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

20090241109 - Context agent injection using virtual machine introspection: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for executing a process within a virtual machine. A module is injected into an operating system for the virtual machine to form an injected module. The injected module is executed to load an agent process within an application space within... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090241114 - Information processing apparatus and method, computer-readable recording medium, and external storage medium: There is realized such a method for safely using and storing secret data that electronic copies of the secret data do not flow out of a particular external storage medium. In the present invention, a special format area which cannot be recognized from an ordinary PC is created in an... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090241113 - Method and system for supporting wake-on-lan in a virtualized environment: A method and system for supporting Wake-on-LAN technology in a virtualized environment is described. An improved virtual switch comprises a listener, which receives a power-on message on behalf of virtual machines, extracts addresses of the virtual machines to be powered on, which are embedded in the power-on message, compares the... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090241111 - Recording medium having instruction log acquiring program recorded therein and virtual computer system: A computer-readable medium on which is recorded a program for causing an information processing device to execute, a holding process, in a judgment information holder, judgment information indicating an instruction from which log information may be acquired; a acquiring process for instructions of instruction addresses in a range determined on... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090241112 - Recording medium recording virtual machine control program and virtual machine system: A computer-readable medium on which is recorded a program for causing an information processing device to execute, setting each of the plurality of physical CPUs as a physical CPU for first process or a physical CPU for second process; setting a first CPU time and a second CPU time to... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090241108 - Virtual computing infrastructure: A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated. Each infrastructure has its own infrastructure controller to create and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090241110 - Virtual environment system and method for operating the same: A virtual environment system and a method of operating the same, the virtual environment system including: a virtual operating system (OS) unit to operate a virtual OS installed in a mobile storage medium in a host OS installed in a host computer, to attach a virtual resource included in the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090241115 - Application translation cost estimator: The invention provides a computer-implemented method for estimating the cost of translating a body of text associated with a software application, wherein the software application is configured to perform one or more tasks. In particular the method comprises: determining one or more content types associated with the body of text,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090241116 - Systems and methods for automating tasks associated with an application packaging job: A system and method for generating a configurable workflow for application packaging jobs are disclosed. A method may include receiving input from a user interface by a packaging application configured to manage an application packaging job. The method may also include creating a plurality of workflow states based on at... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090241117 - Method for integrating flow orchestration and scheduling for a batch of workflows: Techniques for executing a batch of one or more workflows on one or more domains are provided. The techniques include receiving a request for workflow execution, sending at least one of one or more individual jobs in each workflow and dependency information to a scheduler, computing, by the scheduler, one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090241118 - System and method for processing interface requests in batch: A batch messaging management system configured to process incoming request messages and provide reply messages in an efficient manner is disclosed. Instead of treating individual requests as individual transactions, the system reduces processing overhead within a mainframe computing environment by storing requests within a queue, spawning batch jobs according to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090241119 - Interrupt and exception handling for multi-streaming digital processors: A multi-streaming processor has a plurality of streams for streaming one or more instruction threads, a set of functional resources for processing instructions from streams, and interrupt handler logic. The logic detects and maps interrupts and exceptions to one or more specific streams. In some embodiments, one interrupt or exception... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090241120 - System and method for controlling priority in sca multi-component and multi-port environment: A system for controlling priority in a SCA-based application having a plurality of components wherein each of the components has a plurality of ports, includes: a priority component scheduler, interworking with the plurality of components wherein component priority order of the components is arranged therein; and a priority port scheduler... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090241121 - Device, method and computer program product for monitoring collaborative tasks: A method for controlling collaborate tasks, the method includes: receiving a request to initiate a collaborative task that is associated with an assignment; and responding to the request in response to an assignment resource utilization policy.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090241123 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for scheduling work in a stream-oriented computer system with configurable networks: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for scheduling stream-based applications in a distributed computer system with configurable networks are provided. The method includes choosing, at a highest temporal level, jobs that will run, an optimal template alternative for the jobs that will run, network topology, and candidate processing nodes... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090241122 - Selecting a number of processing resources to run an application effectively while saving power: Selecting a number of processors to run an application in order to save power is performed. A number of code segments are selected from an application. Each of the code segments are executed using two or more of a plurality of processing resource combinations. Each of the code segments are... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090241124 - Online multiprocessor system reliability defect testing: A multiprocessor system comprising a plurality of processors is disclosed. The plurality of processors includes a first processor including first monitor on-chip and a second processor including a including a second monitor on-chip. The first monitor on-chip is configured to measure load on the second processor and the second monitor... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090235247 - Apparatus and method for checking idle period of virtual machine, and computer readable recording medium for embodying the method: An apparatus and method for checking an idle period of a virtual machine, and a computer readable recording medium for embodying the method. The apparatus includes a thread counting unit which counts a total number of threads that are under execution and a monitor thread which detects the idle period... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090235250 - Management machine, management system, management program, and management method: A management machine according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a receiver that receives, from a first server, server information on the first server and AP information on a plurality of applications located in the first server, and a selector that selects a candidate application from the plurality... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090235248 - System and method for managing virtual hard drives in a virtual machine environment: Platform software is installed onto a native hardware platform (NHWP) containing a hard disk drive. That hard disk drive is formatted and structured as the NHWP would expect to use it to boot and run. However, the structure of that hard disk is converted to a drive image file (compressed... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090235249 - Virtual computer system and method of controlling the same: A hypervisor is operated while an I/O device is not controlled by the hypervisor performs a process operation. A result of the process of the I/O device which is being concurrently operated is recorded to be capable of being reflected to the operation of the hypervisor. Therefore, a hypervisor which... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090235252 - Execution-level process modeling: A system includes a semantic process validator that includes a state construction component that is configured to collect state information for an instance of a process model, a parallelity checker that is configured to determine a set of one or more process tasks within the instance of the process model... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090235253 - Smart task list/life event annotator: An annotator for monitoring a list of tasks to be performed by a person is provided. Using the annotator, a user may define a task to be performed. The task may be described by selecting values for several fields, including for example a person field, an action field, and a... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090235251 - Systems, methods and computer program products for improving placement performance of message transforms by exploiting guided replication: Systems, methods and computer program products for optimizing an objective function (e.g. the overall end-to-end runtime latency) of a flow graph of message transformations which are placed onto an overlay network of broker machines by replicating stateless transformations in a guided manner. Exemplary embodiments include a guided replication method, including... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090235257 - Converter, server system, conversion method and program: A converter for converting an application program that is executed for every job request into a batch processing program for collectively processing a plurality of job requests. The converter includes: a code identifier for identifying a portion of the application program that includes a service request to another server, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090235258 - Multi-thread peripheral processing using dedicated peripheral bus: One embodiment of the present invention performs peripheral operations in a multi-thread processor. A peripheral bus is coupled to a peripheral unit to transfer peripheral information including a command message specifying a peripheral operation. A processing slice is coupled to the peripheral bus to execute a plurality of threads. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090235256 - System architecture for implementing virtual disk service equipment: A system architecture for implementing a virtual disk service (VDS) equipment is applicable for implementing an overall management on multiple service request objects in a VDS system. The system architecture includes a VDS interface, a subsystem management module, an object management module, a virtual disk management module, and a specific... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090235254 - Systems and methods for implementing key-based transactional memory conflict detection: Transactional memory systems and methods are provided which employ key-based transactional memory conflict detection mechanisms for enabling low-overhead conflict detection at variable granularities using customizable conflict sets that are designated using key values.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090235255 - Transparent support for distributed transactions in a clustered disk-sharing database environment: A method, system and computer program product for transparent support for distributed transactions in a clustered disk-sharing database environment is disclosed. In one approach, a method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed that disassociate a transaction with a session at a first resource manger, send a request... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090235262 - Efficient 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

20090235260 - Enhanced control of cpu parking and thread rescheduling for maximizing the benefits of low-power state: A system may comprise a plurality of processing units and a scheduler configured to maintain a record for each respective processing unit. Each respective record may comprise entries which may indicate 1) how long the respective processing unit has been residing in an idle state, 2) a present power-state in... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090235261 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and control method of image processing apparatus: An image processing system capable of enhancing the reliability of secret leakage prevention, which includes an image processing apparatus, an access control apparatus that issues authority information on each user, and a job history management apparatus that manages job histories. Authority information on a user logging in the image processing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090235263 - Job assignment apparatus, job assignment method, and computer-readable medium: A management node at first extracts free computation nodes executing none of jobs in order to assign a new job to any one of computation nodes, and specifies a communication target computation node when executing an execution target job. Subsequently, the management node calculates, with respect to all of the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090235259 - Synchronous adaption of asynchronous modules: A program disposed on a computer readable medium, having a main program with a first routine for issuing commands in an asynchronous manner and a second routine for determining whether the commands have been completed in an asynchronous manner. An auxiliary program adapts the main program to behave in a... Agent: Lng/lsi Joint Customer C/o Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090235264 - Distributed system: The allocation of hardware resources to distribution applications is enabled without using effective task priority available only in field devices. A distribution system makes a plurality of field devices connected with each other through a network (N) operate a plurality of distribution applications (distribution AP) in parallel. The distribution system... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090235268 - Capacity planning based on resource utilization as a function of workload: Capacity planning based on resource utilization as a function of workload is disclosed. The workload may include different types of requests such as login requests, requests to visit web pages, requests to purchase an item on an online shopping site, etc. In one embodiment, data is determined for each of... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090235267 - Consolidated display of resource performance trends: A consolidated representation of performance trends for a plurality of resources in a data processing system is generated. Recent performance measurement data for the plurality of resources is retrieved along with historical performance measurement data for the plurality of resources. For each resource, an associated performance trend is determined based... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090235271 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A CPU executes initialization for allocating a storage area of an auxiliary storage device for a program execution area after a particular application program is loaded into the program execution area and becomes executable. Subsequently, the CPU loads a plurality of application programs into the program execution area.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090235265 - Method and system for cost avoidance in virtualized computing environments: A method includes monitoring a utilization amount of resources within logical partitions (LPARs) of a plurality of servers and identifying a resource-strained server of the plurality of servers, wherein the resource-strained server includes a plurality of LPARs. Additionally, the method includes determining a migration of one or more LPARs of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090235266 - Operating system and augmenting operating system and method for same: A method for determining status of system resources in a computer system includes loading a first operating system into a first memory, wherein the first operating system discovers system resources and reserves a number of the system resources for use of an augmenting operating system, loading the augmenting operating system... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090235270 - Optimization of thread wake up for shared processor partitions: A mechanism is provided for biasing placement of a software thread on a currently idle and dispatched processor. The operating system starts with the last logical processor on which the software thread ran and determines whether that processor is idle and dispatched and considers each logical processor until a currently... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090235269 - Storage system: Provided is a storage system including a host computer, a memory device, a plurality of resources for allocating a volume of the memory device to an access from the host computer, a memory for storing a correspondence relationship of the plurality of resources, an input module to be used by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090235272 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and recording medium: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of devices and a switch including each port connecting each device. The switch includes a switching part including a data transmitting-receiving part transmitting or receiving data with processing function information identifying a subsequent data processing, a port table storing the subsequent data processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090235273 - Future scheduling by direct representation of possible dependencies: A method for evaluating objects in a data structure is provided. The method comprises assigning one or more objects to one or more nodes in a data structure having at least a root node, wherein the objects are assigned to the nodes in accordance with a first order to maintain... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [intel]

20090235274 - Apparatus and method for task count control: A task count controller, a task count control method, and a computer program capable of dynamically controlling the number of tasks that can be processed in parallel simultaneously without increasing computational load are provided. When a plurality of tasks are to be executed simultaneously in parallel processing, the number of... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20090228883 - Dynamic cluster expansion through virtualization-based live cloning: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for transitioning one or more aspect of a dynamic cluster of computers to one or more virtual machines. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a selection representing a node of a cluster selected... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090228882 - Method and apparatus for supporting heterogeneous virtualization: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a virtual machine monitor of a computer platform may comprise a service virtual machine created by the virtual machine monitor partitioning an underlying hardware machine to support execution of a plurality of overlying guest operating systems, wherein the plurality... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090228884 - Network interface engine: A network interface engine enables a pre-boot environment that has very limited networking hardware interface support to be able to use to a broad range of physical network interfaces. The network interface engine is an operating system that includes device driver support for various networking hardware interfaces such as different... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090228886 - Creating parallel control flows in business process models: A system may include a composition engine that is configured to include a receiving engine that is configured to receive a series of states and transitions from an object lifecycle. The composition engine may include a computation engine that is configured to compute actions from the transitions and to compute... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090228887 - File management apparatus, file management method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: A computer-readable medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a file management process. The process includes: acquiring a process command for process object data; obtaining a data protection method corresponding to process contents specified by the acquired process command; and performing a protection process on the process... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090228885 - System and method for using workflows with information cards: A system and method for managing information cards using workflows is provided. A workflow manager in a card selector allows the user to initiate cardflows in the card selector. The workflow manager is extensible and programmable so that additional user-defined or industry-defined cardflows can be added to the workflow manager.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090228888 - Dynamic scheduling of application tasks in a distributed task based system: Disclosed herein is a system and method for dynamic scheduling of application tasks in a distributed task-based system. The system and method employ a learning mechanism that observes and predicts overall application task costs across a networked system, taking into account how the states or loads of the applications are... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20090228889 - Storage medium storing job management program, information processing apparatus, and job management method: A physical machine executes a job on a virtual machine operated on the physical machine. A management apparatus manages execution of the job and a state of a computation resource of the physical machine. The management apparatus has a job execution request inputting unit for inputting or re-inputting into the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090228890 - Data processing arrangement: A data processing method and apparatus, wherein control-plane data of a communication system is processed in a multicore processing element and user-plane data of the communication system is processed in the same multicore processing element.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090228892 - Maintaining application operations within a suboptimal grid environment: A method, system, and program for maintaining application operations within a suboptimal grid environment are provided. An application profile expresses the operational requirements of an application across multiple heterogeneous resource platforms and expresses the priority of modular breakdown of an application so that usage of resources by the application can... Agent: Ibm Corp (end) C/o Amy J. Pattillo

20090228891 - Methods and systems for resource allocation: A method and apparatus for performing resource allocation in a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a data frame including encapsulated data and a transmission opportunity, the data frame being divided into sub-frames which include primary resource blocks that are divided into secondary resource blocks storing the encapsulated... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090228893 - Dynamic heat and power optimization of resource pools: Method, computer program products and systems for conserving energy in data processing center, wherein a plurality of services are offered to a plurality of subscribed service consumers in a dynamic fashion, allowing a created service instance to be re-assigned from one to another server of the resources. Control parameters comprising... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090228894 - System and method for performing time-flexible calendric storage operations: A system and method are provided for creating a non-standard calendar that may have customized attributes, such as number of days in a month, first day of a month, number of months in a year, first month of a year, number of years, or other customized attributes. Such non-standard calendars... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090228895 - Method and system for polling network controllers: Improving the performance of multitasking processors are provided. For example, a subset of M processors within a Symmetric Multi-Processing System (SMP) with N processors is dedicated for a specific task. The M (M>0) of the N processors are dedicate to a task, thus, leaving (N−M) processors for running normal operating... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090222816 - Data processing apparatus and method for controlling access to secure memory by virtual machines executing on processing circuirty: A data processing apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to secure memory by virtual machines executing on processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes hypervisor software to support the execution of multiple virtual machines on the processing circuitry. A memory system is provided for storing data for access by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090222815 - Fault tolerant virtual machine: A virtual machine communicates with one or more additional virtual machines to establish membership for a virtual lockstep computing system, wherein each virtual machine is hosted by a node in a network. The virtual machine communicates with the one or more additional virtual machines to determine a membership configuration, wherein... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222814 - Selective exposure to usb device functionality for a virtual machine: A virtual machine (VM) application may run a guest operating system (OS) and allow the guest OS to connect to USB devices connected to a computer. The VM application may filter the functions associated with the USB device so that only some of the functions of the USB device are... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090222818 - Fast workflow completion in a multi-system landscape: A method of performing a business reporting job process may include starting, on a central system, a distributed job process, including a plurality of jobs. The method may also include initiating one of the plurality of jobs to be performed by at least one assigned satellite system. Such initiating may... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090222820 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus that processes a digital document having a hierarchical structure through a workflow made up of at least one process, according to the order of the processes of the workflow. The apparatus includes a generation unit that generates structural elements that make up the digital document in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090222817 - Navigation in simulated workflows: An enabled task accessed by a user within a workflow is identified. The workflow is expressed as a Petri net and includes enabled tasks and non-enabled tasks. A non-enabled task selected by a user is identified, and a suitable state that enables the non-enabled state is determined based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090222819 - User operation acting device, user operation acting program, and computer readable recording medium: A wrapper 300 includes a message processing function 310 which receives a processing request for requesting a process for an existing Web system 500, an execution definition storing unit 410 which stores execution definition 400 corresponding to the processing request and defines user operation for the existing Web system 500,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090222824 - Distributed transactions on mobile phones: A message is received by a mobile phone via a messaging service provided by a mobile network operator, wherein the messaging service is supported by the mobile phone. It is determined whether the message is associated with a distributed transaction. The message is forwarded to a resource manager resident on... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222822 - Nested queued transaction manager: A method and apparatus that manages transactions during a data migration. The transfer of data from an old database to a new database is structured as a set of small transactions. The transactions can be structured in a hierarchy of dependent transactions such that the transactions are nested or similarly... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222821 - Non-saturating fairness protocol and method for nacking systems: Processing transaction requests in a shared memory multi-processor computer network is described. A transaction request is received at a servicing agent from a requesting agent. The transaction request includes a request priority associated with a transaction urgency generated by the requesting agent. The servicing agent provides an assigned priority to... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090222823 - Queued transaction processing: A method, system, and computer program product for processing a transaction between a client and an application server asynchronously in a distributed transaction processing environment having at least one transaction queue manager. An application request is received from a client to initiate a transaction. The request is placed in a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090222827 - Continuation based declarative definition and composition: Declarative definition and composition of activities of a continuation based runtime. When formulating such a declarative activity of a continuation-based runtime, the activity may be formulated in accordance with a declarative activity schema and include a properties portion that declaratively defines one or more interface parameters of the declarative activity,... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090222825 - Data race detection in a concurrent processing environment: A method for detecting race conditions in a concurrent processing environment is provided. The method comprises implementing a data structure configured for storing data related to at least one task executed in a concurrent processing computing environment, each task represented by a node in the data structure; and assigning to... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [intel]

20090222828 - Management platform and associated method for managing smart meters: The present invention relates to a management platform for monitoring and managing one or more smart meters. The management platform comprises means for communicating with smart meters and a workflow handler for executing a workflow. A workflow specifies a process for management of the smart meters.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090222829 - Method and apparatus for decomposing i/o tasks in a raid system: A data access request to a file system is decomposed into a plurality of lower-level I/O tasks. A logical combination of physical storage components is represented as a hierarchical set of objects. A parent I/O task is generated from a first object in response to the data access request. A... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090222826 - System and method for managing the deployment of an information handling system: A system and method for automated deployment of an information handling system are disclosed. A method for managing the deployment of an information handling system may include executing a deployment application on an information handling system, the deployment application including one or more tasks associated with the deployment of the... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090222830 - Methods for multi-tasking on media players: This invention provides a method for multi-tasking on a media player in a time-slice-circular manner. The method comprises the step of: dividing each of different functions of the media player to a plurality of tasks by a controller unit; setting a priority to each of the tasks by the controller... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090222831 - Scheduling network distributed jobs: A method and apparatus for scheduling processing jobs is described. In one embodiment, a scheduler receives a request to process one or more computation jobs. The scheduler generates a size metric corresponding to a size of an executable image of each computation job and a corresponding data set associated with... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222834 - Codeless provisioning: Managing resources. A resource manager includes programmatic code for managing resources in the computing environment. Resources available from resource systems within the computing environment are managed. Methods may include receiving user input indicating one or more of that a new entity should be added to the resource manager, that an... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090222833 - Codeless provisioning sync rules: Managing resources. A computing environment may include a resource manager. The resource manager includes programmatic code for managing resources. Expected rule entries are added to an expected rules list. Each of the expected rule entries includes: an indicator used to identify a synchronization rule, a definition of flow type, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090222835 - Operating system for a chip card comprising a multi-tasking kernel: The invention relates to a method for operating a chip card (C), a microprocessor for being inserted into the chip card (C) and a computer program product, as well as a method for manufacturing and/or for maintaining a chip card (C) which is operated with the help of a method... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090222836 - System and method for implementing a management component that exposes attributes: Software for providing a management interface comprises a descriptor file comprising at least one type for at least one resource and further comprising at least one attribute for each type. A management component associated with one of the resources describes at least one of the types. The management component is... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090222832 - System and method of enabling resources within an information handling system: A system and method of enabling resources within an information handling system is disclosed. In one form, an information handling system can include an event detection module operable to detect user initiated events and non-user initiated events. The information handling system can also include a resource allocation module coupled to... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090222837 - Work flow management system and work flow management method: A work flow management method is executed by a system including a person-in-charge terminal, and a management device, wherein the person-in-charge terminal receives n input of information containing a value requested for decision through an operation by a person in charge, transmits the input information as application information to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP