Abstract: A computer system and method responds to a compromise of a first computer node by automatically hardening one or more uncompromised nodes of the system.

Abstract: One method embodiment includes defining a first package to be opened by a computing device. The method includes associating installation content to be installed on the computing device with the first package. The first package includes a second package that includes the installation content to be installed and the first package includes package functionality information to determine whether a particular package functionality can be utilized by the computing device.

Abstract: One method embodiment includes defining a first package to be opened by a computing device. The method includes associating installation content to be installed on the computing device with the first package. The first package includes a second package that includes the installation content to be installed and the first package includes package functionality information to determine whether a particular package functionality can be utilized by the computing device.

Abstract: A system comprising a first subsystem adapted to provide a service by executing a first code stored on the first subsystem. The system further comprises a second subsystem, communicably coupled to the first subsystem, on which a second code associated with the first code is stored. The second subsystem produces modified code by applying status files associated with the first code to the second code. The second subsystem provides the service in lieu of the first subsystem by executing the modified code.

Abstract: A system and method for a computer system to recognize and initialize an arrangement of a plurality of physical monitors as a single logical screen (SLS). The invention translates a user's window operation request directed to the SLS into an SLS function. The SLS function is then translated into a plurality of device dependent functions, each of which performs the user's requested window operation on one physical monitor. The translation of the SLS function comprises an unwrapping of the SLS function by removing the SLS function and installing the plurality of device dependent functions, and the wrapping of the plurality of device dependent functions by removing the plurality of device dependent functions and installing the SLS function. The invention implements each of the unwrapping and wrapping operations in two assignment instructions.

Abstract: A system and method for a computer system to recognize and initialize an arrangement of a plurality of physical monitors as a single logical screen (SLS). The invention translates a user's window operation request directed to the SLS into an SLS function. The SLS function is then translated into a plurality of device dependent functions, each of which performs the user's requested window operation on one physical monitor. The translation of the SLS function comprises an unwrapping of the SLS function by removing the SLS function and installing the plurality of device dependent functions, and the wrapping of the plurality of device dependent functions by removing the plurality of device dependent functions and installing the SLS function. The invention implements each of the unwrapping and wrapping operations in two assignment instructions.

Abstract: An interactive, information logging and processing tool that provides information regarding a process's data structure utilization to reduce the working set of a process's dynamically allocated memory. The actual working set (AWS) determinant determines which portions of the dynamically-allocated pages, referred to as the process's virtual memory (VM) working set (VWS) are actually used. It then determines the actual working set of a dynamically allocated memory for a given benchmark. The basic approach of the AWS determinator is to observe which data structures cause page faults when the targeted process is severely thrashing. AWS determinator includes a data logger and a data analyzer.

Abstract: First next and second next pixel locations are selected simultaneously from among adjacent pixel locations and represent a straight line segment defined by two end locations and having a slope of one or less. An initialization process uses the .DELTA.X and .DELTA.Y of the desired line segment to find various constants, including an initial error term, an error term increment, an error term decrement, an error term double increment, an error term double decrement, and an error term increment-then-decrement. These represent, respectively, an increment in the X location without an increment to the Y location (a step S), an increment in the X location and an increment in the Y location (a jump J), a step followed by a step (two steps SS), two jumps (JJ), and either of a step-then-jump or a jump-then-step (SJ/JS). These five operations correspond to the only possible locations that might be selected, given any starting location.