International Business Machines Corporation

Paul Richard Chmielewski

Brian John Cragun

Christopher Thomas Gloe

Michael John Fork

Mark Linus Bauman

Jay Robert Weeks

Dawn Marie May

Thomas Edwin Murphy, Jr

Jeffrey Scott Stevens

Paul Francis Rieth

Andrew Ronald Freed

William Craig Rapp

David Glenn Carlson

Elizabeth T Dettman

Jeremy John Salsman

Troy Biesterfeld

Improved data ingestion techniques are provided. A data set comprising records is received, where each record contains one or more fields. A group of fields is identified, where each of the fields has a common metadata attribute. Metrics are determined for the group based on metadata associated with each field, and weight values are assigned to each of the metrics. A natural language processing (NLP) measure and a discreteness measure are generated for the group of fields based on the metrics and the weight values. A processing workflow is selected to use when ingesting data from the group of fields into a corpus, based on comparing the NLP measure and the discreteness measure to one or more predefined thresholds, and each of the fields in the group of fields are processed using the processing workflow.

Inferring confidence and need for natural language processing of input data

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for placing menu items in a radial menu. A radial menu may be displayed in response to receiving a predefined gesture made with a screen pointer. A plurality of global menu items may be placed at predefined locations in the radial menu. A set of local menu items that are to be displayed in the radial menu be determined and displayed in the radial menu based on one or more predefined relationships between the local or global radial menu items.

Placement of items in radial menus

A method and apparatus for facilitating selection of items from a radial menu. Radial menu items may be differentiated from one another based on a desired difficulty of selection from the radial menu. Where it is desirable to make a radial menu item easy to select, the radial menu item may be placed in a relatively larger pie slice of the radial menu. Conversely, where it is desirable to make a radial menu item difficult to select, the radial menu item may be placed in a relatively smaller pie slice of the radial menu.

Radial menus with variable selectable item areas

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for placing menu items in a cascading radial menu. A cascading radial menu may be displayed upon receiving a gesture that causes a screen pointer to select a radial menu item in a first radial menu. The first radial menu item may be associated with a second radial menu. One or more second radial menu items may be placed in the second radial menu based on a direction of movement of the screen pointer in the gesture to select the radial menu item in the first radial menu.

Placement of items in cascading radial menus

A method, apparatus and computer readable medium is provided for tracking processes using a socket object. The processes are utilized to execute an application program. Initially, a process list for the socket object is created, such that the process list contains a process identifier for a first process using the socket object. If a second process is using the socket object, the process list is updated to include the process identifier for the second process.

Tracking network socket usage in a data communication network

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for tracking network socket usage in a data communication network

This invention relates to reception and transmission of data over a network. More specifically, this invention relates to Transmission Control Protocol's delayed acknowledgment and improving transmission throughput by adaptively adjusting the use of delayed acknowledgment.

Adaptive TCP delayed acknowledgment

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for tracking processes

A computer executing a Telnet application manages usage of a system resource by issuing through a transport layer directed to a specific client a DO TIMING MARK command. Responsive to receiving a WILL TIMING MARK or WONT TIMING MARK response from the specific client, the Telnet application calculates a WAIT time; and responsive to receiving no WILL TIMING MARK or WONT TIMING MARK response from the specific client within said WAIT time, the Telnet application causes release of system resource used by the client.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Paul Richard Chmielewski