Abstract: A system and method for encrypting and decrypting information is presented. In some embodiments, an endpoint token management system is provided for facilitating dynamic and random encryption and decryption methods. The system and methods may be employed in virtually any system or network, and may be used to protect virtually any type of data, whether at rest (data storage), in motion (data transfer), or in use. In some embodiments, synchronization points are used as analogs for encryption/decryption keys, enabling the encrypting system and decrypting system to begin randomly altering encryption data in a like-manner, thereby creating a constantly changing encryption field that is virtually impossible to decrypt without authorization.

Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for caching data herein include initializing a single instance of a persisted cache service on the data processing system, receiving data requests from a plurality of single page applications (SPAs) on the data processing system, processing the data requests using the persisted cache service to obtain requested data from a cache implemented on the data processing system or from one or more remote data sources via a network connection, and providing the requested data obtained from the cache or the one or more remote data sources to an SPA of the plurality of SPAs from which each data request originated.

Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically generating item information, such as item descriptions, and providing the item information to customers. For example, the embodiments may generate and provide personalized item descriptions to customers during conversational interactions in speech-based systems. In some examples, the embodiments determine entities (e.g., attributes) from item information, and apply trained machine learning processes to the extracted entities to generate textual data, such as item descriptions. For example, a computing device may apply a trained natural language processing, such as a trained transformer-based machine learning technique, to the extracted entities to generate the item descriptions. In some examples, the computing device applies post processing techniques to the generated textual data. The generated textual data may include descriptive phrases that are user friendly to customers in an e-commerce system.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): where the variables are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, that are useful as JAK kinase inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat respiratory diseases.

Abstract: A computerized method is provided for automatically determining answers to a plurality of questions. The method includes automatically discovering a plurality of questions by processing historical data related to prior customer interactions. The automatically discovering includes applying a linguistic analytical model on the data related to historical customer interactions to detect the plurality of questions, vectoring the plurality of questions to generate mathematical representations of the questions, and grouping the plurality of questions into one or more clusters in accordance with similarities of the questions as measured based on their mathematical representations. The method also includes identifying the questions that do not have an existing answer. The method further includes determining at least one probable answer to each of the representative questions using a content mining technique that mines pertinent data from one or more identified content sources.

Abstract: The present technology is directed to multi-frequency controllers for inductive heating and associated systems and methods. The systems can be configured to precisely heat a module via a coil to a target temperature using oscillating, pulsed electrical signals associated with unique frequencies and/or capacitance values. Each unique frequency can correspond to heating the module to a particular depth, relative to an outer surface of the module. A first pulsed electrical signal having a first frequency can heat the module to a first depth, and a second pulsed electrical signal having a second frequency can heat the module to a second depth different than the first depth. The system can include a thermal sensor for measuring a temperature associated with at least one of the module or a fluid associated with the module. Based on the temperature, the system can adjust signal delivery parameters of the first and/or second electrical signals.

Abstract: An automated method for testing peripheral and expanded visual fields on limited field of view head-mounted device. The method has a fixation point that is placed in multiple locations of the field of view to test stimuli points that would be outside of the field of view of a head-mounted device if the fixation point were in the center. Stimuli points are grouped together and are associated with fixation points. Each stimulus appears individually on an opposite side of the fixation point in the field of view. The stimuli points may be static or dynamic. The method is applied as visual field diagnostic tool for Ptosis disorder, Esterman test, or any expanded peripheral Visual Field test.

Abstract: A coffee brewing system and method brew hot coffee at an elevated temperature by mixing coffee grounds with hot water, filtering the hot coffee to remove at least some of the coffee grounds from the hot coffee to form filtered hot coffee, and rapidly cooling the filtered hot coffee to reduce a temperature of the filtered hot coffee to form cooled coffee. The coffee optionally may be mixed with a gas, such as nitrogen, prior to serving the cooled coffee. The system and method can rapidly produce cold coffee in large amounts without diluting the coffee in water or ice, or waiting for the coffee to cool in a refrigerated environment.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an access cover detection circuit for an electrified vehicle component and a corresponding method. An exemplary component of an electrified vehicle includes an access cover configured to selectively open and close relative to the component, and a circuit configured to indicate whether the access cover is open. The circuit includes a light sensitive electronic component.

Abstract: A retinal imaging system includes a projector, an imaging device, and a controller coupled to an eye tracking system under test. The projector emits a light pattern to be delivered to a pupil of an eye, a location of the pupil being estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The imaging device captures one or more images of a retina of the eye illuminated with at least a portion of the light pattern. The controller determines one or more eye tracking parameters based on the captured one or more images of the retina. The controller compares each determined eye tracking parameter with each of estimated one or more eye tracking parameters, wherein values for the one or more eye tracking parameters are estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The controller characterizes each estimated eye tracking parameter based on the comparison.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label.

Abstract: A fall arrest system includes a line retraction device having a safety line, an energy absorber configured for connecting to a terminal end of the safety line, and a harness configured for connecting to the energy absorber such that the energy absorber is disposed between the terminal end of the safety line and the harness. The safety line is selected to have a predetermined mean breaking force with a first standard deviation, and the energy absorber is selected to have a predetermined mean deployment force with a second standard deviation. The mean breaking force of the safety line and the mean deployment force of the energy absorber overlap over an overlapping region of the first and second standard deviation. A ratio of an overlap mean force of the overlapping region to an overlap standard deviation of the overlapping region is less than or equal to 6.

Abstract: An example reduced-coverage back-smoothing brassiere includes a right and left brassiere cup, right and left brassiere wings, each coupled to at least a portion of one of the two brassiere cups and one of two brassiere straps, first edges of the brassiere wings each being a continuous curve leading to the exterior edge of the respective brassiere wing, the second portion of the right brassiere strap being coupled to the right brassiere cup and the second portion of the left brassiere strap being coupled to the left brassiere cup, a second edge of each of the brassiere wings extending in an unbroken curve from the respective brassiere strap toward the fastening section, a continuous, unbroken curve being created by the interior edge of each of the two brassiere straps along the second edge of each of the two brassiere wings, respectively.

Abstract: A heated composite tool, useful for forming, debulking, and/or curing prepreg materials, including a composite build structure having a shape of a composite part that is to be produced, configured to receive and support prepreg materials during lay-up, and including a heating structure physically coupled to the composite build structure, and comprising at least one heating element, including a carbon nanotube structured layer defining a current path having first and second ends and first and second electrical terminals electrically coupled to the first and second ends and a first isolation ply disposed between the composite build structure and the at least one heating element, the first isolation ply forming an electrical insulating gap between the at least one heating element and the composite build structure, wherein the carbon nanotube structured layer is responsive to an electromotive force applied across the first and second electrical terminals to heat the tool.

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are disclosed. One example includes an electronic candle includes an outer shell including a through-hole, a light-emitting assembly including a flame sheet configured to protrude through the through-hole, an inner shell positioned within the outer shell, and a self-locking device positioned within a cavity of the inner shell. The self-locking device is configured to operate in (1) a locked state when a switch locks a spring in a compressed state and (2) an unlocked state when the switch releases the spring to be in a relaxed state. The electronic candle also includes a bottom case such that the bottom case is enclosed within the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the locked state and the bottom case is exposed to an external environment beneath the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the unlocked state.

Abstract: A storage control system is configured to obtain first data associated with a logical data device and to store the first data in a first entry of a log-structured array. The storage control system is further configured to invalidate a second entry of the log-structured array based at least in part on the storage of the first data in the first entry. The second entry comprises second data that was associated with the logical data device prior to obtaining the first data. The storage control system is further configured to determine that a first indication in a first metadata indicates that the invalidated second entry corresponds to a transaction log and to defer reclamation of the second entry based at least in part on the determination that the first indication in the first metadata indicates that the invalidated second entry corresponds to the transaction log.

Abstract: The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object.

Abstract: A method for artificial intelligence (AI) event response includes receiving an event alert or a communication associated with an event alert from a communication device. The method includes an AI system collecting additional information about at least one of the event alert, the communication device, or a user of the communication device. The method includes the AI system categorizing the event alert into one category of multiple categories based on the collected additional information. The method includes prioritizing subsequent handling of the event alert among other event alerts based on the category.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the fabrication of head sliders for use in hard disk drives, and in particular the provision and usage of electrical bond pads on the slider surface structure to accommodate needs of the fabrication process as well as slider operation within a disk drive.

Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to providing haptic feedback in a stylus while the stylus crosses a gap between two displays. In one example, a method comprises detecting one or more haptic triggering criteria, and at least on condition of detecting the one or more haptic triggering criteria, actuating the haptic feedback component to produce haptic output. A width of the gap between the displays is determined, and a crossing time for a tip of the stylus to cross the gap is calculated using the width of the gap, a stylus velocity, and a stylus direction. At a first time after actuating the haptic feedback component, the method determines that the one or more haptic triggering criteria are not detected. At least on condition of determining that the one or more haptic triggering criteria are not detected, the method continues to actuate the haptic feedback component for the crossing time.