International Business Machines Corporation

Krishnarajan Arunachalam

Adam S Biener

Sunil Joshi

Stanley Philip Cason

An approach is provided for managing data being transmitted from a mobile device. The mobile device receives a request from a user to initiate a transmission of data. The mobile device determines whether the data includes person or business-related sensitive information based on a format of the data, and if so, the mobile device determines a country in which the mobile device is currently located, determines a privacy policy of the country in which the mobile device is currently located, and determines whether the privacy policy applies to a type of the data corresponding to the format of the data; and if so, the mobile device notifies the user of the privacy policy of the country, identifies to the user the type of the data for which the privacy policy applies, and queries the user whether to transmit the data as requested by the user.

Mobile privacy information proxy

An approach is provided for managing data being transmitted from a mobile device. The mobile device receives a request from a user to initiate a transmission of data. The mobile device determines whether the data includes sensitive information based on a format of the data, and if so, the mobile device determines a country in which the mobile device is currently located, determines a privacy policy of the country in which the mobile device is currently located, and determines whether the privacy policy applies to a type of the data corresponding to the format of the data; and if so, the mobile device notifies the user of the privacy policy of the country, identifies to the user the type of the data for which the privacy policy applies, and queries the user whether to transmit the data as requested by the user.

A method and computer program product for conducting a weighted keyword search and a method for displaying search results. A computer determines respective weights of respective keywords, based on proximity of a user interaction position to the respective keywords on a graphical presentation. The computer conducts a weighted keyword search of documents based on the keywords and the respective weights of the keywords. In a method of displaying search results, based on the respective weights, a computer displays the search results associated with the respective keywords.

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Idappadi, India

Krishnarajan Arunachalam