International Business Machines Corporation

Michael R Rowden

Vasu Vallabhaneni

Andrei V C Ta

Eduardo N Spring

Steven Duane Clay

Yvonne M Young

Dogukan Erenel

Sangeetha Srikanth

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining a travel plan of a user including one or more travel item. Success values of respective travel items are calculated based on respective preferences by the user for each travel item in respective SV categories. Real time data relevant to the travel items are acquired and success values are updated for any predicted changes to any travel items, as caused by the real time data. The changes and updated SV is produced to the user.

Real time travel contingency service

Provided is method, system, and computer program product for reducing telecommunication network congestion during a high call volume event by prioritizing subscriber calls. A processor may receive a notification of an ongoing emergency at a location. The processor may activate an emergency mode at one or more call stations near the location. The processor may receive a plurality of calls at the one or more call stations from one or more callers, wherein the calls are not directed to an emergency service provider. The processor may determine a priority order for each of the calls based on a priority level assigned to each respective caller. The processor may allow the calls to be completed according to the priority order.

Call prioritization for reducing network congestion

An application permissions processing system and method for processing application permission requests is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that an application has been downloaded to a computing system, receiving one or more permission requests from the application for resources located on the computing system, determining that at least one of the one or more permission requests is a required permission of the application, prompting the user to decide the one or more permission requests, receiving a denial of the required permission from the user, in response to the prompting, and responding to the application by providing spoofed resources to the application to satisfy the required permission of the application.

Selective processing of application permissions

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Michael R Rowden