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

20080104589 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104590 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104591 - Adaptive, scalable i/o request handling architecture in virtualized computer systems and networks: A system and method for processing input/output (I/O) requests in a virtualized computer system. I/O requests are received from a virtual machine. A set of virtual I/O channels that may be interfaced with a host I/O stack and/or a virtual machine I/O stack adaptively queues requested data using a variety... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104586 - Allowing virtual machine to discover virtual status thereof: A host computing device has a virtual machine (VM) instantiated thereon. The VM has a virtual application instantiated thereon and a virtual processor. The host also has a virtual machine monitor (VMM) instantiated thereon to oversee the VM and to intercept instructions from a virtual entity comprising one of the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080104588 - Creation of temporary virtual machine clones of multiple operating systems: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for creating operating systems for Virtual Machines. The apparatus and method perform acts including: cloning a guest operating system (OS) that is supported in a first Virtual Machine in order to create a cloned guest OS, and performing maintenance on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104592 - High-level virtual machine for fast xml parsing and validation: A computer-implemented method of processing an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document can include loading an execution plan into a virtual machine, wherein the execution plan represents an XML schema, and loading an XML document into the virtual machine. XML processing functions available within the virtual machine can be selectively invoked... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080104587 - Migrating a virtual machine from a first physical machine in response to receiving a command to lower a power mode of the first physical machine: A command is received to place a first physical machine into a lower power mode. The first physical machine has a virtual machine. In response to the received command, a procedure is performed to migrate the virtual machine from the first physical machine to a second physical machine.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104594 - Information processing apparatus and method thereof: Information of a user group used to distribute the execution result of a job of an image forming apparatus is held in a memory. The execution result of the job appended with result appropriating destination information required to specify a user group to which the execution result of the job... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080104595 - Method for enhancing efficiency in mutual exclusion: A system of the present invention includes: a memory device which includes a first memory area for storing first information indicating that a first task acquires or attempts to acquire a lock, and a second memory area for storing second information indicating that a second task acquires or attempts to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080104593 - Thread hand off: Systems, methods, and devices, including computer executable instructions for transferring threads are described. The method comprises determining an idle processor by checking a handoff state of the processor prior to placing an identified runnable thread in a run queue of an idle processor. The method also comprises transferring the runnable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104596 - Multimedia b2b opportunity and error detection and resolution engine: A method and system for automatically handling exceptions in a business-to-business transaction. E-commerce internet gateways through which the business-to-business transaction passes are monitored for exceptions. When an exception is detected, an intelligent contact manager automatically determines and then locates the representative(s) authorized to resolve this exception. A unified communication system... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080104597 - Restarting failed ims auto-restart batch applications: A transfer of control to a batch application is intercepted, wherein a batch front-end routine receives control in place of the batch application and performs initialization processing. This initialization processing comprises issuing a DLI restart call and issuing a DLI checkpoint call. If the DLI restart call returns a checkpoint... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080104598 - Systems and methods for operation scheduling: An operation scheduling method employed in a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises first and second functions, and each function corresponds to an instruction set. Each instruction set comprises at least one instruction block and corresponds to a block execution state. The method comprises: (a) determining whether the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080104599 - Method to optimize effective page number to real page number translation path from page table entries match resumption of execution stream: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing EPN to RPN translation when a data miss occurs. The method, system and computer program product take advantage of the high-likelihood of finding the matching PTE in the first half of the PTEG and utilize early data-coming signals from the L2... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104600 - Operating system for a computing device: An operating system for a computing device includes a scheduler incorporating an algorithm for ordering the running of threads of execution having different priorities. The operating system is also arranged to provide a list of threads which are scheduled to run on the device, ordered by priority. At least one... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080104601 - Scheduler for multiple software tasks to share reconfigurable hardware: Software tasks executing on a computer system, such as run-time applications in a real-time operating system (RTOS), are scheduled with respect to requested use of a reconfigurable hardware device on the system. Configuration data associated with the software tasks may be loaded or unloaded based on a priority level associated... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080104602 - Task switching control method and computer system: The task switching control method of the present invention is a task switching control method in a computer system in which plural tasks run, and includes a detection step of detecting a wakeup request of a task, a first resource obtainment step of obtaining first resource data which is data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104604 - Apparatus and method for increasing the utilization by the processors on the shared resources: The present invention provides an apparatus and method that increases the utilization by the processors on the shared resources. It provides the minimum latency in a multiprocessor system during exchanging the usage right between multi-processors on a shared resource. The apparatus provides a timer mailbox including a timer. The timer... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080104603 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing dynamic authority to tasks on a resource: A method, apparatus and computer program product implement dynamic authority for a user to perform tasks on a resource. A user selected task on a resource is identified and analyzed to determine whether the task changes a state of the resource. When determined that the task changes a state of... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080104605 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic placement of heterogeneous workloads: Techniques for managing a system of heterogeneous applications are provided. A plurality of applications is classified into a plurality of application types. One or more of the plurality of applications in each of the plurality of application types are classified into one or more collections. A utility function of possible... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080104606 - Apparatus and method for updating i/o capability of a logically-partitioned computer system: A hosting partition update mechanism allows updating I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system in a way that minimally affects the performance and availability of I/O in the computer system. When an update is needed, a new hosting partition is created with the desired update(s). I/O adapters in the current... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080104607 - Session persistence in dynamic node allocation computing environments: Exemplary computer system architectures and methods are described. In some embodiments, a computer network comprises a computing engine including a plurality of compute nodes and a load balancer coupled to the computing engine and including a processor and a memory module. The memory module comprises logic instructions which, when executed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104608 - Starting up at least one virtual machine in a physical machine by a load balancer: A system has plural physical machines that contain virtual machines. A load balancer receives a request from a client. In response to the request, it is determined whether at least one additional virtual machine should be started up. In response to determining that at least one additional virtual machine should... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104609 - System and method for load balancing distributed simulations in virtual environments: A device comprises two or more nodes for processing a simulation of a virtual interactive environment. The two or more nodes comprising at least one component to determine workload amongst at least a first node and a second node the two or more nodes. The at least one component further... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104610 - Hardware threads processor core utilization: A determination of processor core utilization by a plurality of hardware threads over a time interval is made through a division of a length of the time interval by a total count of the plurality of hardware threads.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098391 - Method to share licensed applications between virtual machines: A computer implemented method and computer program product for sharing licensed applications between virtual machines. When an event is intercepted which comprises an attempted access of a file stored in a hard disk of a guest operating system, wherein the file type has no association with any application installed on... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098392 - Verifiable virtualized storage port assignments for virtual machines: Techniques for verifiable virtualized storage port assignments in virtual machines are provided. Configuration data for a virtual machine is defined to include a mechanism to verify an identity for the virtual machine in a target physical environment and a mechanism to verify a storage port assignment for use in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080098394 - Architecture support of best-effort atomic transactions for multiprocessor systems: An atomic transaction includes one or more memory access operations that are completed atomically. A Best-Effort Transaction (BET) system makes its best effort to complete each atomic transaction without guaranteeing completion of all atomic transactions. When an atomic transaction is aborted, BET may provide software with appropriate runtime information such... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080098393 - Novel bankcard transaction exchange system: A novel bankcard transaction exchange system, which is also an exchange network and a settlement network of various bankcard transactions at the same time, comprising: a processing center, at least one backup center, and a plurality of member institutions connected to the processing center via a network, characterized in that:... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080098396 - Information-processing apparatus and information-processing method: A method in an information-processing apparatus for monitoring a job based on a print request from a client computer includes obtaining job information which exists in a print queue, continue monitoring the print queue based on the obtained information even if a client job corresponding to a print process in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080098395 - System and method of expediting certain jobs in a computer processing system: In one embodiment, jobs requiring short processing time are given preference over jobs requiring long processing time by processing to completion all jobs for the first N seconds of the job. Jobs requiring longer than N seconds to complete are given a lower priority than a newly arriving job can... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098397 - System and method for cpi load balancing in smt processors: A system and method for scheduling threads in a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processor environment utilizing multiple SMT processors is provided. Poor performing threads that are being run on each of the SMT processors are identified. After being identified, the poor performing threads are moved to a different SMT processor. Data... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080098398 - Efficient switching between prioritized tasks: The present invention relates to a processor device, task scheduling method and computer program product, wherein tasks of a program routine are selectively stored in at least two memory stack mechanisms (62, 64) of different priorities based on the allocated priorities. Switching of tasks executed at least two processor means... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080098399 - Thread ranking system and thread ranking method: A thread ranking system includes: a thread collector for collecting a thread from a bulletin board website, a thread information storage for storing the collected thread, an event extractor for extracting the event from respective threads by using the event knowledge stored in the event knowledge storage, a related expression... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080098400 - Method and scheduler for performing a scheduling algorithm with minimum resource parameter: A method for performing a scheduling algorithm with minimum resource scheduling in a mobile communication system, comprising the steps of scheduling (10) allocation units for a user or service in a scheduling frame, checking whether (20) the allocation units scheduled for a user or service in a particular scheduling frame... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080098401 - Module arbitration and ownership enhancements: Arbitrating access to industrial resources as a function of controller identify is provided herein. For example, a unique identifier can be associated with a control module that can distinguish the module from other components of a system. Upon receiving a request to control a resource, the identifier of the requesting... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080098402 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multi screens: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing resources in a multiscreen environment. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which receives at least one of video information, audio information, and data information and restores a plurality of services based on the at least one of the video information,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098403 - Data flow execution of methods in sequential programs: Distant parallelization of sequential programs is obtained by making parallelization decisions at the boundaries between program methods (e.g., functions and sub-routines). Experimentation suggests that such a partitioning allows for large-scale parallelization without data flow conflicts.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080098404 - Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus and program: An information processing apparatus having a multitask operating system includes a high-load continuation detecting part detecting continuation of a high-load state of a CPU; a task switching history storing part storing a history of task switching operation; and a trouble task candidate extracting part extracting candidates for a trouble task... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080092137 - Method and system for managing peripheral connection wakeup in a processing system supporting multiple virtual machines: A method and system for managing peripheral connection wakeup signaling in a processing system supporting multiple virtual machines provides a mechanism by which ownership of a peripheral having system wakeup capability is transferred between virtual machines. The power management event signal is connected to a service processor input that in... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20080092138 - Resource allocation in a numa architecture based on separate application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources: An apparatus, program product and method in which application program-specified resource allocation and allocation strength preferences are used to allocate hardware resources from a computer for that application program. The resource allocation preference is used to allocate hardware resources for the application program, while the allocation strength preference is used... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080092139 - Extended transactions: Multiple atomic “component” database transactions are combined into a single extended transaction through message passing. The multiple component transactions that comprise a single extended transaction may, in combination, perform a single computation. The component transactions may pass messages to each other by writing and reading records to and from one... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20080092140 - Systems and methods for executing a computer program in a multi-processor environment: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for executing a computer program that performs multiple processes in a multi-processor environment. A client computer may be used to execute a process manager software application for generating computer instructions that identify a plurality of the processes that... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080092141 - Method and apparatus for time-sliced and multi-threaded data processing in a communication system: A method for designing a time-sliced and multi-threaded architecture comprises the steps of conducting a thorough analysis of a range of applications and building a specific processor to accommodate the range of applications. In one embodiment, the thorough analysis includes extracting real time aspects from each application, determining optimal granularity... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080092144 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program: Management statuses of devices are set. A management information group set by the set management statuses is classified into management information common to a plurality of target devices and management information common to each type of target device, and the classified management information is stored. For each class, the write... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080092142 - Skew exception detection: Techniques are presented for skew exception detection within a parallel processing environment. A potential exception is detected when a highest load of a processor within the parallel processing environment exceeds an average load within the parallel processing environment by a given threshold. The potential exception can become a legitimate exception... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080092143 - Storage apparatus and load balancing method: This storage apparatus having a plurality of physical devices for balancing and retaining data sent from a host computer and parity of the data for each prescribed unit includes a load ratio calculation unit for calculating a load ratio of the plurality of physical devices, a load ratio determination unit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080086729 - Data processor: A data processor includes: a central processing unit (CPU), in which a plurality of virtual machines (101), each running an application program under controls of different operating systems, and a virtual machine manager (190) for controlling the plurality of virtual machines are selectively arranged according to information set in mode... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080086725 - Method of and system for transferring information: A method, system, and program product transfer information from a guest virtual machine running on a host machine to a receiving machine. A monitor intercepts a request to transfer information from a sending machine, which is a guest virtual machine located on the host system, to a receiving machine. If... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080086726 - System, method and program for managing communication with multiple configurations for virtual machine: System, method and program product for managing a plurality of configurations of a first virtual machine. A command is received to set the configuration of the first virtual machine for processing a next incoming interaction and subsequent incoming interactions of at least one protocol from one or more other virtual... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080086728 - Binding user data files: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for publishing, subscribing to, or playing live appliances. A live appliance includes a current virtual machine image. In publishing, a proxy file of a live appliance file type is provided to the publisher. The type is mapped to a live... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086727 - System for subscription and distribution service: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for publishing, subscribing to, or playing live appliances. A live appliance includes a current virtual machine image. In publishing, a proxy file of a live appliance file type is provided to the publisher. The type is mapped to a live... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086731 - Method and system for managing resources in a data center: The present invention provides dynamic configuration and allocation of resources in a data center. These resources are monitored for availability and performance information according to their assigned execution (or application) environments. The measured performance information for each environment is used to predict levels of demand for an application in the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080086730 - Predictive method for managing logging or replaying non-deterministic operations within the execution of an application process: This invention relates to a management method, more particularly by logging and replay, for software operations performed during the execution of an application process executed on a computer. This method applies in particular to internal operations sending a result datum to the managed process, and comprises the following steps: carrying... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080086732 - Power on demand tiered response time pricing: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for determining a fee to be charged for requests processed in a grid computing environment based. In one embodiment the fee may be determined based on the time it takes to process a request and/or pricing schedules that may vary depending on a variety... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080086733 - Computer micro-jobs: Computer micro-jobs are disclosed. A computer job is divided into micro-jobs. In one embodiment, the micro-jobs have a size that allows a particular micro-job to complete within an allotted time for which the particular micro-job owns a resource used to execute the micro-job. In one embodiment, the allotted time is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080086734 - Resource-based scheduler: Resource-based scheduling of computer jobs is disclosed. A computer job is scheduled based on utilization of a resource and a utilization criterion that the computer job has pertaining to the resource, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP