International Business Machines Corporation

Andrew Paul Wyskida

Clifford A Pickover

James R Kozloski

Neal Martin Keller

Lorraine M Herger

Matthew A McCarthy

Eric James Barkie

Benjamin L Fletcher

Gary Thomas Leonardi

Michael J Domitrovits

Sal M Rosato

Colm V Malone

Robert J Calio

Michael J Frissora

Paul D Hand

George M Harmuth

Daniel M Chlus

Glenn M Stefanski

Marco Pistoia

John J Ponzo

Marc Segre

Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.

Email chain navigation

A system and method tracks touches in a healthcare environment in order to analyze paths of transmission and contamination for the purpose of eliminating and containing transmission of colonizing, drug-resistant pathogens. Touches are identified and tracked with the use of recording devices. Each touch is logged and a touch graph is generated to identify transmission paths.

Head mounted video and touch detection for healthcare facility hygiene

Various embodiments manage computing networks. In one embodiment, a set of network management data associated with one or more users is analyzed. The set of network management data includes at least electronic scheduling information associated with the one or more users. A concentration of users is predicted for a given location based on the analyzing. At least one network characteristic associated with the given location is performed based on at least the predicted concentration of users.

Role and proximity-based management of networks

A restricted access device such as a cellphone, a tablet or a personal computer, analyzes contemporaneous keyboard inputs of a password and gestures to authenticate the user and enable further access to applications and processes of the restricted access device. The gestures may be facial gestures detected by a camera or may be gestures made by an avatar rendered on a display of the device. The password may be shorted based upon the context of the authentication as well as any gestures occurring during password entry. The gestures may be learned by the restricted access device during the password entry process.

Contextual contemporaneous gesture and keyboard entry authentication

Keyboard entry as an abbreviation to a contemporaneous gesture authentication

An access manager manages access to a resource. At a first time, the access manager designates a variable attribute associated with a recurring public event as a shared secret between the access manager and a user. At a second time occurring after the first time, the access manager receives a shared key from the user. As received, the shared key is based on a value of the variable attribute associated with the recurring public event at a most recent recurrence of the recurring public event relative to the second time. The access manager evaluates the shared key. In response to the evaluation, the access manager grants or denies the user access to the resource.

User authentication relying on recurring public events for shared secrets

An airborne particle collection system includes an airflow directing unit, register units, a fan unit, and a control system. The airflow directing unit includes a plurality of separately controlled air distribution segments. Each register unit includes a motorized damper and filter. The fan unit is connected to the airflow directing unit and to the register units through piping. The fan unit injects air into the airflow directing unit, and generates a vacuum force that causes exhaust air with airborne particles to be pulled into the register units and filtered by the filters within the register units. The control system selectively controls the air distribution segments of the airflow directing unit and the motorized dampers of the register units to generate alterable airflow patterns between the airflow directing unit and the register units in different zones within a room in which the airflow directing unit and the register units are disposed.

Smart control for airborne particle collection

Contemporaneous gesture and keyboard for different levels of entry authentication

Contemporaneous facial gesture and keyboard entry authentication

Contemporaneous gesture and keyboard entry authentication

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Andrew Paul Wyskida