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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131587 | HARDWARE DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THE TASKS OF AN ALGORITHM IN PARALLEL A hardware device for concurrently processing a fixed set of predetermined tasks associated with an algorithm which includes a number of processes, some of the processes being dependent on binary decisions, includes a plurality of task units for processing data, making ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131585 | Apparatuses And Methods For Processing Workitems In Taskflows At least one example embodiment discloses a method of processing a workitem including a plurality of tasks. The method includes transmitting requests for completion to the plurality of tasks, respectively, receiving processed data from a first task of the plurality of t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131583 | ENHANCED BACKUP JOB SCHEDULING Systems and methods of enhanced backup job scheduling are disclosed. An example method may include determining a number of jobs (n) in a backup set, determining a number of tape drives (m) in the backup device, and determining a number of concurrent disk agents (maxDA) ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131584 | Devices and Methods for Optimizing Data-Parallel Processing in Multi-Core Computing Systems According to an embodiment of a method of the invention, at least a portion of data to be processed is loaded to a buffer memory of capacity (B). The buffer memory is accessible to N processing units of a computing system. The processing task is divided into processing ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131586 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RESPONSE TIME OF APPLICATION PROGRAM The present invention relates to a multi-control method for management of the response time of a data-centric real-time application program. The present invention integrally models a first system for controlling the response time of CPU operations and a second system fo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE JOB DE-SCHEDULING PROBABILITY IN COMPUTER CLUSTERS Systems and methods are provided for generating backup tasks for a plurality of tasks scheduled to run in a computer cluster. Each scheduled task is associated with a target probability for execution, and is executable by a first cluster element and a second cluster ele... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110583 | DYNAMIC PARALLEL LOOPING IN PROCESS RUNTIME Systems and methods for dynamic parallel looping in process runtime environment are described herein. A currently processed process-flow instance of a business process reaches a dynamic loop activity including a repetitive task to be executed with each loop cycle. A pre... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109879 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A TASK IN A DATA WAREHOUSE Provided is a method and system for scheduling a task in a data warehouse. A task in a data warehouse is scheduled based on selection of a report related to the data warehouse.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110586 | THREAD GROUP SCHEDULER FOR COMPUTING ON A PARALLEL THREAD PROCESSOR A parallel thread processor executes thread groups belonging to multiple cooperative thread arrays (CTAs). At each cycle of the parallel thread processor, an instruction scheduler selects a thread group to be issued for execution during a subsequent cycle. The instructi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110585 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION IN A DATA-PROCESSING SYSTEM A method for optimizing energy consumption in a data-processing system comprising a set of data-processing units is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes indicating a set of data-processing jobs to be executed on a data-processing system during a producti... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084783 | AUTOMATED OPERATION LIST GENERATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM Selection of operations in a desired order and, as necessary, input of processing parameters by the user are received. Based on each operation corresponding to the received input, operation information, which classifies the operation corresponding to the input into a no... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084782 | Method and Apparatus for Efficient Memory Replication for High Availability (HA) Protection of a Virtual Machine (VM) High availability (HA) protection is provided for an executing virtual machine. At a checkpoint in the HA process, the active server suspends the virtual machine; and the active server copies dirty memory pages to a buffer. During the suspension of the virtual machine o... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084753 | DEBUGGER LAUNCH AND ATTACH ON COMPUTE CLUSTERS Launching a debugging process. A method includes at a compute node on a cluster private network, receiving a debug job via a scheduler of a head node from a client on a public network. The head node is connected to both the cluster private network and the public network... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084572 | SECURE DEVICE SHARING A device and method for placing the device in a locked state having an associated set of permitted tasks so as to permit the device owner to share the device with others but maintain security over aspects of the device. A task change request is evaluated to determine wh... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING COMPUTATION CLOSURES An approach is provided for backend based computation closure oriented distributed computing. A computational processing support infrastructure receives a request for specifying one or more processes executing on a device for distribution over a computation space. The c... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072916 | FUTURE SYSTEM THAT CAN PARTICIPATE IN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES UNTIL AN ACTUAL SYSTEM IS ON-LINE Hardware configuration management is provided. A hardware configuration manager includes a proposed new hardware configuration item for an existing production environment and its hardware configuration management software. A completed detailed setup of the management of... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054754 | REPOSITORY OF BACKGROUND JOB TEMPLATES Aspects of the current subject matter can provide a background job repository that stores a background job template specifying a background job comprising a maintenance task that affects a customized software platform. The background job template can also include metada... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054757 | TASK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM A task management apparatus includes a task information acquisition unit, an execution location position information acquisition unit, an execution candidate position information acquisition unit and a selection unit. The task information acquisition unit acquires task ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054758 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM STATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM An image forming apparatus includes a memory configured to store programs installed in the image forming apparatus and having plural states; a condition storing unit configured to store at least one condition defining a set of states of one or more of the programs; a st... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054760 | MEMORY REQUEST SCHEDULING BASED ON THREAD CRITICALITY A method includes scheduling a memory request requested by a thread executing on a processing system. The scheduling is based on at least one of a number of critical sections being executed on the processing system by the thread and a number of other threads executing o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054759 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB PROCESSING METHOD To reduce the load of division position identification processing when executing job processing based on input job data that is divided into multiple parts, a job processing apparatus is configured to identify a division position indicating divisions of the parts in the... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054756 | Dynamic Test Scheduling According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically schedules performance of tasks, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system determines resources required or utilized by each task for performance of that task on... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054755 | SCALABLE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTE BASED ON BUSINESS RULES A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer-readable storage medium provide the ability to dynamically modify a distributed computing system workflow. A grid application dynamically receives configuration information including business rules that d... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047508 | Resource Tracking Method and Apparatus The present invention is directed to a parallel processing infrastructure, which enables the robust design of task scheduler(s) and communication primitive(s). This is achieved, in one embodiment of the present invention, by decomposing the general problem of exploiting... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047507 | SELECTIVE CONSTANT COMPLEXITY DISMISSAL IN TASK SCHEDULING Various embodiments for selective constant complexity dismissal in task scheduling of a plurality of tasks are provided. A strictly increasing function is implemented to generate a plurality of unique creation stamps, each of the plurality of unique creation stamps incr... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042318 | AUTOMATIC PLANNING OF SERVICE REQUESTS A method, system, and computer usable program product for automatic planning of service requests are provided in the illustrative embodiments. At an application executing in a computer, information is located in a ticket corresponding to the service request, the informa... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042315 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SCHEDULING ORDER PER CATEGORY IN A MUSIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM A system and method for controlling a scheduling order per category is disclosed. A scheduling order can be designated for the delivery and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc) with respect to particular slots within the sche... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SCHEDULING ORDER PER DAYPART CATEGORY IN A MUSIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM A system and method for controlling a scheduling order per category is disclosed. A scheduling order can be designated for the delivery and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc) with respect to particular slots within the sche... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042317 | APPLICATION PRE-LAUNCH TO REDUCE USER INTERFACE LATENCY A device stores a plurality of applications and a list of associations for those applications. The applications are preferably stored within a secondary memory of the device, and once launched each application is loaded into RAM. Each application is preferably associate... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042319 | Scheduling Parallel Data Tasks A method for allocating parallel, independent, data tasks includes receiving data tasks, each of the data tasks having a penalty function, determining a generic ordering of the data tasks according to the penalty functions, wherein the generic ordering includes solving ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036511 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR DIE-SINKING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINE A program analyzing unit that extracts electrode numbers included in a plurality of processing programs, determines duplication of the electrode numbers among the processing programs to display a result of determination, and that stores correspondence between a revision... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036509 | APPARATUS AND METHODS TO CONCURRENTLY PERFORM PER-THREAD AS WELL AS PER-TAG MEMORY ACCESS SCHEDULING WITHIN A THREAD AND ACROSS TWO OR MORE THREADS A method, apparatus, and system in which an integrated circuit comprises an initiator Intellectual Property (IP) core, a target IP core, an interconnect, and a tag and thread logic. The target IP core may include a memory coupled to the initiator IP core. Additionally, ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036235 | USE OF DYNAMIC PROFILES FOR CREATING AND USING A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT A system is configured to create a profile that allows a job to be performed within a distributed computing environment comprising one or more computing devices; provide an interface that allows the profile to be specified; obtain a scheduler component via the interface... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036510 | Method for Analysing the Real-Time Capability of a System The invention provides a method for analysing the real-time capability of a system, in particular a computer system, where various tasks are provided, wherein the tasks are repeatedly performed and wherein an execution of a task is triggered by an activation of the task... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030681 | HIGH PERFORMANCE LOCKS Systems and methods of enhancing computing performance may provide for detecting a request to acquire a lock associated with a shared resource in a multi-threaded execution environment. A determination may be made as to whether to grant the request based on a context-ba... | 02/02/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120023505 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THREAD SCHEDULING AND LOCK ACQUISITION ORDER CONTROL BASED ON DETERMINISTIC PROGRESS INDEX Provided is a method and apparatus for ensuring a deterministic execution characteristic of an application program to perform data processing and execute particular functions in a computing environment using a micro architecture. A lock controlling apparatus based on a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023497 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH NETWORK ACCESS FUNCTION An electronic device with network access function includes an input unit, a storage unit, a wireless network unit and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a scheduling module, a determining module, an accessing module and a downloading module. The scheduling ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023498 | LOCAL MESSAGING IN A SCHEDULING HIERARCHY IN A TRAFFIC MANAGER OF A NETWORK PROCESSOR Described embodiments provide for queuing tasks in a scheduling hierarchy of a network processor. A traffic manager generates a tree scheduling hierarchy having a root scheduler and N scheduler levels. The network processor generates tasks corresponding to received pack... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016721 | Price and Utility Optimization for Cloud Computing Resources Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for optimizing the utilization of a resource of a cloud service provider based on variable pricing strategies are presented herein. According to one aspect, a method for optimizing the utilization of a resource of a cloud se... | 01/19/2012 |
