Abstract: A leather product such as a leather covering for a vehicular part includes a segment of leather with a base coat applied to a hide side and a color coat applied to the base coat to create an intermediate stage leather segment. A foil transfer is embossed into and secured with an adhesive to the intermediate stage leather segment. A top coat is then applied to the foil transfer and a surrounding portion of the intermediate stage leather segment after the foil transfer is secured to complete the leather product. A system and method of making the leather product is also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing nodes for limiting connection requests from wireless devices instruct certain wireless devices to stop sending connection requests or to turn off a radio of the wireless devices, based on a determination that the wireless device is not authorized to access the wireless network. Thus, resource consumption associated with signaling overhead is minimized.

Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, a light diffusion panel, a reflective surface, and a plurality of light sources. The light diffusion panel includes a light source aperture, an edge surface bounding the light source aperture, and an emission surface. The emission surface includes first and second emission surface sections. The second emission surface section is disposed on an opposite side of the light source aperture from the first emission surface section. The reflective surface is disposed on a side of the light diffusion panel opposite the emission surface. The light sources project light into the light diffusion panel through the edge surface. The light sources include first and second light sources. The first light source projects light into the light diffusion panel and through the first emission surface section. The second light source projects light into the light diffusion panel and through the second emission surface section.

Abstract: Indicator systems and methods associated with high intensity narrow spectrum light are provided. In one example embodiment, a lighting system can include one or more high intensity narrow spectrum (HINS) light sources configured to emit HINS light. The system can further include an indicator circuit configured to provide at least one indicator associated with one or more parameters of the HINS light and/or operational performance of the HINS light sources.

Abstract: A system including a first luminaire housing, a second luminaire housing, and a controller. The first luminaire housing includes a first light source configured to provide illumination to a first location, and a first I/O device configured to sense a first data set corresponding the first location. The second luminaire housing is separate from the first luminaire housing and includes a second light source configured to provide illumination to a second location, and a second I/O device configured to sense a second data set corresponding to the second location. The controller is configured to receive a portion of the first data set and a portion of the second data set, combine the portion of the first data set and the portion of the second data set to form a third data set corresponding to the first location and second location, and output the third data set.

Abstract: Cassandra SSTable data is transformed to provide data rows that are a consistent size such that data in each row has a length that is contained within a selected fixed sized kilobyte segment for deduplication. Tables of a Cassandra cluster node are translated in parallel to JSON format using Cassandra SSTableDump and the table rows are parsed to provide data rows corresponding to the data in each table row. Each row of data is padded with a predictable pattern of bits such that the data row has a length corresponding to the selected fixed segment size and has boundary locations that correspond to multiple of the selected segment size. Since each row of data starts on a segment boundary, duplicate rows of data will be identified wherever they move within a table.

Abstract: A fraud prevention system that includes a fraud prevention server including an electronic processor and a memory. The memory includes a feature drift hardened online application origination (OAO) service. When executing the feature drift hardened OAO service, the electronic processor is configured to detect, with respect to a first OAO model, feature drift in a dataset of an online application that exceeds a predefined threshold, generate one or more feature drift hardened OAO models that mitigate the feature drift, determine a fraud score of the online application based on the one or more feature drift hardened OAO models that differentiates between a behavior of a normal user and a behavior of a nefarious actor during a submission of the online application on a device and mitigates the feature drift, and control a client server to approve, hold, or deny the online application based on the fraud score.

Abstract: A fraud prevention system that includes a fraud prevention server including an electronic processor and a memory. The memory includes an online application origination (OAO) service. When executing the OAO service, the electronic processor is configured to determine whether the OAO service is enabled and whether a website configuration includes a list of multi-page placements for an online application, determine that input data needs to be stored in the memory and combined into multi-page input data, determine a fraud risk score of the online application based on the multi-page input data and an online application origination (OAO) model that differentiates between a behavior of a normal user and a behavior of a nefarious actor during a submission of the online application on a device, and control a client server to approve, hold, or deny the online application based on the fraud risk score that is determined.

Abstract: A redundant display uses row and column drivers to control an active matrix of transistors arranged in a pixel array. Row drivers arranged on respective sides of the pixel array control the voltage across entire rows of the pixel array in tandem. One or more sets of column drivers control the voltage across columns of the pixel array. One or more columns of switching elements are disposed between left and right portions of the pixel array. During normal operation, the column of switching elements connects left row portions with right row portions, such that an image is displayed across the entire pixel array. Responsive to a malfunction of row drivers on one side of the pixel array, the column of switching elements isolates the left row portions from the right row portions, such that the image may be displayed only on the other side of the pixel array.

Abstract: A fraud prevention system that includes a client server and a fraud prevention server. The fraud prevention server includes an electronic processor and a memory. The memory includes an online application origination (OAO) service. When executing the OAO service, the electronic processor is configured to determine a fraud score of an online application based on an online application origination (OAO) model that differentiates between a behavior of a normal user and a behavior of a nefarious actor during a submission of the online application on a device, and control the client server to approve, hold, or deny the online application based on the fraud score that is determined.

Abstract: A wireless user device exchanges data with wireless networks over wireless channels and measures communication metrics for the wireless channels. The wireless user device transfers the communication metrics to other wireless user devices and receives other communication metrics from the other wireless user devices. The wireless user device processes the communication metrics to select an optimal set of communication channels. The wireless user device disables the unselected ones of the wireless channels. The wireless user device exchanges wireless data with the wireless networks over the optimal set of wireless communication channels.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (A): or a salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R5a, R5b, R6a, R6b, R7a, R7b, R8a, R8b, R9a, R9b, R10a, R10b, R11a, R11b, R21, n, and G are as described herein. Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are ?V?6 integrin inhibitors that are useful for treating fibrosis such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP).

Abstract: An account recommendation system that includes a server. The server is operable to identify a user account based on a server-side persistent device identification. The server includes a processor and a memory. The server is configured to receive a request including one or more attributes related to a client device, identify the server-side persistent device identification (“PDI”) record for the client device based on the one or more attributes of the client device, identify one or more candidate accounts based on the server-side persistent device identification, determine confidence scores for each of the one or more candidate accounts, generate a recommendation signal for the user account associated with the client device based on the confidence scores, and transmit the recommendation signal to a merchant server.

Abstract: A fraud prevention system that includes a server. The server is operable to receive a first attribute of a client device from the client device and associated with a first transaction, receive a second attribute of the client device from the client device and associated with the first transaction, receive a third attribute related to the client device and associated with the first transaction, and generate a persistent device identification (“PDI”) record including the first attribute, the second attribute, and the third attribute, store the PDI record in a memory, receive the third attribute related to the client device and associated with a second transaction, and identify the client device using the PDI record based on the third attribute without receiving, in association with the second transaction, the first attribute of the client device and the second attribute of the client device.

Abstract: A method and system to help control transmission over an air interface from a base station to a served WCD. When the base station has a threshold small quantity of data to transmit over the air to a WCD, the base station will schedule the transmission to occur in a downlink PRB of a special subframe, rather than in a PRB of a regular downlink subframe. As the downlink PRB of the special subframe likely has fewer useable resource elements than the PRB of the regular downlink subframe, this process could help to minimize waste of air interface resources resulting from not making use of resource elements in an allocated PRB.

Abstract: Cassandra SSTable data is transformed to provide data rows that are a consistent size such that data in each row has a length that is contained within a selected fixed sized kilobyte segment for deduplication. Tables of a Cassandra cluster node are translated in parallel to JSON format using Cassandra SSTableDump and the table rows are parsed to provide data rows corresponding to the data in each table row. Each row of data is padded with a predictable pattern of bits such that the data row has a length corresponding to the selected fixed segment size and has boundary locations that correspond to multiple of the selected segment size. Since each row of data starts on a segment boundary, duplicate rows of data will be identified wherever they move within a table.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing storage object recovery. In one embodiment, there is disclosed a technique comprising allocating a scratch space to support recovery of a storage object, wherein the storage object comprises a set of slices and the scratch space is distinct with respect to the set of slices such that a slice allocator for allocating slices to and/or from the storage object is unaware of the existence of the scratch space. The technique also comprises taking offline the storage object for facilitating recovery of the storage object after at least a portion of the set of slices have been allocated. The technique further comprises performing a storage object recovery procedure to recover the storage object while the storage object is offline. The storage object recovery procedure utilizing the scratch space that was allocated to support the storage object recovery.

Abstract: Enhancements to existing gaming controllers facilitating expedient response time and fine-tuned accuracy are described. The enhancements comprise the internal modification of the stock resistance force supplied by the analog stick centering spring mechanism. Through modification, the force of resistance supplied may be increased to over 200 grams of force, or down to 40 grams of force, while maintaining full function of the analog stick mechanism. A second primary enhancement replaces the stock triggers, conventionally equipped with progressive resistance sensors, to a momentary ‘snap-action’ two-way switch, minimizing trigger pull distance, and removing the analog nature of the trigger to achieve optimal performance.

Abstract: A luminaire including a housing made of thermally conductive material having a top, a bottom and two opposite sides connecting the top to the bottom, each side having plurality of external, vertically spaced, substantially parallel cooling fins that extend longitudinally and project laterally outwardly of the housing, preferably at a shallow downward and outward angle. The housing configuration provides a large surface area per unit of housing length to optimize heat dissipation. A configurable, cartridge-like LED bezel assembly—readily replaceable in the field—is supported on the bottom of the housing. A driver for the LED assembly—also readily replaceable in the field—is located within the housing.

Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing containing a light emitter. A lens is connected to the housing. An accessory interface is connected to one of the lens or the housing. A control component is connected to the accessory interface. The accessory interface includes a shape conforming material configured to receive the control component and to eliminate discontinuities between the control component and the lens or housing.