International Business Machines Corporation

Adam Eberbach

Timothy Michael Lynar

Lenin Mehedy

Shaila Pervin

Nebula Alam

Josh Andres

Mahathir Almashor

Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz

Arun Vishwanath

Julian De Hoog

Ermyas Abebe

Olivia Jayne Smith

Andrew John Bernoth

Nicholas I Waywood

Annalisa Jean Swan

Alessio Bonti

Peter Ilfrich

Hamideh Anjomshoa

Mahathir Bin Ahmad Almashor

Josh Andres Jorge Ortiz

Yi Wei Ting

Methods, systems and computer program products for providing an interactive resource plan visualization associated with a facility are provided. Aspects include receiving facility data comprising historical facility data, current facility data and demand data. Aspects also include determining projected resource demand based on the facility data and the demand data and using cognitive computing techniques. Aspects also include generating a visual representation of a facility. The visual representation of the facility includes available resources and resource demand associated with a specified time and the available resources are rendered according to a first visual style. Aspects also include determining resource availability modifications based on the available resources and the projected resource demand. Aspects also include generating a visual representation of the resource availability modifications associated with the specified time within the visual representation of the facility. The resource availability modifications are rendered according to a second visual style.

Resource planning having improved visualization

A computer system, computer program product and computer-implemented method for performing a task. The computer system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor is attachable to an article and is sensitive to a parameter indicative of a pattern of use of the article. The processor is configured to: determine a standard pattern of use of the article from a measurement of the parameter obtained during a training period, determine a tracked pattern of use of the article from a measurement of the parameter obtained during a tracking period, and generate a reminder to perform the task when the tracked pattern of use deviates from the standard pattern of use. A device receives the reminder in order to presenting the reminder to a user.

Monitoring routines and providing reminders

A method comprises receiving a gesture as an input to a display screen; detecting the gesture via a controller; determining whether the gesture was received on a target touch interface or in a defined area adjacent to the target touch interface; determining whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface; and providing an output based on the determination of whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface. Determining whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface comprises measuring a length of time of contact of the gesture with the display screen and measuring a proximity of a point of contact of the gesture from the touch interface.

Assistive user interface touch detection based on time and proximity to target

A computer-implemented real-time visualization method, system, and computer program product including digitally visualizing a user in an image on an image display medium by incorporating a link between one or more users and one or more other users and updating the image by analyzing a current state of the user from user data.

Cognitive multi-layered real-time visualization of a user's sensed information

A computer-implemented method of using augmented reality (AR) to classify documents includes displaying one or more visual representations of one or more actions of a mobile device application in an AR display of a mobile device, selecting, by the mobile device, one of the one or more visual representations of one of the one or more actions for a document associated with the mobile device application in response to the mobile device being gestured toward the one visual representation of the one action, and classifying the document by performing the selected one action on the document.

Augmented reality system for efficient and intuitive document classification

Mitigating network saturation includes detecting reconnection of device to a network after a period of disconnection. A set of applications residing on the device is queried for estimated data associated with the application awaiting transfer. A response is received from a first application of the set of applications including a first estimated data awaiting transfer from the first application. Responsive to determining that a response has not been received from a second application, a second estimated data awaiting transfer from the second application is determined based upon a learned data usage model for the application. A total expected data transfer amount is determined based upon the first estimated data and the second estimated data. Responsive to the determining that the total expected data transfer amount is not less than a threshold value, A priority of the data transfer for the first application and the second application is determined.

Mitigating network saturation following periods of device disconnection and subsequent reconnection

A system for optimal aggregation of small-scale energy storage capacity includes a processor operatively coupled to memory. The processor is configured to implement the steps of: generating predicted energy consumption data based on a model of expected energy usage within a given electrical network; generating predicted energy generation data based on a model of expected energy generation for the given electrical network; generating dispatchable energy storage capacity for one or more energy storing devices having a small-scale energy storage capacity for the given electrical network; determining a set of energy storage devices that need to be dispatched for the given electrical network; comparing the predicted energy consumption data with the predicted energy generation data; and dispatching the set of energy storage devices for the given electrical network.

System and method for optimal aggregation of small-scale energy storage

A refreshable Braille display device includes a housing having a surface containing a set of tactile markers thereon; a carriage in cooperation with the housing, the carriage having a surface containing a tactile marker thereon and a series of individual refreshable Braille cells positioned above the tactile marker for tactile reading by a user; and a moving mechanism for moving the carriage relative to the housing such that the tactile marker on the surface of the carriage is aligned with one of the tactile markers in the set of tactile markers on the surface of the housing.

Refreshable braille display device

A package insert for cushioning an object during transport includes a plurality of support pins disposed in parallel with respect to each other, and a perforated sheet having a plurality of perforation holes disposed therein. Each of the plurality of supporting pins is disposed within a corresponding perforation hole of the plurality of perforation holes. Each of the plurality of perforation holes has a diameter or width that is equal to or smaller than a diameter or width of its corresponding supporting pin such that the corresponding supporting pin is kept in place by friction when inserted into the corresponding perforation hole.

Method for using a package insert for cushioning an object

A computer-implemented real-time visualization method, system, and computer program product including determining a current sentiment and a current state of a user from user data, creating at least one layer including at least one of an image and an animation based on at least one of an aggregation and a combination of the current sentiment and the current state of the user, and compiling the at least one layer into a single image or a single animation for display on an image display medium.

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