Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles to manage routing in networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes obtaining a first interior gateway routing protocol route selection metric associated with a first router and a second interior gateway routing protocol route selection metric associated with a second router communicatively coupled to the first router, detecting whether a mismatch exists between the first and second first interior gateway routing protocol route selection metrics, determining, using a Bellman-Ford algorithm, a target interior gateway routing protocol route selection metric when the mismatch is detected, and transmitting the target interior gateway routing protocol route selection metric to at least one of the first and second routers.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for unlocking an electronic device. In an embodiment, a process causes a device such as a smartphone to receive a sound input from a fixed position microphone and determine if the device should be unlocked based on a comparison of the sound input with a previously defined sound input.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement supporting dual mode operation or communication with a core network node using a first and a second mode via a first and a second interface respectively. It comprises parameter handling means adapted to collect or receive first parameters comprising configurable traffic load related parameters and second parameters comprising current network traffic dependent parameters. It also comprises selecting means comprising calculating means adapted to use the configurable parameters and the current parameters of the parameter handling means to select the first or the second mode as operation mode for a connection of a mobile station to the core network.

Abstract: A technique includes receiving seismic data, which are indicative of pressure measurements and pressure gradient measurements acquired in a seismic survey of at least one subterranean formation. The technique includes modeling an image of the subterranean formation(s) as a function of the pressure measurements and the pressure gradient measurements. The technique includes determining the image based on the modeling.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system and method for managing network and server power. In an example of managing network and server power according to the present disclosure, routing network traffic is routed onto a number of core networks based on core network statistics, capacity requirements are determined based on core network statistics for the number of core networks and for a number of servers operating a number of virtual machines on the number of core networks, wherein the number of core networks include a number of core switches and a number of edge switches, and the capacity is set for the number of core switches based on the capacity requirements for the number of core networks and for the number of servers based on the capacity requirements for the number of servers.

Abstract: A videoconference environment includes a back wall and a video camera facing toward the back wall. The video camera is set to have a field-of-view that includes a portion of the back wall while excluding a peripheral edge of the back wall.

Abstract: A method of indexing a data stream is disclosed. The method includes initiating the data stream in the video conference, recording the data stream, indexing the data stream by generating a transcript of the recorded data stream, linking the transcript with a video portion of the data stream and storing the indexed data stream onto a data storage medium.

Abstract: Cooking appliance having an external control panel equipped with one or more regulating valves, where the rotary regulator organ is equipped with various peripheral openings for supplying a flow Q. For the supply of one or another type of gas, NG or LPG, either the control knob or a bezel disk in the external panel are interchangeable on the appliance, being chosen between two different available units, one and the other permitting two different angular position limits A2, A3 of the regulator organ or the supply of a constant flow Qmin through one or another opening with calibrated sections, respectively for NG or LP gas. An appendix in the control knob guided in a slide groove on the control panel of the appliance, or a tongue on the bezel disk stopping the rotation of the control knob, determines the travel limit A2 for the supply of Qmin of NG.

Abstract: A mobile communication system network node (NN) that serves user equipments (UEs) has fewer orthogonal reference signals (RSs) than a maximum number of UE antenna ports (APs) that can be served by the NN. A channel quality of a channel between the AP and the network node is ascertained for each of the APs. Whenever a number of APs of UEs served by the NN exceeds the number of RSs, all RSs are allocated to a subset of all of the APs by means of an allocation process such that: each RS is allocated to only one of the APs; each AP has no more than one RS allocated to it; and allocation decisions are a function of the channel qualities of the respective APs such that the higher the channel quality, the higher priority the corresponding AP is given as a candidate for receiving an RS allocation.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed herein that may help to improve the paging success rate for hybrid mobile stations, which in turn may help to prevent dropped calls. An exemplary method for paging an access terminal involves an access network: (a) before transmission of a page to an access terminal, determining whether or not the access terminal is a hybrid access terminal; (b) if the access terminal is not a hybrid access terminal, then selecting standard page settings for the page; (c) if the access terminal is a hybrid access terminal, then selecting adjusted page settings for the page, wherein the adjusted page settings increase the probability that the access terminal will successfully receive the page; and (d) applying the selected page settings and transmitting the page.

Abstract: A method of managing storage device resets in a system using shared storage is provided. A reset instruction is received at a shared storage device from a first node. In response, the storage device is at least partially reset, including aborting one or more queued I/O commands including a first I/O command received from a second node. A reset notification timer is started. If an I/O command is received from the second node during the reset notification timer, in response to receiving the I/O command the second node is notified of the storage device reset such that the second node can determine that the first I/O command was aborted. If no I/O command is received from the second node during the reset notification timer, at the expiration of the timer, the second node is notified of the storage device reset such that the second node can determine that the first I/O command was aborted.

Abstract: A system for testing a drilling fluid including a vessel having a fluid inlet, a filtrate outlet, a fluid outlet, and at least one permeable media disposed within the vessel. The system further including a base fluid container in fluid communication with the fluid inlet, a test fluid container in fluid communication with the fluid inlet, a filtrate container in fluid communication with the filtrate outlet, and a collection container in fluid communication with the fluid outlet. Additionally, the system includes a data acquisition device configured to receive data from at least one of the vessel, the fluid container, the filtrate container, and the collection container. Also, a method for determining sealing characteristics of a drilling fluid including injecting a test fluid having a fluid loss control material from at least fluid container to a vessel, the vessel having a permeable media having two plates disposed to create a variable gap.

Abstract: A touch-sensitive display screen has at least two input modes for touch input. In an absolute input mode, positional information is interpreted in an absolute sense: an on-screen object or cursor can be moved, selected or activated by tapping or touching the screen at the location of the object itself or at a desired location for the object. In a relative input mode, touch input provided on the display screen is interpreted in a manner similar to a virtual joystick or a virtual touchpad. In the virtual joystick relative mode, input is interpreted relative to a reference point on the screen. In the virtual touchpad relative mode, input is interpreted according to a direction of motion of a contact point.

Abstract: A vehicular container, lid-latching system and method is practiced by outfitting a vehicular container and container lid with an automatic uniquely configured latch mechanism and a latch-engaging structure uniquely configured to cooperably engage the latch mechanism. The latch mechanism is automatically operable by way of engagement with structure directed thereagainst and preferably outfitted upon the container at one end thereof. The latch-engaging structure, preferably outfitted upon the lid, engages the latching mechanism under a directed load and for automatic and selective latching securement or latching release of the lid relative to the container.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for assigning data in an information handling system including a plurality of physical storage resources comprising a first tier and a second tier which has a lower performance and cost relative to capacity than the first tier. A tier manager may be hosted on the information handling system and in electronic communication with the plurality physical storage resources. The tier manager may, for each page: determine a seek distance value, determine an operation rate, determine an operation size value, determine an elapsed time value, and calculate a relative randomness value using the seek distance value, operation rate, operation size value, and elapsed time value determined for each page. A classification module may assign a physical location for each page such that the relative randomness value for each page in the first tier is greater than in the second tier.

Abstract: A method for scheduling atomic update jobs to a streaming data warehouse includes allocating execution tracks for executing the update jobs. The tracks may be assigned a portion of available processor utilization and memory. A database table may be associated with a given track. An update job directed to the database table may be dispatched to the given track for the database table, when the track is available. When the track is not available, the update job may be executed on a different track. Furthermore, pending update jobs directed to common database tables may be combined and separated in certain transient conditions.

Abstract: Variable-pitch propeller (1) of the type comprising at least one blade (6a, 6b, 6c) rotatably pivoted (20a, 20b, 20c) to a cylindrical casing of the propeller (3a, 3b, 4), a shaft coupled to an engine and coaxial to that propeller casing, a kinematic system (7, 8a, 8b, 8c, 10a, 10b, 10c, 11), coupled to the shaft, or to the propeller casing, and to above mentioned at least one blade, for regulating the rotary motion of said at least one blade around its own pivot axis to the propeller casing, as well as means (2, 14, 15) for transmitting the rotary motion of the shaft to the propeller casing, the propeller being shaped to provide at least one not null angular range for the free relative rotation of the above mentioned at least one blade (6a, 6b, 6c) around its pivot axis, relatively to the propeller casing (3a, 3b, 4). The propeller also comprises at least one elastic element (18, 18?) countering the relative rotation of said at least one blade relatively to the propeller casing (3a, 3b, 4), or vice versa.

Abstract: A method of classification for a content-based digital-image, including: defining a set of low-level features describing the semantic content of the image, the features being quantities obtainable from the image by means of logico-mathematical expressions that are known beforehand, and the choice of said features depending upon the image classes used for the classification; indexing an image to be classified, with the purpose of extracting therefrom a feature vector, the components of which consist of the values assumed, in the image, by said low-level features; splitting the feature space defined by the low-level features into a plurality of classification regions, to each one of the regions there being associated a respective image class, and each classification region being the locus of the points of the feature space defined by a finite set of conditions laid on at least one component of the feature vector; associating the feature vector to the feature space; identifying, among the classification regions,

Abstract: In a method of estimating a replacement cost associated with an existing technology performed by a processor, one or more costs associated with implementing the existing technology are obtained, in which the one or more costs include an environmental cost and a utility cost associated with implementing the existing technology. In addition, an existing net benefit of continuing implementation of the existing technology based upon the obtained one or more costs are calculated.