Abstract: Techniques for user-adaptive volume selection are disclosed. A system receives audio input that includes a user request to a virtual assistant. The system determines one or more sound characteristics corresponding to the audio input, and applies the sound characteristic(s) to a volume selection model. The volume selection model selects a volume level based on the sound characteristic(s). The system plays an audio response to the user's request at the selected volume level. Subsequently, the system receives user input to modify output volume to a different volume level. Based on the user input, the system calibrates the volume selection model. When the system receives another audio input, the system analyzes the other audio input to determine one or more sound characteristics of the other audio input. The system uses the calibrated volume selection model to select a volume level for an audio response to the other audio input.

Abstract: Systems to gamify a data processing application using auditing data. Processing commences upon accessing electronic records comprising a set of application auditing specifications that identify one or more transaction types to be executed by a data processing application. Certain transactions corresponding to the identified transaction types are observed by an auditing facility during operation of the data processing application. At least some of the identified transaction types and measured audit parameters corresponding to the transactions are recorded. A gamification module associates the measured audit parameters with game parameters. Motivational imagery such as a scoreboard is generated for display.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for Java development environments. The method commences upon receiving a set of one or more rules to be applied to one or more JSON messages, then generating of one or more Java classes respective to received JSON messages. The received JSON messages can be retrieved from a repository for JSON message files, or the JSON messages can be received by sniffing a message transmitted over a network link. The rules can be applied according to one or more precedence regimes, and applying the precedence regimes over the two or more rules can be considered in a pre-processing step performed before receiving a JSON message or can be considered after receiving a JSON message.

Abstract: Techniques for user-adaptive volume selection are disclosed. A system receives audio input that includes a user request to a virtual assistant. The system determines one or more sound characteristics corresponding to the audio input, and applies the sound characteristic(s) to a volume selection model. The volume selection model selects a volume level based on the sound characteristic(s). The system plays an audio response to the user's request at the selected volume level. Subsequently, the system receives user input to modify output volume to a different volume level. Based on the user input, the system calibrates the volume selection model. When the system receives another audio input, the system analyzes the other audio input to determine one or more sound characteristics of the other audio input. The system uses the calibrated volume selection model to select a volume level for an audio response to the other audio input.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for mobile device interface generation. Embodiments commence upon receiving electronic communication comprising form metadata describing a user interface form. The form metadata comprises one or more field identifiers, which fields of the user interface form are bound to JSON messages (e.g., to receive field data). The form metadata further describes data types pertaining to the form fields, and the data types pertaining to the fields are used to select one or more user interface screen devices from a repository. One or more of the user interface screen devices are associated (e.g., bound) to occurrences of the same JSON message as were bound to fields of the user interface form. The selected one or more interface screen devices are output in a format of data that describes the selected interface screen devices in a manner for deployment on corresponding a mobile device or devices.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that allow for retroactively capturing a debug/trace-level log without experiencing the severe performance degradation that obtaining such a log would otherwise entail. Trace-level logging is performed by maintaining a buffer of log messages for application events. The buffer is allocated a memory having very fast write speeds, and writing such messages into the buffer has a negligible performance impact. Many of the messages written into the buffer may not be important or useful at the time they are written. However, when a failure occurs, the messages may be useful for figuring out what when wrong. Responsive to detecting a failure or other anomalous event, the buffer of messages is automatically written to a permanent storage. Although writing to the permanent storage may be slow, the performance degradation is only incurred when a failure occurs.

Abstract: Techniques for maintaining a dialog between a virtual assistant and a user are presented. The system generates a context object. Contextual information, related to the dialog, is stored to the context object. The contextual information, may define a state. Based on the state, the virtual assistant may present information, present a query, execute a query, or receive information from a user. The virtual assistant determines context throughout the conversation via the context object. The virtual assistant may to determine a variable corresponding to received input using information stored to the context object.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism for monitoring data using a watchlist item and a watchlist item definition that includes a set of parameters for identifying a set of data items for user action and criteria for recommending or requiring user action for the set of data items to be identified.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and mechanism to implement a unified infrastructure for handling IoT components and devices. A platform is provided to integrate, access, and control any type of local device, and to use any type of back-end application to processed collected data from the local devices.

Abstract: Techniques for exposing virtual assistant skills as authorable content items interpretable across multiple platforms are disclosed. In an embodiment, a query system comprises an execution engine and a plurality of wrapper services including (a) a first wrapper service for converting messages between a first protocol of a first virtual assistant platform and a target protocol and (b) a second wrapper service for converting messages between a second protocol of a second virtual assistant platform and the target protocol. The query system may receive a specification for a skill and requests from the plurality of virtual assistant platforms that invoke the skill. The wrapper services convert the requests to a target protocol consumable by the execution engine and convert responses from the execution engine a protocol consumable by the virtual assistant platform through which the request originated.

Abstract: Techniques for maintaining a dialogue between a virtual assistant and a user are disclosed. The system generates a context object. Contextual information, related to the dialogue, is stored to the context object. The contextual information may define a state. Based on the state, the virtual assistant may present information, present a query, execute a query, or receive information from a user. The virtual assistant determines context throughout the conversation via the context object. The virtual assistant may to determine a variable corresponding to received input using information stored to the context object.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for mobile device interface generation. Embodiments commence upon receiving electronic communication comprising form metadata describing a user interface form. The form metadata comprises one or more field identifiers, which fields of the user interface form are bound to JSON messages (e.g., to receive field data). The form metadata further describes data types pertaining to the form fields, and the data types pertaining to the fields are used to select one or more user interface screen devices from a repository. One or more of the user interface screen devices are associated (e.g., bound) to occurrences of the same JSON message as were bound to fields of the user interface form. The selected one or more interface screen devices are output in a format of data that describes the selected interface screen devices in a manner for deployment on corresponding a mobile device or devices.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for mobile device interface generation. Embodiments commence upon receiving electronic communication comprising form metadata describing a user interface form. The form metadata comprises one or more field identifiers, which fields of the user interface form are bound to JSON messages (e.g., to receive field data). The form metadata further describes data types pertaining to the form fields, and the data types pertaining to the fields are used to select one or more user interface screen devices from a repository. One or more of the user interface screen devices are associated (e.g., bound) to occurrences of the same JSON message as were bound to fields of the user interface form. The selected one or more interface screen devices are output in a format of data that describes the selected interface screen devices in a manner for deployment on corresponding a mobile device or devices.

Abstract: Systems to gamify a data processing application using auditing data. Processing commences upon accessing electronic records comprising a set of application auditing specifications that identify one or more transaction types to be executed by a data processing application. Certain transactions corresponding to the identified transaction types are observed by an auditing facility during operation of the data processing application. At least some of the identified transaction types and measured audit parameters corresponding to the transactions are recorded. A gamification module associates the measured audit parameters with game parameters. Motivational imagery such as a scoreboard is generated for display.

Abstract: Systems to gamify a data processing application using auditing data. Processing commences upon accessing electronic records comprising a set of application auditing specifications that identify one or more transaction types to be executed by a data processing application. Certain transactions corresponding to the identified transaction types are observed by an auditing facility during operation of the data processing application. At least some of the identified transaction types and measured audit parameters corresponding to the transactions are recorded. A gamification module associates the measured audit parameters with game parameters. Motivational imagery such as a scoreboard is generated for display.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for building JSON message relationships for offline operation of an enterprise application is presented. The claimed embodiments address the problem of mobile application behavior during periods of limited access to backend application services and data. More specifically, some embodiments are directed to approaches for capturing request and response information communicated between a client device and application server when connected by a network, and storing respective relationships using the captured information. The stored requests and responses and respective relationships are used to emulate the backend services provided by the application server when the client device is disconnected from the network. In one or more embodiments, a crawler on the client device can generate simulated online requests to build a set of information for use by the emulator when the client device is disconnected from the application server.

Abstract: Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an action command engine to simplify an end user's experience in executing processes in applications by enabling an action command engine to guide a user through the process in a step by step fashion. Embodiments of the invention can be implemented in different modes of operations, such as manual mode, auto-entry mode, or batch fill mode. A universal next button may be deployed to guide end user's through any process or task in software applications.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for Java development environments. The method commences upon receiving a set of one or more rules to be applied to one or more JSON messages, then generating of one or more Java classes respective to received JSON messages. The received JSON messages can be retrieved from a repository for JSON message files, or the JSON messages can be received by sniffing a message transmitted over a network link. The rules can be applied according to one or more precedence regimes, and applying the precedence regimes over the two or more rules can be considered in a pre-processing step performed before receiving a JSON message or can be considered after receiving a JSON message.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for Java development environments. The method commences upon receiving a set of one or more rules to be applied to one or more JSON messages, then generating of one or more Java classes respective to received JSON messages. The received JSON messages can be retrieved from a repository for JSON message files, or the JSON messages can be received by sniffing a message transmitted over a network link. The rules can be applied according to one or more precedence regimes, and applying the precedence regimes over the two or more rules can be considered in a pre-processing step performed before receiving a JSON message or can be considered after receiving a JSON message.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for moving objects such as a display window about a display frame by combining classical mechanics of motion. A window nudging method commences by receiving a discrete user interface gesture from a human interface device such as a mouse click or a keystroke, and based the discrete user interface gesture, instantaneously accelerating the window object to an initial velocity. Once the window is in motion, then the method applies a first animation to animate the window object using realistic motion changes. Such realistic motion changes comprise a friction model that combines sliding friction with fluid friction to determine frame-by-frame changes in velocity. The friction model that combines sliding friction with fluid friction can be applied to any object in the display frame. Collisions between one object and another object or between one object and its environment are modeled using a critically-damped spring model.