Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 11/08

20080295096 - Dynamic placement of virtual machines for managing violations of service level agreements (slas): Historical data is measured for a computer server system. Future demand for service in the computer server system is forecast based on the historical data, and the mapping of virtual machines to physical machines is updated based on the forecast of the future demand. Measurement, forecasting, and placement modules can... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080295094 - Integrated placement planning for heterogenous storage area network data centers: A program, method and system are disclosed for planning the placement of a collection of applications in a heterogeneous storage area network data center. The program, method, and system disclosed deal with the coupled placement of virtual machine applications within a resource graph, with each application requiring a certain amount... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20080295095 - Method of monitoring performance of virtual computer and apparatus using the method: Provided are a method and an apparatus for monitoring performance of a virtual computer. In a method of controlling a computer system including a computer, the computer executes a virtualization program for causing logically divided resources of the computer to operate as first and second virtual computers, the first virtual... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080295097 - Techniques for sharing resources among multiple devices in a processor system: A technique of shared resource handling for multiple devices includes determining a first lifetime of a first transaction associated with an active first device, included within the multiple devices. The technique also includes assigning at least a portion of a first system resource to the active first device for use... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080295098 - System load based dynamic segmentation for network interface cards: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of dynamic segmentation based on processor load using various steps. If a network interface card is enabled for segmentation, a determination is made as to whether a processor utilization value is greater than a threshold. If processor... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080295102 - Computing system, method of controlling the same, and system management unit: A computing system includes a plurality of computing units, a tiered storage unit including a first storage medium and a second storage medium having a transfer rate lower than that of the first storage medium, and connected to a plurality of the computing units; and a system management unit connected... Agent: Daniel Stanter Mattingly Stanger And Malur PC

20080295099 - Disk drive for handling conflicting deadlines and methods thereof: Disclosed is a method for handling conflicting deadlines by a disk drive. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of requests from a plurality of applications for accessing the disk drive; determining a plurality of service times for the plurality of requests; serving a first request of the plurality of request... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080295103 - Distributed processing method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling a processing device for distributing jobs among a plurality of job processing devices for executing said jobs, respectively, said job including a plurality of job files, the method comprises: determining said job processing devices for executing said job files,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080295101 - Electronic document manager: A system and method for managing electronic files and tasks in a way that is intuitive to the users, mimicking their environment. The system and method comprises a configurable structure that facilitates the accurate filing and subsequent locating of electronic files in underlying document management/record management (DM/RM) applications, as well... Agent: Dennis F Armijo

20080295100 - System and method for diagnosing and managing information technology resources: A system and method for diagnosing and managing resources in an information technology (IT) infrastructure is provided. The system and method may include storing information relating to a plurality of IT resources, business processes that use the IT resources, and services that support the business processes. Associations may be generated... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080295105 - Data processing apparatus and method for managing multiple program threads executed by processing circuitry: A data processing apparatus and method are provided for managing multiple program threads executed by processing circuitry. The multiple program threads include at least one high priority program thread and at least one lower priority program thread. At least one storage unit is shared between the multiple program threads and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080295104 - Realtime processing software control device and method: There is provided a realtime processing software control method in which the priorities of plural states can be relatively described according to the necessities of realtime processing for the respective states, and design of state transitions and task priorities considering realtime property can be performed in the upstream design stage... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080295107 - Adaptive thread pool: Methods and apparatuses enable dynamic thread pool management. A system with a thread pool is monitored, and performance data gathered. The performance data can be combined with historical thread performance data to generate cumulative thread performance data. Based on the cumulative thread performance data, the number of threads in the... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080295109 - Method and apparatus for reusing components of a component-based software system: The present invention provides a component reuse method for reusing at least first component that is selected from a first software system to a second software system. The method comprises the steps of: analyzing the first software system, determining dependencies of the at least one first component of the first... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080295106 - Method and system for improving the availability of a constant throughput system during a full stack update: A method for improving the availability characteristics of a constant throughput system that generates scores for multiple resources within multiple nodes in a software stack during a full stack update is disclosed. Each score includes at least a first weighted portion corresponding to a cost of bringing a resource offline,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080295108 - Minimizing variations of waiting times of requests for services handled by a processor: Variations of waiting times of requests for services handled by a processor are minimized. In response to the processor receiving a request for a service, an arrival time of the request for the service is recorded and added to a total arrival time for all requests for the service, and... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080288941 - Adaptive dynamic selection and application of multiple virtualization techniques: Autonomous selection between multiple virtualization techniques implemented in a virtualization layer of a virtualized computer system. The virtual machine monitor implements multiple virtualization support processors that each provide for the comprehensive handling of potential virtualization exceptions. A virtual machine monitor resident virtualization selection control is operable to select between use... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080288940 - Dynamic selection and application of multiple virtualization techniques: Autonomous selection between multiple virtualization techniques implemented in a virtualization layer of a virtualized computer system. The virtual machine monitor implements multiple virtualization support subsystems that each provide for the comprehensive handling of potential virtualization exceptions. A virtual machine monitor resident performance monitor computes relative virtualization overhead costs that are... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080288942 - Monitoring performance of a logically-partitioned computer: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that in an embodiment collect a performance metric of a first partition in a logically-partitioned computer. If the difference between the performance metric and an expected performance metric exceeds a threshold, then a job or another partition is shut down or suspended. The expected... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080288944 - Consistent method system and computer program for developing software asset based solutions:

20080288943 - Management system and management method: A system for managing a component or application determines whether to allow changeover of a component, which is used by an application, or launch of an application in accordance with amount of resources set for a component and used by the component.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080288945 - Method and system for analyzing interrelated programs: A method for analyzing a program having a budget, an implementation schedule and a deployment plan includes: (a) in no particular order: (1) providing a digital representation of the budget including first entries; (2) providing a digital representation of the schedule including second entries having a first relation with the... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080288946 - States matrix for workload management simplification: A computer-implemented method, system and article of manufacture for managing workloads in a computer system, comprising monitoring system conditions and operating environment events that impact on the operation of the computer system, using an n-dimensional state matrix to identify at least one state resulting from the monitored system conditions and... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080288947 - Systems and methods of data storage management, such as dynamic data stream allocation: A system and method for choosing a stream to transfer data is described. In some cases, the system reviews running data storage operations and chooses a data stream based on the review. In some cases, the system chooses a stream based on the load of data to be transferred.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080288948 - Systems and methods of data storage management, such as dynamic data stream allocation: A system and method for choosing a stream to transfer data is described. In some cases, the system reviews running data storage operations and chooses a data stream based on the review. In some cases, the system chooses a stream based on the load of data to be transferred.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080288950 - Concurrent management of adaptive programs: A method for concurrent management of adaptive programs is disclosed wherein changes in a set of modifiable references are initially identified. A list of uses of the changed references is next computed using records made in structures of the references. The list is next inserted into an elimination queue. Comparison... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080288949 - Interprocess resource-based dynamic scheduling system and method: A method and system for scheduling tasks in a processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises processing tasks from a primary work queue, wherein the tasks consume resources that are operable to be released. Whenever the volume of resources that have been consumed exceeds a threshold, the processor executes... Agent: Craig A. Hoersten Intellectual Property Department

20080288951 - Method, device and system for allocating a media resource: A method and system for allocating a media resource and a device for controlling a media resource. The method for allocating a media resource includes: allocating the media resource processing devices for a resource operation request based on the stored ability information of the various media resource processing devices when... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080288952 - Processing apparatus and device control unit: A processing apparatus including a plurality of task-processing devices includes a calculation control unit and a device control unit configured to cause the task-processing devices to perform tasks of at least one kind in parallel in accordance with control performed by the calculation control unit. The device control unit sends... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080288953 - Information processing device and method: An information processing device to execute programs performing encoding processing configured from a plurality of processes, includes: a program storage unit to store a plurality of encoding programs wherein an allocation pattern for a computation processing unit as to each of a plurality of processes comprising the encoding processes or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080282243 - Management of computer systems by using a hierarchy of autonomic management elements: A method and system for managing a computing system by using a hierarchy of autonomic management elements are described. The autonomic management elements operate in a master-slave mode and negotiate a division of management responsibilities regarding various components of the computing system.... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20080282241 - Method and apparatus to support virtualization with code patches: A processing system executes an emulation patch for a guest virtual machine (VM) of the processing system. In one embodiment, the emulation patch includes data to facilitate identification of a routine to emulate a guest instruction. After executing the emulation patch for the guest VM, the processing system may use... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080282242 - Simulation management within a grid infrastructure: A solution for managing a set of simulations within a grid infrastructure is provided. In particular, a solution is provided in which distinct simulations (e.g., virtual worlds, distributed simulations, and/or the like) and/or simulation instances (e.g., virtual world instances) can be concurrently managed in a single grid infrastructure.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080282244 - Distributed transactional deadlock detection: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to deadlock detection in distributed environments. In aspects, nodes that are part of the environment each independently create a local wait-for graph. Each node transforms its local wait-for graph to remove non-global transactions that do not need resources from multiple nodes. Each... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282245 - Media operational queue management in storage systems: A method for media operational queue management in disk storage systems evaluates a plurality of pending storage operations requiring a destage storage operation. A first set of the plurality of pending storage operations is organized in a first array queue grouping (AQG). The AQG is structured such that all of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080282246 - Compiler aided ticket scheduling of tasks in a computing system: A method of scheduling tasks for execution in a computer system includes determining a dynamic worst case execution time for a non-periodic task. The dynamic worst case execution time is based on an actual execution path of the non-periodic task. An available time period is also determined, wherein the available... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080282250 - Component integrator: Techniques allow for communication with and management of multiple external components. A component manager communicates with one or more component adapters. Each component adapter communicates with an external component and is able to call the methods, functions, procedures, and other operations of the external component. The component manager associates these... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080282248 - Electronic computing device capable of specifying execution time of task, and program therefor: When an execution time of a task is short the execution time of the task can be reliably specified and erroneous calculation of an execution time due to other processing can be prevented. A task designated in advance and a task whose execution is initiated are collated with each other.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080282247 - Method and server for synchronizing a plurality of clients accessing a database: The invention relates to a method of synchronizing a plurality of clients accessing a database, each client executing a plurality of tasks on the database, wherein the method comprises for each of the clients the steps of accumulating the time of one or more tasks performed by the client after... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080282249 - Method and system for performing real-time operation: An information processing system performs a real-time operation including a combination of a plurality of tasks. The system includes a plurality of processors, a unit which stores structural description information and a plurality of programs describing procedures corresponding to the tasks, the structural description information indicating a relationship in input/output... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080282251 - Thread de-emphasis instruction for multithreaded processor: A technique for scheduling execution of threads at a processor is disclosed. The technique includes executing a thread de-emphasis instruction of a thread that de-emphasizes the thread until the number of pending memory transactions, such as cache misses, associated with the thread are at or below a threshold. While the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080282252 - Heterogeneous reconfigurable agent compute engine (hrace): A computing system (10) includes a plurality of hardware computing resources (12-36) controlled at least in part by a plurality of autonomous computing agents (40,42,44). Each autonomous computing agent (40,42,44) includes or has access to operating information including processing information (46), resource information (48), optimization information (50), and communication information... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080282253 - Method of managing resources within a set of processes: A workload management system where processes associated with a class have resource management strategies that are specific to that class is provided. The system includes more than one class, with at least one unique algorithm for executing a workload associated with each class. Each algorithm may comprise a strategy for... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080282254 - Geographic resiliency and load balancing for sip application services: A mechanism for achieving resiliency and load balancing for SIP application services and, in particular, in geographic distributed sites. A method performs a distribution of SIP requests among SIP servers, where at least two sites with a load balancer in each site is configured. The method includes receiving a SIP... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080276235 - Virtual machine management using processor state information: A method, system, and apparatus are provided for virtual machine management. According to one embodiment, processor state information associated with a processor is evaluated, and the processor state information is used to manage one or more virtual machines.... Agent: Blankely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080276236 - Data processing device with low-power cache access mode: A processor can operate in three different modes. In an active mode, a first voltage is provided to the processor, where the first voltage is sufficient to allow the processor to execute instructions. In a low-power mode, a retention voltage is provided to the processor. The processor consumes less power... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080276237 - Method for processing work items of a workflow system: A method for processing work items of a workflow system is done in the following manner. Information identifying work items from a server responsible for handling work items is retrieved based at least on a set of configuration rules. The information is stored in a cache. In response to a... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080276238 - Use of metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing: A system and method of using metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system is provided. A workload status of a message processing system is determined, and the system polls for a new message according to the workload status. The message processing system identifies a blocked instance... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080276239 - Recovery and restart of a batch application: A method of operating a data processing system comprises executing a batch application, the executing comprising reading one or more inputs from one or more data files, performing updates on one or more records according to the or each input read from a data file, and issuing a syncpoint when... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080276240 - Reordering data responses: A system includes a deterministic system, and a controller electrically coupled to the deterministic system via a link, wherein the controller comprises a transaction scheduling mechanism that allows data responses from the deterministic system, corresponding to requests issued from the controller, to be returned out of order.... Agent: Frank Chau. Esq. P. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080276241 - Distributed priority queue that maintains item locality: A method of administering a distributed priority queue structure that includes removing a highest priority item from a current root node of a tree structure to create a temporary root node, determining for each subtree connected to the temporary root node a subtree priority comprising the priority of the highest... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080276242 - Method for dynamic scheduling in a distributed environment: A method and system is provided for assigning programs in a workflow to one or more nodes for execution. Prior to the assignment, a priority of execution of each program is calculated in relation to its dependency upon data received and transmitted data. Based upon the calculated priority and the... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080276245 - Optimization with unknown objective function: Nonlinear optimization is applied to resource allocation, as for example, buffer pool optimization in computer database software where only the marginal utility is known. The method for allocating resources comprises the steps of starting from an initial allocation, calculating the marginal utility of the allocation, calculating the constraint functions of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080276243 - Resource management platform: In client-server architectures, systems and methods for implementing an extensible resource management platform at a server are described. The extensible resource management platform is developed based on a plug-in based architecture which includes one or more subsystems for performing functions associated with resource management. Different implementations can be provided by... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080276244 - System and method for adaptively collecting performance and event information: A method for communicating information from a first computing node to at least one of the following: a storage device and a second computing node. The first computing node is monitored to collect at least one estimate of available resources, and based on this estimate, an amount of data collected... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080276246 - System for yielding to a processor: An apparatus and program product for coordinating the distribution of CPUs as among logically-partitioned virtual processors. A virtual processor may yield a CPU to precipitate an occurrence upon which its own execution may be predicated. As such, program code may dispatch the surrendered CPU to a designated virtual processor.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080276247 - Method for the real-time analysis of a system: The invention relates to a method for the real-time analysis of a system, especially a technical system, which is to process tasks (τ). A job that is defined by processing of a task (τ) generates system expenses. In order to create a particularly quick and accurate method, an approximation of... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP