International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Robert Bruce Nicholson

Dinesh C Verma

Dakshi Agrawal

Vasileios Pappas

William James Scales

Franck Vinh Le

Barry Douglas Whyte

Ian David Judd

Bongjun Ko

Carlos Francisco Fuente

Paul Nicholas Cashman

Bruce Oliver Anthony, Jr

Robert Frank Maddock

Reginald Beer

Paul Hooton

Victor S Moore

Ronald Leroy Billau

Canio Cillis

Kenneth Fairclough Day, Iii

Henry Esmond Butterworth

Stephen Peter Legg

Neil Morris

Colin James Thorne

Kenneth Wayne Boyd

Shachar Fienblit

Michael John Jones

David John Carr

Gregory E McBride

Gail Andrea Spear

Lee Jason Sanders

Robert Francis Bartfai

James Chien-Chiung Chen

Robert William Phippen

Paul Jonathan Quelch

Andrew Key

Oliver M Deakin

David W Messina

Mandy A Stevens

Erik John Burckart

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Erich Miles Nahum

Bong Jun Ko

Malolan Chetlur

Chatschik Bisdikian

Paul Andrew Ashmore

Thai Franck Le

Kenneth F Day, Iii

John Hosie

Umamaheswari C Devi

Simon Walsh

Alastair Cooper

Peter Andrew Broadhurst

Colin R Jewell

Paul S M Thorpe

Duke C Chang

Arthur J Barr

Ramana V Polavarapu

Stuart J Hayton

David Mark Lee

Michael Huw Francis

Douglas John Turner

Steven John Hyatt

Geoff Lane

Barry Douglas White

Stephen Arthur Randle

Gregory Dalton

Aviad Zlotnick

Mudhakar Srivatsa

Michael Edward Factor

Martin Andrew Ross

Kang-Won Lee

Ramya Raghavendra

Orit Nissan-Messing

Thomas Charles Jarvis

Matthew John Fairhurst

Olympia Gluck

Christopher B Beeken

Maroun Touma

Jianjun Zhang

Bharat Veer Bedi

John Earle Lindley

Nicholas Michael O'Rourke

Alwyn R Lobo

Stephanie Machleidt

Dale Burr

Huw Francis

David Richard Jones

Matthew J Kempa

Syed Akhass Adnan Wasti

Hisham Jafar Ali

Michael Alan Veal

Barry John Wood

Brian Michael Petrini

Kim Julian Clark

Paul Jonathan Ouelch

Paul Schmitt

Kiran Raghu Ganti

Thai V (Franck) Le

Graeme P Vetterlein

Aaquib Naved

Candidate duplicate events are identified as they are executed via data replication within a distributed system. A periodicity of the identified candidate duplicate events is identified. In response to identifying the periodicity, a delay is introduced into execution of a first event related to the candidate duplicate event. A feedback loop of the distributed system is identified based on an observed delay in the timing of another event of the candidate duplicate events.

Feedback loops in data replication

A computer obtains an integration document comprising integration instructions that, when executed, causes two or more software applications to interact to perform an integration task. The computer determines, from the integration instructions of the integration document, task information representative of at least the integration task. The computer generates, based on the task information, a conversation databank entry for a natural language interface, wherein the conversation databank entry is usable by the natural language interface to determine whether a user desires the integration task to be performed, by processing the conversation databank entry and a natural language input provided by the user to the natural language interface.

Interface for initiating an integration task

Method and system are provided for generating a chatbot interface for an application programming interface (API) that interacts with networked applications. The method may include: receiving as an input a definition document for an API that interacts with networked applications and parsing the definition document to identify intents and entities and obtain examples of the identified intents and entities. The method may convert the definition document to a chatbot data structure including: extracting the intents and entities and their relationship to objects and fields in the API from the definition document; and training the chatbot data structure with the example intents and entities to generate a conversation specification in the chatbot data structure. The method may then generate a chatbot interface for the API.

Generation of a chatbot interface for an application programming interface

An apparatus for controlling a storage system having a data replication function, comprises: a storage array component being operable to send notification to a replication engine that a write of data to a primary storage location by a host is subject to data replication; the replication engine being operable to receive the notification and in response to instruct the storage array to copy the data to a secondary storage location; wherein the data is copied to the secondary storage location unmediated by the replication engine.

Apparatus and method for managing storage copy services systems

Various embodiments detecting wireless communication device mobility in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, one or more Internet Protocol (IP) data packets associated with a wireless communication device are analyzed. The wireless communication device is coupled with the edge entity. A determination is made, based on the analyzing, that the wireless communication device is a newly coupled device at the edge entity. A central entity disposed within the wireless communication network is notified that the wireless communication device is currently coupled to the edge entity.

Mobility detection for edge applications in wireless communication networks

A facility for processing an event of a distributed processing environment is provided. The facility includes separating a plurality of processing flows into a plurality of flow groups, each flow group having a respective identifier. The identifier of each flow group is then associated with a respective topic. Based on the occurrence of an event, a message having a topic based on the event is published along with the identifier of the flow group associated with the topic. A processing flow of the flow group having the identifier of the message may then be used to process the event.

Event processing

A method and associated system. For each message of a message batch, the message is assigned by a consumer to a partition of a log. Each partition of the log is associated with a respective processing engine. The message batch includes messages that includes the message. The consumer stores an offset value for each partition. Responsive to completion, by a distributor, of sending a last message in the message batch to the consumer, the distributor ascertains a target offset value for each partition based on a current offset value. In response to a processing engine completing processing of a message assigned to the partition associated with the processing engine, the consumer updates the stored offset value associated with the partition. The distributor determines when all messages of the batch have been processed based on the target offset values and the stored offset values.

Batch processing of messages

Various embodiments provide byte caching in wireless communication networks. In one embodiment, a plurality of data packets are received through an internet protocol (IP) data flow established between a wireless communication device and at least one server. Each of the plurality of data packets are combined into a packet bundle. A determination is made as to whether a second byte caching system is available. The packet bundle is transformed using one or more byte caching operations based on a second byte caching system being available. The transformed packet bundle is sent to the second byte caching system using an IP communication mechanism.

Byte caching in wireless communication networks

Managing time-dependent electronic files. A set of time-dependent files is identified. A time period for processing for each file resulting in a set of time periods is identified. A minimum set of time instances that gives one time instance in each time period in the set of time periods is calculated. Batching for each time instance of the minimum set of time instances, a sub-set of files to be processed at the time instance.

Managing time-dependent electronic files

Method and system are provided for object caching with mobility management for mobile data communication. The method may include: intercepting and snooping data communications at a base station between a user equipment and a content server without terminating communications; implementing object caching at the base station using snooped data communications; implementing object caching at an object cache server in the network, wherein the object cache server proxies communications to the content server from the user equipment; and maintaining synchrony between an object cache at the base station and an object cache at the object cache server.

Object caching for mobile data communication with mobility management

According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for time-shifted uploading of a data file through a backhaul network to a backend provider is provided. The method may include intercepting an upload request from an originating user located at a network edge. The method may include caching the data file associated with the upload request upstream of the backhaul network. This method may include uploading a placeholder file to the backend provider. The method may include receiving a file ID from the backend provider. The method may include mapping the received file ID to the cached data file. The method may include intercepting a request to access the data file by a requesting user. The method may include sending the requesting user the cached data file. The method may include uploading a copy of the data file to the backend provider based on a backhaul utilization policy.

Local content sharing through edge caching and time-shifted uploads

The present disclosure relates generally to the field of identifying network flows (e.g., IP flows) under network address translation. In various examples, identifying network flows (e.g., IP flows) under network address translation may be implemented in the form of methods and/or algorithms.

Identifying network flows under network address translation

Managing a geofence of a mobile device in a network is provided, which includes: identifying, by a first application operable with the mobile device, the geofence associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device; based on identifying the geofence, registering the identified geofence with a network component; identifying, to a first granularity, a first location for the identified geofence; monitoring, to a second granularity, a location of the mobile device, where the first granularity is more coarse-grained than the second granularity; and based on the mobile device triggering the geofence, pushing a notification to the application; and based on receiving the notification, performing an operation associated with the geofence.

Mobile network based geofencing

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Robert Bruce Nicholson