International Business Machines Corporation

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William E Spencer

Barbara J Bryant

Margaret M Bennett

Nicole M Fagen

A method for providing security vulnerability information is provided. The method may include checking for the security vulnerability information product supplier servers. The method may further include sending alerts to a security vulnerability administrator associated with a client environment. Additionally, the method may include performing a security check on the security vulnerability administrator to authorize the security vulnerability administrator to receive the security vulnerability information. The method may also include authenticating customers associated with the client environment to authorize the customers to receive the security vulnerability information. The method may further include prompting the authorized security vulnerability administrator to acknowledge an information confidentiality reminder. The method may also include sending an audit record to the product supplier server. The method may further include presenting the security vulnerability information to the authorized security vulnerability administrator and the authorized customers associated with the client environment.

Controlled delivery and assessing of security vulnerabilities

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for assessing environment specific maintenance actions are provided. The method includes identifying a maintenance update for a specific environment including one or more computer systems, where the maintenance update addresses one or more known problems. The method also includes applying factors to determine an assessment index for the one or more known problems as a function of the specific environment. The assessment index indicates a level of installation criticality relative to the specific environment. The method further includes outputting an installation recommendation for the identified maintenance update in response to determining the assessment index.

Maintenance assessment management

An inexpensive, compact and portable instrument using two photoelectric cells in a sensitive Wheatstone bridge, an operational amplifier and ambient light sources and arranged to easily engage the finger or other parts of the human body at frequent intervals and detect the pulsatile blood changes in the vascular bed and provide a visual and audible indication corresponding to the pulse and heartbeat. Also, the pulse and heartbeat can be measured and the pulse ratetime patterns recorded for various diagnostic purposes including the identification of suspected allergens and toxic substances.

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Pleasant Valley, NY, United States of America

William E Spencer