International Business Machines Corporation

Tommy Chaoping Li

Animesh Singh

Cindy Han Lu

Srinivas R Brahmaroutu

Saishruthi Swaminathan

A peer-to-peer decentralized software configuration manager is described. The peer-to-peer system provides a crowdsourced mechanism to determine and recommend the efficient software configurations. A computer system may subscribe to a ring or group of network connected computers. Once subscribed, the computer system receives a ring data structure that may include one or more software configuration entries. The ring data structure is accessible to each subscribed computer system to the currently installed software configurations and document the relative success or failure of those configurations. The ring data structure may be utilized to identify a more efficient or user friendly software configuration that is currently installed and utilized by a subscribed computer system.

Decentralized management of software configurations

A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product generate a custom display for a virtual meeting. The method includes obtaining a plurality of virtual meeting information from a server. The method also includes capturing virtual meeting session data with a device. The virtual meeting session data is selected from a group consisting of audio data, video data and images of a screen of the device. The method further includes determining a current virtual meeting status and a participant emotion based on the virtual meeting session data and the plurality of virtual meeting information. In addition, the method includes predicting a virtual meeting end time and a participant status based on the current virtual meeting status and the participant emotion. Lastly, the method includes displaying the virtual meeting end time and the participant status in a meeting dashboard on the device.

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