Abstract: Systems and methods of information corroboration are disclosed herein. The systems and methods can include receiving an initial report from at least one detecting party and receiving at least one secondary report from at least one corroborating party. The initial information set and the secondary information set can then be compared and applied to create a reliability factor for the initial information set. The reliability of the initial information set can be determined using the reliability factor; and providing virtual compensation to at least one of the at least one detecting party and the at least one corroborating party, when the initial information set is determined to be reliable.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically generate and provision contextually relevant notifications to network-connected devices. For example, an apparatus receives a first signal that includes information indicative of an authorized data exchange involving a terminal device and a client device. The apparatus identifies and loads data specifying a notification template from the storage unit, and generates notification data that is populated with a portion of the received information in accordance with the notification template. The apparatus further transmits a second signal that includes the notification data to the client device. In some instances, the second signal is transmitted through a programmatic interface associated with an application program executed by the client device, and the client device is configured to display the notification data on a corresponding interface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to provide seamless data placement, data movement, and data management into the cloud. The system includes a processor; and a memory. The memory stores machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to extend the local data fabric and the services to the cloud providers by utilizing a cloud abstraction layer module. The cloud providers act as remote endpoints configured with a source unit. The process is further configured to implement a data migration in which a data migration module migrates data from the source unit to the cloud providers, and performs a plurality of management activities through an interaction between a control plane and a management module. Then the processor is configured to create a cloud tenant in the source unit to map the cloud providers.

Abstract: A control device is usable in a plurality of different data transmission systems in vehicles, where the control device includes a database which stores a set of configuration data records and is connected to a data transmission system selected from the plurality of data transmission systems. The control device is configured to establish data transmission between the selected data transmission system and the control device by initializing a configuration data record from the set of configuration data records. The control device is also configured to check the initialized configuration data record by receiving validation data relating to the selected data transmission system and comparing said validation data with previously-determined data-transmission-system-specific validation data stored in a memory of the control device.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for performing validation, estimation, and editing (VEE) on interval based energy consumption streams. The apparatus includes a VEE processor and a VEE configuration engine. The VEE processor executes VEE rules on each of the interval based energy consumption streams within a specified time period to generate and store corresponding post VEE readings that are stored in a post VEE readings data stores. The post VEE readings include tagged energy consumption data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of the interval based energy consumption streams. Each of the tagged energy consumption data sets has groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing an independent services platform. One of the methods includes maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of a distributed computing system. A services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system is also maintained, wherein the second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more service instances of the service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure. The second services platform system is configured to receive a bind request from a user and to provide binding information to one or more computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system upon receiving the bind request.

Abstract: The present invention is a photograph sharing process and/or system that allows professional photographers, who photograph weddings or other events where large numbers of photographs containing varying subject, to send photographs in which a subject or individual appears directly to that particular individual. Thus, the photographs are shared only with intended recipients and may be viewed essentially simultaneously or in close proximity to the photographed event.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for sharing a shared interface and allowing participants to annotate the shared interface within a group-based communication system. A shared interface is shared by an interface sharing device to participating devices, which can then individually annotate the shared interface by creating interface annotations that then are shared on the shared interface by the interface sharing device. Such methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products provide for an efficient and effective method of advancing discussions among a group in a group-based communication system.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for assigning different service path identifiers to each of a set of different service paths along each of which a same set of service operations are performed on a set of packets. The method retrieves an available service path identifier from an identifier storage that stores service path identifiers for multiple service paths. The method generates a set of proposed service path identifiers based on the retrieved available service path identifier and the number of service paths in the set of service paths. The method performs a write operation on the identifier storage based on the set of proposed service path identifiers, and based on a determination that the write operation was successful, assigns the set of proposed service path identifiers to the set of service paths. Based on the set of service path identifiers, the method forwards the set of packets along the set of service paths.

Abstract: Current distributed message queuing services are designed to share resources in order to fulfill greater amounts of information; however, resource sharing often leads to correlated failures, task distribution problems, and misaligned load balancing of those shared resources. By maintaining a queue of publish request messages to be retrieved by message processors when the workload of the message processors is available, the enqueued messages are processed and fanned-out in order to provide information in the messages to the subscribers without latency or loss of data.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments for configuring a network device using user-defined scripts are disclosed. The systems and methods provide for a servicing node to receive a request for a network session between a client device and a server, receive a user defined class and a user defined object configuration from a node controller, and use the information to instruct an object virtual machine to generate at least one user defined object. The servicing node can then apply the at least one user defined object to a data packet of the network session, where the user defined object allows a user to configure the network device with user-defined instruction scripts.

Abstract: In some embodiments, social matching includes determining one or more friends of a subscriber, in which the one or more friends of the subscriber are associated with the subscriber based on a social graph; notifying (e.g., pinging) a selected set of the one or more friends of the subscriber for input regarding selected matches for the subscriber, in which matches for the subscriber are generated by a matching engine performed by a processor; and displaying the input received from the selected set of the one or more friends of the subscriber.

Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for integrating a collaborative communication system and a document collaboration system. A document within the document collaboration system may be linked to an object within the collaborative communication system. A user post may be received in association with the object or the document. A first feed configured to be rendered in association with the object is synchronized with a second feed configured to be rendered in association with the document such that both the first feed and the second feed each includes the user post.

Abstract: Conventional protocols for live media streaming are not lightweight and hence not suitable for constrained video transmitting devices. The protocols are poor in terms of delay performance under lossy conditions and need to maintain a lot of states at the constrained transmitting end leading to load on the memory and draining energy of the devices. The conventionally used protocols do not perform well for intermittent connectivity. Usually the existing streaming solutions act either in completely reliable manner, using reliable transport protocol like TCP, or in completely unreliable manner using best effort unreliable transport protocol like UDP. The present disclosure provides a single streaming solution which can change the protocol semantics and maintains a balance between reliability and delay-performance, thereby optimizing the overall system goodput. The protocol does this intelligently by inferring the criticality of the segment in flight and enable live video streaming for Internet of Things (IoT).

Abstract: Streaming improvements are provided by using computing, caching, and/or other resources that are provided at different network edges in a Multi-access Edge Computing (“MEC”) enhanced network. A MEC device, at a network edge, may customize a stream passing to a client device via the network edge by identifying a break in an original stream manifest passing to the client device, and by inserting a link for the client device to request and play content that is selected by the MEC device during the break. The MEC device then passes the modified stream manifest, instead of the original stream manifest, to the client device. The MEC device may also be triggered, via a prioritization message from a host in the network, to prefetch, cache, and serve a stream from the network edge to a client device accessing the network via that network edge.

Abstract: Systems and methods of adopting data across different sites are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a data adoption system configures a first networked site to adopt data from one or more other networked sites, detects new data on the other networked site(s), with the new data being associated with a data item on the other networked site(s), determines that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site, and stores the new data from the other networked site(s) on the first networked site in association with the data item based on the detecting of the new data on the other networked site(s) and the determining that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site.

Abstract: Directing a content player to a content source is disclosed. A message from a content management system including information associated with a client that is currently requesting content is received. Based at least in part on the information included in the message, a set of content sources is determined. Instructions indicating the set of content sources for the client are sent to the content management system.

Abstract: The present application provides a method for dynamically allocating resources in an SDN/NFV network based on load balancing. For multimedia services with different demands, a virtual link mapping target, a constraint and a load state of a physical link are associated. A subtask is adaptively mapped to a network node according to the load state of the physical link. The method effectively distinguishes used resources and remaining resources of a physical node and a link to balance the load, and thereby improve the utilization of network resources and avoid occurrence of a local optimum or current optimum. The solution involves performing a subtask mapping to find a server node satisfying constraints for each subtask in a service request. The model for mapping the subtask is min T ? V ? ? Target 1 s . t . ? C 1 , C 2 , C 3 , C 4 .

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a first host from a virtualization manager via a network connection, a request to perform a storage operation on a storage volume associated with a storage domain, initiating the storage operation on the storage volume, responsive to determining that the network connection has been lost, storing a progress indicator of the operation in a volume metadata associated with the storage volume, and transmitting, to the virtualization manager, the progress indicator stored in the volume metadata.

Abstract: An example method to generate communication clients in an enterprise network environment involves receiving a status from a resource management system, the status associated with a computing resource of the enterprise network environment. The example method involves determining whether the status satisfies a threshold. When the status satisfies the threshold, the example method involves selecting a plurality of users based on a status agreement. When the status satisfies the threshold, the example method involves generating a communication client associated with the resource. When the status satisfies the threshold, the example method involves inviting the selected plurality of users via a social media interface to access the communication client.