Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for secure transmission of high-priority computer server event notifications. One method comprises obtaining a new computer server event to report; generating a first notification message pertaining to the computer server event; generating a second notification message pertaining to the computer server event and to the delivery of the first notification message; storing the first notification message; storing the second notification message; and transmitting the first notification message to a partner over a computer network.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing electronic content, such as text, videos, and images. According to certain embodiments, user interactions with electronic content may be tracked over a plurality of modalities, such as web pages, email, mobile applications, and social media. The tracked user interactions may include copy/paste events, explicit user highlighting, social sharing, and user voting. Key passages of electronic content may be identified based on the tracked user interactions and ranked against one another. Ranking of passages may be based, for example, on a raw or normalized score for the identified key passages. Alternatively, the ranking of a passage may be based on a ratio of user interactions with the passage to total views of the electronic text containing the passage. One or more of the identified key passages (e.g., the highest ranked passages) may be published to one or more applications.

Abstract: Sensor-based shaving systems and methods of analyzing a user's shave event are described for determining a unique threshold value of the user. A grooming device comprises a handle having a connecting structure connected to a hair cutting implement. A shave event sensor associated with the grooming device measures a user behavior, which includes collecting a first dataset comprising shave data defining a shave event. The first dataset is transmitted via a communication device and is analyzed to determine baseline behavior data of the user, and a unique threshold value of the user is determined from the baseline behavior data. One or more subsequent datasets, each comprising shave data of one or more corresponding shave events, is compared to the unique threshold value to determine comparison data. An indication is provided, based on the comparison data, to indicate a deviation from the threshold value and to influence the user behavior.

Abstract: An irrigation modeling framework in precision agriculture utilizes a combination of weather data, crop data, and other agricultural inputs to create customized agronomic models for diagnosing and predicting a moisture state in a field, and a corresponding need for, and timing of, irrigation activities. Specific combinations of various agricultural inputs can be applied, together with weather information to identify or adjust water-related characteristics of crops and soils, to model optimal irrigation activities and provide advisories, recommendations, and scheduling guidance for targeted application of artificial precipitation to address specific moisture conditions in a soil system of a field.

Abstract: A driven fastener guide for guiding a fastener into a hole of a bone plate. The driven fastener guide includes an elongated driver configured for connecting to a drill and a fastener guide member operably connected to the elongated driver. The fastener guide member includes a split body and a through-bore configured for receiving the fastener. The fastener guide member is configured for aligning the fastener relative to the hole of the bone plate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to light fixtures and luminaires configured to emit light. According to one aspect, an optical waveguide includes a first waveguide portion and a second waveguide portion adjacent to and separate from the first waveguide portion. The waveguide portions include light coupling portions that are at least partially aligned and adapted to receive light developed by a light source. The first waveguide portion further has a first major surface with light direction features and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. The second waveguide portion further has a third major surface proximate the second major surface with an air gap disposed therebetween and a fourth major surface opposite the third major surface wherein the fourth major surface includes a cavity extending therein.

Abstract: One example method includes extracting metadata from virtual disks. A virtual disk or logical volume is analyzed to identify the associated partitions. Volume configurations are determined for the partitions. The files for the partitions are remounted. The remounted files can be read based on their volume configurations and metadata can be extracted.

Abstract: A computer-based system for facilitating the execution of law enforcement duties is disclosed. More particularly, according to one aspect of the invention, an electronic system is configured to facilitate the performance of law enforcement duties by quasi-instantaneously providing actionable intelligence to its users, such as front-line law enforcement officers, in response to a real-time query. According to another aspect of the invention, a system implements a set of automated status classifications for subjects with suspected or confirmed involvement in criminal activities. The status classifications specifically and concisely establish the subject's involvement in criminal activities. According to yet another aspect of the invention, a system executes a streamlined electronic process for handling and processing seized items so as to ensure that criminal assets are efficiently and effectively seized, and that asset forfeiture actions are effectively initiated against the seized items.

Abstract: Systems for an electric drive axle of a vehicle are provided. In one example, an electric drive axle system includes a gear box including a plurality of gear ratios. The plurality of gear ratios includes a fixed center distance measured from a carrier to an axle on which a plurality of gears or a plurality of pinions is arranged. Each pinion of the plurality of pinions is differently sized, wherein all pinions except for a largest pinion include a pinion baffle. Each gear of the plurality of gears is differently sized, wherein all gears except for a largest gear include a gear baffle.

Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to context aware real-time power adjusting for steerable lidar. A lidar system can include a laser source (e.g., FMCW) configured to emit an optical signal. The lidar system can further include a scanner configured to direct the optical signal emitted by the laser source from the lidar system into an environment. The optical signal can be directed over a field of view in the environment during time periods of frames. The lidar system can further include a controller configured to modulate a power of the optical signal emitted by the laser source between the frames and/or within one or more of the frames. The controller can modulate the power of the optical signal emitted by the laser source based on a position of the lidar system in the environment and a direction in which the optical signal is to be transmitted into the environment.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an error recovery method comprising detecting a computing error, restarting a first artificial intelligence processor of a plurality of artificial intelligence processors processing a data set, and loading a model in the artificial intelligence processor, wherein the model corresponds to a same model processed by the plurality of artificial intelligence processors during a previous processing iteration by the plurality of artificial intelligence processors on data from the data set.

Abstract: Telemedicine systems and methods are described. In a telemedicine system operable to communicate with a remote operations center, communications can be transmitted/received using a transceiver having an antenna. The antenna can include first and second di-pole antenna elements, the first di-pole antenna element being vertically polarized and the second di-pole antenna element being horizontally polarized. A controller of the system can establish, using the transceiver, a telemedicine session with the operations center using a Transport Morphing Protocol (TMP), the TMP being an acknowledgement-based user datagram protocol. The controller can also mask one or more transient network degradations to increase resiliency of the telemedicine session.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to recommending content by analyzing the streamed data. A request is received from a user requesting one or more recommendations from a set of items. A first distribution indicative of an interest distribution of the user in a plurality of topics is obtained. For each item, a second distribution indicative of a classification distribution of the item with respect to the plurality of topics is obtained. A score is estimated based on the first distribution and the second distribution, wherein the score indicates likelihood that the user is interested in the item. The scores associated with the set of items are ranked. The one or more recommendations are presented based on the ranked scores.

Abstract: One example method includes receiving clear text data at a storage system, generating, at the storage system, a clear text data encryption key, requesting a key management system to encrypt the clear text data encryption key with a master key to create an encrypted data encryption key, and the requesting is performed by the storage system, receiving, at the storage system, the encrypted data encryption key from the key management system, encrypting, at the storage system, the clear text data with the clear text data encryption key to create encrypted data, and storing, together, the encrypted data and the encrypted data encryption key.

Abstract: A system for distributed domain name address resolution, including top-level domain name address resolution, and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a blockchain stores distributed domain names with respective Internet Protocol address information. A smart contract, which defines shared logic to execute operations on the blockchain, runs on the blockchain. With respect to distributed domain names, the system may perform read operations to identify the Internet Protocol address information, create operations to create a new distributed domain name with respective Internet Protocol address information, delete operations to remove a distributed domain name, and update operations to update the mapping between a distributed domain name and the respective Internet Protocol address information.

Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving, at a physical proxy node, a backup request from a client outside the cluster environment, the backup request identifies a VM that is to be backed up, and including data that resides on a virtual federated database that is an element of the cluster environment and to which respective databases of each node of the cluster environment are mapped, and the backup request is received at the physical proxy node due to the position of the physical proxy node in a PSOL. Next, initiating, with an agent at the physical proxy node, a save program on the physical proxy node, and initiating, with the save program, a secondary save process on the physical proxy node that is a federated backup process and includes reading the VM identification from the backup request, and backing up the VM identified in the backup request.

Abstract: Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.