International Business Machines Corporation

Vmware, Inc.

Ting Yin

Dong Chen

Yang Liang

Zhi Li Guan

Yin Xia

Wu Zhong

Shao Jun Ding

Jun Su

Xiang Juan Meng

Ting Ting Bj Zhan

Lei Wang

Peng Hui Jiang

Feng Zhang

Xin Zhao

Li Ni Zhang

Hong Wei Sun

Zheng Lei An

Hua Wei Fan

Kun Shang

Zhe Hua Peng

Xin Peng Liu

Hui Zhao

Zhan Peng Huo

Ying Yan

Ying Cao

Shi Chen

Pin Xie

Shu Jun Tang

Techniques for hierarchical encryption for data storage are disclosed, in one or more embodiments. These techniques include parsing an electronic database storage request, based on the syntax of the request, to identify a plurality of request elements and determining, using one or more trained machine learning (ML) models, one or more sensitivities associated with the plurality of request elements. The techniques further include identifying one or more encryption techniques for the plurality of request elements based on the one or more sensitivities, encrypting data associated with the database storage request using the identified one or more encryption techniques, and storing the encrypted data and one or more associated encryption keys in an electronic database, using the electronic database storage request.

Database hierarchical encryption for hybrid-cloud environment

Methods, computer program products, systems are provided for securely performing electronic transactions over a network. An acoustic wave signal is received. The acoustic wave signal is encoded with at least an identifier of a payer of a transaction and transaction information of the transaction. The identifier of the payer and the transaction information is then obtained from the acoustic wave signal. A bone conduction characteristic of the payer is retrieved based on the identifier of the payer and based on the received bone conduction characteristic of the payer, the payer is verified. Completion of the transaction is allowed based on the transaction information in response to the payer being verified.

Secure transaction utilizing bone conductive characteristic

Authentication management by receiving a request to initiate an authentication from a computing device of a user, directing the request to a selected authentication service of a plurality of authentication services, wherein the selected authentication service is determined dynamically based on respective authentication metrics of the plurality of authentication services, receiving authentication information via the selected authentication service, and authenticating the user based on the received authentication information.

Scalable authentication management

A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining an authorization failure from a target application because an access request was denied based on insufficient permissions of a user. The processor(s) institutes a mock interface with a visual appearance of the target application. The mock interface displays predefined data and the target application displays dynamic data, from the server(s) executing the target application. The processor(s) obtains, via the mock interface, a request to change the permissions of the user to the target application, which includes a selection, by the user, through the mock interface, of one or more individual permissions displayed in the mock interface. The processor(s) automatically generates a customized security policy comprising the selection, where based on applying the customized security policy, repeating the access request results in authorized access to the target application.

Temporary interface to provide intelligent application access

An anti-peep screen is provided. The anti-peep screen includes a casing, a plurality of microspheres within the casing, wherein each of the microspheres includes a colorless transparent fluid fill and a plurality of charged particles, and a base electrode within the casing adjacent to the plurality of microspheres.

Anti-peep screen with dynamically adjustable optical screen

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device and a computer program for determining bending of a flexible display. The flexible display comprises two parallel capacitive layers and an isolator layer between the two parallel capacitive layers, wherein each capacitive layer comprises multiple capacitive electrodes pairs. The method measures capacitance values of the capacitive electrodes pairs. And then the method determines the bending of the flexible display based on the result of measurement.

Determination of a flexible display

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for software globalization management. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for software globalization management includes loading markup in a browser for rendering in the browser and parsing the markup to identify different markup language tags disposed in the markup. Thereafter, on condition that during the parsing a globalization tag is detected, an internationalization key associated with a textual resource is extracted in connection with the globalization tag, a locale setting is retrieved for the browser, the key is submitted to remote repository with the locale setting in order to retrieve therefrom a translated form of the textual resource in accordance with the locale setting, the translated form of the textual resource is received in response to the requesting and the markup is rendered with the translated form of the textual resource.

Software globalization management

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to text resources in an application. According to a method, an updated application is run, wherein information displayed on at least one text resource in the updated application is editable and the information displayed on at least one text resource in an original application of the updated application is not editable. Then, in response to a first piece of information displayed on a text resource of the at least one text resource being changed to a second piece of information, ID of the text resource of the at least one text resource in the updated application is obtained; and the second piece of information is mapped to the ID of the text resource in a file corresponding to the at least one text resource in the updated application.

Text resources processing in an application

A computer-implemented method of establishing a conversation between intelligent assistants includes subdividing content of a user's conversation monitored over a predetermined period of time into a plurality of segments, and associating a time stamp with each segment; hashing each of the plurality of segments wherein a hash value is associated with each segment; matching pairs of the hash values and their time stamps with hash values and time stamps received from one or more intelligent assistants associated with the one or more other persons; and establishing a connection between the user's intelligent assistant and an intelligent assistant of at least one of the one or more other persons, when the user's hash value and time stamp for one or more segments of the conversation match hash values and time stamps of one or more conversation segments of the at least one of the one or more other persons.

Establishing a conversation between intelligent assistants

An enhanced copy-and-paste function copies multiple logical and physical software objects from a source computing environment to a distinct target computing environment. A physical object can be any software-data entity, such as a document, a container, a database, or a disk image. A logical object contains a hierarchy of two or more physical or logical objects. Objects are copied to a logical copy clipboard, where they may be assembled into logical objects. Each physical object is then transferred one at a time to a conventional physical clipboard, transmitted to a corresponding physical clipboard in a corresponding target environment, and then forwarded to a logical paste clipboard, where the original logical objects are reconstructed and pasted into the target environment. Each logical object may be pasted into multiple target environments and may contain physical objects copied from multiple source environments. Multiple logical objects may contain the same physical object.

Enhanced copy-and-paste

Examples of techniques for quick response (QR) code deformation are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a first QR code, wherein the first QR code is scannable by a QR code scanner at a first range of angles. Another aspect includes determining a scanner angle, the scanner angle being outside of the first range of angles. Another aspect includes generating a second QR code based on the first QR code and the scanner angle, wherein the second QR code comprises a deformed QR code that is scannable by the QR code scanner at a second range of angles that is distinct from the first range of angles.

Quick response (QR) code deformation

A computer-implemented method includes determining a set of parameters defining an arrangement of a plurality of copies of a standard barcode in two or more of layers of a layered barcode encoding subject data. The layered barcode has a plurality of cells, and for each cell in the layered barcode, a combined value for the cell is determined, where the combined value of the cell indicates a respective value of each layer at the cell, and the combined value is mapped to a color corresponding to the combined value. The plurality of layers of the layered barcode are generated, such that, at each cell of the plurality of cells, the layered barcode includes the color corresponding to the combined value of the cell.

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