International Business Machines Corporation

Robert Thomas Uthe

Paul Franklin McMahan

Kenneth James Parzygnat

Robert Charles Leah

Richard Adam King

Kathryn Heninger Britton

Samar Choudhary

Vijay Pandiarajan

Joseph A Bohn

Douglas Robert Petty

Denise Bell

James Corvin Fletcher

Jason Robert McGee

Christopher Creighton Mitchell

Fonda J Daniels

John William Sweitzer

Shikha Srivastava

Carol Ann Jones

Elizabeth A Schreiber

Donald Francis Ferguson

Steven Paul Kim

Bradford Austin Fisher

Kent Fillmore Hayes, Jr

Roderick Clint Bowser

Timothy G Shortley

Shrenik S Shah

William T Cheng

Pooja Kohli

Ruthie D Lyle

Randy Allan Rendahl

David Bruce Lindquist

John Michael Lake

Angela Richards Jones

Stefan Koch

Chakkalamattam Jos Paul

Sarah D Redpath

Velda Bartek

Christopher Johan Schaubach

Joseph Laurence Saunders

Rosalind Radcliffe

Mustansir Ali

Sudhakar V Chellam

Anne Frances Ross

Wing Hon Lee

James L Ashton

Carl Steven Swanson

Karl David McCormick, Ii

Tuan Dang

Oludare Adebankole Kumolu-Johnson

Gary Thomas Barta

Brock K Brogan

David A Budreau

Ian D Chan

Osama S Hashimi

Divakara K R Udupa

Fonda J Daniels-Farrar

Robert Davis Porter

Kalena Charisee Kelly

William Notley Maddox

Kent Hayes

Kent Filmore Hayes, Jr

Methods to provide, by a processor, a user interface allowing a first user access to a collaborative effort system. Responsive to the first user utilizing the user interface, the methods, systems, and computer program products generate a plurality of threads within the collaborative effort system for a single discussion group of the collaborative effort system; authorize a second user access to at least a first thread of the plurality of threads after the generation of the plurality of threads; associate the second user with a user group after the generation of the plurality of threads; and authorize the user group access to at least a second thread of the plurality of threads. The methods generate a plurality of icons displayed in the user interface for the plurality of threads. The methods also displays in the user interface a priority of a problem to be solved through the collaborative effort system.

Enabling a multi-dimensional collaborative effort system

Aspects include methods, systems, and computer programs to tag collaborative content to facilitate mining key content as a runbook. The method includes providing a user interface allowing a user to annotate portions of content in a collaborative effort system, the content comprising one or more log elements and responsive to a user utilizing the user interface and selecting a log element in the content, tagging the selected log element with an annotation. The tagged log elements may be used to generate a runbook.

Annotating collaborative content to facilitate mining key content as a runbook

Aspects include methods, systems, and computer programs to identify changes in a plurality of resources in a collaborative effort system, comprising receiving, by the collaborative effort system, an input of a suspect resource, generating, by a processor, a list of identified resources based on the suspect resource, generating a list of changes of the identified resources, and displaying, by a user interface of the collaborative effort system, the list of the changes of the identified resources.

Identifying changes in multiple resources related to a problem

Aspects include methods, systems, and computer programs to manage user access to a collaborative effort system. The method includes providing, by a processor, a user interface allowing a first user access to the collaborative effort system, responsive to the first user utilizing the user interface, generating a plurality of threads within the collaborative effort system, responsive to the first user utilizing the user interface, authorizing a second user access to at least one thread of the plurality of threads, and generating an icon displayed in the user interface to indicate that the second user is authorized to access the at least one thread. Authorization to a thread comprises an ability to view and participate in the thread.

A method is provided in association with a managed system having a substantial number of resources. The method includes the step of selecting an attribute that is common to all of the resources, wherein each resource has a status in regard to the selected attribute that is one of a plurality of prespecified statuses that are available for the attribute. The method further includes compressing the group of resources into a set of subgroups, wherein each subgroup corresponds to a different prespecified status of the plurality, and each resource having a given status is placed into the subgroup that corresponds to the given status. Each of the subgroups is represented by a display element on a single computer display screen, and specified information is displayed with each display element, wherein the specified information for a display element pertains to all of the resources placed into the subgroup that are represented by the display element.

Compressing topological information pertaining to managed resources to enhance visualization

A method of automatically and intelligently maintaining business systems, including information technology assets. A management system automatically maintains a business system based on relationships among resources within the business system and/or on a priority rank that establishes the value or importance of a particular resource. The management system, and optionally the user, can also create rules for maintaining relationships among resources and for maintaining relationships among different business systems. The management system automatically adapts to a change in rules by maintaining relationships among resources and business systems based on a change in the rules.

Managing networked resources

Aspects include methods, systems, and computer programs to tag collaborative content to facilitate mining key content as a run book. The method includes providing a user interface allowing a user to annotate portions of content in a collaborative effort system, the content comprising one or more log elements and responsive to a user utilizing the user interface and selecting a log element in the content, tagging the selected log element with an annotation. The tagged log elements may be used to generate a runbook.

Embodiments of the invention provide a fraud prevention method for a pay-per-click data processing system. The method can include receiving a click through for a link in a host site which references a marketed site. The method also can include identifying a link address for the link in the click through. The method yet further can include comparing the identified link address to a modified link address recorded for an actual link address for the marketed site. Finally, the method can include quashing the click through if the identified link address is not the modified link address. Conversely, the method can include redirecting the click through to the marketed site if the identified link address is the modified link address.

Pay-per-click fraud protection

According to embodiments of the present invention, methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for flagging, tracking, and managing collaborative content to facilitate addressing flagged items, including providing a user interface configured to receive a flag from a user for portions of content in a collaborative effort system, the content comprising one or more log elements and the flag indicating a flagged user, applying the flag to an indicated content to form a flagged content responsive to an input by the user, displaying the flagged content such that the flagged content is visible to the flagged user, receiving an entry by the flagged user indicating the flagged content, and removing the flag from the indicated content.

Tracking and managing items in a collaborative exchange

A method, system and apparatus for the prioritized distribution of application components based upon computing process impact. An application component distribution system which has been configured in accordance with the present invention can include a resource management system configured to manage communicatively coupled client computing devices over a computer communications network. A data store can be arranged to store prioritization data specifying which of the client computing devices are to first receive distributions of specified application components. Finally, a selective deployment processor can be programmed to selectively deploy application components to the client computing devices based upon the prioritization data.

Prioritization of application component distribution

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to form value processing and provide a method, system and computer program product for smart completion of form values in a form. In a first embodiment of the invention, a data processing system for completing form data can include smart complete logic configured for coupling to a content server in a content distribution platform. The smart complete logic can include program code enabled to dispose a smart complete control element and a save control element in a form where the smart complete control element can include one or more selectable form value sets.

Smart form completion of form values

An approach is provided to apply a virtual machine (VM) image to a computer system. In the approach, implemented by an information handling system, a detection is made that a current VM image executing on the computer system is experiencing a problem. In response, prior VM images are analyzed, with each of the prior VM images being an image that was previously executed on the computer system. Based on the analysis, one of the prior VM images is selected and the selected image is used to replace the current VM image on the computer system.

Restoring a previous version of a virtual machine image

A method to manage inputs from multiple portlets of a portal page may include gathering any inputs from forms associated with portlets other than a form associated with a portlet that is being submitted. The method may also include appending each gathered input to the form being submitted with an identifier of the form to which the gathered input belongs.

Form multiplexer for a portal environment

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