International Business Machines Corporation

Paolo Ottaviano

Antonio Di Cocco

Maximiliano Cammisa

Antonio Bagarolo

Andrea Tortosa

Marco Imperia

Gianluca Perreca

Pasquale Maria Mascolo Montenero

Roberto Ragusa

Sandro Piccinini

Gianluca Gargaro

Matteo Rogante

Damiano Bassani

Ugo Madama

Alberto L Galvani

Marco Mulas

Luigi Pichetti

Gianluca Bernardini

Rossella De Gaetano

Andrea Di Palma

Alessandro Luigi Chiantera

Elisabetta Rinaldi

Caterina Perri

Elisabetta Quaranta

A method for associating an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device with a wireless network, a method for discovering and logically grouping smart light bulbs, and a smart light bulb. One embodiment may comprise automatically starting a counter on an IoT device in response to initially receiving power from a power supply loop to which the IoT device is connected, and by the IoT device, determining whether to perform a pairing operation for associating the IoT device with a wireless network based at least in part on a state of the counter in the IoT device.

Discovery and configuration of IoT devices

A method includes controlling a shared location. Item identifiers are read from a set of items (pertaining to one or more operators sharing the shared location) reaching a gate of the shared location. A verification request message for the item identifiers is broadcast for receiving corresponding verification response messages from central computing systems of the operators. A passage of the items through the gate is controlled according to the verification response messages. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a system for implementing the method is proposed.

Controlling locations shared among multiple operators

Mechanisms are provided to implement a smart device screen management mechanism for facilitating single-hand wide-screen management of the smart device. The mechanism identifies a movement indicated by a user in proximity of a screen of the smart device and determines whether the movement indicates a selection of an action item outside a maximum reach of the user when the user is operating the smart device with a single hand. Responsive to the movement indicating a selection of an action item outside the maximum reach of the user, the mechanism identifies a direction of the movement indicated by the user in proximity of the screen of the smart device and identifies a subset action items that are in the direction of the movement and outside the maximum reach. The mechanism then presents the subset of action items in a redrawn user interface within the maximum reach of the user.

Single-hand wide-screen smart device management

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for encoding and transmitting access codes of a network to a computing device that is attempting to access the network. The method includes one or more processors identifying an audio command received by a first computing device. The method further includes generating a sound waveform that includes an access code of an access point, by encoding the access code into the sound waveform. The method further includes defining a sound power level of the sound waveform. The method further includes transmitting the sound waveform. The method further includes determining whether a second computing device receives the access code that is encoded in the sound waveform.

Secure transmittal of wireless local area network access codes

A solution is proposed for sharing secret information for accessing a wireless computing network. A corresponding method for distributing the secret information by a source (computing) device comprises receiving a public key of the a target (computing) device, transmitting a verification token to the target device, receiving an utterance of the verification token and transmitting the secret information encrypted with the public key in response to the utterance of the verification token. A corresponding method for obtaining the secret information by a target (computing) device comprises transmitting a public key of the target device, receiving a verification token, outputting the verification token and receiving the secret information encrypted with the public key in response to an utterance of the verification token. Corresponding computer programs and computer program products are also proposed. Moreover, a source computing device and a target computing device for implementing the methods are proposed.

Sharing of secret information for accessing a wireless computing network

A method and system for controlling distribution of information items of a subject is proposed. The method and system comprises verifying compliance of a combination of new information items (to be received by a target computing system) and available information items (already available to the target computing system) with one or more sharing rules; a receipt of the new information items by the target computing system is controlled according to a result of this verification.

Controlling combination of information submitted to computing systems

Systems and methods are provided for securing data using a mobile device. The method may include determining securing global positioning data values of the mobile device; measuring a securing direction of the mobile device relative to a magnetic north direction; capturing a securing password by the mobile device; and securing the data against unauthorized access using the determined global positioning data values, the securing password, and the securing direction as a combined password.

Enforce data security based on a mobile device, positioning, augmented reality

A method is proposed for operating a mobile computing device. A potentially dangerous condition for a user of the mobile computing device is detected according to its position. A responsiveness level of the user (to recognize the potentially dangerous condition) is determined according to one or more operative parameters of the mobile computing device. One or more interactive functionalities of the mobile computing device are controlled in response to the potentially dangerous condition according to the responsiveness level. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a mobile computing device for implementing the method is proposed.

Controlling mobile computing device according to user's responsiveness

Methods and systems for preventing phishing attacks using the domain name system are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a domain name system (DNS) request comprising a domain name; determining, by the computing device, at least one domain name that is similar to the domain name; and sending, by the computing device, the at least one domain name that is similar to the domain name as a response to the DNS request.

Preventing phishing using DNS

A method for connecting a computing device to a computing arrangement. A proxy system determines, based on an address in a message specifying the computing arrangement, that a secure connection between the proxy system and the computing arrangement does not exist. The secure connection is dedicated for secure communication between the computing device and the computing arrangement. In response to determining that the secure connection does not exist, a new secure connection is established between the proxy system and the computing arrangement. Establishing the new secure connection includes instantiating a container and initiating an establishment of the secure connection by a protocol entity deployed within the container. The container is a virtual software object that encompasses all of the elements that are needed for an application to run within an operating system, which enables isolation of the container from one or more additional containers running within an operating system.

Secure network connections

An access control method for controlling access to data requested from an electronic information system. The method comprises receiving a request for the data, determining a user identity associated with the request; gathering the requested data from one or more data sources by an orchestrator for input to a cognitive engine; analyzing the requested data; based on results of analyzing the requested data, deciding on whether the user identity can be allowed to access the requested data; providing feedback by the user identity; and updating a learning module based on the feedback.

Controlling access to data requested from an electronic information system

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: building a change management meta model on relationships between change request tasks of a change request and logical components of a computing environment via deployment processes that realizes respective change request tasks onto the logical components. A change request fulfillment plan that minimizes a maintenance window for deploying the change request tasks to the logical components is produced. After deployment, performance metrics of the logical components updates change request constraints.

Change management optimization in cloud environment

A method, computer program product, and a computer system for mitigating a fault in an information service comprised of multiple microservices includes a processor(s) obtaining a notification of a fault in the information service which includes logs tracking execution of the information service in a shared computing environment. The processor(s) generates a dependency data structure describing interdependencies between individual microservices with respect to each other. The processor(s) mitigates the fault by replacing a faulty microservice in the microservices represented in the dependency data structure; the faulty microservice includes program code with an issue resulting in the fault. To replace the faulty microservice, the processor(s) continuously monitors the information service and progressively replaces, in accordance with the interdependencies, each microservice represented in the dependency data structure with an earlier version of the microservice, halting replacements when no notification for the fault is obtained subsequent to a replacement of a given microservice.

Isolating service issues in a microservice architecture

A method for maintaining a computing system comprising a plurality of computing nodes is disclosed. The method comprises causing an application of a maintenance activity concurrently on a maintenance subset of the computing nodes not exceeding a limit number, monitoring one or more status indicators of the computing system during the application of the maintenance activity and updating the limit number according to the status indicators. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also disclosed. Moreover, a corresponding control computing machine is disclosed.

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