International Business Machines Corporation

Dale M Schultz

Paul R Bastide

Robert E Loredo

Matthew E Broomhall

Shunguo Yan

Steven Edward Atkin

Luis Zapata

William James Sullivan

Michael Francis Moriarty

Asima Silva

Mark E Davis

Roy Hudson

Nathan Victor Bak

Dong Huang

Jing Xing

Yan Min Sheng

Radhika Sohoni

Zuo Peng Zhang

Yang Gu

Yi X Liu

Esmond P Walshe

Susan Jane Williams

A method for ingesting a plurality of content according to a statistical similarity of at least one portion of the ingested plurality of content into an information handling system capable of answering questions, whereby the ingested plurality of content is based on a received topic and ingesting the plurality of content comprises ingesting a plurality of documents associated with the received topic is provided. The method may include determining at least one similarity between each document based on a similarity criteria. The method may also include applying a statistical model to characterize the determined at least one similarity between each document. The method may further include creating at least one pair-wise link for each document. The method may additionally include mapping the created at least one pair-wise link. The method may include generating a plurality of rules for ingesting a plurality of additional content.

Enhancement of massive data ingestion by similarity linkage of documents

Balancing a workload based on commitments to projects includes monitoring messages in a collaboration system, the messages representing correspondences between users of the collaboration system, selecting a number of the users associated with the collaboration system to form a group of users, retrieving the messages from each of the users in the group of users, analyzing data associated with the messages to determine which of the messages relate to at least one project, and executing, based on a threshold, at least one action to optimize a workload for at least one user in the group of users for the at least one project.

Balancing a workload based on commitments to projects

A method for creating at least one new thread associated with an online conversation is provided. The method may include monitoring the online conversation to detect a new or updated element of the online conversation. The method may also include extracting the detected new or updated element. The method may further include analyzing the online conversation and the extracted detected new or updated element to determine if a new online conversation has started. The method may include extracting a plurality of members associated with the online conversation. The method may also include extracting a plurality of content associated with the extracted detected new or updated element. The method additionally include prompting a user to determine if a new online conversation should be created. The method may also include creating the new online conversation. The method may further include notifying the plurality of extracted members about the created new online conversation.

Dynamic thread management for online conversations

A method for productivity view management may include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of collaborative artifacts for a user and organizing the plurality of collaborative artifacts in a list based on a predetermined order. The method may also include analyzing, by the processor, the list of collaborative artifacts using a predetermined criterion and determining a view management fatigue factor threshold for the user. The method may further include automatically inserting, by the processor, a downtime artifact within the list of collaborative artifacts based on analyzing the list of collaborative artifacts to prevent the user from exceeding the view management fatigue factor threshold.

Logical productivity view management

A method for presenting a trusted tag cloud to a user. The method includes associating a number of tags with a first user who applies the tags, calculating a weight of the tags being examined by a second user. The weight may be based on the identity of the second user, the identity of the first user, and examining the relationship between the two. The tags may then be presented to the user in accordance with the value of the weight.

Presenting a trusted tag cloud

Populating a user network for a focus user includes identifying a base network in a social network, the base network includes a group of users that are potential social connections for a focus user, receiving a policy associated with the focus user, the policy includes information for populating, from the base network, a user network associated with the focus user, determining, based on the policy, a number of proposed social connections from the base network to populate the user network, and populating the user network of the focus user with the number of proposed social connections.

Populating a user network for a focus user

The present invention relates to a messaging technique, and more specifically, relates to a method and system for messaging using information of predetermined message recipients. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for messaging, comprising: obtaining message recipients designated by a to-be-sent message; obtaining predetermined message recipients corresponding to the to-be-sent message; and in response to inconsistency between the designated message recipients and the predetermined message recipients, unifying the designated message recipients and the predetermined message recipients. According to the method and system for messaging provided by the present invention, message recipients may be efficiently controlled and uniformed so as to avoid missing of recipients or to promptly update message recipient information. Further, the messaged content can be efficiently controlled and unified.

Method and system for messaging

A social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold causes a first subset of social network group members of a social network group to be included in a social network conversation earlier than at least one other social network group member. In accordance with the social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, social network posts of the social network conversation are distributed to the first subset of social network group members while delaying distribution of the social network posts of the social network conversation to the at least one other social network group member. Upon satisfaction of the social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, the social network posts of the social network conversation are distributed to the at least one other social network group member.

Dynamic inclusion thresholds for social network conversations

A monitoring computer system receives a message, from a first party, which identifies a goal of the first party. The monitoring computer system receives an identity of a second party that has been selected by the first party to assist the first party in achieving the identified goal of the first party. An electronic communication connection is created for electronic communications between the first party and the second party, wherein the electronic communications are related to accomplishing the identified goal of the first party. The electronic communications between the first party and the second party are monitored by executing message analytics to determine a status of the identified goal of the first party. In response to receiving a goal abandonment message, identifying an abandonment of the identified goal by the first party, the monitoring computer system disconnects the electronic communication connection between the first party and the second party.

Goal-based connection management between parties

A method for routing communications on an online social network includes monitoring communications between users on an online social network on a communications system. A processing issue with a message of the communications is identified based on a rule, wherein the message is from a sender to a receiver. The method and system includes analyzing a recipient social network for an alternative recipient user to receive the message based on a similarity criteria. A processing model is applied to the message to determine an action to improve processing efficiency of the message. The action includes routing the message to the alternative recipient user. The method and system includes performing the action to facilitate the processing efficiency, responsive to determining an action.

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Limerick, ME, United States of America

Dale M Schultz