International Business Machines Corporation

Erik Dean Anderson

Indran Naick

William Arthur Griffith

Anthony J Arcuri

Howard Neil Anglin

James C Palistrant

Frederic J Bauchot

Ana Claudia Biazetti

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for presentation delivery. The mechanism delivering a presentation content to a group of users and receives a plurality of questions concerning the presentation content from the group of users. The mechanism stores the plurality of questions in a question history database and clusters the plurality of questions in the question history database into one or more question clusters. The mechanism determines a topic for each of the one or more question clusters to form one or more question topics and generates feedback for updating the presentation content based on the one or more question topics.

Enhanced knowledge delivery and attainment using a question answering system

In a method for smart roadway alerts, a roadway alert device, coupled to a vehicle: receives a video stream including a video of a location of a roadway from a video camera; decodes the video stream to extract a set of video frames; analyze the set of video frames to detect one or more risk events; generates a risk alert for each of the one or more risk events; and sends the risk alert to the vehicle.

Roadway alert system using video stream from a smart mirror

A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, transaction information for a transaction, wherein the transaction information identifies one or more items in the transaction; classifying, by the computing device, each of the one or more items; selecting, by the computing device, one or more payment accounts, of a plurality of payment accounts, to use to pay for the one or more items based on the classifying each of the one or more items; and communicating, by the computing device, with one or more payment servers to charge the one or more payment accounts for the one or more items.

Transaction processing based on statistical classification and contextual analysis

A method, digital video recorder device and computer program product for recording program content. The digital video recorder (DVR) receives a selection of a television program or a television channel to record video content as well as the time period to record the video content in the selected television program or in the television program airing on the selected television channel from a user. Furthermore, the DVR receives keyword(s) to trigger the recording of the video content in the television program from the user. The DVR monitors the television program or the television channel for keyword(s) entered by the user in on-screen text, closed captioning text and/or program audio. In response to detecting one or more of these keyword(s) in the on-screen text, closed captioning text and/or program audio, the DVR records the video content in the television program for the selected period of time.

Recording video content in relevant segments of a television program based on identifying keywords in on-screen text, closed captioning text and/or program audio

A computer program product is described. The computer program product includes a computer useable storage medium including a computer readable program. The computer readable program includes instructions that, when executed by a processing device within a computer, cause the computer to perform operations. The operations include displaying an attraction icon on a display device, moving the attraction icon relative to a user interface control on the display device. The operations further include moving the user interface control from a first position on the display device to a second position to facilitate manipulation of the user interface control by a user, and restoring the user interface control to the first position in response to completion of the manipulation of the user interface control by the user.

Manipulation of user interface controls

Virtual accounts having alphanumeric identifiers different from an alphanumeric identifier of a financial account are linked to the financial account. Financial transactions performed in relation to the virtual accounts result in changing the current value of the financial account. The virtual accounts themselves do not have a current value apart from a current value of the financial account to which the virtual accounts are linked. Performance of the financial transactions in relation to the virtual accounts does not expose the alphanumeric identifier of the financial account that would otherwise be exposed if the financial transactions were performed in relation to the financial account. A given financial account is also linked to another financial account. Performance of a financial transaction in relation to this given virtual account thus results in changing the current value of one of the financial accounts to which it is linked.

Virtual accounts linked to financial accounts

An approach is provided in which a data collection system loads a user interface form on a display screen. The user interface form includes an entry field and an extraction formula with a corresponding element type that adheres to an industry-specific schema. The data collection system receives a data packet from a broadcast device, which includes an element value and an element type identifier adhering to the same industry-specific schema. In turn, the data collection system determines whether the element type identifier matches the element type and, if so, the data collection system populates the entry field on the display screen with the element value.

Autonomous data sharing among smart devices

A method, system or computer usable program product for a data processing system to anticipate parking space availability including receiving from the first user a request for a parking space for a first vehicle, obtaining location tracking data of a set of users, each of the set of users associated with one of a set of vehicles, each vehicle located at one of a set of parking spaces, predicting a set of departure times based on the location tracking data for a subset of the set of users away from and associated with vehicles located in parking spaces, determining a subset of departure times that are within an acceptable period of time, and sending to the first user a subset of parking spaces with vehicles associated with users having the subset of departure times.

Managing parking space availability

The present disclosure is a wall plate with a multiple flexible member covered opening. A wall plate with a multiple flexible member covered opening may allow for multiple types of wires to run through the same wall box and wall plate. Wall plate may be designed to directly attach to a standard single gang wall box for an easy installation. Wall plate may include multiple flexible members that may allow cables to enter and exit through the flexible members while covering an opening defined by a frame of the wall plate to provide a finished appearance.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Erik Dean Anderson