Abstract: Provided are systems, devices, and methods for routing events. In one example, an application server includes a network interface to receive demographic information and a request from a mobile application executing on a mobile device, and a processor configured to identify an item that corresponds to the request, identify a web server that corresponds to the item, generate an event based on the request, and determine whether the event corresponds to the application server or the web server based on a combination of the item and the received demographic information. The processor may further process the event or control the network interface to transmit the event to the web server, based on determining whether the event corresponds to the application server or the web server.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the transdermal delivery of various compounds. In some aspects, transdermal delivery may be facilitated by the use of a hostile biophysical environment. One set of embodiments provides a composition for topical delivery comprising a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor and/or a salt thereof, and optionally, a hostile biophysical environment and/or a nitric oxide donor. In some cases, the composition may be stabilized using a combination of a stabilization polymer (such as xanthan gum, KELTROL® BT and/or KELTROL® RD), propylene glycol, and a polysorbate surfactant such as Polysorbate 20, which combination unexpectedly provides temperature stability to the composition, e.g., at elevated temperatures such as at least 40° C. (at least about 104° F.), as compared to compositions lacking one or more of these.

Abstract: Operating power converters. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: storing energy in a field of a transformer arranged for flyback operation, the storing by making conductive a primary switch coupled to a primary winding of the transformer; ceasing the storing of energy when a primary current through the primary winding reaches a predetermined value; measuring on time of the primary switch, the measuring creates a value indicative of on time; transferring energy from the field of the transformer; measuring discharge time of the energy from the field of the transformer during the transferring, the measuring of the discharge time creates a value indicative of discharge time; calculating a value indicative of input voltage of the power converter using the value indicative of on time and the value indicative of discharge time; and then compensating the predetermined value used in a subsequent storing energy step.

Abstract: A method executed by a computing device includes interpreting a digitally encoded data packet from another computing device to produce a first longevity indicator of a first longevity-contingent instrument. The method further includes updating a first longevity status indicator for the first longevity-contingent instrument within a database utilizing the first longevity indicator. When the updated first longevity status indicator is associated with a benefit status, the method further includes determining a payout associated with a first sub-asset and determining a first portion of the payout to associate with a premium cash escrow in accordance with a rive approach. The method further includes determining a second portion of the payout to associate with a benefit cash account in accordance with the rive approach and facilitating reconciling of the first portion of the payout to the premium cash escrow and the second portion of the payout to the benefit cash account.

Abstract: Described is a method for performance estimation of a communication device. The method comprises: executing active probing to determine active probing data; reading operational data which includes data related to channel and its noise condition, latency and counter values related to user data traffic between the communication device and another communication device, wherein the operational data is relevant to the current settings of the communication device; and training a performance estimation algorithm for the communication device according to the active probing data and the operational data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a meditation apparatus comprising a meditation seat and articulated pad that is lightweight, compact, and easy to transport that is suitable for indoor and outdoor use, wherein the articulated pad is pivotally connected to the seat.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically initializing a standalone e-discovery machine to a local network when the standalone e-discovery machine is physically or wirelessly connected to the local network.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a wire-end connector. The wire-end connector includes a wire-end connector, a shield plate and a twin-ax cable. The wafer includes a frame and a terminal group. The terminal group is configured to be supported in the frame. The terminal group includes a signal terminal pair and a ground plate. The ground plate is configured to provide a ground terminal on each of both sides of the signal terminal pair. The shield plate is configured to be connected to the ground plate. The shield plate includes an opening penetrating the shield plate. The twin-ax cable includes a pair of conductors and a ground portion. The pair of conductors extend through the opening of the shield plate and connect the signal terminal pair. The ground portion electrically connects at least one of the shield plate and the ground plate.

Abstract: A microphone includes a housing including a substrate and a cover disposed over the substrate, the housing including a sound port between the interior of the housing and the exterior of the housing. The microphone also includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducer and an integrated circuit (IC) positioned within the housing and mounted on a common surface of the housing, where the MEMS transducer is electrically connected to the IC, and the IC is electrically connected to a conductor on the substrate. The microphone further includes an encapsulating material covering the IC, and an encapsulating material confinement structure disposed between the MEMS transducer and the IC, where the encapsulating material confinement structure at least partially confines the encapsulating material around the IC.

Abstract: A method of upcycling polymers to useful hydrocarbon materials. A catalyst with nanoparticles on a substrate selectively docks and cleaves longer hydrocarbon chains over shorter hydrocarbon chains. The catalyst includes metal nanoparticles in an order array on a substrate.

Abstract: A communication system for performing non-DRX-aware channel resource allocation is described. The communication system includes a plurality of radio points (RPs), each configured to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with a plurality of user equipment (UEs) at a site. The communication system also includes a baseband controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of radio points. The baseband controller is configured to determine, for each RP communicating with a UE, available channel resources in each of a plurality of subframes. The baseband controller is also configured to determine a least-loaded subframe that has the most available channel resources. The baseband controller is also configured to assign an available channel resource in the least-loaded subframe to the UE.

Abstract: A method for distributing media content and tracking viewer impressions in an out-of-home context includes: a mobile computing device receiving an identifier of a first media content item; causing display of the first media content item to a first viewer; sensing image data of the first viewer during display of the first media content item; determining a location of the mobile computing device during display of the first media content item to the first viewer; sending the image data of the first viewer, and an impression-reporting message including: the identifier of the first media content item and the location of the mobile computing device during display of the first media content item to the first viewer.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a portable power system. A portable power system can include a housing having a plurality of receptacles adapted to receive one or more batteries. The housing can further include control circuitry that is configured to utilize the batteries in order to provide output power to one or more detachable external devices. Examples of such external devices include fry pans, sauce pans, griddles, blenders, lights, or power inverters.

Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving attribute data comprising a set of unstructured attribute data and a set of structured attribute data, analyzing the set of unstructured attribute data by processing through a first set of one or more Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, to obtain an unstructured semantic signature, analyzing the set of the structured attribute data by processing through a first set of one or more Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) layers, to obtain a structured semantic signature, analyzing the unstructured semantic signature and the structured semantic signature, and classifying the item in one or more item categories. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.

Abstract: A bipartite graph structure is utilized to better store data. The bipartite graph structure may be used in a biochemical database to efficiently store a variety of molecules and processes that might occur between the molecules. Molecules are represented as molecule nodes, which may have metadata fields including a molecule name, a molecule type, a molecular formula, a sequence, a molecular charge, a set of molecular properties, and a set of component molecules. Processes operating on the molecules are represented by process nodes, which may have metadata fields including a process name, a set of process roles, a set of process properties, and a set of sub-processes. Edges, called roles, each associate a molecule node with a process node and represent the role the associated molecule plays in the associated process. The roles may contain metadata identifying the role type and the stoichiometry coefficient of the molecule in the process.

Abstract: A photographic payload augmentation device is provided. The photographic payload augmentation device comprises a ring including a ring body, wherein the ring body comprises a magnetic material, and wherein the ring is configured to mount onto a photographic payload device. The device further includes a plurality of weight units, wherein at least one of the plurality of weight units is magnetically mountable onto the magnetic material of the ring body. The another embodiment, the photographic payload augmentation device comprises a ring including a ring body, wherein the ring comprises a ferromagnetic metal material, and wherein the ring is configured to mount onto a photographic payload device. Further, this embodiment includes a plurality of magnetized weight units, wherein at least one of the plurality of magnetized weight units is magnetically mountable onto the magnetic material of the ring body.

Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving orders from physical stores for fulfillment from a distribution center, each of the orders comprising a set of items and a requested delivery date; generating a stack building plan for each of the orders using simulated annealing; obtaining routes for delivering the orders in trailers from the distribution center to the physical stores based at least in part on the stack building plan; and generating a load design for each of the routes to deliver in a trailer of the trailers a load for one or more of the orders, such that floor spot assignments for stacks for each of the one or more of the orders in the load carried by the trailer satisfy sequence-of-delivery constraints and center-of-gravity constraints. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: New and improved methods and systems for modeling the performance of selected company metrics. Multiple, non-traditional sets of objective data along with mathematical analytical techniques are used to provide transparency and visibility into company performance relating to the particular metrics. Company inflection points and changes in strategy may be identified. The performance of a company and/or the performance of a selected industry or industry sector may be analyzed.

Abstract: A location of a first wearable device is determined based on a first biometric signature. Operation of a touchscreen display is restricted if the location of the first wearable device is in an operator's side of a vehicle cabin and the first wearable device is within a first distance from the display.

Abstract: Semiconductor substrate thinning systems and methods. Implementations of a method of thinning a semiconductor substrate may include: providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface and inducing damage into a portion of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second surface forming a damage layer. The method may also include backgrinding the second surface of the semiconductor substrate.