http://www.freshpatents.com/Electrical-computers-and-digital-processing-systems--virtual-machine-task-or-process-management-or-task-management-control-dtnewntc718.php USPTO Class 718 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control en-us Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/Controlling-virtual-machines-based-on-activity-state-dt20080703ptan20080163205.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for controlling virtual machines based on activity state are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes virtual machine entry logic and activity state evaluation logic. The virtual machine entry logic is to transfer control of the apparatus from a host to a guest. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Dynamic-virtual-machine-generation-dt20080703ptan20080163210.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Methods and apparatuses enable creation of a virtual machine (VM) clone initiated through application or service logic. The application requests generation of a VM clone from within the runtime execution of the application. The request is serviced by a VM generator, which identifies a state of the VM to clone... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-inventory-and-or-policy-based-management-of-virtual-machines-on-a-computing-device-dt20080703ptan20080163204.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems for an inventory agent and/or a policy agent of a computing device are described herein. In various embodiments, the inventory agent may be adapted to determine a count of a plurality of virtual machines on the computing device and notify an inventory server of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-selecting-one-of-execution-schedules-of-guest-oses-and-virtual-machine-monitor-employing-the-method-dt20080703ptan20080163211.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 In a virtual machine system, a plurality of guest OSes are time-divisionally executed under virtual machine execution environments provided by a virtual machine monitor (VMM). The VMM specifies a group of guest OSes that intercommunicate with each other via a communication interface provided by the VMM. Then, the VMM sets... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-apparatus-for-remeasuring-a-virtual-machine-monitor-dt20080703ptan20080163209.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A data processing system supports remeasurement of a virtual machine monitor (VMM). In one example process, the VMM may obtain a secret value from a trusted platform module (TPM) of the processing system. The VMM may provide the secret value from the VMM to a measurement agent executing in system... http://www.freshpatents.com/Moveable-access-control-list--acl--mechanisms-for-hypervisors-and-virtual-machines-and-virtual-port-firewalls-dt20080703ptan20080163207.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A method (and system) which provides virtual machine migration with filtered network connectivity and control of network security of a virtual machine by enforcing network security and routing at a hypervisor layer at which the virtual machine partition is executed, and which is independent of guest operating systems.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Virtual-machine-creation-for-removable-storage-devices-dt20080703ptan20080163208.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 According to some embodiments, a removable storage device may be detected at a computer platform. The removable storage device may then be authenticated as a trusted device, and a secure virtual machine environment may be created within the computer platform in connection with the removable storage device.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Virtual-machine-dispatching-to-maintain-memory-affinity-dt20080703ptan20080163203.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for dispatching virtual processors. A determination is made as to whether a physical processor in a set of physical processors is idle, and, if so, a determination is made as to whether an affinity map for... http://www.freshpatents.com/Virtualizing-the-execution-of-homogeneous-parallel-systems-on-heterogeneous-multiprocessor-platforms-dt20080703ptan20080163206.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A method of virtual processing includes running a virtual processor (1), which when the virtual processor (1) encounters a faulting instruction unmaps the virtual processor (1) from the physical processor (A), and generates a list of other of the physical processors that could execute the instruction. Then determines if one... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-a-system-for-composing-an-optimally-grained-set-of-service-functions-dt20080703ptan20080163213.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Disclosed is a computer program product for managing granularity of a computing infrastructure, wherein the program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to: identify at least one set of service functions suited to characterization by one or more sets of metrics; create a representation of at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/Online-task-monitoring-tool-dt20080703ptan20080163214.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A system for a task monitoring tool is provided. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to display one or more tasks using... http://www.freshpatents.com/Optimized-preemption-and-reservation-of-software-locks-dt20080703ptan20080163217.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 An approach is provided that reserves a software lock for a waiting thread is presented. When a software lock is released by a first thread, a second thread that is waiting for the same resource controlled by the software lock is woken up. In addition, a reservation to the software... http://www.freshpatents.com/Paralleled-management-mode-integrity-checks-dt20080703ptan20080163212.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for providing a management mode integrity check are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Pointer-renaming-in-workqueuing-execution-model-dt20080703ptan20080163216.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes initializing a queue for a master thread. A cyclic pointer buffer is created based on heap variables in arguments in the master thread. At least one heap variable is passed from the master thread to a slave thread.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Thread-queuing-method-and-apparatus-dt20080703ptan20080163215.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a request to generate a thread and supplying a request to a queue in response at least to the received request. The method may further include fetching a plurality of instructions in response at least in part to the request supplied to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Configuration-and-execution-of-mass-data-run-objects-dt20080703ptan20080163218.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Systems and processes may perform actions on a huge set of business objects, often in a batch process. A mass data run object may be instantiated based, at least in part, on a batch process request in a service-oriented architecture. Mass data run objects may include, potentially among other things,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Efficient-and-consistent-software-transactional-memory-dt20080703ptan20080163220.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A method and apparatus for efficient and consistent validation/conflict detection in a Software Transactional Memory (STM) system is herein described. A version check barrier is inserted after a load to compare versions of loaded values before and after the load. In addition, a global timestamp (GTS) is utilized to track... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-dividing-and-executing-on-line-transaction-processing-in-distributed-environment-dt20080703ptan20080163221.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A method, system and computer program capable of executing a transaction in a scalable manner by dividing and then executing the transaction in a distributed environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a system divides and then executes a transaction in a distributed environment. The system includes means which divides... http://www.freshpatents.com/Parallel-apply-processing-in-data-replication-with-preservation-of-transaction-integrity-and-source-ordering-of-dependent-updates-dt20080703ptan20080163222.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program for handling transaction messages in asynchronous data replication in a database system is disclosed. The computer program provides a high speed parallel apply of transactional changes to a target node such that the parallel nature of the application of changes does... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-of-external-interaction-with-a-batch-processing-system-dt20080703ptan20080163219.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A system and method for interaction with a remote server is described. Using an enterprise scheduler, jobs and other tasks may be scheduled on a remote server. Typically, the enterprise scheduler and remote server communicate through an API which servers as an interpreter between them. A Java API is used... http://www.freshpatents.com/Correlating-macro-and-error-data-for-debugging-program-error-event-dt20080703ptan20080163223.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A solution for managing a program execution is provided. During execution of a program, macro data and error data can be generated and stored. The macro data includes a set of execution entries, each of which includes data for a user interface task for a user interface object and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-or-system-for-task-scheduling-dt20080703ptan20080163225.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Embodiments of a method and/or system for task scheduling is disclosed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Modeling-interrupts-in-a-business-process-dt20080703ptan20080163224.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to process modeling of a process flow interruption and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for modeling interrupts in a business process. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for modeling interrupts... http://www.freshpatents.com/Power-management-using-adaptive-thermal-throttling-dt20080703ptan20080163226.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 In some embodiments, a chip includes a scheduler, transmitters, receivers, and control circuitry. The schedule schedules signals to be transmitted outside the chip and the transmitters transmit the scheduled signals outside the chip. The receivers receive signals including signals with temperature information related to a temperature outside the chip. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Server-and-client-and-update-supporting-and-performing-methods-thereof-dt20080703ptan20080163227.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A server connected to a plurality of clients, the server including: a server interface unit to notify the clients of an update plan; a scheduling unit to generate an update schedule for each client transmitting a request for time assignment when the request for time assignment is received from each... http://www.freshpatents.com/Information-processing-method-information-processing-apparatus-and-server-dt20080703ptan20080163228.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 An information processing method includes: accepting a request for execution of a new task; identifying at least either one of a processing time required for the new task and a bus bandwidth required for processing the new task; making at least either one of comparisons between a total required processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-analyzing-non-preemptive-dram-transactions-in-real-time-unified-memory-architectures-dt20080703ptan20080163229.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for determining access to non-preemptive DRAM devices. This method comprises determining real time need... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-selection-among-multiple-execution-threads-dt20080703ptan20080163230.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Methods and apparatus for selecting and prioritizing execution threads for consideration of resource allocation include eliminating threads for consideration from all the running execution threads: if they have no available entries in their associated reorder buffers, or if they have exceeded their threshold for entry allocations in the issue window,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-service-load-consolidation-and-computer-product-dt20080703ptan20080163233.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A load distribution rate is calculated among resources utilized in a service based on load information for each resource utilized in the service. If it is determined that loads of the service distributed to the resources are excessively distributed and that the loads are to be consolidated, a resource having... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-geolocation-assisted-operations-management-dt20080703ptan20080163231.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Provided are a method and system for providing a resource to a geolocated asset in need of the resource, comprising providing data of one or more providers of the resource including the location of the providers; determining that the asset needs the resource; locating the asset using the telematics device;... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-of-changing-system-configuration-in-shared-nothing-database-management-system-dt20080703ptan20080163237.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A shared-nothing database management system employs a method of adding and removing a database server without significantly affecting the processing performance for accessing a table from a user or an application. A scheduler module creates a schedule which separately handles the addition of a CPU resource and the addition of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-system-and-computer-program-product-for-virtual-adapter-destruction-on-a-physical-adapter-that-supports-virtual-adapters-dt20080703ptan20080163236.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a physical adapter is provided. A mechanism is provided for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-systems-for-identifying-application-system-storage-resources-dt20080703ptan20080163234.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 The invention provides methods, apparatus, systems and computer program code (software) products operable in a digital processing environment, and more particularly a digital storage environment, for enabling a mapping from a set of applications to storage elements used in the digital storage environment, and to provide a hierarchical image of... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-control-architecture-dt20080703ptan20080163235.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A system to provide control architecture comprises a control, a client and a client container. The control can hold client-side resources for an appropriate resource scope to achieve optimal performance and utilization of resources, wherein access to the client-side resources is parameterized by metadata annotation declared on the control. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Virtualized-environment-allocation-system-and-method-dt20080703ptan20080163232.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A virtualized environment allocation system comprises a computer system having a plurality of virtualized stacks, the computer system configured to have a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices coupled thereto, and an allocation controller configured to allocate at least one of the plurality of I/O devices to a first of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Dynamic-load-balancing-architecture-dt20080703ptan20080163238.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 A system and method to perform dynamic balancing of task loads are described. A plurality of task files stored within a storage device are organized in descending order based on a respective processing time parameter associated with each task file, which characterizes the length of time necessary for processing of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-dynamic-load-balancing-on-partitioned-systems-dt20080703ptan20080163239.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 Methods, systems and apparatuses to dynamically balance execution loads on a partitioned system among processor cores or among partitions.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Light-weight-task-switching-when-a-shared-memory-condition-is-signaled-dt20080703ptan20080163241.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 An approach that uses a handler to detect asynchronous lock line reservation lost events, and switching tasks based upon whether a condition is true or a mutex lock is acquired is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) invokes a first thread and, during execution, the first thread requests external data... http://www.freshpatents.com/Using-performance-monitor-to-optimize-system-performance-dt20080703ptan20080163240.php Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:50:05 -0700 An approach that optimizes system performance using performance monitors is presented. The system gathers thread performance data using performance monitors for threads running on either a first ISA processor or a second ISA processor. Multiple first processors and multiple second processors may be included in a single computer system. The...