International Business Machines Corporation

Google Inc.

Institute for Information Technology Advancement

Mandayam Thondanur Raghunath

Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami

Rama Krishna Govindaraju

Marcel Catalin Rosu

Hubertus Franke

Pratap Chandra Pattnaik

Ramon Caceres

Stefan Berger

Robert Michael Straub

Balaji Gopalan

Marcel-Catalin Rosu

Nilesh Tathawadekar

Dinesh C Verma

Claudio Santos Pinhanez

Paul D DiNicola

Rahul S Kulkarni

Gautam H Shah

Chandramouli Mahadevan

Chandrasekhar Naravanaswami

Anshu Surana

Nishkam Ravi

Suhas Abhimanyu Phand

Chanrasekhar Narayanaswami

Deepak Achuthan Menon

Navneet Nair

A rich media notice board enables users to communicate with others in their own and related communities who use the rich media notice board or other rich media notice boards, such as those in related communities, as well as with others who use conventional interfaces via the Internet. The users of the rich media notice board can post notices including text, images, audio, and video to the rich media notice board. The notices may also include usage metaphors that may allow users to relate to the notices. A user interface of the rich media notice board may employ the usage metaphors to provide an interface that may be used by users who may not read or write with sufficient proficiency to otherwise use a computer. The users may access the rich media notice boards from computers, mobile phones, and kiosk systems.

Establishing communication in a rich media notice board

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing text resources updated with translation input from multiple users. In one aspect, a method includes receiving machine-translated text, which is a translation of source text in a source language, in a target language and providing the machine-translated text as a translation of the source text to multiple users. A modification of the machine-translated text by a user results in a modified translated text. It is determined that the modified translated text is an acceptable translation of the source text. Upon such determining, the modified translated text is provided as the translation of the source text to subsequent users. The modified translated text so provided is modifiable by one or more of the subsequent users.

Providing text resources updated with translation input from multiple users

A system for monitoring performance of a machine for detection of visible signs of failure, includes: a machine enclosure housing machine parts; at least one canal through the machine enclosure acting as a visual conduit for providing a view into the interior of the machine; a guide rail within the canal for moving a camera into the interior; an interface to the machine configured to receive images from the visual conduit; and a repair network for linking the interface to a monitoring center that provides for the repair of problems with the machine.

Sensor for imaging inside equipment

A simplification of the process of deploying public services for mobile users Particular refinements in this vein involve the dynamic configuration of client software using available context information and the optimization of software provisioning based on historical usage information, which includes services accessed together with the location and time of access.

Context-aware code provisioning for mobile devices

A system and method for configuring client access to a network includes at a first port, accessing a first server on a first local area network associated with the first port. An authorized local area network other than the first local area network is determined to which an authorized connection can be properly made based on information in a client request. The first port is assigned to the authorized local area network. Communications are handled with a new client configuration in the authorized local area network.

System and method for virtualized resource configuration

Systems and techniques are described to perform operations including displaying a first character in a user interface in response to a first user input, the first character encoded by a first ordered sequence comprising at least one code point, receiving a second user input, determining if the second user input defines an exception input to the first ordered sequence, in response to determining that the second user input defines an exception input to the first ordered sequence, generating a second ordered sequence comprising at least one code point, the second ordered sequence based on the first ordered sequence and the exception input, wherein the second ordered sequence does not include the first ordered sequence in a predicate sequence, and displaying a second character defined by the second ordered sequence in place of the first character in the user interface.

Exception processing of character entry sequences

In one implementation, a method includes receiving a request for translation of one or more first keywords from a source language to a target language; and translating, using a machine translation process, the first keywords from the source language into a plurality of second keywords in the target language. The method can also include determining, by a computer system, frequencies with which each of the second keywords occur in a corpus associated with the target language. The method can further include selecting, by the computer system, a subset of the second keywords to use in the target language based on the determined frequencies of occurrence.

Translating keywords from a source language to a target language

Some embodiments provide a system that authenticates a user. During operation, the system obtains an identifier for the user from an identification card associated with the user and displays a set of images to the user. Next, the system receives an image sequence comprising a sequence of images selected by the user from the set of images. Finally, the system authenticates the user based on the identifier and the image sequence.

Method and system for image-based user authentication

Communications over a network are selectively routed to one of multiple mobile devices identified by the same mobile device number. In one example, a method includes identifying a first mobile phone associated with a first activation priority by a phone number and identifying a second mobile phone associated with a second activation priority by the same phone number. The activation priority indicates a priority with which the first and the second mobile phones are activated for communications on a network. Communications associated with the phone number are selectively routed to one of the first mobile phone or the second mobile phone having a highest activation priority. The phone number defines an address at which the communications are routed to the one of the first mobile phone or the second mobile phone having the highest activation priority without being routed to an intervening address defined by another device number.

Employing multiple mobile devices with varying functional capabilities

A computer implemented method includes displaying first characters of a language script in a user interface, in response to receiving a selection of a first character, identifying second characters that are each a variant of the first character according to a language rule, displaying the second characters of the language script proximate the selected first character, and in response to receiving a subsequent selection of the selected first character or one of the second characters, displaying the subsequently selected character as an input character in the user interface.

Language keyboard

A computer-implemented method for selectively enabling and disabling at least one of a plurality of functions of a host operating system and for selectively enabling and disabling at least one of a plurality of host components includes the following steps: activating a locking mechanism in the host system for disabling system access, wherein the locking mechanism includes switches and component control storage; activating component settings for selectively enabling and disabling components of the system, wherein the component settings are controlled by manipulating the switches; activating system settings for selectively enabling and disabling functions of the system, wherein the system settings are controlled by manipulating the switches; activating system passwords, component passwords and encryption keys; and locking the system according to the selected settings. An information processing system includes a master access control mechanism for enabling and disabling one or more components of the system when the system is in privileged system mode, depending on whether the system boots from internal or external media.

Method for enabling secure usage of computers using a mechanism lockdown

A system, method and computer program product for communicating Web-Services (WS) messages. First there is allocated an identical amount of a cache history storage at each sender and receiver device for storing a history of communicated WS message strings. At the sender, there is generated an intermediate data representations of each message being built, the corresponding message string stored in the cache history storage. The message is communicated as a serialized data string according to the built data representation. For each subsequent message to be communicated, the method comprises identifying identical portions in intermediate data representations of a current message being built and replacing each identified portion in message strings with a reference indicator to a location in the cache history storage corresponding to an identical character string portion associated with a prior message that has been communicated. At the receiver device, the references are identified in received message strings and one or more intermediate data representations locally stored at the receiver device are substituted in the message to complete a build of the received message.

System and method for history driven optimization of web services communication

A portable intelligent shopping device which can be worn as a wristwatch or carried on a belt. It makes paying for purchases more secure. The device stores the wearer's private key and digital certificate. It can also store the public keys of various stores. When the wearer (shopper) buys something from a store, the store can request a payment of the appropriate amount from the wearer's watch. The authorization for payment of the amount specified by the request for payment may be transmitted using IR or RF. The watch can then display the amount and request the shopper to confirm the transaction by entering a PIN number by tapping on the touch screen or using the roller wheel. Once the correct PIN is entered, the watch can send a message to the store authorizing payment of the requested amount. The store can verify the message based on the shopper's encrypted certificate by decrypting it using the shopper's public key. The entire payment authorization signal can be encrypted by the shopper using the store's public key so that only the store can decrypt it with its private key.

Portable intelligent shopping device

A system for monitoring performance of a machine for detection of visible signs of failure, the system including: a machine enclosure housing a plurality of machine parts; a visual conduit for providing a view of an interior of the machine; an interface to the machine configured to receive images from the visual conduit; and a repair network for linking the interface to a monitoring center that provides for the repair of problems with the machine.

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Mandayam Thondanur Raghunath