Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 04/09

20090113422 - Dynamic allocation of virtual machine devices: Systems and methods for efficient dynamic allocation of virtual machine resources are described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method including executing virtual machine software on a real computer system (the virtual machine software including a hypervisor and a virtual machine including a plurality of virtual devices), associating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090113423 - Interchangeable guest and host execution environments: Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems, apparati, computer program products and other tangible realizations of techniques to support interchange of role for guest and host operating system instances executed (or executable) within a virtualization system. In particular, one embodiment of the present invention is a method operating a... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090113420 - System and method for utilizing a virtualized compute cluster as an execution engine for a virtual machine of a storage system cluster: A system and method employs one or more clients of a virtualized compute cluster as an execution engine for a portion of a storage operating system implemented as a virtual machine on a storage system node of a storage system cluster. If there is processing bandwidth of a client that... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090113425 - Transparent memory-mapped emulation of i/o calls: A virtual-machine-based system provides a mechanism to implement application file I/O operations of protected data by implementing the I/O operations semantics in a shim layer with memory-mapped regions. The semantics of these I/O operations are emulated in a shim layer with memory-mapped regions by using a mapping between a process'... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090113424 - Transparent vmm-assisted user-mode execution control transfer: A virtual-machine-based system provides a control-transfer mechanism to invoke a user-mode application handler from existing virtual hardware directly, without going through an operating system kernel running in the virtual machine. A virtual machine monitor calls directly to the guest user-mode handler and the handler transfers control back to the virtual... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090113421 - Using smart objects in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources: Described herein are processes and devices that use smart objects in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. One of the devices described is a virtual resource conserver. The virtual resource conserver reads data that indicates that a resource conservation setting is to be selected for a virtual object in... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090113426 - Virtual computer system managing schedule for allocating cpu to guest oses and guest os scheduling method: According to one embodiment, a virtual machine manager (VMM) virtualizes hardware including a CPU to construct a plurality of virtual machines. A plurality of guest OSes are executed on the respective virtual machines. A detector included in VMM detects a change in the operating frequency of CPU. A scheduler is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090113428 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a location-based, distributed to-do list: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates a location-based, distributed to-do list. During operation, the system receives a request at a task-management system to create a task, wherein the request specifies a location for the task and an assignee for the task. In response to the... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090113429 - Processing signals in a wireless network: Systems are described that reduce or obviate the impact of limited processing resources and/or limit the power consumption in a receiver having signal processing functions at least partially implemented in software. A wireless receiver includes reception means for receiving a signal over a wireless channel in a wireless external environment.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090113427 - Program management effectiveness: The present invention provides for a system and method for consistently evaluating program management effectiveness against established or historical benchmarks, involving defining specific performance areas by subfactors, weighting the subfactors, scoring the subfactors, and totaling all weighted subfactor scores to obtain a performance area score. By evaluating all performance area... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090113430 - Hardware device interface supporting transaction authentication: A hardware device interface supporting transaction authentication is described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments include a device, including an interconnect interface, and processing logic (coupled to the bus interface) that provides access to a plurality of functions of the device through the interconnect interface. A first transaction received by... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090113431 - Method for determining participation in a distributed transaction: A method and system for determining whether a plurality of participants who are participating in a distributed transaction have registered their intention to commit their part of the transaction with a transaction manager, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message from a participant, the message comprising a character... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090113434 - Apparatus, system and method for rapid resource scheduling in a compute farm: Disclosed herein is a method for scheduling computing jobs for a compute farm. The method includes: receiving a plurality of computing jobs at a scheduler; assigning a signature to each computing job based on at least one computing resource requirement of the computing job; storing each computing job in a... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20090113435 - Integrated backup with calendar: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for automatically scheduling execution of a process using information in a calendar. Entries in a set of electronic calendars associated with a set of users are analyzed to generate expected computer usage patterns for the set of users. A low usage... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090113432 - Method and system for simulating a multi-queue scheduler using a single queue on a processor: A method and system for scheduling tasks on a processor, the tasks being scheduled by an operating system to run on the processor in a predetermined order, the method comprising identifying and creating task groups of all related tasks; assigning the tasks in the task groups into a single common... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090113436 - Techniques for switching threads within routines: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for switching threads within routines. A controller routine receives a request from an originating routine to execute a coroutine, and executes the coroutine on an initial thread. The controller routine receives a response back from the coroutine when the coroutine exits based upon a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090113433 - Thread classification suspension: The exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code for managing memory. A notice of a shortage of real memory is received. For each active thread, the thread classification of the active thread is compared to a global hierarchy of thread classifications to determine a thread to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090113439 - Method and apparatus for processing data: Methods and apparatuses for processing data are provided. In one embodiment, a data processing operation which is assigned a predefined maximum duration is started. The progress of the data processing operation is checked at a predefined point in time and a priority of the data processing operation is changed on... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20090113438 - Optimization of job distribution on a multi-node computer system: A method and apparatus optimizes job and data distribution on a multi-node computing system. A job scheduler distributes jobs and data to compute nodes according to priority and other resource attributes to ensure the most critical work is done on the nodes that are quickest to access and with less... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090113437 - Translating declarative models: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for translating declarative models. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate processing declarative models to perform various operations on applications, such as, for example, application deployment, application updates, application control such as start and stop, application monitoring by instrumenting the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090113440 - Multiple queue resource manager: In one embodiment, a multiple queue resource manage includes a number of queues in communication with at least one thread. The queues are coupled to each of a corresponding number of clients and operable to receive messages from its respective client. The at least one thread is coupled to a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090113441 - Registering a resource that delegates commit voting: A computer system and storage medium that, in an embodiment, receive an allocation request for a resource and registers the resource as a non-voting participant if the resource desires to delegate commit voting to another resource. The registered resource is then prohibited from participating in an enclosing transactional context and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090113442 - Method, system and computer program for distributing a plurality of jobs to a plurality of computers: Method and system for providing a mechanism for determining an optimal workload distribution, from a plurality of candidate workload distributions, each of which has been determined to optimize a particular aspect of a workload-scheduling problem. More particularly, the preferred embodiment determines a workload distribution based on resource selection policies. From... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090113443 - Transactional memory computing system with support for chained transactions: A computing system processes memory transactions for parallel processing of multiple threads of execution provides execution of multiple atomic instruction groups (AIGs) on multiple systems to support a single large transaction that requires operations on multiple threads of execution and/or on multiple systems connected by a network. The support provides... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090106754 - Handling a device related operation in a virtualization enviroment: Methods, system and machine-readable medium are described to handle a device related operation in a virtualization environment. In some embodiment, a kernel component of a virtual machine monitor may determine that a device related operation happens in a virtual machine through a operation transition from the virtual machine to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106756 - Automatic workload repository performance baselines: Techniques that improve manageability of systems. Techniques are provided for creating different types of baselines that are more flexible and dynamic in nature. A future-based baseline may be created defining a period of time, wherein at least a portion of the period of time is in the future. A baseline... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106755 - Programmable controller with multiple processors using scanning and data acquisition architectures: Operating a programmable controller with a plurality of processors. The programmable controller may utilize a first subset of the plurality of processors for a scanning architecture. The first subset of the plurality of processors may be further subdivided for execution of periodic programs or asynchronous programs. The programmable controller may... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20090106757 - Workflow system, information processing apparatus, data approval method, and program: An electronic approval system which is capable of improving reliability of approval in a workflow. The electronic approval system comprises a server and a plurality of multifunction peripherals (MFPs). The server manages a status of data to be handled in the workflow. An MFP performs a visual output of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090106758 - File system reliability using journaling on a storage medium: Improving file system reliability in storage mediums after a data corrupting event using file system journaling is described. In one embodiment, a method, which includes scanning beyond an active transactions region within the file system journal to locate additional valid transactions for replay to bring the storage medium into a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106759 - Information processing system and related method thereof: An information processing system includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device and a processing module. The first electronic device processes a first task. The second electronic device processes a second task. The processing module, controls, without utilizing an operating system, the second electronic device to process the second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090106760 - Method and apparatus for selecting a workflow route: A method for selecting a workflow route that includes determining a next processing phase of the work sheet to be processed and the work sheet properties in the phase, querying a pre-configured mapping table between work sheet properties and processing owners according to the work sheet properties in the next... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090106761 - Programmable controller with multiple processors using a scanning architecture: Operating a programmable controller with a plurality of processors. The programmable controller may utilize a first subset of the plurality of processors for a scanning architecture. The first subset of the plurality of processors may be further subdivided for execution of periodic programs or asynchronous programs. The programmable controller may... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20090106762 - Scheduling threads in a 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)

20090106763 - Associating jobs with resource subsets in a job scheduler: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for associating jobs with resource subsets in a job scheduler. At least one job class that defines characteristics associated with a type of job is received. A list of resource identifiers for a set of resources associated with the job... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090106765 - Predetermination and propagation of resources in a distributed software build: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for propagating resources during a distributed build process. Subscription of interest is registered in resources needed during a distributed build process. Build data is analyzed to determine what resources will be needed. The subscriptions of interest are stored in a data store that is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106766 - Storage access device: A storage access device, which issues an I/O request (input/output request) to a logical unit provided by one or more storage systems, holds association information showing that a plurality of logical volumes corresponding to a plurality of logical units, which belong to the same copy-set, are associated. In the storage... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090106764 - Support for globalization in test automation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for supporting globalization in user interface automation. A resource key is provided that contains at least three data elements. A resource type data element contains data representing a resource type, a resource location data element contains data representing a location to a resource file,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106767 - Workload periodicity analyzer for autonomic database components: A computer data processing system and an article of manufacture for determining database workload periodicity. The computer data processing system includes a module for converting database activity samples spanning a time period from the dime domain to the frequency domain, the converting resulting in a frequency spectrum, a module for... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090100423 - Creating a virtual machine containing third party code: A Virtual Machine (VM) is created utilizing a virtual Operating System (OS) disk and virtual application disks, each of which may be from disparate third party suppliers. One or more files in the virtual application disk are then linked to a specific file system location (node) in the virtual OS... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090100424 - Interrupt avoidance in virtualized environments: Various embodiments of a virtualization system and method are provided herein, wherein computer resources are emulated and simulated by a hypervisor system. In order to provide improved signalization within a virtual computer system, various embodiments may use a virtual CPU for signalizing an external event, wherein the virtual CPU is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090100425 - Method and system for changing execution environments during application execution: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that executes an application. During operation, the system starts the application using a web browser. Next, the system receives an execution environment change notification from a user of the application, and in response to the notification transitions the application to a... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090100426 - Methods and systems of reconciling sources of print job processing information in a print processing environment: A method of processing a print job in a document production environment includes receiving a job ticket having job ticket parameters, identifying a process plan template having processing instructions for processing the print job and performing a parameter value resolving process for each job ticket parameter. The resolving process may... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090100428 - Rfid system and method: A method and computer program product for obtaining a token identifier from a token device using a token reading system coupled to a local computing device. A determination is made concerning whether the token identifier obtained is associatable with a defined workflow. If the token identifier obtained is associatable with... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090100427 - Search-based user interaction model for software applications: Data is received that characterizes one or more terms within a task initiation request. These terms are then associated with a task template. At least a portion of such a task template is populated based on the terms so that the populated task template can be presented to the user... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090100429 - Dual mode operating system for a computing device: A computing device which runs non-pageable real time and pageable non-real time processes is provided with non-pageable real time and pageable non-real time versions of operating system services where the necessity to page in memory would block a real-time thread of execution. In one embodiment, a real time operating system... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090100430 - Method and system for a task automation tool: Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a task list containing a task, determining if the task must be executed based on a context of a business scenario and executing the task. After executing the task, a result of execution of the task is analyzed based on the context... Agent: Sap Ag

20090100433 - Disk scheduling method and apparatus: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for scheduling requests having priorities and deadlines for an I/O operation on a disk storage medium. Requests are normally arranged and processed in deadline order, and requests whose process times based on deadlines overlap each other are processed in priority order.... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090100431 - Dynamic business process prioritization based on context: Instantiated business processes are dynamically prioritized to an execution priority level based upon a priority relevant context associated with the business process. The business process instance is further executed based upon the execution priority level. The execution priority level for the business process instance may be determined using at least... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090100432 - Forward progress mechanism for a multithreaded processor: A processing device includes a storage component configured to store instructions associated with a corresponding thread of a plurality of threads, and an execution unit configured to fetch and execute instructions. The processing device further includes a period timer comprising an output to provide an indicator in response to a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090100434 - Transaction management: A method and transaction processing system for managing transaction processing tasks are provided. The transaction processing system comprises a transaction log, a log management policy, a log manager and a dispatcher. The method comprises maintaining a transaction log of recoverable changes made by transaction processing tasks and storing a log... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090100435 - Hierarchical reservation resource scheduling infrastructure: Scheduling system resources. A system resource scheduling policy for scheduling operations within a workload is accessed. The policy is specified on a workload basis such that the policy is specific to the workload. System resources are reserved for the workload as specified by the policy. Reservations may be hierarchical in... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090100436 - Partitioning system including a generic partitioning manager for partitioning resources: The application discloses a generic partitioning manager for partitioning resources across one or more owner nodes. In illustrated embodiments described, the partitioning manager interfaces with the one or more owner nodes through an owner library. A lookup node or application interfaces with the partitioning manager through the lookup library to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100437 - Temperature-aware and energy-aware scheduling in a computer system: A computer system to schedule loads across a set of processor cores is described. During operation, the computer system receives a process to be executed. Next, the computer system obtains one or more thermodynamic process characteristics associated with the process and one or more thermodynamic processor-core characteristics associated with operation... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090094603 - In-place conversion of virtual machine state: One embodiment of the present invention includes a method of making a bootable image for a computer, wherein the bootable image corresponds to a first virtual machine but is bootable on a target machine, the method comprising: (a) instantiating the first virtual machine within a virtualization system and executing computations... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090094604 - Virtual device management method and management apparatus: A management apparatus (102) for managing a plurality of actual devices (104-106) and virtual devices (603, 703), each virtual device providing an operation constructed by combining the functions of the plurality of actual devices detects (503, S1104) a change of an optional function of the actual devices. The apparatus changes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090094606 - Method for fast xsl transformation on multithreaded environment: An XSLT method is used in a multi-thread environment. In the XSLT method, an XML file is analyzed in view of XSLT templates. Relationships between the transforming processes of the XSLT templates and the tree nodes of the XML file are built. Time for the execution of the transforming process... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090094605 - Method, system and program products for a dynamic, hierarchical reporting framework in a network job scheduler: The present invention employs a master node for each job to be scheduled and in turn the master node distributes job start information and executable tasks to a plurality of nodes configured in a hierarchical node tree of a multinode job scheduling system. The status of the various tasks executing... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090094607 - Processing request control device, recording medium storing program, processing request control method and data signal: A processing request control device, which includes: a reception section that receives a processing request and information on a property of the processing request; a calculation section that calculates a processing time zone based on the processing request; a management section that manages the processing request and the processing time... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090094609 - Dynamically providing a localized user interface language resource: Technologies are described herein for dynamically providing a localized user interface (“UI”) resource. A localization framework includes a resource manager, resource sets, and resource readers. The resource manager exposes an application programming interface (“API”) to application programs for requesting a localized UI resource from the resource manager. When the resource... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090094608 - Method and apparatus for moving a software application in a system cluster: starting up the second instance of the application based on at least one condition from a set consisting of: when the at least one second-instance support resource is running, and when the first instance of the application has shut down to a selected degree.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20090094611 - Method and apparatus for load distribution in multiprocessor servers: A method and arrangement for handling incoming requests for multimedia services in an application server having a plurality of processors. A service request is received from a user, requiring the handling of user-specific data. The identity of the user or other consistent user-related parameter is extracted from the received service... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090094612 - Method and system for automated processor reallocation and optimization between logical partitions: A method and system for reallocating processors in a logically partitioned environment. The present invention comprises a Performance Enhancement Program (PEP) and a Reallocation Program (RP). The PEP allows an administrator to designate several parameters and identify donor and recipient candidates. The RP compiles the performance data for the processors... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094613 - Method of managing workloads in a distributed processing system: An embodiment of the present invention is a method for generating a simulated processor load on a system of CPU's, and introducing a controlled workload into the system that is spread evenly across the available CPU resources and may be arranged to consume a precise, controllable portion of the resources.... Agent: Alfred W. Kozak Unisys Corporation

20090094610 - Scalable resources in a virtualized load balancer: In one embodiment, a load balancing system may include a first physical device that provides a resource. The first physical device may have a first virtual device running actively thereon. The first virtual device may have the resource allocated to it on the physical device. The first physical device may... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090089784 - Variable polling interval based on historical timing results: A method, system, and computer program product for computing an optimal time interval between polling requests to determine whether an asynchronous operation is completed, in a data processing system. A Polling Request Interval (PRI) utility determines the optimal time interval between successive polling requests, based on historical job completion results.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090089786 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device for real-time processing: A technology capable of efficiently performing the processes by using limited resources in an LSI where a plurality of real-time applications are parallelly processed is provided. To provide such a technology, a mechanism is provided in which a plurality of processes to be executed on a plurality of processing units... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090089790 - Method and system for coordinating hypervisor scheduling: A method for executing an application on a plurality of nodes, that includes synchronizing a first clock of a first node of the plurality of nodes and a second clock of a second node of the plurality of nodes, configuring a first hypervisor on the first node to execute a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090089787 - Method and system for migrating critical resources within computer systems: A method and system for migrating at least one critical resource during a migration of an operative portion of a computer system are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the method includes (a) sending first information constituting a substantial copy of a first of the at least one critical resource... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090089789 - Method to allocate inter-dependent resources by a set of participants: m

20090089791 - Resource allocation unit queue: Provided is a system, deployment and program for resource allocation unit queuing in which an allocation unit associated with a task is classified. An allocation unit freed as the task ends is queued for use by another task in a queue at a selected location within the queue in accordance... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090089788 - System and method for handling resource contention: In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method by which a user of a functional resource in a software environment can determine whether any other users are waiting to acquire control of the functional resource. The functional resource has associated therewith, a placeholder resource that is a placeholder... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090089794 - Apparatus, system, and method for cross-system proxy-based task offloading: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for offloading data processing. An offload task 306 hosted on a first data processing system 300-1 provides internal functionality substantially equivalent to that of a second task 304 hosted on a second data processing system 300-2 of a potentially different architecture. A proxy... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090089793 - Method and apparatus for performing load balancing for a control plane of a mobile communication network: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing load balancing of control traffic received by a mobility home agent implemented using multiple control elements. A method includes receiving, from a node, a control message intended for the network element, performing a load-balancing operation to select one of the control... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.