Abstract: In an epidemiology transmission probability analysis for a medical facility, ray origin points are distributed over a medical facility floor map. Rays are cast from the ray origin points. The cast rays stop upon encountering a physical barrier mapped in the medical facility floor map. An infectious transmission probability map is computed from intersections of the cast rays. At least a portion of the medical facility floor map is displayed on a display, overlaid with the infectious transmission probability map. The distributing, the casting, and the computing are suitably performed by one or more electronic processors.

Abstract: An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for headphones, and select between the first renderer circuit and the second renderer circuit such that the rendering of at least a first part of a first audio element is in response to a first audio rendering property indicator which is received in an audio signal. The first audio rendering property indicator is indicative of whether the first part of the first audio element should be rendered via the loudspeakers, or rendered via the headphones.

Abstract: A shaving system comprises a shaving device and a cleaning device. The shaving device has an orientation sensor for generating an output signal representing the orientation of the shaving device. The cleaning device supports the shaving device in a cleaning position with a predefined cleaning orientation. The cleaning device is controlled to operate according to a predefined cleaning program for cleaning the shaving unit when the orientation sensed by the orientation sensor corresponds to said predefined cleaning orientation. This shaving device thus makes use of an orientation sensor to identify when the shaving device is in a cleaning orientation. This gives a low cost sensing solution and enables a single user input button to be used for operating the shaving device and for starting a cleaning program.

Abstract: Techniques are described for improving real-time application protection (RTAP) systems (e.g., web application firewalls (WAFs), runtime application self-protection (RASP) systems). In particular, a device within a trusted network may monitor or test the configuration settings of the RTAP systems, network traffic into the RTAP systems, and/or log information from the RTAP systems. For example, the device may detect drift in a configuration for a particular RTAP system by comparing the configuration settings of the RTAP systems to baseline configuration settings and classifying any detected drift as good drift or bad drift. In some examples, the device may maintain the configuration settings or set the configuration settings as the baseline configuration settings when the configurations settings include good drift from the baseline configuration settings. In other examples, the device may set the configuration settings with the bad drift to the baseline configuration settings.

Abstract: Handheld steering devices for use with intravascular devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In some instances, the handheld steering device includes a housing sized and shaped for grasping by a hand of a user; a steering controller coupled to the housing; a processor in communication with the steering controller, the processor configured to translate inputs from the steering controller into actuation signals based on a code architecture that includes a script for at least one of a return home function, a return to stored position function, a store current position function, or an automated mapping function; and an actuator positioned within the housing and configured to interface with the intravascular device based on the actuation signals to the steer the intravascular device. Associated systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method for card control includes a card control computing system configured to enforce a card control rule based upon transactions made with a payment card. The card control computing system includes a memory unit configured to store information associated with a card control dashboard, and a processing unit configured to cause presentation of the card control dashboard via a display associated with a remote computing device, such that the card control dashboard is associated with the payment card and the card control rule. The card control dashboard includes a user interface. The processing unit is further configured to receive an input via the user interface to activate or deactivate one or more features associated with the card control rule, and trigger the card control rule based upon the one or more features that are activated or deactivated.

Abstract: A method may include presenting a user interface (UI), to a user, in a first mode on a client device, the UI including a list portion, the list portion including a plurality of transactions associated with respective activity on a user account, and the client device including an input device; receiving an indication of a first user action on a transaction presented in the list portion of the UI; in response to receiving the indication, updating a section of the list portion corresponding to the transaction, the updating including revealing a set of options for the transaction; receiving an indication of a second user action corresponding to activation of an option of the set of options; and in response to receiving the indication of the second user action, transitioning the UI from the first mode to a second mode, the second mode including a chatbot interface instantiated with respect to the transaction.

Abstract: An aerodynamic rail cover for an operating room with laminar airflow is provided. The rail cover comprises a rail cover component configured to be movably attached to a support rail of a ceiling mounted support arrangement of a medical imaging system. The rail cover component comprises a base element and an air guiding surface element connected to the base element. The base element is configured to be attached to a portion of the support rail of the ceiling mounted support arrangement. The air guiding surface element forms an air guide to be mounted at least temporarily to cover a portion of the support rail of the ceiling mounted support arrangement. The air guiding surface element comprises two surface parts that extend from starting edges on opposite sides of the base element to a common trailing edge.

Abstract: A tool navigation system employing an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound scanner, an interventional tool, a tool tracker and an image navigator. In operation, the ultrasound probe generates an acoustic image plane for scanning an anatomical region, and the ultrasound scanner generates an ultrasound image of the anatomical region from a scan of the anatomical region. During the scan, the interventional tool is navigated within the anatomical region relative to the acoustic image plane, and the tool tracker a tracks of a position of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane. The image navigator displays a graphical icon within the ultrasound image for illustrating a tracking of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane.

Abstract: A system for collecting property status information from a property for a virtual appraisal receives the property status information from a plurality of devices positioned about the property, stores the property status information in a database, and assesses the property status information to create the virtual appraisal for the property.

Abstract: Techniques are described for managing authentication tokens associated with a secure account maintained by a business or organization. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes storing interaction information associated with an account maintained by an organization, wherein the interaction information includes information about authentication tokens used during a plurality of prior authentication procedures performed for the account, receiving, over a network, a request to authenticate a user to access the account, determining, based on the stored interaction information, an authentication token to be used to authenticate the user, wherein the authentication token is different than a prior authentication token used during the plurality of prior authentication procedures performed for the account, presenting a prompt for the authentication token; and determining, based on information received in response to the prompt, whether the user is authorized to access the account.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for a flangeless air filter configured to be mounted onto a flat surface within an air intake system of an internal combustion engine. The flangeless air filter is comprised of a cone-shaped filter medium, retained between a base and a cap, that is fabricated to remove contaminants and particulate matter from an intake airstream. The base includes a pliable seal that forms an airtight connection between the flangeless air filter and the flat surface of the air intake system. A mounting bracket and fasteners may be used to attach the base to the flat surface, compressing the seal there between. In some embodiments, the mounting bracket may be incorporated into, and made a part of the base. A cap is disposed on a top of the flangeless air filter and configured to direct the intake airstream around the cap and toward the filter medium.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods of providing automated teller machine (ATM) security. A method includes detecting, by the ATM, an intruder proximate the ATM using sensed detection information, determining intruder type information based on the sensed detection information, transmitting the intruder type information to a provider computing system, receiving an instruction to use a level of security defense measure based on the intruder type information, using the level of security defense measure, monitoring a movement of the intruder in response to the level of security defense measure, and in response to the movement of the intruder, determining whether to use an increased level of security defense measure.

Abstract: A method (100) for generating a domain-specific training set, comprising: generating (130) a generic corpus comprising a plurality of tokenized documents, comprising: (i) parsing (132) a document retrieved from the generic corpus; (ii) preprocessing (134) the parsed document; (iii) tokenizing (136) the preprocessed document; and (iv) storing (138) the tokenized document in the generic corpus; generating (140) an ontology database of tokenized entries, comprising: (i) parsing (142) an ontology entry retrieved from an ontology; (ii) preprocessing (144) the parsed entry; (iii) tokenizing (146) the preprocessed entry; and (iv) storing (148) the tokenized entry in the ontology database; querying (150), using domain-specific tokenized entries from the ontology database, the tokenized documents in the generic corpus; identifying (160), based on the query, a plurality of tokenized documents specific to the domain; and storing (170), in a training set database, the identified tokenized documents as a training set spec

Abstract: A method and a system for dynamically scanning, filtering, and blocking harmful database queries that would otherwise consume significant resources and adversely impact overall system performance are provided. The method includes: receiving a user request for data from a database, the first request including a query; applying database access rules to the query in order to determine whether the query is potentially harmful; when the query is determined as not potentially harmful, forwarding the request to a server configured to respond to the request; and when the first query is determined as being potentially harmful, transmitting a warning message to the user. The database access rules may include a maximum memory consumption rule and a maximum CPU consumption rule. Machine learning techniques are used for adjusting the database access rules based on historical data.

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide a store credit issued electronically to a mobile wallet application from a merchant. This credit may be issued to a mobile wallet in the form of an enhanced wallet payment element. This enhanced wallet payment element may include the terms and conditions (e.g., repayment terms) of the credit (e.g., a digital/smart contract). The customer may accept or reject these terms. For example, when the customer accepts the terms, the enhanced wallet payment element digitally signs the agreement and indicates acceptance to the merchant mobile wallet system (e.g., sends the digital signature to the merchant). Once accepted, the enhanced wallet payment element may be utilized to pay for goods or services subject to the terms and conditions.

Abstract: An event detection method can include encoding a plurality of training video snippets into low dimensional descriptors of the training video snippets in a code space. The low dimensional descriptors of the training video snippets can be decoded into corresponding reconstructed video snippets. One or more parameters of the encoding and decoding can be adjusted based on one or more a loss functions to reduce a reconstruction error between the one or more training video snippets and the corresponding one or more reconstructed video snippets, to reduce a class entropy of the plurality of event classes of the code space, to increase fit of the training video snippet, and/or to increase compactness of the code space. The method can further include encoding one or more labeled video snippets of a plurality of event classes into low dimensional descriptors of the labeled video snippets in the code space.

Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to learning and applying contextual patient similarities. Multiple template similarity functions (118) may be provided (602). Each template similarity function may compare a respective subset of features of a query entity feature vector with a corresponding subset of features of a candidate entity feature vector. A composite similarity function (120) may be provided (604) as a weighted combination of respective outputs of the template similarity functions. A plurality of labeled entity vectors may be provided (606) as context training data. An approximation function may be applied (608) to approximate a first context label for each respective labeled entity vector. A first context specific composite similarity function may be trained (610) based on the composite similarity function by learning first context weights for the template similarity functions using a first loss function based on output of application of the approximation function to the first context training data.

Abstract: The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of determining network segmentation. The innovation can search a network to determine a set of network entities, the network entities belonging to the network, and determine network factors of each network entity in the set of network entities. The innovation can evaluate each network factor and determine segmentation candidates based on the evaluation of each network factor. The innovation can determine a risk ranking for each network factor for each network entity and aggregate each risk ranking into a segmentation score for each network entity. The innovation can determine a segmentation candidate when a network entity segmentation score satisfies a threshold score. The innovation can generate a sub-network that is part of the network for the segmentation candidate, and transfer the segmentation candidate to the sub-network.

Abstract: A system and methods for stabilizing a towed trailer include a stabilizing accessory system that both stabilizes the trailer and stows upon a frame of the trailer for transport. The system includes a wheel chock that detachably attaches to a stabilizing block. The stabilizing block features an elevated wheel dock configured to receive a jack wheel of the trailer, a post recess configured to receive a square or round jack post of the trailer, and a plate recess configured to receive a plate jack stand of the trailer. The stabilizing block may be secured to a frame of the trailer via a securement strap or via a switchable magnet embedded within the block. The wheel chock is configured to immobilize a trailer tire and may secure to the frame via its attachment to the stabilizing block, supplemented by a magnet embedded in its bottom surface. Other embodiments are disclosed.