Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140282870 | Alias-Based Social Media Identity Verification - An approach is provided to use social media content to verify the identity of a user using aliases established by the user in a social media environment. In the approach, a user authentication request pertaining to a user is received. Aliases corresponding to the user's social media contacts are retrieved from a social media data store. User questions and expected answers are prepared based on the user's social media contacts and the corresponding aliases. The user is prompted to provide one or more user answers responsive to the user questions. In response to receiving answers that match the expected answers, the user authentication request is confirmed. Conversely, in response to receiving user answers that fail to match the expected answers, the user authentication request is invalidated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282930 | Social Media Based Identity Verification - An approach is provided to use social media content to verify the identity of a user. In the approach, a user authentication request pertaining to a user is received. In response, user questions and expected answers are retrieved from social media content that is accessible by the user. The user is prompted to provide user answers responsive to the user questions. The user authentication request is confirmed in response to receiving user answers that match the expected answers. Conversely, user authentication request is invalidated in response to receiving user answers that fail to match the expected answers. | 09-18-2014 |
20140365602 | RECOMMENDING A MOBILE APPLICATION BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS - A method for displaying an application for use on a mobile computing device. The method includes determining one or more environmental factors for a current environment of a mobile computing device. The method includes determining, based, at least in part, on the one or more environmental factors and past usage information of the mobile computing device, an application for use with the mobile computing device and displaying the application on the mobile computing device. | 12-11-2014 |
20150039536 | Clarification of Submitted Questions in a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms for clarifying an input question are provided. A question is received for generation of an answer. A set of candidate answers is generated based on an analysis of a corpus of information. Each candidate answer has an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer. Based on the set of candidate answers, a determination is made as to whether clarification of the question is required. In response to a determination that clarification of the question is required, a request is sent for user input to clarify the question. User input is received from the computing device in response to the request and at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers is selected as an answer for the question based on the user input. | 02-05-2015 |
20150058329 | Clarification of Submitted Questions in a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms for clarifying an input question are provided. A question is received for generation of an answer. A set of candidate answers is generated based on an analysis of a corpus of information. Each candidate answer has an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer. Based on the set of candidate answers, a determination is made as to whether clarification of the question is required. In response to a determination that clarification of the question is required, a request is sent for user input to clarify the question. User input is received from the computing device in response to the request and at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers is selected as an answer for the question based on the user input. | 02-26-2015 |
20150264145 | COMMUNICATIONS RESPONSIVE TO RECIPIENT SENTIMENT - A computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method including receiving input from a first communication device of a first user identifying a target sentiment associated with a second user, monitoring current online activity of the second user to determine a current sentiment for the second user, and initiating communication between the first communication device of the first user and a second communication device of the second user in response to the current sentiment of the second user meeting the target sentiment input by the first user. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264146 | COMMUNICATIONS RESPONSIVE TO RECIPIENT SENTIMENT - A method includes receiving input from a first communication device of a first user identifying a target sentiment associated with a second user, monitoring current online activity of the second user to determine a current sentiment for the second user, and initiating communication between the first communication device of the first user and a second communication device of the second user in response to the current sentiment of the second user meeting the target sentiment input by the first user. | 09-17-2015 |
20150319264 | CREATING A DYNAMIC AGGREGATE GROUP PROFILE OF USERS IN AN ONLINE COLLABORATION SESSION FOR PROVIDING TAILORED CONTENT DELIVERY - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for suggesting content to a group. The system identifies a group of users in a social network. The system receives inputs associated with the social network group. The system aggregates the received inputs. The system analyzes the aggregated inputs. The system searches, based on the aggregation and the analysis, one or more tailored content to be delivered to the group in Internet, one or more database and one or more data warehouse. The system delivers the tailored content to the group in the social network. | 11-05-2015 |