International Business Machines Corporation

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Columbia University

Activision Publishing, Inc.

Eastman-kodak Company

At+t Corp.

Lawrence David Bergman

Vittorio R Castelli

Chung-Sheng Li

Daniel A Oblinger

John Richard Smith

Tessa Ann Lau

Yuan-Chi Chang

Robert Alan Flavin

Matthew Leon Hill

Atul Puri

Shih-Fu Chang

Ana Belen Benitez

Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar

Sambit Sahu

Yaoping Ruan

Danny Soroker

Milton H Hernandez

Hai Huang

Qian Huang

Kumar Bhaskaran

Winnie W Cheng

Seungyup Paek

Ravi B Konuru

Ravindranath Konuru

Eugene Rogan Creswick

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Sriram Kolinjivadi Padmanabhan

Rakesh Mohan

Thomas David Erickson

Hui-I Hsiao

Prabhakar Nandavar Kudva

John Timothy Robinson

David Mun-Hien Choy

Brent Tzion Hailpern

Kouichi Ono

John Joseph Turek

Masahiro Hori

Jerald Thomas Schoudt

Jy-Jine James Lin

Frank J McGrath

Wendy Anne Kellogg

Jeremy Brand Sussman

Anant Deep Jhingran

Bernice E Rogowitz

Gene Y C Fuh

Robin Williams

John Alan Gerth

Robert Bruce Levy

Seungup Paek

Tatiana Kichkaylo

Michelle Yoonk Yung Kim

Barbara L Skelly

Loey K Knapp

Serge E Lucio

Richard Han

John R Smith

Charlie Judice

Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.

Enterprise-level data protection with variable data granularity and data disclosure control with hierarchical summarization, topical structuring, and traversal audit

Access is obtained to a hierarchically structured document having a plurality of hierarchical levels. For each of the hierarchical levels, a word list with a word count for each word included therein is obtained. For each of the hierarchical levels, a tag cloud based on a corresponding one of the word counts is created. At least one of the tag clouds is displayed in association with a label for a corresponding one of the hierarchical levels.

Viewing hierarchical document summaries using tag clouds

Systems and methods for dynamically generating computer executable technical support procedures, as well as updating/augmenting such executable procedures, by tracking and processing sequences of actions (execution traces) that are taken by experts (or users) when performing a procedure or when executing an executable procedure.

Systems and methods for generating and distributing executable procedures for technical desk-side support

Under the present invention, an illustrative feature is to provide a method and system/structure for remotely controlling multiple computer systems by interacting with GUIs. Specifically, the present invention allows a controlled computer/system to be remotely controlled via a controlling computer/system. To this extent, data/action capture instrumentation is provided on the controlling system for automatically creating a representation of content of the GUI of the controlling system, for automatically observing a set of actions performed by a user on the GUI of the controlling system, for automatically creating a representation of the observed actions, and for sending to the controlled system the representation of the observed actions. In addition, execution instrumentation is provided on the controlled system for receiving the representation and replicating the actions on the controlled system by interacting with a GUI of the controlled system.

Remote GUI control by replication of local interactions

There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric.

Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation

As indicated above, an exemplary feature of the present invention is to automatically identify corresponding GUI elements on different computer systems, or the same computer system at different points in time. Specifically, under the present invention, a user action on a widget of a GUI provided by an application loaded a first computer system is observed, and information about the widget(s) involved in the user action as well as on all other widget(s) in the GUI is collected and associated with the user action. Thereafter a widget(s) (on which the user action is to be performed) of a GUI provided by the application as loaded on a second computer system is robustly identified using the collection information. Then, the action is performed on the identified widget(s). In identifying the widget(s), the present invention utilizes a set of hard and soft constraints to identify a matching widget(s).

Method and system for mapping GUI widgets

An apparatus and method for maintaining a collection of test scripts. At least one test script module is identified that is common to at least two unmodularized test scripts that are each associated with a common application. The at least two unmodularized test scripts are divided into modularized test scripts that each comprise the at least one test script module. An update to the common application is received and at least one of the at least one test script modules is updated in response to the update of the common application. The updating of each of the at least one of the at least one test script module causes a corresponding update to the at least two unmodularized test scripts.

Semi-automated update of application test scripts

Systems and methods for describing video content establish video description records which include an object set (), an object hierarchy () and entity relation graphs (). Video objects can include global objects, segment objects and local objects. The video objects are further defined by a number of features organized in classes, which in turn are further defined by a number of feature descriptors (, and). The relationships () between and among the objects in the object set () are defined by the object hierarchy () and entity relation graphs (). The video description records provide a standard vehicle for describing the content and context of video information for subsequent access and processing by computer applications such as search engines, filters and archive systems.

Video description system and method

Techniques for altering application user-interface controls are provided. More particularly the customization of a new or existing user-interface control in an application user-interface is provided. In one aspect of the invention, a method for customizing user-interface controls of an existing application comprises the recording of a procedure description performed by a user in the application user-interface. A new or modified application user-interface control relating to the procedure description is then installed in the existing application.

Methods and apparatus for customizing user-interface control in existing application

A system and method for obtaining a process definition; determining the current process; determining the current process step; determining whether a whether a user has requested creation or modification of an annotation of the current process or step; receiving information from the user for creating the annotation when a user has requested creation of an annotation; and displaying the annotation.

Method for providing dynamic process step annotations

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Mount Kisco, NY, United States of America

Lawrence David Bergman