Abstract: Methods for providing contextual information about communication devices and/or services. Profile information indicating a user's communication devices and/or services is stored. When profile information or a message log is displayed, the user may identify a communication device and/or service. A query inquires whether the user would like contextual information. The contextual information may be obtained from a gateway in a data network or a telecommunications manager in a telecommunication network. The contextual information is displayed. Profile information about a user's communicating partner may be stored. When the user makes an effort to communicate with the partner, a check may be made of the partner's profile information for a preferred communication device and/or service. If the user does not have a communication device and/or service corresponding to that of the communicating partner, a query may inquire whether the user would like contextual information.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described that enable users to interact and share content through a social network application and/or service with other users. In some examples, a social networking system determines that at least two applications are installed on a device and are both useable to share content between a first account and one or more contact accounts. The social networking system may detect an event that causes a change in a badge count, may determine which of the applications to use to display the change, and may output the badge count change to the determined application(s).

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to enabling access to a game instance through a messenger application. A client-side player component facilitates communication between a game instance on the client device and a backend server of a social networking system. The communication information can be stored in or retrieved from a social graph of the social networking system. The game instance can be initialized from a social platform of the social networking system, and the game can be played without leaving the messenger application.

Abstract: A video encoder may be put in a starve mode during a low latency operation in which the video encoder may be operated in a mode that allows video frames to be encoded without any interdependencies such as motion compensation. At least one encoding parameter of the video encoding is selected such that, for each resulting encoded video frame, the video frame fits in exactly one application layer packet.

Abstract: An online system receives information describing events corresponding to actions associated with a third party system performed by an individual. The received information describes event types and times at which the events occurred. The online system generates nodes of a directed graph associated with the third party system, in which each node corresponds to an event type. For each event, a node count associated with a node corresponding to the event's type is incremented by the online system. Pairs of consecutively occurring events are identified based on times at which the events occurred and an edge describing each transition from one event to another is generated by the online system. The online system determines an edge count for each transition indicating a number of edges describing the transition as well as a sequential order of event types based on one or more node counts and one or more edge counts.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, via a social networking system, a request from a user to participate in a discovery service designed to facilitate connections between users of the social networking system who share common attributes, (2) obtaining, from the user, data representative of at least one desired user attribute, possessed by the user, for new user connections, (3) identifying, within the social networking system, at least one additional user who is both a participant in the discovery service and who also possesses the desired user attribute, and (4) providing a visual indication to the user, when representing the additional user within a user interface of the social networking system, that the additional user is a participant in the discovery service and that the additional user possesses the desired user attribute. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: An online system receives impression data from one or more content publishers. The impression data describes impressions provided to users of the online system on behalf of an agent. The online system selects a randomly selected number of impressions in the received impression data. The online system generates an impressions block by encrypting impression data that describes the selected set of impressions using a unique cypher, and adds the impressions block to a blockchain. The online system further generates a cypher block by encrypting the cypher and an identifier of the impressions block to which the cypher applies using a public key provided by the agent to the online system. The online system adds the cypher block to the blockchain. The agent can recover the cypher from the cypher block based on a private key, and the agent can then recover the impression data using the recovered cypher.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a network-based clock for time distribution across a wireless network, are disclosed. One system includes a network that includes a time distributor, a time receiver, and a plurality of network elements providing one or more network connections between the time distributor and the time receiver. The plurality of network elements includes an ingress network element and an egress network element. The time distributor receives and synchronizes to a first clock. Two or more of the plurality of network elements receives and synchronize to a second clock. A forward network transit delay is determined between the ingress network element and the egress network element and a backward network transit delay is determined between the egress network element and the ingress network element. The time receiver time synchronizes to the time distributor using the forward network transit delay and the backward network transit delay.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for prioritizing digital user content in a graphical user interface may include (i) for each user account within a group of user accounts maintained by a social networking platform, (1) maintaining a user content pod, comprising a digital container for posts posted to the social networking platform by the user account, and (2) generating a scrollable pod display comprising visual representations of other user content pods being followed by the user account, (ii) receiving, from a first user account corresponding to a first user content pod, user input designating a post within the first user content pod as a broadcasted post, and (iii) in response to receiving the user input, prioritizing, within a scrollable pod display of a second user account, a visual representation of the first user content pod over visual representations of user content pods that do not contain broadcasted posts. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A processor system comprises one or more logic units configured to receive a processor instruction identifying a first floating point number to be multiplied with a second floating point number. The floating point numbers are each decomposed into a group of a plurality of component numbers, wherein a number of bits used to represent each floating point number is greater than a number of bits used to represent any component number in each group of the plurality of component numbers. The component numbers of the first group are multiplied with the component numbers of the second group to determine intermediate multiplication results that are summed together to determine an effective result that represents a result of multiplying the first floating point number with the second floating point number.

Abstract: A method and system for allocating network resources are described. The method includes receiving a plurality of forecasted network traffic patterns for a network. A representative subset of the plurality of forecasted network traffic patterns is selected based on an analysis of the plurality of forecasted network traffic patterns using a topology of the network. The selected representative subset of the plurality of forecasted network traffic patterns is used to determine a resource allocation for the network.

Abstract: A method to untarget users of an online service for advertising includes embedding first code corresponding to a first pixel and second code corresponding to a second pixel in a version of a webpage and providing the version of the webpage for loading by a client device. Loading of the version of the webpage by the client device triggers execution of the first code and the second code by the client device. Furthermore, execution of the first code by the client device signals an advertising platform to forgo providing one or more advertisements for a service associated with the server system to the client device. Additionally, execution of the second code by the client device provides a signal to the server system.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes a system accessing an image, which may comprise covered and uncovered portions, and an overlay image comprising opaque pixels. The covered portion may be configured to be covered by the opaque pixels of the overlay image. The system may generate a data structure comprising data elements associated with pixels of the image. Each of the data elements associated with a covered pixel in the covered portion of the image may be configured to identify an uncovered pixel in the uncovered portion of the image that is closest to the covered pixel. Each covered pixel in the covered portion of the image may be modified by accessing the data element associated with the covered pixel, determining a distance between the covered pixel and an associated closest uncovered pixel using the accessed data element, and modifying a color of the covered pixel based on the distance.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide at least one frame of a content item to a saliency prediction model, the saliency prediction model being trained to identify salient points of interest that appear in content items. Information describing at least a first salient point of interest that appears in the at least one frame can be obtained from the saliency prediction model. The first salient point of interest can be predicted to be of interest to users accessing the content item. A view-based projection can be applied to a region corresponding to the first salient point of interest, wherein the view-based projection enhances a quality in which the region is presented.

Abstract: An online system generates content feature entries, with each content feature entry describing a content item from a third party system. The online system generates user feature entries, each user feature entry describing a user. The online system generates a combination score for a target user and a selected content item by computing a combination of the content feature entries associated with the selected content item and the user feature entries associated with the target user using a combining function. The combination score indicates an estimated increase in value for the third party system when the target user is presented with the selected content item. The online system selects content items to transmit to a client device of a target user of the online system for presentation to the target user based on the combination score for the content items and the target user.

Abstract: A disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving a media item for encoding via a content optimized encoding algorithm. The method may also include determining, in accordance with the content optimized encoding algorithm, an overall error model for the media item. The overall error model may include (1) a rate-distortion model for the media item, and (2) a downsampling-distortion model for the media item. The method may also include determining, based on the overall error model, a bitrate cost associated with streaming of the media item within a bitrate lane. The method may further include adjusting the overall error model based on the bitrate cost associated with streaming of the media item within the bitrate lane and encoding the media item for streaming within the bitrate lane based on the adjusted overall error model.

Abstract: An image processing system enables a user wearing a head-mounted display to experience a virtual environment combined with a representation of a real-world object. The image processing system receives a captured scene of a real-world environment that includes a target object. The image processing system identifies the target object in the captured scene and generates a representation of the target object. In some cases, the image processing system may include a graphical overlay with the representation of the target objet. The image processing system can generate a combined scene that includes the target object and the virtual environment. The combined scene is presented to the user, thereby allowing the user to interact with the real-world target object (or a representation thereof) in combination with the virtual environment.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to identify a similarity in public sentiments for each pair from a plurality of entities from a second computing device, where the request includes names of the plurality of entities, accessing a table of word vector relationships, where the table of word vector relationships includes a plurality of unique n-grams and their corresponding word vectors, and where each of the word vectors represents a semantic context of a corresponding n-gram as a point in a d-dimensional embedding space, looking up word vectors corresponding to each of the names using the table, calculating, for each of the word vectors, a similarity metric to each of the word vectors, and sending a response message to the second computing device, where the response message includes calculated similarity metrics corresponding to all the pairs of the word vectors.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a video resource at a first level of a tiered architecture. A first video representation can be generated, based on the video resource, at a second level of the tiered architecture. The first video representation can be associated with a first publisher. It can be detected that at least a first post and a second post are utilizing the first video representation. The first post and the second post can be representable at a third level of the tiered architecture and can be initiated by the first publisher. Data analytics for the first video representation can be aggregated based on the first post and the second post.

Abstract: A device includes a body portion and a moveable fastener extension coupled to the body portion. The moveable fastener extension is configured to be inserted in an opening of an electrical ground lug and an opening of an object to be grounded. The device further includes a handle coupled to the moveable fastener extension and configured to be operated by hand to manipulate the moveable fastener extension to secure the electrical ground lug to the object via the device.