International Business Machines Corporation

Ram Krishnamurthy

Paul Brian Moody

John Morgan Lance

Mary Elizabeth Raven

Cynthia L Ice

Francis D Bermingham

Anurag Srivastava

Jodi L Coppinger

Gregory Robert Klouda

Laura Janet Rodriguez

Bruce A Kahn

Douglas Walter Conmy

Douglas M Conmy

Michael Celedonia

Frank A Pavelski

Anders Swenson

Michelle Stoner

Robert Koplowitz

Judi L Coppinger

David B Cohen

Susan K McKinstry

Deborah E Maurer

Disclosed aspects relate to message management utilizing a social networking environment. A message which pertains to an anticipated activity may be detected in the social networking environment. A relevant actionable portion of the message which corresponds with the anticipated activity may be identified by analyzing the message. Using the relevant actionable portion of the message, an activity management operation for utilization to manage the anticipated activity may be determined. The activity management operation may be executed in the social networking environment for utilization to manage the anticipated activity.

Message management in a social networking environment

Arrangements described herein related to performing a dynamic search. A search term can be received and a format of the search term can be identified. Based on the identified format of the search term, a field of a plurality of records can be selected to search, the field having a format matching the identified format of the search term. The field can be searched to identify at least a first of the plurality of records that at least partially matches the search term. At least a portion of at least the first of the plurality of records that at least partially matches the search term can be presented to a user.

Performing a dynamic search of electronically stored records based on a search term format

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for content analysis based automatic selection of user communities or groups of users. The mechanism receives content to be published from a user and performing content analysis on the content to identify a context of the content. The mechanism identifying a social collaboration community based on the user's associations with social collaboration communities, the context of the content, and a community registry of social collaboration communities. The mechanism publishes the content in the identified social collaboration community.

Content analysis based selection of user communities or groups of users

A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be displayed textually to enable user to navigate the menus using a keyboard, a text-to-voice converter, and/or pointers.

Illustrating a menu of insights associated with visualizations

A method, operable on a processing device, for merging calendar entries may include receiving a plurality of calendar entries each associated with entry identification data. The method may also include comparing by the processing device at least a portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the calendar entries. The method may additionally include merging, by the processing device, the calendar entries based at least in part on comparing of at least the portion of the entry identification data associated with each of the at least two calendar entries. The method may further include comparing at least one time attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and comparing at least one textual attribute associated with each of the calendar entries and basing merging the calendar entries additionally on comparing the time attributes and the textual attributes.

Merging calendar entries

System and method for illustrating a menu of insights associated with visualizations

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Westford, MA, United States of America

Ram Krishnamurthy