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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176501 | Enabling efficient input/output (I/O) virtualization A method for virtualizing input/output whereby a back-end driver component running back-end in a privileged operating system address space configures an input/output adapter through a setup/control path is disclosed. The back-end driver component is used to register... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151277 | Method and system for dynamic remote injection of in-process agents into virtual machine based applications A method and system for dynamic and adaptive deployment of in-process agents to virtual machine based applications which may run on remote hosts is provided. A bootstrap agent is injected into the application, using standardized interfaces provided by virtual machin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8108881 | System and method for implementing click-through for browser executed software including ad proxy and proxy cookie caching An improved proxy is disclosed for allowing click-through on an ad URL delivered on a web page within a Java® applet executing on a client machine. The proxy caches cookie information for the browser, to support java applications that do not allow for planting of c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8087032 | Automated recovery process initiation for data consumers of a common information model (CIM) managed component A Common Information Model (CIM) agent notifies a CIM consumer that the CIM agent is able to receive notifications from the CIM consumer relating to errors within data relating to a CIM managed component and sent by the CIM agent to the CIM consumer. The CIM consume... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7987472 | Computerized network administration of remote computer resources A system and method is provided for remote administration and management of a computer network, by installation of distributed software agents in remote network components, such as software agents implemented using encapsulated reusable interfaces such as COM or COR... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987471 | Mobile device management proxy system A general-purpose proxy mobile device management architecture. The architecture serves as a proxy for a mobile client seeking services from backend systems. A virtual client image of state information associated with the mobile client is stored such that when the mo... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7937713 | System and method for providing services on a distributed network A method implementable in an electronic system for enabling a runtime environment to provide a service to a mobile agent object includes providing a service interface characterizing a method for providing the service to the mobile agent object. A service-description... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934220 | Method and system for optimizing file table usage An operating system directed to using special properties of a common inter-process communications mechanism (IPC), namely UNIX domain socket-pairs or stream-pipes alternatively as a storage medium for file-descriptors of UNIX processes. When a file-descriptor is wri... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7895604 | Method and device for event communication between documents A method for sending data from a first to a second document when both documents are loaded by a user agent implemented on a client device. The method may comprise the execution of a script in the first document, said script providing the data to be sent to the secon... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7865903 | Processing messages of agents This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a mess... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861252 | Intelligent software agent system architecture A software architecture supports deployment of mobile software agents over the Internet. Mobile software agents or “bots” are bifurcated into two parts, a first part executable on a user's client platform (“mBot”), and a corresponding second part, called “... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844974 | Method and system for optimizing file table usage An operating system directed to using special properties of a common inter-process communications mechanism (IPC), namely UNIX domain socket-pairs or stream-pipes alternatively as a storage medium for file-descriptors of UNIX processes. When a file-descriptor is wri... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7805731 | Distributed processing management for de-centralized information ecosystem technologies (DIET) A system for distributed process management uses a plurality of units of software installed on a computing platform. Further software controls operation of the plurality of units in use. Each unit of software communicates with other units of software, and at least s... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805732 | System and method for enabling cooperation of applications on a distributed network A system is implementable in a network including a plurality of coupled electronic devices. The system includes a first mobile agent object executable on an electronic device and operable to perform a first operation on a data set. A second mobile agent object is ex... | 09/28/2010 |
| RE41706 | Moving objects in a distributed computing environment A method for moving objects in a distributed computing system is provided that comprises receiving a move indication (224) at a mobility facet object (206) that is aggregated with a primary facet object (204) through an aggregate object (202 | 09/14/2010 |
| 7739689 | Internal monitoring of applications in a distributed management framework Methods and systems are provided for internal monitoring of applications. A distributed management framework may comprise a plurality of applications and application servers, wherein each of the applications is configured to make function calls to standard programmi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7716682 | Multimodal or multi-device configuration Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, system and machine-readable media for dynamic configuration and/or support for application using multiple modes and/or devices. Generally speaking, dynamic configuration and/or support for an application using mu... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707586 | Operating system independent agent Described is a computing platform comprising a host processing system to host an operating system, a communication adapter to transmit data to or and receive data from a data transmission medium, and a non-volatile storage. The computing platform may also comprise a... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707587 | Scheduler supporting web service invocation The present invention proposes a method and a corresponding system for scheduling invocation of web services from a central point of control. A scheduler accesses a workload database, which associates an execution agent and a descriptor with each submitted job. The ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7610588 | Distributed application management software A system and method is provided for remote administration and management of a computer network, by installation of distributed software agents in remote network components, such as software agents implemented using encapsulated reusable interfaces such as COM or COR... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7549153 | Apparatus and method for content and context processing of web service traffic A method of supplementing the operations performed by a web service includes operating an autonomous software agent. The autonomous software agent receives a request directed to a web service and identifies a web service input operation associated with the request. ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7519970 | Methods, systems and computer program products for creating user interface to applications using generic user interface templates A user interface template that implements a task pattern for a model class and a model adapter that provides an interface for the application that conforms to the model class are identified. A user interface for the application is created from the identified user in... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7475404 | System and method for implementing click-through for browser executed software including ad proxy and proxy cookie caching An improved proxy is disclosed for allowing click-through on an ad URL delivered on a web page within a Java® applet executing on a client machine. The proxy caches cookie information for the browser, to support java applications that do not allow for planting of c... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7437733 | System and method for using a mobile agent object to collect data Method and system for collecting and filtering messages received at an event source platform and delivering the filtered messages to a collection host platform. According to one embodiment, the system uses a mobile agent object to filter messages received at an even... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434220 | Distributed computing infrastructure including autonomous intelligent management system Systems and methods are disclosed for a distributed computing infrastructure on a computer network comprising a plurality of computers. The distributed computing infrastructure (DCI) provides a software platform for creating, running, and managing distributed applic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428570 | Process of communication between an applet and a local Agent using a Socket communication channel A process allowing communication between a java code and an executable software file which permits the java code to receive an access to the internal system resources of the user's computer. The java code is arranged to be configured as a server in the client's conf... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421703 | Processing messages of agents This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a mess... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418708 | JMS integration into an application server Thus the present invention provides a method which enables a JMS implementation to be integrated into an application server based on the JCA Architecture. In this method the JMS Connection is integrated based on one implementation of the JCA which sets transactional... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409676 | Systems, methods and computer programs for determining dependencies between logical components in a data processing system or network Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for determining run-time dependencies between logical components of a data processing environment. Components of the data processing environment are monitored by monitoring agents accessing run-time activity dat... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404189 | Scheduler supporting web service invocation The present invention proposes a method and a corresponding system for scheduling invocation of web services from a central point of control. A scheduler accesses a workload database, which associates an execution agent and a descriptor with each submitted job. The ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386586 | System for scheduling and monitoring computer processes A job scheduling device providing a consistent set of application programming interfaces (APIs) compiled and linked into an individual or suite of programs to provide scheduling services on a single computer or across multiple computing platforms, includes a GUI API... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373647 | Method and system for optimizing file table usage An operating system directed to using special properties of a common inter-process communications mechanism (IPC), namely UNIX domain socket-pairs or stream-pipes alternatively as a storage medium for file-descriptors of UNIX processes. When a file-descriptor is wri... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370272 | Data adapter A data adapter including method and apparatus is presented. In one embodiment, the data adapter is a method. The method includes finding a set of records of a relational database matching an object instance of an object type. The method further includes updating the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370334 | Adjustable mobile agent Each network-connected information processing apparatus stores restriction information defined for each agent in order to restrict the operation of the agent which moves to the self apparatus and runs. When the agent is to move from the first information processing ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356768 | Using document templates to assemble a collection of documents Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to assemble a collection of documents according to a document list. The document list represents documents to be included in the collection, and includes multiple entries that identify document templates. E... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350214 | Printer driver initialization In one embodiment of the invention, a method for printer driver initialization for a non-Microsoft Windows system, includes: copying a selected printer driver from a remote system to a local system, and installing the printer driver on the local system; initializing... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350211 | Middleware application environment A software application framework includes a framework interface domain for interfacing a platform domain with application domain software of an application domain. The framework also includes a software application domain that includes a first application entity. Th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346889 | Method and system for building message instances Shown is an improved method and system for implementing and building messages, such as HL7-based messages. Messages are constructed in a format-independent manner, in which a message is built by instantiating and linking Java classes. Metadata for the message specif... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346909 | Network-like communication and stack synchronization for different virtual machines on the same physical device Embodiments include methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems having a plurality of agents of a plurality of virtual machines of a physical device. In various embodiments, first and second agents of first and second virtual machines are adapted to cooperate to ens... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343602 | Software controlled pre-execution in a multithreaded processor A processor capable of running multiple threads runs a program in one thread (called the “main” thread) and at least a portion of the same program in another thread (called the “pre-execution” thread). The program in the main thread includes instructions tha... | 03/11/2008 |
