International Business Machines Corporation

Victor G Alonzo

Gisela C Cheng

Kin Ng

Yuk Lung Chan

Vaughn C Page

Kin Choi

Zachary A Burns

Robert M Abrams

Technical solutions are described for securing data by a communication apparatus. An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, by an encryption engine, a request to apply cryptography to input data. The computer-implemented method also includes generating metadata for the input data, where the metadata identifies characteristics of content included in the input data. The method further includes applying a cryptographic technique to the input data to generate output data, and outputting the output data and metadata in response to the request.

Privacy enabled runtime

Technical solutions are described for preventing unauthorized transmission of data by a communication apparatus. An example computer-implemented method includes monitoring a data transmission request from an application being executed by the communication apparatus. The data transmission request is associated with transmission data. The method further includes securing the transmission data, where the securing includes identifying a content of a predetermined type in the transmission data, and generating secured transmission data. The secured transmission data includes a corresponding modified version of the content of the predetermined type. The computer-implemented method also includes transmitting the secured transmission data in response to the data transmission request.

A computer-implemented method includes identifying a primary computing platform, identifying one or more secondary computing platforms, and identifying a requesting virtual server. The requesting virtual server resides on the primary computing platform and is associated with one or more requesting clients. One or more donating virtual servers are identified. The donating virtual servers reside on the primary computing platform and are associated with one or more donating clients. One or more external virtual servers are identified. The external virtual servers reside on the secondary computing platforms. A resource donation scenario is determined. The resource donation scenario includes one or more resource exchanges between the requesting virtual server and the donating virtual servers. A resource adjustment scenario is determined. The resource adjustment scenario includes one or more resource exchanges between the external virtual servers. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.

Inter-platform management of computing resources

Examples of techniques for routing a representational state transfer (REST) request among a plurality of virtual processing systems are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: receiving, at a load balancer, the REST request; assigning, by the load balancer, the REST request to one of a plurality of web servers, each of the plurality of web servers executing on a virtual processing system; routing, by the one of the plurality of web servers, the REST request to one of the plurality of virtual processing systems; and storing, by the one of the plurality of web servers, state information regarding the REST request to a data store.

Representational state transfer request routing

Examples of techniques for invoking a restricted access service through a representational state transfer (RESTful) interface are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include: receiving, at a web server, a RESTful application program interface (API) request to access a RESTful API from a user on a mobile device; determining whether the user is authorized to access the RESTful API using an authorization service; responsive to determining that the user is authorized to access the RESTful API, routing the RESTful API request from the web server to the restricted access service to process the request; receiving, by the web server, return data from the restricted access service after processing the request; and invoking a data transformer associated with the RESTful API to transform the return data into transformed data.

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Wappingers Falls, NY, United States of America

Victor G Alonzo