International Business Machines Corporation

Toshimichi Arima

Nozomu Aoyama

Tadashi Tsumura

Yukihiro Murakami

Takaharu Itoh

Yuko Ito

Shin Katoh

Michitoshi Sumikawa

Hiroyasu Takahashi

Tomoko Murayama

Hiroyuki Shingai

Hironori Yuasa

Kyoichi Ozaki

Masaaki Suehiro

Ito Yuko

Systems, products and methods for enabling symptom verification. Verifying a symptom may include eliminating repeated symptom definitions or eliminating symptoms having low accuracy. A computer system enables verification of a symptom including a rule for detecting a set of events related to a given problem. The computer system includes a symptom database which stores the symptom, a specimen database which stores a specimen including a set of events detected according to a rule of a certain symptom, and an analysis unit which analyzes the specimen stored in the specimen database using a new symptom in order to determine whether to add the new symptom to the symptom database. The present disclosure also includes a method and a computer program for enabling verification of a symptom including a rule for detecting a set of events related to a given problem.

Enabling symptom verification

A storage medium containing computer code, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of creating a second file of messages to be outputted by the software from a first file of messages, the messages in the first file being written in a first language and executing the software using the second file. The creating of the second file includes for each message in the first file, applying specified rules to form a second message by changing the character length of the second message, filling in any blank characters in the second message with a dummy character, inserting characters from the target language into prescribed places in the second message to form a second message having both characters of the first language and characters of the target language, and copying the second message into the second file.

Testing internationalized software using test resource file and test font

An efficient testing method is provided for internationalized software executed in a plurality of language environments. The method includes mock-translating an externalized resource file written in a first language of the internationalized software by converting characters of the first language to characters of a second language based on a conversion table; and displaying output information from the internationalized software that performs processing by referring to the mock-translated test resource file using one of a plurality of fonts prepared for respective test categories.

A method and system for analyzing a problem in a computing environment. Symptom rules that include associated problem information are generated in a symptom catalog. An input file including a stack trace provided in response to detecting the problem is received. Function names included in contiguous lines in the stack trace are identified. In response to a search for the function names in the symptom catalog, the function names found in the search are matched to keywords included in a symptom rule. The computing system retrieves problem information that corresponds to the matched keywords. A report is generated that includes the stack trace and a solution included in the retrieved problem information. The generated report uses a text attribute to emphasize the text of the function names included in the stack trace.

Problem analysis via matching contiguous stack trace lines to symptom rules

A method and apparatus are provided to support autonomic computing for system configuration. Common base events (CBEs) are generated and, based upon system configuration, are employed to monitor system resources and to resolve system configuration conflicts prior to an error. A symptom database stores a set of rules for the configuration information. The configurations CBEs for the system configuration are compared with the symptom rules, and any discrepancies between the two elements are communicated to a user prior to an occurrence of an error in the system. Accordingly, an autonomic computer system is provided to support system configuration data.

Autonomic resolution of system configuration

To provide a system for reducing oversight of the result of false recognition and improving working efficiency, while realizing the reduction of load of operators, and to provide a method thereof. The system in the invention contains a display unit and a control unit for controlling the display unit, and may display a plurality of unit images in series on the display unit, wherein the display unit includes a first display area and a second display area controlled by the control unit, and the control unit controls so that the display of the unit image on the first display area may differ from the display of the unit image on the second display area in the format thereof. The control unit may be made so as to include a means for adjusting the transferring distance of a plurality of the unit images per unit time. Furthermore, the control unit may be made so as to display the unit images while keeping the unit images stood still for a given period of time on the first display area, and so as to display the unit images while transferring the unit images in given scrolling direction on the second display area.

Inspecting OCR characters by displaying adjacent character images

An output mechanism of a character recognition device includes a category classifier for classifying image data of characters to be recognized for each category recognized in character recognition processing, a clustering processor for determining feature values related to shapes of characters included in the image data in each category classified by the category classifier, and for classifying the image data into one or more clusters based on the feature values, and a screen creator for creating a confirmation screen for displaying the image data for each cluster classified by the clustering processor.

Device for outputting character recognition results, character recognition device, and program therefor

Method for outputting character recognition results

A method for controlling the display of a screen which allows the user to discriminate the scanned image and the recognition result intuitively and easily. The display control method for allowing the user to verify the recognition result of a character on a verification screen form is implemented as follows. First of all, the standard pattern of a specific character stored in a memory and a plurality of character images recognized as the specific character are read, upon an operation of the user. And the read standard pattern is displayed in a recognition result character display portion within the verification screen form and a plurality of the read character image are displayed sequentially in a character image display portion adjacent or proximal to the recognition result character display portion and at a predetermined position of a character image list display portion. A plurality of character images are listed in the character image list display portion, in which the already displayed character images are shifted one position from the predetermined position and displayed.

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Toshimichi Arima