International Business Machines Corporation

Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar

Michael James Ward

Kevan Lee Miller

Robert Evan Strom

Lawrence David Bergman

Danny Soroker

David Bruce Lection

Biplav Srivastava

Vijay Krishnarao Naik

Tushar Deepak Chandra

Ramon Caceres

Maria Rene Ebling

Daniel Charles Sturman

Atul Prakash

Sebastien Demathieu

Hui Lei

Chatschik Bisdikian

Lorraine M Herger

Krishna Kummamuru

Prasad Manikarao Deshpande

Daby Mousse Sow

Kouichi Ono

Masahiro Hori

Alan Hartman

Claus Michael Olsen

Juan Manuel Huerta

Jeremy Brand Sussman

Guerney Douglass Holloway Hunt

Richard J Cardone

Chandra Narayanaswami

Anshu N Jain

Inderpreet Thukral

Vijii Enara Chenthamarakshan

Tatiana Kichkaylo

Ketki A Dhanesha

Techniques for generating one or more artifacts for service delivery are provided. The techniques include receiving one or more service design inputs, using the one or more service design inputs to generate an internal representation of the service design, using the internal representation of the service to generate one or more artifacts of the service, and incorporating the one or more artifacts into the service design and outputting the service.

Automatically generating artifacts for service delivery

A method of pre-fetching and preparing content in an information processing system is provided. The method includes the steps of generating at least one content pre-fetching policy and at least one content preparation policy, wherein each of the policies are at least in part a function of context information associated with a user. The content is pre-fetched based on information contained within the at least one content pre-fetching policy. Once the content has been pre-fetched, it is prepared based on information contained within the at least one content preparation policy. The context information associated with the user includes at least one of the user's usage patterns, current location, future plans and preferences.

Method and apparatus for content pre-fetching and preparation

Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for sharing resources among a plurality of containers in a data processing system. A computer implemented method includes creating a shared container for at least one resource to be shared. Then the at least one resource to be shared is moved from an original container of the at least one resource to the shared container, and a link is created between the original container and the at least one resource to be shared in the shared resource container. A link can also be created between a subject resource container and a shared resource in the shared resource container to enable the subject resource container to access and use the shared resource. A shared resource can also be removed from the shared resource container and returned to an original resource container when sharing of the resource is no longer desired.

Sharing resources among hierarchical containers of resources

Computer implemented method and system for sharing resources among hierarchical containers of resources

A method and supporting application-development tool are provided for building such a set of application flows. The method includes the steps of (a) a developer obtaining a 'generic' flow model for the application; (b) the developer specifying the set of targets; (c) automatically creating a specialized flow model for each of the targets; (d) the developer modifying at least one of the generic flow model and the specialized flow models; (e) automatically generating specialized applications corresponding to the specified specialized flow models; and (f) deploying the specialized applications on the corresponding targets.

System and method for constructing computer application flows with specializations for targets

Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received. It is determined which components are affected by the change request. An initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers is determined based on dependencies of the affected components with other components, and based on the approvers required for each affected and dependent component. The initial set of approvals is rearranged into sub-groups such that components falling within each sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same group.

Change approvals for computing systems

A system and method to support embedded complete controller specification through explicit controller overlays are provided. The system and method partitions the controller layer of the MVC into a plurality of controller overlays. For example, a macro controller overlay, micro controller overlay, and global controller overlay are established for specifying macro controller objects, micro controller objects and global controller objects. Editors are provided for each of the plurality of controller overlays. The combination of the micro control overlay, macro control overlay, and global control overlay results in a complete controller specification for an application.

System and method for providing an embedded complete controller specification through explicit controller overlays

The analysis of OLAP data to determine user-relevant information firstly generates a set of queries based on said preferences. Each query is evaluated sequentially against the OLAP data to give a query result. For each evaluated query in turn, it is determined whether said result is relevant to the user on the basis of conditions derived from the user preferences. An output results set is formed consisting of the relevant results. Further, if a previous query result containing a common measure was determined not to be relevant, then a subsequent query can be omitted from evaluation.

Analysis of OLAP data to determine user-relevant information

A system and method for restoring communications through breaks in wireless coverage includes identifying a coverage gap in a wireless coverage area and notifying system users of the existence of the coverage gap. Connection information is distributed to other base stations to automatically reconnect parties upon exiting the coverage gap.

System and method for maintaining communication channels through coverage gaps

A method, system, and computer program for a) buffering instant messages to an intended recipient while the recipient is currently not logged on to an instant messaging system, and b) delivering buffered messages to the intended recipient after the recipient connects the instant messaging system. Thus, users are enabled to initiate instant messaging sessions with other users who are not currently online. An instant messaging device buffers messages and delivers them to the recipient when the recipient comes online. To the recipient, the method of delivery appears identical to the case where the recipient was continuously connected to the system. The main difference is the time delay, i.e. the elapsed time between the time the sender sent it and the time the recipient connected. The recipient is further able to configure the instant messaging device to be selective about which senders are allowed to buffer messages to the recipient while the recipient is disconnected. Sender specific pop-up windows, including the sender's buffered messages, will appear on the recipient's screen after the recipient connects to the system. The recipient can then respond to the instant message and resume the conversation in a real-time (though delayed) manner if the sender is presently online.

System and method for supporting instant messaging in disconnected modes

A method and system for applying a method for iterative refinement of a presentation including (a) a developer creating a high-level representation of the user interface; (b) automatically generating a concrete user interface markup from the high-level representation; (c) the developer editing the concrete generated markup and saving the edits to an edit history; (d) the developer editing the high-level representation; (e) automatically re-generating a concrete markup from the edited high-level representation; and (f) automatically or interactively applying the edit history to the concrete markup to produce an updated markup.

Method and apparatus for iterative refinement of generated user-interface markup

A method and a system for automated verification and status identification (context) of objects using data about the objects captured via computer-enabled sensing elements are provided. The object may include goods tagged with electronic identifiers. The objects are shipped from one location to another, and identified via their electronic identifiers. The objects are scanned at the various locations by a number of sensing devices. The outcome of sensing is then compared with stored information describing the object and pointed at by their electronic identifier. The comparison is used to automatically verify that the scanned object is as identified and evaluate its condition.

Method and system for context-based automated product identification and verification

A technique for reliably multicasting a message within a router network is provided. At least one special router in the network has associated persistent storage for logging a message being routed to one or more clients. When a message is received at this logger node, the logger places the message in persistent storage and sends a logging acknowledgment back to those routers to which the message was originally routed, as well as back towards the source of the message. The logger acknowledgment includes the message id, the logger id, and a logging number. When the logger acknowledgment is received by a router, it looks up the routing information from the original message, and sends the acknowledgment to those neighboring routers to which the original message was sent, excluding the link from which the logger acknowledgment was received. If the original message corresponding to the logger acknowledgment was buffered at this router waiting to be delivered, the message is then delivered to its client nodes. Processes for recovering from node or link failure within the router network, and for at most once delivery of messages, at least once delivery of messages, and exactly once delivery of messages are also provided.

Message logging for reliable multicasting across a routing network

A system and method featuring a collection of model objects which hold data to be shared, and supporting interfaces to read and write the data, to create and destroy collaboration relationships and to attach 'view objects' containing application code which will be automatically notified of value changes. Each user environment is provided with a model object control entity, referred to herein as a Collaboration Manager, which creates model objects, executes transactions, and creates association objects related to the collaboration. A concurrency control mechanism records the reads and updates of the data and of collaboration relationships within a single transaction site and guarantees that they are applied atomically and consistently to both the local and to all remote replica objects of the collaboration.

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Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar