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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110321022 | Code generation through metadata programming for mobile devices and web platforms to ease access to web services A system and method for making a web service available to remote clients. In one illustrative embodiment, the web services are provided by a server. The server can use a metadata program to generate client side libraries that facilitate the development and maintenance o... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110302565 | IMPLICIT WORKSPACE DEPENDENCIES Implicit dependences allow a user to add multiple independent software components to a workspace, which results in the automatic establishment of ad-hoc dependencies. If one project depends on the products of another in the same workspace, a dependency manager detects t... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110276954 | SIMULTANEOUS COMPILER BINARY OPTIMIZATIONS The present invention provides a method to optimize object code files produced by a compiler for several different types of target processors. The compiler divides the source code to be compiled into several functional modules. Given a specified set of target processors... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110055818 | SOURCE CODE ANALYZING SYSTEM AND SOURCE CODE ANALYZING METHOD Every time an assignment statement is executed during performing a simulation according to a second variable memory system, it is determined whether a value interpreted to have the same meaning is assigned to the assignment statement in the simulation according to a fir... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100242031 | Systems and Methods for Dynamically Linking Application Software into a Running Operating System Kernel The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamically linking modules into a running operating system kernel. Systems and methods described herein have the following advantages: (1) they permit an application programmer to write, compile, execute, and termi... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100217839 | DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM, SERVER OF DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVELOPMENT METHOD Problem to be solved is the development system of the Integrated Development Environment which can be used by a server terminal system. Means for Solution is that a development system which develops software in a network server and a termin... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100122243 | System For Library Content Creation A method for generating a library of materials that can be applied to geometry in a graphics scene when performing rendering operations. The method includes generating a class file that includes material parameters representing rendering characteristics of a material cl... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100106950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOADING STATUS CONTROL OF DLL Apparatus and methods are provided for controlling the loading status of DLLs. Specifically, a streaming program compiler is provided. The compiler includes operation modules for calling DLLs during streaming program execution; association table generating units for gen... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100077388 | PROFILING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A PROFILING PROGRAM A profiling method executed by a computer and system including generating a source code by adding a call instruction for a profile acquisition function to a source program of an application, generating an execution form of a profiling target program by linking a library... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100050165 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT MIXED-MODE EXECUTION WITHIN A SINGLE INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE PROCESS OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE Methods and apparatus to support the execution of a managed application that is linked to a native library or application are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus support a virtual machine that is associated with the same ISA as the executing platform, while t... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090265697 | Methods, Devices and Software Applications for Facilitating a Development of a Computer Program A software development application determines whether routine name and version number parameters have been identified (33). If so, the application determines whether the specified version of the routine can be accessed (35). If the specified version cannot... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090204954 | System and Method For Providing A Web-Based Operating System A system and method for providing a web-based operating system is disclosed. A web-based operating system is downloaded from a server to a network-enabled device. The web-based operating system provides a platform from which to run web-based computer applications. Web-b... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090199171 | Code Size Reduction by Outlining Specific Functions in a Library A method of reducing the size of a set of computer code intended for use in a computing device, the set of code being intended for loading into memory automatically when the computing device is powered up, and comprising functions for performing computing tasks, the met... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090125895 | Re-Using Legacy Libraries in Software A method of using a computer program that accesses legacy program code can include distinguishing between non-legacy program code of the computer program and legacy program code of the computer program, separating the computer program into at least a first logical unit ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20080313625 | DISCO: A SIMPLIFIED DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING LIBRARY Core commands and aggregations of such commands are provided to programmers to enable them to generate programs that can be parallel-processed without requiring the programmer to be aware of parallel-processing techniques. The core commands and aggregations abstract mec... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080271007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGED TUXEDO WRAPPER FOR .NET APPLICATIONS A system supports managed wrapping of Tuxedo functions for .NET applications, comprising Wrapper Interfaces and Wrapper Utilities. The Wrapper Interfaces that wrap around one or more Tuxedo functions used by a .NET application are operable to encapsulate the one or more... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080244551 | PARALLEL DLL TREE INITIALIZATION A parallel processing method and apparatus for initializing libraries is disclosed. Libraries for an application are identified, an initialization order for the libraries is determined, and the libraries are initialized in asynchronous stages. The initialization order i... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080244550 | DYNAMIC DLL CYCLE RESOLUTION Deterministically resolving cycles in a library tree is disclosed. Resolving cycles supports certain processes such as safe library initialization. Cycles in the library tree are identified; at least one soft link in each identified cycle is identified; and the at least... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080229299 | Adaptive class loading An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, determine the classes that are needed during a first invocation of an application and preload those classes during a subsequent invocation of the application. In various embodiments, the classes may be pre... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080098368 | Automatic native generation Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically generating native images for a virtual machine environment. A virtual machine environment is provided where application libraries are distributed in an intermediate language format and then compiled at ... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20070288913 | Method for sharing static link code by software components in DLL and main program A method for sharing static link codes by software components in a dynamic link library (DLL) and a main program. First, the main program links to a static link library (SLL) and creates function pointers and variable pointers in the DLLs corresponding to the SLL. Next,... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070271557 | COMPUTING PLATFORM HAVING TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO RESOURCES OF A HOST PLATFORM A computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform is described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a virtual operating system (VOS) including a VOS kernel and a virtual machine (VM) wi... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070250828 | PORTABLE LIBRARIES A method is provided. The method designates an intersection library that includes an intersection of a first set of pre-constructed code that utilizes a first set of syntax language from a first platform and a second set of pre-constructed code that utilizes a second se... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070234329 | Abstraction of host object model for managed add-in framework proxy generation A Managed Add-in Framework (MAF) proxy generation tool comprises a library analyzer module operable for taking as input either a type library or managed software code assembly of the existing host application, and a proxy code generation module. Also, an additional inpu... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070220502 | Combining software executable libraries The present invention provides a method, data processing system and computer program product in which a plurality of software executable libraries (sub-libraries) are combined into a single software executable library. The single library comprises a plurality of registe... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070204261 | ROBUST SOFTWARE LIBRARY WRAPPER METHOD AND APPARATUS A method includes a step of executing a software function using a set of test arguments and obtaining a result corresponding to each of the set of test arguments, each result indicating one of a set of robust and non-robust results, a subset of test arguments correspond... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070180441 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AVOIDANCE OF SOFTWARE CONFLICT A method/system for avoiding software conflicts, with library being divided into layer 1 to layer M and M≧1. The method including the following steps: before a program runs, prescanning calling functions of the binary executable code of the program and called f... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070169067 | Class library footprint file and java application authentication method using the same A class library footprint file for authenticating a dynamically loaded class library during the execution of a JAVA application and a JAVA application authentication method using the class library footprint file are provided. The class library footprint file includes: a... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070169068 | Function calling method for computer system, computer system, and library According to one embodiment, a computer system includes a library which supplys a plurality of functions, and a program which calls the function, and the program including a function calling unit which disguises, upon calling a first function from the library, the calli... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070074161 | Device and method for a graphical user interface To enable the adaptation of display units, e.g. of a medical device, to different color display capabilities, an individual library of individual user interface components is used. The individual library of individual user interface components is derived from a generica... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070074192 | Computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform A computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform is described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a virtual operating system (VOS) including a VOS kernel and a first library, a host o... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070061774 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PROJECT CUSTOMIZATION, COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTATION, AND COMMUNICATION An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing construction projects. The present invention may include an option library module configured to provide a set of building options defined by a general contractor. The invention may also include an option set li... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070055965 | Generating An Application Software Library A method for generating an application software library comprising the steps of: a static analyser processing a binary input library to identify one or more locations in the binary input library which satisfy a semantic analysis condition; inserting metadata into the bi... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070006202 | Dynamic mapping of shared libraries A method and system of updating a first dll accessible by an application where the first dll and a second dll is administered by an original router and where the first and second dlls and the original router have a common API includes installation of an updated first dl... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20070006172 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING OVERLAYS USED BY A PROGRAM A method and system of identifying overlays used by a program. The overlays may be executable overlays (e.g., overlay programs and dynamically linked library programs), or the overlays may be data sets. Depending on the number of overlays and/or the type of information ... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060248521 | Application conversion of source data A method leverages the file format information used by a target application to convert a source dataset into an encoding usable by the target application without converting the source dataset before migration and without modifying the target application. The source data... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060236312 | Method, system and program product for identifying information for a software application Under the present invention, a software product is analyzed to identify a set of applications/modules that are actually included therewith. Thereafter, information for the set of applications is identified from a library of information for the software product. The info... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060225063 | Method for configuring non-script language library files to be run as scripts The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises writing a script to perform a function defined in a subroutine in a library file, which is written in such a way that code that actually runs the subroutine is hidden in the file and is conditionally available ... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060184925 | Plug-in for adapting an integrated development environment to a programming language A system features a back-end computing system that includes a library that contains objects for use with a computer programming language, and a front-end computing system that executes a development environment. The development environment includes a plug-in that suppor... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060136890 | Method and apparatus for providing DLL compatibility A method and apparatus include comparing a called DLL file with DLL file names listed in a database. If a file name of the called DLL file is one of the DLL file names listed in the database, a compatibility mode associated with a DLL file name that matches the called D... | 06/22/2006 |
