided with a request manager instance. The request manager instance includes a distributed... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080256544 - Stateless task dispatch utility: Computer resource management techniques involving receiving notification of an available resource, generating a set of tasks that could be performed by the resource, and dispatching one of the tasks on the resource. Related systems and software are also discussed. Some techniques can be used for automatic software building and testing.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080256547 - Method and system for managing a common resource in a computing system: The invention, in one embodiment, provides a method for acquiring and releasing a lock over a common resource in a computing system. After a lock has been acquired over a common resource. A determination (210) is made as to whether another request for the common resource has been made. If... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256546 - Method for allocating programs: In one embodiment, a method for allocating programs to resources suited to operating conditions thereof comprises generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080256545 - Systems and methods of managing resource utilization on a threaded computer system: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to incremental computing. Specifically, embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for the concurrent processing of multiple, incremental changes to a data value while at the same time monitoring and/or enforcing threshold values for that data value. Embodiments of the invention also include... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080256548 - Method for the interoperation of virtual organizations: A cooperative data stream processing system is provided that utilizes a plurality of independent, autonomous and possibly heterogeneous sites in a cooperative arrangement to process user-defined job requests over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A method is provided to organize the distributed sites into a plurality of virtual organizations that... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256550 - Parallel processing system by os for single processor: The present invention relates to a parallel processing system by an OS for single processor capable of operating an OS for single processor and an existing application on a multiprocessor and achieving parallel processing by a multiprocessor with respect to the application, wherein the multiprocessor are logically divided into two... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080256551 - System and method for storing state information: A method for storing state information, the method includes storing, at a first circuit, state information representative of a state of a second circuit while the second circuit enters a low power mode; characterized by receiving an indication that a task switching from a first task to a second task... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080250407 - Network group name for virtual machines: Virtual machine (VM) management using a group name. By associating VM registration information with a group name, all VMs running off a single physical machine image can be managed (e.g., blocked or unblocked) simultaneously. A service component captures registration information (e.g., IP address-VM name pair) between a virtual machine and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080250406 - Virtual machine support for metered computer usage: A virtual machine monitor provides a trusted operating environment for a software usage metering application when a qualified virtual machine monitor is loaded as part of trusted boot and when all other programs and operating systems run in containers managed by the virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor may... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080250409 - Information processing system and computer readable recording medium storing an information processing program: A unit: (a) sets event largest possible values used for limitation of the number of tasks and/or the size of areas in a buffer; (b) generates a task without reaching the event largest possible values when receiving an event, and reserves an area in the buffer for the task; (c)... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080250410 - Method for consolidated launching of multiple tasks: A general purpose mechanism is provided for consolidating the launching of multiple tasks, wherein a task is launched when an associated software component is run or executed. In one embodiment, launch descriptions of individual tasks and composition parameters are respectively read, wherein the parameters indicate relationships between the launchings of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080250408 - Peer to peer sharing of functionality of mobile devices: Systems and methodologies for sharing functionality among mobile devices in a peer to peer manner are described herein. A mobile device can include a plurality of functional components that can each perform respective functionality. Examples of the functionalities can include transceiver communications, processing, power, memory, input and output for the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250411 - Rule based engine for validating financial transactions: A method and system for checking whether customer orders for transactions of financial instruments conform to business logic rules. Executable rule files are created and stored in a repository. New executable rule files can be created by scripting the new business logic rules in a script file which is converted... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080250412 - Cooperative process-wide synchronization: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method of concurrently performing a process-wide operation in a multi-threaded process being executed on a computer system so as to result in more efficient performance of the computer system. A plurality of threads of the process concurrently participate in the process-wide operation. Finishing steps... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080250414 - Dynamically partitioning processing across a plurality of heterogeneous processors: A program is into at least two object files: one object file for each of the supported processor environments. During compilation, code characteristics, such as data locality, computational intensity, and data parallelism, are analyzed and recorded in the object file. During run time, the code characteristics are combined with runtime... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080250413 - Method and apparatus for managing tasks: The method of managing a task provided by the present invention includes the steps of decomposing said task into at least two sub-tasks; assigning said at least two sub-tasks to at least two function modules, so that said at least two function modules respectively complete said at least two sub-tasks,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080250415 - Priority based throttling for power/performance quality of service: A method and apparatus for throttling power and/or performance of processing elements based on a priority of software entities is herein described. Priority aware power management logic receives priority levels of software entities and modifies operating points of processing elements associated with the software entities accordingly. Therefore, in a power... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080250417 - Application management support system and method: A first information resource denoting which logical volume is allocated to which application program is prepared in a management computer. The management computer either regularly or irregularly acquires from the storage system information as to which logical volumes were updated at what times, registers same in a second information resource,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080250418 - Health care administration system: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing an event in a health care organization, the method comprising standardizing, during a design phase, a workflow associated with an event; and executing, during an executing phase, the workflow to complete a procedure associated with the event. Other embodiments... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080250420 - Jobstream planner considering network contention & resource availability: Disclosed is a computer-implemented planning process that aids a system administrator in the task of creating a job schedule. The process treats enterprise computing resources as a grid of resources, which provides greater flexibility in assigning resources to jobs. During the planning process, an administrator or other user, or software,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080250416 - Linking of scheduling systems for appointments at multiple facilities: Scheduling systems for scheduling appointments on multiple sites need to be linked, if such systems use different databases. The activity to be performed by the performing site during the appointment may be given by a requesting code, specific for the requesting site. If the activity can be performed at the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080250419 - Method and system for managing resource connections: Methods and system for managing resource connections are described. In one embodiment, a user request associated with a centralized resource may be received. Availability of a connection to the centralized resource may be determined. A stagger delay for connection creation may be determined. The stagger delay may define a delay... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080250421 - Data processing system and method: A method of forming a cluster from a plurality of potential clusters that share a common node, the method comprising determining a criticality factor of each potential cluster by combining criticality factors of the nodes of each potential cluster; and forming the cluster from the potential cluster with the highest... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080250422 - Executing multiple threads in a processor: Provided are a method, system, and program for executing multiple threads in a processor. Credits are set for a plurality of threads executed by the processor. The processor alternates among executing the threads having available credit. The processor decrements the credit for one of the threads in response to executing... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080244574 - Dynamically relocating devices between virtual machines: A virtual machine monitor may reassign hardware bus devices from one virtual machine to another. The virtual machine monitor may turn a device off, reassign it to a different virtual machine, and then turn the device back on. Device interrupts are remapped from the source virtual machine to the target... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244570 - Facilitating communication within an emulated processing environment: Communication between processors and I/O communications processes is facilitated. During the communication, shared control blocks and input/output queues are updated without using locks. Instead, a lockless capability is provided to update the queues and control blocks, thereby enhancing system performance and minimizing the need for recovery processes.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080244572 - Method and apparatus for adaptive integrity measurement of computer software: Systems and methods are described herein that discuss how a computing platform executing a virtualized environment, in one example, can be integrity verified adaptively and on demand. This may occur at initial runtime, as well as during continued operations, and allows the platform user to install software from various vendors... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080244573 - Method and apparatus for managing page tables from a non-privileged software domain: A virtual machine monitor; and an executive virtual machine to manage page tables in place of the virtual machine monitor are described. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080244568 - Method to capture hardware statistics for partitions to enable dispatching and scheduling efficiency: A method, system and computer program product enables the granular collection and utilization of hardware statistical samples for the efficient scheduling and allocation of data processing resources. In particular, a Partition Statistics Capture and Analysis (PSCA) utility utilizes special purpose registers to collect statistical samples, such as: (1) instructions completed;... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080244577 - Software delivery for virtual machines: One embodiment entails delivering a software payload to guest software in a virtual machine so that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software, wherein delivery avoids a data path involving a network stack of the virtual machine.... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080244576 - System and method for managing resources of applications and threads performed on java virtual machine: A method of managing resources related to a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and an application executed in the JVM is provided. The method includes defining a resource identifier uniquely identifying an arbitrary resource to be; generating a resource consumer for each thread, wherein the resource consumer uses a resource; generating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080244569 - System and method for reporting the trusted state of a virtual machine: A system, method, and program product is provided that executes a start sequence of an information handling system that includes a hardware based TPM. Multiple PCRs are stored in the TPM and are initialized to a predetermined state when the start sequence commences. During execution of the start sequence, software... Agent: Lenovo - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20080244575 - Tessellated virtual machines conditionally linked for common computing goals: In a computing environment, an association and layout of virtual machines exist as a system of multiple applications instantiated for a common computing goal, such as providing a data center with an email system for an enterprise. In that every application need not always be operational or have applicability in... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080244571 - Virtual interrupt processing in a layered virtualization architecture: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for processing virtual interrupts in a layered virtualization architecture are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes virtual machine entry logic, recognition logic, and evaluation logic. The virtual machine entry logic is to transfer control of the apparatus from a host to a guest.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244581 - Application collaboration system, collaboration method and collaboration program: b

20080244578 - Managing and supporting multithreaded resources for native code in a heterogeneous managed runtime environment: A computer implemented method and apparatus to manage multithread resources in a multiple instruction set architectures environment comprising initializing a first thread from a first context. The initialization of the first thread is suspended at a position in response to an operating system request call to create the first thread.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244579 - Method and system for managing virtual and real machines: Managing virtual and real machines through a provisioning system. The provisioning system allows a user to create and manage machines through a “self-service” approach. The provisioning system interacts with one or more agents that manage the lifecycle of a machine. The system may provide templates that enable a user to... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20080244580 - Redundant configuration method of a storage system maintenance/management apparatus: Provided is a method of managing a computer system including a plurality of storage systems and a plurality of management appliances for managing the plurality of storage systems. A first management appliance and a second management appliance hold an identifier of a first storage system and management data obtained from... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080244582 - Web-based task management system and method: A task management system and method integrates rich functionality into a web-browser based application. An efficient request for an update enables a user to quickly generate a completely customizable email message to intended recipient(s). By introducing a client side, in-memory database, the client component becomes less susceptible to network connectivity... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080244583 - Conflicting sub-process identification method, apparatus and computer program: In a conflicting sub-process identification method according to the present invention, a comparison is made between processing time periods for which transactions executed in parallel have conflicting parts and for which transactions executed in parallel do not have conflicting parts. This comparison is made for a plurality of transaction processing... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080244588 - Computing the processor desires of jobs in an adaptively parallel scheduling environment: The present invention describes a system and method for scheduling jobs on a multiprocessor system. The invention includes schedulers for use in both work-sharing and work-stealing environments. Each system utilizes a task scheduler using historical usage information, in conjunction with a job scheduler to achieve its results. In one embodiment,... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080244586 - Directed sax parser for xml documents: A method for processing XML documents using a SAX parser, implemented in a two-thread architecture having a main thread and a parsing thread. The parsing procedure is located in a parsing thread, which implements callback functions of a SAX parser and creates and executes the SAX parser. The main thread... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080244591 - Information processing system and storage medium: An information processing system has a file memory, a schedule information memory, a reminder information memory that stores reminder information including identification information of a user, a registration deadline of the first electronic file, and a reminder submission time in connection with information indicating a registration location of the first... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080244590 - Method for improving performance in a computer storage system by regulating resource requests from clients: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing non-blocking, minimum threaded two-way messaging. A Performance Monitor Daemon provides one non-blocked thread pair per processor to support a large number of connections. The thread pair includes an outbound thread for outbound communication and an inbound thread... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080244585 - System and method for using failure casting to manage failures in computer systems: A system and method for using failure casting to manage failures in computer system. In accordance with an embodiment, the system uses a failure casting hierarchy to cast failures of one type into failures of another type. In doing this, the system allows incidents, problems, or failures to be cast... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080244589 - Task manager: A task list contains information related to multiple tasks to be executed in a sequential manner. A task processor is provided to execute at least one task in the task list. A task management engine retrieves information from the task list and provides task execution instructions to the task processor.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244584 - Task scheduling method: Provided is a method for scheduling activities. The method includes partitioning tasks provided for scheduling. The partitioning is accomplished by receiving at least one task including at least one data type. The data type is reviewed to determine at least one scheduling criteria and the task is routed to a... Agent: Kutak Rock, LLP

20080244587 - Thread scheduling on multiprocessor systems: A thread scheduler may be used in a chip multiprocessor or symmetric multiprocessor system to schedule threads to processors. The scheduler may determine the bandwidth utilization of the two threads in combination and whether that utilization exceeds the threshold value. If so, the threads may be scheduled on different processor... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244592 - Multitask processing device and method: There is provided with a multitask processing device for processing a plurality of tasks by multitask, the tasks being each split into at least two sections, including: a stable set storage configured to store a stable set including one or more section combinations; a program execution state calculator configured to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080244593 - Task roster: A task roster. A task roster can include a visual list of component tasks, the component tasks collectively forming a high-level task; a specified sequence in which the component tasks are to be performed; and, one or more visual status indicators, each visual status indicator having a corresponding component task,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080244609 - Assuring recovery of temporary resources in a logically partitioned computer system: A capacity manager provides temporary resources on demand in a manner that assures the temporary resources may be recovered when the specified resource-time expires. Access to minimum resource specifications corresponding to the logical partitions is controlled to prevent the sum of all minimum resource specifications from exceeding the base resources... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080244596 - Computer program product and system for deferring the deletion of control blocks: A computer program product and system are disclosed for deferring the deletion of resource control blocks from a resource queue within an information management system that includes a plurality of short-term processes and a plurality of long-term processes when each of the long term processes has unset a ‘resource in... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080244607 - Economic allocation and management of resources via a virtual resource market: Allocating distributed computing resources comprises creating offers to provide the resources for use by application programs. Each offer specifies a performance characteristic and a value associated with a corresponding resource. Bids to obtain the resources for use by the application programs are created. Each bid specifies a service level required... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20080244599 - Master and subordinate operating system kernels for heterogeneous multiprocessor systems: Systems and methods establish communication and control between various heterogeneous processors in a computing system so that an operating system can run an application across multiple heterogeneous processors. With a single set of development tools, software developers can create applications that will flexibly run on one CPU or on combinations... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080244601 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources among backup tasks in a data backup system: Method and apparatus for allocating resources among backup tasks in a data backup system is described. One aspect of the invention relates to managing backup tasks in a computer network. An estimated resource utilization is established for each of the backup tasks based on a set of backup statistics. A... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group/symantec Corporation

20080244610 - Method and apparatus for dynamic device allocation for managing escalation of on-demand business processes: Resource allocation techniques are provided for use in managing escalation of on-demand business processes. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing escalation of a business process comprises the following steps/operations. A request is obtained from a business process, the business process having one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080244595 - Method and system for constructing virtual resources: System for managing a life cycle of a virtual resource. One or more virtual resources are defined. The one or more defined virtual resources are created. The created virtual resources are instantiated. Then, a topology of a virtual resource is constructed using a plurality of virtual resources that are in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080244606 - Method and system for estimating resource provisioning: A method and system are described for estimating resource provisioning. An example method may include obtaining a workflow path including an external invocation node and respective groups of service nodes, node connectors, and hardware nodes, and including a directed ordered path indicating ordering of a flow of execution of services... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080244600 - Method and system for modeling and analyzing computing resource requirements of software applications in a shared and distributed computing environment: An application manager for enabling multiple applications to share resources in a shared and distributed computing environment. The disclosed system provides for the specification, representation and automatic analysis of resource requirements of applications in a shared and distributed computing environment. The application manager is provided with service specifications for each... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080244602 - Method for task and resource management: A method is disclosed for managing one or more tasks or human resources. In one embodiment, the method receives one or more tasks. The method determines at least one task evaluation criteria value for each received one or more tasks. In addition, the method determines a task value associated with... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080244603 - Method for task and resource management: A method is disclosed for managing one or more tasks or human resources. In one embodiment, the method receives one or more first tasks. In addition, the method receives one or more first sets of skill information. Each of the one or more first sets of skill information includes at... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080244604 - Method for task and resource management: A method is disclosed for task and human resource management. In one embodiment, the method stores a plurality of first tasks, each first task including at least one first task skill. In addition, the method receives a search request, the search request including at least one search request skill. The... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080244605 - Method for task and resource management: A method is disclosed for task and human resource management. In one embodiment, the method determines a set of skill information. The set of skill information includes at least one task skill and is associated with a task. In addition, the method determines, from a set of one or more... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080244608 - Multiprocessor system and access protection method conducted in multiprocessor system: In a conventional multiprocessor system, an access right with respect to a shared resource could not be changed in a flexible manner. The present invention provides a multiprocessor system having a first processor element (PE-A) and a second processor element (PE-B), the first processor element (PE-A) and the second processor... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080244598 - System partitioning to present software as platform level functionality: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods for partitioning systems, and partitionable and partitioned systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes processors and a partition manager. The partition manager is to allocate a subset of the processors to a first partition and another subset of the processors to a second partition.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244597 - Systems and methods for recording resource association for recording: Included are embodiments for determining an extension-to-channel mapping. At least one embodiment includes receiving first data associated with a communication from at least one communications device and receiving second data from a recording resource. Some embodiments include determining whether the at least one communications device is coupled to a recording... Agent: Lawrence A. Aaronson, P.C. Lawrence A. Aarronson

20080244594 - Visual scripting of web services for task automation: Tasks are automated using assemblies of services. An interface component allows a user to collect services and to place selected services corresponding to a task to be automated onto a workspace. An analysis component performs an analysis of available data with regard to the selected services provided on the workspace... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20080244611 - Product, method and system for improved computer data processing capacity planning using dependency relationships from a configuration management database: The invention discloses a computer data processing capacity planning system that utilizes known workload planning information along with hardware and/or software configuration information from the actual operating environment to accurately estimate the production system capacity available for use in carrying out one or more processing task(s).... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number