International Business Machines Corporation

Joel P Ossher

Mark N Wegman

Vadakkedathu Thomas Rajan

Richard B Segal

Barry Leiba

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Nikolai A Joukov

Vasily Tarasov

A system and method includes discovering one or more instances of external resource access by statically analyzing application code. One or more locations of constants are identified in the application code and a configuration repository that specify addresses of discovered instances of external resource access. The application code and the configuration repository are updated to change values of the constants to enable migration.

System and method for updating hard-coded dependencies

A system includes at least one router for routing email messages from a sender node to a destination node; a system memory; a network interface; a database; and a processor configured for: extracting the delivery path information from the email message; determining a network path for the email message using delivery path information; comparing the delivery path information with the plurality of prior delivery paths; determining a measure of similarity between the network path of the received email message and one or more of the plurality of prior email paths; and determining a spam score for the email received, based on the measure of similarity.

Recognizing spam email

A method includes steps of receiving an email message comprising a plurality of packets and delivery-path information; determining a path for the email using the delivery-path information; comparing the path with a plurality of prior email paths; determining a measure of similarity between the path of the email received and one or more of the plurality of prior email paths; and determining a spam score for the email received, based on the measure of similarity. Other embodiments include a computer readable medium comprising computer code for performing the above function and an information processing system including a processor configured (i.e., hard-wired or programmed) to perform the method.

Method for recognizing spam email

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Joel P Ossher