International Business Machines Corporation

Marco Martino

Giuseppe Ciano

Gianluca Bernardini

Roberto Piras

Roberto Giordani

Angelo Albanese

Salvatore D'Angelo

Valeria Perticara′

Alessandro Donatelli

Antonio Perrone

Roberto Ragusa

Gianluca Gargaro

Leonida Gianfagna

Stefano Borghetti

Patrizio Trinchini

Pasquale Maria Mascolo Montenero

Valeria Perticara'

Attilio Mattiocco

Paolo Baratti

Maria Sbriccoli

Embodiments of the invention provide for obtaining, by a computing device, query data from a query submitted by a user on a social network; determining, by the computing device, a topic of the query by extracting information from the query data; matching, by the computing device, the topic to content stored in a content database; determining, by the computing device, that the content can be shared with the user based on relationship data dynamically derived from user activity within the social network; and initiating, by the computing device, sharing of the content with the user based on the determining that the content can be shared, wherein the user is not statically connected to the content or the author of the content in the social network.

Managing content sharing in a social network

A method for cause analysis of a configuration exception occurred during the execution of a computer program on a programmable computer. The method includes executing the program on the computer. Exception information associated with the configuration exception may be extracted. The method may use context information and circumstances under which the configuration exception occurred. The method may also use data indicative of experiences of other developers that had a similar exception. A set of possible causes may be looked up from a knowledge base; wherein looking up the set of possible causes is based on context information related to the computer program.

Exception cause analysis during computer program execution

A computing system comprises a plurality of computing machines, each computing machine storing security information corresponding with the respective computing machine. Embodiments are directed to receiving an update request by a current computing machine for updating corresponding security information, updating the corresponding security information, determining other computing machines coupled with the current computing machine, and submitting, by the current computing machine, a further update request to each other computing machine that is coupled with the current computing machine.

Updating security information on multiple computing machines

A method for selective scheduling and deployment of maintenance tasks in cloud computing environments is provided. The method determines a computing environment in which a maintenance task is to be performed. The computing environment has one or more environment characteristics. The method then determines one or more task characteristics for the maintenance task. Based on the one or more environment characteristics and the one or more task characteristics, the method determines a similarity between the maintenance task and one or more historical maintenance tasks. The method generates a completion indicator for the maintenance task based on the similarity between the maintenance task and the one or more historical maintenance tasks. Based on the completion indicator, the method schedules performance of the maintenance task.

Selective scheduling of cloud maintenance tasks

An upgrade analysis unit can include functionality to analyze a customized software product and compute a convenience for using the upgrade toolkit. The upgrade analysis unit automatically generates an upgrade approach based on the convenience. The upgrade approach identifies software product modules recommended for automatic upgrade with the upgrade toolkit.

Automatically recommending an upgrade approach for a customizable software product

A method of route determination for mobile elements in a network comprising a plurality of paths each having a predetermined path capacity. The method comprises the steps of registering centrally a plurality of route requests from a corresponding plurality of mobile elements each of said requests defining a journey between an origin and a destination and registering centrally for each route request a journey start time. Routing instructions are centrally determined so as to optimise use of path capacity across all synchronous journeys requests in said network with reference to said registered information, and issued to corresponding mobile elements. The mobile elements adapt their route to comply with the routing instruction. There may be provided further steps of monitoring and rerouting the mobile element whenever new journeys requests can impact its remaining trip.

Routing method and system

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