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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120159640 | Acquiring Access To A Token Controlled System Resource - Acquiring access to a token controlled system resource, including: receiving, by a token broker, a command that requires access to the token controlled system resource, where the token broker is automated computing machinery for acquiring tokens and distributing the command to the token controlled system resource for execution; identifying, by the token broker, a first need state, the first need state indicating that the token broker requires access to the token controlled system resource to which the token broker does not possess a token; requesting, by the token broker, a configurable number of tokens to gain access to the token controlled system resource, without dispatching an operation handler for executing the command until at least one token is acquired; assigning, by the token broker, an acquired token to the operation handler; and dispatching, by the token broker, the operation handler and its assigned token for executing the command. | 06-21-2012 |
20110066468 | DYNAMIC EVENT PLANNING THROUGH LOCATION AWARENESS - Discloses a computer-implemented apparatus for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees. Included is an event scheduler to schedule, update and delete events for the plurality of attendees, an event location finder invoked by the event scheduler to select at least one event location having an available timeslot for an event for the plurality of attendees, a transition requirement monitor invoked by the event scheduler to estimate a transition time from an origin location to the event location to determine if the available timeslot is feasible for the event, and a dynamic location tracker to track a location of the plurality of attendees and generate an event exception notice for the plurality of attendees if at least one attendee will be unable to attend the event at the event location at the available timeslot. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees and a computer program product for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees. | 03-17-2011 |
20110041132 | ELASTIC AND DATA PARALLEL OPERATORS FOR STREAM PROCESSING - A method to optimize performance of an operator on a computer system includes determining whether the system is busy, decreasing a software thread level within the operator if the system is busy, and increasing the software thread level within the operator if the system is not busy and a performance measure of the system at a current software thread level of the operator is greater than a performance measure of the system when the operator has a lower software thread level. | 02-17-2011 |
20100153860 | DYNAMIC LOCATION GENERATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL WORLD - An approach is provided for dynamic loading and rendering of avatar's initial login environment. The approach consists of a method and a system for dynamically rendering locations from a preference list of locations most likely to be visited by an avatar. In one embodiment the method consists of creating a preference list of locations most likely to be visited by the avatar, rendering a dynamically built continuous environment populated from such preference list of locations most likely to be visited by the avatar, and caching and thereafter rendering at least one of the locations from the preference list of locations most likely to be visited by said avatar. | 06-17-2010 |
20090292620 | Server, Information Communication Terminal, Product Sale Management Method, and Storage Medium and Program Transmission Apparatus Therefor - A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module | 11-26-2009 |
20090244067 | SELECTIVE COMPUTATION USING ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for selective computation using analytic functions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An object graph and information about a change therein is received. The object graph includes several objects representing several resources in an environment as well as a set of analytic function instances in relation to the objects. A set of analytic function dependencies is determined. A first analytic function instance in the set of analytic function instances that has to be re-executed based on the change is identified. A re-computation graph is computed using the analytic function instance and presented. The change may be an addition, a deletion, a modification, or a combination thereof. The change may be a change in an object, in a relationship between two objects, in a relationship between an object in and an analytic function instance in the set of analytic function instances, or in an analytic function instance. | 10-01-2009 |
20090106586 | Assigning A Processor To A Logical Partition - Assigning a processor to a logical partition in a computer supporting multiple logical partitions that include assigning priorities to partitions, detecting a checkstop of a failing processor of a partition, retrieving the failing processor's state, replacing by a hypervisor the failing processor with a replacement processor from a partition having a priority lower than the priority of the partition of the failing processor, and assigning the retrieved state of the failing processor as the state of the replacement processor. | 04-23-2009 |