International Business Machines Corporation

Richard Jacks

Caroline Jane Thomas

James Hewitt

Thomas James Waterton

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system is provided for establishing connectivity between user devices. The computer-implemented method includes: broadcasting a message to running processes on an operating system of the first user device to indicate that a requesting application is looking for a live connection channel to attempt discovery with a second user device to ascertain virtual proximity of the first user device with the second user device. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving a response from a live connection channel and attempting to verify pairing via the live connection channel to confirm a virtual proximity of the second user device with the first user device. The pairing provides information for establishing a subsequent connection between the first and second user devices via the requesting application.

Establishing connectivity between user devices

An add-on for, or additional functionality integrated in, a web browser of the kind that logs visited web pages in history with their URL, HTML page title and a date/time stamp is provided. The history may additionally logs category tags and their confidence scores. The category tags may originate at least in part by extracting them from visited page content and may also propagate through from previously visited pages, for example when a page is opened by hyperlink from another page, the latter's category tags propagate through to the new page. The page-specific confidence scores may be determined by applying a scoring formula that mimics a user's mental association between a category tag and a web page. The category tags and their confidence scores may be then stored in the history log entry and the category tags may then be used to search the history.

Web browser with enhanced history classification

A method for provisioning resources to a user during a meeting with another user, each user having an associated computing device is provided. The method may include detecting a meeting of a first user with a second user, each of the first and second users having an associated computing device. The method may further include obtaining historical data relating to previous activity of at least one of the first and second users during one or more earlier meetings between the first and second users. The method may further include provisioning one or more resources to at least one of the first and second users based on the obtained historical data associated with the one or more earlier meetings.

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Fareham, United Kingdom

Richard Jacks