International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Claudio Marinelli

Luigi Pichetti

Jacques Fontignie

Alessandro Donatelli

Bernardo Pastorelli

Antonio Di Cocco

Giovanni Lanfranchi

Marc Vuilleumier Stueckelberg

Giuseppe Ciano

Arcangelo Di Balsamo

Salvatore D'Alo

Mauro Arcese

Antonio Secomandi

Fabio Cerri

Gianluca Bernardini

Gianluca Mariani

Alex Donatelli

Salvatore D'Alo'

Scot MacLellan

John G Rooney

Luis Garcés-Erice

David Clerc

Pierre-Antoine Queloz

Gianluca Della Corte

Paolo Scotton

Fabio Benedetti

Francesco Maria Carteri

Stefano Borghetti

Antonio Bagarolo

Marco Lerro

Roberto Pecoraro

Chiara Conti

Antonio M Sgro'

Stefania Oliverio

Emilio De Angelis

Salvatore D'Alo′

Marc Vuilleumier Stückelberg

Antonio Perrone

Roberto Ragusa

Michele Crudele

Alessandro Scotti

Luca Lazzaro

Francesca Curzi

Randa Salem

Ruth Edith Willenborg

Francesco Lupini

Maurizio Simeoni

Roberto Longobardi

Giulio Santoli

Nicolas Andre Druet

Alessandro Scott

Roberto Ranucci

Salvadore D'Alo

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

Embodiments include systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation for managing different virtual machine images as a single virtual machine image. The operation generally includes generating a representation of a virtual machine (VM) image, and generating a first VM instance from the VM image. The representation of the VM image includes a set of artifacts associated with the VM image. The operation also includes receiving an indication of an available software update. Upon determining that the software update is applicable to the representation of the VM image, the operation further includes applying the software update to the first VM instance image.

Deploying updates to virtual machine images based on differences in artifacts

A method for creating a software image of a software application. During an installation of the software application on a computing machine, one or more changes of the computing machine occurring during the installation of the software application are detected. The one or more changes include one or more artifacts being added to the computing machine and one or more updates being applied to the computing machine. The software image is created by copying the one or more artifacts from the computing machine to a virtual disk and by adding activation procedures and activation information obtained from the activation procedures to the virtual disk. The activation procedures and activation information were determined according to the updates. The activation procedures are configured to apply the updates when running the activation procedures according to the activation information.

Creation of software images of software applications for image-based maintenance of the software applications

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

Approaches for generating an alert in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in proximity to a mobile device are provided herein. RFID tags are detected in proximity to the first mobile device, which has a RFID receiver. The alert is generated in response to alert conditions, including a determination that a RFID tag identifier stored in a first profile list is not among detected RFID tags and that an RFID tag stored in the first profile list is not in proximity to a second device. The alert is transmitted to the second mobile device, wherein the alert adds, responsive to the stored RFID tag not being among the detected RFID tags at the first device, the stored RFID tag to a second profile list associated with the second mobile device for storing RFID tag identifiers, wherein the second profile list is separate from the first profile list.

Auto-learning generation and use of objects checklist based on proximity control

A method for generating an alert on a mobile device in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in proximity to the mobile device is provided herein. The method comprises defining an event. A profile list for storing RFID tag identifiers is related to the event. The method also comprises sharing the event data together with the profile list using a social media network, storing all received RFID tag identifiers at a time within the duration of the event after an event start time in the profile list if the profile list was empty before the event start time, and generating the alert under alert conditions. The alert conditions comprise a determination that the profile list was not empty before the event start time, and that one RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list is not among the received RFID tag identifiers during the event duration after the event time.

Embodiments include methods to perform an operation for managing different virtual machine images as a single virtual machine image. The operation generally includes generating a representation of a virtual machine (VM) image, and generating a first VM instance from the VM image. The representation of the VM image includes a set of artifacts associated with the VM image. The operation also includes receiving an indication of an available software update. Upon determining that the software update is applicable to the representation of the VM image, the operation further includes applying the software update to the first VM instance image.

Embodiments include systems and computer program products to perform an operation for managing different virtual machine images as a single virtual machine image. The operation generally includes generating a representation of a virtual machine (VM) image, and generating a first VM instance from the VM image. The representation of the VM image includes a set of artifacts associated with the VM image. The operation also includes receiving an indication of an available software update. Upon determining that the software update is applicable to the representation of the VM image, the operation further includes applying the software update to the first VM instance image.

A method and system for creating a software image of a software application. The software application is installed on a computing machine. One or more changes of the computing machine resulting from the installation of the software application are detected. The one or more changes include one or more artifacts being added to the computing machine and one or more updates being applied to the computing machine. One or more activation procedures and activation information according to the updates are determined. The activation procedures are configured to apply the updates when running the activation procedures according to the activation information. The software image are created by copying the artifacts from the computing machine to a virtual disk and by adding the activation procedures and the activation information obtained from the activation procedures to the virtual disk.

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.

A solution for running a software application on a computing machine is provided, which includes registering a capability of a delegation component to execute at least one action on the computing machine, each one defined by at least one characteristic thereof, receiving a request for executing the at least one action from the software application by the delegation component, the request being bound to the delegation component at run-time according to the capability registration thereof, and delegating, by the delegation component, the execution of the at least one action to at least one local component of the computing machine being capable of executing at least part of the at least one action and/or to at least one remote component of at least one remote computing machine being capable of executing at least part of the at least one action according to an availability of the at least one local component.

Running software application with dynamic action delegation

A method and system are provided for generating customized program logic operable to control hardware devices of a target system and to boot said target system. The system is connected to one or more target systems via a network, the server system being adapted for: receiving a first list of device identifiers from one of the target systems; automatically selecting, for each of the device identifiers in the received first list, at least one driver operable to control the identified device from a set of drivers, thereby generating a sub-set of said set of drivers; providing a core program logic to the target system; and providing the sub-set of drivers to the target system, wherein a combination of the sub-set of drivers and the core program logic constitutes a customized program logic operable to control the devices of said target system.

A solution is provided for controlling usage of one or more software programs on one or more mobile computing devices. A corresponding method comprises monitoring an indication of a position of each mobile computing device to determine a location area of the mobile computing device. The method comprises assigning each one of the software programs to a usage group. For each location area, the software programs of each software program type are assigned to the corresponding usage groups providing one or more usage characteristics that fulfill one or more usage requirements of each software program; this is performed according to one or more optimization criteria depending on one or more usage weights of each usage group. The method comprises enabling the usage of each software program according to the usage characteristics of the corresponding usage group.

Usage of software programs on mobile computing devices

Encryption of virtual disc image is accomplished by increasing the size of a virtual disc to support the inclusion of a master boot record and a decryption program. Encrypting portions of a virtual disc image on the virtual disc, but leaving the boot record and decryption program unencrypted and accessible, where the decryption program will decrypt the encrypted portions if the appropriate cryptographic key is supplied. Subsequent decryption is accomplished by initiating a boot sequence through the master boot record, receiving the appropriate cryptographic key, appropriately ordering the decrypted disc image.

Encrypting and decrypting a virtual disc

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