International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas James Waterton

Christopher J Poole

Caroline Jane Thomas

Joseph Peter Kent

James Hewitt

Liam A White

Joshua Vines

Richard Jacks

Mark Andrew Woolley

Richard William Pilot

Howard J Hellyer

Henry J Collinson

Julie E Stalley

Daniel Joseph Vaccaro-Senna

An approach for modification of a custom resource in an orchestration platform. One step provides a modification custom resource definition for updating one or more fields in a custom resource. Another step inserts a modification intermediary between a managing operator of the custom resource and an orchestration application programming interface (API) server including restarting a deployment of the managing operator to update pods of the deployment to connect to the modification intermediary when receiving a request for the custom resource. Another step intercepts, by the modification intermediary, requests for the custom resource between the operator and the orchestration API server and modifies the custom resource by applying an update to the request according to the modification custom resource whilst hiding the update from the operator.

Modification of a custom resource managed by an operator in an orchestration platform

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing an application. The computer-implemented method comprises defining, by a first application, a specification of a second application and sending, by the first application, a request to a subsystem, wherein the request comprises a file, the file comprising the specification, and request data to be processed. The computer-implemented method further comprises configuring, by the subsystem, an instance of the second application, wherein the configuring comprises provisioning the instance according to the specification and sending the received request data to the instance. The computer-implemented method further comprises processing, by the instance, the request data.

In-band instantiation configuration for application workloads

The present disclosure provides for sharing data structure values between applications via messaging in a computer operating system. A plurality of data structures are defined, each with a given topic name, and a data structure including a collection of defined formats of multiple data elements. Interest by applications in topics is registered. Within an application a collection of multiple data elements having the formats of a defined data structure are identified, and an item is stored in association with the given topic name of the defined data structure, where the item is a collection of data values of the identified data elements. The item is made available to an application registered to the topic for input of the values in a corresponding data structure in the application.

Sharing data structure values between software applications

Embodiments of the present invention provide a concept for determining the relevance of a tag within a post. Responsive to receiving a post composed by a first user and containing a tag referring to a second user, a post context based on a topic of the post, a user context based on a record of the first user and a tag context based on a record of the second user are obtained. The post context and the user context are compared to the tag context, and it is determined whether the tag is relevant to the post and the first user based on comparing the post context and the user context to the tag context.

Determining tag relevance

A computer system may modify the user interactions by receiving, by a computer system, a sequence of image frames in a time period, from a camera application on a mobile device, wherein the time period starts before and ends after a shutter is activated on the camera application; monitoring, by a computer system, movement of the mobile device within the time period; calculating a movement score for a user of the mobile device, by analyzing the sequence of image frames and the movement of the mobile device; and using the movement score to modify the user's interaction with the mobile device interface.

Facilitating interactions on a mobile device interface based on a captured image

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system is provided for establishing connectivity between user devices. The computer-implemented method includes: broadcasting a message to running processes on an operating system of the first user device to indicate that a requesting application is looking for a live connection channel to attempt discovery with a second user device to ascertain virtual proximity of the first user device with the second user device. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving a response from a live connection channel and attempting to verify pairing via the live connection channel to confirm a virtual proximity of the second user device with the first user device. The pairing provides information for establishing a subsequent connection between the first and second user devices via the requesting application.

Establishing connectivity between user devices

An add-on for, or additional functionality integrated in, a web browser of the kind that logs visited web pages in history with their URL, HTML page title and a date/time stamp is provided. The history may additionally logs category tags and their confidence scores. The category tags may originate at least in part by extracting them from visited page content and may also propagate through from previously visited pages, for example when a page is opened by hyperlink from another page, the latter's category tags propagate through to the new page. The page-specific confidence scores may be determined by applying a scoring formula that mimics a user's mental association between a category tag and a web page. The category tags and their confidence scores may be then stored in the history log entry and the category tags may then be used to search the history.

Web browser with enhanced history classification

A method for provisioning resources to a user during a meeting with another user, each user having an associated computing device is provided. The method may include detecting a meeting of a first user with a second user, each of the first and second users having an associated computing device. The method may further include obtaining historical data relating to previous activity of at least one of the first and second users during one or more earlier meetings between the first and second users. The method may further include provisioning one or more resources to at least one of the first and second users based on the obtained historical data associated with the one or more earlier meetings.

Dynamic resource provision based on detected nearby devices

A method and system for verifying a user of a computer system are presented. One example comprises observing behavioral characteristics of the user's interactions with the computer system during a current session of computer system usage, the behavioral characteristics being based on command invocation behavioral characteristics. The example further comprises identifying variations between the observed behavioral characteristics and a behavioral profile developed based on prior command invocation behavioral characteristics of the user. A verification procedure for the user to complete to continue the current session is then implemented based on the identified variations between the observed behavioral characteristics and the behavioral profile.

Verifying a user of a computer system

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to managing power provided to devices. A first set of radio-frequency identification (RFID) power data can be read, by an RFID reader, from a first RFID tag of a first device electrically coupled to a power supply. The first set of RFID power data can specify a first amount of energy required by the first device if a power loss occurs. An indication that a power loss occurred can be received. In response to the indication that the power loss occurred, the power supply can provide the first amount of energy to the first device.

Power management based on RFID data

A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for sharing emergency information associated with a user from a mobile device. A computer system determines a dataset comprising emergency information associated with the user, based on one or more properties of the user and the mobile device of the user and further based on data available on the mobile device of the user. The computer system determines a battery status of the mobile device of the user. The computer system determines a recipient mobile device, responsive to the battery status meeting a predetermined requirement. The computer system communicates the dataset to the recipient mobile device.

Sharing emergency information

A mechanism for filtering communication including receiving an incoming call from a calling party, the incoming call being directed to a called party. The mechanism further comprises obtaining calling party information comprising a value of at least one descriptive parameter of the calling party and obtaining historical called party information relating to past activities of the called party. One or more call-handling rules are generated based on the historical called party information, each call-handling rule defining how to handle an incoming call based on a descriptive parameter of a calling party. The calling party information is processed according to the one or more call-handling rules to determine how to handle the received incoming call.

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Thomas James Waterton