Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 07/09

20090193414 - Method and system for a grid-enabled virtual machine with movable objects: A method, an apparatus, a computer program product, and a data processing system provide for operation of a virtual machine with embedded functionality for interoperating with other virtual machines in a computational grid. A plurality of virtual machines are run on one or more devices within a data processing system;... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090193413 - Methods and systems for provisioning a virtual disk to diskless virtual and physical mahcines: Methods and systems are described for provisioning a common virtual disk to both a physical and a virtual computing machine. These methods and systems can include creating a virtual disk that has binding information for both a paravirtual network interface card and a physical network interface card so that, either... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090193416 - Decidability of reachability for threads communicating via locks: A system and method for deciding reachability includes inputting a concurrent program having threads interacting via locks for analysis. Bounds on lengths of paths that need to be explored are computed to decide reachability for lock patterns by assuming bounded lock chains. Reachability is determined for a pair of locations... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090193415 - Device and method for executing a positional condition task based on a device position and positional derivatives: A device that executes and a method for executing a positional condition executable task which includes a position determining unit that determines a position of the device, a position derivative generation unit that generates one of a distance-based and a time-based derivative from the position of the device, an input... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090193419 - Dynamic performance and resource management in a processing system: A system may monitor, store, and retrieve resource requirements to improve system resources, including energy resources, when executing one or more applications.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090193418 - High level operational support system: A high level Operational Support System (OSS) framework provides the infrastructure and analytical system to enable all applications and systems to be managed dynamically at runtime regardless of platform or programming technology. Applications are automatically discovered and managed. Java applications have the additional advantage of auto-inspection (through reflection) to determine... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090193417 - Tractable dataflow analysis for concurrent programs via bounded languages: A system and method for dataflow analysis includes inputting a concurrent program comprised of threads communicating via synchronization primitives and shared variables. Synchronization constraints imposed by the primitives are captured as an intersection problem for bounded languages. A transaction graph is constructed to perform dataflow analysis. The concurrent program is... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090193420 - Method and system for batch processing form data: The input and batch processing of data for insertion in a database. In one aspect of the invention, processing input data includes receiving data for insertion into a database, the data including data fields holding data entries. At least one of the data fields is determined to be a standard... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090193421 - Method for determining the impact of resource consumption of batch jobs within a target processing environment: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a solution that comprises the capability to dispatch jobs to target system according to the declared resource consumption by providing a way for automatically calculating the resource consumption at a target processing system. The algorithmic solution provided can also be utilized by standalone... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090193422 - Universal serial bus driving device and method: A universal serial bus (USB) driving device electrically coupled to a data receiver is configured for driving a USB to forward data requests from the data receiver to a data transmitter for processing the data requests. The USB driving device may preset a maximum active transaction number, initialize an active... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090193423 - Wakeup pattern-based colocation of threads: A method of co-locating threads and corresponding system are described. The method comprises a first thread executing on a first processor awakening a second thread for execution on a second processor and assigning the second thread to execute on the first processor based on a determination that the first thread... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193424 - Method of processing instructions in pipeline-based processor and corresponding processor: The present invention discloses a method of processing instructions in a pipeline-based central processing unit, wherein the pipeline is partitioned into base pipeline stages and enhanced pipeline stages according to functions, the base pipeline stages being activated all the while, and the enhanced pipeline stages being activated or shutdown according... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090193427 - Managing parallel data processing jobs in grid environments: Method, system, and computer program product for managing parallel data processing jobs in grid environments are provided. A request to deploy a parallel data processing job in a grid environment is received. A plurality of resource nodes in the grid environment are dynamically allocated to the parallel data processing job.... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20090193425 - Method and system of managing resource lease duration for on-demand computing: A method and system of managing resource lease duration for on-demand computing is provided. The system can include one or more resources having a metric capturing tool; and a provisioning manager in communication with the one or more resources. The provisioning manager can receive a request for at least one... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090193426 - System and method for describing applications for manageability and efficient scale-up deployment: Systems, methods and computer storage media for operating a scalable computing platform are provided. A service description describing a requested service is received. Upon receiving the service description a determination of the required resources and the available resources is made. An instance description is produced. The resources required to sustain... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090193428 - Systems and methods for server load balancing: In one embodiment a system and a method relate to generating a server load balancing algorithm configured to distribute workload across multiple application servers, publishing the server load balancing algorithm to switches of the network, and the switches applying the server load balancing algorithm to received network packets to determine... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090187902 - Caching binary translations for virtual machine guest: In one embodiment, a method comprises in response to an intercept of a first instruction in a guest that is controlled by a virtual machine monitor (VMM), updating first tracking data corresponding to the first instruction in an intercept tracking table; determining, from the first tracking data, that a translation... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090187904 - Redirection table for virtual machine guest: In one embodiment, a processor comprises a redirect unit configured to detect a match of an instruction pointer (IP) in an IP redirect table, the IP corresponding to a guest instruction that the processor has intercepted, wherein the guest is executed under control of a virtual machine monitor (VMM), and... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090187903 - Virtual multiprocessor system: A virtual multiprocessor system which does not require a memory apparatus for debugging includes: a physical processor, storage units for storing status information indicating respective statuses of logic processors, a dispatch unit which assigns one of the logic processors by switching the logic processors with respect to a physical processor,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090187905 - Method and apparatus for workflow execution: A method of executing a workflow in a computer includes representing a main workflow of at least one computer as a series of steps which are linked to define the workflow, the steps being grouped in at least two groups. The method includes representing a transition workflow as at least... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090187907 - Recording medium in which distributed processing program is stored, distributed processing apparatus, and distributed processing method: A master calculator assigns a series of processing groups to a communicable worker calculator. The master receives information about an execution time and a waiting time from the worker calculator for the series of processing groups. The computer acquires the time elapsed between transmitting the processing group transmitted to the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090187906 - Semi-ordered transactions: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that facilitates transactional execution in a processor. The system starts by executing program code for a thread in a processor. Upon detecting a predetermined indicator, the system starts a transaction for a section of the program code for the thread. When starting... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090187911 - Computer device with reserved memory for priority applications: A computer device comprises a processor, a memory, and an operating system kernel. The kernel comprises instructions for managing the execution of processes and for allocating memory to such processes. The device is able to execute stored applications that can be broken down into processes. The device comprises a special... Agent: Bull Hn- Ms B55 Russell W. Guenthner

20090187910 - Method and system for automated schedule control: A method for automated schedule control is disclosed. When a schedule appointment process is performed, an open services gateway initiative framework of an electronic device performs an automatic schedule control operation, detecting whether an execution for a schedule is required. If required, it is determined whether the schedule is an... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090187908 - Optimized methodology for dispositioning missed scheduled tasks: The present invention provides for a method and system for the disposition of tasks which failed to run during their originally scheduled time. The determination of whether to run missed or delayed tasks is based on calculated ratios rather than on fixed window sizes. A Lateness Ratio is calculated to... Agent: Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20090187909 - Shared resource based thread scheduling with affinity and/or selectable criteria: Threads may be scheduled to be executed by one or more cores depending upon whether it is more desirable to minimize power or to maximize performance. If minimum power is desired, threads may be schedule so that the active devices are most shared; this will minimize the number of active... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090187912 - Method and apparatus for migrating task in multi-processor system: A method and apparatus for migrating a task in a multi-processor system. The method includes examining whether a second process has been allocated to a second processor, the second process having a same instruction to execute as a first process and having different data to process in response to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090187913 - Ordering multiple resources: A method of ordering multiple resources in a transaction comprising receiving a transaction for a plurality of resources; determining, for each resource, the work embodied by the transaction; ordering the resources according to the determination of the work; committing the transaction; and invoking the resources in the selected order. The... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090187914 - System and method for load shedding in data mining and knowledge discovery from stream data: Load shedding schemes for mining data streams. A scoring function is used to rank the importance of stream elements, and those elements with high importance are investigated. In the context of not knowing the exact feature values of a data stream, the use of a Markov model is proposed herein... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090187915 - Scheduling threads on processors: A device, system, and method are directed towards managing threads and components in computer system with one or more processing units. A processor group has an associated hierarchical structure containing nodes that may correspond to processing units, hardware components, or abstractions. The processor group hierarchy may be used to assign... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090187916 - Task switching with state preservation for programs running on an electronic device: A method and system providing switching between a plurality of installed programs in a computer system. Embodiments include a jump function comprising the steps: (1) determining a jump program that is to be the next program to be run, possibly from a plurality of possible choices; (2) creating input data... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090183153 - Method and computer for synchronous scheduling of multiple virtual cpus: According to the present invention, a method and computer for synchronous scheduling of multiple virtual CPU is provided, which comprises: a guest operation system, comprising a first virtual CPU and a second virtual CPU; a first physical CPU and a second physical CPU; a virtual machine monitor, comprising: synchronous notifying... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090183152 - Method to dynamically provision additional computer resources to handle peak database workloads: A method to handle peak database workloads is disclosed. In one form of the disclosure, the method can include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to requesting, and allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information. The method can also include processing the first... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090183157 - Aggregating recurrent schedules to optimize resource consumption: Coalescing schedules that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the schedules is defined to execute at a recurrent activation time within a defined tolerance. After receiving notification of an event, the schedules are accessed to identify the schedules that may be executed early based on their activation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183158 - Determining a priority value for a thread for execution on a multithreading processor system: An apparatus for determining a priority value for a thread for execution on a multithreading processor system includes: a base value register for depositing a priority base value; and an evaluation unit for determining the priority value of the thread for execution on the multithreading processor system subject to the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090183156 - Intelligent pre-started job affinity for non-uniform memory access computer systems: A method, apparatus, and program product select a pre-started job from among a plurality of pre-started jobs in which to perform a task in a computer system with a NUMA configuration. An attempt to perform a task is received as a connection. Information associated with the connection is compared to... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090183155 - Isolation of content by processes in an application: Isolation of extension code by processes in an application is described. In an implementation, execution of one or more processes is managed that contain content received via a network by another process of a single application that includes the one or more processes. The management includes terminating the one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183154 - Service function redirection for avoiding function evaluation blockages: Threads operating in a computing environment often invoke service functions, such as methods of a programming library. Such invocations may sometimes cause a blocking of the thread, which may be protracted. A long pendency of the service function invocation and blocking of the thread may be acceptable in some operating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183160 - 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

20090183159 - Managing concurrent transactions using bloom filters: A computer-implemented method for managing concurrent transactions includes recording locations written by a first transaction in a first Bloom filter, recording locations to be read by a second transaction in a second Bloom filter, and performing one of a cancellation or a commission of the second transaction based on an... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090183161 - Co-processor for stream data processing: An architecture is shown where a conventional direct memory access structure is replaced with a latency tolerant programmable direct memory access engine, or co-processor, that can handle multiple demanding data streaming operations in parallel. The co-processor concept includes a latency tolerant programmable core with any number of tightly coupled auxiliary... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090183165 - Automated task classification system: The invention concerns an automated task classification system that operates on a task objective of a user. The system may include a meaningful phrase generator that generates a plurality of meaningful phrases from a set of verbal and non-verbal speech. Each of the meaningful phrases may be generated based on... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090183162 - Priority based scheduling system for server: A priority based scheduling system for a server prioritizes multiple tasks that are defined using various constraints, which may include relationships defined between different tasks, performance parameters for each task, and completion constraints. The system may track actual performance of a task and update the performance parameters over time. Some... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090183164 - Processor and a method for a processor: The present invention relates to a processor (1) and a method for a processor comprising processing means (2), the method comprising the steps of—admitting a data packet (D1, D2, D3) to the processing means (2) based at least partly on a value (CS1) of a first credit, parameter and a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090183163 - Task processing device: A task processor includes a CPU, a save circuit, and a task control circuit. The CPU is provided with a processing register and an execution control circuit operative to load data from a memory into a processing register and execute a task in accordance with the data in the processing... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090183166 - Algorithm to share physical processors to maximize processor cache usage and topologies: A method and apparatus for use in a computing environment to run a variety of applications in logical partitions. The apparatus includes one or more logical processors (LPs), one or more logical partitions (LPARs) configured to each access a share of processing resources of the LPs in accordance with predefined... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090183168 - Resource allocation system, resource allocation method and program: A resource allocation system comprising: a resource state monitoring unit which measures a capacity and/or a usage of a computer resource(s) to be managed (referred to below as “managing resource(s)”) and an allocation adjustment unit which determines a new amount of allocating resource(s) by using at least one item of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090183167 - Two-tiered dynamic load balancing using sets of distributed thread pools: By employing a two-tier load balancing scheme, embodiments of the present invention may reduce the overhead of shared resource management, while increasing the potential aggregate throughput of a thread pool. As a result, the techniques presented herein may lead to increased performance in many computing environments, such as graphics intensive... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090183169 - System and method for enabling micro-partitioning in a multi-threaded processor: A system and method for allowing jobs originating from different partitions to simultaneously utilize different hardware threads on a processor by concatenating partition identifiers with virtual page identifiers within a processor's translation lookaside buffer is presented. The device includes a translation lookaside buffer that translates concatenated virtual addresses to system-wide... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090178037 - Accessing a network: An information handling system (IHS) includes a hypervisor and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs). The hypervisor includes hypervisor network information. Each of the VMs includes a virtual processor and a virtual memory that is coupled to the virtual processor. The virtual memory includes VM network information and computer readable... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090178036 - Method and apparatus for call stack sampling using a virtual machine: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for sampling call stack information. A flag associated with a target thread is set in a memory work area associated with a virtual machine in response to an interrupt. Monitoring for an event during execution of a plurality of threads... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090178038 - Operation management system, operation management method, recording medium storing operation management program, and data signal: An operation management system, which includes: a document management device that manages a document; and a document operation device that requests to view or obtains the document, in which the document management device includes: an operation restriction information management section that manages first operation restriction information for restricting an operation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090178039 - Segmented virtual machine transport mechanism: Providing data to an application running on a segmented virtual machine (VM) is disclosed. Providing data includes opening an interface between the segmented VM and an external data source, transferring data from the external data source to an interface buffer, transferring a first selected amount of data from the interface... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090178040 - Method and system for controlling network device and recording medium storing program for executing the method: A task-based device control method and system for easily providing a service desired by a user in a home network using universal plug and play (UPnP), and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. The method includes, if a service is selected using a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090178041 - Method for counting events: t

20090178042 - Managing a workload in a database: Described herein is a workload manager for managing a workload in a database that includes: an admission controller operating to divide the workload into a plurality of batches, with each batch having at least one workload process to be performed in the database, and each batch having a memory requirement... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090178044 - Fair stateless model checking: Techniques for providing a fair stateless model checker are disclosed. In some aspects, a schedule is generated to allocate resources for threads of a multi-thread program in lieu of having an operating system allocate resources for the threads. The generated schedule is both fair and exhaustive. In an embodiment, a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090178043 - Switch-based parallel distributed cache architecture for memory access on reconfigurable computing platforms: A computing architecture comprises a plurality of processing elements to perform data processing calculations, a plurality of memory elements to store the data processing results, and a reconfigurable interconnect network to couple the processing elements to the memory elements. The reconfigurable interconnect network includes a switching element, a control element,... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090178045 - Scheduling memory usage of a workload: Described herein is a method for scheduling memory usage of a workload, the method comprising: receiving the workload, wherein the workload includes a plurality of jobs; determining a memory requirement to execute each of the plurality of jobs; arranging the plurality of jobs in an order of the memory requirements... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090178050 - Control of access to services and/or resources of a data processing system: In order to control access to resources of a data processing system, a priority code is determined for an access request to at least one resource. A comparison code for granting access to the at least one requested resource is determined concerning an alternative use of the resource. For a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090178047 - Distributed online optimization for latency assignment and slicing: A system and method for latency assignment in a system having shared resources for performing jobs including computing a new resource price at each resource and sending the new resource price to a task controller in a task path that has at least one job running in the task path.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090178051 - Method for implementing dynamic lifetime reliability extension for microprocessor architectures: A method for implementing dynamic lifetime reliability extension for microprocessor architectures having a plurality of primary resources and a secondary resource pool of one or more secondary resources includes configuring a resource operational mode controller to selectively switch of the primary and secondary resources between an operational mode and a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090178046 - Methods and apparatus for resource allocation in partial fault tolerant applications: Techniques are disclosed for allocation of resources in a distributed computing system. For example, a method for allocating a set of one or more components of an application to a set of one or more resource groups includes the following steps performed by a computer system. The set of one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090178049 - Multi-element processor resource sharing among logical partitions: A method, apparatus, and program product to allocate processor resources to a plurality of logical partitions in a computing device including a plurality of processors, each processor having at least one general purpose processing element and a plurality of synergistic processing elements. General purpose processing element resources and synergistic processing... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090178048 - System and method for composition of stream processing service environments: A system and method for composing a stream servicing environment which considers all stakeholders includes identifying service component requirements needed for processing a data stream, and determining available service elements for processing the stream. Feasible service environments are constructed based upon the available service elements and the service component requirements.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090178053 - Distributed schemes for deploying an application in a large parallel system: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying and running an application on a massively parallel computer system, while minimizing the costs associated with latency, bandwidth, and limited memory resources. The executable code of a program may be divided into multiple code fragments and distributed to different compute nodes... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090178052 - Latency-aware thread scheduling in non-uniform cache architecture systems: A system and method for latency-aware thread scheduling in non-uniform cache architecture are provided. Instructions may be provided to the hardware specifying in which banks to store data. Information as to which banks store which data may also be provided, for example, by the hardware. This information may be used... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090178055 - Collaborative planning actions and recipes: The complexities of actions and recipes used in collaborative planning are defined using set theory and an accompanying formalization. The formalizations presented can be used as a basis for making decisions in relation choosing recipes, and other activities concerning collaborative task execution in a multi-agent environment. Introducing the notion of... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20090178054 - Concomitance scheduling commensal threads in a multi-threading computer system: A method and an apparatus for concomitance scheduling a work thread and assistant threads associated with the work thread in a multi-threading processor system. The method includes: searching one or more assistant threads associated with the running of the work thread when preparing to run/schedule the work thread; running the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090172664 - Adding a profiling agent to a virtual machine to permit performance and memory consumption analysis within unit tests: The present invention discloses a solution for adding a profiling agent to a virtual machine (VM), which permits unit test programs to access information relating to memory and performance from runtime data areas of the VM. Operations permitted by the agent can include starting/stopping VM monitor, getting objects from the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090172663 - Method and apparatus for tamper resistant communication in a virtualization enabled platform: A method to communicate information between components in a virtualization enabled platform. In one embodiment, a component exchanges data via a communication page which only integrity protected components can access. In another embodiment, an integrity protected communication broker exchanges data from a communication page of one component to another communication... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172667 - Method and computer system for sharing graphics card among multiple operation systems: The present invention provides a method and a computer system for sharing a graphics card among multiple Operation Systems (OSs). The method includes: detecting a first GOS to be displayed, the first GOS being a primary GOS or one of at least one secondary GOS; determining the kind of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090172661 - Method and system for establishing a robust virtualized environment: A method and system for establishing a virtualized environment includes booting a first virtual machine monitor to establish a first virtual machine and booting a second virtual machine monitor in the first virtual machine. The first and second virtual machine monitors may be hypervisors. The method may also include directing... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090172660 - Negotiated assignment of resources to a virtual machine in a multi-virtual machine environment: A system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a physical resource that is capable of generating I/O data. The system also includes multiple virtual machines to utilize the physical resource. Among the virtual machines are a resource source virtual machine that is capable of owning the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172665 - Reducing latency in a segmented virtual machine: Providing data to an application running on a segmented virtual machine (VM) is disclosed. Providing data includes opening an interface between the segmented VM and an external data source, transferring data from the external data source to an interface buffer, transferring a first selected amount of data from the interface... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090172666 - System and method for automatic storage load balancing in virtual server environments: Methods and systems for periodically analyzing and correcting storage load imbalances in a storage network environment including virtual machines are described. These methods and systems account for various resource types, logical access paths, and relationships among different storage environment components. Load balancing may be managed in terms of input/output (I/O)... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090172662 - Virtual machine configuration system: A computing device configures virtual machines using configuration commands. Each of the virtual machines may boot from a corresponding virtual machine image file. As a virtual machine boots or executes, the virtual machine may read from or write to application and operating system files included in the corresponding virtual machine... Agent: Accenture Indy 33391 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090172671 - Adaptive computer sequencing of actions: A recommended sequence of tasks to complete a complex task is programmatically defined. The recommended sequence is adaptive in that the sequence can be altered based on the completion status of one or more of the tasks.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172668 - Conditional computer runtime control of an information technology environment based on pairing constructs: Management of an Information Technology (IT) environment is conditionally controlled based on runtime analysis of resource pairing constructs. Resource pairings are provided, and evaluated based on the current state of the environment. This real-time information is then used in performing managerial tasks, the results of which are effected by the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172670 - Dynamic generation of processes in computing environments: Workflows to be used in managing a computing environment are dynamically and programmatically created and/or activities are invoked, based on the current state of the environment. In creating a workflow, activities are conditionally included in the workflow based on the state of the environment. Different types of workflows may be... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172672 - System and method for approving a task file via a mobile phone: An application server is included in a system for approving a task file via a mobile phone. The application server provides a storage system for storing at least one task, each of the at least one task includes at least one task file. The application server is configured for providing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090172669 - Use of redundancy groups in runtime computer management of business applications: A Redundancy Group includes one or more functionally equivalent resources, and is employed in the dynamic reconfiguration of resources. This enables a business application associated with the resources to be actively managed during runtime.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172676 - Conditional batch buffer execution: A batch computer or batch processor may implement conditional execution at the command level of the batch processor or higher. Conditional execution may involve execution of one batch buffer depending on the results achieved upon execution by another batch buffer.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090172677 - Efficient state management system: The present invention provides an efficient state management system for a complex ASIC, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, a computer-based system executes state-dependent processes. The computer-based system includes a command processor (CP) and a plurality of processing blocks. The CP receives commands in a command stream and manages a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090172674 - Managing the computer collection of information in an information technology environment: The collection of information in an Information Technology environment is dynamically managed. Processing associated with a batch of requests executed to obtain information is adjusted in real-time based on whether responses to the requests executed within an allotted time frame were received. The adjustments may include adjusting the time allotted... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172678 - Method and system for controlling the functionality of a transaction device: A method and system of controlling the functionality of a transaction device, the method includes providing a computing device for accessing an account corresponding to the transaction device. The computing device generates a list of a plurality of transaction functions associated with the transaction device. The method includes providing an... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090172673 - Method and system for managing transactions: A method and system for managing transactions is provided. A transaction is initiated on a first data by a first entity with the first data being comprised in a basis memory. A change in the first data is moved as a second data to a transaction memory. The second data... Agent: Sap Ag

20090172675 - Re-entrant atomic signaling: Systems for context switching a requestor engine during an atomic process without corrupting the atomic process. Typically an atomic process cannot be interrupted prior to completion and if it is interrupted, the process will terminated abnormally resulting in a corrupted transaction. Systems that allow for a controlled interruption of an... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090172679 - Control apparatus, storage system, and memory controlling method: In order to more efficiently use a cache memory to realize improved response ability in a storage system, there provided are a cache memory which stores the data read from the storage apparatus, an access monitoring unit which monitors a state of access from the upper apparatus to the data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090172680 - Discovery directives: A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090172686 - Method for managing thread group of process: A method for managing a thread group of a process is provided. First, a group scheduling module is used to receive an execution permission request from a first thread. When detecting that a second thread in the thread group is under execution, the group scheduling module stops the first thread,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090172683 - Multicore interface with dynamic task management capability and task loading and offloading method thereof: A multicore interface with dynamic task management capability and a task loading and offloading method thereof are provided. The method disposes a communication interface between a micro processor unit (MPU) and a digital signal processor (DSP) and dynamically manages tasks assigned by the MPU to the DSP. First, an idle... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090172682 - Serialization in computer management: Processes are programmatically categorized into a plurality of categories, which are prioritized. Serialization is used to control execution of the processes of the various categories. The serialization ensures that processes of higher priority categories are given priority in execution. This includes temporarily preventing processes of lower priority categories from being... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172684 - Small low power embedded system and preemption avoidance method thereof: Provided are a small low power embedded system and a preemption avoidance method thereof. A method for avoiding preemption in a small low power embedded system includes fetching and running a periodic atomic task from a periodic run queue, reducing any one of periodic atomic tasks or performing the change... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090172685 - System and method for improved scheduling of content transcoding: A method and system for improved scheduling of content transcoding is disclosed. Embodiments are capable of generating and assigning a first transcoding priority value to a piece of content, where the first transcoding priority value is based upon information about the content and at least one semi-static constraint. A second... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090172681 - Systems, methods and apparatuses for clock enable (cke) coordination: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for clock enable (CKE) coordination. In some embodiments, a memory controller includes logic to predict whether a scheduled request will be issued to a rank. The memory controller may also include logic to predict whether a scheduled request... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172689 - Adaptive business resiliency computer system for information technology environments: Programmatically adapting an Information Technology (IT) environment to changes associated with business applications of the IT environment. The programmatically adapting is performed in the context of the business application. The changes can reflect changes in the IT environment, changes to the business application, changes to the business environment and/or failures... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172692 - Enterprise resource planning with asynchronous notifications of background processing events: Methods, systems, and computer program products for operating an enterprise resource planning system. The method includes running a placeholder job in said enterprise resource planning system in response to a request from at least one client application for notification of at least one background processing event, wherein the placeholder job... Agent: Jo Katherine D'ambrosio

20090172687 - Management of computer events in a computer environment: The scope and impact of an event, such as a failure, are identified. A Containment Region is used to identify the resources affected by the event. It is also used to aggregate resource state for those resources. This information is then used to manage one or more aspects of a... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172688 - Managing execution within a computing environment: The projected effect of executing a proposed action on the computing environment is determined. Based on the projected effect, programmatic enforcement of whether the action is allowed to execute or not is provided. The action is selected based on the current status of the environment.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172691 - Streaming operations for workflow process models: A buffer may be configured to store a plurality of items, and to be accessed by one or more activities of an instance of a process model. A scheduler may be configured to schedule execution of each of a plurality of activities of the process model, and to determine an... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090172690 - System and method for supporting metered clients with manycore: In some embodiments, the invention involves partitioning resources of a manycore platform for simultaneous use by multiple clients, or adding/reducing capacity to a single client. Cores and resources are activated and assigned to a client environment by reprogramming the cores' route tables and source address decoders. Memory and I/O devices... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172693 - Assigning work to a processing entity according to non-linear representations of loadings: To perform load balancing across plural processing entities, load level indications associated with plural processing entities are received. The load level indications are representations based on applying a concave function on loadings of the plural processing entities. A processing entity is selected from among the plural processing entities to assign... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.