International Business Machines Corporation

Paolo Salerno

Giuseppe Longobardi

Luigi Presti

Claudio Falcone

Simone Bonazzoli

Silvano Lutri

Francesca Ziantoni

Marco Borgianni

Alessio Fioravanti

Alessandro Tomasi

Ilaria Gorga

Antonio Perrone

Leonardo Rosati

Luigi Pichetti

Giuseppe Ciano

Bernardo Pastorelli

Alice Guidotti

Tomasz Andrzej Stopa

Rossella De Gaetano

Francesco Lecciso

Domenico D'Alterio

Brian Joseph Schlosser

Marco Mechelli

A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes identifying, by a processor, atomic operations within a sequence of data elements and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The sequence of data elements is related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.

Supporting repetitive operations within an operating system

Provided is a method for managing a mobile computing device in an emergency condition that includes receiving an emergency message indicative of the emergency condition being distributed from a management computing system to any mobile computing devices in an emergency area corresponding to the emergency condition. The method includes collecting one or more involvement parameters depending on an involvement of a person associated with the mobile computing device in the emergency condition. The method includes determining an involvement indicator representative of the involvement of the person according to the involvement parameters. The method includes sending the involvement indicator to the management computing system. The method includes controlling one or more resources thereof according to the involvement indicator.

Management of mobile computing devices in emergency conditions

A method is provided for deleting a content element of a chat history lacking long-term relevance. The method includes receiving a content element, assigning the content element to a topic, determining a relationship index value for the content element to the topic using a validity value, which is a function of an access rate and a credibility index value. The method also includes comparing the relationship index threshold value for the topic of a first chat user, where the content element has been generated by a second chat user, and linking the content element of the second chat user to the topic in the chat history of the first user. The content element is deleted if it is not linked to any other chat history of another chat user of the plurality of chat users, thereby saving long-term chat storage space.

Cleaning chat history based on relevancy

A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.

A method is provided for deleting a content element of a chat history lacking long-term relevance. The method includes receiving a content element, conditionally assigning the content element to the topic, determining a relationship index value for the content element to the topic using a validity value, which is a function of an access rate and a credibility index value. The method may also include comparing the relationship index threshold value for the topic of a first chat user, where the content element has been generated by a second chat user. The method also includes linking the content element of the second chat user to the topic in the chat history of the first user, and deleting the content element if it is not linked to any other chat history of another chat user of the plurality of chat users.

A method for automatically delivering a physical mail includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial vehicle from an unmanned aerial vehicle management system, a delivery information, the delivery information includes information about a first secure mailbox and information about a second secure mailbox, the first secure mailbox being related to a first target user, delivering the physical mail to the first secure mailbox, and rerouting the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the physical mail from the first secure mailbox to the second secure mailbox in response to the physical mail being delivered to the first secure mailbox.

Package delivery and reception with drones

A computer program product for automatically delivering a physical mail includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial vehicle from an unmanned aerial vehicle management system, a delivery information, the delivery information includes information about a first secure mailbox and information about a second secure mailbox, the first secure mailbox being related to a first target user, delivering the physical mail to the first secure mailbox, and rerouting the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the physical mail from the first secure mailbox to the second secure mailbox in response to the physical mail being delivered to the first secure mailbox.

A messaging system creates a content index for messages for user selection of all of part of a message. By selecting only an indexed portion of the message, the user avoids downloading unneeded portions of the message. The content index is created according to pre-defined user criteria and semantic analysis of the contents of the message.

Electronic message content download management

Method and apparatus for rating applications. Execution of an application on a computing device is monitored to determine usage information for a user. Embodiments capture a plurality of images and for each of the plurality of images, extract, from the respective image, a set of user facial features and determine an user emotional state corresponding to the respective set of user facial features by applying a model correlating a set of predefined emotional states with corresponding predefined facial features. A trend of user emotional states across a plurality of executions of the application on the computing device is determined. Embodiments calculate a rating for the application based on the usage information, the user emotional states, and the trend of the user emotional states. The rating is sent to a server over a network connection for use in an aggregate rating of the application.

Rating applications based on emotional states

A mechanism is provided to detect that a dynamic migration of a virtual environment is in progress or has been executed during a hardware or software scan without requiring instrumentation of applications running within the virtual machine. The mechanism relies on a particular sequencing and usage of application programming interfaces and commands that scanning technology provides, associated with the modularity of the scans and on the external virtual machine enabler component running on the host. The mechanism may detect a dynamic migration and take proper actions based on the system configuration. The actions may include discarding the output of the scan executed across a dynamic migration and repeat the scan. The actions may also include notifying the initialization subsystem of the non-migration-safe application to execute a script or program to address migration safety issues. One particular program or script may be an agent ID regeneration program or script.

Detection and management of dynamic migration of virtual environments

An embodiment directed to a method for providing a specified state at a premises to which a user travels. Comprises determining a time of operation needed by a device located at the premises to provide the specified state, after device activation. One or more positions of the user are detected when the user is within a boundary, the boundary being determined in part by the time of operation. Detected user positions are used to determine a time of arrival of the user at the premises. A time to activate the device is computed from the arrival time and time of operation, collectively, wherein activating the device at the computed time causes the specified state to be provided at a time that coincides with arrival of the user at the premises.

Monitoring user position to determine a time for providing a specified state at a user premises

A method, data processing system, and computer program product for applying a setting. A request for a set of resources is received. The request is to use the set of resources over a network connection. An address associated with a device from the request is identified. A geographic location of the device is identified based on the address. A set of settings for the set of resources is identified based on the geographic location of the device. The set of settings is applied to the set of resources.

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Paolo Salerno