International Business Machines Corporation

David Alexander Barker

Bharat Veer Bedi

David C Conway-Jones

Gary Paul Noble

A method for masking data in communications comprising: assigning a user identifier and a tag to private data associated with a user, wherein the user identifier and the tag is associated with the private data in a data structure associated with a second data processing node; receiving a request for a first list from a first data processing node; sending to a second request for a second list of user identifiers associated with a corresponding one or more users and sending a third request for one or more tags assigned to private data of the one or more users. The second list is merged with the one or more tags in order to generate the first list which is sent to the first data processing node. The first list can be used to initiate a communication request without requiring private data to be stored on the first data processing node.

Method for masking data

A message generator for use in a publish/subscribe system, the publish/subscribe system having a broker for receiving a plurality of messages from one or more publishers and a subscriber: the message generator comprising: a storage component for retaining the plurality of messages; and an aggregator for aggregating the plurality of messages into an aggregated message.

Message generator

A method and system for software and data distribution are described in which an original software and/or data package is provided to a first device. The first device installs the original software package, which includes installing a package builder kit. The package builder kit allows a software distribution kit to be built by the first device. The software distribution kit can be transmitted from the first device to a second device for installation on the second device. The package builder kit includes a copy of an original configuration file from the original software package, details as to the installed files, addresses of the installed files on the first device, details of the internal structure of the original software package, and provides an executable program to build the software distribution kit.

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David Alexander Barker