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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191084 | Techniques for supporting application operation A technique supports application operation. The technique involves discovering a set of applications running on an electronic system, and querying a user to identify which of the set of applications the user wishes to manage. The technique further involves, for each... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185915 | Meta-architecture for multi-tiered enterprise software application and system A method for dynamic manipulation of a multi-tiered enterprise software application comprises providing a meta-architecture in a presentation tier of a multi-tiered enterprise software application. The meta-architecture comprises at least screen content associated w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185914 | User-configurable variables A method and a computer program product for managing user-configurable variables are provided. The method and the computer program product provide for defining a plurality of user-configurable variables in a computer program, providing an interface operable to be ut... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171501 | Use of modes for computer cluster management A system, method and computer program product for managing a plurality of applications in a computer cluster. Each application is able to run on a particular node in the cluster. In one embodiment, associations are maintained among a plurality of modes and the plura... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161498 | Providing globalization functionalities for javascript applications Globalization functionalities for JavaScript applications are provided by asynchronously invoking globalization Web services related to specific JavaScript applications that are developed using asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) technology. A result of the async... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8132185 | Device, system, and method of classifying a workload of a software service Some embodiments include, for example, devices, systems, and methods of classifying a workload of a software service. A method of classifying a workload of a software service may include, for example, sampling a plurality of values of at least one parameter of the s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8112767 | Systems, apparatus, and methods for layered execution The disclosure is directed to systems, apparatus, and methods for layered execution. In one example, a layered execution environment is provided where one or more layers are overlaid over a base operating environment in a manner that they appear to be installed on t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112766 | Multi-threaded device and facility manager Techniques are provided for implementing the WS-DeviceProfile standard as a multi-threaded process (“DFM”) executing on a multi-function peripheral (“MFP”). The DFM takes care of the discovery of devices and services on a network. The DFM also acts as a faci... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112768 | Real-time web applications A computer-implemented method for updating a web user interface on a client device is provided. A router back-boned to the Internet communicates with the client device web-user interface data defined in markup language to dynamically update the web-user interface on... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099739 | Java applet management method A method for managing Java applets in HTML pages, the HTML pages being rendered by a web browser, includes: browsing a page having an applet, the applet being loaded into the page and creating a connection to a server; leaving the page, the applet providing an idle ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095940 | Method and system for locating and accessing resources In a method for accessing resources provided by an operating system, a request for a resource is received by an application program executing inside an environment. A first identifier associated with the resource is acquired. A registry is consulted, responsive to a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091094 | Methods and systems for ambistateful backend control Methods, computer-readable media, and systems control a backend. In one implementation, a method controls a backend by executing, at the backend, at least one command. The method may determine, by applying a set of ambistateful criteria, whether to place the backend... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065688 | Transparently capturing the causal relationships between requests across distributed applications Several embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods, computer program products, and systems configured to track operation dependencies. For example, in one embodiment, at a first entity, a first identifier corresponding to a first operation is accessed. For... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056092 | Method and apparatus for widget-container hosting and generation A method includes receiving at least one of a widget or a reference to a widget, where the widget can be at least one of a static data object, a media object, or a software object. At least a portion of a widget container, which is a procedural software framework co... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051433 | Partially ordered queue for efficient processing of assets A system and method provides efficient message processing of assets. The system and method places all messages in a queue as they are received from an information feed and groups the messages according to the entities with which they are associated. The messages wit... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042120 | Method and apparatus for moving processes between isolation environments A method for moving an executing process from a source isolation scope to a target isolation scope includes the step of determining that the process is in a state suitable for moving. The association of the process changes from a source isolation scope to a target i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8028300 | Extensible device driver A device driver module for supporting the use of an external device by a computing device which executes an operating system, the device driver module including an initialization portion which is called by the operating system, whereupon the initialization portion d... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028299 | Computer architecture and method of operation for multi-computer distributed processing with finalization of objects The present invention discloses a modified computer architecture (50, 71, 72) which enables an applications program (50) to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M1, . . . Mn). Shared memory at each computer is updated with amendmen... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020174 | Method for making user-system interaction independent from the application of interaction media The method of the invention consists, in a system of the type with three “tiers” , in inserting a fourth “tier” which is the business interaction and which makes it possible to obtain a user-system interaction component that is independent of the services of... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015572 | Systems and methods for an extensible software proxy A system and method for creating a proxy object capable of communication with an external entity, comprising specifying a proxy object definition for the proxy object wherein the proxy object definition defines a first function for communicating with the external en... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010970 | Developing controls for outlook add-ins The forms hosting system allows a developer to design custom Outlook form regions containing standard and custom managed controls using popular development tools. The forms hosting system provides a runtime wrapper that appears to Outlook as a normal ActiveX control... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006251 | Operation consistency maintenance method, system and program To provide a technology capable of maintaining the consistency of a managed object even when an existing operation program is used for manipulation without modifying the existing operation program when the managed object itself on an execution base is expanded. An o... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996850 | Dynamic business object properties for SOA architectures This disclosure involves dynamic business object properties for Enterprise Service Architecture (ESA) or other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) architectures. For example, a method for dynamically modifying an interface in a SOA can comprise receiving a request f... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987473 | Accelerated class check Determining a class of an object is disclosed. A pointer of the object is obtained. One or more bits that are not implemented as address bits are extracted from the pointer. The one or more bits are interpreted as an identifier of the class of the object. The class ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7966621 | Using multiple status models in a computer system A design-time status schema model describes the progress of a data object through a computing process. The status schema model includes status variables, processing actions and constraints for performing actions. The status schema model also may describe permitted c... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962923 | System and method for generating a lock-free dual queue A method of supporting condition synchronization for a shared data structure so as to provide concurrent access. A protocol is provided between a thread creating a request as part of a remove operation and a thread fulfilling a request as part of an add operation. T... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954114 | Firmware socket module for FPGA-based pipeline processing A firmware socket module is deployed on a reconfigurable logic device, wherein the firmware socket module is configured to provide both commands and target data to an entry point in a data processing pipeline, wherein each command defines a data processing operation... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954112 | Automatic recovery from failures of messages within a data interchange Data interchanges are processed so that problematic individual elements within the data interchanges do not cause the processing of the data interchanges to be suspended unless there is a catastrophic error. The data interchanges are split up by flat file and/or XML... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954113 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and recording medium A signal processing apparatus includes the following elements. A plurality of signal processing software modules perform unit signal-processing steps of signal processing by means of software processing. An instruction input receiving unit receives an instruction. A... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954115 | Mashup delivery community portal market manager A computer-implementable method and system for managing a mashup web-based community portal. A network-based community portal having a mashup platform integrated therewith can be provided and one or more pre-negotiated bartering agreements designated, in response to... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950021 | Methods and systems for providing responses to software commands Software processes are automated by storing predetermined responses and recognizing the screens of server and/or web-based applications that require data to continue operating. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937716 | Managing collections of appliances A protocol to enable management of opaque entities in a computing environment comprises an events component and a commands component. The events component enables a manager to utilize a received event communicated by a corresponding managed entity to indicate when a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937715 | Mechanism for generating dynamic content without a web server A method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for generating content dynamically without a Web server. Responsive to a request to display a document containing markup language content on a client data processing system, a determination is m... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934222 | Adapting command line interface messaging in a virtual operating system environment A system, method and computer-readable medium for adapting command line output message streams in a virtualized command line interface (CLI) environment. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a virtualized CLI command is entered and executed. The v... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7895607 | Method for displaying and formatting messages in web applications using JavaServer Faces Methods, machine-accessible media, and systems for displaying and formatting messages in web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF). A JSF FacesMessage is intercepted before the FacesMessage is sent to a JSP page for display. The FacesMessage may be intercepted b... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890962 | Business process extensions to enable alerts and reports within the context of groupware A backend enterprise server includes an application that sends metadata to a groupware client. The metadata enables an enterprise user to modify a function of the backend application from within the context of the groupware client. The groupware client sends metadat... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890961 | Method and apparatus for providing desktop application functionality in a client/server architecture A method and apparatus for providing functionalities of desktop applications using a client/server architecture is provided. Data including a user's preferences and a script are provided to a client system. The script is configured to define a function of a control.... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882508 | Tracing information flow using a signature To perform information tracing, at least one signature to be traced is received. It is detected that a first process causes data to be provided to at least one of a second process and a file. It is determined whether the data contains the at least one signature. In ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865906 | Resource management with active associations A mechanism for managing associations in the CIM model are proposed. An association is modeled by a particular class, which includes two or more references to other classes; the association is implemented by a corresponding provider. Whenever a management applicatio... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7836459 | System and method for consolidating middleware functionality A method for marshalling data from multiple middleware applications to an implementation includes receiving first data from a first middleware application, the first data having a first format of multiple available formats. A first path is selected from multiple pat... | 11/16/2010 |
