International Business Machines Corporation

Antonio Bagarolo

Paolo Ottaviano

Antonio Di Cocco

Marco Imperia

Luigi Pichetti

Maximiliano Cammisa

Pasquale Maria Mascolo Montenero

Sandro Piccinini

Claudio Marinelli

Gianluca Perreca

Andrea Tortosa

Roberto Ragusa

Alice Guidotti

Rossella De Gaetano

Mechanisms are provided to implement a smart device screen management mechanism for facilitating single-hand wide-screen management of the smart device. The mechanism identifies a movement indicated by a user in proximity of a screen of the smart device and determines whether the movement indicates a selection of an action item outside a maximum reach of the user when the user is operating the smart device with a single hand. Responsive to the movement indicating a selection of an action item outside the maximum reach of the user, the mechanism identifies a direction of the movement indicated by the user in proximity of the screen of the smart device and identifies a subset action items that are in the direction of the movement and outside the maximum reach. The mechanism then presents the subset of action items in a redrawn user interface within the maximum reach of the user.

Single-hand wide-screen smart device management

A method and system for controlling distribution of information items of a subject is proposed. The method and system comprises verifying compliance of a combination of new information items (to be received by a target computing system) and available information items (already available to the target computing system) with one or more sharing rules; a receipt of the new information items by the target computing system is controlled according to a result of this verification.

Controlling combination of information submitted to computing systems

Methods and systems for preventing phishing attacks using the domain name system are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a domain name system (DNS) request comprising a domain name; determining, by the computing device, at least one domain name that is similar to the domain name; and sending, by the computing device, the at least one domain name that is similar to the domain name as a response to the DNS request.

Preventing phishing using DNS

An access control method for controlling access to data requested from an electronic information system. The method comprises receiving a request for the data, determining a user identity associated with the request; gathering the requested data from one or more data sources by an orchestrator for input to a cognitive engine; analyzing the requested data; based on results of analyzing the requested data, deciding on whether the user identity can be allowed to access the requested data; providing feedback by the user identity; and updating a learning module based on the feedback.

Controlling access to data requested from an electronic information system

A multiresolution optical code can be encoded. A first set of information and a second set of information to encode in an optical code is received. An optical code that encodes the first set of information in a plurality of dots is generated. Each dot of the plurality of dots is divided into a matrix of a first number of sub-dots by a second number of sub-dots, wherein each of the first number and the second number are integers equal to or greater than three and wherein this dividing creates a set of matrices of sub-dots. The second set of information is encoded in a plurality of the sub-dots of the set of matrices of sub-dots.

Multiresolution optical code

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: building a change management meta model on relationships between change request tasks of a change request and logical components of a computing environment via deployment processes that realizes respective change request tasks onto the logical components. A change request fulfillment plan that minimizes a maintenance window for deploying the change request tasks to the logical components is produced. After deployment, performance metrics of the logical components updates change request constraints.

Change management optimization in cloud environment

A method for determining a deployment configuration of multiple micro services that interact with each other is provided. The method includes the steps of determining a metric describing an amount of communication traffic between at least two of the micro services. Based on the metric, an execution environment may be determined for at least one of the micro services. Deployment information specifying that the at least one micro service shall be deployed on the determined execution environment may be generated.

Dynamic deployment of an application based on micro-services

A method, computer program product, and a computer system for mitigating a fault in an information service comprised of multiple microservices includes a processor(s) obtaining a notification of a fault in the information service which includes logs tracking execution of the information service in a shared computing environment. The processor(s) generates a dependency data structure describing interdependencies between individual microservices with respect to each other. The processor(s) mitigates the fault by replacing a faulty microservice in the microservices represented in the dependency data structure; the faulty microservice includes program code with an issue resulting in the fault. To replace the faulty microservice, the processor(s) continuously monitors the information service and progressively replaces, in accordance with the interdependencies, each microservice represented in the dependency data structure with an earlier version of the microservice, halting replacements when no notification for the fault is obtained subsequent to a replacement of a given microservice.

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Antonio Bagarolo