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Michael J Thomson

Larry Alan Morris

Michael Ginsberg

Sharad Mathur

Marc Shepard

David Michael Sauntry

John Eldridge

Edward Scott Miller

Shan Xu

Roberto Cazzaro

Gregory Wilson

Arul A Meneze

Susan A Dey

Jonathan M Tanner

Bjorn C Retting

Vinay Deo

Joseph N Figueroa

Tak Chung Lung

Murtuza S Naguthanawala

Dennis Craig Marl

Jeffry Blaine Phillips

Uri Pomerantz

Brian Rogers

Systems, methods and computer program products for providing software product configuration management through a time shift responsive to software product installation content, user inputs, and software product applicability rules are disclosed. A configuration engines may be loaded on a computing device, which access installation product content related to the software product via one or more data stores. The configuration engine detects the initial configuration state of the software product and accepts a user input identifying a desired final configuration state of the software product. The configuration engine applies at least one applicability rule to determine whether the installation product content needs to be acquired from the data store to achieve the desired final configuration state. The configuration engine modifies the software product from the initial configuration state to the desired final configuration state in a succinct and efficient manner without causing inoperability of the software product.

Time shift configuration management for software product installation

A system and method for logging events processed by an operating system is provided. The events logged can include interrupt and non-interrupt events, and can include user-defined events. Information concerning the interrupt events is initially written, during event handling time, into a first buffer while information concerning non-interrupt events is initially written, during event handling time, into a second buffer. Information from the two buffers is then written to a third buffer not during event handling time. Separating the interrupt event buffer from the non-interrupt event buffer rather than having one buffer, and writing relatively small amounts of data during event handling time to memory, rather than transporting data to slower non-memory mapped devices allows the event logger to be less intrusive and facilitates greater accuracy in event logging. Data stored in the third buffer can be accessed by a viewing component, which facilitates displaying data in a manner useful to diagnose operating systems.

Operating system event tracking and logging

In an operating system, a resource handler accepts resource requests from application modules. A resource request identifies a module from which the requested resource is to be obtained. Rather than providing the resource from the identified module, however, the resource handler provides the requested resource from an associated resource module. An association between an executable module and resource modules of different languages is created by a defined file naming convention, optionally using different directories for resource modules of different languages. Some executable modules contain a shared resource reference which can be used to create an association between multiple executable modules and a single set of shared resource modules. A language fallback mechanism allows alternative languages to be used where resource modules of the appropriate language are not available.

Multilingual user interface for an operating system

A method and system for automatically displaying content of a window on a display that has changed orientation is described. The content of a window, such as a dialog box, that has been authored for a particular size is repositioned and resized such that the window is viewable in its entirety when the display screen orientation is changed (e.g., from portrait to landscape.) A scroll bar is added to allow full access to content that is not visible within the display screen when necessary. Likewise, the scrollbar is removed when the scrollbar is no longer necessary in the new orientation. The repositioning and resizing of the window, as well as the addition or removal of the scrollbar occurs without interruption of other operating system applications.

Method and system for automatically displaying content of a window on a display that has changed orientation

A system management framework is described for use with a limited-resource client such as a hand-held device. The framework includes a client proxy implemented apart from the client device. The client proxy is configured to communicate with the client device and to emulate a full-functioned client computer on behalf of the client device.

Configuration and management systems for mobile and embedded devices

Images displayed on a display device are animated to reflect a user's selection of the images. According to one embodiment, the displayed images include keyboard characters that are selected when the user touches the display at the locations of the display where the images are shown. Selection of the displayed images can also be made through any combination of audio, optical, mechanical and electrical input devices. A plurality of selected images can also be animated simultaneously and by varying degree to reflect a sequence in which the images were selected by the user.

Animating images to reflect user selection

Operating system event tracker having separate storage for interrupt and non-interrupt events and flushing the third memory when timeout and memory full occur

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Michael J Thomson