International Business Machines Corporation

Binh Q Nguyen

Sandeep Kishan Singhal

Richard J Redpath

Gennaro A Cuomo

Michael L Fraenkel

Sheehan Anderson

Hung D Nguyen

John Raithel Hind

Steven Michael Miller

Marcia Lambert Peters

Rodney A Smith

Carmine Fred Greco

A blockchain may store transactions which should were not intended to be recorded due to inappropriate content or unwanted subject matter submitted by malicious users. A method may also include one or more of identifying a blockchain transaction, processing content of the blockchain transaction to identify prohibited content, and determining whether to approve or disapprove the blockchain transaction based on the content of the blockchain transaction.

Filtering and redacting blockchain transactions

The unique session ID associated with a particular web session is presented to the website visitor in connection with an incentive for purchase of merchandise at an off-line store. The number can be recorded manually by the user, stored electronically, or can be presented in the form of a coupon which is printable on a printer attached to the computer or other device on which the user visits the website. To be eligible for the incentive, the user must present the session ID to personnel at the off-line store when completing the purchase. Once in possession of the session ID correlated to a particular purchase or purchases, the store/entity can use the session ID to review and analyze the operations performed and web pages visited during the session identified by the session ID, thereby giving the entity valuable information regarding what may have gone into the thought process of the user prior to making the purchase.

Obtaining information on purchasing processes

Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for associating dynamically generated Web page content with a user who requests a Web page from a Web server. Upon receiving a user request for a Web page via a Web client in communication with the Web server, a Web server records the user request within a Web server log. The requested Web page is then dynamically generated using a template for the requested Web page and one or more content objects having respective unique identifiers associated therewith. The stored record of the user request is then appended with each identifier for respective content objects included within the displayed Web page.

Systems, methods and computer program products for associating dynamically generated web page content with web site visitors

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by improving collection of clickstream data in network exchanges comprising a plurality of related request and response messages. A clickstream cookie is created by an application, and contains a clickstream data collection correlator for messages of a particular transaction. A Uniform Resource Locator ('URL') token is created, and is used both in URLs of messages and in cookies downstream of a cookie jar for locating the application-generated correlator. In preferred embodiments, this application-generated correlator is a unique value which is used to identify related clickstream data once it is collected. A flag may also be used to indicate whether data collection is enabled. No changes are required on client devices or in client software, and there is no dependency on a client to support cookies. Using the disclosed techniques, a particular application may specify varying clickstream data collection requirements for the transactions it generates.

Clickstream data collection technique

A technique for permitting a developer to be presented with a visual programming environment which includes different representations of a class library from which a developer may select classes for inclusion in an application under development. The environment includes a class window, a composition editor window, and a methods window. To permit greater understanding of the class library that the developer is working with, the class library can be presented in the class window in a class tree format, in a class list format, or in a graphical format which includes graphical representations of the classes. The developer may select a class for inclusion in the application under development from any of the three formats. The methods window is provided for displaying the methods (code) for a selected class. The methods of a class may be modified or new methods added via the methods window after the class has been added to the application under development. The composition editor window provides a graphical view of, for example, a graphical interface under development for the application, and dynamically displays to the developer at least the graphical portion of the application as it is being developed. Descriptions of added classes which do not have the visual representations may also be included in the composition editor window as they are added to the application.

Visual programming from a tree structure

A technique for visually creatins and populating a class with members. A developer is provided with a container window representing a new class when the developer indicates that a new class is to be built. The developer vary populate the new class with members in a number of ways, including dragging visual elements representative of code to the container window and dropping them in the container window. By dropping the visual element into the container, an association between the code the visual element represents and the class represented by the container window is established. This relationship is also displayed to the developer by displaying the visual element within the container window.

Technique for visually creating and adding members to a class

Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for linking a plurality of transactions performed by a plurality of servers at a Web site to a Web site visitor who initiates or is associated with the transactions. A Web server receiving a client request from a Web site visitor stores a record of the client request in a log file and attaches a unique record identification (RID) to the record if further processing is required. The Web server passes the unique RID to an Application server at the Web site along with the client request. The Application server stores a record of the Application server request in a log file associated with the Application server and attaches the RID to the record. The Application server passes the unique RID to a back-end server along with a request for the back-end server to perform an action. The back-end server stores a record of the Application server request in a log file associated with the back-end server and attaches the RID to the record.

Systems, methods and computer program products for linking transactions by multiple web site servers to web site visitors

A game lobby allows users to open a game with their name at a central place so that others may see and join that game. The user can set the criteria for starting this game, such as the number of players or start time, whichever comes first. This paradigm enables a platform-independent object model without the burden of multi-user communication management by the game developer. The object model enables the development of game lobby services by multiple vendors and allows games to freely operate with any of these lobby implementations.

Method and system for an object architecture for a multi-user game lobby and game session

A technique, system, and computer program for collecting information about user behavior in the presence of dynamic page content. Regular expressions are used to describe dynamic page content and classify pages into equivalence classes. A Web site monitoring tool using this collection technique to create user profiles can then contend with a range of dynamic page content.

User profile management in the presence of dynamic pages using content templates

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing shared data elements among a plurality of different client processes in a network environment. Shared data elements are associated with a Flow. A Flow is a logical stream of data that is only transmitted to a client process that explicitly subscribes for updates from the Flow. Update requests for the shared data elements are transmitted from client processes along the Flow so as to request the receipt of update notifications along the Flow. Update notifications are also transmitted about the shared data elements to the client processes along the Flow which have requested update notifications. Content of the shared data elements is, thereby, delivered to applications executing within said at least one client process which have requested updates of the shared data elements.

Method and system for enabling dynamic cache structures in a networked environment

Disclosed is a method and system for collecting profile information about users accessing dynamically generated content from one or more servers. In a specific embodiment, a server dynamically generates a web page in response to a user request. The server customizes the web page content based on the requested universal resource identifier (URI) and one or more of: the user's identity, access permissions, demographic information, and previous behavior at the site. The web server then passes the URI, user identity, and dynamically generated web page to an access information collector. The access information collector generates document comparators from the current web page content and compares them to document comparators associated with previously retrieved web pages. If the current web page is sufficiently similar to some previously retrieved web page, the access information collector logs the URI, user identity, and a document key associated with the matching previously retrieved page. Otherwise, the access information collector generates a new key; stores the new key and the document comparators in a database; and logs the URI, user identity, and the newly generated document key.

Method and system for collecting user profile information over the world-wide web in the presence of dynamic content using document comparators

An application is enabled to allow any one of a variety of locking behaviors including different locking behaviors for different elements of shared text. For example, whereas one string may be associated with an implicit lock (granted when the user gives that string focus), another string may have an explicit lock (granted when the user takes some particular action such as clicking on a &ldquo;lock&rdquo; button), while yet another string may have a deferred lock (granted only when the user attempts to update the string). A similar range of possibilities is available for string update events and for unlocking the string.

Method and system for interactive sharing of text in a networked environment

Server capacity is increased on a network computer system. A total number of peers that an individual client will communicate with directly is determined. Then, a total number of clients handled by a server interconnected to the individual client is reduced by the determined total number or peers.

Method and system for a hybrid peer-server communications structure

A method and system for graphically indicating dynamic data links between a plurality of data objects, which are displayed in a data processing system, wherein the data processing system includes a graphic user interface environment for providing dynamic data exchange utilizing the dynamic data links between the data objects. The method and system includes displaying at least one connection icon in association with each of the data objects that are capable of providing dynamic data exchange utilizing dynamic data links. The display of each connection icon is altered in response to a variation in status of a dynamic data link with the associated data object, wherein a graphic indication of dynamic data links in the data processing system is provided.

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Binh Q Nguyen