International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

Brent Alan Miller

Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo

Steven Michael Miller

Ajamu Akinwunmi Wesley

David Mark Ogle

Denilson Nastacio

Kathryn Heninger Britton

John William Sweitzer

Marcelo Perazolo

Eric Labadie

Jamel Pleasant Lynch, Jr

Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy

Sandeep Kishan Singhal

Amy D Travis

Julian Satran

Brad Byer Topol

Stephen Glen Graham

Brian Lee White Eagle

James Lee Combs

James Campbell Colson

Nicholas David Butler

Kent F Hayes, Jr

Peter James Brittenham

Sara Beth Weber

Laura Janet Rodriguez

Dafna Sheinwald

David Phillip Johnson

John Michael Marberg

Neeraj Joshi

William Walter Vetter

Carl Shawn Kessler

Smriti Talwar

Yen-Min Huang

Owen H Choi

Jeffrey A Craig

Richard Allen Floyd

Sachin Suhas Patwardhan

Daniel S Rabinovitz

Frank Robertson Dawson, Jr

Thomas John Aebli

Brittany Bogle

Systems, methods, and computer programming products for alleviating ambiguity amongst the terms and language displayed by the user interface of software products and services. The disclosed solutions catalog terms displayed by the UI of software and services and identify where overlapping terms with the same or substantially similar term names are presented by the UI but have different meanings than the software most familiar to the user. Natural language processing is leveraged to derive meanings of software terms using the context of the surrounding words and text elements within the UI, as well as product documentation, error messages, sentiment and other textual clues. Ambiguity among overlapping terms is alleviated by modifying the UI, highlighting differences in term definitions from the software or services a user is most familiar with using, and updating the UI in a manner that differentiates the overlapping terms displayed by accessed products or services.

User interface disambiguation

A computer identifies, based on sensor data from one or more sensors located in proximity to a fire site and on a corpus of firefighting knowledge, one or more firefighting goals. The computer generates, based on the one or more firefighting goals and the corpus of firefighting knowledge, one or more firefighting recommendations. The computer scores, using the corpus of firefighting knowledge, the one or more firefighting recommendations based on historical effectiveness of prior firefighting actions.

Cognitive solution to enhance firefighting capabilities

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for a user-to-machine interaction to authenticate a user to a delivery device prior to completion of delivery of goods or items. The method includes one or more processors identifying initiation of a delivery associated with a user. The method further includes generating an audio signature that corresponds to the delivery. The method further includes providing a digital file that includes the audio signature to a computing device associated with the user. The method further includes providing the digital file that includes the audio signature to a delivery vehicle. The method further includes authenticating the user with the delivery vehicle based at least in part on the digital file of the user and the digital file of the delivery vehicle.

Authenticating a user by delivery device using unique voice signatures

A system and method of linking task automation guidelines to the tasks and activities of a process provide for receiving a definition of a process from a user. A task automation input may also be received from the user, where the task automation input corresponds to a task included in the process. Task automation guidelines can be added to the definition of the process based on the task automation input.

Establishment of task automation guidelines

A composite manager may include a set of managers virtualized as a single entity. The composite manager may also include at least one of a module to provide a single manager interface for the set of managers to manage at least one entity, and a module to provide a single manageability interface for the set of managers relative to any managing entity of the composite manager.

Virtualizing a set of managers to form a composite manager in an autonomic system

An autonomic computing system may include an autonomic manager and a knowledge source accessible by the autonomic manager and any other entities associated with the autonomic computing system. The knowledge source may include a service interface adapted for the autonomic manager to access the knowledge source. The knowledge source may also include a multiplicity of knowledge elements.

Scope and distribution of knowledge in an autonomic computing system

A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using an ad hoc piconet protocol, and a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with a wide area network using a wide area network protocol. The application server also includes a service manifest that is configured to determine ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface.

Connecting ad hoc piconets to wide area networks and/or grid computing networks

A service system receives a request for problem resolution knowledge from a service requestor. Upon receiving the request, the service system identifies candidate patterns where each candidate pattern has at least one element that characterizes a problem associated with the corresponding pattern. An iterative process is then repeated between the service requestor and the service system until a stopping criterion is met, which attempts to narrow the field of candidate patterns down until one or more possible root causes of the problem experienced by the service requestor are identified. Alternatively, it may be determined that a possible root cause of the problem is not contained in the candidate patterns or that some other action, event, etc., interrupts the iterative process.

Problem determination service

Events experienced by resources are locally processed by secondary autonomic managers into consolidated events. These consolidated events are then transmitted to a primary autonomic manager, which recognizes symptoms of conditions found in a computer system that utilizes the resources. The primary autonomic manager is thus able to leverage information in a symptom catalog to process the consolidated events to recognize such symptoms.

Dynamic partitioning of event patterns for determining symptoms

A method, system, and computer program product for the automatic detection and fixing of security vulnerabilities in both individual software components and across complex, multi-component software solutions. The architecture of the software solution to be monitored is analyzed prior to its being monitored. Data derived from the analysis is used to proactively identify possible ways to attack the software solution. The software solution being monitored and the system on which it runs is periodically scanned, and attacks on it are attempted. A list of possible attacks is continuously updated, for example, in a manner similar to virus signatures provided by virus security companies, and a log is generated describing which attacks were successful and which ones failed.

Method, system and computer program product for computer system vulnerability analysis and fortification

A method for processing calls. Initiation of a call by a user is detected in the communications device. In response to detecting the call, a geographic identification based on a number assigned to the communications device and/or language identification based on a user of the communications device is identified. The geographic identification and the language identification are transmitted with caller identification information for use by a called party.

Method and apparatus for presenting caller identification information with geographical and/or source language information

Systems, methods and computer program products for connecting ad hoc piconets to wide area networks

A method and apparatus for preventing exchange of viruses. Preexisting content is maintained for a device in a first location. New content associated with the device is placed in a second location, wherein the new content is an update to the preexisting content. The preexisting content and the new content are combined in a third location to form merged content. A check for viruses is performed on the merged content prior to performing a transfer of the new content.

Method and system for protecting pervasive devices and servers from exchanging viruses

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Brent Alan Miller