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7333907 System and methods for characterization of chemical arrays for quality control  
Systems, methods and computer readable media for characterizing a chemical array. At least one metric indicative of accuracy of location of features on the chemical array by a feature extraction...
7331002 Navigating breakpoints in a program in a debugging mode  
Provided is a method, system, and program for navigating breakpoints in a program in a debugging mode. A user interface is rendered to display at least one program corresponding to at least one...
7328452 Method and device for coping with illegal accesses to a data server  
The secondary OS is executed on the primary OS running on a computer, and a data server is implemented in the computer by executing an application program on the secondary OS. Then, executing an...
7325185 Host-based detection and prevention of malicious code propagation  
Requests issuing on a host computer are intercepted and stalled prior to sending to target computer systems. The requests are analyzed to determine whether they are suspicious. Requests determined...
7325166 Hierarchical categorization of customer error reports  
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for prioritizing customer error reports for a software application. A sub-bucketing algorithm is performed in a computer to sort stack traces...
7325165 Instruction sequence verification to protect secured data  
Intended for an information security application, particularly in networked information systems, the present invention includes two methods and systems for verifying a current performance of a...
7321989 Simultaneously multithreaded processing and single event failure detection method  
A multithreaded processor is programmed for executing multiple simultaneous working programs by respective processor worker threads each executing the identical code having identical results for...
7321988 Identifying a code library from the subset of base pointers that caused a failure generating instruction to be executed  
The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present...
7320125 Program execution stack signatures  
A digital computer call stack or combined call stack and data stack is traced and analyzed following the occurrence of an unhandled exception or crash. Stack frame sizes and other artifacts are...
7318229 Method, system, and program for dispatching a method call  
Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a call. A call is invoked from a caller object to a target object, wherein the caller and target objects comprise component objects loaded...
7313734 Method and system for instruction tracing with enhanced interrupt avoidance  
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for tracing operations. A set of related methodologies can be used within instruction tracing software, such as a tracing...
7313685 Unattended BIOS recovery  
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for recovering a BIOS in a computer is described, comprising: unattendingly loading a BIOS recovery code image into system ROM...
7310592 Method and apparatus to group sets of computers into classes for statistical analysis  
A method of grouping sets of computers into a single class for statistical analysis is disclosed. The method may look at various factors to create equivalent classes of computers depending on the...
7308567 Information processing apparatus for performing a system boot by using programs stored in a non-voltile storage device  
After power activation, a transferer 14 detects a bootstrap program 111 having a first error check code 114 assigned thereto and being stored in a first storage device 11 , subjects the...
7308610 Method and apparatus for handling errors in a processing system  
A processing system may include an operating system (OS) and one or more specialized error handling modules to be registered with the OS after the processing system is powered on. The OS may also...
7305583 Command initiated logical dumping facility  
Diagnostic information is produced from a computer memory operably connected to a DBMS. A command is received from a user wherein the command comprises an identifier of a resource associated with...
7305456 Device information acquiring method, server apparatus and computer-readable storage medium  
A device information acquiring method acquires device information related to devices from a Web site provided by a server apparatus via one or a plurality of networks. The method checks an...
7302613 System and method for capturing kernel-resident information  
A system, method and interface for consistently capturing kernel resident information are provided. An operating system architecture includes user mode modules and kernel mode applications. A user...
7302676 Method for debugging flowchart programs for industrial controllers  
A method for debugging flowchart based computer programs for industrial controllers, in particular motion controllers, wherein suspend commands are assigned to the graphical elements. Through the...
7302617 Managing and predicting risk for computer devices using exposure management techniques  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for managing and predicting risk for computer-based systems. Information about a computer-based system is...
7299382 System and method for automatic test case generation  
A system and method provide testing of software in different configurations automatically. Templates may be provided for developers to create an application or for generating tests. One or more...
7296190 Parallel text execution on low-end emulators and devices  
A method for testing computing devices includes providing a suite of test programs on a server for execution by a plurality of the computing devices that are coupled to the server. A respective...
7296188 Formal test case definitions  
A model of a test case is created which is used to formally define the various portions of a test case and the test script which implements the test case. In one aspect, the invention processes an...
7296189 Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing autonomic testing and verification of software fix programs  
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing autonomic testing and verification of software fix programs or program temporary fixes (PTFs). A software fix program...
7296257 Techniques for exception handling by rewriting dispatch table elements  
A technique for implementing a data processor to determine if an exception has been thrown. Specifically, the technique may be used in an interpretive environment where a table known as a bytecode...
7296197 Metadata-facilitated software testing  
Described herein are one or more implementations for facilitation of computer software testing. One or more implementations, described herein, determine logical type of one or more test...
7295953 Scenario based testing and load generation for web applications  
In a Web application testing method which has been configured in accordance with the present invention, a network message from one of several network clients can be intercepted. Session data in the...
7293200 Method and system for providing transparent incremental and multiprocess checkpointing to computer applications  
Incremental single and multiprocess checkpointing and restoration is described, which is transparent in that the application program need not be modified, re-compiled, or re-linked to gain the...
7293201 System and method for active diagnosis and self healing of software systems  
An active diagnostic and self healing system involves a support server configured to monitor the state of application and operating system software on a remote client, one or more of whose...
7293202 Isolating the evaluation of actual test results against expected test results from the test module that generates the actual test results  
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for isolating the evaluation of actual test results against expected test results from the test module that...
7293257 Method and system for efficient testing of sequences of computer-related operations  
A system and method for testing sequences of computer-related operations by using subsequences of operations of a given length. The subsequences are used to construct a suite of test cases that...
7290176 Method and system for generating stacked register dumps from backing-store memory  
In various embodiments of the present invention, debugging and program-behavior-analysis software can reconstruct register-based processor states for nested routine calls from the backing-store...
7287191 Measuring mean time between software failures using customer error reporting  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for measuring a mean time between program failures by maintaining a running count of program crashes per user per product version on a customer...
7287197 Vectoring an interrupt or exception upon resuming operation of a virtual machine  
In one embodiment, a request to transition control to a virtual machine (VM) is received from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and a determination is made as to whether the VMM has requested a...
7287242 Efficient re-validation of modified software  
An automated software re-testing system for efficiently validating proper operation according to a specification. Regression tests are automatically created in an object-oriented system. The...
7287190 Simultaneous execution of test suites on different platforms  
In an arrangement for testing multiple low-end computing devices simultaneously, different tests are executed simultaneously on different platforms using a single instance of a test harness to...
7284157 Faulty driver protection comparing list of driver faults  
Systems and methods are provided that prevent faulty drivers from being loaded and/or can prevent faulty drivers from being installed. Thus, instability of a computer system can be mitigated....
7284156 Debugging a grid environment using ghost agents  
A method for debugging software objects within a grid environment including the step identifying a host, wherein the host is a software object. A ghost agent can be associated with the host. The...
7284238 Multithread tracing method and apparatus  
Method and apparatus to enable collection of information required for solving a problem caused by simultaneous access to a shared resource in a multithreading environment. In an information...
7281040 Diagnostic/remote monitoring by email  
A network device for use in a communication system having a technical support center operated by a technical support staff, the technical support center being in communication with the network...
7281238 Method and program for monitoring execution state of program  
Item values associated with an execution state of a program executed on a computer are collected in detail while suppressing the computer load. When reducing the interval for collecting values of...
7281070 Multiple master inter integrated circuit bus system  
A multiple-master Inter Integrated Circuit (“I 2 C”) bus system includes a first master device including a first processing device within a first power boundary and a second master device...
7281242 Flexible and extensible Java bytecode instrumentation system  
Code can be injected into a compiled application through the use of probes comprised of instrumentation code. Probes can be implemented in a custom high level language that hides low level...
7281166 User-customizable input error handling  
A programmer to set his own input error handler after examining the context where the error occurs by utilizing a set error handler subroutine. The context may be provided by the system library to...
7278058 Methods and apparatus to diagnose software  
Methods and apparatus to diagnose software including diagnostic gathering instructions are disclosed. The software is diagnosed by storing diagnostic information to a plurality of individual trace...
7278057 Automated hang detection in Java thread dumps  
A system and method for analyzing Java thread deadlocks. A snapshot of threads in a Java Virtual Machine is generated, producing a thread dump file which can be analyzed offline. The thread dump...
7275183 Method of restoring processes within process domain  
A method of restoring processes within a process domain begins with a step of restoring a tree of processes in which at least two of the processes share at least a resource. The method continues...
7272822 Automatically generating software tests based on metadata  
A method of automatically generating tests for a software program based on metadata that is used to control the operational behavior of a software product is disclosed. A definition is received of...
7272753 Methods and apparatus for translating application tests for execution with simulation software tools  
A method for assessing computer system conformance with at least one requirement is provided. A first encoding of software commands is translated into a second encoding of software commands for use...
7272752 Method and system for integrating test coverage measurements with model based test generation  
A test coverage tool provides output that identifies differences between the actual coverage provided by a test suite run on a program under test and the coverage criteria (e.g., the coverage...