International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Itzhack Goldberg

Neil Sondhi

Harry R McGregor

Christopher B Moore

Clifford A Pickover

Rhonda L Childress

Boaz Mizrachi

Maja Vukovic

Erik Rueger

Jose Roberto Mosqueda Mejia

James R Kozloski

Daniel James Winarski

Shawn Patrick Mullen

Tara Lynn Astigarraga

Gregory Tad Kishi

Thorsten Muehge

Olympia Gluck

Aviad Zlotnick

Yossi Mesika

Su Liu

Al Chakra

John Rice

Frank Krick

Shachar Fienblit

Julianne Frances Haugh

Lawrence Carter Blount

Ron Hoory

Deborah A Messing

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Liam S Harpur

David B Kumhyr

Joseph W Dain

Kenneth Nagin

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

David Darden Chambliss

Michael Hirsch

Orit Nissan-Messing

Matthias Seul

Roxana Monge Nunez

Michael Keller

Marcus Breuer

Oded Dubovsky

Eli Malul

Michael Bar-Joshua

David N Clissold

Gregory J Boss

Rogerio Schmidt Feris

Ramakrishnan Rajamony

Jinho Hwang

Carl Evan Jones

Timothy P Winkler

Minkyong Kim

Lorraine M Herger

Eric Van Hensbergen

Stephen James Watt

Hagai Aronowitz

Chiahong Chen

Eliyahu Weissbrem

Zvi Kons

Martin Tross

Dany Moshkovich

Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan

Ruthie D Lyle

Fang Lu

Matthew E Broomhall

Sharathchandra UmapathiRao Pankanti

Shmuel Ur

Asima Silva

Komminist S Weldemariam

Nadiya Kochura

Jonathan Amit

Lance Warren Russell

Michael Edward Factor

Shay Haim Akirav

Rivka Mayraz Matosevich

Robert Cameron Weir

Gary Denner

Shmuel Ben-Yehuda

David Carmel

Oded Margalit

George G Zamora

Christopher V Derobertis

Li Li

Michael R O'Brien

Christof Schmitt

Ehood Garmiza

Richard Hutzler

Jeffery Michael Franke

Ilan Shimony

Michael Diederich

Idan Ben-Harrush

Ronen Itshak Kat

Idan Zach

Abdigani Mohamed Diriye

Shai Erera

Samuel Kallner

Moshe Klausner

Marcel Zalmanovici

Etai Lev Ran

Franck Excoffier

A method for establishing an index of usability associated with a replacement payment card is provided. The method may include receiving a payment card replacement request in a vending facility. The method may further include identifying at least one possible risk factor associated with a user utilizing the replacement payment card. The method may also include creating a risk assessment based on the at least one identified possible risk factor. The method may further include establishing an index of usability for the replacement payment card based on the created assessment, whereby a value of the index of usability correlates to a plurality of restrictions placed on using the replacement payment card. The method may also include storing the established index of usability in a database.

Index of usability for a replacement payment card

Securing information within a user interface can include mapping, using a processor, an electronic mail address to an avatar, wherein the mapped electronic mail address and the avatar are stored within a data storage device, and generating, using the processor, a user interface including a message correlated with the electronic mail address. The user interface displays the avatar of the electronic mail address in place of at least one of a name for the electronic mail address or the electronic mail address.

Security and prevention of information harvesting from user interfaces

Methods and systems for culturally sensitive operation of an electronic device. One or more cultural characteristics (CC) related to use of a communication device are determined and one or more cultural characteristics rules are learned. An amelioration action is triggered based on use of the communication device, the one or more cultural characteristics rules, and a confidence/risk level.

Communication devices

Techniques for autonomously tracking and/or predicting an alert event are provided. In one example, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a schedule component that determines plan information for a hub of a plurality of hubs, and the hub can be coupled to a device. The computer executable components can further comprise a tracking component that identifies a deviation from the plan information by the hub. Additionally, the computer executable components can comprise a prediction component that determines a probability that the deviation will result in an alert event.

Predictive analytics and device tracking to facilitate minimization of alert events

A payment card system for authorization and authentication is provided. A computing device monitors one or more transactions to detect various security threats comprising one or more accounts. A computing device determines to elevate a security level associated, at least, with one account based, at least, in part, on detection of, at least, one security threat. A computing device generates at least one temporary personal identification number based, at least, on determination to elevate a security level associated, at least, with one account.

Payment card authentication management

A data security method may include storing user data to a first device and storing metadata corresponding to the user data to a second device. The method may further include making a first determination that at least one device selected from the group of the first device and the second device is not in communication with a third device. The method may further include disabling utilization of the user data in response to the first determination.

Data security through physical separation of data

A cognitive communication assistant receives a message transmitted over a communication network from a sender to a recipient. A sender's industry identified with the sender and a recipient's industry identified with the recipient are determined. One or more terms associated with the sender's industry are extracted from the message. A definition associated with the one or more terms is searched for in an on-line reference text. The message is updated based on the definition. The message is transmitted over the communication network to the recipient.

Communication assistant to bridge incompatible audience

A controller-implemented method includes reading, by a controller, a scrub unit containing a read unit and, in response to determining that the scrub unit is not marked as being scrubbed in a current scrub cycle, storing, by the controller, the scrub unit to a memory. The method also includes marking, by the controller, another scrub unit associated with the stored scrub unit as a scrub-pending scrub unit and reading, by the controller, the scrub-pending scrub unit in response to determining that a subsequent read matches predefined criteria. The method includes performing, by the controller, a scrub using the stored scrub unit and the scrub-pending scrub unit. A system includes a processor and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.

Performance enhanced data scrubbing

A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving configuration information which corresponds to hardware and software configurations of a user computing environment. This configuration information is used to create a test computing environment which emulates the hardware and software configurations of the user computing environment. Moreover, a software update is applied to the test computing environment, and the test computing environment is operated with the software update applied thereto. Results which correspond to performance of the test computing environment during the operation are received, and a determination is made as to whether one or more errors were experienced by the test computing environment during the operation. In response to determining that at least one error was experienced by the test computing environment during the operation, implementation of the software update in the user computing environment is postponed.

Performing software updates using environment emulation

Processing electronic mail includes receiving an electronic mail having a read receipt request and determining, using a processor, that the electronic mail includes a read receipt distribution list. The read receipt distribution list specifies at least one sender-defined user including a subset of at least one recipient of the electronic mail. Using the processor, a read receipt is sent to the sender of the electronic mail and to each user specified on the read receipt distribution list responsive to detecting an opening of the electronic mail by at least one recipient of the electronic mail.

Sending a read receipt to each user specified on a read receipt distribution list

Embodiments of the invention include methods, systems, and computer program products for determining stroke onset. Aspects of the invention include determining a baseline behavioral model for a user and receiving real-time user data from a personal portable device. Aspects of the invention also include analyzing the real-time user data to determine the presence of an abnormal event. Aspects of the invention also include, based at least in part on a determination that the abnormal event is present, conducting a plurality of stroke analyses to generate a plurality of impairment characteristics. Aspects of the invention also include integrating the plurality of impairment characteristics, comparing the integrated plurality of impairment characteristics to the baseline behavioral model and outputting a stroke onset determination.

Cognitive stroke detection and notification

Approaches presented herein enable challenge-response authentication of a user based on information captured by devices associated with the user. Specifically, in one approach, a plurality of devices associated with the user that each dynamically track and store on-device data points over a period of time are identified. A request initiated by a party claiming to be the user is received to authenticate the party as the user. An authentication question is generated in a natural language, the answer to which is a data point selected from data points on at least one device of the plurality, wherein the selected data point is discoverable by viewing data points on the at least one device. The requesting party is prompted to find the data point by presenting the authentication question to the requesting party. In the case that the requesting party returns the answer, the requesting party is authenticated as the user.

Challenge-response user authentication based on information collected by internet of things devices

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