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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334136 | Virtual machine with securely distributed bytecode verification A system for executing a software application comprising a plurality of hardware independent bytecodes is provided comprising a computing system that generates bytecodes, a virtual machine, remote to the computing system, that receives a plurality of bytecodes from ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334114 | Real-time monitoring, alignment, and translation of CPU stalls or events A system and method of tracing a group of processor events in real-time in order to enable a programmer to debug and profile the operation and execution of code on the processor. This may be accomplished by running one or more traces on the same or different groups ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333960 | Methods and systems for applying genetic operators to determine system conditions Disclosed are methods, systems, and/or processor program products that include generating a population of genotypes, the genotypes based on at least one stimulus to a system, measuring at least one response of the system upon providing the population of genotypes to... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334216 | Method and apparatus for automatic generation of information system user interfaces A method and apparatus for the specification and automatic generation of user interfaces of information system (computer programs) is provided. The method is based in pattern language to specify requirements in an un-ambiguous mode and with precise semantics. The pa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334219 | Method and system for object level software testing A system, method, and computer program product for software testing, including analyzing the source code under test to generate a scan file, including a map of the source code under test and a tree structure for the source code under test; generating a stub file for... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331002 | Navigating breakpoints in a program in a debugging mode Provided is a method, system, and program for navigating breakpoints in a program in a debugging mode. A user interface is rendered to display at least one program corresponding to at least one object file being executed in a debugging mode. A list is maintained of ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331015 | Defining a report based on data regions and including custom data in a report definition A report definition is processed by a report processor to generate a report. The report definition includes a plurality of data regions arranged on a page, where the data regions as arranged on the page in the report definition extend in multiple dimensions selected... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331043 | Detecting and mitigating soft errors using duplicative instructions Software techniques are employed to mitigate soft errors. In particular, a compiler (or other executable code generator) may emit otherwise duplicative instructions targeting otherwise duplicative storage locations to facilitate run-time detection and, in some cases... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331050 | System and method for communicating information between application programs System and method for providing communications between at least two application programs. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving a registration request from at least one consumer application program, receiving event information regarding at lest one of ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331062 | Method, computer software, and system for providing end to end security protection of an online transaction A method for implementing an online transaction security product includes downloading an online transaction security product program from a web site to an information handling system. The security product program includes an anti-malicious code program configured to... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330835 | Method and system for tracking and reporting automated clearing house transaction status Tracking and reporting status of automated clearing house (“ACH”) transactions. An ACH operator receives an ACH file comprising an ACH batch comprising an ACH transaction item for ACH processing. The operator tracks a status of the ACH file, batch, and item duri... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327686 | Generating processed traffic There is disclosed methods and apparatus for generation of processed traffic. An environment may include a traffic generator, a network, a gateway and a traffic receiver. The abilities of the gateway may be tested by generating traffic from the traffic generator and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327736 | Changing of channel capabilities In a telecommunications system, in which a connection comprises a part with an interworking function at both ends, a channel is allocated to the connection between the interworking functions. The required channel capabilities may vary during the connection, whereby ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328429 | Instruction operand tracing for software debug A tool that enables a user to perform instruction operand tracing during debug is presented. While executing microcode on a simulator, a history of register and memory values is saved. A graphic user interface uses these values to present a view of the microcode in ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327869 | Computer aided quality assurance software system A software system including simulation routines embedded inside a computer aided drafting (CAD) platform. The routines simulate the inspection processes prior to the execution of the physical inspection process. The simulator works within the host CAD platform and d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328452 | Method and device for coping with illegal accesses to a data server The secondary OS is executed on the primary OS running on a computer, and a data server is implemented in the computer by executing an application program on the secondary OS. Then, executing an illegal access coping program on the primary OS, the computer accesses ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328367 | Logically partitioned computer system and method for controlling configuration of the same High reliability is achieved using logical computers without having to provide logical computers for a standby system in advance. By monitoring a status of an active system to predict failures, standby logical computers are newly created to switch logical computers ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325170 | Method and system for providing information for remote device support A method and system gather information to facilitate the remote support of devices installed on a computer. For example, an exemplary method comprises first installing an information harvester and a formatter onto the computer. These are then used to identify and te... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325227 | System, method, and computer program product for identifying code development errors A preferred embodiment provides a system, method, and computer program product for software code testing. When a code change causes a regression, the system tests each modification to determine and isolate the cause of the regression. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325252 | Network security testing To answer the security needs of the market, a preferred embodiment was developed. A preferred embodiment provides real-time network security vulnerability assessment tests, possibly complete with recommended security solutions. External vulnerability assessment test... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325166 | Hierarchical categorization of customer error reports A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for prioritizing customer error reports for a software application. A sub-bucketing algorithm is performed in a computer to sort stack traces associated with the customer error reports by a plurality of lines or entries... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325169 | Apparatus and method for trace stream identification of multiple target processor events When a plurality of simultaneous, preselected target processor events are detected, a multiple-event sync marker is generated that identifies the preselected events and relates the occurrence of these events to timing trace stream. The sync marker for the plurality ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324978 | Method and apparatus for creating consistent risk forecasts and for aggregating factor models An invention forcing an aggregate risk model to be consistent with standalone models is provided. A revising transformation parameterized over and an objective function minimized over, the orthogonal group are provided, least changing cross blocks of covariance matr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325165 | Instruction sequence verification to protect secured data Intended for an information security application, particularly in networked information systems, the present invention includes two methods and systems for verifying a current performance of a command by a controller. A first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for the co... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325185 | Host-based detection and prevention of malicious code propagation Requests issuing on a host computer are intercepted and stalled prior to sending to target computer systems. The requests are analyzed to determine whether they are suspicious. Requests determined to be suspicious are added as request entries to a request database. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321766 | System and method for testing portable communication devices There are disclosed systems and methods for performing diagnostic testing on portable communication devices, such as cellular telephones. In one embodiment, diagnostic commands are generated internal to the communication device and processed within the device as tho... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321989 | Simultaneously multithreaded processing and single event failure detection method A multithreaded processor is programmed for executing multiple simultaneous working programs by respective processor worker threads each executing the identical code having identical results for achieving redundant operations that can be compared to each other by on... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321990 | System software to self-migrate from a faulty memory location to a safe memory location A method and system to provide system software to self-migrate from a faulty memory location to a safe memory location. A faulty portion of memory in a system software memory region of a computer system is detected, the faulty portion having stored a system software... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321992 | Reducing application downtime in a cluster using user-defined rules for proactive failover An embodiment of the invention is a method for proactive failover using user-defined rules. An event log of a first server node is monitored to check for user-specified application events. One of the user-specified application events corresponding to an impending fa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321836 | Method for determining the equivalency index of goods, processes, and services A method is disclosed wherewith a person skilled in the art of statistical quality control may determine whether a process, goods, or service is statistically equivalent to another of known quality, or to a desired target quality. The method may also be used to dete... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321988 | Identifying a code library from the subset of base pointers that caused a failure generating instruction to be executed The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method that traces program execution from an instru... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322027 | Detecting termination and providing information related to termination of a computer system process The present invention extends to mechanisms for detecting termination and providing information related to termination of a computer system process. A computer system loads a termination function (e.g., an abort, exit, or terminate function) into system memory. The ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322028 | Method and system for providing a virus-immune, rule-based cross-platform software system A method and system for providing a virus-immune, rule-base, cross-platform software system is disclosed. The system can be configured provide industry-specific and user-specific functionality to end-users without writing custom code. The system can be also be confi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321908 | Mostly concurrent garbage collection A method for collecting garbage in a computing environment, the method including tracing root objects to their reachable objects in a population of objects, marking the traced objects, unmarking a marked card including any of the objects, tracing any marked object o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322026 | Scoring assertions Systems, methods, and devices are provided for scoring assertions in software testing. One method embodiment includes registering assertions which fail during testing of software code. The method includes analyzing failed assertions against a set of questions. The f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321957 | Debugging a trusted component in a system During debug operations in one embodiment of a trusted subsystem, passwords may be used to enable and disable access to selected areas, and to make access by different entities mutually exclusive. In another embodiment, programmable units may be used to define what ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320065 | Multithread embedded processor with input/output capability An embedded processor system having a single-chip embedded microprocessor with analog and digital electrical interfaces to external systems. A novel processor core uses pipelined execution of multiple independent or dependent concurrent threads, together with superv... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320125 | Program execution stack signatures A digital computer call stack or combined call stack and data stack is traced and analyzed following the occurrence of an unhandled exception or crash. Stack frame sizes and other artifacts are used to form a distinctive stack signature that generally reflects execu... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320142 | Method and system for configurable network intrusion detection According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for use in intrusion detection includes storing a default signature file defining one or more default signatures and storing a customized signature file defining one or more custom signatures. The method also in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320124 | Apparatus and method for analyzing and displaying operations of computer and computer program for the same A novel apparatus and method for analyzing and displaying the operation of a computer is provided, that can display a timing chart with which the relationship between transmission processes and reception processes, each relating to inter-process communications, can ... | 01/15/2008 |
