International Business Machines Corporation

Damiano Bassani

Andrea Tortosa

Alfonso D'Aniello

Antonio Di Cocco

Paolo Ottaviano

Gianluca Bernardini

Alessandro Ghezzi

Pasquale Maria Mascolo Montenero

Roberto Giordani

Alessandro Luigi Chiantera

Elisabetta Rinaldi

Marco Mulas

Catia Mecozzi

Michela Melfa

In several aspects for creating a minute of a teleconference from a record thereof, a processor classifies portions of the record as relevant or non-relevant according to corresponding relevance indicators with respect to a topic of the teleconference. A processor removes the non-relevant portions from the record. A processor classifies pairs of relevant portions as similar or non-similar according to corresponding similarity indicators. A processor removes one of the relevant portions of each similar pair of relevant portions from the minute.

Creation of a minute from a record of a teleconference

A solution is proposed for managing a computing environment. A corresponding method comprises detecting critical commands and applying each critical command and possible following commands to the computing environment by maintaining an unchanged image thereof; a command effect of the application of the critical command on the computing environment is verified according to one or more operative parameters thereof, and the application of the critical/following commands is integrated into the computing environment in in response to a positive result of the verification. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a system for implementing the method is proposed.

Management of computing environments with verification of command effects

A method is proposed for operating a mobile computing device. A potentially dangerous condition for a user of the mobile computing device is detected according to its position. A responsiveness level of the user (to recognize the potentially dangerous condition) is determined according to one or more operative parameters of the mobile computing device. One or more interactive functionalities of the mobile computing device are controlled in response to the potentially dangerous condition according to the responsiveness level. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a mobile computing device for implementing the method is proposed.

Controlling mobile computing device according to user's responsiveness

Optimizing input component enablement for a plurality of communication devices that have input components associated with at least one of a group of meeting participants. At least one of the participants has an identification attribute in an electronic group meeting. A computer receives audio input from input components and analyzes qualitative attributes and content of the audio input to provide a set of quality metrics and a focus concept. The metrics are assessed to determine whether the audio input exceeds quality thresholds, and the focus concept is compared to participant identification attributes. A computer system makes determinations based on these assessments to selectively place input components that provide input with desired quality or which are associated with participants having identification attributes that correspond to the focus concept into an active speaking mode.

Using data analysis to optimize microphone enablement in a group electronic communication

A method for maintaining a computing system comprising a plurality of computing nodes is disclosed. The method comprises causing an application of a maintenance activity concurrently on a maintenance subset of the computing nodes not exceeding a limit number, monitoring one or more status indicators of the computing system during the application of the maintenance activity and updating the limit number according to the status indicators. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also disclosed. Moreover, a corresponding control computing machine is disclosed.

Maintenance of computing nodes concurrently in a number updated dynamically

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