International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Kyndryl, Inc.

Soobaek Jang

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Kelly Abuelsaad

Daniel C Krook

Ryan G Dejana

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Troy Michael Volin

Gregory J Boss

Albert DeLucca

Randy Allan Rendahl

Brian Daniel Goodman

Nianjun Zhou

Peter P Rodriguez

Craig M Trim

Dimitri Kanevsky

Moon Jung Kim

Travis M Grigsby

Alexander Zlatsin

Brian James Snitzer

Thanh Ngoc Pham

Maneesh Mehra

Dmitry Rekesh

Joshua M Woods

Trevor Livingston

Milton A Bonilla

Renier Rodriguez Morales

Hung Q Pham

Michael S Rieth

Kathleen H Sittler

Michael W Lipton

An approach is provided to automatically replicate content to certain servers in a networking environment based on, amongst other metrics, location of third parties accessing information in a social networking environment. The approach includes obtaining content from a user within a networked environment and analyzing information of one or more third parties that have access to the networked environment and who have an association with the user. The approach further includes replicating the content to one or more servers within the networked environment based on the analyzed information of the one or more third parties.

Replication of content to one or more servers

Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for policy-driven (e.g., price-sensitive) scaling of computing resources in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). In a typical embodiment, a workload request for a customer will be received and a set of computing resources available to process the workload request will be identified. It will then be determined whether the set of computing resources are sufficient to process the workload request. If the set of computing resources are under-allocated (or are over-allocated), a resource scaling policy may be accessed. The set of computing resources may then be scaled based on the resource scaling policy, so that the workload request can be efficiently processed while maintaining compliance with the resource scaling policy.

Policy-based scaling of computing resources in a networked computing environment

Approaches for automatically managing user privileges for computer resources based on determined levels of expertise in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) are provided. In a typical approach, a user profile associated with a prospective user of a set of computer resources in the networked computing environment may be accessed. The user profile may include information pertaining to a skill level of the prospective user with respect to the set of computer resources. Based on the information contained in the user profile, an expertise level of the prospective user with respect to the set of computer resources may be determined, and a corresponding score may be calculated. Based on the score, a level of user privileges for the set of computer resources may be provided.

Managing user privileges for computer resources in a networked computing environment

A mobile device performs admixed transactions at a merchant. The mobile device receives a purchase amount. The mobile device connects to at least one other mobile device. Responsive to connecting to the at least one other mobile device, the mobile device receives account authorization for at least one other purchase amount. Responsive to receiving the account authorization from the at least one other device, the mobile device creates an admixed authorization. The admixed authorization comprises individual account authorizations for users of the mobile device and the at least one other mobile device. The mobile device initiates a single transaction at a merchant. The mobile device transfers the admixed authorization to the merchant. Each of the individual account authorizations are applied to the single transaction based on the purchase amount and the at least one other purchase amount authorized in the individual account authorizations.

Transaction management based on individual orders or number of devices at table for desired distribution

In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate.

Notifying online conference participant of presenting previously identified portion of content

An approach for authorizing an action requested by a user in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, a request for a particular action associated with a computing resource is received. The connected systems which may be affected by the requested action are identified. The actual users of the connected systems are determined. A response from each of the actual users is requested. The responses are collected and weighted to determine if authorization for the requested action is granted.

Authorizing an action request in a networked computing environment

A computer displays a screen that includes a uniform resource locator (URL). In response to a selection of a uniform resource locator (URL) by an end-user at a computer, the computer intercepts a request within the computer to prevent the request from being sent to another computer. The computer determines whether the URL includes one or more parameters that define a field with a missing value, and that need entry of one or more input values from the end-user. The computer generates an electronic form utilizing the one or more parameters to formulate a field, within the electronic form, for each of the one or more parameters. The computer displays the electronic form including the field for each of the one or more parameters, which enables the end-user to enter information into the field within the electronic form.

Generating an electronic form locally on a client computer from input parameters

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to determine a current location of a user, predict a change of direction of the user, and provide at least one advertisement to the user based on the predicted change of direction of the user.

System and method to provide information based on predicted route of travel

The invention provides a method, system, and program product for differentially displaying an instant messaging (IM) availability to a plurality of potential interlocutors. In one embodiment, the invention includes creating a relationship chart of potential interlocutors based on an organizational chart; defining a willingness to communicate, including a temporal component; establishing an IM availability for each potential interlocutor using the relationship chart and the willingness to communicate; sending the IM availability to a server; transmitting the IM availability from the server to a potential interlocutor's computing device capable of displaying the IM availability; receiving an IM invitation from an interlocutor; and generating an alert based on the IM availability for the interlocutor.

Method, system, and program product for differentially displaying an instant messaging (IM) availability

An approach that analyzes and manages unresolved (i.e., pending, outgoing) change-sets is provided. Specifically, this approach parses the change-set into a plurality (i.e., one or more) of changes having interdependencies within a java class file to determine the impact each change may have. More specifically, a change-set management tool provides this capability. The change-set management tool includes a parsing module configured to receive an outgoing change-set and to parse the change-set into a plurality of changes having interdependencies within a java class file. The change-set management tool further comprises an evaluation module configured to evaluate an impact that each of the plurality of changes within the change-set has on source code external to the change-set in the java class file based on the interdependencies.

Managing change-set delivery

Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for locating previously communicated electronic messages (e.g., emails, etc.). The request is initiated by a first party on behalf of a second party. Specifically, the system will receive a request to locate/retrieve a previously communicated electronic message ('message'). The request can be issued by a sender or a recipient of the message. In any event, the request will include a set (one or more) of characteristics pertaining to the message such as a set of recipients thereof. One or more electronic messaging databases will then be searched based on the message located. Once located, an alert will be sent to the second party alerting the second party that the first party would like to recall the electronic message on their behalf. If the alert is validated (e.g., the message recall was accepted), the message will be displayed to the second party.

Locating previously communicated electronic messages

In general, embodiments of the present invention relate to conference management. Specifically, sequentially scheduled conferences (e.g., conference calls) are determined for a conference participant. The connection details (e.g., call-in details) for the second of the two conferences are retrieved. If the conference is not over when the second conference is scheduled to begin, a connection is initiated with the second conference using the connection details while maintaining a connection to the first conference.

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