International Business Machines Corporation

Nicholas D Fifer

Itzhack Goldberg

Julianne Frances Haugh

Boaz Mizrachi

Ilan Gayda

Matthew J Kalos

Susan Kay Candelaria

Theodore Timothy Harris, Jr

Kenneth Nagin

Idan Ben-Harrush

William Henry Travis

Alex Chen

Amir Sasson

Dan Ramon

Frederick James Carberry, Ii

Edwin K Scott

Jeffery Michael Barnes

Rafael Eliezer Diaz

Uri Silbershtein

A method, system, and computer program product for reducing power consumption in a display area of an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting a first window within the display area to be highlighted using a first input command of a user; locating the first window in the display area; and reducing power to at least portions of the display area not corresponding to the first window.

Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of an electronic display

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for limiting the availability of computational resources to a device to stimulate a user of the device to apply necessary updates. Indication of the n update to the device is received and a determination is made as to whether the update has been applied to the device. The availability of computational resources at the device to use to execute processes at the device are limited in response to determining that the update has not been applied to the device. Processes are executed at the device using the limited available computational resources after the limiting of the availability of the computational resources. A determination is made as to whether the update has been applied to the device after limiting the availability of the computational resources. The limiting of the availability of the computational resources at the device is reversed in response to determining that the update to the device was applied.

Limiting the availability of computational resources to a device to stimulate a user of the device to apply necessary updates

A defective self-sustained code-upgrade code is recovered. A relevant unset variable is set to avoid an un-initialized command failure. A relevant set variable is unset to render a second invocation of the set variable to appear as a first invocation A fix-named file is retrieved containing a plurality of code entries organized in a stanza style. The fixed-named file is executed. The plurality of stanza-organized entries are sourced by the defective code-upgrade code to change a variable which has been previously set, thereby overriding an existing process.

Transparent recovery of self-sustained code-upgrade

A method for implicit authorization to a computer resource includes defining a behavioral signature including a plurality of defined computer actions known to an authorized user of the computer resource. A first performed computer action of a user is registered. The first performed computer action is compared with a first defined computer action of the plurality of defined computer actions, wherein, if the first performed computer action and the first defined computer action match, an authentication state is changed from a first authentication state to a second authentication state.

Implicit authentication to computer resources and error recovery

A vehicle antitheft system and method detects the starting of a vehicle and starts a first timer. If the first timer times out without the system having detected a first predetermined sequence, the system actuates a vehicle system warning signal and starts a second timer. If the second timer times out without detecting a second predetermined sequence, which may be the same as or different from the first predetermined sequence, the system disables the vehicle. The system may send vehicle location information to a monitoring service or the like. The vehicle remains disabled until the antitheft system is reset.

Vehicle antitheft system and method

A computer storage system includes a supervisor algorithm to detect a host computer's initiator logging in. The supervisor algorithm identifies data storage devices associated with the newly logged-on initiator and tags logical unit number control blocks ('LUNCBs') as having priority in an initiation process. The supervisor algorithm assigns a task control block to each of the identified data storage devices and invokes a logical unit number ('LUN') initialization algorithm. If the supervisor algorithm was invoked during an initial microcode load (&#x201c;IML&#x201d;) event, the LUN initialization algorithm initializes each of the identified data storage devices. However, if the supervisor algorithm was invoked during a warmstart procedure, the LUN initialization algorithm first checks to make sure the LUNCB was not mistakenly written too. If not, the LUN initialization algorithm terminates without initializing the associated data storage device. Otherwise, the associated data storage device is initialized and the LUN initialization algorithm terminates.

Priority initialization system

Provided is a method, system and program for synchronizing sequential subtasks of a task, so that the subtasks can be dispatched to generate operations in a particular sequence. In one embodiment, a subtask which has been prepared for dispatching is queued in a queue until the queued subtask is the next subtask in sequence for dispatching. In one embodiment, the subtasks may be sorted in the queue by task and by subtask sequence.

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Nicholas D Fifer