Abstract: A facility for generating monotonic fully connected layer blocks for a machine learning model is described. The facility receives an indication of a convex constituent monotonically increasing activation function and a concave constituent monotonically increasing activation function for a monotonic layer. The facility generates a composite monotonic activation function made up of the convex and concave constituent activation functions. The facility receives an indication of a monotonicity indicator vector for the monotonic dense layer block. The facility determines one or more selector weights for the composite activation function. The facility initializes a sign for each weight of one or more kernel weights included in the monotonic layer and initializes a bias vector. The facility generates the monotonic dense layer block based on the composite activation function, the monotonicity indicator vector, the selector weights, the sign for each kernel weight, and the bias vector.

Abstract: A system and method for advertisement sponsored content distribution. It enables a person to experience advertising embedded content free of charge or to experience advertising free content plus an alternative advertising presentation for a consideration. This requires use of a special, system compatible playback device/program which must support alternative presentation capabilities (such as audio, still images, video, messages, etc.).

Abstract: A system and method for advertisement sponsored content distribution. It enables a person to experience advertising embedded content free of charge or to experience advertising free content plus an alternative advertising presentation for a consideration. This requires use of a special, system compatible playback device/program which must support alternative presentation capabilities (such as audio, still images, video, messages, etc.).

Abstract: System and method for secure electronic rights management, secure transaction management and content distribution. This invention ensures that content can be used or experienced by the end user only if an appropriate license has been obtained. Content owners prepare content for release in the system and make it available in electronic or physical form. Prior to purchase of the license, the user sends an offer request to the system. The system replies by providing all possible offers (or selected offers based on predefined criteria) through which the license can be purchased. Each offer represents a path from the content owner to the terminal. By selecting one path, the user initiates the license request process. Upon execution of the transaction, the license is securely stored within the user's personal license management device. The user's personal usage device communicates with the user's license management device so that only licensed content can be used/experienced.