International Business Machines Corporation

Alessandro Scotti

Giuseppe Longobardi

Luca Lazzaro

Francesco Maria Carteri

Francesco Brillante

Arcangelo Di Balsamo

Fabio Cerri

Leonardo Lanni

Marco De Santis

Franco Mossotto

Francesca Liliana Pasceri

Flora Tramontano Guerritore

Andrea Tortosa

Antonio Mario Sgro

Patrizia Manganelli

Luca Ferri

Emilio Spatola

Luigi Pichetti

Claudio Marinelli

Alessandro Donatelli

Filomena Ferrara

Salvatore D'Alo

Maria Teresa Caira

Raffaella Viola

Pescuma Michele

The system, method, and computer program product described herein provide ways to modify a user interface when a performance of the user interface degrades due to lack of resources including presenting the user interface to a user that includes a first element that requires an allocation of a first amount of resources of a server to perform a function, determining that a performance of the user interface has degraded below a threshold amount, in response to determining that the performance has degraded, identifying a second element that requires an allocation of a second amount of resources of the server to perform the function where the second amount of resources is smaller than the first amount of resources, and replacing the first element with the second element to reduce the required amount of resources that are allocated by the server to the user interface.

Adaptable pages, widgets and features based on real time application performance

A computing system provides a reference image and a current image representing a territory at different times. The computing system determines a partition of the reference image into a first relevant portion and a first non-relevant portion and of the current image into a second relevant portion and a second non-relevant portion according to a partitioning rule. The computing system compares the second relevant portion of the current image with the first relevant portion of the reference image for determining one or more different regions of the current image with respect to the reference image. The computing system determines one or more critical regions of the current image corresponding to the one or more different regions according to a criticality rule. The computing system provides a notification based on the one or more critical regions for use in enforcing land use controls.

Comparison of relevant portions of images

A method and associated system. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of impacting system events according to the workload plan and corresponding expected impacts of the impacting system events of system events on execution of impacted work units of work units. Predicting the expected problems includes: identifying workload deadlines relating to the impacted work units in the workload plan; estimating intervention times for addressing the expected problems before missing the corresponding workload deadlines; determining corresponding minimum times required to fulfill the workload deadlines according to a progress of the workload plan; and estimating each of the intervention times further according to the minimum time of the corresponding workload deadline. An intervention program of system interventions on the computing system is established. The system interventions address the current occurrences of impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems.

System interventions based on expected impacts of system events on scheduled work units

Expected impacts of one or more impacting system events of one or more system events on execution of one or more impacted work units of one or more work units are estimated according to (i) system event historical information indicative of previous occurrences in a computing system of the one or more system events and (ii) work unit historical information indicative of previous executions of the one or more work units. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected impacts and the workload plan. An intervention program of one or more system interventions on the computing system is established. The system interventions address the current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems. An indication of the intervention program for programming the system interventions accordingly is outputted.

System interventions based on expected impacts of system events on schedule work units

A method and system. System event historical information indicative of previous occurrences in a computing system of system events is retrieved. Work unit historical information indicative of previous executions of work units is retrieved. Expected impacts of impacting system events of the system events on the execution of one or more impacted work units of the work units are estimated according to the system event historical information and the work unit historical information. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected impacts and the workload plan An intervention program of one or more system interventions on the computing system is established, the system interventions addressing the current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems. An indication of the intervention program for programming the system interventions accordingly is outputted.

A mobile computing device and method performed by a mobile computing device are provided. The mobile computing device includes a touch screen display, a touch enabled border surface, and a processor. The processor is configured to generate image data representing a viewport of the device. The processor is configured to add a graphic representation of at least one user interface element to the image data. The processor is configured to determine a press intensity of a touch pressure applied by a user of the device to the touch screen display in a region where the graphic representation of the at least one user interface element is displayed. The processor is configured to determine a position of the hand of the user using the touch enabled border surface. The processor is configured to slide the viewport downwards based on the press intensity and the position of the hand of the user.

Reaching any touch screen portion with one hand

A computer-implemented method for paperless electronic queue ticketing is provided. The method includes reading, by a processor of a user device, an electronic ticket code displayed on a ticket device, the electronic ticket code having information and instructions for an electronic ticket; decoding, by the processor of the user device, the information and instructions in the electronic ticket code; and sending, by the processor of the user device, a signal to a sensor on the ticket device to obtain the electronic ticket. A system and computer product for paperless electronic queue ticketing are also provided.

Method and system for paperless electronic queue ticketing

The present invention relates to a method, computer program product and system to compute one sorted list of enumeration values in a specific language, read from at least one relational database including at least one data table storing enumeration programming variable values and at least one catalog table storing an expression, in at least one language, of the enumeration programming variable values, said method comprising the steps of receiving a request for providing enumeration variable values including one list sorted in a specific order, of the values of a specific enumeration, in a specific language; then, all the expressions of the enumeration values for the specific language for the specific enumeration read in a corresponding catalog table are sorted in the specific order; if the sorted list of the specific enumeration expression values matches a list of the specific enumeration variable values sorted in the specific order in the same catalog table, the sorted list of enumeration values in a specific language is created from this ordered catalog table; if in the preceding step the match was not found, if the sorted list of the specific enumeration expressions values matches a list of the specific enumeration variable values sorted in the reverse order from the specific order in the same catalog table, the sorted list of enumeration values in a specific language is created from the sorted catalog table; if in any of the two preceding steps, the match was not found, a new table joined table is built from data and catalog table in the standard way.

Efficient sorting in a relational database

A mechanism is provided for controlling a distributed application. An indication of a computational capability of a client computing machine and of a server computing machine is detected. At least part of a page is built in response to a request received by the server computing machine from the client computing machine. The at least part of the page comprising a set of commands each one for submitting a next request on the client computing machine. Processing logic for serving each next request being split between a client processing component and a server processing component. The page with the client processing component for each command is returned to the client computing machine for causing the client computing machine to load the page and execute each client processing component in response to the corresponding next request. Each server processing component is executed in response to the corresponding next request.

Splitting of processing logics associated with commands of pages in a distributed application

A mechanism is provided for de-serializing a representation of a source object of a source software component written in a source language into a target software component written in a target language. A representation of the source object is received and a determination is made of a set of candidate types among a plurality of available types that are in the target language for the target software component, each candidate type being compatible with the representation of the source type. A set of match metrics is calculated, each one for a corresponding candidate type, where the match metric being indicative of a difference in information content between the candidate type and the representation of the source object. One of the candidate types is selected according to the match metrics and a mapping of the representation of the source object onto a target object of the selected candidate type is created.

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