Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented methods for guaranteeing a payment authorization response. Computer-implemented methods may include determining that a payment authorization response message for a payment transaction was not received from a transaction service provider system within a predetermined period of time after a payment authorization request message for the payment transaction was transmitted to the transaction service provider system; generating a supplemental payment authorization request message for the payment transaction based on the payment authorization request message; determining that the payment transaction is authorized based on a quantitative risk score associated with the supplemental payment authorization request message and an insurer rate associated with the supplemental payment authorization request message; and transmitting a supplemental payment authorization response message to a merchant system based on determining that the payment transaction is authorized.

Abstract: Various embodiments include nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) sensor array systems and methods are disclosed. One such system includes a downhole casing having at least one MR sensor array peripherally coupled to an outside of the casing. At least one MR sensor array can include an MR sensor configured to monitor a cement/fluid mix composition while the cement is setting.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a packer assembly and a well system. In one embodiment, a packer assembly includes an inner mandrel; a packing element at least partially surrounding the inner mandrel; a packing element activation sleeve coupled to the packing element; a hydrostatic setting assembly engageable with the packing element activation sleeve; and a hydraulic setting assembly positioned between the packing element and the hydrostatic setting assembly. The hydrostatic setting assembly includes a hydrostatic piston; a hydrostatic prop piston engageable to push the hydrostatic piston to engage the packing element activation sleeve; and a hydrostatic locking mechanism to maintain the hydrostatic piston in a locked position.

Abstract: This invention provides a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) antigen that is compatible with antigens from other swine pathogens, wherein the M. hyo antigen is a cell free M. hyo culture supernatant which is substantially free of swine IgG.

Abstract: Receptacle locking devices are disclosed. A receptacle locking device having a contact arm and a pivoting feature can be pivoted from a first, unlocked position to a second, locked position, wherein the contact arm prevents opening of the receptacle door when the locking device is in the second, locked position.

Abstract: A bill-loading machine for receptacles (e.g., cash cassettes or cash cartridges for cash cassettes) for cash-dispensing machines. The bill-loading machine has receptacle ports, currency bins, and bill dispensers. Each receptacle port receives a receptacle that (i) stores bills and (ii) is configurable to the cash-dispensing machines for dispensing the bills. Each currency bin stores a bills, and each bill dispenser loads a receptacle located at a corresponding receptacle port with bills from a corresponding currency bin. In some embodiments, the bill-loading machine includes a bill sorter that receives an input supply of bills of varied denominations, automatically sorts the bills into multiple flows of paper currency of specific denominations for storage in multiple currency bins, and automatically loads each currency bin with the bills of a corresponding denomination.

Abstract: A method is disclosed, comprising: aggregating a plurality of sets of transactions, each set of transactions comprising transactions related to an account-merchant pairing; determining variables characterizing a recurrence period based on transaction dates of the transactions in the each set; predicting the recurrence period for a transaction related to the account-merchant pairing for each customer of the plurality of customers; aggregating another set of transactions between the plurality of customers and the merchant; evaluating a distribution of the recurrence period for each customer within range of a distant point; and based on the evaluation of the distribution of the recurrence period for each customer, generating a probability of the merchant having a recurrent transaction with the customer. The account-merchant pairing may comprise a customer account and a merchant of a plurality of customers and merchants.

Abstract: An exemplary system includes at least one physical computing device that is communicatively coupled, by way of a network, to a retail point of sale (POS) machine, and that receives a transaction identifier from the POS machine, uses the transaction identifier to query an electronic payment system, receives, from the electronic payment system in response to the query, data representative of a pending electronic payment that is associated with the transaction identifier and is awaiting funding, sends data representative of information about the pending electronic payment to the POS machine, the information indicating an amount to fund the pending electronic payment, receives, from the POS machine, a confirmation that the POS machine has received the amount to fund the pending electronic payment, and notifies the electronic payment system that the pending electronic payment has been funded.

Abstract: Methods to dehydrate a gravel pack and to temporarily increase a flow rate of fluid flowing from a wellbore into a conveyance are disclosed. A method to dehydrate gravel pack includes deploying a valve at a location proximate a gravel pack. The valve includes a rupture disk that ruptures in response to a threshold amount of pressure, and reactive fluid that actuates the valve to a closed position. The method also includes providing a fluid flow path from the gravel pack to the conveyance. The method further includes closing the valve after providing the fluid flow path from the gravel pack to the conveyance for a threshold period of time.

Abstract: A system and method for signal communication using a piezoelectric fiber composite (PFC) sensor. A telemetry module is locatable within a borehole intersecting a subterranean earth formation. The PFC sensor is coupled to a carrier in communication with the telemetry module. The PFC sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a stress in the carrier. A processor in communication with the PFC sensor is configured to convert the signal generated by the PFC sensor into a telemetry signal transmitted by the telemetry module.

Abstract: The physical properties of a fluid may be used in deriving the compositional properties of the fluid, which may, in turn, be used to influence an operational parameters of a drilling operation. For example, a method may include drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation with a drilling fluid as part of a drilling operation; circulating or otherwise containing the drilling fluid in a flow path that comprises the wellbore; measuring at least one physical property of the drilling fluid at a first location and a second location along the flow path; deriving a compositional property of the drilling fluid at the first location and the second location based on the at least one physical property that was measured; comparing the compositional property of the drilling fluid at the first location and the second location; and changing an operational parameter of the drilling operation based on the comparison.

Abstract: Methods and systems for decoupling a component signal. A method may include disposing a logging tool in a wellbore, capturing a signal response with the logging tool from a formation, wherein the logging tool includes a first receiver, a second receiver, and a third receiver, averaging the first receiver and the third receiver to generate a first pseudo antenna, generating a second pseudo antenna which includes an azimuth offset, employing an attenuation factor and expansion factor to generate a pseudo collocated antenna. Furthermore combining responses from a transmitter, the first pseudo antenna, the second pseudo antenna, and the pseudo collocated antenna to decouple a component, which may determine the boundaries of a formation from the component. A well measurement system for decoupling a component may include a logging tool, conveyance, and information handling system. The logging tool may include a first downhole tool, a receiver, and a transmitter.

Abstract: A method and system for locating one or more bed boundaries. A method for locating one or more bed boundaries may include disposing a downhole tool into a wellbore, measuring wellbore wall resistivity with the downhole tool, extracting a vertical voltage measurement, deconvolving the vertical voltage measurement with an impulse response an apparent resistivity, and calculating a derivative of the apparent resistivity and finding one or more peaks of the derivative to determine the locations of the one or more bed boundaries. A well measurement system for locating one or more bed boundaries may include a downhole tool. The downhole tool may include a pad, an arm, a receiver disposed on the pad, and a transmitter disposed on the pad. The well measurement system may further comprise a conveyance and an information handling system.

Abstract: A sealing apparatus and related method for sealing an annular space between concentrically disposed members. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes providing a sealing ring within the annular space, the sealing ring defining oppositely inclined interior and exterior surfaces each having a generally frusto-conical shape and defining opposing first and second edges, a nose adjoining the respective first edges of the interior and exterior surfaces, and a first convex surface adjoining the respective second edges of the interior and exterior surfaces opposite the nose; and forming a seal against a fluid pressure in the annular space, comprising depressing the first convex surface of the sealing ring so that the interior and exterior surfaces thereof expand radially to exert contact stress on each of the concentrically disposed members.

Abstract: A downhole apparatus comprises a casing string with a removable plug therein to block flow therethrough. A flow barrier is positioned in the casing below the removable plug and the removable plug and the flow barrier defining a buoyancy chamber therebetween. A debris barrier positioned above the removable plug comprises a rigid annular ring with a flexible diaphragm covering the center opening defined by the annular ring.

Abstract: A robotic orchard spraying system having autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV), each autonomously delivering an amount of a premixed solution over a non-overlapping path verified by a forward-looking sensor, video, or both. Also, a mobile control center, configured to wireles sly inform the autonomous delivery vehicle of the path within the areas and to confirm that the autonomous delivery vehicle is following the path within the area. Additionally, a mapper vehicle generates the path within the area, the mapper vehicle being configured to communicate information about the path and the area to the command center. The mapper vehicle senses the path with a forward-looking LiDAR sensor, and senses the area with a GPS sensor. Moreover, a nurse truck has a reservoir of premixed solution for replenishing a tank of the ADV. ADVs and the control center communicate over a radio network, which may be a mesh network, a cellular network, or both.

Abstract: A system and method for providing an interactive voice response dialogue by using a cloud computing system coupled to a mobile computing device. The cloud computing system may receive a request from a mobile computing device to initiate communication with an interactive voice response system having a tree structure including audio files in the cloud computing system. An interactive voice response dialogue may be conducted using the cloud computing system when the mobile computing device does not have the capacity to receive the one or more files. When the mobile computing device does have the capacity to receive the one or more files, one or more files may be transmitted from the cloud computing system to the mobile computing device, so that he mobile computing device may conduct the interactive voice response dialogue.

Abstract: A resonant receiver for electromagnetic telemetry of wellbore-related data can be used to improve signal reception for transmitting or receiving low-amplitude downhole signals that include noise. A system can comprise a surface assembly with an antenna for wirelessly communicating signals with equipment positioned downhole in a wellbore. The surface assembly can comprise an amplifier and a tank circuit operable to resonate at a resonant frequency to pass a received signal at the resonant frequency to the amplifier while also shunting noise outside of the resonant frequency to ground. In some embodiments, a downhole transceiver in wireless communication with the surface assembly can comprise a similar tank circuit and amplifier.

Abstract: A data driven approach for fault detection in robotic actuation is disclosed. Here, a set of robotic tasks are received and analyzed by a Deep Learning (DL) analytics. The DL analytics includes a stateful (Long Short Term Memory) LSTM. Initially, the stateful LSTM is trained to match a set of activities associated with the robots based on a set of tasks gathered from the robots in a multi robot environment. Here, the stateful LSTM utilizes a master slave framework based load distribution technique and a probabilistic trellis approach to predict a next activity associated with the robot with minimum latency and increased accuracy. Further, the predicted next activity is compared with an actual activity of the robot to identify any faults associated robotic actuation.

Abstract: A system and method for managing coverage of parking enforcement for a neighborhood with the aid of a digital computer is provided. A time-based active representational model of the city is created by fusing sensory data collected from various sources around a city with numerical data gleaned from historical and on-going activities, including parking regulation citation and warning numbers, resource allocations, and so on. The model can be used to form quantitative predictions of expected violations, revenue stream, and so forth, that can then be used as recommendations as to where to enforce and when, so as to maximize the utilization of the limited resources represented by the officers on the street. Moreover, the performance of the officers can be weighed against expectations of performance postulated from the quantitative predictions.