Abstract: Systems and methods determine an angle of an articulated trailer relative to a tractor that the trailer is hitched to. An optical encoder is positioned beneath a fifth-wheel of a tractor to couples with a kingpin of the trailer when the trailer is hitched to the tractor. The optical coupler has a rotating shaft that may include pins that physically interact with the kingpin and/or may include a magnet that magnetically attaches to the kingpin. A clearance and cleaning block may be positioned on the spring plate to interact with a bottom surface of a kingpin of the trailer during hitching of the trailer to the tractor. A LIDAR attached to the tractor may detect a front end of the trailer to determine the trailer angle relative to the tractor.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for improving the evaluation of unstructured transaction data to, for example, recognize reoccurring data patterns or patterns of interest, predict future outcomes using historical indicators, identify attributes of interest, or evaluate likelihoods of certain conditions occurring. For example, a system can transform unstructured public record data obtained from multiple independent public data sources according to a hierarchical data model. The hierarchical data model can specify nodes within different data layers of a data hierarchy and classification labels corresponding to each of the nodes. In this way, the system can utilize data transformation techniques to permit the processing of information within unstructured transaction data that would have otherwise been impossible to perform without initially structuring the data according to the hierarchical data model.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining pose using a trained neural network are described, whereby a user device receives image data of a marker affixed to an object to be tracked, provides a set of input data derived from the image data to a neural network stored on the user device, and generates a pose descriptor indicative of estimated pose of the marker based on output of the neural network produced in response to receiving the set of input data. The marker comprises a first surface to convey radiation in a first direction, and a second surface to convey radiation in a second direction different to the first direction, whereby the image processing system determines object pose from captured image data of at least a portion of the radiation conveyed from the first and/or second surface of the marker affixed to the object. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for improving the evaluation of unstructured transaction data to, for example, recognize reoccurring data patterns or patterns of interest, predict future outcomes using historical indicators, identify attributes of interest, or evaluate likelihoods of certain conditions occurring. For example, a system can transform unstructured public record data obtained from multiple independent public data sources according to a hierarchical data model. The hierarchical data model can specify nodes within different data layers of a data hierarchy and classification labels corresponding to each of the nodes. In this way, the system can utilize data transformation techniques to permit the processing of information within unstructured transaction data that would have otherwise been impossible to perform without initially structuring the data according to the hierarchical data model.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: A method includes extending an interface, to a device outside a firewall, for requesting a service performed by a device inside the firewall. The interface is extended using a software component, executing outside the firewall, which executes a separate interface to accept requests for services from devices outside the firewall. The separate interface, exposed outside the firewall, is configured for accepting a subset of the services available inside the firewall.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery charging system. The battery charging system includes battery charging circuitry configured to provide charging current to a battery. The battery charging system further includes feedback circuitry configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a battery charging condition, wherein the battery charging system is configured to control the battery charging current based on, at least in part, the feedback signal. The battery charging system further includes feed forward circuitry configured to adjust the feedback signal to decrease battery charging current when a decrease in battery current draw exceeds a threshold, and wherein the feed forward circuitry is configured to decrease the battery charging current faster than the feedback circuitry.

Abstract: A method includes extending an interface, to a device outside a firewall, for requesting a service performed by a device inside the firewall. The interface is extended using a software component, executing outside the firewall, which executes a separate interface to accept requests for services from devices outside the firewall. The separate interface, exposed outside the firewall, is configured for accepting a subset of the services available inside the firewall.

Abstract: A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery charging system. The battery charging system includes battery charging circuitry configured to provide charging current to a battery. The battery charging system further includes feedback circuitry configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a battery charging condition, wherein the battery charging system is configured to control the battery charging current based on, at least in part, the feedback signal. The battery charging system further includes feed forward circuitry configured to adjust the feedback signal to decrease battery charging current when a decrease in battery current draw exceeds a threshold, and wherein the feed forward circuitry is configured to decrease the battery charging current faster than the feedback circuitry.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery charging system. The battery charging system includes battery charging circuitry configured to provide charging current to a battery. The battery charging system further includes feedback circuitry configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a battery charging condition, wherein the battery charging system is configured to control the battery charging current based on, at least in part, the feedback signal. The battery charging system further includes feed forward circuitry configured to adjust the feedback signal to decrease battery charging current when a decrease in battery current draw exceeds a threshold, and wherein the feed forward circuitry is configured to decrease the battery charging current faster than the feedback circuitry.

Abstract: This document discusses apparatus and methods associated with an early warning strobe input of a boost converter. In an example, a method of increasing a set point of a boost converter configured to provide power to a mobile device can include receiving an indication that the mobile device will transition from the first low-power mode to a second higher-power mode; and increasing the set point of the boost converter in response to the indication.

Abstract: The multi-party conversation analyzer of the present invention allows users to search a database of recorded phone calls to find calls which fit user-defined criteria for “suspicious calls”. Such criteria may include indications that a call included a 3-way call event, presence of an unauthorized voiced during the call, presence of the voice of an individual known to engage in identity theft, etc. A segment of speech within a call may be graphically selected and a search for calls with similar voices rapidly initiated. Searches across the database for specified voices are speeded by first searching for calls which contain speech from cohort speakers with similar voice characteristics.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for capturing database system workload and replaying that workload in a database system is provided. According to one aspect, in order to subject a test database system to the same workload to which the production database system actually would be subjected, a database server in the production system captures and records workload that the database server receives from external entities. This captured workload is processed. Processes external to a database server in the test database system send the processed workload to that database server. As a result, the test database system is subjected to the same workload to which the production database system originally was subjected. The foregoing technique permits a database administrator to determine how the production database system will fare if the difference that is present in the test database system is introduced into the production database system.

Abstract: Techniques that enable a user or customer at a system site to review and, if desired, modify data identified at the system site for transmission to a diagnosis site prior to the transmission. The identified diagnostic data may be modified such that data that the user does not want to be sent to the diagnosis site (e.g., sensitive data) is excluded from the data communicated to the diagnosis site. The data may be modified by removing or excluding the sensitive data from the data that is communicated to the diagnosis site or replacing the sensitive data with non-sensitive data. The modified data may then be communicated from the system site to the diagnosis site in the form of a package.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for identifying one or more transactions that have modified or created an object in a database system. Also disclosed is a method and mechanism to compensate for the effects of a transaction in a database system is disclosed. The disclosed approach can be applied to perform auditing for changes and/or transactions in a database system and for identifying the scope of changes and data accesses made by a transaction in the system.