International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Michal Broz

Shunguo Yan

Steven Duane Clay

Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger

Bernadette Alexia Carter

Matthew G Marum

Melba I Lopez

John Conrad Sanchez

Lisa Seeman

Gabriel Cody Terrell

Eduardo N Spring

Paul William Bennett

Michael C Thompson

Federico A Galarraga

Cheryl King

Henry E Mikhail

William J Hoch

User authentication is provided. A most recent user secret block of a set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to a user is retrieved from a blockchain. The user is challenged using a question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. It is determined whether the user successfully passed the challenge using the question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. The user is authenticated to access a decentralized service in response to determining that the user did successfully pass the challenge using the question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. The user is allowed to access the decentralized service.

Generate blockchain-based user secrets to authenticate users to decentralized services

Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for leveraging spatial scanning data of an environment collected by a robotic vacuum to generate recommendations for improving environmental conditions. A robotic vacuum may collect cleanliness data relative to an environment. The robotic vacuum may store the cleanliness data over a plurality of cleaning cycles. The robotic vacuum may analyze the cleanliness data over the plurality of cleaning cycles to identify one or more cleanliness trends. The robotic vacuum may generate a recommendation for improving an environmental condition relative to the environment based on the identified one or more cleanliness trends. The robotic vacuum may provide the recommendation to a user.

Leveraging spatial scanning data of autonomous robotic devices

The present invention provides a system and method of adjusting an electronic device display based on eyewear properties. Eyewear properties such as tint level, tint shade, and polarization are obtained from eyewear, a database, or manual entry. The device display is then adjusted based on the eyewear properties to facilitate viewability of the electronic display for the user while wearing the eyewear.

System and method of adjusting a device display based on eyewear properties

An event/object reporting system is provided using data from sensors of a smart vehicle, which events/objects are observed by the smart vehicle but do not involve the smart vehicle. For this purpose, a computer-implemented method includes collecting, by the computer device, sensor data from at least one sensor on the smart vehicle regarding events/objects external to the smart vehicle, analyzing, by the computer device, the sensor data to detect whether a predetermined event and/or object external to the smart vehicle is found in the sensor data, and transmitting, by the computer device, portions of the sensor data pertaining to the predetermined event and/or object to an external server based on the detecting.

System and method for reporting observed events/objects from smart vehicles

A method for generating and presenting accessibility resolution models to accessibility problems is provided. The method may include detecting user behavior patterns associated with users. The method may further include generating user groups and subgroups based on the detected user behavior patterns. Additionally, the method may include identifying accessibility problems based on the detected user behavior patterns and the generated user groups and subgroups. The method may also include generating accessibility profiles based on the detected user behavior patterns, the generated user groups and subgroups, and the identified accessibility problems. The method may further include determining correlations between the generated accessibility profiles and business loss indicators. The method may also include generating and presenting accessibility resolution models to the identified accessibility problems based on the detected user behavior patterns, the generated user groups and subgroups, and the determined correlations between the generated accessibility profiles and business loss indicators.

Accessibility detection and resolution

According to embodiments of the present invention, machines, systems, computer-implemented methods and computer program products for mimicking a presence notification to optimize utilization of computing resources of a system comprising a plurality of virtual components and a virtual component manager are provided. Using the virtual component manager, one or more components that are each performing functions limited to providing a presence notification may be detected. The detected one or more components may be suspended, and the presence notifications for each suspended component may be generated and transmitted by the virtual component manager. Suspending a component that is solely providing a presence notification frees up resources that may be utilized for another component performing computational work.

Mimicking a presence notification from an application executing on a virtual component to optimize computing resource allocation/utilization

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for prioritizing traffic flow based on vehicle-caused road degradation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for prioritizing traffic flow based on vehicle-caused road degradation includes detecting an approaching vehicle in a traffic control system disposed at an intersection governed by the traffic control system, classifying the approaching vehicle and correlating the classification of the approaching vehicle with a road degradation impact resulting from both a deceleration of the approaching vehicle and a subsequent acceleration of the approaching vehicle. The method further includes on condition that the road degradation impact exceeds a permissible impact, transmitting a message to the traffic control system to emit a visual signal permitting the approaching vehicle to pass through the intersection without stopping.

Prioritizing traffic flow based on vehicle-caused road degradation

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for document content re-ordering for assistive technology processing. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for document content re-ordering for assistive technology processing is provided. The method includes sensing in a computer display a drawing of a path across different portions of displayed content in the computer display. Thereafter, a sequence of the different portions of the displayed content can be identified from the path. As such, meta-data indicative of the sequence can be generated in the memory of the computer and the content can be annotated with the generated meta-data. Finally, the portions of the content can be processed with assistive technology in an order dictated by the sequence.

Document content reordering for assistive technologies by connecting traced paths through the content

Methods, systems, and computer program products relate to recommending settings include collecting operating parameter and usage condition data for a plurality of electronic devices from one or more databases, analyzing the data to create a predictive model to estimate predicted operating parameters based on usage conditions, applying current device usage conditions from a current device to the predictive model to determine recommended device settings, and changing current device settings based on the recommended device settings.

Real-time device settings using knowledge base

A system and computer-implemented method for cloud-based anonymous traffic routing is disclosed. The method may include receiving, from a client application by a router, network traffic identified for a destination. The method may include determining, for a set of internal cloud nodes distinct from both the client application and the destination, a set of internet protocol (IP) addresses including a first IP address for a first internal cloud node of the set of internal cloud nodes. The method may also include establishing an anonymity algorithm for cloud-based anonymous traffic routing, the anonymity algorithm configured to use the set of IP addresses. The method may also include routing, based on the anonymity algorithm, the network traffic to the first internal cloud node using the first IP address. The method may also include routing the network traffic from the set of internal cloud nodes to the destination identified by the client application.

Cloud-based anonymous routing

Techniques to interface with an isolated compute environment may be provided. An external interface may be provided by the isolated compute environment identifying a list of applications. Responsive to receiving a first request to access a first application in the list of applications from a source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may provide interactive support to the first application to share the first application and the first application's data with the source. Responsive to receiving a second request to access a second application not in the list of applications from the source outside of the isolated compute environment, the isolated compute environment may prevent the interactive support to the second application.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Michal Broz