International Business Machines Corporation

Martin Welsch

Andreas Nauerz

Jaspreet Singh

Dirk Herrendoerfer

Robert Sulzmann

Isabell Sippli

Thomas Stober

Stefan Liesche

Fedor Bakalov

Birgitta Koenig-Ries

Hans Gunter Dockweiler

Hans Helmut Diel

Stefan Weigeldt

A method for automatically managing a plurality of slides associated with a slide-deck is provided. The method may include adding the plurality of slides to a computing system. The method may also include analyzing at least one slide within the plurality of slides. The method may further include generating a list including at least one key word or at least one tag based on the analyzing. The method may include matching the at least one key word or the at least one tag against at least one key word or at least one tag saved on a presentation server. The method may also include fetching at least one slide or at least one slide-deck from the presentation server based on the matching. The method may further include displaying the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck on a user interface.

Management and dynamic assembly of presentation material

The invention provides for a computer system, comprising a device register for creating and registering one or more device objects. At least one device object of the one or more device objects is configured for communicating with a network connector of a sensor appliance via a network connection. The device object is configured for exposing at least one parameter of the sensor appliance by declaring its capabilities. The computer system further comprises an aggregation model for aggregating the at least one parameter of the at least one device objects; a set of wiring definitions descriptive of raised events created by changes or updates in the at least one parameter; and a wiring broker for updating the aggregation model in accordance with the raised events.

Aggregation of sensor appliances using device registers and wiring brokers

Personalization of web content is provided, comprising: accessing web content, selecting components of the web content in accordance with a user model, and structuring the components of the web content in accordance with the user model. The personalization further comprises presenting the components of the web content in accordance with the user model, and providing a graphical user interface for adapting the user model, wherein the graphical user interface is provided together with the web content of a portlet of a web portal, such that each adaptation of the user model is updated in real-time in the currently presented web content in the portlet.

Personalization of web content

A sphere is displayed on an interactive graphical user interface with a central circular disk that represents a current computer system, and a second circular disk that represents a second computer system as part of the sphere positioned parallel above or below the central circular disk. A current tag representing a first resource stored in a current storage of the current computer system is displayed on the interactive graphical user interface on a surface of the central circular disk. A second tag representing a second resource stored in a second storage of the second computer system is displayed on the interactive graphical user interface on a surface of the second circular disk.

3D tag clouds for visualizing federated cross-system tags

A computer method and system for interactive visualization and modification of a user interest model via an interactive graphical user interface is described. The method and system comprise displaying at least one keyword in a circular sector on a ring on the interactive graphical user interface, wherein the keyword represents an interest of the user interest model, wherein a radial position of the keyword on the ring represents a degree of interest stored as part of the user interest model, and wherein the circular sector represents a semantic type of the user interest model. The method and system further enable a user to actively influence the modeling server and graphically modify/change the degree of interest via an interaction component of the interactive graphical user interface.

Interactive ring-shaped interface

An Extended SmartCard file system is proposed which resides in one flat file within the ISO file system of a SmartCard. A second file containing user information like size of the file system, owner information, and key fields is used to configure the file system driver dynamically. However, this file may be omitted if the file system driver is statically initialized. The nested file system of the present invention has the advantage that files can be fully dynamically accessed and edited without affecting the underlying ISO file layout, i.e. the outer fixed structure of the outer file system. Further, data integrity and consistency are achieved by a transaction oriented commit concept. Additionally, all security mechanisms of the underlying SmartCards in terms of data protection are fully maintained and are enhanced in cases of power loss or unexpected card removal as two distinct directories are provided for data management.

Extended card file system

A system and method for processing information contained in a smart card ( ) uses a local computer ( ) on which a proxy server ( ) is installed. The local computer is connected to a data communication network ( ), such as the Internet, and comprises a network browser which is used to generate access requests to data stored on a smart card and in a local storage ( ). The requests are received by an HTTP server ( ) and passed to request brokers ( ). In response to a request parsing operation access functions ( ) are activated for accessing the local storage and a smart card ( ). Data read from a smart card may be inserted into a HTML document accessed in the local storage, and data from the local storage or from remote sources may be uploaded to a smart card. Data modifier means ( ) are provided to translate data read from the smart card into a data format corresponding to a user interface, and for translating data to be uploaded to said smart card into a predetermined smart card data format. The proxy server may be readily adapted to any smart card data format, and it may provide data security functions and data compression/decompression facilities.

System method and article of manufacture for accessing and processing smart card information

Java methods contained in a Java class and method database are accessed by a non-Java application running on a local machine or a remote machine. The non-Java application generates a standard TCP/IP communication call for a method of a Java class in the database. A Java service server running on a Java VM on the local machine receives the method call and related parameter data and performs their processing including a conversion of the call and of related parameter data from a transport format into Java native data types. The converted data is used for invoking a Java method for execution by applying the method to the converted parameter data. The result data of the method execution is converted from the Java format into the transport format in which they are transmitted to the non-Java application.

Method and system for accessing java applications

In a computer system, the ability to dynamically switch between different user interface types is provided. A directed graph is composed of nodes that each contain user interface information. A first part of the user interface information is common to each of the different user interface types, while a second part of the user interface information corresponds to one of the different user interface types. A presentation front end program selects a user interface type by accessing the user interface information stored in the nodes.

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Martin Welsch