Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 05/09

20090138877 - Methods and apparatus for locating an unauthorized virtual machine: Methods and apparatus of locating an unauthorized virtual machine are disclosed. A virtual machine is registered with a management system. When the virtual machine is requested to start, the system determines whether the virtual machine is in an authorized environment. In an authorized environment, the virtual machine is enabled to... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090138879 - Clock control: The present invention provides a processor comprising: an execution unit arranged to execute a plurality of program threads, clock generating means for generating first and second clock signals, and storage means for storing at least one thread-specific clock-control bit. The execution unit is configured to execute a first one of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090138878 - Energy-aware print job management: A printing system and method for processing print jobs in a network of printers are disclosed. The printers each have high and low operational states. A job ticket is associated with each print job. The job ticket designates one of the network printers as a target printer for printing the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090138880 - Method for organizing a multi-processor computer: The invention relates to computer engineering and can be used for developing new-architecture multiprocessor multithreaded computers. The aim of the invention is to produce a novel method for organizing a computer, devoid of the disadvantageous feature of existing multithreaded computers, i.e., overhead costs due to the reload of thread descriptors.... Agent: Aleksandr Smushkovich

20090138888 - Generating governing metrics for resource provisioning: In a method of generating governing metrics, a high-level goal to be met in a provisioned system is identified. In addition, a low-level governing policy designed to facilitate achievement of the high-level goal is selected and properties relating to the selected low-level governing policy are identified. The identified properties are... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090138883 - Method and system of managing resources for on-demand computing: A method and system of managing resources for on-demand computing is provided. The system can include one or more pools having resources, and a provisioning manager in communication with the one or more pools. The provisioning manager can receive a request for a resource from the requestor and can obtain... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090138881 - Prevention of deadlock in a distributed computing environment: A method for preventing deadlock in a distributed computing system includes the steps of: receiving as input a sorted set of containers defining a unique global sequence of containers for servicing process requests; populating at least one table based at least in part on off-line analysis of call graphs defining... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090138882 - Prevention of deadlock in a distributed computing environment: A system for preventing deadlock in a distributed computing system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operative: to receive as input a sorted set of containers defining a unique global sequence of containers for servicing process requests; to populate at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090138885 - Prevention of deadlock in a distributed computing environment: A method for preventing deadlock in a distributed computing system includes the steps of: receiving as input a sorted set of containers defining a unique global sequence of containers for servicing process requests; populating at least one table based at least in part on off-line analysis of call graphs defining... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090138886 - Prevention of deadlock in a distributed computing environment: A system for preventing deadlock in a distributed computing system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operative: to receive as input a sorted set of containers defining a unique global sequence of containers for servicing process requests; to populate at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090138884 - Storage management system, a method of monitoring performance and a management server: A storage management system provides a capability of properly setting a performance monitoring threshold and monitoring a performance of a storage resource in the SAN environment with respect to the operation process being executed. The storage management system includes a management server, a storage device, a storage network, and a... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090138887 - Virtual machine monitor and multiprocessor sysyem: In order to provide an interface of acquiring physical position information of an I/O device on a virtual machine monitor having an exclusive allocation function of the I/O device and optimize allocation of a resource to a virtual server by using the acquired physical position information, a virtual machine monitor... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090138890 - Contention management for a hardware transactional memory: A hardware transactional memory 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 is provided within a multiprocessor 4, 6, 8, 10 system with coherency control and hardware transaction memory control circuitry 22 that serves to at least partially manage the scheduling of processing transactions in dependence upon conflict data 26, 28, 30. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090138889 - Method and apparatus for exposing information technology service management problems to a systems management system: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for exposing information technology service management problems associated with a particular data processing system to a systems management system. A ticket identifier is received by a data processing system. The ticket identifier identifies a reported... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090133017 - Environment managers via virtual machines: Methods and apparatus enforce computing policies of an enterprise in a distributed manner so that idiosyncratic services to a computing device can be minimized or altogether eliminated. Pluralities of virtual machines are arranged on one or more computing devices and define, for example, applications specified by a user and shared... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20090133016 - System and method for management of an iov adapter through a virtual intermediary in an iov management partition: The system and method address the situation where an input/output (I/O) fabric is shared by more than one logical partition (LPAR) and where each LPAR can share with the other LPARs an I/O adapter (IOA). In particular, each LPAR is assigned its own separate address space to access a virtual... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090133018 - Virtual machine server sizing apparatus, virtual machine server sizing method, and virtual machine server sizing program: It is an object to improve accuracy of estimation of CPU load by calculating the CPU load necessary for performing I/O emulation under the virtualized environment based on disk load and/or network load. In case of estimating CPU load of a server X which operates servers 10 to 12 as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090133019 - Evaluation of synchronization gateways in process models: A system may include a thread monitor that is arranged and configured to monitor progress of multiple threads of a workflow process at a synchronization point with each of the threads having a state, and configured to generate at least one inspection trigger for inspection of the threads. A thread... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090133020 - Method for managing hardware resource usage by application programs within a computer system: A method for managing the usage of hardware resources by application programs within a computer system is disclosed. A use cost value is set for a device within a computer system. A number of tickets associated with a process is held. Upon execution of the process, the use cost value... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090133023 - High performance queue implementations in multiprocessor systems: Systems and methods provide a single reader single writer (SRSW) queue structure having entries that can be concurrently accessed in an atomic manner with a single memory access. The SRSW queues may be combined to create more complicated queues, including multiple reader single writer (MRSW), single reader multiple writer (SRMW),... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090133025 - Methods and apparatus for bandwidth efficient transmission of usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network: Methods and apparatus for bandwidth efficient transmission of usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network. A device includes transceiver logic to receive usage tracking and reporting parameters, wherein the usage tracking parameters identify events to be tracked and the reporting parameters identify reporting criteria for each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090133021 - Methods and systems for efficient use and mapping of distributed shared resources: Methods and systems for coordinating sharing of resources among a plurality of tasks operating in parallel in a document presentation environment while host communications and task processing may be performed asynchronously with respect to one another. A mapped resource manager manages activation (addition) and deactivation (deletion) of resources shared by... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090133022 - Multiprocessing apparatus, system and method: An apparatus to isolate a main memory in a multiprocessor computer is provided. The apparatus include a master processor and a management device communicating with the master processor. One or more slave processors communicate with the master processor and the management device. A volatile memory also communicates with the management... Agent: Peter Martinez

20090133024 - Scheduling a workload based on workload-related variables and triggering values: A mechanism is provided for scheduling a workload on a computer. The mechanism receives, in the computer, one or more workload-related variables. The mechanism further receives, in the computer, one or more trigger values for at least one of the one or more workload-related variables. Moreover, the mechanism determines, from... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090133026 - Method and system to identify conflicts in scheduling data center changes to assets: An information technology services management product is provided with a change management component that identifies conflicts based on a wide range of information. When a change on a configuration item is scheduled, the change management component identifies, for example, affected business applications, affected service level agreements, resource availability, change schedule,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090133027 - Systems and methods for project management task prioritization: A project management task prioritization system is provided to refine the prioritization factors for tasks in a project based on changes to the order of performing the tasks. The initial proposed order for performing the tasks is provided by the system to the person responsible for the task in a... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20090133029 - Methods and systems for transparent stateful preemption of software system: Methods and systems for preemption of software in a computing system that include receiving a preempt request for a process in execution using a set of resources, pausing the execution of the process; and releasing the resources to a shared pool.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090133028 - System and method for management of an iov adapter through a virtual intermediary in a hypervisor with functional management in an iov management partition: A system and method which provide a mechanism for an I/O virtualization management partition (IMP) to control the shared functionality of an I/O virtualization (IOV) enabled I/O adapter (IOA) through a physical function (PF) of the IOA while the virtual functions (VFs) are assigned to client partitions for normal I/O... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090133030 - System for on demand task optimization: An apparatus and program product determine information indicative of a performance differential between operation of a computer with the standby resource activated and operation of the computer with the standby resource inactivated. The information is communicated to a user. The standby resource may be activated in response to the determination.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090133031 - Information system, load control method, load control program and recording medium: A load control server, computer program product, and method for controlling bottlenecks in an information system that includes application servers and a database server. Each application server executes at least one application program for processing a transaction received by each application server. The database server accesses a database based on... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090133032 - Contention management for a hardware transactional memory: A hardware transactional memory 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 is provided within a multiprocessor 4, 6, 8, 10 system with coherency control and hardware transaction memory control circuitry 22 that serves to at least partially manage the scheduling of processing transactions in dependence upon conflict data 26, 28, 30. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090133033 - Advancing and rewinding a replayed program execution: In an embodiment, a data processing system comprises a storage system coupled to a unit under test comprising a heap memory, a static memory and a stack; second logic operable to perform: detecting one or more changes in a first state of the heap memory and the static memory; storing,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090125903 - Center management apparatus, method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: A duplicator duplicates a specified guest program to create a guest copy. A virtual machine activation requester selects a center apparatus for maintenance and requests the selected center apparatus for maintenance to activate a virtual machine based on the guest copy. A maintenance requester requests the activated virtual machine to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090125902 - On-demand disposable virtual work system: An on-demand disposable virtual work system that includes: a virtual machine monitor to host virtual machines, a virtual machine pool manager, a host operating system, a host program permissions list, and a request handler module. The virtual machine pool manager manages virtual machine resources. The host operating system interfaces with... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20090125901 - Providing virtualization of a server management controller: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for creating a virtual machine (VM) in a server platform having a baseboard management controller (BMC) and enabling the VM to virtualize the BMC, receiving a request in the VM for performing a BMC function in the VM, initiating a communication... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090125904 - Virtual machine migration: A source virtual machine (VM) hosted on a source server is migrated to a destination VM on a destination server without first powering down the source VM. After optional pre-copying of the source VM's memory to the destination VM, the source VM is suspended and its non-memory state is transferred... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090125905 - Method, apparatus and computer program for modifying a message: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for modifying a message. A message is received from a first entity. The message contains a first level of detail appropriate to the first entity and the message is for communication to a second entity. It is determined whether the message... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090125906 - Methods and apparatus to execute an auxiliary recipe and a batch recipe associated with a process control system: Example methods and apparatus to execute an auxiliary recipe and a batch recipe execution are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves executing a first recipe, and before completion of execution of the first recipe, receiving an auxiliary recipe. The example method also involves determining whether the first recipe has reached... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090125907 - System and method for thread handling in multithreaded parallel computing of nested threads: An Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) system and method is provided for processing multiple spawned threads associated with SPAWN-type commands of an XMT program. The method includes executing a plurality of child threads by a plurality of TCUs including a first TCU executing a child thread which is allocated to it; completing... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20090125908 - Hardware port scheduler: According to one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a port having a plurality of lanes, a plurality of protocol engines. Each protocol engine is associated with one of the plurality of lanes, and processes tasks to be forwarded to a plurality of remote nodes. The apparatus also... Agent: The Law Offices Of Christopher K. Gagne C/o Cpa Global

20090125909 - Device, system, and method for multi-resource scheduling: A method, apparatus and system for selecting a highest prioritized task for executing a resource from one of a first and second expired scheduling arrays, where the first and second expired scheduling arrays may prioritize tasks for using the resource, and where tasks in the first expired scheduling array may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090125911 - Resource management profiles: A resource management graphical user interface for a computer-controlled printing system in a networked environment enables an operator to create, modify, and apply resource management profiles to coordinate resource allocation within the printing system. The user interface displays a current resource management profile, which includes printing system resource allocations associated... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090125910 - System-generated resource management profiles: A method for computer control of collaborating devices enables automatic generation of resource management profiles to coordinate resource allocation within the collaborating device. The method includes utilization of a graphical user interface to select an initial resource management profile and instruct the device to automatically generate a resource profile. Timing... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090125912 - High performance memory and system organization for digital signal processing: An innovative approach for constructing optimum, high-performance, efficient DSP systems may include a system organization to match compute execution and data availability rate and to organize DSP operations as loop iterations such that there is maximal reuse of data between multiple consecutive iterations. Independent set up and preparation of data... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-13-a7

20090125913 - Context switch data prefetching in multithreaded computer: An apparatus initiates, in connection with a context switch operation, a prefetch of data likely to be used by a thread prior to resuming execution of that thread. As a result, once it is known that a context switch will be performed to a particular thread, data may be prefetched... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090119663 - Iommu with translation request management and methods for managing translation requests: Example embodiments of an IOMMU with translation request management and methods for managing translation requests are generally described herein. Other example embodiments may be described and claimed. In some example embodiments, the IOMMU comprises one or more reorder buffers. Each reorder buffer may be associated with one I/O device and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090119664 - Multiple virtual machine configurations in the scalable enterprise: A system and method are disclosed for using directory services to manage resources in a virtual execution environment. A directory repository is populated with resource, administration, roles, policy, and service level agreement (SLA) objects. A service request is received by a virtual machine manager (VMM) administrator, which determines its requirements.... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090119665 - Transitioning of virtual machine from replay mode to live mode: A backup VM is allowed to enter live execution mode at instruction boundaries but not in the middle of emulation of a single instruction. This is accomplished by having the last log entry of multiple entries generated during emulation of an instruction to have an indication of a “go-live” point... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090119666 - Apparatus for cooperative distributed task management in a storage subsystem with multiple controllers using cache locking: The present invention provides an apparatus for cooperative distributed task management in a storage subsystem with multiple controllers using cache locking. The present invention distributes a task across a set of controllers acting in a cooperative rather than a master/slave nature to perform discrete components of the subject task on... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090119667 - Method and apparatus for implementing transaction memory: A method and apparatus for implementing transactional memory (TM). The method includes: allocating a hardware-based transaction footprint recorder to the transaction, for recording footprints of the transaction when a transaction is begun; determining that the transaction is to be switched out; and switching out the transaction, where the footprints of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090119668 - Dynamic feasibility analysis for event based programming: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic feasibility analysis of event-driven program code. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for a dynamic feasibility analysis of event-driven program code can be provided. The method can include loading multiple different tasks associated... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20090119670 - Method of constructing and executing process: Disclosed is a method of constructing and executing a process. A conventional process is minutely divided into minimum unit subprocesses, and the minutely divided subprocesses are classified into a decision subprocesses and a routine subprocess by whether they require decision-making. Any subprocess which is executable using the setup condition in... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski / Wyeth

20090119669 - User-specified configuration of scheduling services: Methods and systems for facilitating user-specified configuration of scheduling services in a manufacturing facility. In one embodiment, a workflow user interface is presented to allow a user to specify a workflow for providing a scheduling for a manufacturing facility. The workflow identifies a sequence of operations to be performed for... Agent: Applied Materials/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119671 - Registers for data transfers: A system and method for employing registers for data transfer in multiple hardware contexts and programming engines to facilitate high performance data processing. The system and method includes a processor that includes programming engines with registers for transferring data from one of the registers residing in an executing programming engine... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090119672 - Delegation metasystem for composite services: A delegation metasystem for composite services is described, where a composite service is a service which calls other services during its operation. In an embodiment, the composite service is defined using generic descriptions for any services (and their access control models) which may be called by the composite service during... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090119673 - Predicting and managing resource allocation according to service level agreements: Allocating computing resources comprises allocating an amount of a resource to an application program based on an established service level requirement for utilization of the resource by the application program, determining whether the application program's utilization of the resource exceeds a utilization threshold, and changing the allocated amount of the... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC