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

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

20090260007 - Provisioning storage-optimized virtual machines within a virtual desktop environment: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and data processing system clone virtual machines in a virtual desktop environment. A request to clone a new virtual machine is intercepted, wherein the request was initially sent to a virtual management server. Responsive to intercepting the request, the new virtual machine... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090260008 - Virtual machine management system and method for managing processor resources thereof: A virtual machine management system, the system including: at least one virtual machine to request a processor to drive a software application or component, and a virtual machine monitor to determine whether allocating the requested processor is possible, to create a waiting list if the allocating of the requested processor... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090260006 - Virtualizing embedded systems: This description provides tools and techniques for virtualizing embedded systems. Systems are described for embedding into a vehicle, with the systems including subsystems and centralized physical platforms that include computing resources operating on behalf of the subsystems. Systems may also include shared bus systems that place the centralized physical platforms... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090260009 - Continuation based runtimes in transactions: A continuation based runtime that participates in transactions that are not generated by the continuation based runtime, but rather are generated externally to the continuation based runtime. The continuation based runtime marshals in transaction data related to the pre-existing externally generated transaction. In one embodiment, the continuation based runtime itself... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090260010 - Electronic device workspace restriction: The drive for multi-tasking and/or availability of numerous applications can interfere with productivity. Constant interruptions from email and real-time online communication can lead to decreased productivity. In addition, attempting to tackle a massive number of different projects with different applications can impede progress on any one of the projects. Functionality... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090260011 - Command line transactions: A computer system with a command shell that supports execution of commands within transactions. The command shell responds to commands that start, complete or undo transactions. To support transactions, the command shell may maintain and provide transaction state information. The command shell may interact with a transaction manager that interfaces... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090260012 - Workload scheduling: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and systems for a scalable workload scheduling system to accommodate increasing workloads within a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. In one embodiment, a modified average consensus method is used to evenly distribute network traffic and jobs among a plurality of computers. The user establishes a virtual... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090260013 - Computer processors with plural, pipelined hardware threads of execution: Computer processors and methods of operation of computer processors that include a plurality of pipelined hardware threads of execution, each thread including a plurality of computer program instructions; an instruction decoder that determines dependencies and latencies among instructions of a thread; and an instruction dispatcher that arbitrates, in the presence... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090260014 - Apparatus, and associated method, for allocating processing amongst data centers: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating optimization of data center performance. An optimization decision engine is provided with information regarding energy credentials of the power generative facilities that power the respective data centers. The energy credential, or other energy indicia, information is used in an optimization decision. Responsive to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090260015 - Software pipelining: A software pipelining method for generating a schedule for executing a plurality of instructions on a processor, the plurality of instructions involving one or more variables, the processor having one or more physical registers, the method comprising the step of scheduling each of the plurality of instructions, determining whether there... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090260016 - System and/or method for bulk loading of records into an ordered distributed database: In a large-scale transaction such as the bulk loading of new records into an ordered, distributed database, a transaction limit such as an insert limit may be chosen, partitions on overfull storage servers may be designated to be moved to underfull storage servers, and the move assignments may be based,... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090260017 - Workflow execution device and workflow execution method: A workflow execution device is provided. The latest update date information relating to date when update is performed is added to each step of a workflow definition file. When executing each step of the workflow definition file, processing execution date information relating to date when the execution is performed is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090260018 - Method for computation-communicati0n overlap in mpi applications: A computer implemented method is provided for optimizing at the time of compiling a program that employs a message-passing interface (MPI). The method includes: detecting an MPI application source file; identifying a non-blocking communication within the MPI application source file; and overlapping independent computation concurrently with the non-blocking communication. A... Agent: Carpenter & Associates

20090254901 - Systems and methods for using operating system (os) virtualisation for minimizing power consumption in mobile phones: A mobile phone that uses OS virtualization for minimizing power consumption in mobile phones is provided. A mobile phone according to the invention may include a plurality of application stacks and a plurality of processor cores. Each of the application stacks preferably corresponds to one of the plurality of processor... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20090254904 - Intent-based ontology for grid computing using autonomous mobile agents: A Grid application framework uses semantic languages to describe the tasks and resources used to complete them. A Grid application execution framework comprises a plurality of mobile agents operable to execute one or more tasks described in an intent based task specification language; VO circuitry operable to receive input that... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090254902 - Method for improving access efficiency of small computer system interface storage device: A method for improving an access efficiency of a small computer system interface (SCSI) storage device is used to process a plurality of access requests for a physical storage device from a request end. The task processing method includes setting a task queue in each virtual disk, for receiving a... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090254903 - Open framework to interface business applications and content management in media production and distribution environment: An open framework to interface at least one business applications and content management in a media production and distribution environment utilizes a standard messaging protocol and a reliable communication bus. The business application creates a work package in a workflow by sending appropriate messages to a workflow engine. The workflow... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090254905 - Facilitating transactional execution in a processor that supports simultaneous speculative threading: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that executes a transaction on a simultaneous speculative threading (SST) processor. In these embodiments, the processor includes a primary strand and a subordinate strand. Upon encountering a transaction with the primary strand while executing instructions non-transactionally, the processor checkpoints the primary strand... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090254906 - Method and apparatus for enabling enterprise project management with service oriented resource and using a process profiling frameword: A service-oriented architecture for enterprise project management integrates business processes, human resources and project management within an enterprise or across the value chain network. A representation having direction and attributes is provided to show the dependencies between a business value layer and a project-portfolio layer, and between the project-portfolio layer... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20090254908 - Custom scheduling and control of a multifunction printer: A method and system for implementing custom scheduling policies including making alterations to internal task scheduling policies or firmware operating within the MFP throughout the lifetime of the MFP. Internal task scheduling policy alterations can be made either remotely or on-site at a customer location. Custom scheduling policies can be... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Sharp

20090254911 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus having a storage that stores identification information for identifying an event occurring in a forefront module and completion information for identifying a module having completed the corresponding process, an identifier that identifies an event that any module has not completed the process based on the completion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090254907 - Method for multithreading an application using partitioning to allocate work to threads: A method for assigning work to a plurality of threads using a primitive data element to partition a work load into a plurality of partitions. A first partition is assigned to a first thread and a second partition is assigned to a second thread of the plurality of threads. A... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20090254909 - Methods and apparatus for power-aware workload allocation in performance-managed computing environments: An exemplary method of allocating a workload among a set of computing devices includes obtaining at least one efficiency model for each device. The method also includes, for each of a set of allocations of the workload among the devices, determining, for each device, the power consumption for the device... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090254910 - Printing system scheduler methods and systems: Provided are printing system scheduler methods and systems. Specifically, a shadow scheduler is disclosed which provides alternative modular printing system configurations, relative to a base modular printing system configuration.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090254912 - System and method for building applications, such as customized applications for mobile devices: A system and method for building applications, such as applications that cause a mobile device to perform a task, is described. In some examples, the system provides one or more plugins, a framework for the plugins, and configures the plugins to build a customized application for a mobile device. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090254913 - Information processing system: An information processing system is provided to alleviate excessive load on a master node, thereby allowing the master node to efficiently perform the process of assigning jobs to nodes. A client 10 classifies a plurality of jobs constituting a large-scale arithmetic operation into several blocks, and requests a master node... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090254914 - Optimized usage of collector resources for performance data collection through even task assignment: A method of balancing computer resources on a network of computers is provided employing a two-tier network architecture of at least one High Level Collector as a scheduler/load balancing server, and a plurality Low level Collectors which gather task data and execute instructions. Tasks are assigned priority and weight scores... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090254915 - System and method for providing fault resilient processing in an implantable medical device: A system and method for providing fault resilient processing in an implantable medical device is provided. A processor and memory store are provided in an implantable medical device. Separate times on the processor are scheduled to a plurality of processes. Separate memory spaces in the memory store are managed by... Agent: Pauly, Devries Smith & Deffner, L.L.C.

20090254916 - Allocating resources for parallel execution of query plans: Computing resources can be assigned to sub-plans within a query plan to effect parallel execution of the query plan. For example, computing resources in a grid can be represented by nodes, and a shortest path technique can be applied to allocate machines to the sub-plans. Computing resources can be provisionally... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090254917 - System and method for improved i/o node control in computer system: A computer system is provided with a file system storing data; a plurality of I/O nodes which are adapted to access the file system; a compute node adapted to execute a job and to issue an I/O request when requiring an I/O operation; and a job server for job scheduling... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090254918 - Mechanism for performance optimization of hypertext preprocessor (php) page processing via processor pinning: A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing “Hypertext Preprocessor” (PHP) processes by identifying the PHP pages which are active on a server and forwarding requests for specific pages to a processor which has recently processed that page. A request processing optimization (RPO) utility assigns an initial request received... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090254919 - Sharing operating system sub-processes across tasks: An operating system permits sharing of a sub-process (or process unit) across multiple processes (or tasks). Each shared sub-process has its own context. The sharing is enabled by tracking when a process invokes a sub-process. When a process invokes a sub-process, the process is designated as a parent process of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated