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International Business Machines Corporation

Vmobo, Inc.

Yan Or

Vinu Sundaresan

Madhu Gopinathan

Anand Kumar Sankaran

Larisa Shwartz

Naga A Ayachitula

Krishna Sastry Garimella

Maheswaran Surendra

A recommendation server provides product or service suggestions to a user based on transaction and location data. The recommendation server receives transaction data from a merchant device operated by a merchant affiliate. The transaction data contains information that is used to identify a suggested product or service. A search vicinity is determined based on the location of the merchant affiliate and the suggested product or service. A suggested merchant is determined that is located within the search vicinity, and that sells the suggested product or service. Information about the suggested merchant and the suggested product or service is sent to a user device operated by the user in order to encourage them to make a purchase from the suggested merchant.

Location and transaction-based recommendations

A geo-search server receives a query from a user device operated by a user and determines candidate locations that may be associated with the query based on the text of the query, using a geodata index. The geodata index contains information about location names and the geo-locations associated with those names. A relevance score is generated for each candidate location and a target location is selected based on the relevance scores. A query classification is determined based on the query, using a domain index, and query response candidates are selected from a content index based on the target location and the query classification. A relevance score is generated for each of the query response candidates, and a query response is selected based on the relevance scores. The query response is sent to the user device.

Location-based mobile search

A classified ads server receives a search query from a mobile device operated by a user. The search query is parsed and a plurality of tokens is extracted from the search query. A query classification is determined based on the query, using a domain index, and query response candidates are selected from a content index based on the search query tokens and the query classification. A relevance score is generated for each of the query response candidates, and a classified ad is selected based on the relevance scores. The classified ad is sent to the user device.

Mobile classifieds search

Methods and apparatus of automatically creating composite configuration items in a configuration management database are provided. A plurality of configuration items and a corresponding plurality of configuration item relationships are provided to the configuration management database. One or more composite configuration items are created from one or more of the plurality of configuration items in accordance with one or more types of the plurality of configuration items.

Methods and apparatus for automatically creating composite configuration items in configuration management database

Methods and apparatus of managing a CMDB are provided. At least one composite CI is utilized in the CMDB. The at least one composite CI is represented as a graph of navigable relationships between one or more supporting elements in accordance with a template. The one or more supporting elements comprise at least a root element of the composite CI.

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