Abstract: The purpose of the invention is the simplification of a task of changing a control program upon a control device which is in use. A support device comprises: a computing part computing, for each unit program which configures a control program, identification information according to the content of each of the unit programs; a first transferring part transferring the unit programs and the identification information which is associated with the unit programs to a control device; a generating part generating changed unit programs according to a change operation upon any of the unit programs which configure the control program; and a second transferring part transferring the changed unit programs to a control device which is in use on condition that identification information is present on the control device which is identical to the identification information which is associated with the unit programs which configure the control program.

Abstract: Method and system are provided for handling request data with type safety in a remote service. The method includes providing a data structure, the data structure comprising a set of entries, each entry matching an incoming request type with a function for handling the request, the function defining a set of parameters. The method includes receiving an incoming request for a service from a remote client, wherein the request includes request data. The method includes using the data structure and identifying an entry for the incoming request by matching the request data to an incoming request type of an entry. The method includes converting the incoming request into a set of parameters using a software construct of the matching function identified in the entry, wherein the software construct comprises the matching function and associated in-scope local variables; and running the function using the converted parameters.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for generating a new compilable program from an instruction trace. The mechanisms receive a trace file for an original program whose execution on computing hardware has been traced and perform analysis of the trace file to identify a hot function, symbol information corresponding to the hot function, and initialization parameters for the hot function. The mechanisms generate a trace control flow graph based on the identified hot function and the symbol information corresponding to the hot function. The mechanisms identify, based on the trace control flow graph, pathways in the original program to the hot function, represented in the trace file. The mechanisms generate a reconstructed program based on the trace control flow graph, the pathways to the hot function, and the initialization parameters, and output the reconstructed program.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to opportunistically updating Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software in a vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at a controller in a vehicle, a wireless transmission indicating a need to update software running on at least one ECU in the vehicle; monitoring an operational status of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in a first mode of operation in which an ECU software update is prohibited; delaying the ECU software update when the operational status is prohibited; continuing to monitor the operational status of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in a second mode of operation in which the ECU software update is permitted; and enabling updating of the at least one ECU with the delayed ECU software update when it is determined that the vehicle is in the second mode of operations.

Abstract: Some examples provide a system including neighboring computing devices comprising a deployed operating system (OS) volumes, and respective neighboring bit tables corresponding to the deployed OS volumes. The system may include a target computing device comprising a target operating system (OS) volume. The target computing device may determine a target bit table corresponding to the target OS volume. Each bit in the target bit table indicates whether the data block of the target OS volume differs relative to a base OS volume. The target computing device may determine, based on bit tables, a first set of data blocks that are identical to a second set of data blocks of the deployed OS volumes. The target computing device may receive the least one data block in the second set of data blocks from the neighboring computing devices, and assemble the target OS.

Abstract: A method to configure a software solution may include receiving a first specification of a type of configuration data items and a second specification of system selected user attributes associated with the type of configuration data items, and receiving a configuration data item that is used to configure a first localized version of the software solution. The method may further include receiving a contributing user attribute specification that specifies a first user attribute and a second user attribute of the system selected user attributes, and generating a search tag assigned to the configuration data item. The method may further include receiving a search request to search the configuration data items, selecting, in response to the search request, the configuration data item based on the search tag, and configuring, in response to selecting the configuration data item, a second localized version of the software solution based on the configuration data item.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for adapting a programming environment to handle renamed programming constructs such as classes and packages. Non-canonical identifiers that reference renamed programming constructs can be used in code parts to be executed in the programming environment, and the code parts can execute, without disruption or user intervention, using related canonical identifiers. The solutions described herein provide backward and forward compatibility for code and data affected by renaming of programming constructs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an application upgrade method and an apparatus. The application upgrade method includes: receiving an application deployment request; determining a deployment package of a to-be-deployed application; determining that a version of a first platform node is below a version requirement of a node template of the to-be-deployment application for a first platform node template; acquiring a first platform node upgrade package that meets the version requirement of the node template of the to-be-deployed application for the first platform node template; upgrading the first platform node indicated by an identifier of the first platform node by using the first platform node upgrade package; determining an identifier of a to-be-upgraded application node; and upgrading the application node indicated by the identifier of the to-be-upgraded application node by using the deployment package of the to-be-deployed application.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to context-based analysis of requested activities. Techniques include building dynamic context profiles for processes based on static parameters of the processes, dynamic parameters of the processes, and detected activity involving the processes; receiving an indication of current runtime activity involving at least one identity; matching the indication of current runtime activity to a dynamic context profile; determining a context-based probability that the current runtime activity is anomalous, suspicious, or non-valid with respect to the dynamic context profile; and performing a control action in association with either the current runtime activity or the process based on whether the current runtime activity is determined to be anomalous, suspicious, or non-valid.

Abstract: A setting support program related to monitoring of a system causes a computer to execute a process including (1) receiving an input of first system information including a first configuration element group of a first system, (2) referring to a storage unit that stores a second configuration element group of a second system and setting information related to monitoring of the second system for a plurality of the second systems to identify setting information related to the monitoring of the second system corresponding to the second configuration element group having predetermined similarity to the first configuration element group included in the first system information, and (3) outputting the identified setting information as setting information of the first system.

Abstract: An example system and method provides an enhancement to a software editor, enabling a user (e.g., developer) to visualize a REST API (also called a REST service herein) as a list of resources presented in a flat structure, i.e., a simple list of resources containing operations. The software editor may be a fully JS/HTML/CSS (JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets) compliant editor that lets the user define connectors to REST API's in an easy and fluid way. Furthermore, the editor facilitates creation of a connector to the REST API in a generic fashion, without requiring user knowledge of any particular interface or description language, such as RAML, YAML, WADL, etc. The user, e.g., developer, may simply define resources and corresponding operations to thereby enable the editor to automatically generate a corresponding connector to the REST API. The enhanced software editor also facilitates creation of business objects from a JSON instance or schema.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for provisioning software in computing networks. For example, methods may include invoking one or more discovery probes; retrieving software usage data based at least on the one or more discovery probes; determining software usage predictions based on the software usage data; allocating, based on the software usage predictions, per user software entitlements and per device software entitlements to obtain an allocation of software entitlements; and invoking installation or uninstallation of software responsive to the allocation of software entitlements.

Abstract: A virtual architecture generating apparatus and method, a runtime system, a multi-core system, and methods of operating the runtime system and the multi-core system may include analyzing a requirement of an application, a feature of the application, and a requirement of a system enabling an execution of the application, and include generating a virtual architecture corresponding to the application, based on a physical architecture of a reconfigurable processor, the analyzed requirements and the analyzed feature.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are described herein for operating a data management system, including executing an attached application and application data on a first virtual machine running a first operating system, separating the attached application and application data from the first virtual machine, and dynamically attaching the application and application data to a second virtual machine running an updated version of the first operating system.

Abstract: A novel software updating method is provided. A target file is divided into segments, where some segments are updated by patching, while other segments are updated by archiving. The segmentation of the update allows very large files such as DYLD shared caches to be patched in-place, i.e., by using free space available within the file to perform patching rather than requiring enough free space on disk to store both the new version and the old version of the file. The segmentation of the update also allows each segment to be updated individually by the most optimal update method (copy, patch, or archive) so that the size of the update file can be minimized.

Abstract: Techniques to preprocess tensor operations prior to code generation to optimize compilation are disclosed. A computer readable representation of a linear algebra or tensor operation is received. A code transformation software component performs transformations include output reduction and fraction removal. The result is a set of linear equations of a single variable with integer coefficients. Such a set lends itself to more efficient code generation during compilation by a code generation software component. Use cases disclosed include targeting a machine learning hardware accelerator, receiving code in the form of an intermediate language generated by a cross-compiler with multiple front ends supporting multiple programming languages, and cloud deployment and execution scenarios.

Abstract: The disclosed technology adjusts hardware settings to map preferences consistently of a user experience across multiple hardware devices, despite there being different hardware capabilities and performance parameters among the different devices. A hardware settings translation engine receives a reference hardware setting of a reference computing device, a set of reference hardware performance parameter values, and a set of target hardware performance parameter values. The hardware settings translation engine then maps the set of target hardware performance parameter values to the set of reference hardware performance parameter values to yield a hardware adjustment map. The hardware settings translation engine determines the target hardware setting based on the reference hardware adjustment map and the reference hardware setting. The hardware settings translation engine sets the target hardware to the target hardware setting.

Abstract: Method and system are disclosed for restoring multiple instances of a software application to a predetermined baseline state. The method/system of the invention creates a baseline template from a single correct or “golden” installation of the software application. The baseline template may then be deployed to restore previously used instances of the software application to a baseline state.

Abstract: A method includes identifying a code portion that accesses a primitive value in a user-defined function included in a user program, converting the code portion and an argument in a manner to directly reference an internal data representation of the user program, and generating a code for calling the user-defined function converted by the conversion.

Abstract: For each detected bug, historical code with similar characteristics and bug corrections from a historical bug dataset can be displayed in a source code editor. Relevant training and/or testing data can be found by comparing an internal representation of the code under development with an internal representation of the original buggy code in the historical bug dataset. Training and/or testing data that is relevant to the current code can be distinguished from irrelevant training and/or testing data by determining that the code syntax tokens from the current and historical data overlap to at least a specified percentage. Code can be devolved into a set of metrics. The degree of overlap between the metric sets can be determined. If a computed risk factor for the bug correction meets or exceeds a specified threshold, the bug correction can be automatically applied. Additional testing can be automatically performed on and/or added to the corrected code.