International Business Machines Corporation

Francesca Ziantoni

Giuseppe Longobardi

Luigi Presti

Paolo Salerno

Claudio Falcone

Simone Bonazzoli

Silvano Lutri

Marco Borgianni

Alessio Fioravanti

Ilaria Gorga

Alessandro Tomasi

Sandro Piccinini

Fabio Barillari

A solution is proposed for managing containers isolating corresponding application environments from one or more shared operating systems in a computing system. One or more relevant groups are determined among one or more candidate groups (each comprising private data in common among a plurality of the containers); the candidate groups are determined according to corresponding access commands submitted by the containers and the relevant groups are determined according to one or more relevance policies. The private data of the relevant groups are consolidated into corresponding shared data.

Sharing of data among containers running on virtualized operating systems

A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes identifying, by a processor, atomic operations within a sequence of data elements and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The sequence of data elements is related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.

Supporting repetitive operations within an operating system

Provided is a method for managing a mobile computing device in an emergency condition that includes receiving an emergency message indicative of the emergency condition being distributed from a management computing system to any mobile computing devices in an emergency area corresponding to the emergency condition. The method includes collecting one or more involvement parameters depending on an involvement of a person associated with the mobile computing device in the emergency condition. The method includes determining an involvement indicator representative of the involvement of the person according to the involvement parameters. The method includes sending the involvement indicator to the management computing system. The method includes controlling one or more resources thereof according to the involvement indicator.

Management of mobile computing devices in emergency conditions

A method is provided for deleting a content element of a chat history lacking long-term relevance. The method includes receiving a content element, assigning the content element to a topic, determining a relationship index value for the content element to the topic using a validity value, which is a function of an access rate and a credibility index value. The method also includes comparing the relationship index threshold value for the topic of a first chat user, where the content element has been generated by a second chat user, and linking the content element of the second chat user to the topic in the chat history of the first user. The content element is deleted if it is not linked to any other chat history of another chat user of the plurality of chat users, thereby saving long-term chat storage space.

Cleaning chat history based on relevancy

A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.

A method is provided for deleting a content element of a chat history lacking long-term relevance. The method includes receiving a content element, conditionally assigning the content element to the topic, determining a relationship index value for the content element to the topic using a validity value, which is a function of an access rate and a credibility index value. The method may also include comparing the relationship index threshold value for the topic of a first chat user, where the content element has been generated by a second chat user. The method also includes linking the content element of the second chat user to the topic in the chat history of the first user, and deleting the content element if it is not linked to any other chat history of another chat user of the plurality of chat users.

A method for automatically delivering a physical mail includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial vehicle from an unmanned aerial vehicle management system, a delivery information, the delivery information includes information about a first secure mailbox and information about a second secure mailbox, the first secure mailbox being related to a first target user, delivering the physical mail to the first secure mailbox, and rerouting the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the physical mail from the first secure mailbox to the second secure mailbox in response to the physical mail being delivered to the first secure mailbox.

Package delivery and reception with drones

A computer program product for automatically delivering a physical mail includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial vehicle from an unmanned aerial vehicle management system, a delivery information, the delivery information includes information about a first secure mailbox and information about a second secure mailbox, the first secure mailbox being related to a first target user, delivering the physical mail to the first secure mailbox, and rerouting the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the physical mail from the first secure mailbox to the second secure mailbox in response to the physical mail being delivered to the first secure mailbox.

A messaging system creates a content index for messages for user selection of all of part of a message. By selecting only an indexed portion of the message, the user avoids downloading unneeded portions of the message. The content index is created according to pre-defined user criteria and semantic analysis of the contents of the message.

Electronic message content download management

Method and apparatus for rating applications. Execution of an application on a computing device is monitored to determine usage information for a user. Embodiments capture a plurality of images and for each of the plurality of images, extract, from the respective image, a set of user facial features and determine an user emotional state corresponding to the respective set of user facial features by applying a model correlating a set of predefined emotional states with corresponding predefined facial features. A trend of user emotional states across a plurality of executions of the application on the computing device is determined. Embodiments calculate a rating for the application based on the usage information, the user emotional states, and the trend of the user emotional states. The rating is sent to a server over a network connection for use in an aggregate rating of the application.

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Francesca Ziantoni