International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Jerry Walter Malcolm

Michael A Gilfix

Scott Lee Winters

Paul Stuart Williamson

David A Cordray

Tyron Jerrod Stading

Foluso Olaiya Okunseinde

Daniel Michael Dorrance

Michael Wayne Brown

Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann

Aaron Keith Reed

Maria Azua Himmel

Allen Chester Wynn

Cornell G Wright, Jr

Richard Dale Hoffman

Nicholas James Noecker, Jr

Steve S Stone

Robert P Hoffmann

Robert F Selby

Troy Gary Reish

Ha H Nguyen

John D Montgomery

Charles Robert McKelley, Jr

Emily A Green

Cynthia A Roosken

Wanda K Johnson

Systems and methods of application integration, including constructing an application integration adapter in dependence upon a profile including data describing the adapter, receiving instructions to alter the adapter, and altering the adapter in dependence upon the instructions. Exemplary embodiments of the invention include communicating integration messages among applications through the adapter as altered. In typical embodiments, receiving instructions to alter the adapter includes detecting changes in the adapter profile. In such embodiments, detecting changes in the adapter profile includes creating a copy of the profile, and periodically comparing the profile and the copy. In other exemplary embodiments, receiving instructions to alter the adapter includes receiving from an application an administrative integration message bearing the instructions to alter the adapter. In such embodiments, altering the adapter in dependence upon the instructions includes updating the profile.

Dynamic data-driven application integration adapters

A system and method for managing battery energy usage by a mobile wireless network which detects threshold conditions for network signal found and lost; records historical events of signal found and lost with operational criteria associated with operational conditions of the events such as time, day, date, tower number, and geographic location; upon each detection of network signal loss, determines from the recorded event records a nap termination condition upon which network signal has been historically reliable; and enters a battery-saving nap mode until the nap termination condition is met.

Power saving system and method for mobile wireless network device using historical periods of signal intermittence and reliability

Account holders may specify vendor-specific charge restrictions for charging transactions against their accounts, where each vendor-specific charge restriction includes a unique identifier for the corresponding vendor to which the charge restriction is applicable. When a charge authorization request is received for a charge against an account having vendor-specific charge restrictions set by the account holder, the vendor identifier is extracted from the charge authorization request and employed to determine whether any charge restrictions are applicable to the requesting vendor.

Personally customizable credit card accounts

Bulk mail subscriptions by including a bulk mail class indicator and a sender identifier key value in the header portion of an electronic message. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class and include an approved sender identifier value are passed directly to the intended recipient. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class but which do not contain an approved sender identifier value are rejected or intercepted. Messages which do no indicate themselves to be bulk class, but which are determined to have characteristics of bulk mail are rejected or intercepted, as well.

Interceptor for non-subscribed bulk electronic messages

At the time transactions are entered into accounting software data records, a user is given the option of creating a transaction group for transactions expected to appear in an external statement as a single entry. A persistent record of the association of selected transactions is maintained in the data records, and a total for transaction groups is displayed to the user during the reconciliation of the data records with the external statement. The user may then easily reconcile multiple entries in the data records which were consolidated in the external statement.

Grouping selected transactions in account ledger

A wizard is utilized when creating a server-based transactional Web page application. The wizard keeps track of the interdependencies of the Web pages, any data accesses required for any of the Web pages, and any rules for presenting a different sequence of Web pages based upon differing aspects of anticipated user input. The wizard can then be used to access the required data if a user selection is made to download the application and run the application off-line at a client that is disconnected from the network. When running off-line, the wizard plays back the downloaded pages of the application in a sequence dependent upon the tracked interdependencies and received user input. When running off-line, the wizard controls the dynamic presentation of the downloaded pages and provides the required data to enable the transactional pages of the application to be completed. The wizard, in conjunction with a browser running at the client, automatically submits the completed Web pages of the application to the server when the client is reconnected to the network.

Creating and utilizing a wizard to capture an application's interdependencies between web pages and data accesses for running the application's downloadable dynamic web pages off-line

Methods, systems, and products for radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired, storing a recording of a sound, including timing information for synchronous playback, representing at least one attribute of an object having associated with the object a radio frequency identification ('RFID') tag; activating the RFID tag with an electronic travel aid ('ETA') for the visually impaired; retrieving the recording from storage; and playing the recording synchronously through an audio interface of the ETA. Storage of sound recording may be local or remote, and sound recordings may be sorted or indexed and retrieved from storage according to an RFID tag identification code, a classification code for the object, and a type code (a sound skin identifier) for the recording.

Radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired with synchronous sound skins

A wizard is utilized when running a server-based transactional Web page application. The wizard tracks the interdependencies of the Web pages, any data accesses required for any of the Web pages, and any rules for presenting a different sequence of Web pages based upon differing aspects of anticipated user input. The wizard is used to access the required data if a user selection is made to download the application and run the application off-line at a client that is disconnected from the network. To run off-line, the applicable Web pages, the wizard, and the required data are downloaded to the client. When running off-line, the wizard plays back the downloaded pages of the application in a sequence dependent upon the tracked interdependencies and received user input. As such, the wizard controls the dynamic presentation of the downloaded pages and provides the required data to enable the transactional pages of the application to be completed. The wizard, in conjunction with a browser running at the client, automatically submits the completed Web pages of the application to the server when the client is reconnected to the network.

Running dynamic web pages off-line with a wizard

Software application integration, including constructing an application integration adapter where the constructing is carried out in dependence upon a profile. The profile includes data describing the adapter. Embodiments include communicating integration messages among applications through the adapter. Profiles include identifications of at least two communications transports, including configuration parameters for the data communications transports. In typical embodiments, constructing an application integration adapter includes creating the transports identified in the adapter profile, and configuring the transports in accordance with the configuration parameters.

Data-driven application integration adapters

Software application integration including providing a multiplicity of predefined data communications receivers, each receiver specific to a software application and a communications protocol; providing a multiplicity of predefined data communications senders, each sender specific to a software application and a communications protocol; providing one or more transports, each transport having the capability of configuring itself, in dependence upon configuration parameters from a profile, with a receiver and a sender; providing a multiplicity of predefined transfer managers; providing an adapter profile identifying communications transports, including receivers and senders, and, optionally, one or more transfer managers, wherein the adapter profile includes configuration parameters for the data communications transports and the transfer managers; and constructing an application integration adapter in dependence upon the profile, wherein the adapter comprises the transports, receivers, senders, and the transfer managers identified in the profile.

Installation of data-driven business integration adapters

A method and computer program product that allow a firewall program to control whether an application program is granted access to a wide area network (WAN), such as the Internet. The method allows the firewall to receive an access request definition from the application program through a well-known port. A preferred request definition comprises the application unique identifier, a destination address, the port, and a corresponding justification statement. The firewall intercepts access requests sent by the application program and identifies a matching access request definition. The firewall then prompts a user to approve or deny the request, wherein the prompt is accompanied by the justification statement from the identified access request definition. Accordingly, the user is better able to make an informed decision whether or not to grant the access request.

Firewall protocol providing additional information

Methods, systems, and products for radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired, storing a recording of a sound representing at least one attribute of an object having associated with the object a radio frequency identification ('RFID') tag; activating the RFID tag with an electronic travel aid ('ETA') for the visually impaired; retrieving the recording from storage; and playing the recording through an audio interface of the ETA. Storage of sound recording may be local or remote, and sound recordings may be sorted or indexed and retrieved from storage according to an RFID tag identification code, a classification code for the object, and a type code (a sound skin identifier) for the recording.

Radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired with sound skins

Radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired, including receiving in an electronic travel aid ('ETA') for the visually impaired, from a radio frequency identification ('RFID') tag associated with an object, information that describes the object and displaying a description of the object through an interface for a visually impaired person. Information that describes the object may include at least one of a predefined set of attributes that describe the object. Many embodiments include retrieving, in dependence upon a unique identification code, further information describing the object&#x2014;either locally from an ETA or through a network from a remote store of information.

Radio frequency identification aiding the visually impaired

A system, method, and program product enables saving a submitted form of a web page. A browser application receives from a user data for a form in a web page. Upon the submission of the form with the data to a server system hosting the web page, an address of the web page, the data provided from the user for the form, and at least one field identifier for associating the data to at least one respective field of the form, are saved into a volatile memory of the client. The address, the data, and the at least one field identifier remain stored in the volatile memory system after the browser application is closed. When the user opens the browser that had been dosed and again requests retrieval of the web page, the browser retrieves from the server the web page that is at the address stored in the volatile memory. The browser restores the form of the web page with the data stored in the volatile memory. The browser calls a clipboard operation of an operating system on which the client system operates to save the address of the web page, the data for the form, and the one or more field identifiers, into the volatile memory. If the data for the form is successfully submitted to the server and the browser receives another request for a next web page from the user, the browser application erases, if required, the data from the volatile memory system.

System, method, and program product for saving a submitted form of a web page

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing cookies in a data processing system. A cookie is received during a browser program session. The cookie is only stored in a temporary data store within the data processing system for a duration of the browser program session. The cookies stored in the temporary data store may be displayed in response to a signal to terminate the browser program session. Cookies are selectively stored in a persistent storage, based on user input.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Jerry Walter Malcolm