International Business Machines Corporation

Edison Vault, LLC

Sachin Maneshwar Nayak

Badekila Ganesh Prashanth Bhat

Mohan Pattadai

Cary Lee Bates

Krishna C Kumar

Francis Sujai Arokiaraj

Sreenivasulu Valmeti

Premananda Mohapatra

Shinoj Zacharias

John Kurian

Manjunath Veerabhadraiah

A computer-implemented method for facilitating offline transactions includes: receiving, by a first user device, an offline payment request from a merchant payment system via a first local communications connection; providing, by the first user device, a payment approval message to the merchant payment system via the first local communications connection; providing, by the first user device, the offline transaction information to the payment server corresponding to the payment approval message to the payment server when the first user device and the payment server are connected via a network; determining, by the first user device, that an instruction to transfer the offline mode of the first user device to a second user device has been received; and disabling, by the first user device, the offline mode of the first user device.

Processing mobile payments when disconnected from payment servers

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for locating an unknown location by searching known geographical indicators. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive a search query for an unknown location. The search query can comprise one or more symbols denoting geographical indicators representative of the unknown location. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to locate unknown locations by searching for a location that matches the one or more symbols representative of the unknown location and returning results that match the received search query.

Positional route guidance

A computer-implemented method for dynamically controlling push notifications post-delivery is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a server computer, a push notification and rules associated with the push notification. The rules specify a notification strategy to be implemented by a client device in presenting the push notification. The method also includes encoding, by the server computer, the rules in metadata. The method also includes transmitting, by the server computer, the push notification and the metadata to the client device, wherein the client device is configured to present the push notification according to the rules encoded in the metadata.

Post-delivery dynamic control of notifications in a push notification life-cycle

A method, system, and program product for implementing a remote resource capacity and utilization optimization is provided. The method includes determining associations with a specified geographical region and an associated topic of interest with respect to social media Website traffic and trends associated with utilization of remote hardware and software resources. Current and historical software application downloads are tracked with respect to the social media Website traffic and trends and a currently consumed capacity of the remote hardware and software resources are detected with respect to the specified geographical region. Future resource requirements associated with the currently consumed capacity are determined and data representing the current and historical software application downloads is stored. An overall system capacity for enabling regionally specific demand surges associated with regional Web traffic is determined and a specified group of hardware and software resources for increasing the overall system capacity is enabled.

Remote resource capacity and utilization management

A computer program product for facilitating offline transactions includes: a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a user device to cause the user device to: receive an offline payment request from a merchant payment system via local communications; provide a payment approval message to the merchant payment system via the local communications to cause the merchant payment system to store the payment approval message; and provide offline transaction information to the payment server corresponding to the payment approval message; and provide the offline transaction information to the payment server corresponding to the payment approval message to the payment server when the user device and the payment server are connected via a network.

A computer-implemented method includes: providing, by a merchant computing device, an offline payment request to a user device when the merchant computing device is disconnected from a payment server, wherein the offline payment request is provided via local communications between the user device and the merchant computing device; receiving, by the merchant computing device, a payment approval message associated with the offline payment request based on providing the offline payment request, wherein the payment approval message is received via the local communications between the user device and the merchant computing device; storing, by the merchant computing device, the payment approval message; and providing, by the merchant computing device, offline transaction information corresponding to the payment approval message to the payment server when connectivity to the payment server has been restored.

A cloud-management system intercepts API calls from a client application. Based on the expected amount of cloud resources required to service the API call, and given the terms of the client's billing plan, the system estimates the cost to service the call. The system embeds this cost into its response to the API call and the client application, or an IDE hosting the application, keeps a running total of API-related costs incurred by the application. The system can also run in an emulation mode, estimating the application's API resource-consumption costs without actually consuming cloud resources. In this mode, the system replaces each GET and PUT call in the intercepted API call with an equivalent HEAD call that does not consume resources. The system still, however, predicts the actual cost of the original API call by returning the cost of each original GET and PUT.

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