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

20090276774 - Access control for virtual machines in an information system: An information system includes host computers having virtual machine programs running thereon for generating virtual machines. A storage system in communication with the host computers stores an image file corresponding to each virtual machine running on the host computers. In some embodiments, when the storage system receives an access request... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090276773 - Multi-root i/o virtualization using separate management facilities of multiple logical partitions: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a multi-root PCI manager (MR-PCIM) in a multi-root I/O virtualization management partition (MR-IMP) to control the shared functionality of an multi-root I/O virtualization (IOV) enabled switch fabric and multi-root IOV enabled I/O adapter (IOA) through the base functions (BF) of the switches and IOAs. A... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090276772 - Virtualization platform configured with virtual connect control: A data processing system enables configuration of a virtual connect functioning in combination with a virtualization platform. The illustrative data processing system is used with a virtualization platform which is configured to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on one or more physical servers and a virtual connect device which is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090276775 - Pci function south-side data management: A hypervisor, during device discovery, has code which can examine the south-side management data structure in an adapter's configuration space and determine the type of device which is being configured. The hypervisor may copy the south-side management data structure to a hardware management console (HMC) and the HMC can populate... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090276776 - System and method for automatic throttling of resources in an information handling system chassis: Systems and methods for automatic throttling of resources in an information handling system are disclosed. A method may include determining whether a first throttling condition exists, the first throttling condition existing when a chassis management controller fails to communicate a clock or synchronization signal to one or more devices in... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090276777 - Multiple programs for efficient state transitions on multi-threaded processors: A system and method to optimize processor performance and minimizing average thread latency by selectively loading a cache when a program state, resources required for execution of a program or the program itself change, is described. An embodiment of the invention supports a “cache priming program” that is selectively executed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090276778 - Context switching in a scheduler: A scheduler in a process of a computer system detects a task with an associated execution context that has not been previously invoked by the scheduler. The scheduler executes the task on a processing resource without performing a context switch if the processing resource executed a previous task to completion.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276779 - Job management apparatus: When there is a job activation request accompanied with variable information in which an execution attribute and an identifier of a job are associated, a job definition in which an execution attribute is described with an arbitrary identifier is referred, and based on the variable information, an identifier within the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090276780 - Method and apparatus for dynamically processing events based on automatic detection of time conflicts: A scheduling apparatus, system, and article including a machine-accessible medium, along with a method of dynamically processing events, are disclosed. The apparatus may include a receiving module capable of receiving information associated with an event. The information may include an event name and event time. The apparatus may also include... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090276782 - Resource management methods and systems: Resource management methods and systems are provided. First, it is determined whether a resource is currently being used. When the resource is currently being used by a first program, a release notification is transmitted to the first program to release the resource.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090276781 - System and method for multi-level preemption scheduling in high performance processing: A computing system configured to handle preemption events in an environment having jobs with high and low priorities. The system includes a job queue configured to receive job requests from users, the job queue storing the jobs in an order based on the priority of the jobs, and indicating whether... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090276783 - Expansion and contraction of logical partitions on virtualized hardware: A method, apparatus, and program product manage a plurality of resources of at least one logically partitioned computing system of the type that includes a plurality of logical partitions managed by a partition manager with an application level administrative console resident in a logical partition of the computing system. Each... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090276786 - Resource data management: In an illustrative embodiment, a data processing system for resource data management is provided. The data process system comprises a set of data structures defining resource relationships and locations for a set of resources to form defined resource relationships and defined locations for the set of resources, and a receiver... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090276784 - Resource management method: There is provided a method of managing a resource within a computer system using a configuration wrapper, the method comprising: providing a configuration file comprising configuration data for the resource; generating metadata related to the configuration data; and automatically processing the metadata to produce a configuration wrapper for the resource.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090276785 - System and method for managing a storage array: Systems and methods for managing a storage array are disclosed. A method may include segmenting each of a plurality of physical storage resources into a first storage area and a second storage area. The method may also include activating a first logical unit including each first storage area of the... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090276787 - Performing dynamic simulations within virtualized environment: A method and apparatus for and article of manufacture for simulating workloads experienced by multiple partitions in a virtualized system are provided. A master workload driver initiates, coordinates and regulates one or more workload drivers that execute one or more workload simulation tasks in a logical partition. Further, each workload... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090276788 - Information processing apparatus: In an information processing apparatus according to the present invention, a control unit notifies each application program of a key input event in a multi-window system. If the state of a first application program is inactive, the control unit determines whether or not the event notified to the first application... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090271784 - Executing a distributed java application on a plurality of compute nodes: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for executing a distributed Java application on a plurality of compute nodes. The Java application includes a plurality of jobs distributed among the plurality of compute nodes. The plurality of compute nodes are connected together for data communications through a data communication network. Each... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090271785 - Information processing apparatus and control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus capable of controlling a plurality of operating systems, includes an activation module which activates an activation program, a management module which manages the plurality of operating systems to be activated by the activation module, a storage module which stores a main operating... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271787 - Linking virtualized application namespaces at runtime: A method for linking a plurality of virtualized application packages for execution on a computer system is described. A runtime executable of a primary virtualized application package is launched. A secondary virtualized application package to be merged with the primary virtualized application package is identified. In one embodiment, application settings... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090271786 - System for virtualisation monitoring: A system for virtualization monitoring is provided as a hardware interface provided on a physical machine supporting a virtualization layer. The interface comprises an indication of the state of virtualization on the physical machine to monitor any virtual machines running on the physical machine. The interface also comprises means for... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090271790 - Computer architecture: A computer processor comprises a memory and logic and control circuitry utilizing instructions and operands used thereby. The logic and control circuitry includes: an execution buffer each location of which can contain an instruction or data together with a tag indicating the status of the information in the location; means... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090271789 - Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for timeout waits on locks: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for performing timeout waits of process threads. Generally, a thread requesting access to locked resource sends a timeout request to a timeout handler process, and then goes to sleep. The timeout request is received by a receiving thread of the timeout handler process. The... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090271788 - Web based task completeness measurement: A system, method and program product for providing measure the completeness of a task in a web based environment and for providing dynamic marketing and other adaptive behavior based on how far a user has completed the task. A system is provided that includes: a task definition system for associating... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090271791 - 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

20090271794 - Global avoidance of hang states in multi-node computing system: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with avoiding resource blockages and hang states are described. One example computer-implemented method for a clustered computing system includes determining that a first process is waiting for a resource and is in a blocked state. The resource that the first process is waiting for... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090271796 - Information processing system and task execution control method: An information processing system includes a master processor and a slave processor. The master processor operates in a multitasking environment capable of executing request source tasks for making processing requests to the slave processor in parallel by task scheduling based on execution priorities of the tasks. The slave processor operates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271793 - Mechanism for priority inheritance for read/write locks: In one embodiment, a mechanism for priority inheritance for read/write locks (RW locks) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes setting a maximum number of read/write locks (RW locks) allowed to be held for read by one or more tasks, maintaining an array in each of the one or... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271792 - Method and apparatus for alert prioritization on high value end points: A method and system for prioritizing alerts on end points include an aggregator agent that monitors a plurality of end point agents and receives a signal indicating an out of band operating tolerance from an end point. The aggregator agent locally determines the priority of the received signal based on... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090271795 - Method and apparatus for scheduling the processing of commands for execution by cryptographic algorithm cores in a programmable network processor: A method and apparatus for scheduling the processing of commands by a plurality of cryptographic algorithm cores in a network processor.... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee. LLP C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090271797 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and medium storing information processing program stored thereon: An information processing apparatus including at least one first processing unit that manages a resource and at least one second processing unit that accesses the resource, wherein the second processing unit stores a table in which an identifier identifying the resource is associated with the resource, and when accessing the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090271798 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in network based telephony application: Techniques are disclosed for load balancing in networks such as those networks handling telephony applications. By way of example, a method for directing requests associated with calls to servers in a system comprised of a network routing calls between a plurality of nodes wherein a node participates in a call... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271799 - Executing a distributed java application on a plurality of compute nodes: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for executing a distributed Java application on a plurality of compute nodes. The Java application includes a plurality of jobs distributed among the plurality of compute nodes. The plurality of compute nodes are connected together for data communications through a data communication network. Each... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090271800 - System and computer program product for deriving intelligence from activity logs: Techniques for segregating one or more logs of at least one multitasking user to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271801 - Split stage call sequence restoration method: Embodiments of the present invention provide for collecting a minimal subset of task execution context in real time and for restoring the task execution context and performing procedure frame unwinding operations at a post-processing stage. A first data structure may be constructed in real time to contain procedure linkage information... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090265706 - Computing machine migration: Systems and methods for migration between computing machines are disclosed. The source and target machines can be either physical or virtual; the source can also be a machine image. The target machine is connected to a snapshot or image of the source machine file system, and a redo-log file is... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090265708 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus in which virtual machine run under a hypervisor, includes a device manager configured to create a device model including information that is used when assigning an I/O device to the virtual machine in accordance with a device profile and an arrangement of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090265709 - Method and apparatus for facilitating recognition of an open event window during operation of guest software in a virtual machine environment: In one embodiment, a method includes transitioning control to a virtual machine (VM) upon receiving a request from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), determining that the request to transition control is associated with a request to be informed of an open event window, performing an event window check to determine... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090265707 - Optimizing application performance on virtual machines automatically with end-user preferences: A virtual machine management/monitoring service can be configured to automatically monitor and implement user-defined (e.g., administrator-defined) configuration policies with respect to virtual machine and application resource utilization. In one implementation, the monitoring service can be extended to provide user-customized alerts based on various particularly defined events that occur (e.g., some... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090265710 - Mechanism to enable and ensure failover integrity and high availability of batch processing: A method, system and computer program product for managing a batch processing job is presented. The method includes partitioning a batch processing job for execution by a cluster of computers. One of the computers from the cluster of computers is designated as a primary command server that oversees and coordinates... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090265711 - Processing of electronic documents to achieve manufacturing efficiency: A method can be used for processing electronic documents, each of which are assigned a plurality of attributes. The documents are sorted into one or more groups based on the attributes, such that the electronic documents of each group share at least one of the attributes. The attributes of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090265712 - Auto-configuring workload management system: A multi-partition computer system provides a configuration inspector for inspecting partitions to determine their identities and configuration information. The system also includes a policy controller for automatically setting said workload-management policies at least in part as a function of said configuration information in response to a command.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090265713 - Proactive correction alerts: Computerized methods and systems for creating and documenting protocol orders in a molecular diagnostic laboratory environment are provided. Utilizing the methods and systems described herein, protocol statements may require values to be entered in association therewith prior to permitting access to subsequent protocol orders. Accordingly, more accurate test runs and,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090265714 - Divided disk command processing system and method thereof: This present invention is a divided disk command processing system and method thereof, for processing a disk command by executing the multiple computing processes of the disk command separately in multiple processing stages, to reduce frequently storing and restoring the state as context switching of a CPU. And the processing... Agent: Chih Feng Yeh Brian M. Mcinnis