Abstract: Technologies are generally described to coordinate group members that may be at distinct locations and optionally moving in distinct directions to meet at a coordinated meeting point and/or to move in a common direction. A coordinated meeting point may optimize a parameter of interest for each of the group members or group as a whole. Example parameters may include distance, time, fuel usage, remaining resource levels, a network coverage, and group members' patience, mood, and/or tiredness factors. In some examples, a controller may determine the meeting point that minimizes a parameter of interest for the group members or whole group, where the meeting point may be stationary or dynamic. The controller may map the calculated meeting point to a geographical location, and may determine an optimal or preferred route from each group member to the meeting point to gather the group members together optimizing for a particular parameter of interest.

Abstract: A server constituted a processor and a server memory, the processor arranged to: provide a selectable plurality of attributes, the plurality of attributes stored on the server memory; provide, for each selected one of the plurality of attributes, a selectable plurality of values, the plurality of values stored on the server memory; and generate an archetype responsive to the selected values of the selected attributes. Preferably, a system exhibiting the server and a user computing station in communication with the server, is provided, the user computing station comprising a user input device, wherein each of the selected one of the plurality of attributes is selected responsive to the user input device, and wherein each of the selected one of the plurality of values for each of the selected one of the plurality of attributes is selected responsive to the user input device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable storage media for preventing side-channel attacks are disclosed. A computing resource, such as a virtual machine, operating on a computing device or within a computing environment may be duplicated. Properties associated with the computing resource and the duplicate computing resource may be monitored for discrepancies. The discrepancies may be indicative of a security event, such as a virus or side-channel attack. Detected security events may be handled by replacing a computing resource with a duplicate computing resource.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described to coordinate group members that may be at distinct locations and optionally moving in distinct directions to meet at a coordinated meeting point and/or to move in a common direction. A coordinated meeting point may optimize a parameter of interest for each of the group members or group as a whole. Example parameters may include distance, time, fuel usage, remaining resource levels, a network coverage, and group members' patience, mood, and/or tiredness factors. In some examples, a controller may determine the meeting point that minimizes a parameter of interest for the group members or whole group, where the meeting point may be stationary or dynamic. The controller may map the calculated meeting point to a geographical location, and may determine an optimal or preferred route from each group member to the meeting point to gather the group members together optimizing for a particular parameter of interest.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for use of orientation markers to determine object orientation and/or deformation. In some examples, an orientation marker for a physical object may include an alignment structure and encode information about the alignment structure. For example, the orientation marker may encode the size of the alignment structure, the orientation of the alignment structure, and the location of the alignment structure with respect to some physical point on the physical object and/or other orientation markers on the physical object An orientation system may then use the encoded information to determine the orientation and/or alignment of the object. The orientation system may also use the encoded information to determine whether the physical object is deformed.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for systems, methods and devices effective to analyze a file. In some examples, a processor may receive the file. The file may include content and instructions. The content may include data executable by a browser. The processor may analyze the instructions. The processor may identify an internet protocol (IP) address in the instructions based on the analysis. The processor may compare the identified IP address with a list of IP addresses associated with an attack. The processor may generate an alert based on the comparison.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to a speaker device comprises a planar oscillation element configured to generate an ultrasonic acoustic signal, a shutter element, a first comb drive, and a second comb drive. The shutter element is configured to cover an opening that is positioned to receive the ultrasonic acoustic signal to modulate the ultrasonic acoustic signal such that an audio signal is generated. The first comb drive is coupled to the shutter element and configured to displace the shutter element in a first direction and the second comb drive is coupled to the shutter element and configured to displace the shutter element in a second direction.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to a MEMS-based audio speaker system configured for generating an audio signal. The speaker system includes one or more apertures in the speaker system positioned to receive the ultrasonic carrier signal and one or more movable and over-sized obstruction elements that are configured to modulate the ultrasonic carrier signal and thereby generate an audio signal. Because the movable obstruction elements are configured to overlap one or more edges of the apertures when in the closed position, modulation depth of the generated audio signal can be substantially improved or otherwise varied.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to a MEMS-based audio speaker system that includes a first movable element, formed from a first layer of a semiconductor substrate, and a second movable element, formed from a second layer of the semiconductor substrate that is a different layer than the first layer of the semiconductor substrate. The first movable element may be configured to oscillate along a first directional path substantially orthogonal to the first plane.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for calibrating three-dimensional image sensors. In some examples, an imaging system may include a sensor for detecting two-dimensional image data associated with a scene and a sensor for detecting depth data associated with the scene. Both sensors may also be configured to detect a reference signal used to illuminate the scene. The imaging system may then be configured to form three-dimensional data about the scene by using the reference signal to combine the two-dimensional image data and the depth data.

Abstract: Thermal conductive compositions, methods for their preparation, and use are provided, which include, for example, as thermal sinks and other uses.

Abstract: In some examples, an optical fiber may include a clad portion and an exposed fiber core that extends from the clad portion. Multiple such optical fibers may be included in a fiber bundle having a condensed region of fiber cores spaced at a first center-to-center spacing and a non-condensed region of clad portions spaced at a second center-to-center spacing greater than the first center-to-center spacing. Such optical fibers may be formed with exposed fiber cores ab initio.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to a MEMS-based audio speaker system configured with multiple speaker devices to generate an audio signal that is substantially without a high-band ultrasonic signal. Energy may be transferred to a low frequency sideband of the audio signal output and substantially eliminated from the high frequency sideband of the audio signal by passing an acoustic carrier signal through two different modulators. One modulator may implement a first modulation function on the acoustic carrier signal to generate a first audio signal, where the first modulation function may be based on a target acoustic output signal for the MEMS-based audio speaker system. The second modulator may implement a second modulation function on the acoustic carrier signal to generate a second audio signal, where the second audio signal may be the Hilbert transform of the first audio signal.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described that relate to managing and/or generating incentive data. An example method may include receiving a set of activity data associated with an entity. The method may also include generating incentive data for the entity based on a determination that an activity selected from the set of activity data is to be performed with respect to a target object and satisfies a rule of a set of rules associated with the target object, where the generating the incentive data is independent of a point of sale purchase of the target object.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) device and packaging with enhance heat conduction. An LED in a wafer level processing (WLP) package is disclosed using vias in the silicon to route the electrical connections to the LED backside and a dedicated hole in the silicon with a direct heat conduction route from the LED to the printed circuit board. Certain layers act to promote mechanical, electrical, thermal, or optical characteristics of the device. The device avoids or ameliorates heat dissipation problems found in conventional LED devices. Some embodiments include a plurality of optically permissive layers, including an optically permissive cover substrate comprising phosphors and/or quantum dots.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for fabrication of a multi-component device, and employment thereof. The device may include a substrate, and a multitude of light sources and one or more photo detectors positioned on a surface of the substrate. The light sources may be configured to illuminate at least a portion of an object with light, and the photo detectors may be configured to detect reflected light from the object in response to the illumination. In some examples, the reflected light may be analyzed to determine a spectral profile of the object. The device may further include a structure applied to the substrate adjacent to the photo detectors, where the structure may be configured to reduce direct light transmission from the light sources to the photo detectors. The structure may include a deposited material, a protrusion, and/or a recession on the surface of the substrate, for example.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally relate to a refractometer. Using electromagnetic energy, the refractometer can accurately measure refractive index of a liquid without bulky precision optics. By empirically determining a relationship between the refractive index of a liquid sample and a measured reflected power from a resonant structure when in contact with the liquid sample, the refractive index of a liquid can be determined by measuring this reflected power. Furthermore, using multiple light sources of different frequencies, the refractive index of the liquid sample can be determined over a very broad spectral range, for example from ultra-violet to far infrared.

Abstract: An interactive assembly including at least one interactive surface element, at least a first region of the at least one interactive surface element having first user sensible functionality and at least a second region of the at least one interactive surface element having second functionality, different from the first user sensible functionality, input sensor functionality, including at least one input sensor located in propinquity to at least one of the at least one interactive surface element, operative to sense impingement of an electromagnetic radiation spot on at least one of the at least one first region and the at least one second region of the at least one interactive surface element and utilization functionality for employing outputs of the input sensor functionality in respect of impingement on either or both of the at least one first region and the at least one second region.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed to an electronic device package including an electronic device comprising a first contact point; a metal pad disposed to provide electrical connection to the first contact point; a substrate comprising a first face and a second face opposing the first face of the substrate, the first face of the substrate adjacent a face of the electronic device; and a VIA passing through the substrate from the second face of the substrate to the metal pad, the VIA exhibiting: a pass through extending through the substrate from the first face to the second face; a metal layer disposed within the pass through arranged to provide electrical connectivity to the metal pad from an area adjacent the second face of the substrate; and an electrically insulating first passivation layer disposed between the metal layer and the substrate arranged to provide electrical insulation between the substrate and the metal layer.

Abstract: Techniques described herein generally relate to a refractometer. Using electromagnetic energy, the refractometer can accurately measure refractive index of a liquid without bulky precision optics. By empirically determining a relationship between the refractive index of a liquid sample and a measured reflected power from a resonant structure when in contact with the liquid sample, the refractive index of a liquid can be determined by measuring this reflected power. Furthermore, using multiple light sources of different frequencies, the refractive index of the liquid sample can be determined over a very broad spectral range, for example from ultra-violet to far infrared.