Patents Represented by Attorney Fred Grasso
  • Patent number: 7934218
    Abstract: A solution for managing interprocess communication is provided. A connection request that identifies another process is received from a first process on a socket. The invention determines if the identified process has a second socket that can be used without transmitting data outside a computing device. If so, then the two sockets are linked, and an in-memory communication session can be managed to implement the interprocess communication. In this manner, two processes executing on the same computing device, each of which supports network communications using sockets, can have in-memory interprocess communication without any knowledge of where the other process is executing or any customization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Belinda L. Thompson
  • Patent number: 7908588
    Abstract: An application with a function for inputting feedback incorporated into it is created and presented with the present embodiment. By this means, feedback about the problems in the running of the application may be obtained efficiently. In addition, an application with a function for inputting feedback about the components that define the operations of the application and a function that maintains a correspondence between the feedback descriptions and the components that are the target of the feedback incorporated into it is created by the present embodiment. By this means, the component in the application that the feedback concerns may easily be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Paul Charboneau, Gary Martin Johnston, Hirotaka Matsumoto, Takashi Sakairi, Kotaro Shima