International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Tomohiro Shioya

Hirofumi Nishikawa

Shoichiro Watanabe

Sayaka Tamai

Takahisa Mizuno

Hiroshi Kurokawa

Kei Sugano

Sanehiro Furuichi

Masami Tada

Asuka Unno

Tomoka Mochizuki

Lianzi Wen

Tadashi Tsumura

Akira Ohkado

Daisuke Hayashi

Yuto Fukui

Hayato Kiriyama

Fumihiko Terui

Mihoko Hasegawa

Taku Aratsu

Hiroaki Uetsuki

Kiriyama Hayato

Eisuke Kanzaki

A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.

Combining and displaying multiple document areas

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product of managing and displaying online messages along timelines. In an embodiment, the present invention includes receiving a plurality of online messages from an online website, determining sets of similar online messages among the plurality of online messages, and displaying on a computer display each of the sets of similar online messages along a graphical representation of a timeline corresponding to the each of the sets of similar online messages, resulting in displayed timelines and displayed online messages. In a further embodiment, the present invention includes in response to receiving a new online message from the online website, determining each set among the sets of similar online messages to which the new online message is similar, and displaying on the computer display the new online message, resulting in a displayed new online message.

Managing and displaying online messages along timelines

Determining the content of access control to data based on classification results obtained by classifying data includes recording setting information that sets a plurality of classification engines for predetermined conditions related to either data or to the access to the data and acquiring data subject to access when access to the data subject to access is requested. Responsive to satisfaction of predetermined conditions related to either the data subject to the access or access to the data subject to access, classification of data subject to access by the plurality of classification engines set for predetermined conditions in the setting information is indicated using a processor. Further, using the processor, the content of access control to the data subject to access based on classification results obtained by the plurality of classification engines classifying data subject to access is determined based on the indicating classification of data.

Device and method for determining content of access control of data

For automatically applying update to snapshots of a virtual machine (VM), a cloned virtual machine is created reproducing a state of an existing first snapshot of a virtual machine, a first virtual NIC in the cloned VM is disabled, an update is applied to the cloned VM to which a second virtual NIC has been added, the second virtual NIC is deleted from the cloned VM to which the update has been applied, the first virtual NIC is enabled, and a second snapshot of the cloned VM is generated with the enabled first virtual NIC wherein the second snapshot is associated with the virtual machine.

Applying update to snapshots of virtual machine

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mobile computing device proximity notification. The method includes one or more processors acquiring location information for a plurality of mobile computing devices. The method further includes one or more processors creating a first group of mobile computing devices based on location proximity in the acquired location information of the plurality of mobile computing devices, wherein the created first group includes a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the first mobile computing device is within a predetermined distance to the second mobile computing device, and the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device are outside of an area associated with the first group.

Mobile device proximity notification

According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for creating a social network service (SNS) community is provided. The method may include receiving a message from a user associated with an SNS. The method may also include determining a location of the received message based on a time and a position associated with the received message. The method may then include identifying at least one device from within a plurality of registered devices having the same location. The method may further include determining at least one device user based on the identified at least one device. The method may also include creating an SNS community based on the user and the determined at least one device user. The method may then include distributing messages between the user and the determined at least one device user.

Organizing location-based social network communities

Controlling a remote procedure call from a client computer to a server computer, the client computer extracts a periodic remote procedure call from among a plurality of remote procedure calls from the client computer and extracts a non-periodic remote procedure call from among the plurality of remote procedure calls from the client computer. The client computer identifies a first information associated with the extracted periodic remote procedure call that is an item whose value is determined to represent data targeted by the periodic remote procedure call. The client computer identifies a second information associated with the extracted non-periodic remote procedure call that is a targeted data value of the item, and sets a priority level, used to select for execution the periodic procedure call, based on the first information and the second information.

Device and method for controlling remote procedure call

A change operation changing a displayed portion of an electronic document from a first portion to a second portion is detected. First and second ranges of displayable portions of the electronic document are determined. The first range includes the first portion of the document and the second range includes the second portion of the document. A character string appears at a first frequency in the first range, and appears at a second frequency in the second range. Change information is generated that relates the second appearance frequency to the first appearance frequency.

Grasping contents of electronic documents

An information processing device having a lock function for restricting user operations and a mechanism executed by this information processing device are provided in which the information processing device includes: an input unit for receiving a first password and a specified location from a user; a mode setting unit for switching to a restricted mode restricting at least some of the functions of the information processing device in response to receiving the first password and location; and a releasing unit for releasing the restricted mode on condition that the information processing device has reached the specified location.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Shioya