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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941797 | Dynamically providing native libraries and their dependencies A mechanism is provided for providing a native code library from a server to an application written in an interpreted programming language for execution on a remote computer. An installer object is invoked from within a main class of the interpreted programming lang... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941377 | Method and apparatus for metering usage of software products with automatic catalog population A method and a corresponding apparatus for metering usage of software products on a computer are proposed. The metering system is based on the use of a software catalogue. The software catalogue lists all the known products to be metered; each product is identified ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937697 | Method, system and computer program for distributing software patches A software patch management solution is proposed. The devised solution is based on the idea of automating the installation of the patches through a software distribution infrastructure. An automation engine is added to a distribution server. The automation engine in... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937360 | Transferring messages to a directory A method, system, and computer usable program product for transferring messages to a directory are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A listing of message templates that is stored in a computer usable storage medium is received. A list of messages is received... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934212 | Apparatus, system and method for detecting old versions of an applet in a client browser's JVM An apparatus, system and method for checking the version of a cached applet on a client device against version information stored on a host server is provided. By checking the version of the applet, it can be determined whether or not the applet is still usable with... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934199 | Automated operation of IT resources with multiple choice configuration A method and respective system for performing a reconfiguration of a plurality of resources, where the resources reside on multiple different system platforms including a mainframe with a policy-based automation manager. A reconfiguration method with an improved swi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934003 | Method and system for monitoring performance of distributed applications Method and system for performance monitoring of distributed applications. A sensor intercepts every request of service for a server that is generated on a client. If the request meets a filtering condition (for example, defined by the address of the server, the web ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933866 | Systems, methods and software programs for data synchronization In contrast to prior data synchronization processes, provided by aspects of the invention are systems, methods and software programs implementing a data synchronization process that employs a high-level interface of a respective data repository to extract valid info... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930677 | Method, system and computer program for tracking software development A solution (300) for tracking computer software development (for example, based on UML diagrams) is proposed. In the solution of the invention, a completion coefficient is associated (312) with each activity concerning the development process (to indic... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930265 | Method for threshold migration based on fuzzy logic triggers Automigration mechanisms having fuzzy-logic based automigration control mechanisms for implementing control schemes controlling start, stop and/or bandwidth of the automigration process are provided. The automigration control mechanisms read, into a memory of an aut... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926038 | Method, system and computer program for testing a command line interface of a software product A solution for facilitating the test of a command line interface (CLI) of a software product is proposed. A first phase of a process generates a scenarios matrix. Each command of the CLI is defined with its arguments and the corresponding properties; the test activi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925988 | System and method for providing sticky applications A system and method for providing sticky applications are provided. A “sticky application” is an operating system (OS) level application that has the ability to “stick” to web applications and become a part of the web page on which the web application is run... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925733 | Generating unique object identifiers for network management objects Embodiments of the inventive subject matter use a radix-like counting technique to generate unique object identifiers (OIDs) for managed objects in accordance with a network management protocol. A limit value is utilized to ensure prefix uniqueness for an allocated ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922494 | Method for improved administering of tests using customized user alerts An apparatus, system, and method for monitoring test question response time from a remote location are provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a mechanism by which tests may be proctored to users from a remote location as a test administration se... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921152 | Method and system for providing user control over receipt of cookies from e-commerce applications A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for processing cookies that are transmitted from a server through a proxy server to a client that is operated by a user. The proxy server detects that a response message from the server for the ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916662 | Method and apparatus for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments. A reservation class is provided that includes a start time, duration and the number of units required. A scheduled r... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912976 | Method and system for throttling network transmissions using per-receiver bandwidth control at the application layer of the transmitting server A method is presented for throttling data transmissions within a data processing system. Information about a data transfer from a server to a client is received within the application layer of a server, which stores the information about the data transfer along with... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912878 | Method for storing messages in a directory A method, system, and computer usable program product for storing messages in a directory executing in a data processing system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A message is received over a network and identified in the directory. A base message entry t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912817 | System and method for data management through decomposition and decay Data is decayed over time by a type of data item by identifying constituent units of each data item; creating a shelf-life criterion for the constituent units by assigning dimensions to each data item and to each constituent unit; for each of the data items of the d... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912281 | Mechanisms for reducing a size of a color bitmap In remote control systems (as in many other circumstances) the color representation of a bitmap is one of the heaviest factor in term of storage occupation and speed of transmission. Often, only a limited number of colors is actually used by a bitmap, so that the bi... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908353 | Managing overlapping address spaces A network management method and system. The method includes identifying by a computing system, overlapping address spaces between networks. The computing system generates virtual servers associated with the overlapping address spaces. The computing system determines... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908349 | Resource management with rule based consistency check A mechanism is provided for implementing an adaptive model. The mechanism allows an authority to define a desired target state of several kinds of resources, which are directly controlled by different subjects. The authority publishes a series of rules in a shared r... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908346 | Processing a plurality of requests simultaneously in a web application A mechanism is provided for sending a plurality of requests to a server. A set of calls is received in a client from a set of client applications. Each call is for a request to be sent to the server and each call comprises a plurality of parameters. For each call, t... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904464 | Virtual list view support in a distributed directory A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for performing a virtual list view search in a distributed directory environment using a proxy server. The mechanism described in the illustrative embodiments enables a proxy server ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903800 | Method and system for visually representing telephone call tree interface A method, system and computer instructions for visually representing telephone call tree interfaces for interaction by users of data network phones, such as, for example, wire-line telephones, data network telephones, or IP telephones. A caller can connect to an aut... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903656 | Method and system for message routing based on privacy policies A method, system, apparatus, or computer program product is presented for routing event messages between data processing systems based on privacy policies associated with the data processing systems and based on event policies associated with event types for the eve... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900094 | Method, system and computer program for facilitating the analysis of error messages A solution is proposed for managing a software application. A corresponding method starts with the step of detecting an error condition of the software application. An error message corresponding to the error condition is logged; the error message includes at least ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899914 | Transmitting information across firewalls A mechanism provides a layered communication stack. A connection manager manages the actual transfer of data through a single point-to-point connection crossing a respective firewall. A sessions manager multiplexes multiple sessions over the connection. A routing ma... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895593 | Apparatus and method for monitoring and routing status messages An apparatus and method for monitoring and routing status messages to another process running on the same or a different computing system during the installation of one or more applications are provided. With the apparatus and method, one or more objects can monitor... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895203 | Method for deferred deletion of entries for a directory service backing store A method for deleting entries from a directory in which directory information is stored in a set of database tables begins upon a request to delete a directory entry. In response, the directory entry is tagged, preferably by setting the entry's creation time to a nu... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895124 | Method for protecting sensitive data during execution A method for protecting sensitive data during execution time. The sensitive data are normally stored on permanent storage devices (e.g. a hard disk). The method, according to the present invention is based on the creation at system boot of a runtime process and a co... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894478 | Method and system for network management providing access to application bandwidth usage calculations A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system. The network management framework is able to monitor multiple sources of network packets on various subnets within the distributed data proc... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890808 | Testing software applications based on multiple data sources A solution is proposed for testing a software application. The test includes the execution of a series of test cases, each one involving the application of a predefined test input to the software application. The software application generates a corresponding output... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890632 | Load balancing using replication delay A method, system, and computer usable program product for load balancing using replication delay are provided in the illustrative embodiments. In response to a request to update, a system updates data associated with a write server, forming updated data of a data pa... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890297 | Predictive monitoring method and system A method for monitoring a data processing system is proposed. The method involves the measuring of state parameters of the system. Indicators of the performance of the system are then inferred from the state parameters by applying fuzzy-logic rules. The proposed sol... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886188 | System and method for distributed monitoring of a soap service A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for the distributed monitoring of a SOAP service is provided. A test configuration file specifying a test input is distributed from a central reporting location to at least one remote data pr... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885947 | Method, system and computer program for discovering inventory information with dynamic selection of available providers A solution (200) for discovering inventory information in a data processing system is proposed. For this purpose, a corresponding discovery request is submitted (A1) to an inventory tool (200); the discovery request specifies a selected query pa... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885852 | Service discovery in a network of automatic product/service dispensing machines A method, system, and computer program product for providing products to a user via an automated product dispensing machine is provided. In once embodiment, an automatic product dispensing machine in a micronetwork of proximally located diverse automatic product dis... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882496 | Method and system for metering execution of interpreted programs Metering execution of interpreted programs on a data processing system is accomplished. An interpreted program requests a service to an interpreter running the interpreted program. The interpreter invokes a native external function for implementing the service. The ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882224 | Method and system for automatic network connection establishment in case of network address renewal A method and system for maintaining a connection in a communication network is provided. One implementation involves activating a first network interface for obtaining a first network address for communication over the network; monitoring the network and determining... | 02/01/2011 |
