International Business Machines Corporation

Tomio Amano

Michiharu Kudoh

Yuki Hirayama

Akio Yamashita

Makoto Kobayashi

Shuichi Shimizu

Masayuki Numao

Norishige Morimoto

Hiroyasu Takahashi

Hirofumi Matsuzawa

Masaru Yamamoto

Ai Okada

Kimitake Hobo

Hirokazu Izumidate

Natsumi Kurashima

Satoru Nunoya

Rei Suginaka

Masahiro Ikarashi

Detection of defects in an online system includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, a plurality of search conditions regarding a search screen of the online system, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test models having factors based on the plurality of search conditions and levels having one or more of the search conditions, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test cases based on the generated plurality of test models having the factors based on the plurality of search conditions and the levels having one or more of the search conditions, and executing, by the one or more processor, the plurality of test cases on the online system to detect defects in the online system.

Defect detection using test cases generated from test models

A desktop metaphor system. There is included a physical, non-virtual icon card corresponding to a certain computer application and a computer separate from the icon card. The computer includes a computer readable storage medium for storing computer applications, one of which is the certain computer application, and a computer processor. The computer processor includes an icon detection module to detect the approaching of the icon card to the computer and recognize the certain computer application corresponding to the icon card; an application context memory module for storing application context for an application running on the computer processor and for storing application context for the certain application corresponding to the icon card and stored in storage; and an event processing logic module for switching between the application, if any, currently running on the computer processor and the certain application corresponding to the icon card.

Realizing desktop metaphors on a computer

A computer implemented rule for verifying consistency in design documents is modeled as a set of associations among deliverable components, and a descriptive text explaining the specification is generated in combination with a text template.

Method for generating specifications of static test

A method for guiding a user to connect a peripheral component to a unit of electronic equipment includes the user tapping upon one of a plurality of connector interfaces comprising the unit of electronic equipment. In response to the tapping, the one tapped connector interface is identified and the user is notified of the identity of the one tapped connector interface. The identifying includes detecting the tapping at two or more sensors and processing signals generated by the sensors to detect the one tapped connector interface. The notifying includes articulating an identity of the one tapped connector interface using a voice synthesizer and loudspeaker.

Guidance system by detecting tapped location

A method is disclosed to maintain session continuity between a browser and an initial server in a cluster when the browser is transferred from the initial server to a different server and returned thereafter to the original server.

Session information inheriting method and apparatus

A method and apparatus are provided for managing activation of one or more application instances in a client machine in communication with a server across a network. The client machine is configured with a manager local to the client machine to manage the application instances. Data associated with the application instance(s) is maintained on the client machine. Prior to sending a communication to the server for an application, the manager ensures that an application instance is not present and activated local to the client machine for the same application. Accordingly, management of the application instances is maintained local to the client machine.

Method for preventing use of multiple application instances

It is one object of the present invention to provide an access control system that employs an access control rule and that does not distinguish between data and the access control rule, so that the same flexible access control that is available for the data can also be provided for the access control rule. An access control system comprises: an access controller 200 for, in accordance with the access request, employing an access control rule defining an access right for the object to determine whether or not access to the object should be permitted; and an object storage unit 500 for storing a set of access control rules as objects equivalent to common data objects, wherein, upon the receipt of a request to access an access control rule, the access controller 200 determines whether or not access to the access control rule should be permitted.

Access control system and methods

The present invention provides access control methods, apparatus and systems that employ an access control rule and that does not distinguish between data and the access control rule, so that the same flexible access control that is available for the data can also be provided for the access control rule. In an example embodiment, an access control system comprises: an access controller for, in accordance with the access request, employing an access control rule defining an access right for the object to determine whether or not access to the object should be permitted; and an object storage unit for storing a set of access control rules as objects equivalent to common data objects, wherein, upon the receipt of a request to access an access control rule, the access controller determines whether or not access to the access control rule should be permitted.

As a document image on paper is usually black and white binary data, an embedding method for colored and multivalued data using a variation of light and dark could not be applied. When a document printed on paper was captured by a scanner or the like, it was difficult, since it had changed at a pixel level, to stably detect embedded additional watermarking information. A text area is detected from a document image, and the features of the detected text area are increased or decreased, or the detected text area is split into two or more subblocks, and the subblocks are divided into two or more groups, of which features are increased or decreased respectively so as to embed additional watermarking information. When detecting a watermark, additional watermarking information is detected by comparing the integrated values of the features acquired from the respective groups.

Method and device for embedding and detecting watermarking information into a black and white binary document image

A method and a system for embedding information in document data that include text written in a page description language. First, an analysis is made of the layout of the document data in which information is to be embedded. Then, based on the analysis of the layout, a sequence of locations is generated whereat the information is to be embedded. A page description of the text at a determined location is changed in accordance with the embedded information. As a result, the information is embedded in document data that include text written in a page description language. The sequence of locations is generated by producing a string of sequential pseudo-random numbers.

Method and system for embedding information in document

It is one object of the present invention to use an access control process to evaluate under a specific condition an access permission request. An access control system comprises a resource document in which a policy description is stored; a policy evaluation module for receiving an external request for accessing the data file, for extracting, from the resource document the policy description that is associated with target data for the access request and for evaluating the policy description to determine whether or not the access request is to be permitted; an enforcement function verification module for, when an existing condition can not be evaluated using only the information included in the policy evaluation module determining whether the condition can be evaluated or can be established; and an enforcement module for evaluating or establishing the condition that, in accordance with the enforcement function verification module can be evaluated or established.

Access control system, access control method, storage medium and program transmission apparatus

A system that allows a user to describe a tree or a set of trees in a table, and the system automatically generates a data structure corresponding to the tree or the set of trees in memory in accordance with the description. The system interprets a table with one or more columns wherein each of the node attributes given to a node are entered, allocates a memory area to each of the nodes, sets data on the attributes given to the node, and generates pointer data indicating the connections of the memory areas. The hierarchy of the nodes and the sequence of nodes linked immediately below the same node are determined on the basis of the sequence of rows corresponding to the nodes and levels assigned to the nodes in the table.

System and method for describing and creating a user defined arbitrary

Characters are recognized by a conventional OCR apparatus and converted into outline font form. The system includes a recognition device for optically reading printed characters and recognizing those to obtain information on the recognized characters consisting of text code information and character layout information, an outline font table for retaining outline font data of characters, a character box enlarging function for enlarging enclosing rectangles of the recognized characters obtained by the recognition device by a ratio of an outline font character box to a black pixel component to be drawn in the character box while referring to the outline font table, and modifying the information on the recognized characters by using the enlarged enclosing rectangles as new character boxes of the outline font.

Method and apparatus for generating information on recognized characters

A method for detecting character string regions in a document image containing figures and illustrations includes storing image data of the document, generating position data of a run of black pixels in each line by accessing the stored image data, comparing runs of black pixels for each pair of two adjoining lines and determining whether a run is a boundary candidate, and generating a rectangle whose boundaries include at least a pair of boundary candidates determined to be a character string region.

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Tomio Amano