International Business Machines Corporation

Vaughn Theodore Rokosz

Andrew Lewis Schirmer

Michael D Elder

Matthew G Schultz

Jason Y Jho

Michael Muller

Brian C Schimpf

Sreedhar Rella

Ruthie D Lyle

James Patrick Goodwin

A system that generates display objects in a graphical user interface that enable the user of an application which accesses a data repository through result sets to dynamically construct a new query to show all database records having the same contents as a specified set of fields in a currently active database record. Display objects are further generated that enable the user to specify how the contents of the selected fields are to be matched (e.g. exact matching, inclusion, etc.) and/or logical relationships between specified field contents (e.g. Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT, etc.). In one embodiment, once a query is defined in this way, it is stored, for example in the user's profile, so that the user can access it across uses of the application.

Dynamically creating queries to find related records in a database

A method, system and apparatus for selectively blocking the transmission of an unsolicited instant message. The method of the invention can include receiving an instant message designated an intended recipient; locating the intended recipient in a do not instant message list; and, responsive to the location, blocking the instant message for subsequent transmission to the intended recipient. Notably, the blocking step can include the step of selectively blocking the instant message based upon a specified policy defined for the intended recipient.

Selectively blocking instant messages according to a do not instant message list

A data retrieval system provides automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is automatically stored without user interaction. The automatically stored information is used to copy the transferable object to an object receptor in a second context while the user operates in the second context. A marker stored in the memory signifies an end of a first historical period associated with the first context and a start of a second historical period associated with the second context, associates the transferable object identified in the first context with the first historical period, and separates the information automatically stored in the memory in the first historical period from information automatically stored in the memory in the second historical period.

System for automatic data retrieval based on context-traversal history

A knowledge Management (KM) tool that allows persons in an organization to more rapidly locate the people and information they need to answer their questions. Identification and visualization of information aggregate founders, including category creators, helps in locating expertise, and additionally helps to reveal and magnify hidden knowledge dynamics within the organization.

System and method for determining founders of an information aggregate

A system for animating the visualization of exceptions thrown by an application includes an application server; an application program; an in-memory exception table; an exception log file; an analysis database; and a user interface. The application server is operable for executing the application program during a server session including a plurality of analysis windows; responsive to exceptions thrown by the application program during execution for logging exception data to the in-memory exception table; responsive to completing an analysis window, logging the exception table to the exception log file; responsive to completing the server session, for building an analysis database from the exception log file; and generating from the exception log file an exception visualization animation including a sequential plurality of exception table renditions to the user interface.

System and method for visualizing exception generation

Under the present invention, interactivity metrics between users of collaborative spaces are measured. Based on the interactivity metrics, the collaborative spaces are categorized. Then, when a potential user provides desired interactivity metrics for a collaborative space he/she wishes to utilize, one or more of the categorized collaborative spaces can be recommend thereto.

Computer-implemented system and program product for analyzing a collaborative space

Computer implemented method for analyzing a collaborative space

A data retrieval system and method provide automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is automatically stored without user involvement. The automatically stored information is used to copy the transferable object to an object receptor in a second context while the user operates in the second context.

Automatic data retrieval system based on context-traversal history

A system and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes and associated person. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database aggregates documents having same, unique attributes in a plurality of information aggregates, and determines the intersections of said information aggregates. A visualization engine displays these intersections selectively with reference to people, documents, usage patterns or categories.

System and method for determining community overlap

A system and method for determining a social network. A metrics database stores virtual object indicia including document attributes, activities, and associated persons. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database infers individual connections to the virtual object by individuals executing the activities. A visualization engine visualizes membership in the social network as including these individuals and the activities connecting them. The query engine further collects a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a first shared attribute into an aggregate, and the visualization engine further filters the social network to include only individuals having membership in the aggregate.

System and method for building social networks based on activity around shared virtual objects

System and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes, associated persons and age of creation. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database aggregates documents having same, unique attributes and calculates therefrom, or from meta data defining the aggregate, an age value of the aggregate. A visualization engine visualizes age values for a plurality of aggregates at a client display.

System and method for examining, calculating the age of an document collection as a measure of time since creation, visualizing, identifying selectively reference those document collections representing current activity

System and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes, associated persons and usage metrics. A query engine collects a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate and tracks usage metrics with respect to the documents. A visualization engine visualizes the usage metrics with respect to a single aggregate, or as a composite or comparison of usage metrics for a plurality of aggregates.

System and method for analyzing usage patterns in information aggregates

A technique for applying time compression to simulate long-term execution of a software application in the short time frames includes providing simulated events to a software application under test and selectively advancing the system clock. The subject system utilizes two utility modules to interact with a software application under testing. The first module, the Event Simulation module, generates a range of predefine events which simulate the nature and frequency of events to which the software application would react. The second module, the Clock Modification module, intercepts the time signal generated by the operating system under which the software application is executing and modifies the clock signal, typically by advancing the time at a rate which is faster than one second per second, i.e., normal time rate. With the subject system, the behavior of an application over a simulated period may be observed in just a fraction of the simulated period duration, e.g. one year of simulated testing performance in five days. For systems or applications where behavior is influenced by the historical pattern of use, the disclosed technique for time compression can identify defects that normally occur only after extended periods of use.

System and method for time compression during software testing

Information in a database collection of knowledge resources is evaluated by collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate; assigning to each document an usefulness value; and calculating and visualizing the acceleration of the aggregate as a ratio of a sum of the usefulness values for documents recently included in the information aggregate to a sum of the usefulness values for all documents in the aggregate.

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Newton, MA, United States of America

Vaughn Theodore Rokosz