Abstract: A method for generating optical communication signals in a communication network includes (1) generating at least a first optical tone and a second optical tone using a quantum dot (QD) coherent comb laser (CCL), the first and second optical tones having different respective wavelengths, (2) modulating the first optical tone according to a first modulation signal to generate a first communication signal, and (3) modulating the second optical tone according to a second modulation signal to generate a second communication signal.

Abstract: An echo cancellation method includes steps of (a) extracting phase-distortion estimates, (b) reconstructing an echo signal, (c) generating a clean signal, and (d) producing a primary signal. Step (a) includes extracting, from a first phase signal, a plurality of phase-distortion estimates, the first phase signal having been estimated from an echo-corrupted signal received at a first coherent transceiver of a coherent optical network. Step (b) includes reconstructing an echo signal from the plurality of phase-distortion estimates and a transmitted signal transmitted by the first coherent transceiver. Step (c) includes generating a clean signal as a difference between the reconstructed echo signal and the first phase signal. Step (d) includes producing a primary signal by mapping each of a plurality of clean-phase estimates of the clean signal to one of a plurality of constellation symbols associated with a modulation scheme of the primary signal.

Abstract: A method for estimating a chromatic dispersion of an optical-fiber channel is disclosed includes receiving, via the optical-fiber channel, a chromatically-dispersed signal having a symbol rate 1/T. The method also includes, for each chromatic-dispersion value of a plurality of chromatic-dispersion values, determining a respective clock-tone magnitude by: (i) applying, to the chromatically-dispersed signal or a signal derived therefrom, a chromatic dispersion equal to the chromatic-dispersion value to generate a dispersion-compensated signal, and (ii) extracting the clock-tone magnitude from at least one of a positive-frequency clock-tone and a negative-frequency clock-tone of the dispersion-compensated signal, the positive-frequency clock-tone and the negative-frequency clock-tone being spectral components of the dispersion-compensated signal at temporal frequencies 1/T or ?1/T respectively. The method also includes determining a maximum of the extracted clock-tone magnitudes.

Abstract: A method for improving a process model for a patterning process, the method including obtaining a) a measured contour from an image capture device, and b) a simulated contour generated from a simulation of the process model. The method also includes aligning the measured contour with the simulated contour by determining an offset between the measured contour and the simulated contour. The process model is calibrated to reduce a difference, computed based on the determined offset, between the simulated contour and the measured contour.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for fabricating a flexible display screen. The apparatus for the flexible display screen includes a roller mechanism and a jig, wherein the jig includes a bearing surface configured to bear a flexible display panel, the bearing surface being a curved surface; and the roller mechanism includes a roller, an axis of the roller being parallel to an element line of the bearing surface, and the roller being configured to roll on the bearing surface along a directrix of the bearing surface.

Abstract: The present application provides a battery, a power consumption apparatus, and a method for producing a battery. The battery includes a box body, a battery module and a mounting plate, the battery module is disposed in the box body and includes a battery cell arrangement structure and a first end plate, the battery cell arrangement structure includes a plurality of battery cells stacked and is disposed on one side of the battery cell arrangement structure, the first end plate is fixedly connected to the battery cell arrangement structure, the mounting plate is disposed between the first end plate and the box body and is fixedly connected to the box body; the first end plate has a first elastic support part configured to be capable of abutting the mounting plate, being squeezed by the battery cell arrangement structure and deforming when the battery cell arrangement structure expands.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an image style conversion method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: performing quality enhancement on a first target style image to obtain a second target style image; performing feature extraction on the second target style image to obtain a target style feature; performing migration training on a preset target style conversion model by using a full style conversion model and the target style feature to obtain a target style conversion model; inputting a full style feature, the target style feature, and a to-be-converted image into the target style conversion model, and performing style conversion on the to-be-converted image using the target style conversion model to obtain a target image conforming to a target style.

Abstract: A method for ironmaking by smelting reduction in a stir-generated vortex includes: (1) placing a pig iron in an induction furnace, and then heating the pig iron to a molten state to form a molten iron, and maintaining the molten iron to be greater than or equal to 1450° C.; (2) stirring a center of the molten iron to form a vortex with a height-to-diameter ratio of 0.5-2.5, and continuously performing stirring; (3) mixing and grinding on an iron-containing mineral, a reducing agent and a slag-forming agent in a mass ratio of 1:(0.1-0.15):(0.25-0.4) to obtain a powder mixture, spraying and blowing the powder mixture to a center of the vortex, performing a reduction reaction, and stopping the stirring after the molten iron and molten slags are obtained, wherein a waste gas is produced; and (4) discharging the molten iron and the molten slags respectively, and exhausting a treated waste gas.

Abstract: Systems and methods for mining and compressing commercial data including a network of point of sale devices to log commercial activity data including independent commercial events and corresponding dependent features. A middleware system is in communication with the network of point of sale devices to continuously collect and compress a stream of the commercial activity data and concurrently store the compressed commercial activity data. Compressing the stream includes a file access table corresponding to the commercial activity data, producing compressible file access templates (CFATs) according to frequent patterns of commercial activity data using the file access table, and replacing dependent feature sequences with a matching compressible file access template. A database is in communication with the middleware system to store the compressed commercial data.

Abstract: Methods for querying a database and database systems include optimizing a database query for parallel execution using spatial and temporal information relating to elements in the database, the optimized database query being split into sub-queries with sub-queries being divided spatially according to host and temporally according to time window. The sub-queries are executed in parallel. The results of the database query are outputted progressively.

Abstract: Automated security systems and methods include a set monitored systems, each having one or more corresponding monitors configured to record system state information. A progressive software behavioral query language (PROBEQL) database is configured to store the system state information from the monitored systems. A query optimizing module is configured to optimize a database query for parallel execution using spatial and temporal information relating to elements in the PROBEQL database. The optimized database query is split into sub-queries with sub-queries being divided spatially according to host and temporally according to time window. A parallel execution module is configured to execute the sub-queries on the PROBEQL database in parallel. A results module is configured to output progressive results of the database query. A security control system is configured to perform a security control action in accordance with the progressive results.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data reduction including organizing data of an event stream into a file access table concurrently with receiving the event stream, the data including independent features and dependent features. A frequent pattern tree (FP-Tree) is built including nodes corresponding to the dependent features according to a frequency of occurrence of the dependent features relative to the independent features. Each single path in the FP-Tree is merged into a special node corresponding to segments of dependent features to produce a reduced FP-Tree. All path combinations in the reduced FP-Tree are identified. A compressible file access template (CFAT) is generated corresponding to each of the path combinations. The data of the event stream is compressed with the CFATs to reduce the dependent features to special events representing the dependent features.

Abstract: A method for ironmaking by smelting reduction in a stir-generated vortex includes: (1) placing a pig iron in an induction furnace, and then heating the pig iron to a molten state to form a molten iron, and maintaining the molten iron to be greater than or equal to 1450° C.; (2) stirring a center of the molten iron to form a vortex with a height-to-diameter ratio of 0.5-2.5, and continuously performing stirring; (3) mixing and grinding on an iron-containing mineral, a reducing agent and a slag-forming agent in a mass ratio of 1:(0.1-0.15):(0.25-0.4) to obtain a powder mixture, spraying and blowing the powder mixture to a center of the vortex, performing a reduction reaction, and stopping the stirring after the molten iron and molten slags are obtained, wherein a waste gas is produced; and (4) discharging the molten iron and the molten slags respectively, and exhausting a treated waste gas.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data reduction including organizing data of an event stream into a file access table concurrently with receiving the event stream, the data including independent features and dependent features. A frequent pattern tree (FP-Tree) is built including nodes corresponding to the dependent features according to a frequency of occurrence of the dependent features relative to the independent features. Each single path in the FP-Tree is merged into a special node corresponding to segments of dependent features to produce a reduced FP-Tree. All path combinations in the reduced FP-Tree are identified. A compressible file access template (CFAT) is generated corresponding to each of the path combinations. The data of the event stream is compressed with the CFATs to reduce the dependent features to special events representing the dependent features.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for causality analysis of Operating System-level (OS-level) events in heterogeneous enterprise hosts. The method includes storing, by the processor, the OS-level events in a priority queue in a prioritized order based on priority scores determined from event rareness scores and event fanout scores for the OS-level events. The method includes processing, by the processor, the OS-level events stored in the priority queue in the prioritized order to provide a set of potentially anomalous ones of the OS-level events within a set amount of time. The method includes generating, by the processor, a dependency graph showing causal dependencies of at least the set of potentially anomalous ones of the OS-level events, based on results of the causality dependency analysis. The method includes initiating, by the processor, an action to improve a functioning of the hosts responsive to the dependency graph or information derived therefrom.

Abstract: Systems and methods for mining and compressing commercial data including a network of point of sale devices to log commercial activity data including independent commercial events and corresponding dependent features. A middleware system is in communication with the network of point of sale devices to continuously collect and compress a stream of the commercial activity data and concurrently store the compressed commercial activity data. Compressing the stream includes a file access table corresponding to the commercial activity data, producing compressible file access templates (CFATs) according to frequent patterns of commercial activity data using the file access table, and replacing dependent feature sequences with a matching compressible file access template. A database is in communication with the middleware system to store the compressed commercial data.

Abstract: Methods for querying a database and database systems include optimizing a database query for parallel execution using spatial and temporal information relating to elements in the database, the optimized database query being split into sub-queries with sub-queries being divided spatially according to host and temporally according to time window. The sub-queries are executed in parallel. The results of the database query are outputted progressively.

Abstract: Automated security systems and methods include a set monitored systems, each having one or more corresponding monitors configured to record system state information. A progressive software behavioral query language (PROBEQL) database is configured to store the system state information from the monitored systems. A query optimizing module is configured to optimize a database query for parallel execution using spatial and temporal information relating to elements in the PROBEQL database. The optimized database query is split into sub-queries with sub-queries being divided spatially according to host and temporally according to time window. A parallel execution module is configured to execute the sub-queries on the PROBEQL database in parallel. A results module is configured to output progressive results of the database query. A security control system is configured to perform a security control action in accordance with the progressive results.

Abstract: A semantic-based approach that classifies Android malware via dependency graphs. To battle transformation attacks, a weighted contextual API dependency graph is extracted as program semantics to construct feature sets. To fight against malware variants and zero-day malware, graph similarity metrics are used to uncover homogeneous application behaviors while tolerating minor implementation differences.