International Business Machines Corporation

Ian Hughes

Martin J Gale

Nicholas Midgley

Robert Lawrence

Darren Mark Shaw

Kevin Barnaby Aires

Christopher Beng Kiat Yeoh

Bradford Glenn Kasell

Kelly Yeoh

Portlet processing for portal applications aggregating content from sources is provided. This processing may include client intervention and publish/subscribe system use. Topic information used for rendering may be obtained by using a subscription/publisher methodology targeting clients for receipt of the topic information. The topic information from a publish/subscribe system may be inserted into placeholders on a portal page, the placeholders previously created at the client for receipt of the topic information by the client.

System for processing requests to portlets

Aspects of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program product for simulating movement of a projectile in a virtual environment. Primary data comprising a plurality of sets of position values and a plurality of time values for a projectile is received, with each time value in the primary data being associated with one of the sets of position values. The primary data is processed to generate secondary data that represents at least two consecutive sets of positions. Each set of positions includes a start position and an end position for the projectile, and the secondary data further represents a velocity of the projectile associated with each start position. The secondary data is used to simulate movement of the projectile in the virtual environment.

Simulation of sporting events in a virtual environment

A system for preparing data, operable with a server computer system having a store for a first file comprising data (e.g. audio data) and a plurality of sets of lossy data generated from the data in the first file. The system comprises a requesting component for requesting at least two sets of the plurality of sets of lossy data; a receiving component for receiving the at least two sets; and a combining component for combining the at least two sets in order to generate a second file. The data in the second file is of reduced lossiness with respect to the data in the first file.

System for preparing data

System, method and computer program for initiating a search at a server computer. A data base including a URL of the server computer is stored at a client computer. Information entered by a user into the client computer is received. From the information, a search term and the URL of the server computer are identified. Then, an HTTP search request which includes the URL of the server computer and the search term is generated. Then, the HTTP search request is sent to the server computer. The identifying of the URL of the server computer comprises searching the data base for a character string contained in the information that matches the URL of the server computer. The identifying of the search term comprises identifying a portion of the information appended to the URL of the server. The identifying of the search term also comprises omitting from the portion one or more symbols adjacent to the search term which are inconsistent with a search request using HTTP. The generating of the HTTP search request which combines the URL of the server computer and the search term comprises inserting adjacent to the search term one or more symbols consistent with a search request using HTTP.

Method, apparatus and computer program for key word searching

A method and system for providing navigational instructions. A signal is received from a first device. The signal specifies a destination location, a second device, and a request for at least one route leading to the destination location such that the at least one route is to be sent to the second device. During or after the signal is received from the first device, a device type of the second device is determined. At least one set of images is sent to the second device. Each set of images defines a unique route leading to the destination location. A total number of the sets of images and a content of each set of images are a function of the determined device type.

Navigation system

The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device from the first device, determining a user defined query in the request message, routing the query to an appropriate response service, formulating the response from the response service into a response message, and routing the response message to the first device.

Remote location based services

A method for display of activity of users at workstations. Each workstation is in a different geographical location. Data relating to a rate of computer input activity of at least one user at each workstation is continuously collected from each workstation, compiled in a central database, and displayed in a display in a representation of the rate of computer input activity of the at least one user at each workstation as a different musical characteristic for each workstation. Each different musical characteristic for each workstation is displayed in accordance with the combined number of input device clicks of the users in each workstation in a given period. The input device clicks are key clicks, mouse clicks, or a combination of key clicks and mouse clicks. The representation of the rate of computer input activity may alternatively comprise a visual swirl across a screen or an activity of a robot.

Method and system for display of activity of users

A system for executing a multimedia resource, for use in an environment having a first multimedia resource comprising an associated first tag, a set of multimedia resources comprising an associated set of tags, an executing component for executing the first multimedia resource. The system comprises a comparator, responsive to the first multimedia resource being executed, for comparing a second tag of the set of tags with the first tag, to determine whether a second multimedia resource is compatible with the first multimedia resource; a determining component, responsive to the second resource being compatible with the first resource, for determining in accordance with at least one rule, whether the second multimedia resource has a higher priority than the first multimedia resource; and a control component, responsive to a determination that the second multimedia resource has the higher priority, for controlling the executing component to execute the second multimedia resource.

System for executing a multimedia resource

A method and system for the display of the activity of users at a plurality of workstations () is provided. The plurality of workstations () are grouped in more than one distributed geographical location (). The disclosed method and system include continuously collecting data from each workstation () with the data relating to the activity of a user at the workstation (). The data from the workstations () is compiled in a central database () and displayed in a display in the form of an abstract representation () of the activity of users at the workstations () displayed in real time. The display includes the data from the workstations () in the more than one geographical location ().

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