International Business Machines Corporation

Snapchat, Inc.

Stanley Kieran Jerrard-Dunne

Brendan P Arthurs

Charles R E Smith

Andrew T Penrose

Russell Holden

Alice-Maria Marascu

Ravi Ranjan

Gordon E Hegfield

Kieran J O'Mahony

Conor D McGrath

Michael T Roche

Liam S Harpur

Jonathan D Dunne

Al Chakra

Bill Looby

Brendan P Murray

Ileana Belfiore

Kieran Joseph O'Mahoney

John Valentine Delaney

Niklas Heidloff

David R Millen

Brendan Murray

Kristina Beckley

Margaret Mary O'Connell

Mark Levins

Brian O'Gorman

Charles Robert Edward Smith

Fabien Heinen

Brian Hussey

Gordon Keenan

In an approach, a processor segments a data structure into a plurality of initial chunks. A processor, for each of the plurality of initial chunks, determines a chunk key based on identifying a sequence of bits within the respective chunk that is unique within the data structure. A processor re-segments the data structure into a plurality of final chunks, wherein divisions correspond to positions of the identified sequences of bits.

Storing a data structure

Concepts for defining and processing an expression of an enterprise workspace application are presents. Such concepts may associate an expression of an enterprise workspace application with a modified version of the expression and a state flag which is configured to define whether processing of at least part of the expression is to be based on (i.e. employ) the modified version of the expression. In this way, there may be provided concepts for protecting against malicious users setting triggers or overriding function definitions that cause other users to perform unexpected activities.

Enterprise workspaces

Embodiments are directed to a method of enabling cloud applications to act on behalf of a user, including: providing, by the processor, a plugin integrated with a web browser; configuring, by the processor, a plurality of cloud applications and one or more identity providers in the plugin; wherein the plurality of configured cloud applications are associated with the one or more identity providers; authenticating, by the processor, a user identity through one of the plurality of configured cloud applications; generating, by the one or more identity providers, an identity token responsive to authentication; providing, by the one or more identity providers, each of the plurality of configured cloud applications with the identity token; and acting, by any of the plurality of configured cloud applications, on behalf of the user with the identity token.

Cloud application acting on behalf of user

Concepts for defining authority for triggering an expression within an enterprise workspace from an external service outside the enterprise workspace are presented. Such concepts define a rolling key function configured to generate a rolling key. A secret is defined as a starting point for the rolling key function. The secret and the rolling key function are securely shared with the external service.

Merging directory information from a user directory to a common directory includes based on a rule associated with contents of a user directory of a local database, extracting a department indicator from the user directory, mapping the department indicator to a corresponding user record in a common directory of a registry database, and based on the department indicator, marking the user record in the common directory with a department that corresponds to the contents from the user directory with a department for controlling access to that user record in the registry database.

Merging directory information from a user directory to a common directory

Concepts for associating an enterprise workspace user account with a service user account of a service are presented. One such concept comprises associating an identifier with service data provided by the service to the enterprise workspace, the service data being provided via a service authorization for a service user account. The identifier is provided to a user associated with the enterprise workspace user account. Responsive to the enterprise workspace user account executing a predetermined function with the identifier as a parameter of the function, the service data associated with the identifier is identified, and the service authorization the service data was provided via is determined. The enterprise workspace user account is then associated with the service user account that the service authorization is for.

Method and system are provided for log file analysis to locate anomalies. The method includes comparing each line of a log file with other lines of the log file to determine duplicate and similar lines of the log file. The step of comparing includes: locating two or more duplicate lines of the log file; and locating two or more similar lines of the log file using pattern matching of a string of each of the lines of the log file. The method also includes outputting a line of the log file as a line that is a potential anomaly if it is rejected as a duplicate or a similar line.

Log file analysis to locate anomalies

A tool for testing objects in a client-server environment. The tool receives a plurality of proposed modifications to a baseline set of objects stored in a repository collectively submitted by a plurality of members of a first group of users and a plurality of members of a second group of users. The tool registers each modification of the plurality of proposed modifications with a user identifier corresponding to the user proposing the modification. The tool receives instructions to test the baseline set of objects with modifications that correspond to the first group of users. The tool determines which of the baseline set of objects stored in the repository are subject to the modifications that correspond to the first group of users. The tool executes the baseline set of objects and incorporating the modifications that correspond to the first group of users.

Selective object testing in a client-server environment

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for testing objects in a client-server environment. A server computing system receives at least one modification to a set of objects. The server computing system registers the at least one modification with a user identifier. The server computing system receives instructions to execute the set of objects with the at least one modification that is registered to the user identifier. The server computing system determines which of the set objects the at least one modification alters. The server computing system executes the set of objects, wherein the set of objects incorporates the at least one modification associated with the user identifier.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for authenticating a user. The application server receives a user log in request and determines if a unique identification accompanies the received user log in request. The application server uses the unique identification to authenticate the identity of the user. The application server determines if the unique identification has been previously received by searching a first database to see if the unique identification was already stored in the first database. If the unique identification is not in the first database then the application server stores the unique identification and grants the user access to the one or more applications hosted on the application server.

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Dublin, Ireland

Stanley Kieran Jerrard-Dunne