International Business Machines Corporation

John Williams Miller

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Gregory J Boss

Kevin Charles Mcconnell

Akram Bou-Ghannam

David De-Hui Chen

Michael Jack Martine

Ralph A Hertlein

William R Wise, Jr

Timothy Moffett Waters

Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata

Lev Kozakov

Youssef Drissi

Moon Ju Kim

Thomas Anthony Cofino

Ryan Rozich

Pradeep Parsram Mansey

Tong-Haing Fin

Gregory T Brown

Amit Aghara

Disclosed are systems and methods for generating standardized models for a resource via social computing. The disclosed systems and methods generate standardized models for resources via social computing and include receiving a request for the registration of a resource from a first client; collecting data defining at least one property of the resource to be registered and registering the resource with a server having a plurality of clients. The method also includes receiving subsequent request for the registration of a substantially similar resource from a second client; providing the subsequent client with earlier collected data from other clients defining the properties of the existing resource, and receiving data chosen by the subsequent client defining the properties of the new substantially similar resource. The method further includes weighting the collected data defining at least one property of the resource based on the frequency of selection of the data to define at least one of the property of the resource by clients of the server registering a substantially similar resource and designating a consensus, of the plurality of clients, of the defining properties of the substantially similar resources as the defining properties for a synthetic standard format model for the resource and substantially similar resources based on the weighted data.

Service for standardization of resource metadata models via social networking&#x2014;arriving at an agreed upon (standard) resource meta-model via social consensus

An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused.

Method and system for creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library

A method for determining a user intended number from a partial phone number includes steps for receiving a partial phone number, determining whether the partial phone number corresponds with at least one database number based on at least one selected criteria list and performing a system action based on the determination. The method may include prioritizing a list of database numbers that correspond to the partial number.

System and method for obtaining telecommunication access numbers

The present invention provides a virtual database as well as a method, system, and program product for generating a virtual database. Specifically, under the present invention, Service Data Objects (SDOs) corresponding to a plurality of database tables are provided within a virtual container. Once provided, two or more of the SDOs are interrelated to yield the virtual database (having a Virtual Bounded Persistent Memory). In accordance with the present invention, the database tables can be stored within a single (e.g., conventional) database, or databases. In addition, the virtual database can be generated and removed on-demand. Still yet, the virtual database of the present invention can be queried using standard Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.

Method, system, and program product for generating a virtual database

This disclosure outlines a method, which enables a vehicle driver to achieve increased fuel efficiency by implementing least-cost route planning based on terrain data and derived from advanced mapping, logging and location based services. Actual fuel efficiency is recorded and correlated by vehicle conditions, time of day and date, and then referenced to achieve the most accurate least-cost route plan for the intended destination.

Method and system for calculating least-cost routes based on historical fuel efficiency, street mapping and location based services

The invention discloses a method for specifying Web service behavior that includes a step of exposing an internal logic flow of a Web service to clients. The internal logic flow can include at least one activity, which is defined by a set of machine-readable instructions. A special invocation command for the Web service can be received from a client. The special invocation command can specify a modification for the activity. An instance of the Web service can be invoked for the client, where the Web service instance implements the modification instead of the activity.

Exposing logic flows of web services and permitting logic flow modifications

Method and system for the creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library

A document search and retrieval system and program product therefor. Search requests are provided to the system through a user interface. A document decomposer decomposes documents into individual document components. Document components and corresponding searchable indices for each are stored in a Component Library. A search unit searches stored document components responsive to search queries. A results validator compares document hitlists with a document type identified in a search query to select valid hitlists entries for a final hitlist. A document view assembly module collects identified document components and assembles them into a document for view at the user interface.

System and method for generating and retrieving different document layouts from a given content

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John Williams Miller