Abstract: Various aspects of a system and method for driving assistance along a path are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, a unique identifier is received from a communication device at an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The unique identifier is received when the first vehicle has reached a first location along a first portion of the path. A communication channel is established between the first vehicle and the communication device based on the received unique identifier. Data associated with a second portion of the path is received by the ECU from the communication device based on the established communication channel. Alert information associated with the second portion of the path is generated by the ECU based on the received data.

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine readable mediums that automatically determine a set of one or more rules for finding items of content with high precision and high-recall. The disclosed methods enable applications to find content in rapidly changing datasets such as microblogs and other social networking feeds with a high precision and high recall, improving the accuracy of the application.

Abstract: Unknown potential commercials are detected in a video data stream that contains segments of program type content, and blocks of commercial content. Each block includes a plurality of successive individual commercials. A library of known commercials is maintained in a first database. A video data stream is received in a video processing engine which includes a search engine that is in communication with the first database. The search engine identifies all known commercials in the video data stream and their respective start and end times. The video processing engine identifies all time segments that are sandwiched between the known commercials. The video processing engine filters out as a potential commercial any identified time segments that are significantly longer than the time length of a commercial. The video processing engine designates content of each of the time segments that were not filtered out as being one or more unknown potential commercials.

Abstract: Techniques for presenting a content item with a media item are described. The techniques include receiving user input indicating a placement preference for a content item to be presented with a media item. The placement preference indicates a presentation preference of the content item relative to presentation of the media item. The placement preference is used to influence selection of a media item with which the content item is to be presented.

Abstract: A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided for configuration management identification rule testing. The system includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to identify, using an identification rule, criterion attributes corresponding to a selected configuration item class and to identify, using the identification rule, a container level associated with the selected configuration item class. The memory further includes instructions executable by the processor to identify container level criterion attributes corresponding to the container level and to receive respective values associated with at least one of the criterion attributes and at least one of the container level criterion attributes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting potential repeating content, such as commercials, in a video data stream by receiving one or more video data streams, parsing each video data stream into a plurality of segments, creating a representation of each segment such as a segment fingerprint, storing the plurality of segment representations in a database, and identifying any segment representations in the received and parsed one or more video data streams that match segment representations in the database that were previously stored from video data streams that were previously received and parsed.

Abstract: Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for forecasting cataract surgery effectiveness. Medical practitioners can use a predictive model to automatically forecast cataract surgery effectiveness for patients, including predicting both refractive outcomes (cylinder and sphere) and visual acuity outcomes (UCVA and BCVA), recommending a cataract surgery type, and recommending an IOL type and power. The predictive model can be offered to medical practitioners as a Web API, as an application on the web, as a SaaS offering, as an application on mobiles or medical devices, or any number of other platforms. Patients can be ranked based on predicted cataract surgery outcomes. The rankings can be used to better allocate limited medical resources to patients deriving more benefit.

Abstract: Various aspects of a system and method to provide driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic control unit used in a first vehicle is configured to detect a second vehicle in front of the first vehicle. A first position associated with the first vehicle and a second position associated with the detected second vehicle is determined for a first time instance. It may be determined whether a lateral distance between the determined first position and the determined second position is below a pre-defined threshold distance. A first alert is generated when the determined lateral distance is below the pre-defined threshold distance.

Abstract: Automated methods are provided for determining a user's likely exposure to media content being output by a media device based on user interactions with a mobile device that is monitoring the media content being outputted by the media device. When a user interacts with their mobile device, such as by using telephone functionality on the mobile device, or by interacting with an application on the mobile device, media content being played on a media device that is in proximity of the media device is sensed and detected using automatic content recognition technology. Media impressions are recorded for the detected media impression.

Abstract: Implementations of a system, method and apparatus described herein receive, for a configuration item in a configuration management database, status indicating an operational state and an automation state associated with the configuration item, and determine whether a conflict will occur with at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item as a result of a process affecting the configuration item. When the conflict will not occur, a change is made to at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item in accordance with the process. Upon a conclusion of the process, the change is removed. If the conflict will occur, the process not allowed to continue.

Abstract: Techniques for performing redundant multi-threading (“RMT”) include the use of an RMT compare instruction by two program instances (“work-items”). The RMT compare instruction specifies a value from each work-item to be compared. Upon executing the RMT compare instructions, the work-items transmit the values to a hardware comparator unit. The hardware comparator unit compares the received values and performs an error action if the values do not match. The error action may include sending an error code in a return value back to the work-items that requested the comparison or emitting a trap signal. Optionally, the work-items also send addresses for comparison to the comparator unit. If the addresses and values match, then the comparator stores the value at the specified address. If either or both of the values or the addresses do not match, then the comparator performs an error action.

Abstract: Techniques for presenting a content item with a media item are described. The techniques include receiving user input indicating a placement preference for a content item to be presented with a media item. The placement preference indicates a presentation preference of the content item relative to presentation of the media item. The placement preference is used to influence selection of a media item with which the content item is to be presented.

Abstract: The present disclosure extends to maintaining an item inventory status at an inventory cache management system. The inventory cache may be refreshed regularly by a threshold-based triggering mechanism. In embodiments, as item inventory breaches certain thresholds, the inventory cache may be refreshed with increased frequency to mitigate overselling or underselling scenarios and reduce overall network traffic for items having relatively high inventory levels.

Abstract: A system, method and program product that provides a disaster recovery (DR) brokerage infrastructure. A system is described that includes: a network of intermediate storage nodes and peering points; and a brokerage manager that periodically evaluates a set of DR as a service (DRaaS) providers and selects a cost optimal DRaaS provider for a subscriber, wherein the brokerage manager replicates DR related data for the subscriber in an intermediate storage node prior to delivery to the cost optimal DRaaS provider.

Abstract: Described herein are waterfall counters and an application to architectural vulnerability factor (AVF) estimation. Waterfall counters count events that are generated at event generation logic. The waterfall counters are a combination of small, fast counters local to the event generation logic, and larger, global counters in fast memory. The local counters can be saturation or oscillation counters. When a local counter is saturated or evicted, the value from the local counter is added to the global counter. This addition can be done using logic local to the local or global counter. The waterfall counters provide a full-accuracy event count without the high bandwidth that is needed to maintain the global counters. An AVF estimation can be determined based on ratios from counts of read events, write events, and total events using the waterfall counters.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an impact resistant door facing. The facing includes a rectangular sheet of molded hardened polymeric material having first and second opposing major surfaces. A mat having a continuous structure is integrally molded into the sheet. The mat is sufficiently porous to allow the polymeric material to permeate the mat prior to the polymeric material having hardened. The mat is disposed within the sheet so that at least one of the major surfaces is unbroken. The present invention also relates to a method of forming the disclosed door facing, and a door formed therewith.

Abstract: Techniques for automating the generation and analysis of fundus drawings are described. Captured images undergo image processing to extract information about image features. Fundus images are generated and recommended labels for the fundus drawing are generated. Fundus drawings can be analyzed and undergo textual processing to extract existing labels. Machine learning models and co-occurrence analysis can be applied to collections of fundus images and drawings to gather information about commonly associated labels, label locations, and user information. The most frequently used labels associated with the image can be identified to improve recommendations and personalize labels.

Abstract: Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing personalized surgery recommendations for eye patients. Surgery types, and surgery parameters can be recommended for a patient based on predicted post-operative UCVA for the patient if the surgery types and surgery parameters were to be used. Predicting post-operative UCVA can be handled as a regression problem based on patient demography and pre-operative examination details. In an additional aspect, surgery parameters are automatically determined and/or optimized for improved post-operative UCVA by including surgery parameters in a regression model.

Abstract: Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for forecasting eye condition progression for eye patients. When a patient visits an eye practitioner, the patient (or when appropriate their guardian) may be interested in the current eye condition as well as a prediction of eye condition progression in the future and/or as the patient ages. Aspects of the invention can be used to predict the progress of an eye condition for a patient (e.g., a child) at a number of different post-examination times after an examination. Predicting the progress of an eye condition for a patient over time can be used to assist the eye practitioner in tailoring a treatment plan and/or tailoring a subsequent examination schedule for the patient.

Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a file server virtual machine of a virtualized file server configured to manage storage of a plurality of storage items. The file server virtual machine including a file system configured to receive an access request directed to a storage item of the plurality of storage items and associated with a user. The file system is further configured to retrieve an access control list having permissions information associated with the storage item, and to cache a permissions profile for the user including all permissions pertaining to the user for the storage item. The file system is further configured to determine whether the access request is permissible based on the cached permissions profile.