Abstract: Example systems described herein are configured to limit inadvertent actuations of a touchpad. The system may include a touchpad, mechanically-activated switch(es), a locking assembly, and a controller. The touchpad is configured to receive a touch input from a user. The mechanically-activated switch(es) are adjacent to the touchpad. The mechanically-activated switch(es) are configured to be activated when a depression force associated with the touch input exceeds a force threshold. The locking assembly is configured to selectively inhibit the touchpad from depressing the mechanically-activated switch(es) depending on whether one or more inhibiting criteria are satisfied. For instance, the inhibiting criteria may take into consideration an inferred intent of the user, an input mode of the touch input, and/or the depression force associated with the touch input.

Abstract: A system is provided for maintaining a safe operating area while also providing a suitable forward bias voltage to drive a laser diode. The system can monitor a voltage that is applied to a laser diode driver using a threshold that is based on the fabrication process of the laser diode driver. For example, a system can utilize a first threshold for a laser diode driver that is fabricated utilizing a 10 nm process and utilize a second threshold for another laser diode driver that is fabricated utilizing a 20 nm process. The threshold can also be based on a color of the laser or a desired operation mode. The system can monitor a voltage applied to a laser diode using different thresholds while controlling a bleed current to ensure that the laser diode is forward biased while mitigating the risk of silicon breakdown of the laser diode driver.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a recommendation of an admin change (i.e., an admin change recommendation) in an enterprise. A type of intended admin change that an administrator is to perform with regard to an enterprise is determined. The type is cross-referenced with information indicating admin changes made by administrator(s) in environment(s) of enterprise(s) and values of metrics resulting therefrom to identify subsets of the information to which the type corresponds. A causal relationship is inferred between admin change(s) made after an admin change of the type and an increase in value(s) of metric(s) that are indicated by information in the subsets. A recommended admin change is recommended to be performed by the administrator based at least in part on a causal relationship between the recommended admin change and an increase in at least one of the value(s) of at least one of the respective metric(s).

Abstract: The technology described herein obfuscates image content using a local neural network and a remote neural network. The local network runs on a local computer system and a remote classifier runs in a remote computing system. Together, the local network and the remote classifier are able to classify images, while the image never leaves the local computer system. In aspects of the technology, the local network receives a local image and creates a transformed object. The transformed object may be generated by processing the image with a local neural network to generate a multidimensional array and then randomly shuffling data locations within a multidimensional array. The transformed object is communicated to the remote classifier in the remote computing system for classification. The remote classifier may not have the seed used to deterministically scramble the spatial arrangement of data within the multidimensional array.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that automatically scale an application between private and public cloud computing platforms, while simultaneous enforcing policies ensuring private data is persistently stored on the private cloud computing platform, but not the public cloud computing platform. A traffic manager on the public platform routes traffic to instances of a web app executing on a private platform. A traffic monitor on the private platform monitors performance criteria of the private platform, and reports traffic telemetry to the traffic manager. Based on the traffic telemetry, the traffic manager may instantiate one or more instances of the web app on the public platform to handle traffic. Private data gathered by such instantiated instance(s) is persisted to storage in the private platform, but not in the public platform.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that enable a general framework for partitioning application-defined jobs in a scalable environment. The general framework decouples partitioning of a job from the other aspects of the job. As a result, the effort required to define the application-defined job is reduced or minimized, as the user is not required to provide a partitioning algorithm. The general framework also facilitates management of masters and servers performing computations within the distributed environment.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for synchronizing a triggered system to a triggering system by tracking the timing of rising and falling edges of a clock signal at the triggered system and using the tracked timing values for phase shift adjustment of a time base at the triggered systems.

Abstract: Systems and methods for contextual memory capture and recall are provided. The contextual memory capture and recall systems and methods help a user create, store, and recall memory information associated with an identified activity. The contextual memory capture and recall systems and methods are capable of identifying user activities where a memory inquiry may be desirable, creating a memory inquiry with a recommended memory action based on the activity, providing the memory inquiry to the user, and automatically linking an accepted memory action, along with any received memory information for the memory action, with the identified activity.

Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to centralize access to various digital items irrespective of the location of those digital items. To achieve this, items that are stored at their original location, e.g., within a cloud storage platform, can be selected by a user for storage at a centralized location such as a favorites section. These items are selected using an interface control which can be an operating system component of an item keeping system that is accessible in any context or application. The item keeping system can generate an item alias for selected items which is then stored in the centralized location. In addition, item aliases can be moved to various destinations by the user to enable customized item storage for items of varying types, origin, and location. In addition, functionality of the interface control can be modified to suite selected items.

Abstract: A method and system for intelligently organizing one or more groups of relevant files may include retrieving a user data signal including user-specific data, analyzing the user data signal to identify a parameter relating to file relevance, identifying one or more relevant files in a storage medium based on the parameter at least one of a user category property, a lifecycle stage property, a relevant activity property, or an activity level property of one or more files in the storage medium, organizing the one or more relevant file into the one or more groups of relevant files, and providing for display data relating to the one or more groups of relevant files.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for supporting multicast for virtual networks. In some embodiments, a native multicast approach can utilized in which packet replication is performed on a host node of a virtual machine (VM) with a multicast data packet encapsulated in uniquely address unicast packets. In some embodiments, a network virtual appliance can be utilized. A multicast packet sent from the VM can be unicasted to the network virtual appliance. The multicast appliance can then replicate the packet into multiple copies and send the packets to the receivers in the virtual network as unicast data packets encapsulating the multicast packet.

Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for generating pivot tables are provided. A pivot table service may receive an indication to generate a pivot table. The pivot table service may transform a plurality of fields in an existing table in a software application from a first order to a semantic hierarchical order by applying a set of cardinality relationship rules to the plurality of fields. The pivot table service may identify a plurality of blocks comprising one or more fields from the semantic hierarchical order. Fields from each block may be populated and positioned in a pivot table that is being generated based on a cardinality value of each block.

Abstract: One example provides an integrated computing device, comprising one or more computing clusters, and one or more network controllers, each network controller comprising a local data notification queue to queue send message notifications originating from the computing clusters on the integrated computing device, a remote data notification queue to queue receive message notifications originating from network controllers on remote integrated computing devices, a local no-data notification queue to queue receive message notifications originating from computing clusters on the integrated computing device, and a connection scheduler configured to schedule sending of data from memory on the integrated computing device when a send message notification in the local data notification queue is matched with a receive message notification in the remote data notification queue, and to schedule sending of receive message notifications from the local no-data notification queue.

Abstract: A non-fungible physical fabric token (NFPFT) system includes a piece of smart fabric coupled to a physical item. The piece of smart fabric includes a grid of cells configured to receive and persistently store one or more datasets. The NFPFT system also includes a verification and authentication device configured to receive a first dataset associated with the physical item and a second dataset associated with a non-fungible token (NFT) recorded in a decentralized system. The NFT is associated with the physical item. The verification and authentication device is further configured to cause the first dataset and the second dataset to be persistently stored in the grid of cells of the smart fabric.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for transmitting Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content. The systems and methods may use a modified Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) curve to convert nonlinear color values of SDR content into optical output values of modified SDR content. The systems and methods may encode the modified SDR content using eight bits while preventing banding. The systems and methods may transmit the encoded data to a client device for presentation on a display.

Abstract: A method and system for securing an anonymous discovery service may include receiving a request from a client device, the request being directed to an anonymous Autodiscover service, identifying a source from which the request originated from within the client device, and responsive to the source being of a first type of sources, transmitting a first response to the client and responsive to the source being of a second type of sources transmitting a second response to the client. The first response does not return a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a service endpoint, the second response returns a URL to a service endpoint. Furthermore, the anonymous discovery service may be a discovery service that requires no authentication.

Abstract: Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for the control of remote applications in a master and slave configuration. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application, the task being displayed on a target device. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application on a target device, a task context data for the task being streamed to the source device for presentation on a display. Cross device application discovery and/or control can be enabled on a single operating system, or across a plurality of operating systems.

Abstract: A data processing system implements displaying a tabbed user interface comprising a plurality of tabs for navigating among a plurality of electronic documents; determining a first tab of the plurality of tabs is associated with a first tab group according to a first grouping criterion; and causing a first tab group control element to be displayed proximate to the first tab, the first tab group control element providing a set of tools for accessing content associated with the first tab group and for creating new tabs associated with the first tab group

Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for management of user interface elements based on historical configuration data. Use of historical configuration data to render user interface elements improves usability of graphical user interfaces by maintaining a consistent user experience. The states of user interface objects in a hosting environment are retained as historical configuration data and linked to a hosting environment profile. When the same or similar hosting environment is detected, the user interface elements are rendered based on the historical configuration data. For example, the last positions of windows in a particular monitor topology are stored as historical configuration data linked to that monitor topology. The windows are returned to their previous positions when a computing device is next configured with the same or similar monitor topology.

Abstract: A computing apparatus of an insight interfacing system receives from a user a request for a dataset comprising a plurality of subspaces of a multi-dimensional data structure. Insights are received based on the received request then presented on a display device. Also, a chart may be presented based on the received request. The computing apparatus receives a selection of at least a portion of the presented one or more insights or a portion of the chart, then receives contextual insights based on the selected portion and presents the contextual insights on the display device.