International Business Machines Corporation

Yoshio Horiuchi

Takaaki Kawase

Ken Kumagai

Masaki Saitoh

Takehiko Amano

Satoko Kinoshita

Kenji Uchida

Masaki Wakao

Harumi Itoh

Tadahiko Nakamura

Masato Suzuki

Daisuke Maruyama

Kinichi Mitsui

Susumu Fukuda

Mayumi Goto

Tomoko Murayama

Masashi Doi

Tsend Ochir Bat Ulzii

Timothy Waileong Koh

Sho Ayuba

Masayuki Yamana

Takashi Takahashi

Hirotaka Matsumoto

Yuji Sugiyama

Jiayun Zhu

Yuriko Nishikawa

Chiaki Oishi

Kazuto Yamafuji

Masabumi Koinuma

Katsuhiko Hagiwara

Isao Kadowaki

Masahiro Okawa

Junichi Sugimoto

Mari (Kuroki) Onishi

Kenya Ishimoto

Kohji Nakamori

Koichi Omae

Masayuki Ryuhtoh

Tetsuya Yanagawa

A display frame position/orientation adjustment is made to a computer display data set before it is displayed on a display screen (for example, a display screen of a user's smartphone). The offsets the display from the display frame defined by the edges of the display screen. The user tends to counter these offsets by moving from a relatively poor body posture and into a good body posture.

Display adjustments to provide cues for improved viewer posture

Provided are embodiments for a method for managing a multi-group virtual conference. Embodiments can include providing user access to at least one cluster of a plurality of clusters in a virtual conference and determining at least one feature word representing a topic for each of the plurality of clusters. Embodiments can also include displaying in each of the plurality of clusters the at least one feature word and receiving a user input to modify user participation in the at least one cluster. Also provided are embodiments for a system and computer program product for managing the multigroup virtual conference.

Mechanism for the management of topic-based multi-group virtual conferences

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method of managing message relationships in a messaging system. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, using a processor system, a modification to a first message. The processor system is used to perform a significance-level evaluation of the modification to the first message. Based at least in part on a first result of the significance-level evaluation, the first message is deleted and the modification to the first message is maintained. Based at least in part on a second result of the significance-level evaluation, the first message is maintained; the modification to the first message is stored in a database; and the first message is associated with the modification to the first message in the database.

Managing relationships among original, modified, and related messages using significance-level analysis and change-relevancy annotations

A computer-implemented method for generating information associated with unknown verbal communications is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a user indication of an unknown verbal communication. The computer-implemented method further includes displaying a potential unknown word list to the user, wherein the potential unknown word list includes words corresponding to verbal communications that occurred prior to receiving the user indication of the unknown verbal communication. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying that a word is selected from the potential unknown word list. The computer-implemented method further includes generating, in response to identifying that the word is selected from the potential unknown word list, additional information associated with the selected word.

Automatic search query for unknown verbal communications

A computer-implemented method includes: selecting a web page from plural web pages being opened in a web browser; finding a similar page having similar content to the selected web page from the plural web pages; and closing the similar page in response to an operation by a user.

Restructuring pages having similar content

A method performed in a web page authoring system having a user input system and an editing screen display for displaying a representation of a tag associated with a display artifact represented on the editing screen display is disclosed. A user action input selecting a reference point on the editing screen display for a web page being authored is received. A reference area on the editing screen display enclosing the selected reference point is set. The display object closest to the reference point is selected as a reference display artifact from among display artifacts in the reference area. A tag associated with the reference display artifact is selected from among tags associated with the display artifacts. A first rectangle is drawn on the editing screen display artifact. A second, larger rectangle is drawn enclosing the first rectangle. A space between the first and second rectangles represents the selected tag.

Object selection in web page authoring

The present invention provides a method for analyzing answers to questions in an electronic document. The method comprises reading, into a memory, the user's answers to the questions and a user's answer history information from the user's answers, wherein the user's answer history information is collected at the time the questions are answered. The method further comprises inputting, into a machine learning model, the user's answers to the questions and the user's answer history information from the user's answers to output an analysis result, wherein the machine learning model is trained, in advance, using one or more sets of training data, each set of training data comprising one or more answers to one or more questions and answer history information from the one or more answers, and a correct result which is obtained by manually judging the one or more answers to the one or more questions.

Analysis of answers to questions

Improved data pipelines are provided. A request to activate a first pipeline based on a first pipeline definition is received. The first pipeline is generated based on the first pipeline definition, wherein generating the first pipeline includes generating a reusable processing module at a first position within the first pipeline, and generating a downstream processing module at a second position within the first pipeline, where the downstream processing module selectively sends output data to the reusable processing module, such that data processed by the first data pipeline will be processed by the identified reusable processing module at least twice. The first pipeline is activated.

Establishing data pipelines with inclusion of iterative sub-pipelines

A computer-implemented method includes setting a first region on a display, the first region including a first character string, setting a second region, the second region including the first region, and dynamically generating a second character string in response to a user specifying an arbitrary position outside the first region and within the second region, the second character string is generated by changing a representation of the first character string depending on a distance between the first region and the user specified position.

Dynamically changing words based on a distance between a first area and a second area

According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, an example method includes, based on a determination that a user is not present at a computing device, capturing a plurality of screen images from the computing device. The method further includes detecting one or more notifications being received based on a difference in a pair of consecutively captured screen images comprising a first screen image and a second screen image. The method further includes extracting a notification information for each notification by extracting a portion of the captured screen images corresponding to the one or more notifications respectively. The method further includes based on a determination that the user has returned at the computing device, generating and displaying a digest notification that comprises the extracted notification information for each of the one or more notifications that were received when the user was not present.

Generating notification digest based on user presence

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system distributes communications and includes at least one processor. The system identifies an answer to a question submitted to the system by a requesting user. A responding user is identified that submitted the identified answer to the system. The system enables the responding user to view the identified answer. In response to receiving a revision to the identified answer from the responding user, one or more users that have viewed the identified answer are determined and notified of the revision to the answer. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for distributing communications in substantially the same manner described above.

Distributing updated communications to viewers of prior versions of the communications

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for displaying overlapping text elements on a graphical user interface. Initially, it is determined, whether a first display elements overlaps a second display element. If, the first display elements overlaps the second display element, then a text stack is created of all overlapping display elements. Only an identified display element is displayed on the text stack. Finally, a scroll mechanism is provided which allows a user to scroll through and display the first and second set of display elements which overlap.

Dynamic text scroll control in a user interface

A software development management system for use by multiple developers includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of a plurality of work items each representing a work to change at least one file, designation of a file associated with the work item. A dependency detection unit detects dependencies among a number of files. A determination unit determines, on the basis of the dependencies among the files, whether there is a dependency relationship between at least two work items based on the dependency relationship between the files detected by the dependency detection unit.

Software development work item management system

A first user input event initiating a transition of a GUI from a first state to a second state is generated in response to detecting a first user input received by the GUI. A first spatial location in the GUI selected by the first user input can be identified. A second user input event is generated in response to detecting a second user input received by the GUI while the GUI is in the second state. A second spatial location in the GUI selected by the second user input can be identified. A level of discontinuity between the first user input and the second user input can be determined. If the level of discontinuity does not exceed a threshold value, at least one user input event handling process can be selected to process the second user input event based on the level of discontinuity not exceeding the discontinuity threshold value.

Operation of a data processing system during graphical user interface transitions

Cloning a local environment is described. Cloning a local environment can enable sharing the environment during pair programming. Cloning can have other uses as well. A server or other computer may maintain a clone environment of a first client apart from a second client such that the cloned computing environment, mimicking the environment of the first client, may be maintained on behalf of and used by a second client.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Yoshio Horiuchi