International Business Machines Corporation

Doordash, Inc.

Graham White

Andrew S Feltham

Kevin Christopher Brown

Dominic Peter Harries

Robert S Smart

Edward G Jellard

Helen Samantha Bowyer

Bharat Veer Bedi

Dominic E Thorne

Ignas Bolsakovas

James Billingham

Martin J Gale

Elizabeth Jane Maple

James Steven Luke

Daniel Thomas Cunnington

Jonathan Limburn

James Robert Magowan

Christopher R Gibson

Elizabeth E Bowen

Edward J Biddle

David S Braines

Alexander Craig Filshie Russell

Gwilym B L Newton

Concepts for generating navigation instructions for a driver of a vehicle are presented. One example, includes obtaining a current location of the vehicle, a route for the vehicle from the current location to a target destination, and a captured image of the surrounding environment of the vehicle, the image having a field of view comprising at least part of a field of view of the driver. An object is identified in the captured image. Navigation instructions for the driver are generated based on the current location of the vehicle, the route for the vehicle and the object identified in the captured image.

Generating navigation instructions

Proposed are concepts of identifying physiological stress of a user of a virtual reality environment by displaying to the user a virtual object at an object location within the virtual reality environment and instructing the user to interact with the displayed virtual object. A measure of physiological stress may then be determined based on a detected parameter of the user's movement in response to the instruction, and the measure of physiological stress may be associated with a part of the user's body based on the object location.

Physiological stress of a user of a virtual reality environment

Optimizing the rendering of objects in a Web browser view is described. A Web browser system includes: a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computer device; program instructions of an object model configured to organize objects in layers including a lower layer and one or more higher layers; program instructions of a rendering engine for loading two or more objects from a server into the layers of the object model and for rendering selected objects in a Web browser view; program instructions of an object selection engine configured to select two or more loaded objects in the object model for display in the client browser view; and program instructions of an object deselection engine configured to deselect one or more selected objects in a lower layer that are occluded by one or more objects in a higher layer or above.

Optimized browser object rendering

A method of determining a participant's contribution to a conversation or dialogue by generating a contribution score is provided. The contribution score may be determined based on at least one of a prosody analysis of a participant's input and an input reaction measure indicative of another participant's reaction to the participant's input. An associated computer system and computer program product is also provided.

Dialogue analysis

A method and associated system. A server computer selects a re-ordering scheme for re-ordering chunks of an original file that includes N chunks. N is at least 2. The server computer divides the file into the chunks. The server computer re-orders the chunks according to the selected re-ordering scheme to form an obfuscated file that includes the re-ordered chunks. The selected re-ordering scheme specifies for each chunk in the original file a position of said each chunk in the obfuscated file. The re-ordering includes performing N iterations such that in iteration I the position of chunk I in the obfuscated file is determined to be the position of chunk I specified in the selected re-ordering scheme (I=1, 2, . . . N). The server computer sends, to a client computer, the obfuscated file along with a scheme access reference that enables the client computer to access the selected re-ordering scheme.

Network file transfer including file obfuscation

Embodiments relate to controlling display of a document, where the document comprises multiple columns. An aspect includes displaying the columns of the document in a viewport, receiving a user input defining a downwards scrolling for the document. Another aspect includes determining the lowest numbered column that does not have its lowest point displayed in the viewport. Another aspect includes scrolling upwards only the lowest numbered column that does not have its lowest point displayed in the viewport, while maintaining all other columns stationary in the viewport.

Column aware scrolling

A method and federated publish/subscribe system for data transfer in the federated publish/subscribe system. The federated publish/subscribe system includes a processor, a first message broker, and a second message broker. The second message broker transmits, via the processor, a message A to a first subscribing application and a message (A+&#x394;) to a second subscribing application. The message (A+&#x394;) differs from the message A by changes &#x394;. The first subscribing application and the second subscribing application are different subscribing applications. Prior to the transmitting by the second message broker, the second message broker receives, from the first message broker via the processor, either (i) a message (A, &#x394;) comprising the message A and the changes &#x394; or (ii) the message A and a message &#x394; comprising the changes &#x394;.

Data transfer in a federated publish/subscribe system

Systems, methods and computer program products for processing natural language input are provided. Natural language input is processed by one or more processing rules. The processing rules may specify one or more actions to be performed. The processing rules may alternatively or additionally split up the natural language input into a plurality of simpler sub-inputs, each of which may then be processed by one or more processing rules. The processing rules themselves may be generalized, which generalization may be based on user input. In the event that a suitable processing rule cannot be found, a request may be made to a user to provide instructions for processing the natural language input.

Natural language processing with adaptable rules based on user inputs

A method and associated system. A server computer selects a re-ordering scheme from one or more re-ordering schemes, for re-ordering chunks of an original file. The server computer divides the file into the chunks. After the file is divided into the chunks, the server computer re-orders the chunks according to the selected re-ordering scheme to form an obfuscated file that includes the re-ordered chunks. The server computer sends, to a client computer, the obfuscated file along with a scheme access reference that enables the client computer to access the selected re-ordering scheme.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for information sharing. The method may receive user created content from a user. It may then extract information, having one or more types of information from the user created content. At least one type of the extracted information is semantic concepts. It may then determine one or more messaging platforms on which to share the user created content. It may determine that based on at least a correlation between: the extracted information; and historical data correlating the extracted information with what messaging platforms the user created content was sent to. I may notify the user of the one or more determined messaging platforms. It may receive a selection from the user of one or more determined messaging platforms. It may transmit the user created content to the selected messaging platform or platforms.

Intelligent information sharing system

Systems and computer program product synchronize screenshots in documentation with product functionality. Documentation source relating to a product includes placeholders where screenshots of user interface views of the product are to be located. A placeholder includes a description or pointer to a description of how to generate the user interface view of the product associated with the screenshot. A new version of the documentation may be generated. The documentation source including placeholders is read. Placeholders in the documentation are used to generate a user interface view. The user interface view is captured as a screenshot. The screenshot is inserted in the new version of the documentation at the location of the placeholder used to generate the screenshot.

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Hampshire, United Kingdom

Graham White