Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to generating an original message ask model that can be utilized to determine, based on an original message sent to a user, whether a commit is likely to be present in a yet to be formulated new reply message that is responsive to the original message. In some of those implementations, an indication may be provided for presentation to the user via a computing device of the user in response to determining that a commit is likely to be present in the yet to be formulated new reply message that is responsive to the original message sent to the user.

Abstract: A method of combining information from multiple heterogeneous workers comprises transmitting a first search request to a search worker to assist the search worker in searching a first database and returning a first results set. A second search request is directed to a peer worker to assist the peer worker in initiating a search of a second database across a network asynchronously from the search worker and returning a second results set. The first results set and second results set are then incorporated into a composite results set.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program to balance the computational and network load in networked computers using self-replicating programs, referred to as symbionts. The method presented here reduces hotspots by encapsulating a resource in a symbiont, and having a user access that symbiont through programs that host symbionts, referred to as hosts. When a host accesses a symbiont, it may replicate a copy of that symbiont resource on itself or may be redirected to some other replicate of the same symbiont. The host then offers the replicated resource on the network to alleviate the load experienced by the original symbiont's computer. If the load on a symbiont falls below a threshold, it is removed from the host on which it was hosted.