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US20080155234 THREAD STARVATION PROFILER  
A profiler of a multithreaded process that determines whether a process is runnable but not running by determining whether a process is both waiting for the processor and also not waiting for other...
US20080155226 PREFETCH MECHANISM BASED ON PAGE TABLE ATTRIBUTES  
A prefetch mechanism using prefetch attributes is disclosed. In one aspect, an explicit request for data stored in a memory is provided, and a prefetch attribute in a page table entry associated...
US20080155221 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF DATA OF LARGE OR UNKNOWN LENGTH BY A NATIVE APPLICATION PROGRAM  
A method and system for efficient allocation of memory in database retrieval employs a technique which allocates a memory portion of a first size which may or may not be smaller than a data item to...
US20080155218 Optimized Data Migration with a Support Processor  
A system migrates data between a source device and a target device in a storage system. A processor is operational within a local domain of the storage system. A redundant array of independent...
US20080155213 Data Logging and Hot Spare Device Management  
A method provides for dynamic data logging in a storage subsystem. The method determines if a plurality of storage devices has been assigned as a plurality of hot spare devices in the storage...
US20080155212 Immediate Copy Target Pull of Volume Data  
A composite storage server employs a plurality of distributed storage sites including a mount site, a source copy site and one or more copy target sites for executing a storage of volume data...
US20080155201 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING SNOOP REQUESTS USING MULTIPLE SNOOP CACHES  
A method and apparatus for implementing a snoop filter unit associated with a single processor in a multiprocessor system. The snoop filter unit has a plurality of ports, each port receiving snoop...
US20080155198 SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING DATA USING A WRITE-BACK CACHE UNIT  
A method for managing data, the method includes: providing a write-back cache unit coupled to at least one storage unit; receiving a request to write a new data version to a certain cache data...
US20080155195 Redundant Storage Of Computer Data  
Redundant storage of computer data including encoding N data values through M linear expressions into M encoded data values and storing each encoded data value separately on one of M redundant...
US20080155194 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERATIONS REQUIRING PARITY READS IN A STORAGE ARRAY SYSTEM  
A system for improving a performance of a write process in an exemplary RAID system reduces a number of IOs required for a short write in a RAID algorithm by using a replicated-parity drive. Parity...
US20080155190 System and Method of Dynamic Allocation of Non-Volatile Memory  
A method of dynamic allocation of non-volatile memory in a cache storage subsystem includes constraining a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) 6 array in an unavailable state, the RAID 6...
US20080155151 Programmable Locking Mechanism For Secure Applications In An Integrated Circuit  
A programmable locking mechanism for use in an integrated circuit is disclosed. In particular, the programmable locking mechanism may include an access code storage circuit for storing a security...
US20080155140 SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR BUFFERING WORK REQUESTS  
Disclosed is a technique for buffering work requests. It is determined that a work request is about to be placed into an in-memory structure. When the in-memory structure is not capable of storing...
US20080155125 METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PREFERENCES BASED ON A NETWORK CONNECTION  
Software and hardware user preferences of a communication device are automatically adapted for different networks. Communication is initiated between a communication device and a first network. The...
US20080155118 REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS) FEED CUSTOMIZATION  
Provided are techniques for accessing data. In response to receiving a request for data content associated with a feed location, it is determined whether the feed location has an associated unique...
US20080155096 Method and Apparatus for Relating Device Name to Physical Location of Device on a Network  
A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device ( 202 ) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel...
US20080155089 METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MONITORING RESOURCES SERVICING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION  
A method, system and program product for monitoring resources servicing a business transaction is provided. The method includes providing a transaction manager that monitors a business transaction...
US20080155072 In-System Memory Personalization  
A method and system for personalizing a plurality of parts are disclosed. All of these parts have an identical part number and one or more programmable functions. The method comprises the steps of...
US20080155056 Technique for Maintaining and Managing Dynamic Web Pages Stored in a System Cache and Referenced Objects Cached in Other Data Stores  
An apparatus for managing data stored in a data storage device connected to a computer. In accordance with the present invention, it is determined that a web page is to be cached. The web page...
US20080155043 Message Hub Apparatus, Program Product, and Method  
There is provided a message hub apparatus for efficiently processing service processing messages in an enterprise system. The message hub apparatus stores a value of minimum residence time as...
US20080155034 METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTAINER AWARE FORM FORMAT, ACTION, AND SECURITY  
A method, article, and system to implement software that manages information transfer and interaction, and more particularly to providing a method, article, and system for utilizing “Forms” in...
US20080154984 DYNAMIC MEDIA FORMAT CONVERSION OF PHYSICAL VOLUMES  
A media server (e.g., a virtual tape server) implements a method for a dynamic media format conversion of physical volumes stored within a media library (e.g., a tape library). The method involves...
US20080154980 ROLLBACK SUPPORT IN DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS  
A rollback support method for transactions a node among nodes in a distributed system, including modifying a disposable cache copy of data as part of transaction, propagating a version state and/or...
US20080154979 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CREATING A BACKUP SCHEDULE IN A SAN ENVIRONMENT BASED ON A RECOVERY PLAN  
An apparatus, system, and method for creating a database backup schedule in a SAN environment based on a recovery plan. A user provides a desired recovery point objective (RPO) from a system...
US20080154975 AUTOMATED DATA MODEL EXTENSION THROUGH DATA CRAWLER APPROACH  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for accessing data stored in multiple data sources. Such methods employ an automated software agent to maintain a collection of data sources available...
US20080154970 FILE PLAN IMPORT AND SYNC OVER MULTIPLE SYSTEMS  
A technique that provides a file plan including a plurality of containers, wherein each container is capable of providing management information for record information objects assigned to the...
US20080154969 APPLYING MULTIPLE DISPOSITION SCHEDULES TO DOCUMENTS  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for applying multiple disposition schedules to documents. A file plan includes a plurality of containers, wherein each container is capable...
US20080154956 PHYSICAL TO ELECTRONIC RECORD CONTENT MANAGEMENT  
Techniques provide a file plan including a plurality of containers, wherein each container is capable of providing management information for record information objects assigned to the container,...
US20080154954 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CONVERSATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for enabling a conversational transaction in a service oriented architecture. The apparatus, system and method include receiving at an IMS Connect a...
US20080154945 Administering Devices In Dependence Upon User Metric Vectors With Multiple Users  
Methods for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges,...
US20080154936 EVENT GENERATION FOR XML SCHEMA COMPONENTS DURING XML PROCESSING IN A STREAMING EVENT MODEL  
A method and computer program for processing structured documents follows a processing framework that enables generation of events corresponding to instance document elements and events...
US20080154935 GENERATING TEMPLATES OF NODES TO STRUCTURE CONTENT OBJECTS AND STEPS TO PROCESS THE CONTENT OBJECTS  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating templates of nodes to structure content objects and steps to process the content objects. A template is generated having a...
US20080154927 USE OF FEDERATION SERVICES AND TRANSFORMATION SERVICES TO PERFORM EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD (ETL) OF UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION AND ASSOCIATED METADATA  
Provided are techniques for transforming unstructured information into content in a uniform context. The unstructured information and metadata associated with the unstructured information are...
US20080154921 FILE SYSTEM REPRESENTATION FOR ACCELERATED NAVIGATION  
A file system representation, comprising a set of nodes, each node comprising attributes to indicate whether it is a frozen node or whether there is a frozen node below it, said file system...
US20080154906 SELECTING INFORMATION FOR AD HOC EXCHANGE  
A method for organizing an exchange of information between software agents includes for each of the software agents: establishing a semantic information network; receiving a trigger signal;...
US20080154904 Deferred Copy Target Pull of Volume Data  
A composite storage server employs a plurality of distributed storage sites including a mount site, a source copy site and one ore more copy target sites for executing a storage of volume data...
US20080154902 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORDERING QUERY RESULTS BASED ON ANNOTATIONS  
A system, method and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query...
US20080154901 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORDERING QUERY RESULTS BASED ON ANNOTATIONS  
A system, method and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query...
US20080154868 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR XML QUERY EVALUATION USING EARLY-OUTS AND MULTIPLE PASSES  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for XML query evaluation using early-outs and multiple passes to evaluate an XML query. A multi-pass evaluation procedure evaluates the XML query one step at a...
US20080154866 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING DYNAMIC FOLDER HIERARCHIES  
A dynamic foldering system automatically manages the creation and deletion of run-time dynamic folders and selection of documents, items, or object graphs found in the run-time dynamic folders. The...
US20080154864 ITERATIVE DATA ANALYSIS ENABLED THROUGH QUERY RESULT ABSTRACTION  
The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data...
US20080154855 USAGE OF DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT IN SEARCH OPERATIONS  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein metadata corresponding to a plurality of documents is maintained, wherein the metadata indicates whether a document includes...
US20080154853 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF EXACT INTERPRETATIONS OF KEYWORD QUERIES  
The present invention relates to a methodology to translate exact interpretations of keyword queries into meaningful and grammatically correct plain-language queries in order to convey the meaning...
US20080154849 METHOD, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GROUPING SEARCH RESULTS  
Search results are organized by grouping child search results with associated parent search terms. Search results are retrieved from a search of an electronic database based on at least one parent...
US20080154845 RESEARCH RAPIDITY AND EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT BY ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ARTIFACT SIMILARITY  
A method, computer-readable medium and system for comparing query-related objects are provided. In one embodiment, a first plurality of query-related objects for a first user is compared to a...
US20080154844 ESTIMATING THE COMPILATION TIME OF A QUERY OPTIMIZER  
A compilation time estimator provides a quantified estimate of the optimizer compilation time for a given query optimizer. The estimator automates the optimizer to choose the right level of...
US20080154842 ENHANCED RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD  
A method to enhance relational database management system resiliency and query operations by minimizing CPU overhead and database page access latency and by facilitating database restoration and...
US20080154831 IDENTIFICATION OF RELEVANT METRICS  
A system and method for performing event analysis includes a plurality of logical components ( 102, 106, 110, 114, 118 ), each communicatively coupled to at least one other of the plurality of...
US20080154776 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY MAINTAINING AND RECYCLING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS  
In one aspect of the disclosure, a computer program product, system and method for maintaining and recycling software components is disclosed. A first set of usage data for one or more software...
US20080154707 Method and System for Conducting Online Marketing Research in a Controlled Manner  
The invention describes a method and system for conducting online marketing research keeping in consideration the specified budget for the experiment. The invention describes a methodology for...