International Business Machines Corporation

Umberto Caselli

Antonio Mario Sgro

Gianluca Della Corte

Leonardo Lanni

Stefano Borghetti

Attilio Mattiocco

Alberto L Galvani

Atlilio Mattlocco

A method and apparatus for managing messages is disclosed. A data processing system identifies a presence of a person in a meeting at a location using calendar information. The data processing system also identifies a computing device in the location having a connection to a network. The data processing system then sends a notification to the computing device identified in the location, responsive to the data processing system identifying a message for the person when the person is meeting in the location.

Forwarding messages for meeting attendees to host computers at the meeting location

A solution for retrieving data from a plurality of different sources, wherein the data are retrieved from the different sources by means of respective data retrieval jobs having respective execution times. A data retrieval jobs execution list is built by ordering the data retrieval jobs to be executed in order of decreasing execution times. Next, the data retrieval jobs are executed according to the data retrieval jobs execution list.

Method of minimizing average deviation of job completion times by executing data retrieval jobs in order of decreasing retrieval times

An arbitrary metric stream is processed initially at an interim sampling rate to derive a plurality of samples. The samples are analyzed preferably to determine an estimate of the effective bandwidth of the metric stream. As a result of the analysis, an improved sampling rate is determined and adopted for further sampling. In a preferred embodiment, the improved sampling rate is a function of the effective bandwidth.

Metric sampling method

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