Abstract: Management of access to stored data in a storage system is provided, including assignment of a first storage processor as a leader storage processor and a second storage processor as a follower storage processor. The leader storage processor is configured to manage data storage operations on a predefined memory portion of the storage system, and the follower storage processor is configured to manage data storage operations in response to a failure of the leader storage processor. The management further includes detecting failure of the first storage processor that interrupts the management of the data storage operations, assigning, responsive to the detection of the failure, the second storage processor as a new leader storage processor configured to resume the management of the operations, and assigning a third storage processor as a new follower processor configured to manage the data storage operations on the predefined memory portion.

Abstract: Implementations disclose a handoff feature for a client device. A method includes receiving, from a first client device, an indication of a user selection of a handoff feature during a session associated with the first client device, identifying a second client device associated with the user, identifying a visit identifier (ID) corresponding to the session, identifying a navigation end-point of the session, generating a session continuation notification comprising a payload having the visit ID and the navigation endpoint, and transmitting the session continuation notification to the identified second client device.

Abstract: A liquid lens includes a substrate, a transparent elastic membrane forming a cavity with the substrate, and a transparent fluid filling the cavity between the substrate and the membrane. The membrane has a pre-distorted, rotationally asymmetric shape in absence of the fluid in the cavity. When the cavity is filled with the fluid and the substrate is disposed vertically w.r.t. gravity at a pre-defined clocking angle, the membrane adopts a substantially rotationally symmetric shape due to elasticity of the membrane counteracting gravity exerting a downward force on the fluid in the cavity, reducing the effect of the gravity sag on optical performance of the liquid lens.

Abstract: A sensor fusion system and method are disclosed. One or more processors are operable to receive a plurality of object detection measurements from a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of object detection measurements are associated with a potential object detection track. A plurality of sensor confidence values associated with each of the plurality of sensors are received. A track confidence value is determined for each of the potential object detection tracks based on the received plurality of object detection measurements and the received plurality of sensor confidence values. An object detection for a potential object detection track that has a determined track confidence value meeting a predetermined detection threshold is then determined, or confirmed, and stored in a memory for subsequent use, and is relatively unaffected by a measurement from a sensor that has a field of view that omits or is occluded with respect to the given object detection track.

Abstract: Provided is a method of making a dehydrated food product. The method includes culling the food product for foreign objects, cleaning the food product, germinating the food product, dehydrating the food product, and cooling the dehydrated food product. Dehydrating the food product can include maintaining the food product in a compartment, heating air in the compartment to a temperature at or between about 115° F. and about 118° F. to remove moisture from the food product, and venting the heated air and moisture from the compartment. The food product can be, as examples, nuts, seeds, and/or beans.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for increasing automation of license plate reading accuracy, can involve searching by a correlation search process, ALPR (Automatic License Plate Recognition) results against an ALPR database of previous ALPR results, when an ALPR read by an ALPR search engine occurs with respect to a license plate, and constructing a confidence level for a correlation to a known previous license plate read based on a number of parameters and a number of times that the parameters match, when a match is found in the ALPR database for a parameter contained in the ALPR database as a result of the correlation search process.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to processing of notifications displayed on computing devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a notification and querying at least one activity database that records historical interactions of a user. The method then receives a priority indicator in response to the querying and determines whether the priority indicator indicates a high priority. If so, the method generates, and in some embodiments displays, a second notification.