International Business Machines Corporation

Vladimir Soroka

Michal Jacovi

Boaz Mizrachi

Ido Guy

Amnon Ribak

Itzhack Goldberg

Yoelle Smadja Maarek

Doron Cohen

Sima Nadler

Paul Anthony Smith

Yoelle Maarek-Smadja

Einat Amitay

Sigalit Ur

Erik S Bryant

Saurabh Dua

Eyal Sonsino

Jaymin S Patel

Barbara Finkelstein

Gail Gilboa-Freedman

Natalia Marmasse

Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message.

Message notification in instant messaging

A method for allowing independent viewing of web conference content may include enumerating a plurality of windows of content of a web conference to allow caching of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window by a client computer device of a participant to provide independent viewing of each enumerated window by the participant in the web conference. The method may also include forming a bitmap of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window. The method may further include transmitting the bitmap of each enumerated window to the client computer device of the participant in the web conference.

Independent viewing of web conference content by participants

Device, system and method of physical context based wireless communication. For example, a method for physical context based wireless communication includes: determining an association between a spatial location of a wireless communication device and location context information related to said spatial location; determining an identity of a user of said wireless communication device; and determining an association between said user of the wireless communication device and said location context information.

Device, system, and method of physical context based wireless communication

A method and system for selecting communication means are provided. The method includes receiving a request for communication () by a current user () with a target contact and searching data of prior communication attempts () by prior users with one or more prior target contacts using different communication means, wherein the current user and the prior users fall within a first defined category and the target contact and the prior target contacts fall within a second defined category. The success of the communication means of prior communication attempts is determined () and a communication means for the current user is recommended (). The method includes referencing () relationship resource () to determine if users or target contacts fall within defined categories, such as, for example, an organizational structure level, a department, or a group of people with a given form of relationship to another group of people.

Method and system for selecting a communication means

A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining () the intended recipients of an email message prior to sending and comparing the intended recipients to defined recipient groups (). Potential errors in the intended recipients are identified and a prompt () is provided to amend the intended recipients. The prompt () provides a suggestion to replace, add or remove an intended recipient. The defined recipient groups include one or more of groups of recipients formed from an organization data structure (), groups of recipients defined by a user, and groups of recipients () mined from one or more user's previous email correspondence.

Method and system for email messaging

A method includes steps of: receiving a prompt from a user to activate a message interface in order to begin a session; activating the message interface such that said message interface is presented to the user and is able to receive input from the user; receiving user input from the message interface, including: a user selection of at least one target correspondent; and a first message to be sent to the at least one target correspondent; identifying the session with a unique identifier; and sending the first message to a messaging system for delivery to the target correspondent when the target correspondent is available.

Facilitating an extended IM session in a secure way

A method for determining differential availability, the method including identifying a current context of a first entity, and determining a current availability value of the first entity with respect to a second entity in accordance with an availability function, where the availability function is adaptive in accordance with an adaptation process to at least one past actual availability value of the fist entity with respect to the second entity in a previous context at least partially related to the current context, and where the availability function is operative to determine the current availability value as a function of the current context.

Differential availability determination and notification

A collaborative development environment includes an integrated development environment and a collaboration client integrated into the environment. There also is a Help menu of a software application which includes sections to provide information about the software application and a peer support section to provide access to a collaboration server.

Collaborative development environments for software

Message notification instant messaging

A method for document annotation includes providing a contextual framework extending over multiple electronic documents. Annotations are input to a computer by a user with respect to two or more of the documents, while the user views the documents on a computer screen. Each of the annotations is stored together with respective context information in a memory of the computer, the context information including multiple fields defined by the framework. The annotations are sorted with respect to the two or more documents according to one or more of the multiple fields of the respective context information, and the sorted annotations are output for viewing by the user.

Multi-document context aware annotation system

A method for monitoring activity on a computer network includes providing a map of a group of resources, which are accessible via the computer network, and tracking access of the resources in the group by computer users, so as to identify one or more of the users with respective resources that they are accessing. An identification of the one or more users and their respectively-accessed resources is registered with the map.

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Carmiel, Israel

Vladimir Soroka