International Business Machines Corporation

Terrence E White

Melanie R Diggs

Charles K Young

Gerald D Colar

Kenneth C Torok

Biplav Srivastava

Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam

Ankur Jain

Sumana S Bhat

Karen L B Brown

Bipin K Joshi

David Hoffman

Blain A Dillard

James L Chamberlain

Alexander T Hay

James H Clinton

Eugene K Imbamba

Approaches are provided for collecting and distributing topical data. An approach includes collecting topical data from one or more mobile applications on a mobile device. The topical data describes areas of interest of a user based on a way in which the one or more mobile applications are used by the user. The approach further includes normalizing the collected topical data into a list of topics of interest for the user. The approach further includes tagging each topic of interest with a non-hierarchical keyword or term. The approach further includes sending the list of tagged topics of interest to one or more remote servers.

Mobile application analytics framework

A method for recording and summarizing a conference is provided. The method enables a conference leader to record and produce a detailed summary of the conference. The detailed summary contains hot links to various portions and/or segments of what was discussed in the conference. This summary also enables team members who are not able to attend the conference, or those who need a quick review of the topics covered at the conference, to survey key topics covered, and have the option to replay selected portions of the conference.

Audio summarization of meetings driven by user participation

Various embodiments establish a virtual private network (VPN) between a remote network and a private network. In one embodiment, a first system in the remote network establishes a connection with a central system through a public network. The central system is situated between the first system and a second system in the private network. The first system receives, from the central system and based on establishing the connection, a set of VPN information associated with at least the second system. The first system disconnects from the central system and establishes a VPN directly with the second system through the public network based on the set of VPN information.

Dynamic virtual private network

A tool for creating and editing applications on a mobile device. The tool searches the mobile device for one or more exposed features of a plurality of currently installed applications on the mobile device. The tool exposes a workspace using a graphical programming language on the mobile device. The tool receives a plurality of selections in the workspace. The tool receives a configuration of the plurality of received selections in the workspace. The tool determines, based on the configuration of the received selections in the workspace, the application is complete. The tool prompts to save the completed application.

End user programming for a mobile device

In response to an identification of an input slide, aspects generate text content confidence scores that represent amounts of similarity of slide text content of the input slide to compared text content of a slides that are included within slide presentation files of a repository. Graphic element content confidence scores are generated that represent amounts of similarity of graphic content of the input slide to compared graphic element content of the respective ones of the repository slides. Similarity confidence scores are generated for respective ones of the repository slides as functions of weighted averages of the generated text content confidence scores and graphic element content confidence scores, wherein the graphic element content confidence scores are weighted differently from the text content confidence scores. The repository slides may be ranked for similarity to the input slide as a function of the generated similarity confidence scores.

Automated slide comparator

A tool for creating and editing applications on a television multimedia device. The tool searches the television multimedia device for a plurality of currently installed applications on the television multimedia device. The tool exposes a workspace based on a graphical programming language on the television multimedia device. The tool receives a plurality of selections in the workspace. The tool receives a configuration of the plurality of received selections in the workspace. The tool determines, based on the configuration of the received selections in the workspace, the application is complete. The tool prompts to save the completed application.

End user programming for a television multimedia device

A system and computer program product for using a multi-user operating system. A user attempts to access the multi-user operating system. The system prompts the user to enter a shared credential associated with the multi-user operating system and an individual credential of the user. The system verifies the entered shared credential and the entered individual credential. The system grants the access to the user if both the entered shared credential and the entered individual credential are verified. The system tracks commands entered by the user granted the access via the entered shared credential while the user is using the multi-user operating system. The tracked commands indicate the entered individual credential.

ID usage tracker

There is provided a method for using a multi-user operating system. A user attempts to access the multi-user operating system. The user is prompted to enter a shared credential associated with the multi-user operating system and an individual credential of the user. The entered shared credential and the entered individual credential are verified. Access is granted to the user if both the entered shared credential and the entered individual credential are verified. Commands entered by the user granted the access are tracked via the entered shared credential while the user is using the multi-user operating system. The tracked commands indicate the entered individual credential.

A tool for creating and editing applications on a mobile device. The tool searches the mobile device for a plurality of currently installed applications on the mobile device. The tool exposes a workspace using a graphical programming language on the mobile device. The tool receives a plurality of selections in the workspace. The tool receives a configuration of the plurality of received selections in the workspace. The tool determines, based on the configuration of the received selections in the workspace, the application is complete. The tool prompts to save the completed application.

A harvesting method and system is provided. The method includes extracting from a plurality of documents, content. The content is published in external glossaries. The content is arranged in a business content hierarchy and the business content hierarchy is published in a specified format. The business content hierarchy is enabled with respect to a plurality of projects. The content and business content hierarchy are updated and the updated content is arranged in the updated business content hierarchy.

Business content hierarchy

Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for dynamically changing a message retrieval scheme during runtime in a client/server electronic messaging system in which the server executes a message retrieval component and incoming messages received from the client is stored in a message queue. Aspects of the exemplary embodiment include accessing messaging business rules from a memory by a message retrieval component at runtime, wherein the messaging business rules define a primary retrieval scheme and a secondary retrieval scheme, and wherein a value provided for each of the primary retrieval scheme and the secondary retrieval scheme are selected from a combination of different message retrieval types including: First In First Out (FIFO), Last In First Out (LIFO), and random. The message retrieval component subdivides the message queue into sub-queues based on at least one of a message quantity limit and a message received time limit specified in the business rules. Each of the sub-queues is then accessed using the value of the secondary retrieval scheme; and messages from each of the sub-queues are retrieved using the value of the primary retrieval scheme.

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Cottage Grove, MN, United States of America

Terrence E White