Abstract: Sending a discovery agent to a computing device determines the services provided by that first computing device. As a result, a first set of information is received from the agent that provides information indicative of the services provided by the computing device. That information can then be compared to other information, either from the same computing device at a different point in time, or from a second computing device. The other information is indicative of services performed by that computing device at a different point in time or the second computing device. From that, services provided by the computing device that were previously different on the first computing device or that are not available on the second computing device can be determined.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to transfer information from an object-oriented repository to a relational database. A repository definition file is created from a meta object facility (MOF) modeling tool. A schema file used by a relational database is generated from the repository definition file. A library object code is generated from the repository definition file. Relational data from an object-oriented repository are loaded into the relational database using the library object code.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide time sensitivity to an inference engine. A time function is associated to an event object and a rule object in a rule engine using a dynamic object. The event object represents one of an event and a fact. The rule object represents a rule associated with the event object. Time-related information on the dynamic object is obtained using a timed fact object and the time function. The timed fact object corresponds to the event object. A time queue containing the timed fact object is updated using the time-related information. The updated time queue updates status of a condition of the rule.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a software development framework having a repository and at least two software systems. The repository contains a meta-model and the software systems, which store instances of the meta-model. The method enables exchange of the instances of the metadata among the software systems using a generalized data transfer language. The method comprises the steps of extracting a fixed component and a list of repeated components of the metadata; extracting a variable component form the list of repeated components; parsing the variable component into a first set of constituent components for a first instance of the variable component; and, determining the hierarchical order and inheritance of the first set of constituent components in the list of repeated components. Next, each of the first set of constituent components are transformed into corresponding components of the generalized software language.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a software development framework that has a repository and at least two software systems. The repository contains a meta-model and the software systems store instances of the meta-model. The method enables exchange of the instances of the meta-model among the software systems using a generalized data transfer language. The method comprises the steps of extracting a fixed component and a variable component of the metadata; parsing the variable component into constituent components; and, transforming each of the constituent components into corresponding components of a software language. The previous two steps are repeated for each instance of the variable component. Next, each instance of the variable component is transformed into corresponding components of the generalized software language. The fixed components are then transformed into corresponding components of the generalized software language.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a software development framework having a repository and at least two software systems. The repository contains a meta-model and the software systems, which store instances of the meta-model. The method enables exchange of the instances of the meta-model among the software systems using a generalized data transfer language. The method comprises the steps of extracting a fixed component and a variable of the meta-model; parsing the variable component into a first set of constituent components for a first instance of the variable component; and extracting a list of repeated components from the first set of constituent components. Next, each of the members of the list of repeated components is transformed into components of a generalized software language. Then, the first set of constituent components are transformed into corresponding components of the generalized software language.

Abstract: A method useful in a computing system that has at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto by means of a network. The server has a repository coupled to it for storing SCL of a legacy Form and at least one of the clients executes a Web browser program. The method operates in the same client that the Web browser operates and is invoked by the Web browser program for supporting the exact reproduction of the legacy Form. SCL Text is parsed to obtain a sequence of SCL Constructs, some of which contain information relating to GUI Controls of the legacy Form. For each SCL Construct with a GUI Control to be displayed, a GUI Control is painted by using type and positioning information derived from each of the SCL Constructs, respectively. Font information from the SCL Construct is used to set font characteristics of the GUI Control and user inputs are interpreted to navigate from GUI Control to GUI Control.

Abstract: A method in a computing system having at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto by means of a network. The server executes a Web Server program and at least one of the clients executes a Web browser program. The method operates in the server and at least one of the clients for supporting dynamic access to objects stored in the server repository by the Web browser program. The method begins in the client by parsing Form description language to obtain references to objects stored in the server repository. For each reference to an object stored in the repository, a message is constructed for the Repository Object for transmission to the Web server. Within the Web server the message is used to retrieve the contents of the Repository Object from the server repository. Next, the retrieved contents of the Repository Object is returned to the client for association with its Data Name.

Abstract: A method operating in a computing system that has at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto. The server has a CPU executing a Web Server program and a repository coupled thereto for storing description language of a Form to be displayed. The server is coupled to a host having a CPU executing a legacy application containing the Form. At least one of the clients executes a Web browser program. The method of the present invention operates in the server and the client for supporting enterprise application data binding. The method in the server includes the steps of opening the Forms and requesting a first Form and associating data names with data values received from the host and sending them to the client.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a method for generating code in a maintainable form and in performing needed maintenance for the same. This method is useful in a computing system having at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto by means of a network. The server includes a CPU executing legacy programs and at least one storage device for storing forms of the legacy program. The generated code implements the host forms while allowing for additional logic to be added. The method of this invention operates in at least one of the clients for generating code for modifying existing event routines for controls on the forms. Moreover, the code generated by the method of this invention is separated from additional logic added by a programmer, and this programmer-added logic is retained even as the generated code is revised.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink duct for tubular styluses on writing implements with a compensating system and with an air access and escape system and consists substantially of a connecting system between writing tube and ink storage tank comprising capillary gaps, grooves and plane gaps, which ensures a regulated ink flow and a pressure compensation between the storage tank internal pressure and the ambient air pressure. Consequently, even a tubular stylus with a large charge volume, in the case of a non-refillable writing implement for example, is controlled reliably by this system in the case of pressure differences and with the required vibration resistance.

Abstract: A balanced ink feeding system comprises a lamellate body connected to a retaining member holding a writing element for feeding ink to the writing element, the retaining member with the lamellate body being fluid-tightly fastened in a housing sleeve by frictional engagement therewith.

Abstract: A releasable protective holder for a tip of a writing or drafting implement including a polygonal part, a cylindrical part extending therefrom and a writing or drafting tube on the cylindrical part extending into the holder when theimplement tip is held therein, which comprises a first receiving portion of a polygonal cross section keyed to the polygonal part, the first receiving portion including an annular bottom wall engaging an end face of the polygonal implement tip part, and a second, tubular receiving portion extending from the annular bottom wall of the first receiving portion to a free end thereof, the tubular receiving portion yieldingly surrounding the cylindrical part of the implement tip and defining a bore having at the free end of the bore a diameter smaller than the diameter of the cylindrical part for releasably clamping the implement tip in the protective holder.

Abstract: An ink writing implement comprises a retainer for a floating weight arranged in the axial bore of a retaining box and having an annular planar surface facing a planar shoulder therein. A venting groove and capillary grooves pierce the surface and the retainer includes a spiral ink flow path along the circumference thereof. A floating weight is guided for axial movement in the axial bore of the retainer and the planar shoulder forms an abutment for a front end of the floating weight. The retainer bore is long enough to accommodate the axial movement of the floating weight and this weight defines an axially extending venting channel with the retainer. A front retainer end is cylindrically recessed and comprises a surface defining an ink flow control path in the axial bore of the retaining box, which connects the venting groove and channel with the spiral ink flow path.

Abstract: An India ink drawing implement comprises a retaining box defining an axial bore and a tubular drawing point affixed to an outer end of the retaining box for receiving India ink from the axial bore of the retaining box. A retainer for a floating weight is threadedly fastened to a threaded inner end of the retaining box. The retainer defines an axial bore in alignment with the axial bore of the retaining box and comprises an elongated tubular portion extending through the retainer box bore and a bottom closing an inner end of the retainer. A floating weight is guided for axial movement in the axial bore of the retainer and a portion of the retaining box bore. The length of the tubular retainer portion is sufficient to guide a major portion of the floating weight and the bottom of the retainer limits the stroke of the axial movement of the floating weight.

Abstract: A stand for holding and sealingly retaining a plurality of India ink drawing implements includes a like plurality of sleeves for holding the drawing implements and for sealingly retaining the implements to prevent India ink therein from drying. Each implement comprises a tubular drawing point, a grip having a front end to which the point is attached and an annular bid of the grip rearwardly of the front end. A tubular packing in each sleeve surrounds the drawing point and has an annular sealing lip at an end thereof remote from the drawing point. A packing insert in the interior of the packing has a plane face adjacent the drawing point. A tubular clamping element in each sleeve surrounds the grip adjacent the packing and has an inwardly projecting cam.

Abstract: A stand for holding and sealingly retaining a plurality of India ink drawing implements includes a like plurality of sleeves for holding the drawing implements and for sealingly retaining the implements to prevent the India ink therein from drying out. There is a tubular packing in each sleeve and the packing has an annular sealing lip in the interior thereof. A packing insert is in the interior of the tubular packing. A tubular clamping element is inserted in each sleeve rearwardly of the packing and has inwardly projecting cams. The packing insert, the sealing lip and the cams are arranged respectively for sealing and seating and drawing point of the inplement, the front end of its grip and an annular bead on the grip rearwardly of the front end when a respective drawing implement is inserted into the clamping element and packing in a respective sleeve.

Abstract: The ink supply system of a fountain pen which defines a longitudinal path of ink flow from a reservoir in the pen barrel to a writing point projecting from the barrel includes an ink feeding member defining therein one portion of the ink path contiguously adjacent the writing point and a flow controlling member defining another portion of the path which connects the ink feeding member to the reservoir. The latter portion of the ink path is elongated and has an effective flow section smaller than the flow section in the feeding member.

Abstract: The cap of a fountain pen is releasably locked to the barrel by spherically arcuate projections in the bore of the cap engaging a groove in the barrel which is bounded by a circumferential sealing rib on the barrel in a direction inward of the cap when the latter is in the closed position. Three, equiangularly distributed, axial ribs in the cap guide the barrel during insertion of the barrel into the cap and bound capillary ducts in the assembled pen which collect condensate from the air chamber surrounding the nib and prevent contamination of the condensate with coloring matter from the ink. The sealing rib on the barrel engages a cylindrical face portion of the cap between the projections and the outer ends of the guide ribs.

Abstract: A plunger-mounted pin moves axially in the tubular stylus projecting from the front end of a stylograph barrel. Ink is supplied to the stylus from a reservoir in the barrel through a continuous capillary conduit system partly constituted by an annular gap between the plunger and a feed bar in which the plunger is axially movable. A portion of the conduit system by-passes an air chamber behind the plunger.