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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7178153 | Method and mechanism for implementing an access interface infrastructure A method and system for implementing an improved access interface infrastructure is disclosed. In one approach, an access interface methods is directly supported by an application. The directly supported access interface method corresponds to an access interface imp... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177878 | Simple persistence mechanism for server based web applications An object oriented method and computer system for implementing a persistence mechanism. The persistence mechanism is adapted to effectuate data transfer between a software application and a relational database. The method identifies homes and relationships. Each ide... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178148 | Information processing apparatus An object model has a hierarchical structure composed of a data model representing an attribute structure as a template, an object model as a higher model than the data model, a role model as a higher model than the object model, the role model representing the cont... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178149 | XML scripting of soap commands A computer-implemented method processes a simple object access protocol (SOAP) command. The method includes interpreting an XML script to perform a function contained in the XML script, the XML script containing the SOAP command, parsing the SOAP command from the XM... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174430 | Bandwidth reduction technique using cache-to-cache transfer prediction in a snooping-based cache-coherent cluster of multiprocessing nodes A multiprocessing node in a snooping-based cache-coherent cluster of processing nodes maintains a cache-to-cache transfer prediction directory of addresses of data last transferred by cache-to-cache transfers. In response to a local cache miss, the multiprocessing n... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174363 | Distributed computing system architecture A computing system architecture is based upon a peer-to-peer, asynchronous model. The architecture specifies a set of infrastructure facilities that comprise an inter-prise operating system. The inter- prise operating system provides all the facilities that make app... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174551 | Multiple task wait system for use in a data warehouse environment A multiple task wait system and associated method allow a client application to wait for multiple tasks to be successfully or conditionally implemented before running subsequent tasks. Two mechanisms can be used to accomplish this multiple wait process: The first me... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171670 | Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using multiple formats and multiple protocols with verification of formats and protocols A system, method and program product for diagnosing, controlling and collecting information from devices. Information regarding events of each one of a plurality of target applications executing in an application unit is collected and formatted into one of multiple ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167448 | Prioritization of remote services messages within a low bandwidth environment The system for prioritizing data flow in a low bandwidth environment provides an infrastructure for ensuring that urgent data, such as messages, can be rapidly communicated to system components while also ensuring that the system bandwidth is optimized to accommodat... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165125 | Buffer sharing in host controller A storage device host controller such as an SATA (Serial ATA) host controller and a corresponding method are provided for performing host-to-device and device-to-host communications in a PIO (Programmed I/O) data transfer mode and a DMA (Direct Memory Access) data t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165239 | Application program interface for network software platform An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions that make available support for processing XML documents for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165249 | Systems and methods for modular component deployment An integration component such as an application integration engine can be bundled as a single, self-contained J2EE Enterprise archive (EAR) file. The bundling of the component into an EAR file enables the component to be deployed to any valid system domain that is r... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165057 | Methods and systems to access storage objects Methods and systems to access storage objects are provided. A reference to a storage object is used to determine a storage stack level associated with the reference. If the storage stack level is not the lowest level of a storage stack, then the reference is transla... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165260 | Layered computing systems and methods for insecure environments The inventions relate generally to computer systems having facilities for providing virtual portions of file systems and configuration settings to applications. More particularly, the inventions relate to computer systems that provide a layer organization for files ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164681 | Mechanism to strip LARQ header and preserve LARQ header in status frame The present invention provides a method for supporting frame priority in a home phone line network. The method includes: detecting a limited automatic repeat request (LARQ) header in a frame with a priority tag; stripping the LARQ header and a frame check sequence (... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162724 | Layered computing systems and methods The inventions relate generally to computer systems having facilities for providing virtual portions of file systems and configuration settings to applications. More particularly, the inventions relate to computer systems that provide a layer organization for files ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161940 | Broadcasting communications system The transmission server according to the present invention includes a processor, buffer memory, an I/O bus, and a transmission unit. Furthermore, the transmission unit includes a transmitting unit for controlling the generation and transmission of a packet, buffer m... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162721 | Application-independent API for distributed component collaboration A method for a system having distributed collaborating components includes restricting direct interaction between distributed collaborating components by introducing an application-independent interface between distributed collaborating components and invoking a ser... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162722 | Systems and methods for integrating a plurality of computer resources One embodiment of the invention provides a method for integrating a plurality of computer applications. The method includes receiving from a requestor a request of a target application. The request includes data identifying a target application and a target applicat... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159223 | Methods and systems for applications to interact with hardware A method of providing Java application layer access to hardware peripheral memory mapped registers is provided together with a processor adapted to implement such a method. A fixed memory address space for a hardware peripheral's memory mapped registers is identifie... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159224 | Method, system, and articles of manufacture for providing a servlet container based web service endpoint Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with certain principles related to the present invention enable a computing system to layer the packaging and deployment of a web service endpoint on a standard servlet component model. To define a web service... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159222 | Highly componentized system architecture with object mutation In accordance with another aspect, the invention is embodied in a computer operating system capable of supporting plural objects running in a computer having a working memory, the computer operating system including a kernel resident in the working memory at link ti... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158936 | Method and system for providing a voice application bookmark A method for providing a bookmark in a voice application includes presenting the voice application to a user, allowing the user to access the voice application and provide vocal input to the voice application, creating, upon a user request, a bookmark to a location ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159207 | Method and apparatus for accessing related computer objects The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accessing related computer objects. In one embodiment, computer objects related to a user's current task by a metric are listed. In another embodiment, other users related to a user's current task by a metric... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155728 | Remoting features A system and method that provides remoting services in a distributed object system is provided. The system includes a remote object monitor and a remote object manipulator. The remote object monitor can provide a human readable reference to a remote object, where th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155726 | System for dynamic registration of privileged mode hooks in a device Methods and apparatuses are provided for dynamic registration of privileged mode hooks in a device that can operate in a privileged mode and a non-privileged mode. A data structure is provided which maps between identifiers and functions. An available slot in the da... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155530 | Macro facilities for direction of streaming digital content Macro control of streaming digital content through servers where digital content is transcoded into streams of multimedia data in dependence upon remote director instructions including hyperlinked URLs. Embodiments include recording digital content, storing in compu... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155725 | Apparatus and method for coordinating multiple e-mail accounts A method for coordinating messages between an internal e-mail account and an external e-mail account is described comprising: retrieving specified e-mail messages from the external e-mail account and storing the messages in the internal e-mail account; mapping inter... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152232 | Hardware message buffer for supporting inter-processor communication One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates inter-processor communication and synchronization through a hardware message buffer, which includes a plurality of physical channels that are structured as queues for communicating between pr... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152180 | Configurable reliable messaging system In one aspect of the invention, a configurable reliable messaging system is provided. The configurable reliable messaging system comprises a communication subsystem capable of configurably transmitting and receiving a message across a network using at least one of a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152204 | System and method utilizing an interface component to query a document Communication can be passed between components, such as an enterprise system and a client application, by utilizing schemas. A schema can ensure that a communication, such as a request or response, is in the proper format for one of the components. For instance, met... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152128 | General input/output architecture, protocol and related methods to manage data integrity An enhanced general input/output communication architecture, protocol and related methods are presented. In one embodiment, a method is described comprising receiving a datagram at general input/output (GIO) interface from a remote GIO interface coupled through a GI... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152094 | Middleware brokering system adapter The present invention, known as the Middleware Brokering System Adapter, is a component useful with a Middleware Brokering System, which brokers messages between middleware computing products. Each middleware service can send data to and receive data from the Middle... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150024 | Method and system for naming and binding objects A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiments moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the linked source d... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7150015 | Method and system for deploying an asset over a multi-tiered network A method and system for deploying assets to multi-tiered network nodes. An asset may represent network and/or application components (e.g., data, objects, applications, program modules, etc.) that may be distributed among the various resources of the network. In one... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7150012 | Method and apparatus for accelerating program execution in platform-independent virtual machines A method and apparatus for accelerating program execution in platform-independent systems by eliminating repeated hot spot recognition in virtual machines. Optimization information for programs operable on a target device is stored. It is determined whether stored o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143615 | Method, system, and program for discovering components within a network Provided are a computer implemented method, system, and program for discovering components within a network. A discovery operation is initiated to discover a network component. Upon discovering information on one network component, an entry is added to a data store ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146006 | Method for improving a random number generator to make it more resistant against attacks by current measuring Two methods for random number generation are modified to make them more resistant to attacks by current measurements. The methods are particularly designed to be implemented in electronic devices such as smart cards, PCMCIA, badges, contactless cards or any other po... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146617 | Method, apparatus, and system for implementing view caching in a framework to support web-based applications According to one aspect of the present invention, a system is provided for implementing view caching in a framework to support web-based applications. The system comprising a set of server-side objects managed by an object manager (OM) running on a server. The syste... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143421 | Highly componentized system architecture with a demand-loading namespace and programming model The invention is embodied in software executable on a computer having a working memory with demand-loadable components initially stored outside of the working memory, each component having an entry point including a constructor for an object. Preferably, the demand-... | 11/28/2006 |
