Patents Assigned to Innternational Business Machines Corporation
  • Patent number: 9026650
    Abstract: Mechanisms for handling website messages (e.g., website certificate warnings and/or errors), while combating website users ignoring such messages (sometimes referred to as “click-through syndrome”) are provided. Such mechanisms may comprise providing an interface for handling website messages (e.g., website certificate warnings and/or errors) based on a dynamic policy. In one example, such a dynamic policy may comprise: identifying a first trusted user; monitoring website access by the first trusted user; presenting the first trusted user with a first website message based upon a first access by the first trusted user to a first website; capturing a first response by the first trusted user to the first website message; and utilizing the first response of the first trusted user as a model for subsequent access to the first website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Innternational Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Judith H. Bank, Liam Harpur, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
  • Patent number: 8131923
    Abstract: An I/O Optimizer receives an I/O request specifying a plurality of disk blocks of the disk drive for access. A plurality of I/O sub-requests is determined from the I/O request, each I/O sub-request specifying a set of one or more adjacent disk blocks of the plurality of disk blocks along the same cylinder. A plurality of execution sequences for performing the plurality of I/O sub-requests is determined. For each of the plurality of execution sequences, a total estimated execution time for performing the I/O sub-requests according to the execution sequence is calculated. One of the plurality of execution sequences for performing the I/O sub-requests is selected based, at least in part, on the total estimated execution times for the plurality of execution sequences. A disk drive controller is instructed to perform the I/O sub-requests according to the selected execution sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Innternational Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Frank E. Levine
  • Patent number: 7657585
    Abstract: A cost efficient solution for supporting and deploying custom text analytics applications suited is to provide third party application developers a sand-boxed application development environment such as an appliance computer system, allowing users to leverage data integration, indexing and pre-existing mining platform capabilities for a domain-specific data. Thus, embodiments herein present a system, method, etc. for identifying and delivering domain specific unstructured content for advanced business analysis. The system generally comprises a cluster computer system, a gateway computer system and an appliance computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Innternational Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neeraj Agrawal, Scott R. Holmes, Ana Lelescu, Kiran Mehta, Hongcheng Mi