International Business Machines Corporation

Ronald A Soltis

Jenny S Li

Anita Govindjee

Giridhar E Buddepalli

Narayana Pattipati

Lisa M Salecedo Eichorn

Nina E Wilner

Daniel F D'Elena

Sarka J Martinez

Ronald J Salpietra

Lisa M Salcedo Eichorn

Michael Lucivero

Wade Boaz

Catharina E Wilner

Olga E Savastano

In an approach to enhancing the security features of user interfaces of computing devices, a computing device repeatedly detects environmental cues in its vicinity. The computing device determines the presence of a threat based on matching at least one of the detected environmental cues with one or more stored threat criteria. The computing device determines the presence of one or more sensitive applications on a user interface. Having determined the presence of one or more sensitive applications on the user interface, the computing device hides the one or more sensitive applications.

Dynamic application hiding

A security aware email server and a method of managing incoming email are described. The server includes a memory device configured to store rules, instructions, and user preferences. The processor makes a determination of whether a sender of an incoming email used a secure or unsecure sending network to send the email and determines an action to take with the email based on the determination and the user preferences.

Security aware email server

An Integrated Messaging System which integrates mail from a plurality of mail servers handling messages of different media types such as text, voice, facsimile, video and image. The IMS maintains the in-basket for all mail systems, eliminating the need to collect each type of mail separately. Any terminal interface, telephone or computer workstation can be used to collect, generate and act upon a message of any media type. Further, from the preferred system, the user can request another file server and its associated terminals to perform messaging services. The system includes a variety traditional E-mail and voice mail functions which can be used for any message. The IMS also includes synchronization means which checks to see whether the mail count in each in-basket is the same to guarantee that the same mail items are in each file server in-basket. An integrated messaging protocol is used to pass information between the file servers. It is designed in a generic manner to allow wide variety of foreign message formats at each of the respected media file server. For the majority of transactions, the protocol is independent of message body format, referencing only the message pointer or header.

Method and apparatus for message handling in computer systems

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Ronald A Soltis