International Business Machines Corporation

Jenny Jing He

Adrian P Kyte

Bei Chun Zhou

Guan Jun Liu

Joseph R Winchester

Michael D Brooks

Joe Winchester

Philip Ivor Wakelin

Darren R Beard

Cheng Fang Wang

Ping Xiao

Gerald Martyn Allen

Julian Charles Horn

Anthony Philip Papageorgiou

Andrew Dean Wharmby

Brad Roeger

Ann Eleanor Collins

Tobias Leicher

Jun Zhou

Andrew Wright

Christopher J Poole

Pradeep Gohil

Gerald M W Allen

Christopher John Baker

Fraser P Bohm

Martin W Cocks

Gwydion Tudur

Ernest Bartosevic

Beichun Zhou

Jane C Mitchell

Method and system are provided for audio quality feedback during live transmission from a source that is received at multiple audience devices. The method carried out at a server includes: obtaining audio information of an audio signal as received by at least some of the audience devices in a transmission session; classifying one or more subsets of the audience devices by one or more common factors per subset; and analyzing the obtained audio information from the audience devices in conjunction with the classifications of the subsets of the audience devices to determine one or more common factors that affect received audio quality at an identified subset of the audience devices classified by the one or more common factors. The method provides feedback of the one or more common factors to at least one of the audience devices in the identified subset or to the source device, or to both.

Audio quality feedback during live transmission from a source

A computer-implemented method of establishing metadata associated with a transaction in a transaction processing system having application logic for executing the transaction, the computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a requestor, request data associated with the transaction, the request data comprising data and metadata. The method also includes peeking, during receiving the request data, of the request data looking for the metadata associated with the transaction and responsive to finding metadata associated with the transaction, directly instantiating an instance of application logic.

Establishing transaction metadata

An example operation may include one or more of identifying a caller blockchain node and one or more callee blockchain nodes within a blockchain network and issuing, by the caller blockchain node, application programming interface calls to application programming interfaces corresponding to each of the one or more callee nodes, in response to a first application programming interface call being issued successfully, directing a smart contract associated with the caller blockchain node to initiate a distributed transaction involving the one or more callee nodes to perform the application program interface calls, the caller node issues application programming interface calls and the one or more callee nodes each performing application programming interface requests.

Atomically executed application program interfaces

Method and system are provided for providing instructions during remote viewing of a user interface. The method carried out at a host computer system includes: capturing an image of one or more application user interfaces as displayed at the host computer system; and serializing data of each application user interface to provide a map of each window class and containers and/or control elements of the window class, wherein a container has attributes and child control elements. The captured image and the map are transmitted to a remote computer system; and control element input instructions are received from a remote computer system for instructing an interaction with a control element.

Providing instructions during remote viewing of a user interface

User interface (UI) language options are provided. A code statement in an object code of an application retrieves human language bundle value(s) for use in a UI element. Code is injected into the object code of the application to transmit a resource bundle name and key to the UI element for storage at a user value area of a control of the UI element.

Providing user interface language options

Aspects of the invention include determining artifact data associated with an artifact, segmenting the artifact data into a plurality of portions, associating each portion in the plurality of portions with one or more resources, receiving a query associated with the artifact, determining a candidate resource from the one or more resources based on the query, and initializing a communication session with the candidate resource and a requesting application associated with the query.

Pseudo real time communication system

An apparatus, method and programming product for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, comprising, responsive to receiving monitored a activity data, analysing the monitored activity data to identify a first event value corresponding to a first event; determining whether the first event value has met a first threshold value of a set of threshold values; in response to determining the first event value has met a first threshold value of the set of threshold values, select a second threshold value of the set of threshold values; responsive to receiving the monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data to identify a second event value corresponding to a second event; responsive to determining that the second event value has exceeded the first threshold value and not exceeded the second threshold value, disregarding the second event.

Prevention of event flooding

A system, computer-implemented method, and computer program product for demonstrating a software application on a computer. The system includes a capture component running in a presenter environment and an invoker component running in a viewer environment. One or more steps performed by a presenter on a first copy of a software application being run in the presenter environment are recorded at the capture component. The invoker component access the one or more steps and performs the one or more steps on a second copy of the software application being run in the viewer environment.

Executing a demo in viewer's own environment

A computer implemented method is provided for restoring a device from a backup copy. If the device has a messaging application installed on the device, then a list of contacts for the messaging application on the device is extracted. A request is transmitted to each contact in the list of contacts, the request comprising a user id for the messaging application and a timestamp for the backup copy. One or more replies are received back from one or more of the contacts, each reply comprising messaging content, and the received messaging content is combined with content present in the messaging application on the device.

Restoration of a messaging application

A vehicle dashboard instrument display for displaying vehicle operating information to a driver includes a lens system adjacent the instruments and interposed between the driver and the instruments. The lens system includes a variable focus lens operable for, responsive to input from a lens controller, adjusting to a focal length suitable for countering the visual impairment of the driver to render the instruments more easily readable by the driver.

Vehicle dashboard

Providing hyperlinks in presentations viewed remotely. A current user interface of an application being shared or recorded in a presentation for remote viewer computer systems is identified. An accessibility application programming interface is used to obtain a data structure of elements in the current user interface. The elements in the data structure are interrogated to identify elements including hyperlinks. Hyperlink information for an identified element is captured, and provided for use by a remote viewer computer system.

Providing hyperlinks in presentations viewed remotely

A graphical user interface to a software development environment is provided. A user input is received defining an element to be searched with context and information is extracted from the software development environment relating to the software development environment and/or relating to the element. A search string is created comprising the element and the extracted information and the created search string is supplied to a search interface. A search result is received for the created search string, and the search result is outputted for the created search string.

Search with context in a software development environment

Controlling asynchronous tasks in a transaction system. A request to start an asynchronous child task is obtained, and a resource status of the system is determined. It is determined whether to suspend a parent task associated with the asynchronous child task or to execute the asynchronous child task based on the determined resource status of the system.

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Chandlers Ford, United Kingdom

Jenny Jing He