| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080256019 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST ACCESS TO METAINFORMATION ABOUT POSSIBLE FILES OR OTHER IDENTIFIABLE OBJECTS - A method and computer system for determining an existence of a file and, possibly, information related to the file are provided. The method and system include providing a file name, generating a file designator from the file name, and generating a hash value from the file name. The hash value is used to index a cache containing other file designators that meet a certain criterion, and if no entry is found in the cache, an operating system call is performed. If an entry is found in the cache, the entry of the cache is compared with the generated file designator. If the entry and the generated file designator are not the same, an operating system call is performed. If the entry and the generated file designator are the same, this indicates that the criterion is satisfied. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090070752 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF AN APPLICATION - A method is provided for creating a virtual machine image. According to the method, at least one application is provided on a computer system. After the application is provided on the computer system, at least one optimization of the application is performed based on a runtime environment of the application to produce an optimized application, and the optimized application and at least a portion of the runtime environment are packaged in a virtual machine image. In one embodiment, the computer system is a virtual machine. Also provided is a system for creating a virtual machine image. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090178035 | SIMPLIFYING THE DEPLOYMENT AND SERVICEABILITY OF COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS - An information processing system includes a preparation machine with an installed image; an execution machine on which the installed image is virtually installed; and a virtualizer for virtualizing the installed image on the execution machine to produce a virtually installed image by using a hierarchy of selective virtualizers, wherein the virtualizing is selective such that not all operations of the executing software of the installed image at any particular level are virtualized. | 07-09-2009 |