International Business Machines Corporation

Kenneth Wayne Borgendale

Steven Edward Atkin

John J Duigenan

Cornell G Wright, Jr

Foluso Olaiya Okunseinde

Ian Michael Holland

Nir Naaman

Hilary A Pike

Gidon Gershinsky

Michael Aaron Kaply

Richard Lee Verburg

John Day Howard

Eliezer Dekel

Alexander Krits

Colin Victor Powell

Kelvin Roberick Lawrence

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Herman Rodriguez

Kelvin Roderick Lawrence

Scott J Broussard

Michael Richard Cooper

Baldev Singh Soor

Michael B Geiger

Paul D Lewis

Kenneth A Zaiken

Ramanujam Ravisankar

Paul S Cheng

John J Wang

Michael D Flannery

Allen D Ross

Darren J Dobkin

Cornell Wright

Hilary Alison Pike

Cornell Wright Jr

John Justin Duigenan

Methods, systems, and products for subscribing for application messages in a multicast messaging environment as disclosed that include: requesting, by a message receiving device, a stream administration server to initialize a message subscription for application messages from a message sending device; receiving, in the message receiving device from the stream administration server, a data communications endpoint of a multicast message stream from the message sending device; beginning to listen, by the message receiving device, for the application messages at the data communications endpoint; and notifying, by the message receiving device after beginning to listen for the application messages, the message sending device to publish the application messages at the data communications endpoint.

Subscribing for application messages in a multicast messaging environment

An indication of a configuration policy of a plurality of configuration policies is received at a feed adapter. The configuration policy of the plurality of configuration policies is selected based, at least in part, on the received indication of the configuration policy. The configuration policy of the plurality of configuration policies specifies a conversion rule from an input message format to an output message format using at least one conversion function of a plurality of conversion functions. The conversion rule specifies types of arguments that the at least one conversion function receives and returns. An application message having the input message format is received in the feed adapter. The feed adapter converts the application message having the input message format to an application message having the output message format according to the conversion rule specified by the configuration policy of the plurality of configuration policies.

Application message conversion using a feed adapter

A method includes receiving active application messages that are part of an active message stream in a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter. Each active application message is characterized by an active source stream identifier, an active source stream sequence number, and an active message sequence number. The method includes receiving, in response to a failover from the active feed adapter to a backup feed adapter, backup application messages in the subscribing client device from the backup feed adapter. Each backup application message is characterized by a backup source stream identifier, a backup source stream sequence number, and a backup message sequence number. The method includes administering, by the subscribing client device, the backup application messages in dependence upon the active stream source identifier, the active stream source sequence number, the backup stream source identifier, and the backup stream source sequence number.

Reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for referencing message elements in an application message in a messaging environment that include: establishing a message model on a computer, the message model comprising message element specifications that each specify a message element for storing data in the application messages, each message element specification comprising element characteristics; creating, by a messaging module on the computer in dependence upon the message model, a message element designator map that maps a separate message element designator to each message element specified by the message model; receiving, in the messaging module from a requesting module, a request for an element designator for a specific message element identified by the element characteristics for the specific message element; and providing, by the messaging module to the requesting module, the requested element designator in dependence upon the message element designator map and the element characteristics for the specific message element.

Referencing message elements in an application message in a messaging environment

An apparatus and method for providing Unicode support in legacy operating systems are provided. With the apparatus and method, a focus hook module, keyboard hook module, and keystroke conversion module are registered with the legacy operating system. The focus hook module determines the currently active application and whether the currently active application is Unicode capable. The keyboard hook module receives keyboard events from an input interface and sends those keyboard events to the keystroke conversion module. The keystroke conversion module converts the keyboard events into Unicode characters which are sent back to the keyboard hook module. The keyboard hook module then stores the Unicode characters in a temporary storage memory, e.g., the clipboard. The keyboard hook module then sends a command to the application to paste the contents of the temporary storage memory to the currently active application.

Enabling unicode input in legacy operating systems

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream capable of communicating active application messages; brokering, by the server, establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device from a backup feed adapter, the backup message stream capable of communicating backup application messages representing duplicates of the active messages; receiving the active messages in messaging middleware of the subscribing client device; receiving, in response to a failover, the backup messages in the messaging middleware; and administering, by the messaging middleware, the backup messages in dependence upon an active stream source identifier, an active stream source sequence number, a backup stream source identifier, and a backup stream source sequence number.

A system and method are disclosed for a Java X font server, capable of displaying high quality text images on a remote display over a network based on the X Window graphical interface. This system and method avoids reliance on the rasterizer in the X server. The Java X font server runs in the client computer and creates the glyphs corresponding to the text to be displayed, using the high performance font rasterizer within the JVM. When the client needs to display text, it makes a request of the X server. If the necessary glyphs are not locally available in the X server, the request is relayed to the Java X font server. The Java X font server then generates the glyphs and transmits them to the X server, where they are cached for subsequent use.

System and method for presenting text upon the display of a server that employs and X window graphical interface

User interface text for dialog boxes, menus, and the like is &ldquo;localized&rdquo; with respect to human languages is achieved at run time by transmitting a translation request containing a text string to be translated, an identification of the source language, and an identification of the target language to a Web server providing text string translation services. The response from the Web server contains the translated text string, which is employed by the user application within the user interface. Text strings for all of the user interfaces of a particular user application may be translated in this fashion as a group at the time an unsupported human language is first requested, or text strings may simply be translated on-the-fly during operation of the underlying user application on an as-needed basis. the translated text strings may be preserved locally for future use, until a translation of the user interface text to the requested human language is provided by the user application developer. In a preferred embodiment, an extension of the Java ResourceBundles class is utilized to support run-time human language translation of user interface text. The new class, JILResourceBundle, obtains the translation of the user interface text strings when an unsupported language is requested, and may be inserted into a Java Application Resource file placed within the user's classpath to avoid the necessity of rewriting the underlying user application in order to utilize the new class.

Just in time localization

Upon creation of an event or activity entry within a calendar, the user is prompted to specify a power management mode to associate with the entry if the entry is not of a predefined type. Predefined entry types may be associated with default power management modes which the user may modify. When an event or activity entry associated with a non-null power management mode is reached, the calendar sends a power management event notification to the power manager, which responds appropriately. Thus, a user may specify that the system, if powered on, should automatically shut down for the duration of a planned vacation identified by an entry within the calendar. The system may thus distinguish between events during which the user is unavailable (e.g., on a business trip or at a remote meeting) from events during which the user is available but perhaps not actively using the system for a period. The calendar event power management modes complement and refine the preconfigured system power management schemes to take into account the user's schedule of activities.

Calendar-based power management

Complex languages such as bidirectional or double byte character set (e.g., Unicode) languages are supported in tier-0 devices despite the limited storage resources common for such devices. A phrase dictionary is built within a host data processing system which is capable of communicating with the tier-0 device and which supports complex language input. Commonly used text strings are added to the phrase dictionary utilizing any characters. The contents of the phrase dictionary are then transferred, along with sparse font information containing only the glyphs necessary for characters within the phrase dictionary, to the tier-0 device. Since font information for only a subset of all possible characters is stored in the tier-0 device, a much smaller amount of storage resources are consumed. On the tier-0 device, the phrase dictionary is invoked by a user control such as a pop-up, and the desired phrase may then be selected for entry into a data entry field. Additional phrases may be added as needed to the phrase dictionary on the host system and the phrase dictionary within the tier-0 device updated to add the new contents and associated sparse font information, if necessary. Multilingual support is therefore enabled in the tier-0 device with minimal consumption of resources.

Method for entering bidirectional and DBCS languages in tier-0 devices

A data processing system having shared, distributed personality neutral resources managed by a microkernel based operating system. The microkernel supports multiple personalities and manages common resources accessible to all personalities. The microkernel has a logical video buffer service that manages the creation, deletion, and maintenance of logical video buffers. Each personality uses the logical video buffers to store its character mode screen displays. The server maintains a handle to each logical video buffer that is accessible by all personalities. The microkernel also has an event window server that creates input queues and provides them to the personalities. The event window server receives all system input and places it into the appropriate personality's queue. The event window server provides APIs allowing personalities to read input queues, remove events from the queues, inject input events into the event window server, and register hot keys.

Operating system having shared personality neutral resources

The present invention is directed to a system and method of changing a cultural profile of a program, or application, while the program is executing in an information handling system. The system and method of the present invention enable programs to be globalized/localized to support many different countries and cultures. A user may dynamically change a program's cultural profile to a different cultural profile without having to reboot the system. The profile change may be accomplished through the use of a drag and drop interface. Different aspects, or windows, within a program may utilize different cultural profiles, and a cultural profile change to one aspect, or window, of the program does not affect the other aspects of the program. The present invention allows programs to be customized to support any culture or combination of cultures. This is accomplished through the use of a drag and drop interface, where cultural profiles, referred to as locale objects, are dropped onto windows within a program. When a locale object is dropped on a window, a message is sent to the window, and the window then updates its cultural profile information accordingly.

System and method for updating cultural profiles with dragging and

The present invention is directed to a system and method for dynamically managing cultural profiles within an information handling system. Cultural profiles may be created, modified, or deleted without having to reboot the information handling system. The cultural profile changes are immediately effective in the system. A user may dynamically change a program's cultural profile to a new or modified cultural profile without having to reboot the system. The system and method of the present invention enable programs to be globalized/localized to support many different countries and cultures. A user may define a new program profile based on an existing profile. This allows for substantial reuse of code, and saves time for the user because new cultural profiles do not have to be completely created from scratch. In addition, a user may modify or delete a currently existing program profile. The dynamic creation, modification, or deletion of cultural profiles is done by using a dynamically linked library, containing all system defined cultural profiles, in combination with a user locale file which is used to store newly defined cultural profiles, along with user modifications and deletions of existing cultural profiles.

System and method for managing multiple cultural profiles in an

A graphics management system resident in a computer operating system provides a generic graphics interface which allows application programs written to operate with various specific graphical user interfaces, to operate on a non-native graphical user interface. The graphics management system includes a common graphical user interface (GUI) which receives graphics related application programming interface (API) calls from the application programs, and transforms the various types of graphics API calls native to a particular GUI, into a generic format compatible with a personality neutral graphics engine. The personality neutral calls are then passed from the CGUI to the personality neutral graphics engine which services the calls, and controls the drawing of lines, circles and other drawing tasks for each of the windows presented on the display. The present invention allows users to 'port' application programs written for one GUI, to a computer system operating a different GUI.

Personality neutral graphics subsystem

A window management system resident in a computer operating system provides a generic windowing interface for application programs written to operate with various specific graphical user interfaces. The window management system includes a common graphical user interface (GUI) which receives window related application programming interface (API) calls from the application programs, and transforms the various types of API calls native to a particular GUI, into a generic format compatible a personality neutral common windowing format. The personality neutral calls are then be passed from the CGUI to a personality neutral event/window management server which services the calls, and controls the creation, deletion and modification of the various windows on the display. The present invention allows user to 'port' application programs written for one GUI, to a computer system operating a different GUI.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Kenneth Wayne Borgendale