Abstract: A well production method uses side gas lift valves above a packer and an ESP below the packer. In a gas lift mode, a controller turns the ESP motor off, and shifts a tubing valve below the packer to a gas lift position while flowing gas down the casing. While in the gas lift mode, a pressure gauge monitors motor lubricant pressure, which correlates with a flowing bottom hole pressure of the well fluid in the lower casing annulus. In an ESP mode, the controller stops the flow of gas from the gas source, shifts the tubing valve to an ESP position and turns on the motor, causing well fluid to flow through the pump intake. The pressure gauge continues to monitor the lubricant pressure during the ESP mode.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a first location corresponding to a location where the vehicle is to pick up or drop off a passenger is received. A first cost for the vehicle to reach the first location is determined. A second location based on the first location is identified, and a second cost is determined based on a cost for the vehicle to reach the second location and a cost for the passenger to reach the second location. The first cost is compared to the second cost, and a notification is sent based on the notification. In response to sending the notification, instructions to proceed to the second location are received, and in response to receiving the instructions, the vehicle is controlled in the autonomous driving mode to the second location to pick up or drop off the passenger.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems for maintaining a user's privacy in relation to mobile computing devices. In one general aspect a system includes an acoustically insulated housing, a speaker system, a touchscreen, and a control system. The housing has an interior sized to contain a mobile computing device. The speaker system includes a speaker arranged to direct sound into the interior volume. The control system is configured to perform operations that include causing the speaker system to emit voice obscuring noise into the interior volume of the housing, receiving display data indicating content displayed on a touchscreen of the mobile computing device, causing the touchscreen display to present the display data in a manner that substantially mirrors the content as displayed on the touchscreen of the mobile computing device, and providing control signals indicating user inputs received on the touchscreen to control functions of the mobile computing device.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for storing data in a bucket of a plurality of buckets. A spare bucket may be reserved in the plurality of buckets. A copy of the data may be stored in the spare bucket. A pointer to the data in the bucket and a pointer to the copy of the data in the spare bucket may be updated based upon, at least in part, storing the data in the bucket and storing the copy of the data in the spare bucket.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to instruction dispatch mechanisms for superscalar processors having a plurality of functional units for executing operations simultaneously. Each particular functional unit of the plurality of functional units may be configured to output a capability vector indicating a set of operations that the particular functional unit is currently available to perform. As instructions are received in an issue queue, the functional unit to execute the instruction is selected by comparing capabilities required by the instruction to the asserted capabilities of each of the functional units. A functional unit may reset or de-assert a particular functionality while performing an operation and then re-assert the capability when the instruction is completed. A result of the operation may be stored in a skid buffer for at least as long as the chain execution time in order to avoid resource hazards are a write port of the vector register file.

Abstract: A preformed thermoplastic roadway line marking includes a preformed thermoplastic substrate layer capable of being attached to a roadway, and a preformed thermoplastic upper layer in contact with the substrate layer. Advantageously, such an upper layer includes a surface area having a plurality of spaced-apart slits. The slits penetrate through an entire cross-sectional thickness of the upper layer and are in fluid communication with the substrate layer. When heated to a liquid state, the substrate layer has a morphed shape and is at least partially displaced upwardly through the slits and disposed on the upper layer such that the upper layer is fixedly locked to the substrate layer and maintained at a substantially stable position relative to the substrate layer. Such a structural configuration provides an unexpected and unpredictable result of insuring the marking is locked into place relative to the roadway, thereby reducing labor costs and improving durability.

Abstract: A modular panel assembly for use with, e.g., a shower enclosure. The modular panel assembly includes a plurality of panels, each panel having a first side surface and a second side surface. The modular panel assembly also include a plurality of channel members, wherein each channel member is configured to be coupled to an edge portion of one or more panels. Additionally, a plurality of brackets are provided, wherein each bracket is configured to hold both the first side surface and the second side surface of two or more of the plurality of panels and an end portion of one or more of the plurality of channel members.

Abstract: A method that includes responsive to a request to access a file stored in a memory of a computing device, identifying a context in which the access to the file is being requested; identifying one or more computer files that at least partially match the context; generating, for a display, a list of stored files selectable by a user, the list of stored files including the identified one or more computer files at least partially matching the context; and generating, for the display, a list of user contacts selectable by the user, the list of user contacts including one or more user contacts identified as having communicated the user that include the identified one or more computer files at least partially matching the context.

Abstract: A two-speed drive unit of an electric vehicle includes a planetary gear set transmission having multiple elements including a first element, a second element and a third element. A motor generator unit supplies a motive force to the planetary gear set transmission. A first stage gear transfers the motive force to the planetary gear set transmission from the motor generator unit. A second stage gear is connected through the second element to a final drive. A first torque transmitting device defining a selectable one-way clutch (SOWC) is connected to the third element.

Abstract: A plastic arch-shape cross section corrugated stormwater chamber has a multiplicity of crest corrugations and valley corrugations which run transverse to its length. Sub-corrugations run along part or all of the arch-curve lengths of either crest corrugations or valley corrugations, or along both of them. A sub-corrugations are smaller in dimension than an associated crest corrugation or valley corrugation. Sub-corrugations may taper in width and depth and may taper to nothingness. A compound convex shape end cap, useful for closing off the ends of stormwater chambers, has substantially vertical corrugations with analogous sub-corrugations.

Abstract: An armor plate and method of making an armor plate is provided having the steps of: suspending a carbon fiber weave within a mold; heating aluminum 6061 or 7075 alloy to a molten state; pouring the molten aluminum into the mold having ceramic particulates in the range of 1 to 60 percent by volume of the molten aluminum and in the range of 3-44 microns in diameter; cooling the resultant matrixed aluminum to ambient temperature; and laminating at least two layers of ballistic fiber to the matrixed aluminum.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques to efficiently cache data for streaming applications. A cache can be organized to include multiple cache segments, and each cache segment can include multiple cache blocks. A cache entry can be created for streaming data, and the streaming data can be streamed directly into a first cache block. When the first cache block is full, a next cache block can be identified, in a same cache segment or in a new cache segment. The streaming data can be streamed directly into the next cache block, and into any further cache blocks as needed.

Abstract: A system includes a computing device with circuitry and memory with instructions for execution by the circuitry. The instructions include monitoring signals indicative of a non-uniform distance between a transfer head and a receiving substrate, and, in response to the monitored signals, actuating one or more actuators towards the transfer head or the receiving substrate to deform the transfer head or the receiving substrate.

Abstract: An assembly for mounting a wireless access point includes a base panel configured to be mounted to a post and to support the access point. The assembly includes a shroud configured to at least partially surround the base panel, the access point, and the post. The assembly can also include an antenna support configured to support an antenna coupled to the access point and configured to rotate between a first position and a second position. A method of mounting the access point to the post includes mounting, to the post, the base panel supporting the access point. The method also includes, after mounting the base panel to the post, coupling the shroud to the base panel such that the shroud at least partially surrounds the base panel, the access point, and the post.

Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.

Abstract: A sensor that that can be, but do not have to be, communicatively coupled with luminaires, includes a sensor module having an electronics board and a battery enclosure. The electronics board includes a sensing component, a controller, and a flex antenna. The battery enclosure is couple with the electronics board and includes a base and a side wall having an outer wall surface. The flex antenna is supported on the outer wall surface such that the flex antenna forms a radially outermost portion of the sensor module, and the flex antenna is conformable to a profile of the outer wall surface. In certain aspects, the sensor module is configured to support a power source on the sensor module. In some cases, the sensor is an indoor sensor.

Abstract: A system for determining an operating mode of a battery includes a voltage sensor configured to detect a present voltage across terminals of the battery. The system further includes a non-transitory memory configured to store previously detected voltages across the terminals of the battery, and a previous operating mode of the battery. The system further includes a processor coupled to the voltage sensor and the non-transitory memory and configured to determine the operating mode of the battery by comparing the present voltage across the terminals of the battery to the previously detected voltages of the battery and based on the previous operating mode of the battery.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV481498. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV481498, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV481498 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV481498 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV481498.

Abstract: A system and method determining an error radius reflecting the accuracy of a calculated position of a processing device is provided. A data structure includes an error radius mapped to a scaled geographic area or “tile” comprising an area in which a calculated position may be determined. The data structure may include a plurality of first fields identifying a scaled geographic area based on a global projection reference system, and a plurality of second fields identifying, for each of the first fields, a position error radius associated with a scaled geographic area and level. For any calculation of an inferred position based on beacon observations, a rapid lookup of the corresponding scaled area including the new inferred position in the data structure returns an error radius for the new inferred position.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a description of the means to create increased mechanical advantage by taking advantage of the rotation of confined liquid matter. The process described uses liquid both as a mass to store rotational energy, and at the same time the rotating liquid is used as a motive force to drive a rotating shell. A description of the process and one possible embodiment are presented.