International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

Activision Publishing, Inc.

King.com Limited

Keith R Walker

Brian M O'Connell

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Clifford A Pickover

Yen-Fu Chen

John Hans Handy-Bosma

Swaminathan Balasubramanian

Peter George Finn

James W Seaman

Gregory J Boss

James R Kozloski

Mei Yang Selvage

Fabian F Morgan

Jeffrey David Amsterdam

Anne R Sand

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

John Elbert Moore, Jr

Mauro Marzorati

Martinianus B Hadinata

Steven Mark Harrison

James Edward Bostick

Vittorio R Castelli

Andrew R Jones

Danny Y Chen

John R Pavesi

Charles Steven Lingafelt

Neal Martin Keller

Sarah White Eagle

Christopher J Dawson

Michael Bender

Paul Andrew Moskowitz

Nancy Sun

John Hans Handy Bosma

Brian James Snitzer

John Peter Karidis

Neil A Katz

Ann Corrao

Ankur Chandra

John H Bosma

Nalini K Kartha

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Jenny S Li

Richard Edmond Berry

Radha Mohan De

Alan Richard Tannenbaum

Michael P Shute

Yaser K Doleh

David E Nachman

Danny Yen-Fu Chen

Peter Y Hsu

Brian W Jensen

Susan Marie Williams

Venkatesan Ramamoorthy

Jeffrey W Lucas

Yen Fu Chen

Susan Elise Lee

Cheranellore Vasudevan

John W Dunsmoir

Julianne Frances Haugh

Michael D Kendzierski

William Freeman

Mark William Talbot

Richard A Locke

Robyn Lee Focazio

Santosh S Borse

Anthony Christopher Courtney Temple

Joseph Stephen Mabry

Andrew H Cao

Victoria L Vogelsang

Patsy Annette Spears

Steven C Lingafelt

Dana H Hangai

Christopher N Dodson

John Michael Ganci, Jr

Martin G Keen

Jeffrey Robert Hoy

Carl Phillip Gusler

Alexander Zlatsin

Jun Sawada

Donna N Dillenberger

Todd P Seager

Martin J Gale

Bruce David D'Amora

Arvin Patel

Dimple Bhatia

Vandana Mallempati

Angel E Tomala-Reyes

Jehan S Moghazy

Gregg W Machovec

Steven Van Jackson

Robert C McGinley

Suparna Sinha Roy

Christopher M Wood

Andrew Ladd Wismar

Cliff Daniel Cyphers

Deborah Louise Dunagan

Thomas A Morse

Kerri Ann Barton

Esteban Poll

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining communication data streams, extracting data relevant to a point of view of a user, and generating a point of view record in a knowledge base that may be utilized by another user communicating with the user.

Cognitive communication assistant services

A computer-implemented method, including monitoring, by a computing device, usage data of an application on a primary user device; detecting, by the computing device, a mirroring of the application on a secondary user device based on an identification of the application; determining, by the computing device, a synchronization setting of the application including a secondary user device based on a historical synchronization data for the application; and generating, by the computing device, a synchronization configuration for the application on the secondary user device based on the usage data; and synchronizing, by the computing device, the application on the secondary user device with the synchronization configuration.

Automatic application configuration synchronization based on data analytics

A method of caching data at a processing node within a communication network can include predicting a future location of a user. A processing node within the communication network can be selected according to the future location. Data to be sent to the selected processing node can be selected. The selected data can be sent to the selected processing node.

Caching data at network processing nodes based on device location

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing a query received through a network. A computer system identifies a topic in the query. The computer system identifies a set of friends of a user from a set of social media networks in which the set of the friends have an expertise in the topic identified in the query. The computer system ranks the set of the friends based on a level of the expertise of the set of the friends for the topic and an availability of the set of the friends to form a ranked set of the friends. The computer system returns results that contain the ranked set of the friends for the topic.

Search augmentation system

A computer-implemented method includes: generating a first list of uniform resource locators (URLs) available on a page when accessed using privileged credentials; storing one or more first URL outputs associated with the first list of URLs including the content of webpages accessed using the privileged credentials; generating a second list of URLs when accessed using non-privileged credentials; generating a third list of URLs, wherein the third list of URLs includes URLs included in the first list of URLs and not included in the second list of URLs; storing a second URL output including content of a webpage mapped to a particular URL in the third list of URLs when the particular URL is accessed using the non-privileged credentials; determining that the second URL output matches a particular first URL output associated with the particular URL; and outputting an alert identifying that the webpage is accessible by an unauthorized user.

Identifying webpages accessible by unauthorized users via URL guessing or network sniffing

A gesture-based graphical user interface control system and method are provided. The method may include receiving an indication to recognize an input device gesture to be used for performing a graphical user interface action on the computer system. The method may further include training the computer system to recognize the input device gesture. The training may include receiving gesture data representative of the input device gesture to be used for performing the graphical user interface action and defining the input device gesture based on the gesture data. The method may also include mapping the input device gesture to the graphical user interface action. The mapping may include receiving an indication to define the graphical user interface action on the computer system and defining the graphical user interface action. The method may additionally include detecting performance of the input device gesture and performing the graphical user interface action.

Computer system gesture-based graphical user interface control

Predicting probable activity consequences is provided. Information is collected from data sources to identify various activities. Patterns of how any identified activity is linked with a corresponding event are detected based on analyzing the information. The patterns are indexed with data having a relationship to a particular event. Activity context information associated with a set of identified activities corresponding to the particular event is extracted from the information. A cognitive model of how the set of identified activities corresponding to the particular event are related to a set of activity consequences is generated. Probable activity consequences with degree of severity corresponding to the activity context information is predicted based on the cognitive model. A recommendation to perform a set of action steps to reduce impact of the probable activity consequences on different aspects of the activity context information associated with the set of identified activities is generated.

Predicting activity consequences based on cognitive modeling

Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for cognitive computer assistance in student learning of an educational topic. In an embodiment, a student is provided a presentation of educational materials and monitored with at least one sensor while studying. A cognitive computer system determines level of student understanding of the topic and alters said presentation of educational materials based on said determining of said level of student understanding to cognitively assist in said student's learning.

Cognitive robotic assistance for education

Systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, systems and methods for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe. A method for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe (VU) includes causing a computer infrastructure to: render an ephemeral location upon a triggering in the VU; teleport a VU user avatar to the ephemeral location; permit the user avatar to interact in the ephemeral location; teleport the user avatar out of the ephemeral location; and un-render the ephemeral location.

Managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe

A method and system is provided for item inquiry and information presentation via standard communication paths. More particularly, the method and system detects an item associated with an avatar of a virtual universe (VU) user in a VU and determine information associated with the item. Additionally, the method and system are operable to display the information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU.

System and method for item inquiry and information presentation via standard communication paths

A virtual universe system has a system and method for identifying spam avatars based upon the avatar's behavior characteristics through the use of Turing tests. The system may provide a Turing test unit for performing Turing tests and an analysis unit that compares the behavior characteristics of new or newly changed avatars against the behavior characteristics of known spam avatars to determine if the avatar has known spam avatar characteristics. It may further have a scoring system to calculate a spam score based upon similarities of the comparison and identifying the avatar as a spam avatar based upon the calculated spam score. It may further compare the calculated spam score with a spam score threshold wherein the avatar is identified as a spam avatar if the calculated spam score is equal to or greater than the calculated spam score.

Identifying spam avatars in a virtual universe based upon turing tests

A system and method in a virtual universe (VU) system for identifying spam avatars based upon the avatars' multimedia characteristics may have a table that stores multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars. It further may have an analysis unit that compares the multimedia characteristics of avatars against the multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars to determine if the avatar has known spam avatar characteristics. It may further have a scoring system to calculate a spam score based upon the similarities of the comparison and identifying the avatar as a spam avatar based upon the calculated spam score. It may further compare the calculated spam score with a spam score threshold wherein the avatar is identified as a spam avatar if the calculated spam score is equal to or greater than the calculated spam score. Multimedia characteristics include graphics, audio, movement, interactivity, voice, etc.

System and method in a virtual universe for identifying spam avatars based upon avatar multimedia characteristics

Automated configuring of system settings of a computer for a peripheral device(s) is provided. The configuring process includes determining, by the computer, that a peripheral device has been connected to the computer, and based on the determining, ascertaining profile-related data for use in configuring computer system settings for the peripheral device connected to the computer. The ascertained profile-related data is used to identify, by the computer, a settings profile for the peripheral device from saved settings profiles for one or more peripheral devices. Based on the identified settings profile, the computer system settings for the peripheral device are configured.

Automated configuring of computer system settings for peripheral device(s)

A method and system is provided for creation and distribution of dynamic multi-content cards in a virtual universe. More specifically, the method creates a card containing contact information for viewing in a virtual universe (VU) and distribute the card in the VU. Additionally, the system includes a card selection tool configured to create a card containing contact information for viewing in a virtual universe (VU) and distribute the card to another resident in the VU.

System and method for dynamic multi-content cards

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Keith R Walker