International Business Machines Corporation

Shirley S Wang

Si Wei

Thomas S Lee

Mayank Vipin Shah

Donald Edward Benson

Philip Lester Flowers

Chris Myunghoon Lee

Gerald Edward Kozina

Kwai Hing Man

Lynda Arnold Hansen

San-Ju Lin Shi

Jennifer Nichols

A method and associated system for modifying an image on a display screen. A first line and a second line are generated in an original image being displayed on the display screen. The first line and the second line pass through a first point and a second point, respectively, in the original image. The first line and the second line divide the original image into a first area, a second area, and a strip area between the first area and the second area. Hiding a portion of the strip area is performed by either removing the visibility of the strip area from the display screen or displaying the portion of the strip area on the display screen in lower resolution than before the hiding is performed.

Controlling display object on display screen

A method and associated system for modifying an image on a display screen. While an original image is being displayed on the display screen, a first point and a second point in the original image are received. A first line and a second line are generated in the original image. The first line and the second line pass through the first point and the second point, respectively, in the original image. The first line and the second line divide the original image into a first area, a second area, and a strip area between the first area and the second area. Hiding a portion of the strip area is performed by either removing the visibility of the strip area from the display screen or displaying the portion of the strip area on the display screen in lower resolution than before the hiding is performed.

A method and associated system for modifying an image on a display screen. A first point and a second point in the image are received from a first interaction and a second interaction, respectively, between a user and the display screen. It is ascertained that a first line and a second line in the image respectively pass through the first point and the second point in the image. The first line and the second line divide the image into a first area, a second area, and a strip area between the first area and the second area. Hiding a portion of the strip area is performed by either removing the visibility of the strip area from the display screen or displaying the portion of the strip area on the display screen in lower resolution than before the hiding is performed.

Corkscrew handle

A resource manager () of a content management system () is configured to receive a client request () pertaining to information and to access at least one of a plurality of data servers () to execute the client request (). An encryption engine () encrypts passwords associated with the plurality of data servers () using a key-based encryption algorithm and stores a ciphertext corresponding to each password in a passwords storage (). A server identifier module () identifies a ciphertext in the passwords storage () that is associated with the at least one of a plurality of data servers (). A decryption engine () decrypts the ciphertext using a key-based decryption algorithm corresponding to the key-based encryption algorithm.

Password security utility

A technique for manipulating objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving one or more requests to manipulate an object, wherein each request is received from a different thread. Each request to manipulate an object generates a copy of the object and a unique identifier for each copy of the object. A request to manipulate a copy of an object is distinguished from other requests to manipulate other copies of the object using the unique identifier. Additionally, a technique for accessing objects at a computer is described. The technique includes receiving a request from a client process for an object which is stored in an object server. A library server process is allocated to handle the object request. Transfer of the requested object is initiated. Thereafter, the library server process that was allocated to the object request is released.

Data processing system

The present invention provides a utility for cross platform database query. In a preferred embodiment, the utility resides at an object server in a data system. The utility obtains a set of data items from a library server in the data system; places the set of data items from the library server in a temporary table at the object server; obtains each data item from the temporary table and the base object table; and converts each data item from the temporary table and the base object table, if a conversion is required, such that each data item from the temporary table and the base object table may be compared. Because the utility, the temporary table, and the base object table all reside at the same server, the utility knows whether or not to convert the data items so that a conflict free comparison is performed. In this manner, the utility need not actually know what platform is used by the library server, yet, data at the library server and the object server can be properly compared.

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Shirley S Wang