Script Patents (Class 717/115)
  • Patent number: 8285403
    Abstract: A method and system for transcoding for a mobile device. The method includes accepting a master file, processing the master file with steps laid out in a definition file, the definition file providing instructions for converting the master file to a derivative file appropriate for playback on a pre-specified mobile handset, and outputting the results of the processing step into the derivative file. The system includes a definition file, the definition file providing instructions for converting a master file to a derivative file appropriate for playback on a pre-specified mobile handset. A plurality of modules is employed that are controlled by the definition file and which perform a corresponding plurality of functions on the master file or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Salvatore, Naveen Selvadurai, Tim Nilson
  • Patent number: 8271945
    Abstract: A method of operating a set of devices comprises receiving a real-world description in the form of an instruction set of a markup language, the description including asset terms and effect terms, requesting assets and effects according to the description, modifying at least one asset according to at least one effect, and operating the devices according to the assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: AMBX UK Limited
    Inventors: David A. Eves, Richard S. Cole
  • Patent number: 8266588
    Abstract: Automatically creating a current project in an application developer workspace is provided. In response to reading a project file for the current project, it is automatically determined whether the current project has one or more dependent projects based on data contained within the project file. In response to determining that the current project does have one or more dependent projects, a build file is automatically generated for each of the one or more dependent projects. The build file calls importing targets within each of the one or more dependent projects. Then, the current project and the one or more dependent projects are automatically imported into the application developer workspace to form a created current project. The created current project is created without launching an application developer application. In addition, the created current project is stored in a source code control repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanaa F. Abdelhadi, Jennifer Lee Carlucci, Guoyou Chen, Rene Ruben Martinez, David Wa-Wai Nip, Danling Shi, Philip Kincheloe Warren
  • Publication number: 20120226737
    Abstract: A system and method for processing service request in service oriented architectures to minimize service overhead is provided. The method includes invoking a software service by a client by sending service request to a server hosting the software service. The method further includes receiving the software service request by the server and determining whether one or more portions of service logic software code should be executed by the client, based on information related to client capabilities. Thereafter, service logic software code is streamed to the client partly or in-total. The client executes service logic software code provided by the server. The server is pre-configured to execute or transfer one or more portions of service logic software code to the client based on client capability information and extent of affinity of the service for server-specific resources. The server executes the software service partly or in-total based on the configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Prasanna Rajaraman, Sethuraman Ramasundaram
  • Publication number: 20120222003
    Abstract: A method of creating an application definition for a distributed application is disclosed. Constructs corresponding with a schema of the distributed application are defined in a declarative and technology agnostic manner. The constructs include the application definition, a module definition, and a component definition. Each construct includes metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dharma Shukla, Akash Jeevan Sagar, Nathan C. Talbert, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Robert B. Schmidt, Aditya Bhandarkar, Asad Jawahar
  • Patent number: 8250568
    Abstract: A method of distributing and executing upgrade/installation instructions as data objects. These instructions can then be completed automatically requesting user interaction only when required. This method would allow someone with little knowledge of the application and/or internal implementation of said application to perform an upgrade to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Daniel Dull, III, James E. Favre, Shawn Michael Hanson
  • Patent number: 8250526
    Abstract: XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) documents, PolicySets and Policies can become long, complex and difficult to completely comprehend. A method is provided for facilitating analysis of such code to make it easier to answer questions such as: Given a particular set of Attribute values (and/or others unknown as of now), what is permitted or denied; are any of the rules redundant; are any of the rules inconsistent; for any pair of policies in the code, what set of Attributes will they both return Permit; how can a policy be refactored into an equivalent set of policies in which each branch of the policy tree pertains to specific values of specified Attributes? To facilitate such analysis and refactoring, every Rule in the collection of policies being analyzed is reduced to an equivalent expression in DNF (Disjunctive Normal Form). Some terms, predicates and other elements may be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Anne H. Anderson, Seth T. Proctor
  • Publication number: 20120210299
    Abstract: A computing device executes one or more applications within a shell session, such as a Powershell session. The computing device may detect, within the shell session, a runtime exception that causes the shell session to prematurely terminate. The computer device serializes an object associated with the runtime exception prior to closure of the shell session. The computer device may also serialize other objects. Serializing the object includes identifying the object's type, identifying data associated with the object's type, identifying internal types of the object, and identifying data associated with each of the internal types, and generating a representation of the object that preserves the object's type, the data included in the object, and all internal types of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Pasternak
  • Patent number: 8244804
    Abstract: Methods and systems for validating device activity by way of logic sharing are presented. In an example, a text file comprising a script defining programming logic to be executed in conjunction with an online game is transmitted from a server device via a communication network to a client device. Input data for a client-side application executing at the client device for the online game is received at the client device. The input data is transmitted via the communication network from the client device to the server device. The script is executed at the client device from the client-side application using the input data to produce a first result. The script is also executed at the server device from a server-side application using the input data received from the client device to produce a second result equal to the first result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler Casselman
  • Patent number: 8239826
    Abstract: An automation framework for automation of modular scripts based on a method for automating a script step in a modular script is provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises preparing a software environment for automation; performing one or more user actions on a software product executing on a computer system, the actions being representative of the script step that is to be automated, while the computer system records the user actions such that the modularity of the modular script is retained and the script step is automated; and providing user input to the computer system indicating that all the user actions have been performed. The modular script may be a modular test script prescribing test script steps that test a software product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis W. Elenburg, Judith Keeley, Robert B. Levy, Francis J. McGrath, Mark T. Metheny, René D. Morrow, William C. Tobin, Mark F. Victory, Steven W. Walton
  • Patent number: 8234627
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for expediting information display on a user device are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a request for information is received. An application server then generates and provides source code for a web page containing the requested information. In exemplary embodiments, a removal module is returned with the source code for the first web page. The removal module is configured to remove unnecessary elements from subsequent source code in order to expedite loading and displaying of subsequent web pages on the user device. In some embodiments, the web page comprises a syndicated web page within a window of a main web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Knowledge Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Floyd, Brian Spiegel
  • Patent number: 8234362
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site whereby cookie data is compiled at the visitor computer using cookie processing script embedded within the web page downloaded over the Internet and operable on the visitor computer. Data mining code within the downloaded web page is operable on the visitor computer to obtain web browsing data. The cookie processing script operates in consideration of this web browsing data and an old cookie previously stored on the visitor computer and associated with the visited web page to obtain new cookie values. These new cookie values are then stored on the visitor computer and also attached to an image request sent to a data collection server where they are processed and posted for viewing by the web page owner. As cookie processing and writing occurs completely within the visitor computer, cookie-blocking technologies are circumvented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Webtrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Lu, Xavier Le Hericy, Elijahu Shapira
  • Patent number: 8233890
    Abstract: Included are embodiments of a method for communicating user preferences to at least one environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving a request from an environment for preference information related to a user and receiving a user identifier from the environment, the user identifier obtained via a portable user device. Other embodiments include determining at least one user preference related to the user, determining capabilities related to the environment, and communicating at least one user preference to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Samuel N. Zellner, Douglas O'Neil
  • Publication number: 20120185823
    Abstract: A method for web automation includes providing a self dependent automation script. The self dependent automation script includes a script model that includes instructions to be executed by a processor, and an incorporated runtime engine configured to execute the script model on the processor. The method further includes applying a runtime engine selected from a set of at least one runtime engine, the set including at least the incorporated runtime engine, so as to execute the script model. A computer program product and data processing system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Sagi MONZA, Moshe Eran Kraus, Svetlana Aronov, Dror Schwartz
  • Patent number: 8225273
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for displaying unified model (UM) data in a UM visualization. A system is provided that includes: a weighting system for assigning weights to UM elements; a clustering system for clustering UM elements into categories; and a visualization system for displaying clustered and weighted UM elements within a conceptual framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony D. Hall, Sonal M. Starr, Virginia M. Wallace
  • Patent number: 8225196
    Abstract: In some embodiments, code can be encapsulated in an external behavior component for affecting the behavior of an element inserted into an HTML document. A reference can be attached to the element in the document to associate the element with the external behavior component. A renderer can parse the element in the HTML document and access the external component to modify a behavior of a page image. For example, the properties or location of a displayed element associated with the external behavior component may be changed on an event, the external behavior component can control user data input, or the external behavior component can draw on the page image. Multiple documents can reuse external behavior components, and an element can be associated with multiple external behavior components. The associations between elements and external behavior components may be maintained in cascading style sheets, inline with the elements, and in various formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Ramakrishna, Christian Fortini, Alexander J. Zotov, Roderick Chavez, David H. Massy, Richard J. Gardner
  • Patent number: 8219903
    Abstract: A display information verification method, when display data of financial data is generated from the financial data and scripts for the financial data, includes: searching the scripts for an arithmetic instruction to process a numeric value in the financial data or a conversion instruction to convert a character string included in the financial data; and judging whether or not the arithmetic instruction or the conversion instruction detected in the searching is an instruction considered to manipulate the financial data. Thus, it is possible to detect the instruction considered to manipulate data from the scripts, and to avoid display including the manipulation of the data. In addition, for example, by using information of the instruction, which is stored inside in advance and is allowed to be used, it is possible to detect only the arithmetic instruction or the conversion instruction, which is not allowed to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Masaya Naitou
  • Patent number: 8219972
    Abstract: An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Application Server for storing, processing, communicating, and displaying dynamic semi-structured information. It comprises a declarative specification language, a transactional indexed XML data store, and an XML application server engine. An integrated architecture (a) provides for optimization, indexing, and backtracking search in a business logic layer, (b) provides for general-purpose programming idioms including recursive function definitions, iteration, and dynamic dispatch in data layer queries and updates, and (c) eliminates processing overhead and maintenance issues caused by transforming between relational, object-oriented, and semi-structured data paradigms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventor: Judson Ames Cornish
  • Patent number: 8219573
    Abstract: A method of the present invention includes: inputting a state transition diagram that represents first transitions between a plurality of states; inputting a mapping function that maps a given state to a value within a certain range; mapping each of the states with the mapping function to obtain mapping values, and perform grouping of the states into a plurality of groups based on the mapping values; for each of pairs of two groups obtained by combining two of the groups, setting a second transition from one group of the two groups to the other group when there is at least one first transition between therein; generating a representative transition path which is a sequence of the second transitions by tracing sequentially the second transitions; converting the representative transition path to a transition path in the state transition diagram; outputting the transition path as the test case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiromasa Shin
  • Patent number: 8209665
    Abstract: Topics in source code can be identified using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) by receiving source code, identifying domain specific keywords from the source code, generating a keyword matrix, processing the keyword matrix and the source code using LDA, and outputting a list of topics. The list of topics is output as collections of domain specific keywords. Probabilities of domain specific keywords belonging to their respective topics can also be output. The keyword matrix comprises weighted sums of occurrences of domain specific keywords in the source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Infosys Limited
    Inventors: Girish Maskeri Rama, Kenneth Heafield, Santonu Sarkar
  • Patent number: 8196097
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for extending a gadget. During operation, the system initially executes a gadget extension which extends a host gadget. In doing so, the system obtains from the gadget extension a specifier for the host gadget and a specifier for an interface. Next, the system establishes a communication interface between the gadget extension and the host gadget through the interface. Finally, the system uses functionality of the host gadget within the gadget extension via communication through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Sampath, Carolyn Au, Omar Khan, Andrew M. Scherkus
  • Patent number: 8196098
    Abstract: A system for managing temporary processing agents. A first code routine is provided as an empty routine in an agent including first executable code, the empty routine consisting of non-executable code. A programming component selectively loads second executable code to the first routine for converting the empty routine to a populated routine. A code element issues a call to the first routine. An agent execution component is responsive to the first routine being a populated routine for executing the second executable code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott D. Hicks, James A. Martin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8191041
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a framework for pre-processing Javascript files. In some embodiments, the framework includes a pre-processor component operable to determine whether pre-release Javascript file versions include pre-processing commands in a predefined syntax which is defined by the framework. The pre-processor component may maintain a mapping between any or all of these commands and one or more handler programs, such that the handler program(s) may be invoked to perform any of various pre-processing functions on a pre-release file version. The framework may be extensible and scalable in that it may accommodate the addition of or modification to any number of handler programs. A new handler program may be developed and invoked, for example, via a new pre-processing command which is defined to the pre-processor component and mapped to the handler program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Tao Huang
  • Patent number: 8191042
    Abstract: Declarative definition and composition of activities of a continuation based runtime. When formulating such a declarative activity of a continuation-based runtime, the activity may be formulated in accordance with a declarative activity schema and include a properties portion that declaratively defines one or more interface parameters of the declarative activity, and a body portion that declaratively defines an execution behavior of the declarative activity. The declarative activities may be hierarchically structured such that a parent declarative activity may use one or more child activities to define its behavior, where one or more of the child activities may also be defined declaratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth David Wolf, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Donald F. Box
  • Patent number: 8176502
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a scripting language framework. A script is run within the scripting language framework. The script defines an application characterized by a hierarchy of frames in a user interface window. A sub-frame log for a sub-frame in the hierarchy of frames is captured. The log is stored in a top log of a top frame of the hierarchy of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: SAP France S.A.
    Inventors: Manikandan Srinivasan, Baskaran Manivannan, Yohann Richard
  • Patent number: 8176411
    Abstract: A Web page of a Web application can be identified. The identified Web page can include an applet. A navigation action from the identified Web page to another Web page of the multi-page Web application can be detected. A state of the applet can be automatically saved before the applet terminates and the next Web page is navigated to. A navigation action to return to the identified Web page can be detected. This navigation can cause the previously saved applet state to be automatically retrieved and applied to the identified Web page so that the Web page is presented in a state that it was in when last navigated away from.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: David W. Palmieri
  • Patent number: 8171460
    Abstract: A system and method for language-neutral runtime user interface automation by: providing an automation script for automating use of the user interface in an application; intercepting a call from the automation script to a function simulating a user action on the application; retrieving a translated text string associated with the function call; and calling the function simulating the user action with the translated text string. This provides the advantages of not attaching any extra burden on the script developer and requiring little extra from the user (other than providing a native-language reference file).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Pizzoli, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Hugh P Smyth, Mark E Wallace
  • Patent number: 8171389
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for processing document data, wherein the document data comprises at least one page in order and the page comprising at least one layer in order, the method comprises: managing and controlling the at least one layer respectively. The technical scheme of the present invention enables process a document on layers in the docbase management system and provides more flexible document processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sursen Corp.
    Inventors: Donglin Wang, Xu Guo, Changwei Liu, Kaihong Zou, Xiaoqing Lu
  • Patent number: 8171045
    Abstract: The compiled code of a computer program is stored in multiple pieces within a database. Each piece is optionally stored within a separate data record. Execution of the computer program includes using database queries to retrieve pieces of the compiled code for execution. The database and associated database management logic are used to provide numerous advantages in execution and management of the computer program. For example, in some embodiments, database queries are used to help facilitate program flow logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: XSEVO Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Dustin Kurt Adler
  • Patent number: 8171395
    Abstract: A method for interfacing with an XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser generator to generate deserialization information interleaved with XML parsing and validation, including: providing an XML parser generator with information about the schema which the instance data conforms to; providing a data reporting application programming interface (API) and a generator module; providing one or more implementations of the data reporting API; providing the XML parser generator with a selected data reporting API implementation module; generating an XML parser to parse and validate instance documents conforming to the specified input schema and deserializing the instance documents into the desired deserialization format during the parse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret Gaitatzes Kostoulas, Moshe E. Matsa, Martha A. Mercaldi, Eric Perkins
  • Publication number: 20120102455
    Abstract: A storage array is disclosed. The storage array may comprise a plurality of storage units configured for providing data storage; a processing module configured for hosting a virtual machine; and an application integration framework provided by the virtual machine. The application integration framework may comprise an application interface configured for interfacing with at least one application running on an application server, where the application server is communicatively connected with the storage array. The application integration framework may further comprise a software development kit (SDK) communicatively coupled to the application interface via a communication module, the SDK being configured for providing a programmatic interface to the at least one application and enabling the at least one application for delegating at least a portion of data processing operations to the storage array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Gopakumar Ambat, Vishwanath Nagalingappa Hawargi, Giribabu Balaraman
  • Patent number: 8166456
    Abstract: A programming language type system includes, in a memory, a set of numeric type including integer types, fixed-point types and floating-point types, a set of type propagation rules to automatically determine result types of any combination of integer types, fixed-point types and floating-point types, constant annotations to explicitly specify a result type of a literal constant, context-sensitive constants whose type is determined from a context of a constant according to the set of type propagation rules, an assignment operator to explicitly specify a type of a value or computation, and operator annotations to explicitly specify a result type of a computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles J. Devane
  • Patent number: 8166522
    Abstract: An automated method is provided for obtaining selected content for a web page that allows for syndication of digital assets. The selected content itself is not initially part of the web page. The web page includes script associated with the selected content. Upon receiving a web page that includes script associated with the selected content, the script is interpreted. A request is then formatted for obtaining the selected content from a remote site. The request includes a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the web page and a unique identifier of the selected content. The script includes a subscriber identifier and a content identifier, which, together, create the unique identifier of the selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Active Data Exchange, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Martin, John E. Wetzel
  • Patent number: 8161455
    Abstract: A method to concurrently execute multiple primitive commands in a command line interface (CLI) is provided. Each of a plurality of signal parameters is designated for each of a plurality of primitive commands. The plurality of primitive commands is encapsulated into a header CLI command. The CLI command is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ezequiel Cervantes, Minghao M. Chu, Juan A. Coronado, Dinh Hai Le, Eric S. Shell, Clarisa Valencia
  • Publication number: 20120084750
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing property types, constraints, and other property validations in prototype-based dynamic programming languages, such as the JavaScript® programming language, are presented. A property definition is created for a target class by a programmer, and a properties class is automatically generated for the target class along with get and set methods to access and validate properties in the properties class. A properties class of a parent class can be automatically determined to exist and added such that the target class properties class inherits from the parent class properties class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent J. Hardy, Leo Ziegler
  • Patent number: 8150948
    Abstract: Systems and methods of deploying one or more software components to a target computer infrastructure are disclosed. A descriptor file that declares a desired state of one or more target computing devices of a target computer infrastructure is parsed. A live state of the one or more target computing devices is obtained. A set of target computing devices having the live state different from the desired state is identified. A plan script that includes deployment commands configured to deploy one or more software components to each computing device is generated. The plan script can be optimized such that when executed the software components are deployed with higher efficiency, system stability, minimum downtime, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dustin B Andrews, Sergei B Meleshchuk, John Shriver Blake
  • Patent number: 8151276
    Abstract: A script analyzer with change guide generates accurate test scripts for evolving applications. Applications often have complex graphical user interfaces for which the permutations and combinations of GUI elements give rise to an enormous field of potential commands and command sequences to be tested. Furthermore, these applications change over time, rendering prior test scripts unworkable. The script analyzer automatically generates new test scripts to reliably test subsequent application versions, while greatly reducing the time, cost, and resource expenditures needed to arrive at subsequent application versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie, Chen Fu
  • Publication number: 20120079453
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating interfaces includes computing a reference script for a task from a reference interface design and translating the reference script into one or more target action scripts based on a target design. The one or more target action scripts on the target design are executed to produce target metrics. The target metrics are compared to determine whether the target action script successfully translates the reference script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: RACHEL K. E. BELLAMY, Bonnie E. John, Calvin B. Swart, John C. Thomas, JR., Sharon M. Trewin
  • Publication number: 20120072823
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer medium for testing may be provided. An instruction including a natural language assertion statement may be received. The instruction may be parsed. The natural language assertion statement may be evaluated to true or false.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: TESSA A. LAU, JALAL U. MAHMUD
  • Publication number: 20120062577
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to display process control information are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a request to view process control information associated with a field device, accessing, via a database, a device description file associated with the field device, wherein the device description file is formatted to conform to an Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL), and generating a display for the process control information using the device description file, wherein the device description file includes a script extension that conditionally displays a graphic if a portion of the process control information matches a condition within the script extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Nixon
  • Patent number: 8132151
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for performing actions with respect to objects. An object having an action tag, that specifies that a particular action script is to be performed with respect to the object, is provided. The action tag can be in the form of a textual label or any suitable user interface object that can be associated with the object. A search is then performed in a plurality of reference action tags, that each correspond to a different action script, for the provided action tag. When a matching reference action tag is found for the provided action tag, the corresponding, matching action script is then invoked so that the matching action script is automatically performed with respect to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Shane P. Ahern, Alexander B. Jaffe, Simon P. King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, Jeannie Hui-I Yang
  • Patent number: 8132152
    Abstract: Generating programmatically a pointer to a super implementation of a method in a programming language that is not a class-based object-oriented programming (OOP) language is disclosed. A hierarchy of functions, the hierarchy including one or more parent nodes each representing a parent function and each having one or more child nodes, each child node representing a function that inherits the methods of the corresponding parent node of which it is a child, is traversed until a super implementation of an inherited method is found. A programmatically created pointer to the super implementation is inserted programmatically into a corresponding location in a current function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Benoit Marchant
  • Patent number: 8127268
    Abstract: A system and method of developing software includes a configuring a build tool configuration file with instructions to start a server software application, provision the server software application with test data; run unit tests on software that communicates with the server software application using the test data, clean up the test data, and stop the server software application. The build tool may automatically run tasks associated with the configured instructions upon changes to software that interacts with or otherwise depends the server software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Topcoder, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Fernandez-Ivern, David Messinger, Anthony Ka Wing Yuen, Volodymyr Grychyna
  • Patent number: 8117593
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method for highlighting selected tasks in a program code listing comprising: converting the program code listing to a mark-up language; inserting instructions at a starting point and at an ending point; and testing if highlighting is to be turned on at a point in the program code listing by the instructions provided at the starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Ann Freeman
  • Patent number: 8108771
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating secure, structured interactions between code modules executing within the context of a document processed by a user agent, such as a browser client, that implements a domain security model. In a particular implementation, a module connector script or object loaded into a base document discovers listener modules and sender modules corresponding to different origins or domains, and passes information between them. In this manner, a listener module may consume and use information from a sender module located on the same page simply by having an end-user add both modules to a web page without having to explicitly define any form of interconnection. For example, a photo module may access a user account at a remote photo sharing site, and provide one or more photos to a module that renders the photographs in a slide show.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo Chijiiwa, Isaac Alfred Henry Wasileski
  • Patent number: 8108830
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a screen element, based on a data object, of a component application is disclosed. The component application includes a data component having a data field definition and a screen component having a screen element definition. A mapping manager identifies a mapping present in the screen component. The mapping specifies dynamic relationships between the screen component and the data component by an identifier, and for selecting the data component mapped by the mapping according to the mapping identifier. The mapping manager maintains dynamic integrity and automatically synchronizes changes between the screen component and the corresponding data component. A data manager obtains a data object field value corresponding to the data field definition of the mapped data component; and a presentation manager generates a screen element from the screen element definition to include the data object field value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Viera Bibr, Michael Shenfield, Kamen B. Vitanov, Bryan R. Goring
  • Publication number: 20120023480
    Abstract: A data leak prevention application that categorizes documents by data type is provided, a data type being a sensitivity classification of a document based on what data the document contains. A scripting language processing engine is embedded into the data leak prevention application, the scripting language forming part of the application as hard code. A user configures interaction of the scripting language processing engine with the application. The configuring may include modifying or adding code or setting criteria for when code portions of the scripting language processing engine activates. The scripting language processing engine is activated to enhance an accuracy of an existing data type or so as to detect a new data type. Upon enhancing the accuracy of the data type, documents may be re-categorized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Amnon Perlmutter, Aviad Mor, Oded Gonda, Ofer Raz, Matt LeGrow
  • Publication number: 20120023481
    Abstract: An object-oriented scripting tool uses a XML file for software development and domain management. The XML file includes at least a first tag that defines a scripting class in an object-oriented scripting language. The scripting class includes at least one method, which is defined in a second tag in the XML file. A generic software development and domain management script can be encapsulated into a general scripting class, which can be extended into individual scripting class for specific software development and domain management task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haijun Li, Xin Xu, Peng Sun, Vladimir Egorov, Hongwei Du
  • Patent number: 8099713
    Abstract: A method and system arrangement are disclosed for configuring a program system. The method includes initializing binary program components of the program system and a source code interpreter for interpreting at least one source code event handler. Logical connections are set up between interfaces of the binary program components and interfaces of the interpreted source code event handler in order for events generated by the binary program components to be processed by the at least one source code event handler. A configuration file may also additionally be evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Becker, Karlheinz Dorn, Vladyslav Ukis, Hans-Martin Von Stockhausen
  • Publication number: 20120011488
    Abstract: An object is to provide a script description separation reconstructing device that can describe the same operation by the same command script regardless of a subsystem configuration of a controlled system, a configuration of a control system, and a kind of the command script. Using system configuration information indicating what kind of subsystem structure the controlled system is composed of, A script description separation reconstructing means reconstructs in a form of separating a system control command script description into a process inside each controller and a process by a host side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventor: Noriaki Suzuki