International Business Machines Corporation

Houtan Aghili

Ajay Mohindra

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Francisco Phelan Curbera

Shubir Kapoor

Shilpa N Mahatma

Shahram Ebadollahi

Rose Marie Williams

Ock Kee Baek

Gigi Yuen-Reed

Richard Alan Mushlin

Jeffrey S Rose

Hovey Ramond Strong, Jr

Flaviu I Cristian

An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.

Healthcare as a service&#x2014;downloadable enterprise application

A progress note in a patient's medical record can be created in a database format which is unalterable. New versions of the notes which reflect revised viewpoints of the user may be created without deleting original notes. The database which stores these progress notes can check accuracy in diagnosis and orders by the user.

Progress notes model in a clinical information system

A method for reliably broadcasting information in a point-to-point network of processors in the presence of component faults provided that the network remains connected using only an exchange of messages. The method possesses the properties (1) that every message broadcast by a fault-free processor is accepted exactly once by all fault-free processors within a bounded time, (2) that every message broadcast is either accepted by all fault-free processors or none of them, and (3) that all messages accepted by fault-free processors are accepted in the same order by all those processors. The method is based on a diffusion technique for broadcasting information and on special message validity tests for tolerating any number of component failures up to network partitioning or successful forgery.

Fault-tolerant atomic broadcast methods

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