International Business Machines Corporation

Matthew Robert Whitehead

Gareth Edward Jones

Chris R Bean

Sophie D Green

Benjamin J Fletcher

John Christopher Hawkins

Andrew James Stanford-Clark

Kevin Christopher Brown

Helen Samantha Bowyer

Stuart P Wilkinson

Margaret Ann Beynon

Ben J Fletcher

Hollie Carr

Matthew Hickford

Andrew John Owen

Nicholas Mathias

Gavin Potter

Edward Warrillow

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of provisioning resources associated with a plurality of instances of a computer system, the resources being allocated at runtime and only for instances of the computer system which use the resources, comprising: intercepting a call for access the computer system to a resources; responsive to the intercepted call being a first call for access by the computer system to the resource: blocking further calls for access by the computer system to the resource; binding the instances of a computer system to the resource; configuring the resource; and unblocking further calls for access by the computer system to the resource.

Live runtime infrastructure orchestration

A method and system for processing a message of a messaging system. The messaging system includes a messaging engine and a set of messages. A messaging endpoint of each message of the set of messages is associated with a respective container configured to run an associated application. In response to a first message being published to a messaging endpoint of the first message, the container associated with the messaging endpoint of the first message is used to process the message.

Message processing

A method pairs content from a specific area in virtual space with a graphics driver for a physical display. An augmented reality device defines a virtual space, which is delimited by a spatial border that is created by the augmented reality device and is visible only to a user of the augmented reality device. One or more processors associate the virtual space with a graphics driver from a plurality of graphics drivers. A signal indicating a virtual space selection gesture is generated by the augmented reality device in response to the user making a physical motion that selects the virtual space, and sent to a video adapter hardware card. In response to receiving the signal indicating the virtual space selection gesture, the video adapter hardware card implements the graphics driver to display content associated with the virtual space on the physical display.

Selectively pairing an application presented in virtual space with a physical display

A method and system is provided for auto formatting changes to computer program source code stored in a code repository. The code comprises a plurality of separately identifiable sections each of which includes non-functional formatting information which differs between at least some of the sections. In response to a user input request a selected source code section is extracted and edited via a user interface. A set of formatting rules is determined automatically from at least the code section being edited. This set of rules is one of a plurality of possible sets corresponding to the separately identifiable sections. The edited code is then formatted according to the determined set of formatting rules and stored in the code repository.

Automatic formatting of computer program source code

A method for packaging an application, for use with a system comprising the application and a plurality of libraries, the method comprising: in response to runtime execution of the application, monitoring library data associated with at least one of the plurality of libraries that is invoked by the application; associating the library data with an identifier of the application; and using the library data and the application identifier to create a package comprising the application and the at least one of the plurality of libraries.

Packaging an application with plurality of libraries

A method for determining relationship data associated with application programs in a messaging system, comprising the steps of: responsive to at least one first message event sending a message from a first application to a first destination and at least one second message event retrieving, by a second application, the message from a second destination, intercepting message data associated with the message; analysing the intercepted message data in accordance with one or more rules in order to find one or more message parameters; and in response to finding the one or more message parameters, identifying the first message event and identifying the second message event, determining a relationship associated with the first application and the second application. An apparatus and computer program element for determining such relationship data are also provided.

Determining relationship data associated with application programs

A method, apparatus and software are disclosed in which the position of a mobile device is determined by proximity detection from a first node using one wireless communications protocol and the position of the first node is determined using a set of signals from base stations having known locations and using a second wireless communications protocol.

Determining a position of a mobile device

Subscribers connected to a publish/subscribe message broker receive messages on topic names to which they have subscribed. The subscribers receive any number of messages on each topic to which they have subscribed. When the broker receives a message on a second, pre-specified, topic, associated with a first topic, the broker removes any existing retained message related to the first topic. Thus any subsequent subscribers to the first topic do not receive the retained message when they subscribe, and thus do not receive out-of-date information. If, at a later date, a new message is published on the first topic subscribers will receive the new message if they are still subscribed.

System for controlling retention of data messages

A method, apparatus and computer program product to operate a device to access data remotely is described. The processing method includes connecting to a remote data source and transmitting data requests to a remote data source. The device receives responses to the data requests, the responses include data and a flag indicating a status of store, reset or ignore with respect to the respective data request. The device stores the data request in an ordered record when the respective flag is indicating a status of store or reset. Storing a data request in the ordered record may further comprise storing in the record the respective flag, when the respective flag is indicating a status of reset.

Accessing data remotely

A method for distributing cached messages in a load-balanced publish/subscribe messaging network using an HTTP redirect in response to an HTTP client message request is disclosed. The redirect response including a URI at which a next message in a list of sequential messages slated for the HTTP client per the request is located, wherein the HTTP client uses the URI to automatically iterate through and receive the entire list of sequential messages. The method includes that a) the HTTP client initiating a request for a next message in a sequence of messages, b) the HTTP server receiving the request and creating and inserting a client cursor in a message cache for the HTTP a cache location of the requested next message, and returning an HTTP redirect response to the HTTP client including the current client cursor cache location for the requested next message in a location field in the redirect response enabling the HTTP client to automatically access each next message in the sequence and c) the HTTP client receiving the redirect response, opens (sends) a new request to the client cursor location in accordance with the URI location field in the redirect response to secure the next message, Steps b) and c) are repeated until the HTTP server returns a response other than a redirect response, or until the HTTP client fails to respond to a redirect response. The method, system and computer program product supports point-to-point messaging.

Cached message distribution via HTTP redirects

For managing the retention of publications in a publish/subscribe system, a publisher sends a new publication to a publish/subscribe broker with an indication of whether the new publication should be retained in association with a previous retained publication. The publish/subscribe broker responds to such indications by retaining the new publication with the previous retained publication. The contents or 'payload' of the new published message may be appended to a previous retained message, resulting in a single retained message that contains information from multiple published messages.

Method, apparatus and computer program for controlling retention of publications

A method of operating a publish/subscribe message broker. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes receiving a message on a topic from a publisher, identifying the message as a start of a sequence of messages, transmitting the message to one or more existing subscribers to the topic, registering a new subscriber to the topic, receiving a further message on the topic from a publisher, and transmitting the further message to the one or more existing subscribers to the topic, but not to the registered new subscriber to the topic. Following the identifying of the message as a start of a sequence of messages, the message broker creates a new sub-topic corresponding to the sequence of messages and subscribes the one or more existing subscribers to the new topic. Any new messages received that relate to the sequence are published to the sub-topic and not the original topic. Any new subscribers to the topic are not subscribed to the sub-topic.

Publish/subscribe message broker for message sequences

A method of creating an annotation to an email. The method includes: receiving an email; receiving a predefined user input; creating an annotation in response to the predefined user input, the annotation linked to the email; receiving a further user input; and defining a permission for the annotation according to the further user input, the permission defining user access to the annotation. When transmitting a second email as a response to the received email, the second email is linked to the annotation. The method further includes displaying at least a part of the annotation linked to the received email, for example when a user hovers over the email. The structure of the annotations allows the associating of the annotation with one or more further annotations.

Email annotation

The invention includes a publish/subscribe system for publish/subscribe messaging utilizing pre-emptive subscriptions in a cluster of HTTP servers that includes load balancing. The system includes at least one HTTP client in a role of HTTP subscriber, and a set HTTP servers arranged as an HTTP server cluster in communication with each other and the at least one HTTP client in a network infrastructure, where each HTTP server is subscribed to a special topic: admin/subscriptions, maintains a subscription to requested topics for a client and a message history of messages published on that topic. Each server can serve messages to different HTTP clients at different times based on the HTTP client's 'cursor' in the HTTP server's message history list, and wherein any HTTP client request for a 'next' message on a given requested topic will follow their cursor progress through the message history list.

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Hampshire, United Kingdom

Matthew Robert Whitehead