Abstract: A system and method for providing stringent tamper resistant protection against changes to key system security features. The tamper protection is configured such that any changes to the policy can only occur from a configuration manager console, thereby preventing local device admin users or other malicious actors from altering the setting. Thus, tamper protection locks the selected service and prevents security settings from being changed through third-party apps and methods. When a system administrator enables the feature for an enterprise's workstations, only administrators will be able to change the service settings across a company's computers. The tamper protection policy is digitally signed in the backend before being deployed to endpoints, and the endpoint verifies the validity and intent of the policy, establishing that it is a signed package that only security operations personnel with the necessary administrator rights can control.

Abstract: A system and method for providing stringent tamper resistant protection against changes to key system security features. The tamper protection is configured such that any changes to the policy can only occur from a configuration manager console, thereby preventing local device admin users or other malicious actors from altering the setting. Thus, tamper protection locks the selected service and prevents security settings from being changed through third-party apps and methods. When a system administrator enables the feature for an enterprise's workstations, only administrators will be able to change the service settings across a company's computers. The tamper protection policy is digitally signed in the backend before being deployed to endpoints, and the endpoint verifies the validity and intent of the policy, establishing that it is a signed package that only security operations personnel with the necessary administrator rights can control.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message.

Abstract: A method for allowing independent viewing of web conference content may include enumerating a plurality of windows of content of a web conference to allow caching of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window by a client computer device of a participant to provide independent viewing of each enumerated window by the participant in the web conference. The method may also include forming a bitmap of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window. The method may further include transmitting the bitmap of each enumerated window to the client computer device of the participant in the web conference.

Abstract: Device, system and method of physical context based wireless communication. For example, a method for physical context based wireless communication includes: determining an association between a spatial location of a wireless communication device and location context information related to said spatial location; determining an identity of a user of said wireless communication device; and determining an association between said user of the wireless communication device and said location context information.

Abstract: A method and system for selecting communication means are provided. The method includes receiving a request for communication (102) by a current user (101) with a target contact and searching data of prior communication attempts (105) by prior users with one or more prior target contacts using different communication means, wherein the current user and the prior users fall within a first defined category and the target contact and the prior target contacts fall within a second defined category. The success of the communication means of prior communication attempts is determined (104) and a communication means for the current user is recommended (103). The method includes referencing (107) relationship resource (109) to determine if users or target contacts fall within defined categories, such as, for example, an organizational structure level, a department, or a group of people with a given form of relationship to another group of people.

Abstract: A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining (120) the intended recipients of an email message prior to sending and comparing the intended recipients to defined recipient groups (126, 122). Potential errors in the intended recipients are identified and a prompt (125) is provided to amend the intended recipients. The prompt (125) provides a suggestion to replace, add or remove an intended recipient. The defined recipient groups include one or more of groups of recipients formed from an organization data structure (122), groups of recipients defined by a user, and groups of recipients (126) mined from one or more user's previous email correspondence.

Abstract: A method includes steps of: receiving a prompt from a user to activate a message interface in order to begin a session; activating the message interface such that said message interface is presented to the user and is able to receive input from the user; receiving user input from the message interface, including: a user selection of at least one target correspondent; and a first message to be sent to the at least one target correspondent; identifying the session with a unique identifier; and sending the first message to a messaging system for delivery to the target correspondent when the target correspondent is available.

Abstract: A method for allowing independent viewing of web conference content may include enumerating a plurality of windows of content of a web conference to allow caching of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window by a client computer device of a participant to provide independent viewing of each enumerated window by the participant in the web conference. The method may also include forming a bitmap of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window. The method may further include transmitting the bitmap of each enumerated window to the client computer device of the participant in the web conference.

Abstract: A method for determining differential availability, the method including identifying a current context of a first entity, and determining a current availability value of the first entity with respect to a second entity in accordance with an availability function, where the availability function is adaptive in accordance with an adaptation process to at least one past actual availability value of the fist entity with respect to the second entity in a previous context at least partially related to the current context, and where the availability function is operative to determine the current availability value as a function of the current context.

Abstract: A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining (120) the intended recipients of an email message prior to sending and comparing the intended recipients to defined recipient groups (126, 122). Potential errors in the intended recipients are identified and a prompt (125) is provided to amend the intended recipients. The prompt (125) provides a suggestion to replace, add or remove an intended recipient. The defined recipient groups include one or more of groups of recipients formed from an organization data structure (122), groups of recipients defined by a user, and groups of recipients (126) mined from one or more user's previous email correspondence.

Abstract: A method and system for providing content-based access to presence information for an entity are described. The method, which may be implemented in a server, includes maintaining a plurality of state definitions for entities, each state definition including an expression of conditions to be met in data of presence information for an entity. The method further includes receiving presence information for an entity, evaluating in a computer-based application, the presence information for the entity with respect to the state definitions to determine if a state definition evaluates to true against the presence information, and providing results of a state definition. The results may be provided as a subscription to a state definition or in reply to a query request for a state definition.

Abstract: A collaborative development environment includes an integrated development environment and a collaboration client integrated into the environment. There also is a Help menu of a software application which includes sections to provide information about the software application and a peer support section to provide access to a collaboration server.

Abstract: A method includes steps of: receiving a prompt from a user to activate a message interface in order to begin a session; activating the message interface such that said message interface is presented to the user and is able to receipt input from the user; receiving user input from the message interface, including: a user selection of at least one target correspondent; and a first message to be sent to the at least one target correspondent; identifying the session with a unique identifier; and sending the first message to a messaging system for delivery to the target correspondent when the target correspondent is available.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message.

Abstract: A method and system for selecting communication means are provided. The method includes receiving a request for communication (102) by a current user (101) with a target contact and searching data of prior communication attempts (105) by prior users with one or more prior target contacts using different communication means, wherein the current user and the prior users fall within a first defined category and the target contact and the prior target contacts fall within a second defined category. The success of the communication means of prior communication attempts is determined (104) and a communication means for the current user is recommended (103). The method includes referencing (107) relationship resource (109) to determine if users or target contacts fall within defined categories, such as, for example, an organizational structure level, a department, or a group of people with a given form of relationship to another group of people.

Abstract: A method and computer program product for managing media items, the method includes: clustering media items to media item groups and assigning a semantic event descriptor to each media item group in response to capture time of multiple media items, capture locations of multiple media items, event scheduling information and information extracted from media items; wherein the assigning of the semantic event descriptor is responsive to a type of the event.

Abstract: Device, system and method of physical context based wireless communication. For example, a method for physical context based wireless communication includes: determining an association between a spatial location of a wireless communication device and location context information related to said spatial location; determining an identity of a user of said wireless communication device; and determining an association between said user of the wireless communication device and said location context information.

Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for preventing a set of users from accessing a message in an instant messaging system. The process determines whether a message received by a receiving computing device from a sending computing device is undetected by a set of users associated with the receiving computing device. The process notifies the sending computing device that the message is undetected by the set of users in response to determining that the message is undetected by the set of users associated with the receiving computing device. The process prevents the set of users from accessing the message in response to receiving a request to prevent the set of users from accessing the message.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message.