International Business Machines Corporation

Karthikeyan Ramamoorthy

Nnaemeka Iriele Emejulu

Scott J Broussard

Jacob Daniel Eisinger

Ritu Mehta

Rabindranath Dutta

Margaret A Eker

Andrew Jason Lavery

Mario Alessandro Maldari

Christian Lita

Jayashree Ramanathan

Ovidiu Gheorghioiu

Ernest R Plassmann

A technique for improving meeting participation in electronically calendared meetings includes a data processing system receiving an electronic invitation to a virtual meeting that requires access to one or more referenced resources for a meeting invitee to fully participate in the meeting. Whether the invitee has access to the referenced resources is determined by a data processing system. In response to determining that the invitee does not have access to the referenced resources, access for the invitee to the referenced resources is provisioned by a data processing system. Finally, the meeting is added to an electronic calendar associated with the invitee.

Techniques for improving the ability of an invitee to fully participate in a meeting via a data processing system

A location-reporting request is sent by a processor to at least one remote server. The location-reporting request (i) requests processing of data away from a geo-location-aware client device and (ii) includes an instruction that instructs any available server to respond with a reported geographic location. An asserted geographic location is received from a remote server available to process the data responsive to the instruction in the location-reporting request. In response to determining that the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies location-based data processing restrictions that regulate remote processing of the data away from the geo-location-aware client device, the asserted geographic location is verified using a geo-location assertion server. In response to a successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, the data is sent to the available remote server to process.

Location-enforced data management in complex multi-region computing

Content of an email message may be analyzed, using natural language processing (NLP), to determine a subject matter of the email message. A cost estimate may be generated for sending the email message based on at least the subject matter of the email message. The cost estimate may be compared to a cost threshold. The cost estimate may be determined to exceed the cost threshold, based on the comparing.

Email cost analytics

A method of processing a database can include comparing, using a processor, a delta file with a risk assessment criterion, wherein the delta file is generated from a first schema and a second and different schema, assigning a risk level to a change specified within the delta file according to the comparing, and applying the change of the delta file to a test database conforming to the first schema according to the assigned risk level.

Managing test data in large scale performance environment

A mechanism is provided for use with a set of images including a first image, with each image of the set of images respectively representing a computer and respectively including software and configuration settings data. The mechanism deploys a plurality of first image instantiations of the first image for respective use by a plurality of users. The mechanism tracks use of the plurality of first image instantiations to create a historical usage data set indicative of how the plurality of users are customizing the plurality of first image instantiations.

Dynamic cloud image updates based on subjective customization and user input

Resources used by a plurality of applications that are located in system memory can be managed by monitoring usage statistics for the plurality of applications running on a hardware platform. Usage statistics for a particular application that are outside of a usage threshold profile can result in the creation of an on-demand profile that specifies a set of resources used by the particular application and a set of destination inputs mapped to the particular application. The destination inputs can be mapped to a management module. At least some of the resources of the set of resources used by the particular application can be released. Using the management module, an access to an input of the set of destination inputs can be detected. In response, resources of the set of resources can be allocated to the particular application.

System with on-demand state for applications

A computer-implemented method may include running the process on a first processing node. The process running on the first processing node initially operates on first data. The method may include monitoring the process to identify a first data node that provides the first data to the process. In addition, the method may include determining whether performance would likely be improved by transferring the process to a second processing node. The method may include transferring the process to the second processing node. Further, the method may include transferring a result of the process operating on the first data from the second processing node to the first processing node.

Process cage providing attraction to distributed storage

A location-reporting request is sent by a processor to at least one remote server. The location-reporting request requests processing of data away from a geo-location-aware client device and instructs any available server to respond with a reported geographic location. An asserted geographic location is received from a remote server available to process the data. A determination is made as to whether the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies location-based data processing restrictions that regulate remote processing of the data away from the geo-location-aware client device. In response to determining that the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies the location-based data processing restrictions, the asserted geographic location is verified using a geo-location assertion server. In response to a successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, the data is sent to the available remote server to process.

A method for presenting a page, having a set of links, on a data processing system is provided. The page is preprocessed to form a processed page, wherein the processed page is unpresented within the data processing system. A determination is made as to whether or not the links within the page fall within a proximity policy. Responsive to a determination that the page falls outside of the proximity policy, the page is reformatted to fall within the proximity policy. The mechanism of the present invention includes a preprocessing process and a policy structure for reformatting an electronic document page. The policy structure of the present invention allows the user to specify the appearance of the electronic document page. The policy structure as defined by the user is stored such that when the user returns to the page, the page may be displayed according to the policy structure defined by the user.

Reformatting regions with cluttered hyperlinks

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing a user rating service for online auctions is disclosed. Objective criteria, such as credit information, are combined with subjective ratings to create a user profile. Using objective criteria to supplement user ratings treats new users more fairly and prevents auction participants from inflating their ratings collusively. The user profile may be shared among online auction services, so that a user's aggregate transaction and ratings history may be used at a number of sites.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Karthikeyan Ramamoorthy