Abstract: An automation identification diagnostic tool (AIDT) is disclosed that records and analyzes actions within a program that are taken by an agent to accomplish certain tasks. By recording the action steps to accomplish a task in a recording session data file, the AIDT is then able to analyze the recording session data file to identify steps for conversion to automated tasks.

Abstract: Technologies for scalable packet reception and transmission include a network device. The network device is to establish a ring that is defined as a circular buffer and includes a plurality of slots to store entries representative of packets. The network device is also to generate and assign receive descriptors to the slots in the ring. Each receive descriptor includes a pointer to a corresponding memory buffer to store packet data. The network device is further to determine whether the NIC has received one or more packets and copy, with direct memory access (DMA) and in response to a determination that the NIC has received one or more packets, packet data of the received one or more packets from the NIC to the memory buffers associated with the receive descriptors assigned to the slots in the ring.

Abstract: Disclosed are a modular controller and an operating method thereof. An operating method of a modular controller having a plurality of modules in a software-defined network environment includes generating a first event including a message that is received from a network device, transmitting the first event to an event handler, transmitting the first event to the plurality of modules from the event handler, determining whether the first event is identical to a target event in event type through the plurality of modules that receive the first event, and performing a function of a first module, which corresponds to the identity between the first event and the target event, by using the first event. A network manager is able to easily form a controller with various functions such as performance enhancement and security enhancement at need, facilitating combination and separation of different modules in a controller.

Abstract: A BPM system is described for modeling, management and execution of business processes. A process designer component is used to graphically design a business process, which includes a set of activities linked by transitions. The business process is stored and executed using one or more engines. A mobile device can be used to access the business process instance executing on the engine. The mobile work portal can be generated to render information for the process instance onto the mobile device. A process application programming interface can be used to access and manipulate the process instance from the mobile device.

Abstract: Techniques for reporting problems within an organization include presenting choices to a worker through a menu-based interface. The choices may indicate conditions or problems and may be organized in levels such that selection of a first choice in one level determines choices presented in a subsequent level. The choices may include a type of problem and/or a severity of the problem. A report may contain information identified by the worker's selected choices, and a support person indicated as a recipient for the report may be identified based on the selections and a mapping that relates possible choices selected by a worker to support personnel. The support person may provide corrective instructions to the worker to resolve the problem. Aggregation of reports may identify of systemic problems within the organization.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.

Abstract: Events generation systems and methods are provided. The system obtains, in real time, input stream data from one or more sources, filters, the input stream data by identifying one or more authentic sources to obtain filtered input stream data, parses, the filtered input stream data to obtain validated data in a specific data format, performs apply, in real time, an analysis on the validated data and on the corresponding one or more authentic sources by applying, at least one of one or more metadata driven logics and one or more predefined rules and further generates generate, in real time, one or more real time events based on the analysis.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a mailbox server is operable to receive, from a client, a message to be delivered to an endpoint; store the message in a mailbox associated with the user; access a set of policies for the client or the endpoint; determine a delivery channel for the message based on the policies; and transmit the message to the endpoint through the delivery channel. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit SMS messages via a special bind with a recipient's SMSC, or via a carrier short code. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit the message as an email or via an internal messaging system over a packet data connection.

Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can send a priming command to a media application to cause the media application to load media items and media item metadata into memory associated with the media application. The computing device can predict a media application that is likely to be invoked by a user. The computing device can launch the media application. The computing device can send the priming command to the media application to cause the media application to prepare media items for playback or presentation to the user. After the media application loads the media items, the computing device can receive metadata associated with the loaded media items and present the metadata and appropriate media application controls on a display of the computing device.

Abstract: Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber.

Abstract: An approach, executed by a computer, includes receiving at least an initial polling quantity and an initial polling frequency and polling an endpoint application using the initial polling quantity and the initial polling frequency. The approach includes determining a first number of events not consumed in a queue of a listening application and a second number of events generated at the endpoint application and remaining in a queue at the endpoint application and comparing the number of events in each queue. The approach includes adjusting at least one of the initial polling quantity and the initial polling frequency based, at least in part, on the comparison of the first number of events not consumed in the queue of the listening application and the second number of events generated at the endpoint application and remaining in the queue at the endpoint application.

Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus. The system includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores, for each of a plurality of flows, each flow containing a series of processes executable to electronic data, flow information that defines program identification information identifying one or more programs executing the flow of series of processes and an execution order of the one or more programs, in association with flow identification information. The memory further stores event identification information in association with the flow identification information. Based on an occurrence of an event, the circuitry reads the flow identification information associated with the event identification information identifying the occurred event, and controls the at least one information processing apparatus to execute each of the one or more programs in the execution order, as defined in the flow information identified by the read flow identification information.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request for data, where the data is stored in a first format in a first storage area of a system, retrieving the data stored in the first format from the first storage area of the system, converting the data from the first format to a second format, and returning the data in the second format.

Abstract: Cognitive adaptation to user behavior which enables a system to automatically process an event according to a user's personalized preferences.

Abstract: Described embodiments enable generation of user interface (UI) extensions to a UI of a separate application. For example, a method may include receiving system notifications from the operating system indicating UI events associated with a UI state of the operating system. Responsive to a system notification for a target UI object or application, the method includes generating or updating a UI sub-state for the target application including target UI objects based on graphical properties of the target UI object as defined in the system notification. The method further includes generating a UI extension for a target UI object of the target application based on the graphical properties of the target UI object in the updated UI sub-state. The UI extension can be an overlay controlled by a separate process from the target application, and thus can be arbitrarily attached to the UI of the target application.

Abstract: Techniques for providing intuitive feedback to a user regarding which applications have access to a data stream captured by a privacy-sensitive device, such as a camera, a microphone, a location sensor, an accelerometer or the like. These techniques apprise the user of when an application is receiving potentially privacy-sensitive data and the identity of the application receiving the data. In some instances, this feedback comprises a graphical icon that visually represents the data stream being received and that dynamically alters with the received data stream. For instance, if an application receives a data stream from a camera of a computing device of the user, the described techniques may display an image of the video feed captured by the camera and being received by the application. This graphical icon intuitively alerts the user of the data stream that the application receives.

Abstract: Unit conversion of data in a database is performed, so that efficient use of data can be achieved. VL and VNo in an index associated with each field of a table, define correspondence between a record number and a field value. In the n-th entry of VNo, a rank of the entry in VL is registered where the field value associated with the record having n-th record number in the table is registered. When the system of units of the value registered in VL is not a predetermined system of unit, VLC is provided, so as to apply unit conversion to the value in each entry of VL and to register the converted value in the entry on the same rank in VLC. Then, instead of VL, VCL and VNo define the correspondence between the record number and the field value.

Abstract: A method for deploying a data-path-related plug-in for a logical storage entity of a storage system, the method comprising: deploying the data-path-related plug-in for the logical storage entity, wherein the deploying includes creating a plug-in inclusive data-path specification and wherein the plug-in inclusive data-path specification includes operation of the data-path-related plug-in; and creating a verification data path specification, wherein the verification data-path specification does not include operation of the data-path-related plug-in and wherein a task executed in a verification data path, having the verification data-path specification, generates verification data that enables validation of given data generated by the task being executed in a plug-in inclusive data-path having the plug-in inclusive data-path specification.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for handling user-level events for programming an application. The methods aim at providing the designer of an application the ability to use easily understandable user-level events rather than low-level, often platform dependant input events, whose use generally requires important programming skills. It also aims at optimizing the generation of user-level events, by improving the detection of events and detecting only a subset of possible user-level events depending on the context of the application.

Abstract: Users can be logged into an organization portal and an organization role can be determined for each user. For each user, indicators of values obtained from metrics tailored for the organization role can be presented within a plurality of metrics driven portlets of an organization portal. The plurality of metrics driven portlets can include at least one score card and at least one dashboard. Responsive to detecting that the at least one of the plurality of metrics exceeds a boundary condition, an out-of-bounds event can be triggered, a set of the users who are to be apprised of an occurrence of the out-of-bounds event can be programmatically determined, a Web data repository can be searched for items specific to the out of bounds event and, for each user in the set, contents of at least one of the portlets can be altered to include items from the Web data repository.

Abstract: A method implemented by at least one processing device, a processing device, and a computer program product are provided for adjusting hash partitions for a hash join operation. An amount of rows within each of an initial number of hash partitions is determined during assignment of respective rows to respective hash partitions. The initial number of hash partitions is adjusted to a final number of hash partitions based on the amount of rows within each of the initial number of hash partitions and an amount of available memory. The adjusting further includes determining the final number of hash partitions based on the amount of rows within each of the initial number of hash partitions and the amount of available memory, and assigning the rows to the final number of hash partitions. The hash join operation is then performed.

Abstract: Disclosed are non-limiting examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for dynamically configuring a process associated with an application based on environmental characteristics monitored by a mobile device. In some implementations, the process includes stages and decision nodes. There is a configurable flow along a path defined by a subset of the stages controlled by a subset of the decision nodes. Contextual data is provided by the mobile device on which the application is usable. The contextual data indicates one or more environmental characteristics associated with a physical environment in which the mobile device is or has been located. The contextual data can be provided as a control input to a decision node associated with a current stage of the process. The process can be configured accordingly.

Abstract: Described systems and methods enable an efficient detection and analysis of software events, especially in hardware virtualization configurations. In some embodiments, certain types of events are analyzed asynchronously, in the sense that the triggering entity is allowed to continue execution while the respective event is added to a queue for later processing. Some embodiments modify the instruction set architecture of the processor by adding a processor instruction dedicated to delivering event notifications. Such notification instructions allow for complex and flexible event detection without some of the disadvantages of conventional methods such as hooking.

Abstract: A system and method is provided. The system comprising: a memory storing instructions; a hardware processor configured by the instructions to: receive a request specific one or more infrastructure components in an information technology (IT) infrastructure, process a query based on the request specific to the one or more infrastructure components, identify an interdependency relationship between the one or more infrastructure components and one or more stakeholders based on the query, wherein the interdependency relationship is indicative of mapping across the one or more infrastructure components, and generate, during an outage the one or more infrastructure components in the IT infrastructure, a multi-dimensional inventory impact analysis based on the interdependency relationship comprising an assessment report, the assessment report that includes an inventory landscape the one or more infrastructure components, a dependency analysis in the IT infrastructure, and an impact assessment during the outage.

Abstract: The flow of events though an event-analysis system is controlled by a number of event throttles which filter events, prioritize events and control the rate at which events are provided to event-processing components of the event-analysis system. Incoming events to the event-analysis system are associated with a profile, and a metrics engine generates metrics based on the incoming events for each profile. The flow of events to the metrics engine is controlled on a per profile basis, so that excessive generation of new metrics and new profiles is limited. If the system from which the events originate is compromised, metrics associated with compromised profiles may be frozen to avoid corrupting existing metrics. Processing of events and anomalies by analysis engines within the event-analysis system may be delayed to allow the accumulation of metrics necessary for accurate analysis.

Abstract: According to at least one aspect, a system for collecting computer usage information is provided. The system includes a hardware processor, a display coupled to the hardware processor to display a user interface, and a computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that cause the hardware processor to receive an indication of an action being performed by a user on the system, cause the system to wait before updating the user interface in response to the action performed by the user, gather contextual information associated with the action while the system is waiting to process the action performed by the user to update the user interface, cause the system to update the user interface in response to the action performed by the user after gathering the contextual information, and store information indicative of the action and the contextual information.

Abstract: A method and system for communication using published events. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail implementing a publication-subscription paradigm to enable communication event exchange in a device-independent manner. The publication-subscription paradigm may also enable communication event exchange in real-time, thereby avoiding web traffic intensive polling that often leads to server-overloading.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, comprising: configuring a batch notification based on setting a first value, the first value corresponding to a specified number of notifications to be stored before providing a batch notification; responsive to setting the first value, setting a second value, the second value corresponding to a duration commencing from generation of a first notification and ending at a specified temporal value; and automatically providing one or more notifications over a network compliant with a oneM2M specification based on the first and second values.

Abstract: An approach, executed by a computer, for adjusting polling parameters. The approach includes one or more processors polling an endpoint application using an initial polling quantity and an initial polling frequency. The approach includes determining a first number of events not consumed in a queue of a listening application and a second number of events in a queue at the endpoint application at an end of a polling cycle. Furthermore, the approach includes adjusting at least one of the initial polling quantity and the initial polling frequency based, at least in part, on a comparison of the first number of events not consumed in the queue of the listening application and the second number of events in the queue at the endpoint application at the end of the polling cycle.

Abstract: A server system comprising one or more processors and memory receives, from a client device, one or more messages for use in a message campaign, where the one or more messages include a plurality of annotations indicating human-identified features in the one or more messages. The server system initiates delivery of the message campaign to a plurality of users and receives campaign-feedback data that is indicative of user interaction, during the message campaign, that corresponds the features identified by the one or more annotations. After receiving the campaign-feedback data, the server system receives, from a requestor, a request for analysis of the features during the message campaign. In response, the server system obtains a campaign report that provides information on one or more correlations between the features and user interaction with the features during the message campaign and provides the campaign report to the requestor.

Abstract: Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more processes remotely delivering customized code to a host application and/or computing device. The host application may be configured as an Application Programming Interface with a customized code processing library that may configure the host application to receive further instructions remotely. The host application may be further configured to execute host code and/or third-party code. The host application may be configured to receive remote application logic, after the host application has been installed on a computing device, and to execute the received application logic to alter the behavior of the host application, such as selectively tracking end user interactions.

Abstract: A hybrid event processing network (EPN) having at least one event processing agent (EPA) consists of a first set of EPAs defined declaratively and a second set of EPAs defined dynamically at runtime via an interface. Deploying the hybrid EPN includes loading the hybrid EPN, constructing an EPN structure, and creating indexes of nodes of the EPN structure. Deploying the hybrid EPN further includes representing an event in a hybrid EPN, and, in response to the event occurrence at an event source, receiving a notification from the hybrid EPN based on the event, and publishing the notification in an event channel. Embodiments of the invention includes propagating the event received within the hybrid EPN, determining a subsequent EPA associated with the event within the hybrid EPN, and propagating the event to the subsequent EPA in the hybrid EPN until the last element of the hybrid EPN is reached.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus provides provision information based on position information items within a time period of a transmission device that sends out a signal including identification information of the transmission device.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for sharing applications initialized to a specified state. In one embodiment, a saved state service receives a plurality of state parameters that describe a state of the application, wherein the state parameters are reported by the application during execution of the application. The save state service then generates a unique data string that corresponds to the state parameters by serializing the state parameters using a data interchange standard. The saved state service may then generate a link to install the application, wherein the link includes the unique data string. In one embodiment, the saved state service serves up the link that, upon invocation on a client, installs the application and initializes the application in the specified state.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a mailbox server is operable to receive, from a client, a message to be delivered to an endpoint; store the message in a mailbox associated with the user; access a set of policies for the client or the endpoint; determine a delivery channel for the message based on the policies; and transmit the message to the endpoint through the delivery channel. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit SMS messages via a special bind with a recipient's SMSC, or via a carrier short code. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit the message as an email or via an internal messaging system over a packet data connection.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for implementing a log analytics method and system that can configure, collect, and analyze log records in an efficient manner. An improved approach is provided for identifying log files that have undergone a change in status that would require retrieve of its log data, by including a module directly into the operating system that allows the log collection component to be reactively notified of any changes to pertinent log files.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request from a mobile device is issued to a remote device for assistance. Information from the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device, the information comprising command information submitted to a mobile application by a user.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to deputize agents in a system to reduce a number of event logs received by a coordinator are described. An agent belonging to a group of agents may receive a request to select a deputized agent. The agent may determine data associated with a component hosting the agent and send the data to a selection agent. The agent may receive a message from the selection agent indicating that the agent is to be the deputized agent. The deputized agent may receive one or more event logs from other agents in the group, determine that at least one event log has a high priority, and send the at least one event log to the coordinator. The deputized agent may store the one or more event logs in a storage device accessible to the hardware component.

Abstract: A keyboard for cooperation with a keystroke and behavioral biometric analyzer, including a blank translucent surface for use as an input device, a capacitive layer mounted underneath the translucent surface, for enabling detection of touch location and touch pressure on the translucent surface, a projection system for dynamically projecting a visual layout of keys of a keyboard on the translucent surface, and a biometric generator, coupled with the capacitive layer, configured to receive user input in conformance with the projected layout of keys, and to generate therefrom a time series of touch location and touch pressure data, for use as data by a keystroke and behavioral biometric analyzer.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for control flow on a heterogeneous computer system. The method may include a first processor of a first type, for example a CPU, requesting a first kernel be executed on a second processor of a second type, for example a GPU, to process first work items. The method may include the GPU executing the first kernel to process the first work items. The first kernel may generate second work items. The GPU may execute a second kernel to process the generated second work items. The GPU may dispatch producer kernels when space is available in a work buffer. The GPU may dispatch consumer kernels to process work items in the work buffer when the work buffer has available work items. The GPU may be configured to determine a number of processing elements to execute the first kernel and the second kernel.

Abstract: Policies are communicated to a kernel service of an Operating System (OS) that define resource identifiers and events. When an event is received (from the kernel service) for a resource, the event is noted. Subsequent events received (from the kernel service) are: tracked, evaluated, and a determination is made whether a near real-time or real-time notification is to be sent.

Abstract: Technologies for displaying notifications on a mobile computing device includes determining a notification category for each notification, determining a priority level for each notification in each notification category, and determining a priority order of the notification categories. The notification categories are displayed as notification containers in which the associated notifications are displayed. Each notification may be displayed as separate tile having a location, size, color, and/or other visual property based on the relative priority level of the individual notification.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for and a method of executing an application in an electronic apparatus having a first operation mode in which a desktop application is operated, and a second operation mode in which a windows store application is operated are provided. The electronic apparatus and method include a storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications, a management unit configured to manage a list for a windows store application to be displayed in response to entering a first operation mode among the plurality of applications stored in the storage unit, a user interface unit configured to display an icon corresponding to the windows store application included in the list in response to entering the first operation mode, and receive selection for the displayed icon, and a controller configured to operate the windows store application corresponding to the selected icon.

Abstract: In a system, a first status of a first ESP engine (ESPE) executing at a first computing device is determined as newly active; a last published event block object identifier is determined as an identifier uniquely identifying a last event block object published to an out-messaging network device; a next event block object having an event block object identifier greater than the determined last published event block object identifier is selected from a first computer-readable medium; and the selected next event block object is published to the out-messaging network device. A first event block object is received from a second ESPE executing at a second computing device. A first status of the second ESPE is determined as standby by the second computing device. The received first event block object is stored by the second computing device in a second non-transitory computer-readable medium.

Abstract: The present subject matter relates to providing automated units for infrastructure support. In an example, an operation log having information pertaining to actions performed to resolve a ticket, may be filtered based on filtering attributes. The filtering attributes may aid in selection of content relevant for identifying an automatable unit from the operation log. The automatable unit may be one of a standard operator unit and a control flow unit. The content may be further analyzed to generate the automatable unit. The content may be analyzed using one of a sequence mining technique and a graph mining technique. Further, the automatable unit may be provided in a support service knowledgebase accessible by the users for dynamically resolving tickets similar to the ticket.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request is issued to a remote from a mobile device for assistance. Information indicative of a sequence of states of an execution of a mobile application is periodically transmitted from a mobile device to the remote device.

Abstract: A reminding apparatus includes: a reminding module, configured to determine reminding time of the reminding apparatus and a reminding event corresponding to the reminding time, and trigger the reminding event when the reminding time is up; a background miming module, configured to indicate an operation system of the data processing device to trigger the reminding apparatus to enter a background running state after detecting a switch instruction; a battery level checking module, configured to check battery level of the data processing device when the reminding apparatus runs in the background; and a battery level protecting module, configured to write a local notification into the operation system when the battery level is lower than a predefined threshold, set triggering time of the local notification as the reminding time, and trigger the reminding apparatus to enter a pending state. The local notification can be triggered automatically by the operation system.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling a mobile terminal are provided. According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal includes: a touch screen for displaying and receiving information; and a controller for: controlling the touch screen to display a lock screen upon the mobile terminal entering a lock screen state; and controlling the touch screen to display a preview image of each of at least one application executed before entering the lock screen state upon receiving a proximity touch input on the displayed lock screen.

Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, systems and methods are provided which facilitate composing a telecommunication application by orchestrating application components. Embodiments of the invention enhance the use of simplified programming constructs for user activities in a telecommunications network providing an invocation manager which invokes event functions in an order identified by an orchestrator. The orchestrator holds all specified event functions each with trigger chance and priority value. The event functions can be defined in Communication Beans with annotations and may be updated and selected by an XML file.

Abstract: The disclosed subject matter includes systems, methods, and computer readable medium for automatically updating data source objects (DSO). First and second DSO can be created and mapped to first and second data, respectively. A third DSO can be created and mapped to the first subset of the first stored data by filtering the first stored data mapped to the first DSO with the second stored data mapped to the second DSO. A listener can be created for the third DSO to detect changes to the first DSO. Listener can receive notification of a change to the first DSO. the mapping of the third DSO can be updated by applying the change. A remapping can be requested of the third DSO to a second subset of first stored data by filtering the first stored data mapped to the first DSO with the second stored data mapped to the second DSO.