International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

Moncef Benboubakeur

Julija Narodicka

Garfield Winston Vaughn

Aaron K Baughman

Erik Rueger

Anuradha Bhamidipaty

Mauro Marzorati

Diwesh Pandey

Gary Francis Diamanti

Christian Eggenberger

Bryan A Barone

Akram Bou-Ghannam

Michael Starkey

Muhammad Ammar Ahmed

Stefan Mayer

Dorota Buresova

Mustapha Ennaifar

Jiri Nehybka

Yahia Chemlal

A backup and restore coordinator configured to receive a plurality of backup and restore requests from at least two uncoordinated backup functionalities implemented in a virtual environment, the virtual environment including a hypervisor hosting a plurality of virtual machines and a backup server. The backup and restore coordinator configured to extract respective information from the plurality of backup and restore requests including target data, backup resource information, and a type of request. The backup and restore coordinator configured to order the plurality of backup and restore requests in a prioritized queue based on the information extracted from the plurality of backup and restore requests.

Virtual machine backup and restore coordinator

An approach is provided in which an information handling system receives a request for a product from a first entity that includes multiple components. The information handling system determines that the components include a set of printable 3D components and a set of non-printable 3D components. Next, the information handling system sends a set of component instructions to a second entity to print the set of printable 3D components and, in turn, sends a set of assembly instructions to the second entity to assemble the product using the set of 3D printable components and the set of non-printable 3D components.

Ai based colluded shipping with 3D printing

Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for non-visually mapping an environment. In an embodiment, a set of images that is within the field of view of the user is captured from a video capture device worn by the user. Environmental text that is within the set of images is identified. An aural contextual indicator that corresponds to the environmental text is then generated. This aural contextual indicator indicates the informational nature of the environmental text. An aural map of the environment is created using a sequence of the generated aural contextual indicators. This aural map is delivered to the user via an aural output device worn by the user in response to a user request.

Non-visual environment mapping

Embodiments of the present invention provide notification management across a plurality of electronic communication devices based on the present situational context of the intended communication recipient. Some types of relevant situational context information include the geographic location of the intended recipient, what electronic communication devices they may have in their possession, calendar or schedule information, the presence of other people, the identity of other people present in their vicinity, their relationship to the communication sender, and context information concerning the sender, such as how frequently the sender has attempted to communicate with the intended recipient and news information relevant to the known or assumed location of the sender. Notifications are managed by adjusting which electronic communication devices emit notifications and what type of notifications are emitted.

Management of communication notifications based upon geographic location

A method and system for modifying media content is provided. The method includes enabling access to first media content. Audio and video data of the first media content is analyzed with respect to external data associated with the first media content and resulting attributes are identified. An overall rating value associated with the first media content is assigned and micro-scenes of the first media content are defined. Each said micro-scene includes audio/video frames of the first media content comprising similar content of the resulting attributes. A micro-rating value for each micro-scene is assigned and the media content the micro-scenes and each micro-rating value is stored in a database.

Media content modification

A method and system for improving vehicle implemented wireless charging. The method includes registering devices with a controller hardware apparatus. Charging attributes of the devices are generated based on analysis of operational data associated with the devices and associated charging code for implementing a charging plan for wirelessly charging a power source for each device is generated and executed. A first device comprising a power source requiring a charge is identified and a vehicle is deployed to a location of the first device. A charging process for charging the power source is executed upon arrival of the vehicle to the location of the first device.

Vehicle implemented wireless charging

A system and method for determining a location of a leak within an irrigation network. The irrigation network is monitored for an indication that a leak has occurred, and then can evaluate the severity of the leak. At least one mobile sensing unit is selected to deploy across the irrigation network in response to the indication of a leak. Instructions are generated and sent to the at least one mobile sensing unit including information as to where in the irrigation network the at least one mobile sensing unit is to go. The mobile sensing unit is deployed into the irrigation network. A location of the leak within the irrigation network is determined based at least upon data gathered by the mobile sensing units while it is deployed in the irrigation network. An alert about the leak is sent in response to determining the location of the leak.

Leakage detection and location system in an irrigation network

An approach is provided for storing a snapshot of an execution image of a virtual machine (VM) instance. Based on VM, application, criticality, and change parameters, and based on a recommendation model trained on historical data about effects that changes caused by VM execution had on a capacity of a storage system that stores execution images of VM instances in first datastores, a tier is selected from multiple tiers of the storage system as the tier recommended for storing the snapshot. A datastore is selected for storing the snapshot so that the selected datastore is associated with the selected tier and selected from second datastores dedicated to storing only snapshots. The snapshot is created in the selected datastore and in the selected tier and unused space in a portion of the storage system for storing the first datastores is reduced.

Space management for snapshots of execution images

A system and method for managing user activity context includes monitoring a user's actions on an electronic device; analyzing a resource accessed by the user; identifying an activity being performed by the user based on the analysis of the resource; and generating an activity context graph for the identified activity, wherein the activity context graph includes information regarding the resource. The activity context graph may be updated with additional resources accessed by the user if the additional resources are associated with the identified activity. The activity context graph may be provided to another user and may be updated to reflect the other user's profile, settings, or other information.

Managing user activity context using an activity context graph

One or more processors identify one or more users expected to consume media content having associated subtitle data. A user profile associated with each of the one or more users is received, and one or more features are extracted from each user profile. The one or more features are representative of a characteristic of the user. A group profile is created for the one or more users based upon the extracted features. The subtitle data associated with the media content is received, and one or more portions of the subtitle data are modified based upon the group profile to generate augmented subtitle data. The augmented subtitle data is sent to a display device for being rendered in the display device.

Producing comprehensible subtitles and captions for an effective group viewing experience

Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for customizing media content being consumed at a location. For each of the viewers in a group consuming the media content at the location, a media profile having a set of media content preferences is created. These media profiles are aggregated to generate a composite profile that has a set of content restriction preferences for the group. As the media content is provided to and being consumed by the group, the media content is analyzed to identify any elements that have attributes that may be unsuitable to some viewers. If an element has a suitability attribute that violates the content restriction preferences for the group, the media content is modified to filter out the element.

Filtering of content in near real time

A method, system and computer readable program storage device for generating a video stream of an event. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input video stream from each of a plurality of persons at different locations at the event; generating a combined video stream of the event from the plurality of input video streams by joining together at least a portion of each of the input video streams, wherein each of the input video streams shows a defined focal point of the event; streaming the combined video stream to viewers; and paying each person of the plurality of persons based at least partially on a portion of the combined video stream that incorporates a portion of the input video stream from the each person. In an embodiment, the combined video stream is a 360 degree montage of the event.

Generating video montage of an event

A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) determines that a processing device of the first computing node is transmitting media content to a user interface of the first computing node, including audio content. The processor(s) progressively obtains, contemporaneous with the transmitting, a textual representation of the audio content. The processor(s) modifies the textual representation of the audio content by utilizing elements of a user profile of the user of the first computing node to identify and modify textual elements of the textual representation of the audio content in accordance with the specific changes. The processor(s) renders the modified textual representation in the user interface, wherein each portion of the textual representation is synchronized to render when a corresponding portion of the audio content is played in the user interface.

Generating descriptive text contemporaneous to visual media

The present invention provides a method and system for identifying a species or object having identifying property markers by comparing the markers with values stored in a database, then comparing a group of species/objects which meet a predetermined threshold level to select a species/object having a highest confidence level. If the species/object having the corresponding highest species confidence level does not meet a predetermined species/object confidence level threshold value stored in the database, then a feedback loop provides for gathering additional information to accurately identify the species by repeating the above-identified steps in consideration of the additional information until a species/object meets or exceeds the predetermined species confidence level threshold value.

System and method for species and object recognition

Activating a smart bumper system is provided. Traffic data are received from a set of sensors located on each of a plurality of vehicles within a defined area. A collision is predicted between two or more vehicles is imminent based on analyzing the traffic data. A smart bumper system of at least one of the two or more vehicles that will be involved in the predicted collision is actuated to minimize an amount of damage during the predicted collision.

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Brno, Czechia

Moncef Benboubakeur