Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 06/09

20090164990 - Apparatus for and method for real-time optimization of virtual machine input/output performance: The present invention implements a mechanism to decide when it is beneficial to switch from the current virtual input/output mechanism to a different one. The present invention determines which input/output mechanism each virtual machine should use based on the available input/output resources of the virtual machines (with their respective available... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090164991 - Computer virtualization apparatus and program and method therefor: A hypervisor prepares a guest RID-physical RID mapping table for dynamically registering and managing items and performs RID conversion using the guest RID-physical RID mapping table. When the mapping table is used, since it is unnecessary to provide a specific information area representing LPARs corresponding to respective guests in an... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090164992 - Look ahead of links/alter links: A computationally-implemented method comprises retrieving at least a portion of data from a data source, determining an acceptability of an effect of the retrieved at least a portion of the data at least in part via a virtual machine representation of at least a part of an end user's real... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090164993 - Look ahead of links/alter links: A computationally-implemented method comprises obtaining at least a portion of data from a data source, determining a content of the data, determining an acceptability of an effect of content of the data at least in part via at least two virtual machine representations of at least a part of a... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090164994 - Virtual computing management systems and methods: Embodiments deliver an operating system and software applications to a personal computer. The operating system and software applications may be managed and configured at a central location prior to delivery. Data that is created or modified on the personal computer may, from time to time, be stored at the central... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090164995 - Managing tasks in a distributed system: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating the management of tasks in a distributed system with modular service architecture and distributed control functions are provided. The system includes an Application Manager, an Application Node, a Service Manager, and a number of Service Nodes that are capable of executing... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090164997 - System and method for processing workflow tasks: A computer-implemented method for processing workflow tasks is disclosed. The method includes receiving a user operation to start a task, determining if the user operation starts a new task according to a task status table, obtaining a version number of a task processing program from a configuration file or the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090164996 - Weak dependency: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing a weak dependency linking two tasks of a workflow of task. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method receives, from a user interface, an indication representing a link between a first... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090164999 - Job execution system, portable terminal apparatus, job execution apparatus, job data transmission and receiving methods, and recording medium: A job execution system has a portable terminal apparatus and a job execution apparatus capable of being interconnected. Job data stored in a storage of the portable terminal apparatus is automatically transmitted to the job execution apparatus, if establishment of a connection between the portable terminal apparatus and the job... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090164998 - Management of speculative transactions: Circuitry for receiving transaction requests from a plurality of masters and the masters themselves are disclosed. The circuitry comprises: an input port for receiving said transaction requests, at least one of said transaction requests received comprising an indicator indicating if said transaction is a speculative transaction; an output port for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090165006 - Deterministic multiprocessing: A hardware and/or software facility for controlling the order of operations performed by threads of a multithreaded application on a multiprocessing system is provided. The facility may serialize or selectively-serialize execution of the multithreaded application such that, given the same input to the multithreaded application, the multiprocessing system deterministically interleaves... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090165002 - Method and system for module initialization: A method for initializing a module that includes identifying a module for initialization and performing a plurality of processing phases on the module and all modules in a dependency graph of the module. Performing the processing phases includes, for each module, executing a processing phase of the plurality of processing... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090165000 - Multiple participant, time-shifted dialogue management: A virtual environment server. The server manages time-shifted presentation data between multiple participants in a shared virtual environment system. The server includes a routing module configurable for coupling to multiple participants, a real-time data management module coupled to the routing module, a time-shifted data management module coupled to the routing... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090165004 - Resource-aware application scheduling: In one embodiment, a method provides capturing resource monitoring information for a plurality of applications; accessing the resource monitoring information; and scheduling at least one of the plurality of applications on a selected processing core of a plurality of processing cores based, at least in part, on the resource monitoring... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090165003 - System and method for allocating communications to processors and rescheduling processes in a multiprocessor system: In a multiprocessor system, a system and method assigns communications to processors, processes, or subsets of types of communications to be processed by a specific processor without using a locking mechanism specific to the resources required for assignment. The system and method can reschedule processes to run on the processor... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090165005 - Task execution apparatus, task execution method, and storage medium: A task execution apparatus includes an execution unit configured to execute a task on a plurality of devices, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a cause of failure in execution by the execution unit, a confirmation unit configured to confirm that each device of the plurality of devices on which... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090165001 - Timer patterns for process models: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing timers for tasks of process models. In one aspect, an input representative of a temporal constraint for a task of a graph-process model may be received. The temporal constraint defines at least one of a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090165008 - Apparatus and method for scheduling commands from host systems: A scheduling apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. The scheduling apparatus includes a command-collecting module, a sorting module and a command-executing module. The command-collecting module collects the commands issued from the host systems. The sorting module sorts the collected commands from the command-collecting module based on a plurality of data... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090165009 - Optimal scheduling for cad architecture: A system and method for optimal scheduling of image processing jobs is provided. Requests for processing originate either from a DICOM service that receives images sent to the system, and forwards those for batch processing, or from an interactive workstation application, which requests interactive CAD processing. Each request is placed... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090165007 - Task-level thread scheduling and resource allocation: Task schedulers endeavor to share computing resources, such as the CPU, among many threads. However, the task scheduler may be unable to identify the resources that will be utilized by a thread, and may allocate resources inefficiently due to incorrect predictions of resource utility. Task scheduling may be improved by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090165010 - Method and system for optimizing utilization of resources: A method, application tool and computer program product for the optimal utilization of the resources in an organization. The organization has various processes. Each process includes an allocated number of resources. However, with the variation in the workload in a process, there may be under- or over-utilization of resources. Therefore,... Agent: William L. Botjer

20090165011 - Resource management method, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and program: In an information processing system, a configuration information management apparatus stores an identifier of a resource of a management target apparatus and a resource address of the management target resource, in association with each other. The management target apparatus stores destination information and the identifier of the management target resource,... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090165013 - Data processing method and system: In response to the activation of the data processing system, a request for processing is accepted in parallel with loading a series of data (a data body) from an external storage into a main memory independent of whether the processing of individual data is requested or not, and if target... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090165014 - Method and apparatus for migrating task in multicore platform: Provided are a method and apparatus for migrating a task in a multi-core platform including a plurality of cores. The method includes transmitting codes of the task that is being performed in a first core among the plurality of cores to a second core among the plurality of cores, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090165012 - System and method for embedded load balancing in a multifunction peripheral (mfp): The invention relates to multifunction peripherals (MFPs). More particularly, the invention relates to an embedded load balancer in a multifunction peripheral. An MFP with an embedded load balancer may determine that another suitable device is more capable of handling a job request, and, subsequently, may transfer the job request to... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090165015 - Managing dependencies among applications using satisfiability engine: A solution for managing dependencies among multiple applications is disclosed. A method may comprise: receiving dependency information of each application; receiving state information of a first application of the multiple applications; determining a state transition for a second different application of the multiple applications based on the dependency information and... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090165016 - Method for parallelizing execution of single thread programs: A method and apparatus for speculatively executing a single threaded program within a multi-core processor which includes identifying an idle core within the multi-core processor, performing a look ahead operation on the single thread instructions to identify speculative instructions within the single thread instructions, and allocating the idle core to... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090158275 - Dynamically resizing a virtual machine container: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to dynamically resizing a virtual machine container. According to one embodiment, an optimal utilization is determined based on a desired performance for a multi-tiered application and transaction mix information that describes a mix of transactions that result from executing the multi-tiered application. Automatic modification... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090158276 - Dynamic distribution of nodes on a multi-node computer system: A method and apparatus dynamically distribute I/O nodes on a multi-node computing system. An I/O configuration mechanism located in the service node of a multi-node computer system controls the distribution of the I/O nodes. The I/O configuration mechanism uses job information located in a job record to initially configure the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090158279 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus: In FIG. 2, a process (32) included in a first execution space (20a) issue a request of resource assignment to a local resource management part (46), which then acquires an authentication ID of the requesting process (32) and determines whether the resource assignment can be performed. If the resource assignment... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090158277 - Methods and systems for user controlled reproduction job removal: A driver module can be configured to generate a driver interface. The driver module can be configured to include, in the interface, various menus, selectors, and buttons to allow the user to specify the parameters and settings of the job. The driver module can be configured to include, in the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090158278 - System, method, and apparatus for multi-channel user interaction: A system and method for receiving a communication from a user over a communication channel, selecting and executing a bot, flow or procedure. The bot, flow or procedure to execute are selected by parameters such as the communication channel used, the device used by the user or a user profile.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090158280 - Automated execution of business processes using dual element events: Systems and methods for providing interaction of multiple business process events by using management and transactional events, where the management event accepts initial transaction information, maintains state information, and initiates one or more of the transactional events. One of the transactional events receives initial transactional information and state information from... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090158281 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: A disclosed information processing apparatus includes data processing components configured to process data; a workflow execution unit configured to request the data processing components to process the data according to a workflow defining processes to be executed to process the data and the order of the processes; and a processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090158285 - Apparatus and method for controlling resource sharing schedule in multi-decoding system: An apparatus for controlling a resource sharing schedule in a multi-decoding system including a multi-decoder formed of a plurality of resources, the apparatus including: a storage unit storing status information of the resources and information required in controlling the resource sharing schedule; and a controller, when a source resource requests... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090158283 - Decoupling static program data and execution data: Persisting execution state of a continuation based runtime program. The continuation based runtime program includes static program data defining activities executed by the program. One or more of the activities are parent activities including sequences of child activities. The continuation based runtime program is loaded. A child activity to be... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090158287 - Dynamic critical path update facility: A method is presented for dynamically selecting and updating a critical execution path. The method may include receiving a network of jobs for execution. One or more critical jobs may be included in the network of jobs. A job causing a delay in the execution of the network of jobs... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090158286 - Facility for scheduling the execution of jobs based on logic predicates: A solution for scheduling execution of jobs in a data processing system is disclosed. One method for implementing such a solution may start by providing a scheduling structure for scheduling the execution of jobs. Such a scheduling structure may include a workflow plan defining a flow of execution for planned... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090158282 - Hardware accelaration for large volumes of channels: A method apparatus and system for hardware acceleration for large volumes of channels is described. In an embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes monitoring an inbound queue for hardware jobs. The method further includes detecting an interrupt from a hardware component. The method also includes transferring a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090158284 - System and method of processing sender requests for remote replication: A system and a method of processing sender requests for remote replication are applied in local system having a plurality of network block devices (NBD). A fixed number of sender threads are created in local system to form sender thread pool. All NBDs receiving write request for corresponding remote mirror... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090158288 - Method and apparatus for managing system resources: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for system management. The process schedules a set of application tasks to form a schedule of tasks in response to receiving the set of application tasks from a registration module. The process then performs a feasibility analysis on the schedule... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090158291 - Method for assigning resource of united system: A method of assigning a resource of a united system in which a plurality of single systems are complexly operated includes: determining a multi-user diversity order based on the quantity of users existing within the system; determining a cost function using the determined multi-user diversity order; and assigning a resource... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090158290 - System and method for load-balancing in server farms: A system and method for receiving a server request, determining whether one of a plurality of servers scheduled to receive the server request is available, wherein the availability of the one of the servers scheduled to receive the request is based on a first stored value and a second stored... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Fkm

20090158289 - Workflow execution plans through completion condition critical path analysis: Optimizing workflow execution. A method includes identifying a completion condition. The completion condition is specified as part of the overall workflow. The method further includes identifying a number of activities that could be executed to satisfy the completion condition. One or more activities from the number of activities is ordered... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090158294 - Dynamic critical-path recalculation facility: A method for dynamically recalculating a critical path in a job scheduling system is disclosed. In selected embodiments, the method may include determining when a first job associated with a critical path is substantially complete. The method may further include identifying a successor job of the first job and identifying... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090158293 - Information processing apparatus: A program rewriting time is reduced when a large scale process is executed while a program having reconfigurable hardware is being rewritten. When the large scale process is processed by being divided into a smaller process unit, even if the process content is dynamically changed, the program will be flexibly... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090158292 - Use of external services with clusters: A method, apparatus, and system are directed toward managing a system that includes a cluster and an external resource. The external resource may be part of a second cluster that is collocated on the same hardware platforms as the cluster. A proxy resource is used to enforce a dependency relationship... Agent: Martin H. Rattner

20090158295 - Device settings restore point: A method and a device may be provided for saving and restoring one or more settings associated with the device. The one or more settings may be saved and changed before performing a task. After completion of the task, or after a determined failure of the task to complete, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150885 - Appliances in virtual computing environments: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for reconciling data on a set of virtual machines, generating a virtual machine snapshot of the set of shadow virtual machines, identifying a set of virtual disks and containers of the set of virtual disks, wherein the set of virtual disks operates... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090150884 - Computer and method of providing software user interface: A computer and method thereof including a first settings changing user interface application running on a first operating system, a second settings changing user interface application running on a second operating system, where the second settings changing user interface application provides an equal function to a part of a user... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090150883 - Method and system for controlling network traffic in a blade chassis: In general, embodiments of the invention relates to a method for controlling network traffic in a chassis. The method includes assigning control of a network express manager located in the chassis to a control virtual machine selected from a number of virtual machines. The method further includes configuring the network... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150886 - Data processing system and method: A method of producing a compartment specification for an application, the method comprising executing the application; determining resource requests made by the executing application; and recording the resource requests in the compartment specification.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090150888 - Embedded operating system of smart card and the method for processing the task: An embedded operating system of smart card and the method for processsing task are disclosed. The method includes: A, initializing the system; B, creating at least one task according to the function set by the system; C, scheduling the pre-execution task according to the priority of the system; D, executing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090150889 - Information processing system, information processing method, and device and program used for the information processing system and the information processing method: An information processing terminal is provided with a data acquiring means for reading data from an external recording medium; a program storing means for storing a plurality of application programs; a program executing means for executing the stored application programs; and a program selecting means for selecting the application program... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090150887 - Process aware change management: A change order to be executed at a scheduled time as part of a change plan is created, wherein the change order to define a change to an Information Technology (IT) environment. The change order is validated against validation rules to simulate execution of the change order at the scheduled... Agent: Rick D. Nydegger Workman, Nydegger & Seeley

20090150890 - Strand-based computing hardware and dynamically optimizing strandware for a high performance microprocessor system: Strand-based computing hardware and dynamically optimizing strandware are included in a high performance microprocessor system. The system operates in real time automatically and unobservably to parallelize single-threaded software into a plurality of parallel strands for execution by cores implemented in a multi-core and/or multi-threaded microprocessor of the system. The microprocessor... Agent: Van Dyke Consulting (st) Client: Strandera

20090150892 - Interrupt controller for invoking service routines with associated priorities: An interrupt controller efficiently manages execution of tasks by a multiprocessor computing system. The interrupt controller has inputs for receiving service requests for invoking service routines. The service routines have higher priorities than the tasks executed on the processors. Associated with each processor is a register for storing the priority... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20090150891 - Responsive task scheduling in cooperative multi-tasking environments: Task scheduling in cooperative multi-tasking environments is accomplished by a task scheduler that evaluates the relative priority of an executing task and tasks in a queue waiting to be executed. The task scheduler may issue a suspend request to lower priority tasks so that high priority tasks can be executed.... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090150893 - Hardware utilization-aware thread management in multithreaded computer systems: A device, system, and method are directed towards managing threads in a computer system with one or more processing units, each processing unit having a corresponding hardware resource. Threads are characterized based on their use or requirements for access to the hardware resource. The threads are distributed among the processing... Agent: Darrin Paul Johnson

20090150897 - Managing operation requests using different resources: Provided are a system and program for managing operation requests using different resources. In one embodiment, a first queue is provided for operations which utilize a first resource of a first and second resource. A second queue is provided for operations which utilize the second resource. An operation is queued... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090150894 - Nonvolatile memory (nvm) based solid-state disk (ssd) system for scaling and quality of service (qos) by parallelizing command execution: A method for scaling a SSD system which includes providing at least one storage interface and providing a flexible association between storage commands and a plurality of processing entities via the plurality of nonvolatile memory access channels. Each storage interface associates a plurality of nonvolatile memory access channels.... Agent: Ming Huang

20090150896 - Power control method for virtual machine and virtual computer system: Provided is a method of controlling a virtual computer system in which a physical computer includes a plurality of physical CPUs that is switchable between a sleep state and a normal state, and a virtualization control unit divides the physical computer into a plurality of logical partitions to run a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090150895 - Systems, methods and computer program products for supporting transformation to a shared on-demand infrastructure: Systems, methods and computer program products for supporting transformation to a shared on-demand infrastructure. Exemplary embodiments include a method including identifying a CPU resource type (or, in general, other sharable resource) to analyze, calculating a number of servers in scope, Ns, collecting current resource usage data for systems in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090150898 - Multithreading framework supporting dynamic load balancing and multithread processing method using the same: A multithreading framework supporting dynamic load balancing, the multithreading framework being used to perform multi-thread programming, the multithreading framework includes a job scheduler for performing parallel processing by redefining a processing order of one or more unit jobs, transmitted from a predetermined application, based on unit job information included in... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090150901 - Data processing device and method of controlling the same: A data processing device includes an instruction executing part executing a normal task and a management task scheduling an execution order of the normal task with switching the normal task and the management task, a counter measuring an execution state of the normal task being executed in the instruction executing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090150899 - System and methods for dependent trust in a computer system: A method for dependent trust in a computer system is provided. In this method, trust dependency relationships are defined among components of the computer system, specifying, for a component, which components it relies on in ensuring the integrity or confidentiality of its code or data. Subsequently, trust dependencies are resolved... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090150900 - Workflow task re-evaluation: An occurrence of a workflow re-evaluation event during execution of tasks in a workflow is identified. In response to the workflow re-evaluation event, it is determined for each task previously executed in the workflow whether such task needs to be executed again. Those tasks in the workflow for which it... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090144732 - Computer and method for controlling whether or not to release all real storage areas assigned to virtual volume: The management server performs a release/non-release selection determining whether or not to release all of the real storage areas assigned to a virtual volume switched from a used target to an unused target. The management server exercises control to determine whether or not to release all of the real storage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090144731 - System and method for distribution of resources for an i/o virtualized (iov) adapter and management of the adapter through 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.

20090144733 - Virtual machine system and control method of virtual machine system: A virtual machine system and a control method for the virtual machine system. An instruction causing a protection exception is analyzed by the protection exception process by accessing at least a virtual device, while judging whether the optimum emulated code is executed for each function on the virtual device. If... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090144735 - Apparatus and method for generating user interface based on task service: An apparatus for generating a task-based UI includes a task ontology unit for maintaining task information with respect to the task, a device ontology unit for maintaining device information with respect to a device, a UI description generation unit for reading the task information and/or the device information using the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090144737 - Dynamic switching of multithreaded processor between single threaded and simultaneous multithreaded modes: An apparatus and program product utilize a multithreaded processor having at least one hardware thread among a plurality of hardware threads that is capable of being selectively activated and deactivated responsive to a control circuit. The control circuit additionally provides the capability of controlling how an inactive thread can be... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090144734 - Method and implementation of automatic processor upgrade: A method for automatically adding capacity to a computer for a workload is provided. Metric information is received, defined in a policy, about a workload running on a computer. Capacity information for the computer is retrieved and is serialized in a serialized list in accordance with the policy. A demand... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090144736 - Performance evaluation of algorithmic tasks and dynamic parameterization on multi-core processing systems: A method for evaluating performance of DMA-based algorithmic tasks on a target multi-core processing system includes the steps of: inputting a template for a specified task, the template including DMA-related parameters specifying DMA operations and computational operations to be performed; evaluating performance for the specified task by running a benchmark... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090144738 - Performance evaluation of algorithmic tasks and dynamic parameterization on multi-core processing systems: Apparatus for evaluating the performance of DMA-based algorithmic tasks on a target multi-core processing system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operative: to input a template for a specified task, the template including DMA-related parameters specifying DMA operations and computational operations... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090144740 - Application-based enhancement to inter-user priority services for public safety market: A system and method for application based enhancement to the traditional per-user based inter-user priority services is provided. This method includes provisioning a user's profile, not only with an assigned inter-user priority, but also with zero, one or more specified and provisioned applications that are considered as critical applications which... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090144739 - Persistent scheduling techniques: Techniques for persistent scheduling are provided. A principal registers a schedule with a network-based scheduling service. The scheduling service determines when a trigger is to be sent to a client associated with the principal for purposes of having that client process a particular action. The trigger is sent when the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090144742 - Method, system and computer program to optimize deterministic event record and replay: A method, system and computer-usable medium for managing task events during the scheduling period of a task executing on one of the CPUs of a multi-processor computer. Only events of specific portions of scheduling period are logged, wherein a first shared resource access has been granted for the task, this... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090144741 - Resource allocating method, resource allocation program, and operation managing apparatus: An operation managing apparatus totalizes necessary resource amount information every the service so as to acquire necessary resource amount information every BP, and identifies the necessary resource amount information every the BP with resource amount information which can be utilized with respect to each of the service executing apparatuses so... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090144746 - Adjusting workload to accommodate speculative thread start-up cost: Methods and apparatus provide for a workload adjuster to estimate the startup cost of one or more non-main threads of loop execution and to estimate the amount of workload to be migrated between different threads. Upon deciding to parallelize the execution of a loop, the workload adjuster creates a scheduling... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090144743 - Mailbox configuration mechanism: An email configuration system may use a topology database to determine if a change request results in a valid configuration. The topology database may contain a definition of an enterprise email system, including forests, servers, and individual mailboxes. If a valid configuration is found, a change request may be scheduled... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144744 - Performance evaluation of algorithmic tasks and dynamic parameterization on multi-core processing systems: A method for evaluating performance of DMA-based algorithmic tasks on a target multi-core processing system includes the steps of: inputting a template for a specified task, the template including DMA-related parameters specifying DMA operations and computational operations to be performed; evaluating performance for the specified task by running a benchmark... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090144745 - Performance evaluation of algorithmic tasks and dynamic parameterization on multi-core processing systems: Apparatus for evaluating the performance of DMA-based algorithmic tasks on a target multi-core processing system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operative: to input a template for a specified task, the template including DMA-related parameters specifying DMA operations and computational operations... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090144747 - Computation of elementwise expression in parallel: An exemplary embodiment provides methods, systems and mediums for executing arithmetic expressions that represent elementwise operations. An exemplary embodiment provides a computing environment in which elementwise expressions may be executed in parallel by multiple execution units. In an exemplary embodiment, multiple execution units may reside on a network.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090144748 - Methods and apparatus for parallel pipelining and width processing: Computer apparatus for use with a database management system and database, the apparatus comprising a CPU and a memory, the apparatus configured to provide at least two task processes each process being apportioned a section of the memory when is use, wherein in response to the database management system or... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino