International Business Machines Corporation

Chitra Dorai

Edith H Stern

Robert Evan Strom

Ying Li

Anees Abdul Shaikh

Nalini Kanta Ratha

Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

Huining Feng

Barry Edward Willner

Sambit Sahu

Youngja Park

Rudolf Maarten Bolle

Sai Zeng

Wei Zheng

Raymond Byars Jennings, Iii

Sean Donnellan

Sunil J Noronha

Gandhi Sivakumar

Jonathan Hudson Connell, Ii

Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan

Ashish Verma

Milind R Naphade

Karthik Visweswariah

Jie Zheng

Amol Ashok Dhondse

Anand Pikle

Anshul Sheopuri

Daniel A Gisolfi

Rajeev Puri

Om Dadaji Deshmukh

Ronald Ambrosio

William Francis Jerome

William J Hladik, Jr

Roger Douglas Lederman

Krishnan K Ramachandran

Gaurav Jain

Xu Sun

Jianren Li

Shailesh Joshi

John Fortelny

Mark W Zeininger

Maureen E Rzasa

Gary J Wright

En Cheng

Gordon A Kerr

Fred S Winegust

Jeong-Hyon Hwang

Gerard John Buttner

Ahmad-Sameh Afif Fakhouri

Ali A Bulbul

Vidar Hrafnkelsson

Alejandro Veen

Harummiati Gandasasmita

A method for validating a remote user's identity comprises retrieving a user's photo and a user's signature from a digital associated identification card; requesting a real-time photo set, wherein the real-time photo set includes a first photo and a second photo; requesting a real-time written signature with the requested real-time photo set; signature matching the real-time written signature against the user's signature of the digital associated identification card; background matching a background in the first photo of the real-time photo set against a background in the second photo of the real-time photo set; user matching an image of the user from the first photo against the user's photo from the digital associated identification card; and validating the user's identity in response to determining that the signature matching satisfies a first threshold, the background matching satisfies a second threshold, and the user matching satisfies a third threshold.

Remote user identity validation with threshold-based matching

A method for projecting performance of a target asset compared to a benchmark, the method comprising receiving one or more target matrices corresponding to a target portfolio and one or more benchmark matrices corresponding to a benchmark portfolio, wherein the target matrices and benchmark matrices comprise elements corresponding to variables that influence portfolio performance trajectory, computing a target performance trajectory based on the one or more target matrices and a benchmark performance trajectory based on the benchmark matrices, identifying actions to bring the target performance trajectory above the benchmark performance trajectory; and communicating the identified actions.

Performance projection

For data integration using APIs, a request for data is analyzed to determine a set of functional characteristics and a set of non-functional characteristics expected in the data. A first API entry is selected in a registry of API entries, the first API entry corresponding to a first API of the first data source. The first API entry includes a first metadata corresponding to a first functional characteristic in the set of functional characteristics. The first API is invoked to obtain a first portion of the data, the first portion having the first functional characteristic. Using a second API entry in the registry, a second API is invoked to obtain a second portion of the data. The first portion and the second portion are returned in a response to the request.

Enriching API registry using big data analytics

System, computer implemented method and computer program product for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging. A system for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging includes a Web page that includes a plurality of Web messaging tags, and a selected data model that can be bound to the Web messaging tags, and at least one messaging client for accepting at least one message from a message server and for processing the accepted at least one message into the selected data model.

Dynamically updating web pages using messaging-oriented middleware

Improving right party contact rates with a customer by exploring available contact channels and time periods may include periodically reviewing that customer's contact information to determine a set of exploration scores for each contact channel and time period pair of that customer, using an exploration score function based on an unexplored potential value, a contact utilization value, and a need-to-explore value for that contact channel and time period pair.

Exploring multiple contact channels to determine potential for reaching customers

A service-level specification for information technology services is obtained from a user. The service-level specification is mapped into an information technology specific deployment plan. Information technology specific resources are deployed in accordance with the information technology specific deployment plan to provide the information technology services.

Enabling service virtualization in a cloud

A method and system for achieving time-awareness in the highly available, fault-tolerant execution of components in a distributed computing system, without requiring the writer of these components to explicitly write code (such as entity beans or database transactions) to make component state persistent. It is achieved by converting the intrinsically non-deterministic behavior of the distributed system to a deterministic behavior, thus enabling state recovery to be achieved by advantageously efficient checkpoint-replay techniques. The system is deterministic by repeating the execution of the receiving component by processing the messages in the same order as their associated timestamps and time-aware by allowing adjustment of message execution based on time.

System and method for time-aware run-time to guarantee timeliness in component-oriented distributed systems

A system, program product, and method are provided for copying a virtual machine image. An image library comprising a plurality of system images is provided by a target data processing system. A source image selection is received at the target data processing system. A given image from the image library is selected by the target system based on the received source image. The selected given image is transformed into a copy of the virtual machine image by receiving blocks from a source system that are part of the virtual machine image but not a part of the selected given image, such that only the blocks missing from the selected given image are transferred from the source system to the target system in order to form the copy of the virtual machine image. The source image is preferably a virtual data processing system image.

Accelerate copying of virtual machine images

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing communications between a plurality of applications are presented. A determination is made as to whether an address in a message is a prior address for a second application in the plurality of applications in response to receiving a message from a first application in the plurality of applications. The message is sent onto a virtual network configured to handle prior addresses for the plurality of applications in response to the address in the message being the prior address for the second application being located on another virtual machine from the first application.

Communications between virtual machines that have been migrated

A virtual machine is migrated between a source cloud and a destination cloud. A temporary storage is mounted to a partition management firmware of the source cloud and to a partition management firmware of the destination cloud. A first storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the source cloud to the at least one temporary storage. A second storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the at least one temporary storage to final destination storage of the destination cloud. The temporary storage is then unmounted from the partition management firmware of the source cloud and from the partition management firmware of the destination cloud.

Enablement and acceleration of live and near-live migration of virtual machines and their associated storage across networks

System and method for time-aware run-time to guarantee time

Analyzing an audio interaction is provided. At least one change in an emotion of a speaker in an audio interaction and at least one aspect of the audio interaction are identified. The at least one change in an emotion is analyzed in conjunction with the at least one aspect to determine a relationship between the at least one change in an emotion and the at least one aspect, and a result of the analysis is provided.

Analysis of the temporal evolution of emotions in an audio interaction in a service delivery environment

Controlling live migration of a running application between a source machine and a target machine is provided. At least one application characteristic and at least one network characteristic are obtained. An objective function that defines a cost to migrate from the source machine to the target machine as a function such as a weighted combination of at least one cost property is obtained. The objective function is optimized using the at least one application characteristic and the at least one network characteristic to determine a policy specifying when to switch execution of the running application from the source machine to the target machine. Live migration of the application from the source machine is controlled to send pages from the source machine to the target machine in accordance with the policy, and to switch the execution of the application from the source machine to the target machine at a state specified by the policy.

Optimizing migration policy during live virtual memory migration

Exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes estimating an empirical distribution of a metric for a company. The method includes estimating a distribution of the metric for a plurality of companies. The method further includes determining whether the company is an outlier, based on the empirical distribution of the metric for the company and the distribution of the metric for the plurality of companies, and generating at least one recommendation based determining whether the company is an outlier.

Correlated analytics for benchmarking in community shared data

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