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Mechanism for program-assisted tracing actions

A method for tracing an instrumented application, including loading the instrumented application into a kernel level to obtain a corresponding instrumented process, registering a helper action with a tracing framework, tracing the instrumented process using the tracing framework, wherein tracing comprises triggering a probe in the instrumented process, determining whether the helper action is associated with the probe, and performing the helper action if the helper action is associated with the probe.

Diagnosing database performance problems using a plurality of wait classes

Method of performing kernel task upon initial execution of process at user level

Ordering operation

Mechanism for lossless user-level tracing on an x86 architecture

A method for tracing an instrumented program on a processor having an x86 architecture, including triggering a probe in the instrumented program, obtaining an original instruction associated with the probe, loading the original instruction into a scratch space, loading a jump instruction for the x86 architecture into the scratch space wherein the jump instruction includes a next program counter value, executing the original instruction in the scratch space using a thread, and executing the jump instruction in the scratch space using the thread.

System, method, or apparatus for calibrating a relevance score

Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with calibrating one or more relevance scores are disclosed.

Real-time content collaboration

A collaborative editing system described allows multiple collaboration participants to create and edit content in real-time and in a way that allows the content to converge to a desirable intermediate state. The system distinguishes between real-time collaborative presentation and traditional real-time collaborative editing, and separates participants by task so that not all content modifications are shared with all participants.

System and method for optimizing storage utilization

In a storage area network, the storage pool is the principal component that determines the storage quality of service in the network. The proposed system's goal is to balance the utilizations of the storage pools using a suitable metric (e.g., standard deviation). The utilization of a storage pool is determined by the same components that are part of the composition of the storage pool: the disks and the storage systems. This system then gathers performance information about all the storage pools and applies the described method to determine a sequence of resource-reallocations so that a well-balanced utilization of pools is achieved.

Use of packet hashes to prevent TCP retransmit overwrite attacks

Resolving problems in a business process utilizing a situational representation of component status

Problems are resolved in a business process that includes application programs that run on an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure having IT components. A symptom is generated that identifies a problem in the business process. Selected application programs and/or IT components in the IT infrastructure that may cause the problem in the business process are identified, based on the symptom. A respective situation for a respective selected application program and/or IT component is obtained. The respective situation is one of a set of component-independent predefined situation categories that is associated with a respective selected application program and/or IT component. The respective situations provide the status of the selected application programs and/or IT components in a common situation format that includes the associated one of the component-independent predefined situation categories. The respective situations that are obtained are analyzed to identify at least one problem in the selected application programs and/or IT components that may cause the problem in the business process.

Evaluating Related Phrases

Method of performing an action in relation to a software object

A method of performing an action is disclosed. The method starts by receiving, from a sensor, indicating data indicative of a position of the sensor relative to a surface and an identity of the surface, generated from sensing coded data on the surface. The method identifies, using the indicating data, the identity of the surface and the position of the sensor relative to the surface, and a request to perform the action is then determined. (Published application; priority 2005-09-19.)

Multi-mode 2-stroke/4-stroke internal combustion engine

Mechanism for disjoint instrumentation providers in a tracing framework

A method for tracing an instrumented program, including associating an instrumentation provider with a trace point to provide a probe in the instrumented program, selectively enabling the probe to obtain an enabled probe, wherein enabling the probe includes defining an action to perform when the enabled probe is fired, firing the enabled probe during execution of the instrumented program, and performing the action when the enabled probe is fired, wherein the action is performed by a tracing framework.

Binding for business workflow processes

Reputation system for web services

Method and apparatus for caching predicates in a tracing framework

A method for caching in a tracing framework, including firing a probe associated with a thread, evaluating a first predicate of the probe, caching the first predicate in a predicate cache associated with the thread, based on the evaluating of the first predicate and cacheability of the first predicate, and transferring control to the thread, based on the caching.

Query expressions and interactions with metadata

This disclosure pertains to the interaction between query expressions and metadata. Metadata, for example provided by one or more schemas, can supply information over a domain to be queried and/or navigated. This metadata can be applied to the query expression, or vice versa, to return information about the domain and/or the query expression.

Method and system for implementing a serial enclosure management interface for a computer system

Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-collecting

The present invention relates to an advanced search engine, including a client component for monitoring an end-user's browsing activity, a remote server for storing and processing data received from the client component, and a module that processes web pages and serves search results to end-users.

Context-sensitive search

Separation of data from metadata in a tracing framework

A method for storing a data set having an enabled probe identification component and an associated data component, including obtaining data from an instrumented program using a probe, associating the data with an enabled probe identification, and storing the data in the data set, wherein the enabled probe identification is stored in the enabled probe identification component and the data is stored in the associated data set component.

Postmortem detection of owned mutual exclusion locks

In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for identifying lock ownership, including identifying at least one node in the crash dump, characterizing the at least one node in the crash dump as a node of inferred type and appending the at least one node to a list of nodes of inferred type, determining whether each node in the list of nodes of inferred type is a structure, and for each node in the list of nodes determined to be a structure determining whether each member in each node corresponds to a lock, and determining an owner of the lock.

Preventing scheduling conflicts when proposing new times for calendar events

Calendar entries can be added indicating a proposed change to a calendar event to electronic calendars of all event attendees when the proposed change is pending approval. This puts the attendees on notice of a possible change in a time or place of the calendar event so that these attendees can choose not to schedule conflicting calendar events while the proposed change is pending.

Distributed processing framework system

Virtual packing list

A virtual packing list for facilitating electronic commerce transactions made over the Internet. When a consumer places an order over the Internet for digital content deliverables, a unique virtual packing list is generated for that order. The virtual packing list contains a manifest of all the digital contents ordered by the consumer.

Maintaining energy principal preferences for a vehicle by a remote preferences service

Discovering new features in an application GUI

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for discovering new features in an application graphical user interface (GUI). The method can include determining a correspondence between a GUI element in a GUI for a computing application and a new feature for the computing application, annotating the GUI element with a new feature indicia, and removing the new feature indicia once the GUI element has been accessed.

Method and system for creation and use of embedded trace description

A method of generating an embedded file involving embedding a plurality of probe calls into source code to obtain embedded source code, compiling the embedded source code to generate object code including a probe relocation for each of the plurality of probe calls, post processing the object code to obtain a plurality of modified object code, wherein the plurality of modified object code includes object code containing a no-operation instruction in place of the probe relocation and object code containing probe encoding, and linking the plurality of modified object code to obtain an embedded file, wherein the embedded file includes probe encoding.

Model for business workflow processes

Providing location based information in a virtual environment

A method, information processing system, and virtual environment, provide location information to users in the virtual environment. A first user is determined to be communicating with a second user in a virtual environment. One of the first user and the second user is determined to have entered a character set substantially matching a keyword in a database entry. Location information associated with the keyword is identified. The location information indicates a location within the virtual environment. The location information is linked to the character set. The character set is visually changed to indicate to the first user and the second user that location information has been linked to the character set.

Memory addressing

Method for virtual world event notification

The present disclosure a method for providing virtual world event notification. A method for providing virtual world event notification may include receiving information regarding a virtual world event, receiving a user profile, determining if the virtual world event would be of interest to a particular user based upon the user profile, and inviting a user to the virtual world event based upon the user profile through a user's calendar application.

Method, system, and program for automatically changing keyboard layout settings

A user visiting a computer other than his or her customary one logs on to a website or email server where the user's personal keyboard preference profile has been stored. The personal preferences are downloaded via the browser to the computer being used, and passed to its operating system via an Applications Programming Interface where the computer can install the personal preference profile as the temporary keyboard layout profile. The original keyboard layout of that computer is retrieved from the operating system and sent to the website or email for temporary storage so that the original layout may be restored once the user is finished.

Mechanism for tracing during boot

A method for tracing an instrumented program on a system during booting, including loading object code defining enabling information into a property file associated with a tracing framework, rebooting the system, processing the property file to enable the tracing framework, wherein enabling the tracing framework comprises creating an anonymous consumer state, and tracing the instrumented program using the enabled tracing framework.

Software component execution management using context objects for tracking externally-defined intrinsic properties of executing software components within an execution environment

Mechanism for statically defined trace points with minimal disabled probe effect

A method of defining a trace point, including defining a trace point representation in a program source code, compiling the program source code to generate an instrumented program comprising the trace point corresponding to the trace point representation, and associating the trace point with a placeholder function configured to produce a minimal disabled probe effect.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for integrating heterogeneous systems

Disclosed are a method, computer program product and apparatus for integrating resource and coordinator components in a heterogeneous computer system. The technique disclosed involves the introduction of a negotiation phase into the resource enlistment or registration process wherein the resource component and coordinator component request and respond with indicators showing the quality of service that each supports, thus jointly establishing at runtime a quality of service to be supported for the resource and coordinator pairing. The qualities of service may include commit phase support and recovery support.

Enhancement for a video game controller to allow private interaction with the user

The present invention can allow for private interactions with game players on a single game console. The present invention can include a game controller enhancement to include a private screen, which can display information to each player that should be private. The game controller enhancement can also include private audio support, which can allow the player to hookup an audio device, such as a headset, to receive audio only intended for the user. These enhanced game controllers can be used with supported game software. In some embodiments, the game controllers can have multiple modes of input. The game controller can include a toggle mechanism to switch between modes. One mode can allow the game controller controls to be sent to the game console. Another mode can allow the game controller control over (I/O control) to what is being privately shown to the user. In some embodiments, a toggle mechanism can be omitted and game software can switch the input modes appropriately.

Queue alerts

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for alerting one or more computer software application threads waiting to retrieve events from an event port. An alert event generated by a computer software application is received at the event port. A state of the event port is changed to an alert state, if the event port is not already in an alert state, in response to receiving the alert event. One or more of the computer software application threads is notified about the alert state of the event port.

Compensation framework for long running transactions

Mobile Meeting and Collaboration

XML-based representation of mobile process calculi

Streaming media instant answer on internet search result page

Profile-based help for metaverse applications

A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided for enabling enhanced help or guidance that is tailored to a user and is available on a multitude of “levels” and in a variety of ways. A user is enabled to create a user profile by inputting information about his or her personal interests, i.e. what they plan or hope to do in a virtual world application and possibly how the application can best meet the individual's needs. Users are enabled to specify interests using a form, free-form text, or other means of input. Based on the user input specifications, and depending upon user activity while in the metaverse application, information will be provided about users, places, and events that may be useful to the user in accomplishing the individual user's objectives.

Synchronizable Transactional Database Method and System

A database system that can synchronize all or a part of its contents over a limited bandwidth link is described. The lowest layer of the system, the bedrock layer, implements a transactional block store. On top of this is a B+-tree that can efficiently compute a digest (hash) of the records within any range of key values in O(log n) time. The top level is a communication protocol that directs the synchronization process such that minimization of bits communicated, rounds of communication, and local computation are simultaneously addressed.

Method and system for facilitating real world social networking through virtual world applications

A method and system for enhancing a virtual world application to facilitate social networking between users are disclosed. The system detects a trigger condition within the virtual world application, and in response to detecting the trigger condition, searches one or more real world social networking application relationship databases for real world social network relationships between a first user of the virtual world application and at least one other user of the virtual world application. Based on the results of the searching performed on the social networking application relationship databases, the disclosed system displays alerts containing real world social network information describing real world social networks connecting the first user and one or more other users of the virtual world application that were detected by the searching.

Method and system for accessing data using an asymmetric cache device

A system configured to receive a first request for a first datum, query the cache metadata to determine whether the first datum is present in the main memory or the asymmetric cache device (ACD), retrieve the first datum from the main memory when the first datum is present in the main memory, retrieve the first datum from the ACD when the first datum is present in the ACD and not present in the main memory, store a copy of the first datum in the main memory when the first datum is present in the ACD and not present in the main memory, update the cache metadata to indicate that the copy of the first datum is stored in the main memory when the first datum is present in the ACD and not present in the main memory, and retrieve the first datum from the disk when the first datum is not present in the ACD and is not present in the main memory.

Mechanism for lossless function entry and return tracing

A method for tracing an instrumented program, including triggering an trap instruction in the instrumented program, transferring control of the instrumented program to a trap handler associated with the trap instruction, and emulating an instruction corresponding to the trap instruction in the trap handler, wherein the instruction relates to creating or dismantling a stack frame.