Abstract: Techniques of interaction data processing in a distributed computing system are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving a user interface output having a content item to be surfaced on a client device and a script configured to detect an interaction with the content item at the client device, surfacing the user interface output having the content item on a display of the client device and automatically executing the script embedded in the user interface output to detect an interaction with the surfaced content item at the client device. Upon detecting an interaction with the content item on the surfaced user interface output, the example technique also includes generating and transmitting interaction data representing the detected interaction to a remote server.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for predicting surplus capacity on a set of server nodes and determining a quantity of deferrable virtual machines (VMs) that may be scheduled over an upcoming period of time. This determination of VM quantity may be determined while minimizing risks associated with allocation failures on the set of server nodes. This disclosure described systems that facilitate features and functionality related to improving utilization of surplus resource capacity on a plurality of server nodes by implementing VMs having some flexibility in timing of deployment while also avoiding significant risk caused as a result of over-allocated storage and computing resources. In one or more embodiments, the quantity of deferrable VMs is determined and scheduled in accordance with rules of a scheduling policy.

Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, a user input device is provided. The user-input device may include non-contact magnetic, capacitive, or inductive components for translating movements of a joystick into angular positions. Magnets attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in voltage in magnetometers on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick. Conductors attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in capacitive charge in capacitors on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick. Anisotropic magnetically permeable material and/or excitation components attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in inductance in inductors on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick.

Abstract: This document relates to creating and/or updating a chatbot using a graphical user interface. For example, training dialogs for a chatbot can be displayed in a tree form on a graphical user interface. Based at least on interactions between a developer and the graphical user interface, the training dialogs can be modified in the tree form, and training dialogs can be updated based on the modifications provided on the tree form via the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable storage device provides an improved speech processing approach in which hyper parameters used for speech recognition are modified dynamically or in batch mode rather than fixed statically. The method includes estimating, via a model trained on audio data and/or metadata, a set of parameters useful for performing automatic speech recognition, receiving speech at an automatic speech recognition system, applying, by the automatic speech recognition system, the set of parameters to processing the speech to yield text and outputting the text from the automatic speech recognition system.

Abstract: Improved compilers recognize interception declarations in source code, and emit code that replaces invocations of specified artifacts with invocations of specified interceptors instead. Source generators proactively modify program behavior in arbitrary desired ways without introducing hidden security violations and without requiring edits by the program's developers. Interception declarations are visible in source code and development tools. In some cases, different invocations of a particular method at respective locations are intercepted by different replacement methods. Replacement methods have identical signatures, or are otherwise compatible. Some interceptors specify optional parameters. Method calls, field accesses, and property calls may be intercepted. Work to modify program behavior is moved in the program lifecycle from runtime to compile time, thus improving runtime performance and eliminating JIT compilation security risks.

Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.

Abstract: A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model with attention to generate candidate sequences to complete a method body of a method signature. The neural transformer model is trained with source code programs and natural language text. The neural transformer model learns the meaning of a method name, its corresponding method parameters and types from a large corpus of unsupervised dataset of source code methods and a supervised dataset of tasks including source code constructs in combination with natural language docstrings to infer a candidate sequence of subtokens that represent a method body for a particular method signature.

Abstract: The present concepts relate to placing gameplay locations in the real world, where gameplay elements can be generated at the gameplay locations. One example categorizes types of physical elements described in geolocation data, and determines scores for the physical elements based on the categorizations. Gameplay locations can then be utilized according to the scores, and the scores can be continuously refined through user or moderator interaction with gameplay elements that may be generated at the gameplay locations.

Abstract: Techniques for evaluating multiple images, which originate from multiple different sources, and for selecting specific images to generate an overlaid image are disclosed. A first set of system camera images (e.g., based on a first FPS rate) and a second set of external camera images (e.g., based on a second FPS rate) are obtained. A set of rules are accessed in order to govern a selection process for selecting a specific system camera image and a specific external camera image. The selected images are designated for use in generating an overlaid image. The selection process is performed using the accessed set of rules. The overlaid image is generated by overlaying and aligning content obtained from the selected images.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for providing an illumination system that emits illumination into an environment while also enabling that system to be undetectable to certain types of external light detection systems. The system includes a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) low light (LL) detection device and a light emitting device. The light emitting device provides illumination having a wavelength of at least 950 nanometers (nm). An intensity of the illumination is set to a level that causes the illumination to be undetectable from a determined distance away based on the roll off rate of the light. While the light emitting device is providing the illumination, the SPAD LL detection device generates an image of an environment in which the illumination is being provided.

Abstract: The system described herein provides a method for deploying, managing, scaling, configuring, upgrading, and modifying large complicated systems that are made-up of many different network resources. These network resources may be virtual machines or containers. The system constructs a hierarchical SNS by building up layers from the inside of an outer SNS. The system conducts health checks at each layer to ensure the system is properly functioning and the deployment is healthy. Lastly, third party vendors input logic in each layer to identify a desired state for the system. Once the desired state is identified, each layer can determine the necessary actions to upgrade from the current state to the desired state. This system simplifies, adds efficiency, and increases security when deploying, scaling, configuring, upgrading, or modifying the system.

Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a plurality of memory devices, a plurality of direct memory access (DMA) controllers, and an on-chip interconnect. The on-chip interconnect may be configured to implement control logic to convey a read request from a primary DMA controller of the plurality of DMA controllers to a source memory device of the plurality of memory devices. The on-chip interconnect may be further configured to implement the control logic to convey a read response from the source memory device to the primary DMA controller and one or more secondary DMA controllers of the plurality of DMA controllers.

Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein enable client applications to be heavily integrated with a voice assistant in order to perform commands associated with voice utterances of users via voice assistant functionality and also seamlessly cause client applications to automatically perform native functions as part of executing the voice utterance. Such heavy integration also allows particular embodiments to support multi-modal input from a user for a single conversational interaction. In this way, client application user interface interactions, such as clicks, touch gestures, or text inputs are executed alternative or in addition to the voice utterances.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for sharing user interface (UI) customization across applications. Application developers may create UIs (e.g., game control layouts) with control groups that may be customizable as a group. A control group may comprise a plurality of controls selectively assigned to cluster of sockets (e.g., a socket group) in a layout template. Controls in control groups may be customized as a group, for example, by changing a position, rotation and/or scale of a control group. Users can customize controls for comfort, switch controls for right and left-handed play and share customized preferences across applications. UI customization may be shared across applications with different UIs. For example, customization of one or more control groups in a first UI may be applied to one or more control groups in other UIs for other applications. Users may avoid tedious, time-consuming individual control changes for many UIs.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing scalable and concurrent file systems. A backend storage system comprising an interface and a processing unit may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface may present the file system storing objects representative of data. The processing unit may receive, from a frontend host system coupled to the backend storage system, a plurality of client operations to perform with respect to the objects identified by the client operations, and identify an object type associated with each of the identified objects. The processing unit may select, based on the object types, one or more backend operators that implement the plurality of client operations, and apply the backend operators to the identified objects.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offloading a task from a central processor in a radio access network (RAN) server to one or more heterogeneous accelerators. For example, a task associated with one or more operational partitions (or a service application) associated with processing data traffic in the RAN is dynamically allocated for offloading from the central processor based on workload status information. One or more accelerators are dynamically allocated for executing the task, where the accelerators may be heterogeneous and my not comprise pre-programming for executing the task. The disclosed technology further enables generating specific application programs for execution on the respective heterogeneous accelerators based on a single set of program instructions.

Abstract: A system includes a stored counter value and a stored boot manifest including a manifest type flag. A manifest type of the boot manifest is determined based on the manifest type flag, a tenancy mode is determined based on a parity of the counter value, a first boot is executed if the manifest type is a first manifest type and the tenancy mode is a first tenancy mode, a second boot flow is executed if the manifest type is the first manifest type and the tenancy mode is a second tenancy mode, a third boot flow is executed if the manifest type is a second manifest type and the tenancy mode is the first tenancy mode, and a fourth boot flow is executed if the manifest type is the second manifest type and the tenancy mode is the second tenancy mode.

Abstract: The disclosure derives insight from telemetry data by receiving telemetry data; parsing the received telemetry data to identify properties, and mapping the identified properties to a set of identified tags based at least on a tag library. Based at least on the mapping, the disclosure generates insight data and a report for the telemetry data. In this manner, the disclosure adds structure to data, thereby providing semantic meaning to internet of things (IoT) telemetry data, regardless of the device class or manufacturer. This, in turn, automatically creates applicable insights. Insights are available with a core tag taxonomy, which can be extended and customized. By applying the tags, a user obtains immediate insights related to usage, performance, and health of a monitored product or service.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed for controlling the processing of electronic communications on computing devices. An electronic communication is processed to determine mentions in the message body indicating recipients of the communication. A point-of-view (POV) is determined for each mention, with respect to recipient(s), as second-person or third-person POV. The communication is parsed into sections, and the mentions that are associated with each section are determined. Based on the POV for a mention associated with a section, it is determined that the section is directed to the recipient(s) indicated by the mention, if the POV of the mention is second-person POV, or the section is relevant to the recipient(s) indicated by the mention, if the POV of the mention is third-person POV. Additionally, an enhanced communication data is generated indicating the sections and corresponding POVs of mentions associated with the sections, and used to provide a personalized computing experience to users.

Abstract: Technologies are described related to communication interfaces for wearable devices. User experience with wearable devices may be enhanced through tailored views for communications, calendar items, actions associated with those, where the views and presentations may be dynamically selected and adjusted based on context, user, location, and device capabilities. Smart notifications and user-friendly note taking functionality may be enabled also based on context, user, location, and device capabilities. Other scenarios may be unlocked based on proximity and/or sensor data.

Abstract: Techniques for generating a high resolution full color output image from lower resolution sparse color input images are disclosed. A camera generates images. The camera's sensor has a sparse Bayer pattern. While the camera is generating the images, IMU data for each image is acquired. The IMU data indicates a corresponding pose the camera was in while the camera generated each image. The images and IMU data are fed into a motion model, which performs temporal filtering on the images and uses the IMU data to generate a red-only image, a green-only image, a blue-only image, and a monochrome image. The color images are up-sampled to match the resolution of the monochrome image. A high resolution output color image is generated by combining the up-sampled images and the monochrome image.

Abstract: A payload is generated by a build computing system. The payload includes payload identifying metadata and deployment target identifier metadata, as well as an application container that includes a set of signed binaries. The payload can be approved for deployment, and a token can be generated for the payload. The token may include a set of claims that include payload identifying information. A payload validation system validates the payload for deployment to a target environment using the payload identifying information.

Abstract: A gaze detection assembly comprises a plurality of infrared (IR) light emitters configured to emit IR light toward a user eye and an IR camera configured to sequentially capture IR images of the user eye. A controller is configured to, during a reference frame, control the plurality of IR light emitters to emit IR light toward the user eye with a reference intensity distribution. During the reference frame, an IR image is captured depicting a first glint distribution on the user eye. Based at least in part on the first glint distribution, during a subsequent frame, the plurality of IR light emitters are controlled to emit IR light toward the user eye with a subsequent intensity distribution, different than the reference intensity distribution. During the subsequent frame, a second IR image is captured depicting a second glint distribution on the user eye.

Abstract: Examples described in this disclosure relate to gating a semiconductor layer into a quantum spin Hall insulator state, Certain examples further relate to using quantum spin Hall insulators as topological quantum qubits. Quantum spin Hall systems may rely upon the quantum spin Hall effect by causing a state of a matter to change from a certain phase to an inverted bandgap phase. In one example, the present disclosure relates to a device including a semiconductor layer comprising an active material. The device further includes a gate coupled to the semiconductor layer, where the semiconductor layer is operable in a quantum spin Hall insulator state by using electrons and holes from the active material in response to an application of an electric field to the semiconductor layer via the gate.

Abstract: Embodiments detect risky situations in which a domain name record remains viable after the target it identified is not. Such dangling records create various risks because substitute targets, such as fraudulent websites, may be installed without the knowledge of the original target's owner. By obtaining and correlating data from multiple tenants, a cloud service provider detects dangling structures and any attempts to exploit them. Dangling records may specify a custom domain name, for example, or a static IP address that can be misused. In response, the provider's security infrastructure can alert the original target's owner, block the attempted exploit, or otherwise mitigate the risks. Traffic monitoring, control plane API invocations, and domain name server queries may be employed by the security infrastructure to detect resource deletion, resource creation, and resource access attempts that correspond with vulnerable records or suspect activity involving them.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for migrating mailbox identities. In aspects, a system may receive one or more requests to perform tasks for migrating identities of a plurality of mailboxes included in a security group created at a source tenant to a plurality of mail users created at a target tenant that correspond to the plurality of mailboxes. Based on the one or more requests, the system may copy the identities to a data store associated with the target tenant, upload mapping data to the data store, and use that mapping data to map the identities copied to the data store to the corresponding plurality of mail users in the target tenant. For each of the identities mapped, the system may copy at least one or more attributes of the respective identity from the data store to the respective corresponding mail user in the target tenant.

Abstract: A mixed semiconductor-superconductor platform is fabricated in phases. In a masking phase, a dielectric mask is formed on a substrate, such that the dielectric mask leaves one or more regions of the substrate exposed. In a selective area growth phase, a semiconductor material is selectively grown on the substrate in the one or more exposed regions. In a superconductor growth phase, a layer of superconducting material is formed, at least part of which is in direct contact with the selectively grown semiconductor material. The mixed semiconductor-superconductor platform comprises the selectively grown semiconductor material and the superconducting material in direct contact with the selectively grown semiconductor material.

Abstract: A training-stage technique trains a language model for use in an ASR system. The technique includes: obtaining a training corpus that includes a sequence of terms; determining that an original term in the training corpus is not present in a dictionary resource; segmenting the original term into two or more sub-terms using a segmentation resource; determining that the segmentation of the original term into the two or more sub-terms is a valid segmentation, based on two or more validity tests; and training the language model based on the terms that have been identified. A computer-implemented inference-stage technique applies the language model to produce ASR output results. The inference-stage technique merges a sub-term with a preceding term if these two terms are separated by no more than a prescribed interval of time.

Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to automatically creating customized whiteboard backgrounds. A network system accesses metadata associated with a virtual presentation (e.g., title, topic, tenant identifier). First image data is identified based on first data of the metadata and second image data is identified based on second data of the metadata. Using the first image data and the second image data, the network system generates a plurality of whiteboard backgrounds by combining a first object obtained from the first image data with a second object obtained from the second image data to form each whiteboard background. The network system then causes presentation of a representation of each of the plurality of whiteboard backgrounds on a user interface of a host, who can select one of the representations. In response to receiving a selection, a whiteboard background corresponding to the selected representation is displayed as background on a whiteboard canvas.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that enable a vendor to publish a template to a network-accessible marketplace and that enable a customer to selectively utilize the templates to deploy an appliance to a customer account associated with the customer within a cloud services platform. In an embodiment, deploying the appliance to the customer account comprises deploying resources specified by the template as part of an appliance resource group within the customer account, the specified resources including an appliance management resource that is configured to expose control features of the appliance to the customer. In further accordance with the techniques described herein, access to the appliance resource group is provided to the vendor via a vendor account associated with the vendor within the cloud services platform.

Abstract: A computing device configured to removably attach a component comprises a housing comprising first and second device electromagnets. A wireless charging transmitting antenna is between the electromagnets. Instructions are executable by a processor to synchronize a first device current through the first device electromagnet with a first component current through a first component electromagnet of the component to attract the electromagnets, and to synchronize a second device current through the second device electromagnet with a second component current through a second component electromagnet of the component to attract the electromagnets.

Abstract: A query-processing technique includes an operation of matching the input query against a plurality of candidate target items, to produce a set of candidate query-item pairings. The matching is applicable to different classes of matching, but is performed by a computer processing architecture that uses a class-agnostic instance of query-processing logic and a class-agnostic target item index. After the matching operation, the technique assigns a matching class to each candidate query-item pairing in the set of candidate query-item pairings, to produce a set of classified pairings. The technique ultimately serves a particular output item to an end user, where the particular output item is chosen based on the results of the matching and assigning. Some implementations of the technique include a filtering operation whereby the candidate-item pairings are filtered to conform to a specified selection strategy or strategies. This filtering operation supplements or replaces the assigning operation.

Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving a far-end signal associated with a first computing device participating in an online communication session and receiving a near-end signal associated with a second computing device participating in the online communication session. The near-end signal includes speech of a target speaker, a first interfering speaker, and an echo signal. The system further implements providing the far-end signal, the near-end signal, and an indication of the target speaker as an input to a machine learning model. The machine learning model trained to analyze the far-end signal and the near-end signal to perform personalized noise suppression (PNS) to remove speech from one or more interfering speakers and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) to remove echoes. The model is trained to output an audio signal comprising speech of the target speaker. The system obtains the audio signal comprising the speech of the target speaker from the model.

Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving an access request from the client device of a content requestor to access a content item for which access to the content item is managed by a content access management platform and obtaining access control information. The access control information comprising information associated with a content owner associated with the content item, information associated with the content requestor, and information associated with the content item.

Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting privacy-relevant data from unauthorized disclosure in source code of an application. For instance, the present disclosure provides a plurality of technical features including: a privacy-relevant data analyzer that analyzes source code, detects privacy-relevant data in the source code, and generates a report of instances of detected privacy-relevant data. In some examples, the privacy-relevant data analyzer scans through source code to detect annotations that denote if fields, records, or combinations thereof include privacy-relevant data. The privacy-relevant data analyzer further generates and provides a report of detected privacy issues associated with sensitive data included in source code so that the issues can be resolved to ensure that privacy is not breached.

Abstract: A hardware retire circuit includes: one or more input queues, each queue corresponding to an input stream of tasks and being configured to store input task identifiers corresponding to tasks of the input stream; and processing logic configured to: receive a completed task event; determine whether a completed task queue identifier and a completed task identifier of the completed task event match an input task identifier of an input task at a head of an input queue having an input queue identifier corresponding to the completed task queue identifier; and in response to determining a match, pop the task at the head of the input queue and output a task retirement event corresponding to the input task.

Abstract: Memory arrays employing flying bit lines to increase effective bit line length for supporting higher performance, increased memory density, and related methods. To increase memory density, the memory array has a first memory sub-bank and one or more second memory sub-banks. The first memory sub-bank includes a first bit line(s) for each of its memory column circuits. To avoid the need to extend the length of the first bit lines to be coupled to the second memory bit cells in the second memory sub-bank, each memory sub-bank has its own dedicated first and second bit lines coupling their respective memory bit cells to access circuitry. The second bit lines effectively “fly” independent of the first bit lines of the first memory sub-bank. The first bit lines of the first memory sub-bank do not have to be extended in length to provide bit lines for the second memory sub-bank.

Abstract: According to examples, a host device may be instructed to pre-spawn a number of first host processes and a number of second host processes, in which the number of first host processes and the number of second host processes are defined in a first scaling constraint and are each greater than or equal to one. The host device may pre-spawn the second host processes in one or more computing nodes through identification of a host process of the first host processes that is unbound from a client session, termination of the identified host process, and pre-spawning of a second host process that provides a second version of the service based on the termination. The host device may also decrease the number of first host processes and increase the number of second host processes in the one or more computing nodes as defined in a second scaling constraint.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing an enterprise user with an electronic identity and an electronic mailbox when the user has denied, degraded, intermittent, or latent network connectivity. In aspects, a database limited to a single user containing the user's electronic identity and electronic mailbox is provided. The single user database is replicated using a multi-master replication scheme across the cloud and on-premises servers. When a user is entering an environment with denied, degraded, intermittent, or latent network connectivity (“DDIL”), the single user database is replicated to a DDIL server. The user is provided access to their electronic identity and electronic mailbox in the single-user database via the DDIL server during periods of denied, degraded, intermittent, or latent network connectivity.

Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to computing devices, head-mounted display devices and methods for remote collaborations. In one example a computing device receives a first spatial mapping of a first environment and a second spatial mapping of a second environment. The computing device determines that a first volumetric space in the first environment and a second volumetric space in the second environment each satisfy at least one collaboration criterion. Based on this determination, an indication of the first volumetric space is displayed by a first display device in the first environment, and an indication of the second volumetric space is displayed by a second display device in the second environment.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for addressing and/or accounting for path failures (e.g., congestion, link failures, disconnections, or other types of failures) within a network environment. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a node connected to a plurality of interconnected nodes, a network packet to be forwarded to a destination node; identifying, by a forwarding plane within the node, a first link along a path to the destination node; determining, by the forwarding plane, that the first link is inoperable; storing, by the node and within the network packet, data identifying the node as having been visited; identifying, by the forwarding plane and from among the plurality of egress links from the node, a second link that is operable and is along an alternative path to the destination node; and transmitting the network packet over the second link.

Abstract: Methodologies for testing resiliency of server computer environments with greater security are disclosed. Access is provided to a subset of server computer resources to a client user within a distributed server computer platform to form the server computer environment. An ephemeral fault injector program is instantiated to implement a resiliency experiment within server computer environment. The ephemeral fault injector program is configured to self-terminate within the server computer environment upon completion of the resiliency experiment.

Abstract: A computing system includes a touch-sensitive display and one or more processors. The touch-sensitive display is configured to detect a run-time touch input from a user. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions using portions of associated memory to implement a touch driver of the touch-sensitive display and an artificial intelligence model. The touch driver is configured to process the run-time touch input based on a plurality of calibration parameters and output a touch event and a plurality of run-time touch input parameters associated with the touch input event. The artificial intelligence model is configured to receive, as input, the run-time touch input parameters. Responsive to receiving the run-time touch input parameters, the artificial intelligence model is configured to output a personalized user touch driver profile including a plurality of updated calibration parameters for the touch driver.