International Business Machines Corporation

Yun-Wu Huang

John J Ponzo

Paul Christesten Castro

Philip Shi-lung Yu

Fan Jing Meng

Pu Jin

Roger Alan Pollak

Michael Montinarelli

Chen Feng

Zon-Yin Shae

Hani Talal Jamjoom

Mark Edward Podlaseck

Ying Huang

Gegi Thomas

Robert D Johnson

Daniel J Williams

Peter Kissa

Kamal Kumar Bhattacharya

Bo Yang

Kun-Lung Wu

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Xiaolan Zhang

Christopher Charles Young

Sean James Martin

Matthew A Markley

Moshe Morris Emanuel Matsa

Simon L Martin

John K Baker

Kristiann J Schultz

Venkata Vinay Parisa

Ronald So-tse Woan

Philip S-l Yu

John L Ponzo

Philip Sl Yu

Access is obtained to raw historic information technology migration data, which data is transformed in accordance with a classification scheme to obtain classified key historic information technology migration data. A statistical model with conditional distributions of the key historic information technology migration data is built. Prior to a new information technology migration project, access is obtained to incomplete data characterizing the new information technology migration project. The statistical model is used to derive data missing from the incomplete data characterizing the new information technology migration project, to obtain derived data. At least one of a migration plan and an estimate for the new information technology migration project is created based on the incomplete data and the derived data.

Migration estimation with partial data

Systems and methods for providing content using dynamic action templates are provided. A method for providing content to at least one user, comprises corresponding at least one action to at least one action template, associating the content with the at least one action, and presenting the content to the at least one user, wherein the at least one action template is appended to the content.

Providing content using dynamic action templates

A conformance checker is received on a system that contains hostable content, and is executed. One or more results provided by the conformance checker are evaluated; and the hostable content is migrated to a destination host in accordance with the evaluating step.

Specification-guided migration

Techniques for coordinating application migration processes. A method includes selecting at least one migration service for an application based on analysis of application information and information pertaining to multiple migration services, creating a migration plan to migrate the application to a target cloud based on the at least one selected migration service, and executing the migration plan, utilizing the at least one selected migration service, to migrate the application to the target cloud.

Coordinating application migration processes

Systems and articles of manufacture for coordinating application migration processes include selecting at least one migration service for an application based on analysis of application information and information pertaining to multiple migration services, creating a migration plan to migrate the application to a target cloud based on the at least one selected migration service, and executing the migration plan, utilizing the at least one selected migration service, to migrate the application to the target cloud.

A method for sharing documents includes initiating a sharing session with a first participant and a second participant, wherein the first participant is communicatively connected to the second participant via a server, receiving a control request having an action from the first participant, determining whether the control request includes a share page action, and retrieving components of the page with available component types and sending components associated with preferences of the first participant to the first participant and components associated with preferences of the second participant to the second participant responsive to determining that the control request includes the share page action.

Sharing of documents with semantic adaptation across mobile devices

A software system is provided to allow a computer to install and process web applications according to the invention. Such web applications are written as web pages that have access to the full range of operating system resources, including those not accessible through a web browser. Preferably, a web application is built using three types of languages used for constructing web pages, namely: (a) a visual presentation language; (2) a data modeling language; and (3) a scripting language for embedding logic. The software system preferably comprises a web application manager, an operating system interface module, a scripting language interpreter, and optionally a web browser and/or a data modeling language processor. Various other features such as data caching and security filtering are provided in accordance with such a system.

Methods and apparatus for a web application processing system

The present invention is a novel management system for selectively distributing applications and databases from a server computer to a plurality of intermittently connected handheld devices. The applications and databases to be downloaded and deleted are first selected from an application list maintained by handheld devices. After established a connection with the server computer, the application list of selected applications is copied to the server computer which maintains an access control list indicating which applications are permitted to be downloaded to which handheld devices. The server computer examines the application list and the access control list to determine which applications are both selected and are authorized for use by the handheld device. After determining that requested applications are authorized for requesting devices, these applications are downloaded. If the connected handheld device does not have that the application list, the application list is created for it and downloaded.

Method and apparatus for server based handheld application and database management

A sync proxy or sync server logic, process and apparatus employing sync logic and/or transformation codes distributed in the network to increase the scalability and improve the manageability of synchronization between a client such as: an Internet appliance; a handheld or palmtop device; a smart phone or intelligent pager; and their remote replica sources. An example of an adaptive sync server for synchronizing data between a client and a remote host replica, which stores a replica of data on the client includes sync acceptor logic for identifying a replica host and a sync logic which is application specific to a data type associated with the client and the remote host; wherein the sync logic can be located anywhere on a network remote to the sync server and the remote host, in response to a sync request; and sync handler logic, coupled to the sync acceptor logic, for retrieving remote sync logic from the network, connecting to the remote host, and synchronizing the data between the client and the remote host using the retrieved sync logic. The sync request could explicitly (or by default) identify the replica host and the sync logic or could include an address of a directory service storing information for identifying the replica host and the sync logic. The sync request could also or alternatively include information for identifying a (local or remote) device specific transformation code for converting data between the client and the remote host during synchronization; and means for retrieving the transformation code based on the information and converting the data between the client and the remote host based on the device specific transformation code.

Method, apparatus and program storage device for a client and adaptive synchronization and transformation server

A distributed object rendering method and system for a collaborative data network is disclosed. The data network, which may include the Internet, has attached computing nodes, including object requestor nodes, object source nodes, and intermediate nodes which may be proxy servers. The method can allow each participating proxy server to adapt to the dynamic load conditions of itself as well as proxies, as well as to dynamic traffic conditions in the data network. The determination of which proxy or set of proxies is to perform object rendering and caching is based on a distributed, collaborative method that is adopted among the proxies. The criteria for such a method can include the bandwidth and current load of the network links among proxies, and/or the respective CPU usage of the proxies. If an object rendering can be staged, e.g., different resolution rendering, it can be performed by more than one of the proxies. The determination of which proxy performs which stage of the multistage rendering can also be adaptive to the dynamic load conditions, as well as network conditions.

Method and apparatus of a collaborative proxy system for distributed deployment of object rendering

There is provided a method and system for performing synchronization between a first replica associated with an application in a first computer processing device and a second replica associated with the application in a second computer processing device. The method includes the step of generating a synchronization plan for the replicas for managing the synchronization therebetween. The sync plan includes data structure information corresponding to data structures of the replicas, storage access information for enabling access to each individual data unit within the data structures of the replicas, and synchronization and conflict resolution actions for specifying actions to be taken for each individual data unit with respect to the synchronization and any conflicts resulting therefrom. At least one individual data unit in the first replica is synchronized with a corresponding individual data unit in the second replica, in accordance with the sync plan.

Method and system for synchronizing data using fine-grained synchronization plans

A computing device has a database replica comprised of a plurality of records. A synchronization request is provided to a further computing device having a further database replica which is comprised of a further plurality of records. A version table maintains version numbers for each of the plurality of records. The version numbers each have a maximum size. The maximum size is selectable. The plurality of records may be synchronized with the further plurality of records based upon the version numbers.

Method and apparatus for random update synchronization among multiple computing devices

A proxy strategy not only caches objects but actively sets update schedules for channel information disseminated from different servers. Based on available bandwidth, this proxy strategy formulates a mathematical function that can be solved to establish the proxy update schedules by maximizing the overall currency of information received by the clients. Clients whose update requests do not result in receiving the most upto-date information for a given channel may also be recorded. After the next scheduled proxy update for a given channel, the proxy actively sends the most up-to-date information for this channel to the recorded clients. The client interest for a given channel is measured based on the client updates the proxy received since last scheduled update for this channel, and the currency of information received by these clients. A dynamic update can be performed by the proxy for channels with high client interest before their respective scheduled updates based on the available bandwidth. Upon performing a dynamic update for a given channel, the proxy can delay the next schedule update for this channel by a whole regular proxy update interval.

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Yun-Wu Huang