International Business Machines Corporation

Ravi Ravisankar

Roy A Wood, Jr

Michael Richard Cooper

Scott J Broussard

Scott Thomas Jones

Mark Wayne VanderWiele

Marc Leslie Cohen

Samuel L Emrick

Bryan Douglas Dobbs

Wai Yee Wong

In one example, a method includes: receiving a first input value associated with a first data field; responsive to determining that the first data field is associated with an equivalence operation, selecting a second input value associated with a second data field of a previously transmitted message, where the second input field corresponds to the first input field; comparing the first input value and the second input value to determine if the first input value and the second input value are equivalent; and, when the first input value and the second input value are equivalent, generating a message that omits the first input value for the first data field, and providing an operator symbol indicating the equivalence operation to specify that the second input value of the second data field in the previously transmitted message is to be associated with the first data field of the message.

Securities messages with automated encoding of field operators

In one example, a method includes: receiving a first input value associated with a first data field; responsive to determining that the first data field is associated with an equivalence operation, selecting a second input value associated with a second data field of a previously transmitted message, wherein the second input field corresponds to the first input field; comparing the first input value and the second input value to determine if the first input value and the second input value are equivalent; and when the first input value and the second input value are equivalent, generating a message that omits the first input value for the first data field, and providing an operator symbol indicating the equivalence operation to specify that the second input value of the second data field in the previously transmitted message is to be associated with the first data field of the message.

In one example a method includes: receiving a first input value associated with a first data field; responsive to determining that the first data field is associated with an increment operation, selecting a second input value associated with a corresponding second data field of a previously transmitted message; comparing the first input value and second input value to determine if the first input value includes a sum of the second input value and an increment value; when the first input value includes the sum of the second input value and increment value, generating a message that omits the first input value for the first data field, and providing an operator symbol indicating the increment operation to specify that the first data field of the message is to be associated with the sum of the increment value and second input value of the second data field in the previously transmitted message.

Automated encoding of increment operators

In one example, a method includes: receiving a first input value associated with a first data field; responsive to determining the first data field is associated with a delta operation, selecting a second input value associated with a corresponding second data field of a previously transmitted message; comparing the first input and second input values to determine if the first and second input values are equivalent; when the first and second input values are not equivalent, generating a message, wherein the first data field includes only data of the first input value not included in data of the second input value, and providing an operator symbol indicating the delta operation to specify that the first data field of the message includes only data of the first input value that is not included in data of the second input value associated with the second data field of the previously transmitted message.

Automated encoding of field operators

Automated encoding of delta operators

In one example a method includes: selecting, by a computing device, a message description that indicates a pre-defined operator is associated with a message data field; receiving, by the computing device, information associated with the message data field; responsive to determining that the information indicates the message data field does not include data, determining, by the computing device, whether to include, in a second message that is associated with the message description, a data value for the message data field of the second message based on the pre-defined operator that is associated with the message data field, wherein the data value is stored by the computing device and is associated with the message data field.

Automated encoding of field operators for absent fields

A method and apparatus in a data processing system for performing a raster operation of graphics data. A system memory and a video memory is included in the data processing system. The system memory and the video memory are connected by a bus wherein the graphics data is organized into picture elements. A plurality of picture elements is read from the system memory. A plurality of picture elements is read from the video memory. A raster operation is performed on the plurality of picture elements to form a plurality of processed picture elements. The plurality of processed picture elements is written to the video memory.

Method and apparatus for performing raster operations in a data processing system

An off-screen buffer manager controls when the off-screen buffer is destroyed and re-created improving system performance. A screen request is received for a Java screen component and a determination is made whether there is already an off-screen buffer. If there is not an off-screen buffer, a new off-screen buffer is created and the component requesting the screen request is associated with the off-screen buffer. If an off-screen buffer already exists, a determination is made as to whether the off-screen buffer is large enough to handle the incoming request. If the off-screen buffer is large enough to handle the request, the existing off-screen buffer is used to handle the request, otherwise, the existing off-screen buffer is deleted and a new off-screen buffer is created and the component identifier of the deleted off-screen buffer is associated with the new off-screen buffer.

System and method for managing off-screen buffers for electronic images

The present invention is directed to a system and method of managing logical device state information within an information handling system. Logical device state information is stored only once, by the information handling system. Device drivers do not need to maintain and store redundant copies of logical device state information. A device driver indicates whether or not it needs to have logical device state information passed to it. Before calling a device driver to handle a device function, the information handling system checks to determine whether or not the device driver has indicated that it needs logical device state information passed to it. If so, the information handling system passes the appropriate logical device state information to the device driver. For device functions which are not hooked by the device driver, the information handling system maintains the device state. System efficiency is increased, as each device driver may register for the subset of functions it can most efficiently handle, without hooking operating system functions or handling all state specific functions associated with a particular device function. In addition, device driver development may proceed in an incremental fashion, and device driver developers do not have to learn details of every operating system on which a device may be installed.

System and method for managing device driver logical state information in an information handling system

An operating system for manipulating the orientation of an output image of a data processing system provides operating system support to rotate an image output to a device driver at rendering time for printing in portrait or landscape mode and for displaying the image in increments of 90 decree rotations. A user or system sets a rotation for all output images sent to the peripheral device, regardless of what application provides the image, and the operating system performs the rotation on all output images sent to the particular output device.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Ravi Ravisankar