Abstract: An authentication method includes assigning a risk status to a request received from a remote interaction system, transmitting a notification communication to a device associated with the request, monitoring interaction data from an interaction network, and identifying, from the monitored interaction data, authentication interaction information, the authentication interaction information including a coded sequence and a predetermined authentication identifier. The authentication method also includes comparing the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information to an expected coded sequence and transmitting a verification communication after determining the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information matches the expected coded sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fermented milk-based product comprising a combination of low levels of lactose and stable levels of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) produced in-situ and methods thereof.

Abstract: A processor of a computing device may receive, from a contactless card, a uniform resource locator (URL) and a cryptogram. An operating system (OS) executing on the processor may open an application based on the URL. The application may transmit the cryptogram to an authentication server. The application may receive, based on the server verifying the cryptogram, an account number. The application may store the account number in a memory of the device.

Abstract: A smoking article has a burn portion and a mouth portion. The burn portion includes a smoking rod filled with a smokeable filler material formed almost exclusively of cellulose material. The mouth portion includes either a filter portion with or without an interface or a tip with an interface. The mouth end may include an orthonasal property and the interface may store an additive.

Abstract: A consumer may enroll in an event gamification system. An event listener may detect an event. The event gamification system may determine that the event qualifies for a game in which the consumer is enrolled. The event gamification system may transmit an achievement notification to the consumer as soon as the event occurs. The game may be displayed in a GUI on a consumer device. The consumer may be rewarded for completing the achievements in the game. Also, a server computer receiving a plurality of data sets that represent visually perceptible elements for a plurality of host web pages, wherein each of the plurality of host web pages displays an active link associated with a product on a merchant web page. The server automatically generating composite web page from: i) the particular data set associated with the particular host web page and the particular set of visually perceptible elements and ii) the related electronic content associated with the product from the merchant web page.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method to enable short-range wireless communication via a webpage on a computing device includes receiving, via a web-browser executing on the computing device, from the webpage, a first request to execute a computer-executable instruction, the computer-executable instruction requests data from an enterprise server. The method also includes triggering, in response to a second request from the enterprise server to authenticate the first request, the web-browser to execute a predetermined computer program. The method also includes scanning, by the predetermined computer program a cryptogram from a contactless card to authenticate the cryptogram and cause the enterprise server to send the data. The method also includes executing, via the web-browser, the computer-executable instruction from the first request in response to receiving the data sent by the enterprise server.

Abstract: State of the art data transmission approaches require all the lost data packets to be retransmitted, which may not be required in a variety of scenarios. Existing protocols lack the option to change packet semantics on the fly for individual fragments on the fly for the same stream. Also, parameters including maximum number of retransmissions permitted are set beforehand, one for entire stream. Method and system in embodiments disclosed herein provide an approach for context-based retransmission of lost packets. Method and system disclosed in the embodiments herein identifies one or more packets as lost packets based on reception status of acknowledgement (ACK) within a dynamically adaptive timeout period, and then based on value of a NRTx header field associated with the lost packet, determines whether or not to retransmit the lost packet. Value of the dynamically adaptive timeout period is recalculated dynamically, based on a determined instantaneous channel condition.

Abstract: Current approaches for identifying statute facets consider facet type similar to rhetorical roles defined for statute text. However, the nature and content of statutes are quite different from court judgements and established set of rhetorical roles for court judgements are either not applicable for statutes or not sufficient to cover all the key aspects in statutes. Present disclosure provides method and system for extraction and classification of statute facets from legal statutes. The system first takes text of a statute as input. The system then automatically extracts candidate statute facets from statute text using dependency structure and then computes statute specificity for candidate statute facets. Thereafter, the system classifies candidate statute facets into facet types using weak supervision for validation purpose.

Abstract: An apparatus for the formation of machine-made tobacco rods for use in the production of smoking articles, such as cigars, from tobacco comprising a tacky material. The apparatus includes a pair of transfer and compression belts for receiving and compressing the stream of tobacco, the transfer and compression; a pair of squeeze bars for compressing the tobacco in a direction perpendicular to the pair of transfer and compression belts, the pair of squeeze bars produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); a tongue for receiving the compressed tobacco, the tongue produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); and a folder for folding a wrapper material around the compressed tobacco so as to form a continuous rod of tobacco, the wrapper material provided from a source of wrapper material, the folder produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone).

Abstract: A method for generating a dynamic virtual representation of an event or an object is disclosed. The method includes obtaining one or more of first data or first metadata associated with the first data from one or more data sources, generating a virtual object, setting a state of the adjustable aspect such that the adjustable aspect is a visual representation of one or more aspects of the one or more of the first data or the first metadata, causing a user device to output the virtual object via a user interface, determining a change in one or more of the first data or the first metadata, modifying the state of the adjustable aspect based on the determined change, and causing the user device to modify the output of the virtual object based on the modified state of the adjustable aspect.

Abstract: State of the art techniques have challenges for recoloring a product, which includes non-realistic images, incorrect color mapping, structural distortion, color spilling into background, and in handling multi-color, multi-apparel and multi-product scenario images. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for recoloring a product using a dual attention (DA) U-Net based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) framework to generate a recolored product with a target color from an input image. The disclosed DAU-Net enables recoloring (i) a single-color in a single-product scenario, (ii) a plurality of colors in a single-product scenario, and (iii) multi-product scenario with a human model.

Abstract: A system and method that includes a ride requestor device, a driver device, a server device, and a user device is disclosed. The ride requestor device provides rider information and stop location information for a plurality of riders. The driver device provides location information, navigation information, and stop timing information for a particular vehicle in a fleet of vehicles. The server device includes an artificial intelligence engine which generates and optimizes a plurality of routes for service by the fleet of vehicles to provide a ride to each one of the plurality of riders.

Abstract: Methods and systems for performing efficient integration tests on mobile device for contactless data transfers are described. Rather than performing contactless communications with a variety of test user devices (e.g., test smart cards), which may be time consuming and may present physical difficulty, a mobile device can simulate the result of these communications using a simulator application operating on the mobile device. A contactless communication application, also operating on the mobile device, can communicate with the simulator application in order to generate interaction payloads based on stored data records corresponding to the test user devices. These interaction payloads can then be transmitted by the mobile device to a processing computer. Later, the mobile device may receive a response from the processing computer or another computer system, indicating if the interaction payloads were successfully received and interpreted. This in turn may indicate if the integration test was successful.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for subscription-based notifications of events in enterprise systems. A plurality of notification message delivery channels for delivery of one or more notification messages to one or more user devices is identified. The notification messages are received from one or more software applications and correspond to one or more events associated with the software applications. A first notification message delivery channel is selected from the plurality of notification message delivery channels for delivery of the received notification messages based on one or more subscriptions associated with the user devices to the events. The subscriptions are configured using one or more subscription preferences received from the user devices. The received notification messages are transmitted to the user devices using the selected first notification message delivery channel.

Abstract: A system includes a downhole tubular and a latch assembly securable to a conveyance that is configured to lower the latch assembly into a central bore of the downhole tubular. The latch assembly includes a tubular body portion, a plurality of latch keys secured to the tubular body portion, and at least one alignment feature secured to the tubular body portion. The system further includes a latch coupling formed on the downhole tubular. The latch coupling includes a plurality of key profiles configured to engage corresponding key profiles of the plurality of key profiles in response to proper angular orientation of the latch assembly with respect to the latch coupling. Additionally, the system includes at least one guide feature configured to rotate the latch assembly to angularly align the plurality of latch keys with the plurality of key profiles in response to contact with the at least one alignment feature.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that performs steps to automatically generate fine-grained call reasons from customer service call transcripts. The computing system extracts, using a natural language processing (NLP) technique, a set of events from a set of text strings of speaker turns. The computing system then identifies a set of clusters of events based on the set of events and labels each cluster of events in the set of clusters of events to generate a set of labeled clusters of events. Subsequently, the computing system assigns each event in the set of events to a respective labeled cluster of events in the set of labeled clusters of events.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to reducing earth-bound image volume with an efficient lossless compression technique. The embodiment thus provides a method and system for reducing earth-bound image volume based on a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) model. Moreover, the embodiments herein further provide a complete lossless compression framework comprises of a SNN-based Density Estimator (DE) followed by a classical Arithmetic Encoder (AE). The SNN model is used to obtain residual errors which are compressed by AE and thereafter transmitted to the receiving station. While reducing the power consumption during transmission by similar percentages, the system also saves in-situ computation power as it uses SNN based DE compared to its Deep Neural Network (DNN) counterpart. The SNN model has a lower memory footprint compared to a corresponding Arithmetic Neural Network (ANN) model and lower latency, which exactly fit the requirement for on-board computation in small satellite.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computing system may generate a prediction related to a new category (not included in a set of categories) using a machine learning model trained on a set of embeddings corresponding to the category set. As an example, the computing system may generate a set of hashes such that each hash of the hash set is mapped to an embedding of the embedding set. When a new category added to the category set, the computing system may generate a given hash for the new category and identify a first hash of the hash set that matches the given hash. Based on identifying the first hash as a matching hash, the computing system may use an existing embedding (e.g., mapped to the first hash) with the machine learning model in connection with the new category, thereby avoiding a need to add a new embedding to the embedding set.

Abstract: Detecting cancer early can significantly reduce mortality rate, but this still remains a challenge owing to shortcomings in early screening and detection with existing modalities. Cancer detection is done using known screening methods such as X-ray mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Ultrasound imaging (US). But these conventional methods have their own limitations such as compression discomfort, inherent health risks, expensive, and consume more time and effort. Present disclosure provides system and method for enhanced microwave imaging (MWI) for efficient breast tumor detection by scanning subject's specific body portion to optimize the scan duration. The MWI is framed as an inverse problem by building forward model using a Point Spread Function (PSF) and is solved by imposing sparsity prior since tumor is concentrated to limited regions. The entire scanning duration is optimized by viewing the problem as a sequential decision making process for a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed herein for modulating osteoclast fusion. In some embodiments, these methods include administering an effective amount of a Lupus autoantigen (La) protein, or an agent that modulates La protein expression or activity, to a subject in need thereof, thereby modulating osteoclast fusion in the subject. In some embodiments, the method increases osteoclast fusion and bone resorption. In other embodiments, the method decreases osteoclast fusion and bone resorption.