Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 10/09

20090249331 - Apparatus, system, and method for file system sharing: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for file system sharing. A Read-Only File System (ROFS) organization module organizes a single ROFS for a plurality of operating systems. Each operating system executes on a distinct virtual machine. Each virtual machine executes on a computer. A Read/Write File System (RWFS) organization... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090249335 - Delivery of virtualized workspaces as virtual machine images with virtualized hardware, operating system, applications and user data: 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.

20090249336 - Facility for centrally managed and locally managed workspaces on the same computer: 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.

20090249329 - Limited service life through virtualized service images: Techniques for limited service life through virtualized service images are presented. A software application is embodied as a service within a virtual machine (VM) image. Licensing restrictions for the software application are carried with or accessible from VM image. Each time the VM is instantiated on a target processing environment... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090249332 - Method and a computing device: The invention relates to a method and a computing device. A first computing device and a second computing device are connected, wherein the first computing device includes a first virtual machine monitor that hosts a first virtual machine. A boot image is provided on the first computing device, wherein the... Agent: Law Offices Of Ira D. Blecker, P.c.

20090249330 - Method and apparatus for hypervisor security code: Disclosed is a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for regulating received data in a multiple operating system environment on an I/O adapter. The method includes a hypervisor for determining that the I/O adapter indicated a receive completion. The hypervisor, responsive to retrieving the receive completion, determines that... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o The Rolnik Law Firm, P.c.

20090249333 - Recording medium having virtual machine managing program recorded therein and managing server device: A virtual machine managing program manages plural physical machines and makes a computer device execute processing through virtual machines developed on each physical machine. Virtual machines are assigned to physical machines on the basis of CPU usage rate and temperature, and are moved among the physical machines as needed, to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090249334 - Recording medium recording thereon virtual machine management program, management server device, and method for managing virtual machine: A virtual machine managing method includes: a dependence relation list generation step of detecting a dependence relation among virtual machines implemented on a physical machine and generating a dependence relation list, based on a detection result; a target management table generation step of reading, when a selection instruction for selecting... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090249337 - Running multiple workspaces on a single computer with an integrated security facility: 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.

20090249339 - Associating command surfaces with multiple active components: The same command surface on a page may be associated with unrelated components and applications. Each of the components registers the commands associated with a shared command surface that they will be utilizing. Each component may utilize an arbitrary number of commands that are associated with the command surface. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090249340 - Managing the progress of a plurality of tasks: Computer systems, methods and computer program products for managing progress of a plurality of tasks associated with respective configuration items. The configuration items are included in a system defined by a digital design specification. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer system includes a repository for holding a data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090249338 - Method and system to modify task in a workflow system: Delegatee of a task in workflow system receives data related to task to be performed. This invention realizes a method and system which provides capability to the said delegatee to initiate the process of modifing to tasks which resemble the task delegated to the delegatee. This capability given to the... Agent: Ajmal M. M. Beg

20090249341 - Processing element, control unit, processing system including processing element and control unit, and distributed processing method: A processing system has a processing element and a control unit. The processing element has a processing section which carries out a specific function, a communication section which outputs to an outside, function information related to the specific function according to a request from the outside, and a data holding... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090249342 - Systems and methods for transaction queue analysis: A method and system for determining a wait time for a transaction queue is disclosed. In the method, video data related to a first transaction queue is received. The video data is processed to determine a number of items presented by a first entity for a transaction in the first... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090249346 - Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus and information processing method: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a job reception unit configured, in response to an execution request for a job, to receive a second program in which an insertion process for a first program that executes the job is described or to receive identification information... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090249348 - Method and apparatus for operating a thread: A method and apparatus for operating a thread are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a thread operation request that carries a thread operation ID and thread information related operation; and operating a thread according to the operation request. The thread in the embodiments of the present disclosure is independent of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090249344 - Method and apparatus for threaded background function support: The present invention provides a computer implemented method and apparatus for a built-in function of a shell to execute in a thread of an interactive shell process. The data processing system receives a request to execute the built-in function. The data processing system determines that the request includes a thread... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o The Rolnik Law Firm, P.c.

20090249345 - Operating system fast run command: A fast sub-process is provided in an operating system for a digital signal processor (DSP). The fast sub-process executes a sub-process without a kernel first determining whether the sub-process resides in an internal memory, as long as certain conditions have been satisfied. One of the conditions is that a programmer... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090249343 - System, method, and computer program product for receiving timer objects from local lists in a global list for being used to execute events associated therewith: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for receiving timer objects from local lists in a global list for being used to execute events associated therewith. A plurality of execution contexts are provided for receiving timer objects. Additionally, a plurality of local lists are provided, each corresponding with... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Rmi

20090249347 - Virtual multiprocessor, system lsi, mobile phone, and control method for virtual multiprocessor: A virtual multiprocessor according to the present invention includes: one or more processors that execute programs while switching between the programs at each of assigned times; a scheduling unit that performs scheduling that determines execution sequence of the programs and the one or more processors that are to execute one... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090249349 - Power-efficient thread priority enablement: A mechanism for controlling instruction fetch and dispatch thread priority settings in a thread switch control register for reducing the occurrence of balance flushes and dispatch flushes for increased power performance of a simultaneous multi-threading data processing system. To achieve a target power efficiency mode of a processor, the illustrative... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090249350 - Resource allocation through negotiation: Improved resource allocation methods which use negotiation are described. In an embodiment, a request for access to a resource by a service user is received and an available access slot is allocated, where the slot may be a time or a position in a queue. This allocated slot may or... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090249351 - Round-robin apparatus and instruction dispatch scheduler employing same for use in multithreading microprocessor: An apparatus for selecting one of N requesters of a shared resource in a round-robin fashion is disclosed. One or more of the N requestors may be disabled from being selected in a selection cycle. The apparatus includes a first input that receives a first value specifying which of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090249352 - Resource utilization monitor: Load-balancing threads among a plurality of processing units. The method may include a first processing unit executing a plurality of software threads using a respective plurality of hardware strands. The plurality of hardware strands may share at least one hardware resource within the first processing unit. The method may further... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090249353 - Computer operations control based on probablistic threshold determinations: Decisions whether or not to initiate certain types of computer operations, such as Just In Time (JIT) compiling or garbage collection can be made using a probabilistic threshold monitor. A decision whether to drive a threshold indicator bit to a set state is made on the detection of each of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090249354 - Recording medium having recorded therein virtual machine management program, management server apparatus and virtual machine management method: A virtual machine managing method includes: virtual machine list generation step of detecting a plurality of virtual machines deployed on a physical machine; a dependency list generation step of detecting dependencies among the virtual machines deployed on the physical machine; a power-off order generation step of, based on table contents... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain