Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with an integration application building tool are described. In one embodiment, a method includes providing data files including an adapter data file, a flow data file, and an environment data file. The adapter data file stores adapter data corresponding to a plurality of adapters for respective enterprise applications. An adapter for a given enterprise application enables the given enterprise application to exchange messages with a messaging system. The flow data file describes to a plurality of flows of messages, through the messaging system, between enterprise applications. The environment data file is configured to be populated with location data. The method includes, receiving an instance of location data and populating the environment data file. An adapter application comprising computer code is generated that, when executed, allows the enterprise application to exchange messages with the messaging system.

Abstract: An energy management and control system that may manage versioning firmware for devices. The system may be structured in a hierarchy of enterprise, site and field levels, with one or more computing platforms at the various levels. An enterprise supervisor may detect and obtain new version firmware for the devices at the field level. The new version firmware may be transferred from the supervisor to one or more site controllers. The one or more site controllers may transfer the new version firmware to eligible field devices. The devices may report to their respective site controllers a status of a transfer of the new version hardware. The site controllers may report to the supervisor the status of the transfer. Detection of new version firmware may be automatic. Transfer of the new version firmware to virtually all of the eligible devices may be automatic.

Abstract: A method of operating an operating system for providing inter-application communications between a publisher application and a subscriber application. The method includes receiving a publication request from the publisher application at an operating system, receiving a subscriber application from the subscriber application at the operating system, performing an operating system based event brokering procedure based on the publication request and the subscription request, and publishing an event based on the procedure.

Abstract: A system and method for flexible device driver resource allocation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for allocating device driver resources in a data processing system includes statically allocating hardware resource pools to device drivers on a rigid basis during initialization of the data processing system, and dynamically altering the allocated hardware resource pools to the device drivers based on parameters associated with utilization of the allocated hardware resource pools during run-time.

Abstract: A method for managing I/O event notifications in a data processing system, the data processing system comprising a plurality of applications and an operating system having a kernel and an I/O event notification mechanism operable to maintain a plurality of I/O event notification objects each handling a set of file descriptors associated with one or more I/O resources, the method comprising: for each of a plurality of application-level configuration calls: intercepting at a user-level interface a configuration call from an application to the I/O event notification mechanism for configuring an I/O event notification object; and storing a set of parameters of the configuration call at a data structure, each set of parameters representing an operation on the set of file descriptors handled by the I/O event notification object; and subsequently, on a predetermined criterion being met: the user-level interface causing the plurality of configuration calls to be effected by means of a first system call to the kernel.

Abstract: Methods and systems for allocating, one or more virtual functions of a plurality of virtual functions associated with physical functions of I/O interface devices of a computing device are described. One method includes managing one or more physical functions of an I/O interface device within an interconnect partition of a multi-partition virtualization system implemented at least in part on the computing device. The method further includes, during a boot process of a second partition on the computing device, parsing a file to determine an assignment of one or more virtual functions to the second partition and associate each of the one or more virtual functions to corresponding physical functions.

Abstract: A system and method for reconfigurable inter-processor communications in a controller. The system and method include providing multiple processors in the controller and generating a send buffer and a receive buffer for each of the processors. The system and method further include generating a send table and a receive table for each of the processors where the send table stores identifying information about messages being sent and where the receive table stores identifying information about messages being received, and providing infrastructure services that include protocols for sending and receiving messages between multiple processors in the controller.

Abstract: A method includes inputting an application program to be tested to a data processing system; linking the application program to a software library; performing, in cooperation with the software library, a static analysis of a user interface of the application program, without executing the application program, to generate a set of static analysis results; performing, in cooperation with the software library, a dynamic analysis of the user interface of the application program while executing the application program to generate a set of dynamic analysis results and, based on the set of static analysis results and the set of dynamic analysis results, a step of determining if the user interface of the application program violates one or more user interface policy rules. Also disclosed is a computer program product that implements the method and a system configured to execute the computer program product in accordance with the method.

Abstract: A method of dynamically determining and utilizing an application programming interface within an electronic device is presented. In the method, a definition of an object is received from the application programming interface, wherein the definition describes at least a portion of the application programming interface. The object is then generated based on the definition, wherein the object includes data for controlling the electronic device. The object is transferred to the application programming interface.

Abstract: A composite manager may include a set of managers virtualized as a single entity. The composite manager may also include at least one of a module to provide a single manager interface for the set of managers to manage at least one entity, and a module to provide a single manageability interface for the set of managers relative to any managing entity of the composite manager.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a resource management method for a virtual machine system, where the method includes: obtaining, by a virtual resource management platform, a QoS constraint parameter of a virtual machine cluster and a current operating status statistical indicator of the virtual machine cluster, and according to the QoS constraint parameter of the virtual machine cluster and the current operating status statistical indicator of the virtual machine cluster, adjusting physical resources scheduling policy of a physical device platform or performing physical resource scheduling on the physical device platform. The method may ensure QoS of a cloud application.

Abstract: Among other things, processing an incoming message stream includes storing context data of an application in a global database. Various messages from the incoming message stream are placed in an in-memory message queue. One of at least a first and a second phases at a first process is executed, and another of the at least first and second phases at a second process is also executed, so as to alternately execute a first phase and a second phase by a first process and a second process. The first phase includes processing at least one message from the various messages and storing at least one corresponding result in a local memory area. The first phase also includes storing at least one modification to the context data in the local memory area. The second phase includes performing a transaction of the at least one result and the at least one modification of the context data to the global database and committing the transaction.

Abstract: A present event management method includes: calculating, for each of plural execution intervals that are different each other, a number of events to be executed within a predetermined interval that is equal to or less than a shortest execution interval; reading n data blocks at the predetermined intervals from a storage device that stores, for each of plural events, a data block. “n” is a total number of calculated numbers. The data block is used to execute a corresponding event, and each of the plural events has either of the plural execution intervals. The present event management method further includes outputting an execution request including the read data blocks to an execution unit that executes an event.

Abstract: Embodiments of a Radio Equipment (RE), and methods of operation thereof, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RE is designed for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) and is connected to a Radio Equipment Controller (REC) that does not support IPC. In operation, the RE receives a non-IPC message from the REC. An IPC translator of the RE then translates the non-IPC message into an equivalent IPC message and provides the equivalent IPC message to a corresponding process operating on the RE. In one embodiment, multiple processes are operating on the RE, and the IPC translator provides the equivalent IPC message to one of the processes that is responsible for handling the equivalent IPC message. As a result of the IPC translator, IPC signaling occurring at the RE is transparent to the REC.

Abstract: A batching module that inspects call stacks within a stack evaluator to identify current expressions that can be evaluated in batch with other expressions. If such expressions are identified, the corresponding stacks are blocked from further processing and a batch processing request for processing the expressions is transmitted to the application server. The application server processes the expressions in batch and generates a value for each of the expressions. The blocked stacks are then populated with the values for the expressions.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing backend custom code extensibility. Such extensibility allows custom code to be automatically loaded dynamically (e.g., on-demand) in a runtime that is hosted by a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) module while the runtime is running to provide custom backend features that are defined by the custom code to an application in response to receipt of a request from the application.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system. The system includes a high availability module and a data transformation module. During operation, the high availability module identifies a modified object belonging to an application in a second system. A modification to the modified object is associated with a transaction identifier. The high availability module also identifies a local object corresponding to the modified object associated with a standby application corresponding to the application in the second system. The data transformation module automatically transforms the value of the modified object to a value assignable to the local object, including pointer conversion to point to equivalent object of the second system. The high availability module updates the current value of the local object with the transformed value.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for clustering for parallel processing. One of the methods includes providing virtual machines with an interface to a shuffle service, the shuffle service executing external of the virtual machines. The method includes receiving data records through the interface, each data record having a key and a value. The method includes partitioning the data records, using the shuffle service, according to the respective keys. The method includes providing a part of the partitioned data records through the interface to the virtual machines, wherein data records having the same key are provided to the same virtual machine. Each of the virtual machines can execute on a host machine and each of the virtual machine is a hardware virtualization of a machine.

Abstract: A method for all-to-all message exchange between program tasks including N>1 hierarchy levels ln, n=1 to N, in which a first level l1 includes a plurality of group tasks and each higher level l(n>1) includes at least one group of level l(n?1) groups to which that task belongs in respective hierarchy levels of the network topology; sending a message via the interconnection network to a respective destination task whose hierarchical identifier is determined; and using the hierarchical identifier to send the program task and the network topology, such that the resulting exchange pattern for the all-to-all message exchange exploits a hierarchical distance in the network topology in a desired manner.

Abstract: A monitoring system performs cause analysis of an event occurring in any of a plurality of monitoring-target objects to be monitored based on a rule. In this case, the monitoring system makes a detection during the analysis time width and determines a plurality of conclusions based on an event corresponding to the condition for determining the conclusion. Moreover, the monitoring system performs one or more of (A) displaying change of certainty to be used for determination of a conclusion in a case where the analysis time width is assumed to be changed, (B) performing sort display of the determined conclusion based on an index value showing an affected range and (C) calculating the analysis time width based on the index value.