International Business Machines Corporation

Ting D Cheng

Emily Plachy

Ken-Shin Cheng

John Long

Christos J Georgiou

Chung-Sheng Li

Peter Anthony Franaszek

Gregory Michael Nordstrom

George Wayne Nation

Martin W Sachs

Stephen E Bello

Keh-Shin Fu Cheng

Thomas M Walker

John O F Long

Shien-Tai Pan

Anujan Mangala Varma

John O Long

Thomas K Philips

Anne E Bomford

Thomas E Donegan

R Bruce Shearer

Paul Asobayire

Dilip K Barman

A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a user selectable representation for the digital seal. At least one metadata attribute can be stored as a characteristic related to the digital seal. A storage characteristic of at least one electronic document can be modified based on one or more of the metadata attributes.

Managing electronic documents utilizing a digital seal

A method of managing network resources in a terminating node of an information delivery network can include receiving an inbound data container comprising a data item. The data container can specify a size of the data item and global positioning information for an originating node in the information delivery network. Global positioning information can be determined for the terminating node. Accordingly, the inbound data container can be analyzed by comparing the global positioning information for the originating node and the terminating node.

Managing data delivery in a data communications network

A method for data processing can include associating at least one descriptor dimension with a data item. The descriptor dimension can represent a scale between a first subject and at least a second subject. A dimension value can be associated with the descriptor dimension to quantify a relationship between the data item and the first and second subjects.

Method of describing business and technology information for utilization

A ring configurator for interconnection of data processing and communication systems uses fully covered rings. The ring configuration mechanism can be used to construct a set of covering rings preserving full connectivity for system interconnect. The mechanism can also be used for establishing the routing table for each interconnected system during the system initialization time. To generate a set of edge-disjoint rings, a rotational mechanism is used. The rings are considered stretching along a horizontal direction with nodes aligned in columns across all the rings. With a proper relabeling of the nodes, nodes appearing in the same column position of each ring can be obtained by a simple rotation of the nodes from the previous column of the rings. Once the rotational position is determined for each column, a set of N-1 edge-disjoint rings can be constructed. To find an extra ring so that when combined with the N-1 rings thus found the ring constraints are satisfied, a node reduction technique is invoked. The procedure can be repeated until a set of N edge-disjoint rings satisfying the constraints are found.

Ring configurator for system interconnection using fully covered rings

Dynamic switch protocols are implemented on a token bus protocol in a shared medium network to improve the basic token bus functional capabilities and link utilization, and to produce a uniform transaction protocol that supports both token bus and dynamic switch networks. Frame formats common to both token bus and dynamic switch protocols are utilized, and circuit switched protocols are superimposed on a token bus protocol in interlocked and data transmissions to establish a circuit switched path between a token holder sender node and a destination node. An initial frame transmission uses a normal link header and establishes the circuit switched path between the sender node and the destination node. Subsequent data frames contain no link header information, thereby improving transmission efficiency, and the last frame in such a transmission disconnects the switched circuit path, thereby allowing other transmissions to resume. The use of circuit switched protocols within a token bus protocol allows more general transmission sequences and improves the utilization of token bus bandwidth.

Dynamic switch protocols on a shared medium network

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