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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110032847 | MULTIPLEXED COMMUNICATION FOR DUPLEX APPLICATIONS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for multiplexed communication for duplex applications. Embodiments of the invention facilitate a multiplexed variant of long polling over a request/reply communication medium that (potentia... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110018900 | ADAPTIVE CONTEXTUAL FILTERING BASED ON TYPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS Selectively applying graphical filtering to a portion of an object can include accessing an object to be rendered and identifying at least one characteristic of a portion of the object. A corresponding filter is then selectively applied to the at least one determined ch... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018894 | ADAPTIVE CONTEXTUAL FILTERING BASED ON OBSERVER COLORBLINDNESS CHARACTERISTICS Selectively applying graphical filtering to characters can include the identification of observer characteristics and characteristics associated with different portions of the character. Corresponding filters can then be identified and selectively applied to the charact... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010714 | FAST BOOTING A COMPUTING DEVICE TO A SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE Described is a technology by which independent computing functions such as corresponding to separate operating systems may be partitioned into coexisting partitions. A virtual machine manager, or hypervisor, manages the input and output of each partition to operate comp... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010391 | CONTACT PICKER INTERFACE An interface for identifying one or more contacts is used to access and provide contact information to one or more interested parties or applications in a controlled manner. Various criteria can be used to identify which contacts will be presented to a user and how they... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332808 | MINIMIZING CODE DUPLICATION IN AN UNBOUNDED TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY SYSTEM Minimizing code duplication in an unbounded transactional memory system. A computing apparatus including one or more processors in which it is possible to use a set of common mode-agnostic TM barrier sequences that runs on legacy ISA and extended ISA processors, and tha... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332807 | PERFORMING ESCAPE ACTIONS IN TRANSACTIONS Performing non-transactional escape actions within a hardware based transactional memory system. A method includes at a hardware thread on a processor beginning a hardware based transaction for the thread. Without committing or aborting the transaction, the method furth... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332771 | PRIVATE MEMORY REGIONS AND COHERENCE OPTIMIZATIONS Private or shared read-only memory regions. One embodiment may be practiced in a computing environment including a plurality of agents. A method includes acts for declaring one or more memory regions private to a particular agent or shared read only amongst agents by ha... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332768 | FLEXIBLE READ- AND WRITE-MONITORED AND BUFFERED MEMORY BLOCKS A computing system includes a number of threads. The computing system is configured to allow for monitoring and testing memory blocks in a cache memory to determine effects on memory blocks by various agents. The system includes a processor. The processor includes a mec... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332753 | WAIT LOSS SYNCHRONIZATION Synchronizing threads on loss of memory access monitoring. Using a processor level instruction included as part of an instruction set architecture for a processor, a read, or write monitor to detect writes, or reads or writes respectively from other agents on a first se... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332721 | OPERATING SYSTEM VIRTUAL MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR HARDWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY Operating system virtual memory management for hardware transactional memory. A method may be performed in a computing environment where an application running on a first hardware thread has been in a hardware transaction, with transactional memory hardware state in cac... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332716 | METAPHYSICALLY ADDRESSED CACHE METADATA Storing metadata that is disjoint from corresponding data by storing the metadata to the same address as the corresponding data but in a different address space. A metadata store instruction includes a storage address for the metadata. The storage address is the same ad... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332548 | DATABASES FROM MODELS One or more model elements may be extracted from a model. Coding patterns may be generated based on the extracted model elements. The coding patterns may be translated into statements, such as Structured Query Language (SQL) statements, which may be executed to instanti... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332538 | HARDWARE ACCELERATED TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY SYSTEM WITH OPEN NESTED TRANSACTIONS Hardware assisted transactional memory system with open nested transactions. Some embodiments described herein implement a system whereby hardware acceleration of transactions can be accomplished by implementing open nested transaction in hardware which respect software... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332463 | SURROGATE KEY GENERATION AND UTILIZATION The subject disclosure pertains to databases as well as generation and utilization of keys. A desired or default number of values can be requested from a domain and allocated for use. These values can be utilized to generate surrogate keys. Subsequently or concurrently,... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332324 | PORTAL SERVICES BASED ON INTERACTIONS WITH POINTS OF INTEREST DISCOVERED VIA DIRECTIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION With the addition of directional information in the environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest by pointing at the objects. Items discovered through direction-based location servic... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325642 | AUTOMATICALLY RE-STARTING SERVICES The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically re-starting services. Embodiments of the invention can be used to re-start a service when it is determined that the service stopped during the processing pending work. A c... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325587 | INCREMENTAL RUN-TIME LAYOUT COMPOSITION Performing incremental runtime composition. A method includes a computing system receiving a user input gesture modifying a diagram displayed on a diagram surface. The diagram includes a first element, a second element, and a plurality of elements connected to the secon... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325578 | PRESAGING AND SURFACING INTERACTIVITY WITHIN DATA VISUALIZATIONS The use of visual cues associated with rendered visual items to cue a user on whether a rendered visual item has interactive capability and/or what type of interaction is possible with that visual item. The visual items may be rendered in a data driven way with each con... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325564 | CHARTS IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS The application of chart data to a virtual space. The chart data is accessed and a virtual space is formulated. The virtual space is a computerized representation of a plurality of spatially interrelated visual items. The chart data is merged with the virtual space. As ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED OBJECT STORE An improved system and method for flexible object placement and soft-state indexing of objects in a distributed object store is provided. A distributed object store may be provided by a large number of system nodes operably coupled to a network. A system node provided m... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325300 | USING HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL AS A TRANSPORT FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL DATA STREAMS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using HyperText Transfer Protocol communication as a transport for bi-directional data streams. Embodiments of the invention facilitate passing otherwise blocked TCP communication throu... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325262 | USING TRANSPORT-INDEPENDENT RESOURCE STATUS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using transport-independent resource status. Embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism for implementing a new protocol for performing resource request status updates that maintai... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325219 | ADDING CONFIGURABLE MESSAGING FUNCTIONALITY TO AN INFRASTRUCTURE The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adding configurable messaging functionality to an infrastructure. Embodiments of the invention provide a common infrastructure for management and one way message routing that can accomm... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325213 | MULTI-TIER, MULTI-STATE LOOKUP A correlation data structure that correlates each address of a set of addresses to a corresponding state of multiple possible states. The correlation is maintained by correlating entire groups of addresses to a corresponding group-level state. If all of the addresses in... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325196 | DATA-DRIVEN VISUALIZATION OF PSEUDO-INFINITE SCENES The use of a data stream object to enumerate elements of a data stream to thereby drive rendering of a data-driven model. The data driven model includes multiple view components that may use their own construction logic to render visual items based on data provided to t... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325170 | PARTITIONING MODELING PLATFORM DATA The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for partitioning modeling platform data. Embodiments of the invention facilitate partitioning modeling platform data into nested horizontal slices. Using nested horizontal slices makes the ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325166 | CREATING NEW CHARTS AND DATA VISUALIZATIONS The rendering on a user interface of a potentially complex computerized scene generation system. The user interface includes visual item(s) that have associated data. In addition, another set of visual items may be driven by data provided to input parameters, and may re... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324948 | MANAGING EVENT TIMELINES The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing event timelines. Embodiments of the invention can be used to generate a dynamic task list (or progress indicator) that shows what tasks have been completed, tasks that can be d... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324870 | SOLVER-BASED VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK Visualization frameworks may include solvers. The solvers may be used to determine the properties of view components of view compositions. In some instances, the solvers may be explicitly composed using a relational structure, such as a dependency tree. In some instance... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324867 | DATA-DRIVEN VISUALIZATION TRANSFORMATION The rendering of sequential data-driven scenes. Each data-driven scene is constructed using a plurality of view components, each receiving data into its input parameters, and using construction logic to formulate a rendering of corresponding visual item(s). When a trans... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322256 | USING DISTRIBUTED TIMERS IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using distributed timers in an overlay network. Embodiments of the invention can be used to replicate timers within an overlay network and can be used to make progress towards completin... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321407 | DATA-DRIVEN MODEL IMPLEMENTED WITH SPREADSHEETS Visual items may each be constructed and placed in position using logic defined by a view component corresponding to each visual item, where that logic may depend on one or more values populated into parameter(s) of the view component. Some of those parameter values may... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321391 | COMPOSING SHAPES AND DATA SERIES IN GEOMETRIES A renderable geometry the may be populated with shapes and data series. The geometry defines a set of dimensions to be applied to the shapes. The geometry further defines and enforces a construction of the shapes around the set of dimensions, and applies the data series... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319006 | PERSISTING APPLICATION STATE The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for persisting application state. Through decoupling an application host from an instance store, the application host can be used with many different persistence stores and persistence admi... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318654 | ROUTING OF POOLED MESSAGES VIA AN INTERMEDIARY Message intermediation for multiple service instances, while allowing the service instance to control whether messages are processed under a transaction. The message intermediator chooses to dispatch messages among different backend service instances based on any routin... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318616 | MESSAGE REDIRECTION WITHIN A MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for redirecting client messages between hosts within a messaging infrastructure. When a host receives a client message, it can refer to lock information in a shared database to determine if... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318606 | ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF CONFERENCE MEDIA AND DATA A distributed system for distributing conferencing data such as video, audio, and other conference data. The distributed system includes a conference data dispatch system, multiple conference participant computing systems, and a network distribution path through which c... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318604 | USING A VARIABLE IDENTITY PIPE FOR CONSTRAINED DELEGATION AND CONNECTION POOLING Example embodiments provide for a system configured to provide constrained delegation and connection pooling for a back-end server by providing a variable identity pipe between it and a front-end server. A client will authenticate to the front-end process using credenti... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318395 | DETERMINING CAPABILITY INTERDEPENDENCY/CONSTRAINTS AND ANALYZING RISK IN BUSINESS ARCHITECTURES The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining capability interdependency and analyzing risks in business architectures. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention can be used to drive an understanding of the relative int... | 12/16/2010 |
