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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120047347 | Generic Data Collection Plugin and Configuration File Language for SMI-S Based Agents A system and method is provided for facilitating data collection from storage devices. A generic low level module may be provided that can handle data collection for devices that store data according to particular variants of a storage standard such as SMI-S storage sta... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120036109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING RESULTS OF A SEARCH QUERY IN AN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A system and method for managing data repositories may include providing techniques for end users to access and manipulate reports stored in the repositories. Text-based, image-based, or other types of reports may be stored in online and offline repositories, and in res... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030680 | System and Method of General Service Management A system and method is provided for servicing service management requests via a general service management framework that supports a plurality of platforms (for example, Windows®, UNIX®, Linux, Solaris™, and/or other platforms), and that manages local and/or remote ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030513 | Mechanism to Provide Assured Recovery for Distributed Application A system and method is provided for providing assured recovery for a distributed application. Replica servers associated with the distributed application may be coordinated to perform integrity testing together for the whole distributed application. The replica servers ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030503 | System and Method for Providing High Availability for Distributed Application A system and method is provided for ensuring high availability for a distributed application. A management object manages multiple scenarios defined for protection units associated with a distributed application. The management object may coordinate various operations p... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120011560 | Dynamic Policy Trees for Matching Policies A system and method is provided for evaluating one or more security policies. Security policies may be analyzed to determine one or more policy attributes based on which one or more policy trees should be generated. These policy trees may be utilized for evaluation purp... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20090199161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPEATING PROGRAM FLOW FOR DEBUGGING AND TESTING A method for repeating program flow for debugging and testing purposes comprises storing function call data in one or more files and retrieving the recorded data from the one or more files. The method further comprises using the recorded data to recreate an execution pa... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20080228802 | System and Method for Rebuilding Indices for Partitioned Databases A method comprises storing a partitioned database comprising a plurality of partitions, wherein each of the plurality of partitions comprises a respective set of data records. The method continues by storing at least one secondary index associated with each of the plura... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080098216 | System and Method for Securely Updating License Files in an Automated Licensing System A system for managing license files comprises a memory operable to store a socket module. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a command to open a license file, wherein the command is associated with a fi... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080046896 | Meta-Architecture for Multi-Tiered Enterprise Software Application and System A method for dynamic manipulation of a multi-tiered enterprise software application comprises providing a meta-architecture in a presentation tier of a multi-tiered enterprise software application. The meta-architecture comprises at least screen content associated with ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20070282878 | System and method for online reorganization of a database using flash image copies A method for reorganizing a database comprises receiving at least one update to a first database. The method continues by generating a copy of the first database. The method continues by generating a shadow database, wherein the shadow database represents a reorganized ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070271611 | Determining a source of malicious computer element in a computer network In certain embodiments, a method for tagging communications from a user system, such that a source of a malicious computer element in a computer network may be determined, includes determining tag information for a user system in the computer network, the tag informatio... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070266136 | Providing a unified user interface for managing a plurality of heterogeneous computing environments In certain embodiments, a method for providing a unified user interface for managing a plurality of heterogeneous computing environments comprises displaying at least a portion of a framework user interface, the framework user interface comprising common functionality a... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070239794 | Method and system for updating logical information in databases A method for updating logical relationship information describing one or more defined logical relationships among a plurality of segments of one or more databases includes accessing the logical relationship information and establishing a plurality of updates correspondi... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070239739 | System and method for automated construction, retrieval and display of multiple level visual indexes A method for displaying a multiple level visual index representing data records, comprises storing a plurality of data records and receiving a request to access the stored data records. The method continues by using index parameters to generate a multiple level visual i... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070239733 | System and method for managing virtual tree pages A method for processing a request to display data, comprising receiving at a virtual tree server a request to display data stored in a database, the data being associated with a selected node of a virtual tree structure. The method continues by loading node definition d... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070233600 | Identity management maturity system and method According to one embodiment, a method for providing identity management for an organization includes providing for the creation and maintenance of one or more authoritative identity sources, providing for automated generation of an audit report on a periodic basis, and ... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070222788 | Method and system for sharing user interface rendering among heterogeneous architectures According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method for sharing rendering of a user interface component for an information handling application comprises instructing a plurality of information handling application components, using an inform... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070209036 | Method and system for scheduling computer processes using a common scheduling interface According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for use in scheduling execution of a computer process includes registering a plurality of scheduling engines available to schedule execution of the computer process. The method also includes receiving a request to s... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070195775 | Method and system for filtering packets within a tunnel A system for filtering packets includes a first router, a second router, and a packet filter. The first router encapsulates a packet and transmits the encapsulated packet to the packet filter through a first tunnel. The packet filter receives the encapsulated packet thr... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070192865 | Dynamic threat event management system and method According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method for a content-driven threat management system includes creating a threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data using at least one researcher of at least one of software and m... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070180528 | System and method for reducing antivirus false positives A method for detecting a malicious program infection includes scanning data to determine whether the data exhibits one or more particular symptoms of being infected with a malicious program and, in response to determining that the scanned data exhibits the symptoms of b... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070157082 | Web portal layout manager system and method In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a web portal layout manager system and method are provided. In particular embodiments of the present invention, the method includes receiving at a layout manager an indication selecting one of multiple predeterm... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070118646 | Preventing the installation of rootkits on a standalone computer The present invention includes a system and method of preventing remote installation of software on a computer. The method may include preventing installation of software when a computer is operating in a normal mode and rebooting the computer into a safe mode wherein n... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070112707 | Weighted pattern learning for neural networks A method of training a neural net includes receiving a plurality of sets of data, each set representative of a plurality of inputs to the neural net and a resulting at least one output from the neural net and calculating a plurality of network weights for the neural net... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070079373 | Preventing the installation of rootkits using a master computer The present invention includes a system and method of monitoring software installations including detecting that an attempt is being made to install software on a client computer and halting installation of the software. The method may also include requesting permission... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070079308 | Managing virtual machines According to one embodiment, a method for managing one or more virtual machines includes generating a request for at least one performance characteristic for at least one virtual machine, the at least one virtual machine being associated with a processing group, the pro... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070079178 | Discovery of kernel rootkits by detecting hidden information In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method of detecting kernel level rootkits includes requesting first information from a kernel level process, the first information including first contents. The first information is received at a use... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078915 | Discovery of kernel rootkits with memory scan A system and method are provided for detecting kernel level rootkits including scanning a kernel memory using a kernel level detector. The kernel level detector includes kernel level code executing in kernel space. The kernel memory is compared to at least one rootkit s... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070074198 | Deciding redistribution servers by hop count A system and method are provided for updating software on a client computer including accessing a list of available redistribution servers in a network wherein each redistribution server includes particular software for download. A hop count is determined between a clie... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070073791 | Centralized management of disparate multi-platform media According to a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing backup information is provided. The method includes collecting backup information from a plurality of backup products. The backup information collected from the plurality of backup prod... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070073752 | Method and apparatus for transposing data trees According to one embodiment, a method for transposing data trees includes translating a first data tree and a second data tree into a first format. A label within the second data tree is replaced with a label within the first data tree if the data in the first data tree... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070067729 | Method for automatically defining icons A method for generating a graphical icon to represent a software module is disclosed. The method includes the steps of processing a description of the module stored within a database through a glossary to obtain a normalized description, parsing the normalized descripti... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070039052 | System and method for scanning handles According to an embodiment of the invention a method of detecting malware in a system comprises positioning a filter driver between an operating system for the system and applications or files in the system. The filter driver receives requests for resources from the app... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070022154 | Generating one or more clients for generating one or more synthetic transactions with one or more web service operations In one embodiment, a method for generating one or more synthetic transactions with one or more web service operations includes accessing a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file describing a web service and, according to the WSDL file, generating a symbol table f... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070018983 | System and method for visualization of node-link structures A method of visualizing a node-link structure includes determining a radius for at least one level of a circular tree obtaining data identifying a first node within the node-link structure, determining a first position of the first node, the first position being a cente... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20060271929 | Method and system for providing job forecasting in a computer system A method for providing computer job forecasts includes storing a plurality of job queue files in random access memory. The plurality of job queue files includes information associated with a plurality of jobs. The method also includes accessing at least one of the job q... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060268321 | Method and system for scheduling jobs in a computer system A method for scheduling jobs in a computer system includes storing a plurality of job queue files in a random access memory, accessing at least one of the job queue files stored in random access memory, and scheduling, based in part on the at least one job queue file, e... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060265408 | System and method for reconciling ownership and discovered asset information A method of managing discovered information and ownership information for a plurality of assets includes defining matching rules for matching a plurality of discovery records with a plurality of ownership records. The discovery records include information about a plural... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060242132 | Method and apparatus for in-built searching and aggregating functionality According to one embodiment of the invention a computer-readable media stores code that is operable to be executed on a processor. The code includes a JAVA class having objects with associated attributes and also having at least one method. The at least one method is op... | 10/26/2006 |