International Business Machines Corporation

Jong Hyuk Choi

Hubertus Franke

Lisa Cranton Heller

Damian Leo Osisek

Martin Schwidefsky

William Alan Holder

Randall W Philley

Ingo Adlung

Ray Mansell

Gustav E Sittmann, Iii

Rajan Ravindran

Shailabh Nagar

Gustav E Sittman, Iii

Processing within a computing environment that supports pageable guests is facilitated. Processing is facilitated in many ways, including, but not limited to, associating guest and host state information with guest blocks of storage; maintaining the state information in control blocks in host memory; enabling the changing of states; and using the state information in management decisions. In one particular example, the guest state includes an indication of usefulness and importance of memory contents to the guest, and the host state reflects the ease of access to memory contents. The host and guest state information is used in managing memory of the host and/or guests.

Facilitating processing within computing environments supporting pageable guests

A group messaging system enabling anonymous collective communications in a group which is locally defined in association with a group owner's messaging account, wherein messaging software at the group owner converts a group message into multiple one-to-one group messages destined to each group member in collaboration with the said group membership resolution process. The invention further includes a group message reply process wherein the messaging software at a recipient's side composes a reply message and transmits it to the group owner messaging software which then forwards it to the group members in collaboration with said group membership resolution process, thereby providing a means of designating the identity of a group in the group owner messaging account, sending a group message, and hiding the identities of individual recipients during the lifetime of the group message. The group owner side can additionally perform access control for group communications.

Method and apparatus for anonymous group messaging in a distributed messaging system

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Jong Hyuk Choi