Abstract: Embodiments describe an approach for improving user consumption and promotion of multi-media content. Embodiments retrieve social media and location-specific context information from one or more social media platforms associated with one or more audience members. Embodiments determine a baseline mood for the one or more audience members based on the one or more audience member's social media activity and social media posts. Embodiments of capture one or more images of one or more audience member reactions while the one or more audience members view the multi-media content. Embodiments identify relevant scenes in the multi-media content based on the captured one or more audience member reactions. Additionally, embodiments generate promotional content based on the identified relevant scenes; and distribute the promotional content on the one or more social media platforms.

Abstract: Execution of varying tasks for heterogeneous applications running in a single runtime environment is managed. The runtime environment is capable of managing thread pools for any of the plurality of applications and receives a request to manage a thread pool for one of the applications. The request includes size thresholds for the pool, a first function to be invoked for creation of threads, and a second function to be invoked for termination of the threads. Responsive to detecting that a first size threshold is not satisfied, the runtime environment invokes the first function to cause the application to create an additional thread. Responsive to detecting that a second size threshold is not satisfied, the runtime environment places an artificial task that incorporates the second function into a work queue for the thread pool, whereby a thread executes the artificial task to invoke the second function and thereby terminates.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards optimizing two or more services that exchange data over a communication network to send, receive and record data across a plurality of network connections, where each network connection is between two sockets, and modifying the communication network to, at least temporarily, assign a plurality of sockets for use by the two services to exchange data between them.

Abstract: Execution of varying tasks for heterogeneous applications running in a single runtime environment is managed. The runtime environment is capable of managing thread pools for any of the plurality of applications and receives a request to manage a thread pool for one of the applications. The request includes size thresholds for the pool, a first function to be invoked for creation of threads, and a second function to be invoked for termination of the threads. Responsive to detecting that a first size threshold is not satisfied, the runtime environment invokes the first function to cause the application to create an additional thread. Responsive to detecting that a second size threshold is not satisfied, the runtime environment places an artificial task that incorporates the second function into a work queue for the thread pool, whereby a thread executes the artificial task to invoke the second function and thereby terminates.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards optimizing two or more services that exchange data over a communication network to send, receive and record data across a plurality of network connections, where each network connection is between two sockets, and modifying the communication network to, at least temporarily, assign a plurality of sockets for use by the two services to exchange data between them.

Abstract: Embodiments describe an approach for improving user consumption and promotion of multi-media content. Embodiments retrieve social media and location-specific context information from one or more social media platforms associated with one or more audience members. Embodiments determine a baseline mood for the one or more audience members based on the one or more audience member's social media activity and social media posts. Embodiments of capture one or more images of one or more audience member reactions while the one or more audience members view the multi-media content. Embodiments identify relevant scenes in the multi-media content based on the captured one or more audience member reactions. Additionally, embodiments generate promotional content based on the identified relevant scenes; and distribute the promotional content on the one or more social media platforms.

Abstract: A system containing a central software enterprise license management (CSELM) server computer, a client agent that acts as a command slave for the CSELM server computer, a desktop monitoring service that has well defined set of monitoring application programming interface (APIs) and tunables or parameters that keep a one-to-one relation with the monitoring APIs, a cloud based software service that provides cognition based services for common license subscriptions. The disclosed methods include abstracting licensing restrictions, generating the set of rules that truly represent the restrictions thus abstracted, configuring and invoking the desktop monitoring agent with the set of rules thus identified for the installation, and reporting, logging or auditing user actions that violate the defined rules thereon.