International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Yasuharu Katsuno

Ashish Kundu

Vijay Krishnarao Naik

Kirk Alan Beaty

Takahide Nogayama

Fumiko Akiyama

Ryoji Honda

Julia L O'Halloran

John G Buckley

Sachiko Yoshihama

Naohiko Uramoto

Kohtaroh Miyamoto

Hitomi Takahashi

Toru Aihara

Takuya Mishina

Akihiko Tozawa

Akihiko Mizutani

Ken Mizuno

Ruriko Kudo

Masahiko Hatori

Ai Yoshino

Vijay Alone

Ryohji Honda

Operation testing without side effects may be enabled by a method including preparing a copy of a directory set of at least a part of a host system disk, creating a link to a file in a first directory in the host system disk, in a second directory of the copy of the directory set, wherein the second directory corresponds in position to the first directory in the directory set, and starting a non-privileged system using a disk image including the copy of the directory set and the created link.

Side-effect resistant operation testing

Methods and systems for software analysis include determining a similarity score for an ordered input set and at least one ordered cluster set that represents a distance between the ordered input set and the at least one ordered cluster set. It is determined that he ordered input is similar to a first cluster of the at least one ordered cluster set, based on the similarity score. The ordered input set is merged to the first cluster of the at least one cluster set to generate a merged set that preserves an ordering of the ordered input set and the first cluster. Software analysis is performed using the merged set.

Merging totally ordered sets

A system is provided for automatically closing a server-rack door. A microphone acquires sound data and an acceleration sensor acquires acceleration data. A controller determines at least one time when a volume of the sound data exceeds a threshold. The controller identifies at least one waveform from the acceleration data which matches (i) an opening waveform or (ii) a closing waveform. The controller checks, for each given waveform from among the at least one waveform, if the at least one time is within a time range of the given waveform and, if so, determine that the user is opening or closing the server-rack door by identifying the given waveform as matching the opening or closing waveform. The controller provides a notification of an open status of the server-rack door based on numbers of opening and closing waveforms. The controller automatically closes the server-rack door, responsive to the notification.

Closing server-rack door using acoustic noise and acceleration

A method for scheduling a deployment in a first server and a second server identifies a succeeding task out of tasks deployed in the first server. The succeeding task is a task required to wait for an end of a preceding task. The preceding task is one of tasks deployed in the second server. The method sets a wait task in a process of the deployment in the first server. The wait task is a task to wait for an execution timing of the succeeding task. The method decides an execution timing of the wait task on a basis of an overlapping time of a first download task and a second download task. The first download task is one of the tasks deployed in the first server. The second download task is one of the tasks deployed in the second server.

Scheduling software deployment

A method and apparatus for connecting an information processor to any network to perform communications are disclosed. A setting information indicating network settings to be set for an information processor when performing communications via a network is stored. A route setting packet, which is sent by a network device connected to the network to which the information processor is connected, is acquired to set a route to be used by the network device to communicate with another device. A device identification information for identifying a network device from which the route setting packet was sent is extracted from the route setting packet. The information processor is allowed to perform communications by acquiring the setting information associated with the extracted device identification information, and the information is specifically set for the information processor.

Method for use by an information processor

A computer implemented method, a program, and a system for effectively providing versatile non-text information suitable for use in a multi-language environment. The method includes the steps of: receiving search results of a database using a search criterion in a certain language and a search criterion in another language corresponding to the search criterion in which specific language attributes are associated with non-text elements that are included in the search results; scoring the non-text elements included in the search results depending on a similarity to another element with which a different language attribute is associated; and identifying at least one of the non-text elements included in the search results on the basis of the scores.

Computer implemented method, program, and system for identifying non-text element suitable for communication in multi-language environment

A hybrid cloud environment is provided where a user of cloud computing services is disposed to consume cloud provided services delivered by each of a plurality of cloud computing service providers. Specified event data is received at an MCS component. The event data pertains to metering events related to the cloud provided services delivered by one or more cloud service providers. Event data include event data furnished by one or more entities that actively monitor metering events at one or more local or remote cloud service provider locations. Event data are sent from the MCS component to a metering system. The metering system generates reports from the event data that contains usage information on services provided by one or more cloud service providers. Information for a provider specifies amounts and quality of each type of service delivered to users by the provider.

Integrated metering of service usage for hybrid clouds

An embodiment is directed to a hybrid cloud environment wherein a user of cloud computing services is disposed to consume cloud provided services delivered by each of a plurality of cloud computing service providers. Specified event data is received at an MCS component, wherein the event data pertains to metering events related to consumed services delivered by one or more cloud service providers. Event data includes event data furnished by one or more entities that actively monitor metering events at one or more local or remote cloud service provider locations. Event data is sent from the MCS component to a metering system, and the metering system generates reports from the event data that contains usage information on services provided by one or more cloud service providers, wherein information for a provider specifies amounts and quality of each type of service delivered to users by the provider.

A mobile communication system for designating a specific location and for selecting a call destination is provided. A server stores and manages the locational information (latitude and longitude) for the individual mobile stations. When each of the mobile stations transmits, to the server, mail including the designation of the locational range for a communication partner and other information to be provided, the server uses the locational information of the mobile stations and the range included in the mail (latitude and longitude at the center, and radius) to determine whether the location of a pertinent mobile station falls within the designated range, and thus obtains the user names of all the mobile stations present in the range. When there are too many mobile stations in the range, the server reduces the number of mobile stations and selects mobile stations based on user attributes. The server then transmits, to the thus selected mobile stations, mail including the information to be provided.

Mobile communication system and method

Group communication is performed in the wireless ad-hoc network that has a rearrangement frequency of connection higher than the communication frequency due to the movement of communication terminalsto. Communication terminalstostores the identification information and valid time periods of adjoining terminals into the group management table, as well as its own station's time period during which it belongs to the group, and send a packet with appending its own identification information and further a valid time period of the group based on the information about the valid time periods stored in the group management table

Communication method, communication terminal, wireless ad-hoc network and cellular phone

By employing easy determination logic, the amount of communication required for broadcasting and relaying is effectively reduced, and the message transmission efficiency is improved. A mobile terminal Tincludes determination logic. According to this logic, when a message is issued, via an arbitrary terminal, by a transmission source terminal Tto a relay terminal Tand the message is relayed by the relay terminal Tto the terminal Tthe terminal Tcalculates an information progress vector I, which indicates the direction in which information progresses, and a terminal progress vector M, which indicates the direction in which the terminal Tprogresses. Then, the terminal Tobtains an inner product cos &#x3b8; for which the information progress vector I and the terminal progress vector M are standardized, and forwards the received message when the condition cos &#x3b8;&#x2267;0  is established.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Yasuharu Katsuno