Abstract: An animal data compliance system includes one or more sources of animal data from one or more targeted individuals wherein the animal data is transmitted electronically. A collecting computing device gathers the animal data. One or more rules related to at least a portion of the animal data are created or modified based upon one or more terms. The one or more rules are associated with at least a portion of the animal data. At least a portion of animal data and the one or more rules are provided to one or more receiving computing devices. The one or more rules informs the one or more receiving computing devices of one or more permissions or restrictions related to the animal data. The one or more receiving computing devices take at least one action based upon the one or more rules.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improved data conversion and distribution are provided. A data subscription unit is configured to receive data and information from a plurality of data source devices. The data subscription unit is in communication with a virtual machine that includes backtesting utility configured to generate backtesting data using one or more statistical models and one or more non-statistical models. The backtesting utility may translate the backtesting results into one or more interactive visuals, and generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals on a user device. The backtesting utility may update one or more of the displayed backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals without re-running the modeling steps.

Abstract: A method for striping, the method may include performing, for each period of time out of multiple periods of time, the steps of: (i) determining striping rules; wherein the determining of the striping rules may include selecting one or more selected stripe size values out of multiple stripe size value candidates; wherein the selecting is based on values of storage system parameters that are obtained when applying the multiple stripe size value candidates; wherein the storage system parameters comprise storage space utilization and storage system throughput; and (ii) applying the striping rules by the storage system, during the period of time; wherein the applying comprises obtaining data chunks; converting the data chunks to stripes having at least one of the one or more selected stripe size values; and storing the stripes in the storage system.

Abstract: Systems may include one or more directly modulated laser (“DML”) optical transmitters to transmit optical signals carrying data to one or more optical receivers and include one or more filters designed to reduce the power in lower modulation levels. In various embodiments, the optical receiver includes an optical combiner to combine local oscillator light at a frequency, fLO with the optical data signal, an optical-electrical converter to downconvert the combined LO-optical signal to an electrical signal including four PAM4 frequencies, an electrical filter to attenuate the electrical power in the PAM4 frequencies by differing amounts, rectify and output the electrical signal. Systems may include extinction ratio management and thermal chirp compensation, and may include optical filters designed for chirp management with different laser parameters (? and k) and OMAs with PAM-M format in both optical and electrical domains and for use with quasi-coherent receivers (QCR) and DML transmitters.

Abstract: Present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for establishing communication connections. The method includes: in response to a failure of a SIM card, acquiring first KI card information, establishing a first communication connection to a cloud SIM card management platform based on the first KI card information; acquiring cloud SIM card information from the cloud SIM card management platform over the first communication connection; and establishing a second communication connection based on the cloud SIM card information. In the case that the multi-SIM terminal device establishes the second communication connection based on the cloud SIM card information, the first communication connection may be disconnected, and the KI card information may be released. With the solutions, a success rate of establishing the first communication connection may be ensured on the premise of saving fees for users.

Abstract: A content management system and method work as a companion to other applications that control the system. The system and method draw information from the operations or structure of the controlling application to display and manage the content objects relevant to a record displayed by a user of the controlling application and stored in the content management system. The system and method operate in conjunction with the controlling application so that this management and display of content objects is dynamic, real-time, and context-sensitive for the user.

Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both.

Abstract: A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid).

Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both.

Abstract: Method for generating an OFDM training sequence, device and computer program product. The OFDM training sequence consists of at least two OFDM symbols, and the OFDM training sequence comprises at least two OFDM sub-carriers, the method comprising a step of partitioning the OFDM sub-carriers into at least two separate groups comprising at least one sub-carrier, a number of groups being smaller than a number of sub-carriers. The method comprises steps, carried out independently for each group, of generating an elementary sequence associated with a group by combining the sub-carriers of the group, the elementary sequence having a duration equal to a duration of one of the at least two symbols.

Abstract: Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the rack. In one method, a TOR switch is mounted in a rack. The TOR switch is connected to a network fabric of a data center. A lock is used to control physical access to the rack. A request to physically access the rack is received from a computing device (e.g., a badge implementing a security token, or a mobile device). The request includes authentication credentials. The computing device is then authenticated. In response to authenticating the computing device, the lock is configured to provide physical access to the rack.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an efficient storage method for time-series data, comprising: storing time-series data collected by each data sampler and static attribute data of its data sampler separately; when each time series is stored, based on a unique ID of each time series, storing corresponding time-series data; and when the static attribute data is stored, the static attribute data are stored in another database independently, wherein each data sampler saves one corresponding record in a database storing the static attribute data. According to the present invention, the storage space can be saved, the processing efficiency and the processing speed can be improved, and the query processing can be flexibly carried out.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a storage system, the method may include (a) generating a compute entity (CE) storage metric by each CE of a group of CEs to provide multiple CE storage metrics, wherein the multiple CE metrics are related to a monitoring period; and (b) calculating, during a calculation period, a group metric based on the multiple CE storage metrices; wherein the calculating includes performing multiple calculations iterations, wherein each calculation iteration includes (a) selecting an updating CE that belongs to the group of CEs and was not previously selected during the calculation period, (b) accessing, by the updating CE, a shared data structure that stores the group storage metric, and (c) updating the group storage metric using the CE storage metric of the updating CE.

Abstract: A system to remotely flash an external module, the system comprising an external module installable in a secured location having at least one securing device with a transponder, at least one server, wherein the at least one server and a communication hub that communicates said at least one server, said communication hub further comprising a communication device that extracts key data from the securing device's transponder. Additional embodiments of the system include an external module and a learning module that extract partial key data. A method to flash the external module by extracting at least one set of partial key data from the securing device's transponder and/or securing device using an external module, communication device, and/or learning module, wherein the server analyzes and processes the set(s) of partial key data to generate a securing device bypass for the external module that installed to the secured location.

Abstract: A method for snapshot reversion, the method may include initializing a recovery of a storage system, from a failure that stopped a replication of a failed replication snapshot to an other storage system; wherein the other storage system reverted to an older snapshot not stored in the storage system; and reverting to the older snapshot, by the storage system using older snapshot metadata and data received from the storage system; wherein the older snapshot data may include a non-existing indication for a snapshot segment that existed in a snapshot that followed the older snapshot and not exists at the older snapshot, and wherein the data may include one or more older snapshot segments; wherein the reverting to the older snapshot is executed without undoing changes that were made since the older snapshot.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a data monitoring system that monitors the operations of a data pipeline. The data monitoring system receives a call from the data pipeline to ingest unprocessed data. The data monitoring system generates metadata based on the unprocessed data and responsively computes expected data outputs. The data monitoring system receives a call from the data pipeline to ingest processed data that comprises actual data outputs generated by the data pipeline. The data monitoring system generates output metadata based on the processed data. The data monitoring system compares the metadata for the expected data outputs with the output metadata for the actual data outputs and determines when the expected data outputs do not align with the actual data outputs. When the expected data outputs do not align with the actual data outputs, the data monitoring system generates and transfers an alert signifying the non-alignment.

Abstract: A method for managing a read statement of a transaction, the method may include: (a) receiving the read statement, wherein the read statement is for receiving a data unit that is stored in a relational database; (b) finding one or more candidate versions of the data unit; wherein the finding may include: (i) accessing a database segment (DS) version metadata of one or more DS versions of one or more DSs that are related to the data unit and are stored in the relational database; (ii) performing a timestamp based determination that may include checking whether to ignore a database segment version when the database segment version metadata identifies the database segment version by a database segment commit timestamp; and (iii) performing a transaction metadata based determination of whether to ignore the database segment version when the database segment version metadata identifies the database segment version by a transaction identifier; and (c) responding to the read statement by outputting a version of the

Abstract: A method for selectively untying at least one of compression related links to a stale reference chunk, the method may include determining whether a compression effectiveness condition is fulfilled in relation to a set of referring chunks that are compressed using the stale reference chunk and are linked to the to the stale reference chunk by the compression related links; wherein the compression effectiveness condition is responsive to, at least, a number of the referring chunks of the set; and untying the at least one compression related links to the stale reference chunks when the compression effectiveness condition is not fulfilled.

Abstract: A secure programming system and method for provisioning and programming a target payload into a programmable device mounted in a programmer. The programmable device can be authenticated before programming to verify the device is a valid device produced by a silicon vendor. The authentication process can include a challenge-response validation. The target payload can be programmed into the programmable device and linked with an authorized manufacturer. The programmable device can be verified after programming the target payload by verifying the silicon vendor and the authorized manufacturer. The secure programming system can provision different content into different programmable devices simultaneously to create multiple final device types in a single pass.

Abstract: A system for propagating an identity state change set about shared identities may include a plurality of systems of record (SORs), and a management server cooperating with the plurality of SORs and configured to: detect discrete Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete (CRUD) operations on a given SOR related to at least one shared identity to generate an identity state change set corresponding to a current state of the at least one shared identity; transact the identity state change set, with associated metadata, to a distributed immutable long-term storage as a current transaction; propagate the identity state change set and associated metadata to replicate a current state of the at least one shared identity as of the current transaction to at least one domain cache instance, and; synchronize the current state of the at least one shared identity across the plurality of SORs from the at least one domain cache instance.