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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7155400 | Universal task management system, method and product for automatically managing remote workers, including automatically recruiting workers A computer implemented method, a system, and a software product to automatically manage one or more human workers carrying out a process of manipulating source data provided to produce result data. The process including a set of one or more task steps each having an... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155705 | Techniques for binding an application with a data exchange format based on tags in comments Techniques for binding a data exchange format with a computer program application having source code in a particular language include receiving comment data from a particular file that includes the source code. The comment data includes first data indicating a param... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152070 | System and method for integrating and accessing multiple data sources within a data warehouse architecture A system and method is disclosed for integrating and accessing multiple data sources within a data warehouse architecture. The metadata formed by the present method provide a way to declaratively present domain specific knowledge, obtained by analyzing data sources,... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152072 | Methods and apparatus for importing device data into a database system used in a process plant A system and a methodology creates a mapping of a set of import parameters specifying a device in a first set of import data to a set of output parameters specifying the device in a first database. Such a mapping includes receiving the set of import parameters from ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152228 | Automatically generated objects within extensible object frameworks and links to enterprise resources A method for generating source code objects has steps of generating a translation file containing translation logic; inputting the translation file into a code generator; and generating translation source code as a function of the translation file. A system for acce... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152222 | Method and system for localizing Java™ JAR files A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product are presented for facilitating the customization, translation, or localization of messages, strings, or other program resources to be used by a locale-sensitive version of a Java™ program stored in a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150001 | System and method to facilitate design-time component discovery A system and method for discovering the design time attributes of a component are provided. The invention includes a type descriptor that can access metadata associated with a component and report the metadata to a development tool. The invention further includes a ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7150003 | Class coalescence for obfuscation of object-oriented software A method of obfuscating an object-oriented program is provided. A program is provided that is defined in terms of a plurality of classes. Each of the classes has at least one of a field and a method. At least two of the plurality of classes are combined into a combi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149734 | Managing reusable software assets In general, techniques are described that facilitate the reuse of software assets within an enterprise. A software asset, as used herein, refers to a set of one or more related artifacts that have been created or harvested for the purpose of applying that asset repe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7150004 | Programmatically serializing complex objects using self-healing techniques Methods, systems, and computer program products for programmatically serializing complex objects (such as JavaBeans™). In contrast to prior art techniques, a manually-specified data type mapping specification is not required as input to the serialization process. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146611 | Method and system for managing memory for software modules The invention provides a method and system for managing memory for software modules in a computer processing environment. According to a first aspect of the invention, a method includes allocating memory for a first software module. The method also includes loading ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146347 | System and method for automatically creating a prototype to perform a process A system and method for enabling a prototyping environment application to automatically create a plurality of prototypes, wherein each of the plurality of prototypes is configured to perform a process to solve a particular problem. In response to receiving user inpu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143416 | Dynamic creation of object classes An object class (Class1) in a computer system is dynamically created by creating a global generic class (GenericClass) having two possible members, wherein at least one member is an instance of a generic class (GenericAttribute, GenericMethod), and by instantiating ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143101 | Method and apparatus for self-describing externally defined data structures Embodiments of the invention provide a framework for computer application to utilize data structures by loading externally-defined container data structures, and building in-memory representation of data structures at runtime. Contrary to existing applications, comp... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140013 | Component upgrading with dependency conflict resolution, knowledge based and rules An improved method to set up automatically a computer system configuration in association with a system upgrade that involves the installation of a set of operative elements necessary for the reliable operation of the same. The correct, operative combination of hard... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7140008 | Dynamic temporal optimization framework A temporal profiling framework useful for dynamic optimization with hot data stream prefetching provides profiling of longer bursts and lower overhead. For profiling longer bursts, the framework employs a profiling phase counter, as well as a checking phase counter,... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7140001 | Method for constructing business application system and computer-readable storage medium having stored framework for business application system A framework for a business application system, which is used for constructing the business application system, is described by an object-oriented language having characteristics of abstraction and inheritance. The framework includes an abstract class group 10... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139969 | Method and system for evaluating and connecting web parts The Web Part authoring framework provides the a graphical user interface for connecting Web Parts, mechanisms for determining the compatibility between Web Parts, and the means to persist the connection between Web Parts. The framework builds the user interface for ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139759 | Method and a device for managing a computer network A method and a device for managing a computer network, especially a technique for ensuring the security of a network. A computer network system in which computers are connected to each other through transmission lines, each computer stores the data which constitutes... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139690 | Object-level conflict detection in an object-relational database system Object level conflict detection is provided. In an optimistic concurrency embodiment, when an object is to be updated, the database system is checked to determine whether any data related to fields of the object have changed since the object was read. This can be ac... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137120 | Dynamic diagnostic program for determining thread wait time Diagnostic data, such as a time increment corresponding to how long a thread waits to access a shared resource, is stored within a predetermined location in a data structure, such as a hash bucket in a hash table. The location is preferably correlated to the resourc... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137104 | Semantics-based composition of class hierarchies A system, method and computer readable medium for providing class hierarchy composition aims at constructing software systems by composing a set of class hierarchies into an executable system. Current composition algorithms cannot provide semantic guarantees. The pr... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137101 | Apparatus and method for performing general integrity checks using integrity rule checking points in an enterprise application A method and apparatus for performing general integrity checks using rules in an application running on a data processing system. A point is identified at which a unit of work is to complete. The unit of work includes a plurality of participants. Responsive to deter... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137100 | Automatic software production system An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136873 | Dynamic filtering in a database system A dynamic filtering module receives a request to perform an operation on data in the database and a input. The dynamic filtering module provides as an output a modified request to a data access system. The modified request can include one or more restrictions added ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136067 | Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants The principles of the present invention relate to using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants. A computing system accesses a scaled font that has been scaled for rendering at a target size and a target resolut... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134117 | Instruction tracing in data processing systems A tracing circuit 8 within an apparatus for data processing 2 generates trace data including instruction trace words encoding trace events W, E, N representing program instruction execution. The instruction trace words have a predetermined length and e... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131110 | Method and apparatus for generating a code bridge A method for generating a code bridge between a client application and a target application, including generating a metadata file defining exposed interfaces for the client application and the target application, creating a schema defining the code bridge using the ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131109 | Method of managing information in Java A method of managing information in a distributed system context including a local system and a remote system and using a remote invocation method of the JAVA language, said language including instructions and enabling creation of objects from classes having hierarc... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131066 | XML based system for updating a domain model and generating a formatted output A system for updating a domain model and generating a formatted output is disclosed. The system comprises a template driven emitter which processes a template file. The template file comprises directives which direct extraction of data from a source data model into ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130773 | Method and apparatus for processing data using objects One embodiment of the invention provides a method for processing actuator, sensor or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data. The method includes receiving actuator, sensor or RFID tag data and generating a Java object associated with the actuator, sensor or ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127705 | Developing applications online A method and apparatus for providing a network based operating system for mobile clients is disclosed. Services may be developed that can be used to support different client devices with different capabilities. The services provide output with multiple variations ba... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127703 | Method for controlling a function executable by specific commands to different software products The method is used to control a function executable by various software products by means of commands specific to the respective software products and each capable of having at least one option, the software products being installed in at least one machine of a comp... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127700 | Method and apparatus for developing web services using standard logical interfaces to support multiple markup languages The Web Services Development Kit (WSDK) comprises a set of build-time tools and run-time components designed to support the development of web services and the interface to those services. WSDK provides a framework for the development of web services that isolates d... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127605 | Secure sharing of application methods on a microcontroller A method and microcontroller for secure object sharing between applications executing on the microcontroller. A server application registers a delegate object with the operating system of the microcontroller. The delegate object permits access to the public interfac... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127474 | Method and apparatus for mapping objects to multiple tables of a database The present invention creates a model that maps object classes in an object-oriented environment to a data source. The model maps the relationship between properties of each object class and data of the data source. The present invention can be used with a data sour... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127467 | Managing expressions in a database system A method for managing expressions includes receiving a first query that includes a first conditional expression. The first expression is then represented as data in a column of a table. A second query is received that specifies a first set of criteria, and the secon... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120863 | Method, system, and program for interfacing with elements in a document Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating an interface to elements in a document. The document defines a relationship of the elements and at least one attribute for each element. A class is generated for at least one element to implement methods from... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120916 | Protocol agnostic web listener A system and method for facilitating exposing a resource over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered listener object creator should be employed to create a listener obj... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120897 | User control objects for providing server-side code generation from a user-defined dynamic web page content file A method and apparatus to create an intermediate language or source code file from a server-side resource or dynamic web page file using a hierarchically specified set of user controls. The source code can then be compiled into an executable class allowing for rapid... | 10/10/2006 |
