International Business Machines Corporation

Hcl Technologies Italy S.p.a

Antonio Secomandi

Gianluca Mariani

Viviana Tripodi

Luigi Pichetti

Riccardo Rossi

Enrica Alberti

Marco Secchi

Michele Tomassi

Bernardo Pastorelli

Claudio Marinelli

Sandro Piccinini

Fabio Cerri

Domenico D'Alterio

Francesco Lecciso

Francesco Lupini

Francesco Latino

Scot MacLellan

Bruno Portaluri

Gianluca Gigliarelli

Alessandro Dinia

Luca Di Litta

Glanluca Mariani

Luisa Attanasio

Amr F Yassin

Claudio Morgia

Matteo Santangeli

Carlo Romano

Fabio Paone

Mohamed Zakaria

Roberto Ranucci

A method for managing a plurality of computing machines includes accessing a catalogue memory structure storing a plurality of component signatures, discovering one or more of the software components being instantiated in a software image of each computing machine according to corresponding ones of the component signatures, detecting one or more connections each being established between at least two instantiated software components of different computing machines, receiving a restore command for restoring a target recovery point selected among a plurality of recovery points, and restoring the target recovery point in response to the restore command by restoring the snapshots associated with the target recovery point on corresponding computing machines.

Method and system to discover and manage distributed applications in virtualization environments

This disclosure relates to method and system for encrypting and decrypting a facial segment in an image with a unique server key. The method includes receiving an image from one of a plurality of users. The image includes a plurality of facial segments. The method further includes, for each facial segment from the plurality of facial segments, identifying a unique user associated with the facial segment using a facial recognition algorithm, encrypting the facial segment with a unique server key, generating a protection frame, unlockable with the unique server key, to cover the facial segment, and decrypting the facial segment while rendering the image for at least one of the plurality of users upon receiving the unique server key from the at least one of the plurality of users.

Method and system for encrypting and decrypting a facial segment in an image

A technique for generating a customized program logic for booting a target system includes determining the hardware devices operatively connected with the target system. A list of identifiers of the determined hardware devices is sent to a server system. The server system selects from a set of drivers for each of the device identifiers in the list at least one driver operable to control the identified device to generate a sub-set of said set of drivers. The server system retrieves a core program logic being free of any drivers of the target system and sends the core program logic and the driver sub-set to the target system. The target system creates the customized program logic using the combination of the core program logic and the driver sub-set.

Customizing program logic for booting a system

The present disclosure relates to a dynamic catalog translation system (DCTS) for internationalization of an application in a cloud environment. The DCTS may comprise receiving a catalog, associated with the application, in a first language from a developer device. The DCTS may further comprise receiving a request for the catalog in a second language from a user device running the application. Further, the DCTS may comprise dynamically generating the catalog in the second language in response to the received request from the user. The catalog is generated in a real-time or a near real-time of running the application at the user device. Furthermore, the DCTS may comprise communicating the generated catalog in the second language to the user device so that the application is configured to execute at the user device in the second language.

Dynamic catalog translation system

Disclosed is a system for notifying hacking to a user thereby ensuring verified connection of a client machine with a server intended to be connected is disclosed. The system acquires a server certificate comprising data structure. The data structure may be acquired upon receipt of a response to a request initiated by the client machine. In one aspect, the data structure may be referred to as a tree site to verifier pertaining to the request. The system further receives a validation acknowledgement indicating validity of the server certificate. The system further performs a reverse certificate look up verification process upon receipt of the acknowledgment.

System and method for authenticating server identity during connection establishment with client machine

A method and system for populating a software catalogue in software applications which monitor the presence of software products on a plurality of computers. The proposed method aims at populating a software catalogue with a limited manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalogue) which contains definitions of software products and the related signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process using some special files (e.g. XML files) which contains information and/or pointers to other products.

Populating a software catalogue with related product information

A solution is proposed for managing each one of a plurality of computing machines. A corresponding method comprises taking one or more snapshots of the computing machine or part thereof, the snapshots being organized in a snapshot tree of nodes representing the snapshots according to a dependency thereof, expanding the snapshot tree of the computing machine according to each sub-tree of the snapshot tree of each other computing machine having the snapshot of a parent node of the sub-tree matching a graft node of the snapshot tree of the computing machine, the sub-tree being appended to the graft node, selecting a snapshot of the other computing machines represented by a selected node of the snapshot tree of the computing machine, and restoring the selected snapshot on the computing machine.

Sharing of snapshots among multiple computing machines

A password service receives user input identifying a particular account and uses a detecting device for detecting an event related to user interaction with a physical location at a predefined time interval. The password service generates questions based on the detected event and selects a set of questions specific for the particular account from among the generated questions. The password service receives further user input comprising one or more received responses to each question of the set of questions and generates a password for the particular account based on the one or more received responses.

Generating a password

A method for generating a customized program logic operable to control hardware devices of a target system and to boot said target system includes determining the hardware devices operatively connected with the target system. A list of identifiers of the determined hardware devices is sent to a server system. The server system selects from a set of drivers for each of the device identifiers in the list at least one driver operable to control the identified device to generating a sub-set of said set of drivers. The server system retrieves a core program logic being free of any drivers of the target system and complements the core program logic with said driver sub-set to generate the customized program logic. The customized program logic is then deployed to the target system.

User input is received from a user for identifying a particular account from among multiple accounts. A set of questions specific for the particular account is selected. Further user input comprising one or more responses to each question of the set of questions is received. A password is generated based on the one or more received responses.

A method for managing computing machines. The method includes accessing a catalog storing component signatures for discovering corresponding software components and, for each software application, an indication of the software components belonging to the software application and connection signatures for detecting corresponding connections between the software components, discovering the software components instantiated in a software image according to the corresponding component signatures, detecting the connections each one being established between instantiated software components of different computing machines according to the corresponding connection signatures, associating each software image with a software deployment of the software application of each established connection of the software image, receiving a restore command for restoring a target recovery point selected among recovery points, each recovery point comprising a previously taken snapshot of each software image of the software deployments being overlapped, and restoring the target recovery point by restoring the snapshots on the corresponding computing machines.

A method, an eBook, and an apparatus. The method includes calculating, by a processor, a usage metric describing a timing at which an eBook has been displayed for viewing by a user. The method further includes selectively deteriorating, by the processor, a look of the eBook for a secondary market based on the usage metric of the eBook.

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Antonio Secomandi