Abstract: A system and method of validating an application includes receiving the application and determining a set of accessed classes that are accessed by the application. The set of accessed classes are compared to a set of authorized classes to determine if one or more unauthorized classes are included in the set of accessed classes. And, validating only the applications that do not access unauthorized classes.

Abstract: Solutions to a value recycling problem that we define herein facilitate implementations of computer programs that may execute as multithreaded computations in multiprocessor computers, as well as implementations of related shared data structures. Some exploitations of the techniques described herein allow non-blocking, shared data structures to be implemented using standard dynamic allocation mechanisms (such as malloc and free). A variety of solutions to the proposed value recycling problem may be implemented. A class of general solutions to value recycling is described in the context of an illustration we call the Repeat Offender Problem (ROP), including illustrative Application Program Interfaces (APIs) defined in terms of the ROP terminology. Furthermore, specific solutions, implementations and algorithm, including a Pass-The-Buck (PTB) implementation are also described. Solutions to the value recycling problem can be applied in a variety of ways to implement dynamic-sized data structures.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for memory structures for efficient tracking and recycling of physical register assignments. The system and method reduce the size of the memory structures utilized to track the usage of physical registers and the recycling of these registers.

Abstract: A method for managing access to service entities (e.g., such as a devices, resources, and services, which are limited resources) is provided. The method includes requesting a priority level. In response, a priority object with an assigned priority level is returned. A service is then requested from a service manager, and the request includes data for carrying out the requested service and the priority object. The service manager is configured to identify at least one service entity that is required to carry out the requested service. Access is then requested to at least one service entity. A determination is made as to whether the at least one service entity is in-use. If at least one service entity is in-use, a further determination is made as to whether at least one service entity that is in-use has an assigned priority level that is higher than the assigned priority level, which is associated with a current request.

Abstract: A method for arbitrating channel bandwidth among a plurality of logical connections desiring access over a communication channel to transmit data is provided. The method includes detecting a connection desiring access through the communication channel and assigning the connection to a group having arbitration parameters. Then, the method packetizes the data to be transmitted and transmits each packet of the data in time slices. In each time slice, data is transmitted using the arbitration parameters of the group.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system arranged to provide a connection(s) from an application component to a shared resource only as needed. In this way the total number of connections are limited to only those connections required to execute a particular method thereby saving valuable computing resources. In the described embodiment, after an invoked application component has started a particular transaction, a pre-enlistment notification is returned to the application server thereby putting all resource adapters on notice that a connection may be forthcoming.

Abstract: An invention is provided for a vehicle mode manager that manages vehicle state information. The vehicle mode manager includes a code module that registers an application program with the vehicle mode manager. Registering indicates the application program will be notified of vehicle state changes. Also included in the vehicle mode manager is a code module that receives vehicle status information, and a code module that determines a vehicle state based on both the vehicle status information and a current vehicle state. In addition, a privileged application or another manager can also set the vehicle state. The vehicle mode manager also includes a code module that provides the vehicle state to an application program. In this manner, the application program can react to the vehicle state information in a predefined manner.

Abstract: An invention is disclosed for providing an asynchronous protocol framework. A registry is provided having a plurality of proxies, wherein each proxy implements a generic interface for a related to a software component. In addition, each proxy is capable of providing specific messages to the related software component based on an underlying design structure of the software component, for example, EJB specific or JMS specific messages. A first proxy is obtained from the registry, wherein the first proxy is related to a first software component, a message is sent to the first software component using the generic interface of the first proxy. In particular, the first proxy sends a specific message to the first software component based on the underlying design structure of the first software component.

Abstract: A telematics system is provided. The system includes a telematics client framework having an interface to client applications and being integrated with a client communications framework. The client communications framework has a client stream manager, a client data pump, a client policy manager, and a client channel monitor. The channel monitor detects availability of channels for communication with a telematics server framework. The telematics server framework includes an interface to server applications and is integrated with a server communications framework. The client channel monitor is configured to communicate availability of channels to connection objects of the client data pump. Switching between channels is triggered based on information obtained from the client policy manager.

Abstract: Structures for providing devices that include resistive paths specifically designed to provide a predetermined resistance between the bulk material of the device and a well tie contact. By providing a resistive path, an equivalent RC circuit is introduced to the device that allows the bulk material potential to track the gate potential, thereby advantageously lowering the threshold voltage as the device turns on and raising the threshold voltage as the device turns off. In addition, the introduction of the resistive path also allows the bulk material potential to be controlled and stabilize at an equilibrium potential between switching events.

Abstract: A method and system allows any peer to efficiently distribute content to all other peers in a peer group using existing propagation mechanisms. According to the invention, binary contents are broadcast over existing propagation mechanisms such as propagation pipes using a generic capability that can be used by any application that wants to multicast binary contents. According to the invention, the binary contents are broken up into file blocks that are then sent over existing propagation mechanisms such as propagation pipes. According to the present invention, the receiving peers negotiate among themselves to make up any file blocks they may have missed from the original broadcast. When each peer has all the file blocks associated with a given parent file, they store the content.

Abstract: An invention is provided for affording distributed preference data service. A plurality of storage providers is provided. Each storage provider provides access to a persistent data store that stores a set of data. In addition, each storage provider is registered with a storage provider registry. A storage provider that provides access to a particular set of data is selected using the storage provider registry, and the selected storage provider is used to access the particular set of data.

Abstract: A system and method for simulating a component in a telematics system is described. The system and method includes a simulating a component and a establishing a communication link between the simulated component and a corresponding carlet in a telematics control unit (TCU). The simulated component can also be adjusted to a desired condition and the TCU can be monitored for a responsive output.

Abstract: Provided are a method, system, data structures and article of manufacture for implementing an array of persistent elements. A class of the array of persistent elements has a constructor. A call is received from an application executing in a runtime environment to the constructor. The constructor is processed to create an empty array of persistent elements. A persistent element is included into the array of persistent elements within the runtime environment by storing persistent data of the added persistent element in a data record and the address of the data record at a corresponding index record.

Abstract: A system for storing preferences on a telematics client is provided. The system includes a telematics server configured to receive a request containing modification data for preferences. The modification data for the preferences is stored on a preference server of the telematics server. The telematics server includes a server side communications framework in communication with the preference server. The telematics control unit (TCU) has a preference manger for storing the preferences. The TCU includes a client side communications framework in communication with the preference manager, wherein the preference manager and the preference server are configured to synchronize over a network connection to allow the modification data to be communicated between the preference server and the preference manager.

Abstract: A fault tolerant computing system is provided comprising two or more processing sets that operate in synchronism with one another. The two processing sets are joined by a bridge, and there is a communications link for each processing set for transmitting data from the processing set to the bridge. Data transmissions are initiated in synchronism with one another from the respective processing sets to the bridge but are then subject to variable delay over the communications link. Accordingly, a buffer is included in the bridge for storing the data transmissions received from the processing sets for long enough to compensate for the variable delay. The data transmissions can then be fed out from the buffer to a comparator that verifies that the data transmissions received from the two or more processing sets properly match each other. Likewise, a buffer is included in each processing set for storing the data transmissions received from the bridge for long enough to compensate for the variable delay.

Abstract: An invention is provided for a business-model agnostic system that provides service deployment management. The business-model agnostic system includes a plurality of service objects, wherein each service object stores information for a particular service. In addition, a plurality of service directories is included, wherein each service directory includes a list of service objects. The business-model agnostic system also includes a plurality of service entry objects, each service entry object defining a relationship between a service object and a service directory. Further included is a plurality of vehicle client objects. Each vehicle client object stores a list of service directories. In this manner, the business-model agnostic system can be queried based on object relationships utilizing the service entry objects.

Abstract: A computing system comprises two or more processing sets, for example for fault tolerant operation. The multiple processing sets have a connection to at least one device, typically many devices. The ownership of each device is allocated to one of the two or more processing sets. When an interrupt is generated within a device, this is transmitted from the device to the processing set to which ownership of the device has been allocated, but not to the remaining processing sets. In addition, a command for a device may be generated by a processing set. However, receipt of this command by the device is disabled if the processing set that generated the command has not been allocated ownership of the device.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for reproducing a pre-selected larger 2-D sample location pattern from a smaller one by means of X,Y address permutation. This method, for example, allows hardware to effectively reproduce a pre-selected set of sample locations for an array of 128×128 sample bins from a smaller set of pre-selected sample locations for an array of 2×2 sample bins. A permutation logic unit may use a first portion of an address for a sample bin B to identify a corresponding 2-D transformation, apply the inverse of the transformation to a second portion of the sample bin address to identify the corresponding bin of the 2×2 array of sample bins, and apply the transformation to the sample locations stored in the corresponding bin to reproduce the sample locations pre-selected for sample bin B.

Abstract: An invention is provided for abstracting a user interface. A request is received from an application program to present data to a user. A determination is made as to which user interface devices are currently available, and a particular user interface device is selected to present the data. Abstract controls for the selected user interface device are provided to the application program, which are then used to present the data to the user using the selected user interface device.