International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Andreas Arning

Klaus Rindtorff

Roland Seiffert

Jens Engelke

Friedemann Schwenkreis

Timo Kussmaul

Dieter Helmut Roller

Andrea E Baader

Sascha Schwarze

Thomas Schulze

Rakesh Agrawal

Christoph Lingenfelder

Gregor Meyer

Frank Leymann

Albert Maier

Thomas Stober

Ramakrishnan Srikant

William Earl Malloy

Mike W Grasselt

Peter Gerstl

Matthias Kloppmann

Gary J Robinson

Frank Neumann

Andreas Maier

Gerhard Pfau

Martin Keller

Toni Bollinger

Werner Schuetz

Andreas Schmitz

Daniel C Wolfson

Raiko Nitzsche

Tareq Al-Maamari

Heinz Peter Hippenstiel

Hans-Peter Reimann

Claudia Zentner

Reinhold Keuler

Swen Wohland

A method, computer program product, and computer system for retaining messages. Bins for having messages stored for different retention periods are provided. Each message is of a message type. Messages are received and each received message is assigned to a bin. For each message determined to have an age exceeding a retention period of the message's assigned bin, the message is reassigned to a bin having a next higher retention period.

Adaptive message retention

An optimization system receives a first information item to be placed within a web page that is displayed on a graphical user interface. The optimization system retrieves stored user data about the first information item from a user history database. The optimization system calculates a redundancy value for the first information item, which is a measure of the frequency with which the user has interacted with the first information item in the past. The optimization system compares the redundancy value for the first information item to a predetermined threshold value. When the redundancy value of the information item is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, the optimization system requests a second information item from the information source server. The optimization system receives the second information item and places the second information item on the web page that is displayed on the graphical user interface.

Optimizing web pages by minimizing the amount of redundant information

A present invention embodiment adjusts application of a set of data quality rules for data within one or more reports. A first report field is selected that receives data from a same source data field as at least one second report field within the one or more reports. An active data quality rule associated with the at least one second report field is identified that is inactive for the first report field. An effectiveness of the identified data quality rule is determined for data quality of the first report field. Application of a set of data quality rules is adjusted for the first report field to include the identified data quality rule in response to the effectiveness satisfying a threshold.

Adjusting application of a set of data quality rules based on data analysis

The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing an alternative GUI to a client application. A proxy computer comprises a history with request sequences respectively representing a part of a workflow predefined by an original GUI. Each request sequence in the history has been transmitted previously from an original GUI displayed in a client application via the proxy computer and via a network to a backend application. The proxy computer intercepts a current request transmitted from the original GUI to the backend application via the network and the proxy computer, compares the current intercepted request with the request sequences in the history, identifies and evaluates a matching request sequence for generating the alternative GUI, the alternative GUI completely or partially implementing the part of the workflow represented by the identified request sequence and returns the generated alternative GUI via the network to the client application.

Proxy-computer-based provision of alternative graphical user interfaces

A method and system for authenticating an access to a service on a device that includes a touch-sensitive screen. An entry of a code to the touch-sensitive screen is received through at least one opening in a stencil at one or more predefined locations in the stencil positioned on the touch-sensitive screen. The one or more predefined locations define an access code; and it is determined that the entered code equals the access code, and in response, the access to the service on the device is granted.

Unlocking of a mobile device by a code received via a stencil on a touchscreen

A method and system for authenticating an access to a service on a device. After a stencil has been positioned on a touch-sensitive screen of the device: an entry of a code to the touch-sensitive screen is received through at least one opening in the stencil at one or more predefined locations in the stencil, wherein the one or more predefined locations define at least part of an access code; and it is determined that the entered code equals the at least part of the access code, and in response, the access to the service on the device is granted.

One or more processors provide a first instruction to a first user. One or more processors receive a user input in response to the first instruction provided to the first user. One or more processors determine whether the user input is a correct response to the first instruction. Responsive to determining that the first user input to the first instruction is the correct input, one or more processors provide a second instruction to the first user.

Automation of user interface to facilitate computer-based instruction

A method for editing source code includes receiving a modification to the source code made by a user, determining whether the modification would change the semantics of the source code, and handling the modification depending on the result of the determining.

Editing source code

A computer implemented method for managing a password is disclosed. The method can include generating a first hash value corresponding to a first password. The method can also include determining whether the first hash value corresponds with a second hash value included in the set of hash values. Further, the method can include suppressing storage of the first password in the set of passwords in response to determining that the first hash value corresponds with a second hash value included in the set of hash values.

Managing a password

A method includes receiving a request from a source service, determining whether the target service associated with the request supports a by-reference evaluation strategy, determining whether an information object associated with the request is a data reference, retrieving data associated with the reference from a database, adding the data to the information object, and invoking the target service and passing the information object to the target service responsive to determining that the target service does not support the by-reference strategy and the information object is a data reference.

Systems and methods involving information objects

A computer generates a modified list of search terms by adding synonyms of the search terms and terms that are related to the search terms to a list of search terms. The computer removes frequently used words from the modified list of search terms. The computer responds to a determination that a user has authorization to view a field of a document by adding to the modified list of search terms an encrypted version of a search term included in a list of search terms. A search using the modified list of search terms returns a result that identifies the document as a search result when either the unencrypted or the encrypted version of the search term is found in a list of index terms associated with the first document.

Providing access control for public and private document fields

A computer determines, based on a degree of authorization of a user, that a user has authorization to view a type of field. Based on the degree of authorization of the user, the computer generates a modified list of search terms by adding additional search terms to a list of search terms. The computer executes a search using the modified list of search terms. The computer identifies a search result that includes the first type of field which further includes a search term that is included in the modified list of search terms.

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Tuebingen, Germany

Andreas Arning