International Business Machines Corporation

Randy E Oyarzabal

Brian Richard Lepel

Nathan Gary Steffenhagen

Crystal Faye Springer

Jeffrey Michael Davis

Jeffery A Turner

Susan Eileen Skrabanek

Robert A Hoth

Ronal Richard French

Shashidhar Kannoori

James Allen Walters

Dennis Robert Hahn

Aneth Leonor Frye

Methods, systems and program products for generating content from a user-created template. Embodiments of the invention may provide an interface configured to allow users to create templates, where the templates further include a user-specified formatting. Embodiments may receive a template created by a user using the provided interface, and responsive to receiving the template, may retrieve data associated with the variable fields in the received template. Embodiments may generate new content based on the received template and the retrieved data, where the generated new content is formatted according to the user-specified formatting in the received template.

Template-based content creation

Methods, systems and program products for renewing documents relating to an agreement between two entities. Content from an existing document is extracted, the existing document having been created from component documents. A selection of one or more updated component documents is received. An updated document is then generated based on the extracted content from the received document and the received selection of one or more updated component documents, wherein the updated document defines a revised agreement between the two entities.

Document renewal and translation

Techniques for making internal data from a source application available through an application programming interface ('API'). Embodiments may analyze a source application to determine a storage location and a first storage format of internal data, wherein the source application does not provide an API through which the internal data is accessible. Embodiments may then extract the internal data from the storage location, and convert the extracted data from the first storage format to a common storage format. Embodiments may then provide an API to make the converted data available.

Framework for system communication for handling data

Techniques for fulfilling requests and providing results to a requesting entity. Embodiments may poll a flag to determine when a fulfillment request from a requesting entity is pending. Upon detecting the fulfillment request is pending, embodiments may retrieve the request and perform one or more actions associated with the request to produce a fulfillment result. Embodiments may then store the fulfillment result in a storage location and transmit a notification to the requesting entity to indicate the fulfillment request has been fulfilled.

Application task request and fulfillment processing

Optimizing data in a data store. A request including a number of optimization parameters is received, where the optimization parameters specify characteristics of media content to be optimized. Responsive to the request, the media content (e.g., audio content, video content and images) may be encoded to reduce a storage size of the media content. Such a determination may be made based on one or more attributes of the media content, as well as the optimization parameters included in the request.

Multimedia size reduction for database optimization

A method, system and article of manufacture for database management and, more particularly, for managing multiple information management tools in a data processing system. One embodiment provides a method of managing multiple information management tools in a data processing system. The method comprises displaying, on a display device, a user interface of a toolkit configured for managing the multiple information management tools, the user interface comprising a plurality of selectable operations applicable to information management tools, receiving a user selection of an operation of the plurality of selectable operations, and applying the selected operation to at least one of the information management tools.

System and method for database management

In a first aspect, a method is provided for transferring data. The method includes the steps of (1) receiving information about a location and type of a data source and a location and type of a data destination associated with a first data transfer from the data source to the data destination; (2) receiving information relating data in the data source to data in the data destination; (3) creating a data structure that defines a relationship between the data source and the data destination based on the received information; and (4) employing the data structure for the first data transfer. The data structure is adapted to transfer data from a single table in the data source to multiple tables in the data destination and transfer data from multiple tables in the data source to a single table in the data destination. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Methods and apparatus for transferring data

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for organizing, managing and utilizing standard development templates and framework components in an application development environment. Functionality provided by embodiments of the present invention allows developers to develop applications more efficiently and cost effectively.

Standard application development framework

Standard application development template

Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for communicating between a first system and a second system. One embodiment provides a method for communicating between a first system and a second system each having an associated database, in which at least one of the systems is configured to prevent the other of the two systems from directly accessing its respective database. Interfaces are implemented at each of the system, wherein the interfaces extract data from the respective databases of the respective systems as well as from incoming messages from the other system. In one embodiment, the message contains information about a defect found in an application being developed in the second system. Encoding and decoding techniques may be used by the systems to generate and communicate the messages between one another.

Method and apparatus for an interactive interface

Method and apparatus for managing user access to database(s), thereby reducing the time-consuming, repetitive tasks a database administrator must perform to grant user access to one or more databases. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate a database administrator in granting multiple user access of different types to multiple databases. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for tracking grants of user access for multiple databases. One embodiment provides a method for managing user access to one or more databases, comprising: receiving an access request for one or more users requesting access to one or more databases; retrieving server information for the one or more databases; adding the one or more users to a user group for the database; and generating an access document for each user.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Randy E Oyarzabal