International Business Machines Corporation

Grant Mericle

Benjamin Thomas Rau

Martin G Keen

David Anthony Herr

Martin J Presler-Marshall

Ravi Ranjan

Bruce H Ratcliff

Michael G Fitzpatrick

Andrew Hilliard Arrowood

Srinivasan Muralidharan

Harley Andrew Stenzel

Michael Jon Fox

Dwight E Allen, Jr

Scott D Malzahn

Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes registering at least one of a plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses (VIPAs) to each of a plurality of network adapters. The method further includes distributing, by each of the plurality of network adapters, inbound data among each of the plurality of network adapters using an address resolution protocol.

Dynamically balancing inbound traffic in a multi-network interface-enabled processing system

Embodiments for managing online content by one or more processors are described. An identification of a content creator and an identification of an organization are received. A relationship associated with the content creator and the organization is determined based on at least one online data source associated with at least one of the content creator and the organization. A signal representative of the determined relationship between the content creator and the organization is generated.

Managing or modifying online content according to cognitively identified creator and organization relationships

Embodiments for personalizing operations of an image capturing device by a processor. A combination of one or more objects and features along with associated settings of the image capturing device captured in an image may be classified. One or more personalized patterns of the settings of the image capturing device may be determined according to the classifying. The one or more personalized patterns of the settings of the image capturing device may be applied for capturing a subsequent image.

Intelligent personalization of operations of an image capturing device

A computer-implemented method for ranking and presenting actions executed by prior users when an error scenario occurs in a computer system is provided. The computer-implemented method includes identifying an error with the computer system and entering an error state with respect to the error. The computer-implemented method includes recording operations within the computer system during the error state and exiting the error state based on an exit condition.

Automatically solving computer system error states via a comparative historical analysis of error states, logs, profile configurations, and operator responses

A method, system and computer program product for discovering social network groups of interests to attendees of a group gathering. Voice imprints of attendees of a group gathering are received during a registration process. The received voice imprints are associated with the registered attendees. A voice stream that was captured in the group gathering is then translated to a list of utterances. Each utterance is then tagged with the attendee who made the utterance based on the voice imprints provided by the attendees during registration. The utterances are parsed and analyzed to identify concepts and keywords. An attendee to the group gathering may then be associated with a social network group (either preexisting or newly created) with a mapping to concepts and keywords that have a similarity to the identified concepts and keywords that meets or exceeds a threshold.

Identifying or creating social network groups of interest to attendees based on cognitive analysis of voice communications

A method, system, and program product for allocating a port for a connection by an application instance on a computer system is provided. The application instances used the port and a shared network address to connect to one or more application instances accessing the shared network address. A distributing stack creates at least one common table of available ports. Each table is associated with a different unique shared network address. When a request is received for a port to assign the shared network address, the distributing stack allocates a set of available ports. When a termination message is received, the distributing stack updates the common table of available ports associated with the shared network address. When a transfer from the distributing stack to a backup distributing stack is made, ownership of the common table of available ports is transferred to the backup distributing stack.

Sysplexport allocation across a z/OS sysplex

According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for packet forwarding optimization across multiple nodes may include receiving, via a processor on a network controller, a first packet from a client. The first packet can include information indicative of a target node and a protocol type. The method may further include receiving, via the processor, a balancing node from a packet engine, forwarding, via the processor, the first packet to the target node though the balancing node according to a balancing node address, a target node address, and the protocol type, receiving, via the processor, a registration from the packet engine, and saving the registration to a network controller queue, and forwarding, via the network controller queue, a second packet to the target node based on the registration without the second packet traversing the balancing node.

Packet forwarding optimization without an intervening load balancing node

Different protocol applications (e.g., TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications) are monitored and combined into a same workload, and load balancing decisions are made that affect both types of applications. In the approach, monitoring agents verify the health and availability of both the TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications, and such information is then used by a workload manager to create a distribution policy for the workload. The workload manager provides the distribution policy to a load balancing mechanism, which is operable to distribute workload connections to any of these applications. The TCP/IP connections and SNA sessions for a workload group are then routed to one site, or to an alternate site.

Combining disparate applications into a single workload group

In managing communications for a group of servers, each server in the group of servers receives a request from one or more processor units for connection information for generating a set of mappings for a load balancer of the group of servers to replace another set of mappings for another load balancer of the group of servers. A sub-group of servers, in the group of servers, is created comprising servers that have not yet responded to the request for connection information. Responsive to a determination that a route to the server in the group of servers for a communication received from a client device cannot be identified from the set of mappings for the load balancer while the sub-group of servers includes one or more servers that have not yet responded to the request for connection information, the sub-group of servers receives the communication from the one or more processors.

Managing connection failover in a load balancer

A method for managing communications for a group of servers is disclosed. A processor sends requests to the group of servers for connection information for generating a set of mappings for a load balancer of the group of servers to replace another set of mappings for another load balancer of the group of servers. Responsive to receiving a communication from a client device for the group of servers, the processor determines whether a route to a server in the group of servers can be identified from the set of mappings for the load balancer. If the route cannot be identified from the set of mappings for the load balancer, the processor forwards the communication to a sub-group of the group of servers that have not yet responded to the requests for connection information for generating the set of mapping so that only the one correct server responds.

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Grant Mericle