International Business Machines Corporation

Alexandre Polozoff

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Gregory J Boss

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Timothy Moffett Waters

Travis M Grigsby

Michael Negley Abernethy, Jr

Brian M O'Connell

Lin Sun

Aaron J Quirk

Todd Eric Kaplinger

Roland Barcia

Kwang S Kang

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Jeremy R Fox

Jason Robert McGee

Eugene Kuznetsov

William Mitchell Edwards

Keys Dylan Botzum

Richard Eugene Salz

Daniel P Julin

Peggy Catherine Zych

Robert Woolf

Thomas J Alcott

Robert Norris-Lance Krentler

Johnston Jewell Clark

Jonathan G Hall

John Dale Perkins

Gioacchino J Pullara

Hadi S Qadri

Ryan Patrick Zombo

Rick A Hamilton, Iii

A method is provided to search for images. The method includes identifying an object in a two-dimensional reference image. The method includes determining a three-dimensional reference orientation axis of the object based on at least one attribute of the object. The method includes receiving an input that requests a change in a three-dimensional perspective of the object. The method further includes determining a new orientation axis based on the input and the reference orientation axis. The method includes executing a search query on a set of two-dimensional images, where the search query is based on the new orientation axis and at least one attribute of the object. The method also includes displaying image search results that are ranked based on correlations with the new orientation axis and the attribute of the object.

Method of searching images using rotational gesture input

A system and method of discovery, validation and delivery of power to an electronic device through a universal power center is provided. The method comprises providing a power tip for an electronic device with a unique identification and broadcasting the unique identification to a power center. The method further includes verifying the unique identification and connection location of the electronic device, determining power requirements for the connected electronic device based on the unique identification and connection location, and delivering power to the electronic device based on the determined power requirements.

Method and system for discovery, validation and delivery of power through a universal power center

There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for controlling one or more media files in a mobile device. The system predicts a future usage of the media files. The system ranks each media file according to a likelihood that the each media file is processed at a time and a location associated with the predicted future usages. The system preemptively downloads the media files to a local data storage device of the mobile device, according to the ranking. There are also provided a system, a method and a computer program product for using one or more networks for a mobile device. The mobile device downloads an amount of data while the mobile device is connected to the first pre-determined wireless network. The mobile device configures certain applications in the mobile device to use the second pre-determined wireless network.

Predictive management of offline storage content for mobile applications and optimized network usage for mobile devices

A system, method and computer program product for storing streaming media content includes: receiving streaming content, at a first mobile computing device, from a content service provider over a communications network; and determining, by a secondary mobile computing device specific details of a use of the content currently being received and buffered at the first device. The second device obtains, using the determined specific details, the content expected to be consumed by the first device to a local memory storage device at the secondary device, and stores the expected content for subsequent consumption. The system and method provides for an awareness of data usage of an account instance on the secondary device; storing a set of data locally on a secondary device based on usage of a primary device; and enabling the downloading of a set of data to the secondary device via a local connection to the primary device.

Active offline storage management for streaming media application used by multiple client devices

A system, computer program product and method of keeping track of an attachment that has been detached from an e-mail message are provided. Generally, a table on which an attachment that has been detached from an e-mail message is cross-referenced to its storage location is used. Further, a link is inserted into the e-mail message to facilitate access to the detached attachment. If the attachment is ever moved from its storage location to a new storage location, the cross-referencing table is updated to reflect the new storage location. The link is also updated to facilitate access to the attachment at the new storage location.

Keeping track of a detached e-mail attachment

A system for managing code displacement may include a manager and an application operable on a server. The application may include a plurality of modules each module for performing a different operation. The system may also include priority information associated with each module to permit the manager to deactivate selected ones of the modules based on the priority information to improve performance of the application.

System and method for managing code displacement

Embodiments of the present invention provide optimization of telephone services through telephone calling plan/card analysis. The least expensive rate is found for telephone calls at any given time and/or date, either through static pre-entry of data, or through dynamic querying of rates via a web-based look-up table, and places calls according to an optimized calling plan. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, an outgoing/target telephone number for an intended telephone call is captured, and a corresponding destination geographic region is identified. Based on the geographic region, a calling plan resulting in a lowest price for the telephone call is identified. This is typically accomplished by consulting at least one table (e.g., call information table) that associates (among other things) calling plans and/or calling cards with geographic regions. Once a calling plan and/or calling card is identified/selected, a corresponding set of dialing instructions will be obtained from the table and used to make/place the telephone call.

Telephony services optimization through calling plan analysis

Method for discovery, validation and delivery of power through a universal power center

An agent may receive an event from a source calendaring system, wherein the event specifies a person, perhaps including a uniform resource locator, having disparate calendaring system. The disparate calendaring system may use a native event format for coordinating events. The agent may lookup a template to convert the event to a native event. The agent may transmit a message with attributes such as a unique identifier to the disparate calendaring system. If the disparate calendaring system acknowledges the event with a success, the agent may log the occurrence of a success. Agent may transmit additional messages having native events to additional disparate systems.

Transmitting a calendar event in target calendaring system format

The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for selective encryption of a data transmission. A data transmission is received. When the data transmission is received, the data transmission is unmarshaled. When the transmission is unmarshaled, objects and a set of sensitive fields within the data transmission are identified by referencing a metadata database. Only the set of sensitive fields within the data transmission are encrypted to form a partially encrypted data transmission. The partially encrypted data transmission is marshaled to form a marshaled data transmission. The marshaled data transmission is transmitted to a recipient.

Method for passing selective encrypted attributes of specific versions of objects in a distributed system

The invention provides a method, system, and program product for encrypting portions of a document using selective annotation. One method according to the invention includes: defining an annotation border adjacent a portion of a document using a digital pen; applying to the portion of the document an annotation verb specifying that the portion of the document is to be encrypted; entering into the portion of the document information to be encrypted; and encrypting the portion of the document.

Method, system, and program product for encrypting portions of a document using selective annotation

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Bloomington, IL, United States of America

Alexandre Polozoff