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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Eric H. Bokelberg, Colchester, VT (US);
Blain A. Dillard, Cary, NC (US);
David A. Hoffman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Patrick Howard, Charlotte, NC (US);
Brian T. Paulsen, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jose A. Tano, Miami Beach, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing a challenge event. At least two participants are selected to participate in the challenge event, in response to receipt of a request for the challenge event from a client computer. Assets of software code are provided to the participants for assisting the participants to deliver respective submissions as outcomes of participation by the participants in the challenge event. A solution to the challenge event in a form of a computer code is received from only one participant, of the at least two participants, previously chosen by from the selected at least two participants as the only participant to submit the solution.