International Business Machines Corporation

Mark Douglas Weitzel

Kyle Gene Brown

Steven Michael Miller

Andrew Bryan Smith

Edward Charles Snible

John William Sweitzer

Peter James Brittenham

Bryan A Hogan

Paul K Blizniak

Robert Charles Leah

Thomas Schaeck

Michael C Wanderski

Stephen Glen Graham

James Edward Fox

Derek W Carr

Erich Shannon Magee

Lisa Hayes Magee

Keyur D Dalal

A method to match an autonomic manager with a manageable resource may include using a management style profile to match the autonomic manager with the manageable resource. The method may also include validating that the autonomic manager can manage the manageable resource using a defined management style of the autonomic manager.

Matching an autonomic manager with a manageable resource

Sharing content between users of different social networks includes: in a source social network implemented by at least one processor, receiving shared content uploaded by a source user with an indication of a number of recipients of the shared content; establishing a trusted communication link between the source social network and at least one external social network; and allowing the number of recipients to retrieve the shared content from the source social network via the trusted communication link.

Inter-service sharing of content between users from different social networks

A method for dynamically managing a social network group performed by a group management system having at least one physical processing apparatus includes receiving, with the group management system, data from a number of source providers over a computer network; identifying a basis for creating a new social network group from the data with the group management system; creating the new social network group with the group management system; and automatically inviting a number of members to join the new social network group with the group management system, each of the members being associated with the basis identified in the data for creating the new social network group.

Dynamically managing a social network group

Under the present invention, a set of filters (e.g., one or more) is associated with a hierarchical tree, which includes sets of namespace nodes, element nodes and variable nodes. Once the set of filters is associated with the hierarchical tree, a network document is parsed and compared to the hierarchical tree to identify a set of corresponding filters. Each corresponding filter is then evaluated based on the network document to determine which, if any, are 'satisfied.' The network document is then communicated to the user(s) that correspond to the satisfied filter(s).

Method, system and program product for matching a network document with a set of filters

The invention provides a software construct, herein termed a Web service container, for managing Web services at a network node and an adaptive model for the dynamic configuration of a plurality of Web service containers distributed throughout a network, such as the Internet or an intranet, in a software and hardware platform-independent manner. Containers can communicate with each other via the network to determine contextual information such as the identity of each other, the capabilities of each other, the operating system or platforms of each others, the contents of the container (i.e., the available Web services at that location), etc. By providing a container framework and the ability to exchange contextual information, the present invention allows servers as well as clients to dynamically exchange Web services software as well as contextual information, such as current workload, so that servers and clients are virtually limitlessly reconfigurable based on context.

Method and apparatus for dynamic reconfiguration of web services infrastructure

A method for dynamically invoking a Web service. The method can include assembling a collection of references to remote implementations of the Web service based upon a common port type. One or more ports bound to the remote implementations of the Web service can be identified, and a set of port selection rules can be applied to the identified ports to select a particular one of the ports. Finally, the Web service can be invoked through the selected port. Notably, the identifying step can include parsing a Web service implementation document for each referenced remote implementation in the collection. The parsing can produce a list of ports through which the remote implementations can be invoked. Also, the method can further include compiling the set of port selection rules according to at least one of high-availability concerns, quality of service concerns and economic concerns.

Dynamic invocation of web services

The invention is a method and apparatus that, upon receipt of a Web service deployment artifact, attempts to determine a deployment strategy for the Web service and deploy the Web service using that strategy. The invention stores a plurality of deployment strategies and corresponding deployment identifiers. When it receives a deployment artifact, it checks if it is a recognized deployment descriptor object that is registered with it as a deployment identifier, and, if so, runs the corresponding deployment strategy to deploy the Web service. If this scheme does not work, it tries a second scheme in which it assumes that the artifact is a URL or URI character string and attempts to parse the artifact to determine the extension of the provided resource and use it as its deployment identifier. If it determines and recognizes the extension, it attempts to deploy the Web service utilizing the deployment strategy that it has registered as corresponding to that extension/identifier. If that is unsuccessful, it attempts to parse the provided resource to create a Document Object Model (DOM) and then queries the DOM's namespace for a deployment strategy.

Method and apparatus for dynamically determining information for deploying a web service

Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a heuristics service using a generically-consumable, reusable heuristics manager object. This heuristics manager object provides a 'black box' approach to statistically-triggered heuristics, and eliminates the need to write application-specific code for compiling statistics and performing complicated analysis of those statistics within each application program. In one embodiment, the heuristics manager object is provided as a web-accessible service, which may be registered in a network-accessible registry such as a UDDI registry. Enterprises may subscribe to this service for monitoring and analyzing statistics pertaining to one or more of the enterprise's applications, thereby providing a novel method of doing business for the provider of the heuristics service.

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Mark Douglas Weitzel