Abstract: A health safety and status system, implemented at least in part as an at-home test kit, may be employed for determining a presence of a virus in an individual. The test kit includes a test strip, which in turn includes an embedded data object having a unique identification of the test strip. The test strip further includes a test sample collection patch configured to receive a test sample from the individual. The application is configured to be resident on a host machine. The application includes machine instructions that when executed by a processor of the host machine, control the host machine to capture the content of the embedded data object, control the host machine to capture an indication of the test sample, and control the host machine to transmit the content and the indication of the test sample to a processing facility of the health safety and status system.

Abstract: A vaccine system implementing a secure vaccine service to provide vaccine accounts for users, includes a display and user interface component providing user access to the vaccine service; a communications component providing third-party access to the vaccine service; a processor; and a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon, machine instructions for operating the vaccine service. The processor executes the machine instructions to establish a secure vaccine account for the user, receive a vaccine transaction on behalf of the user, the vaccine transaction including a vaccine data package. The vaccine data package includes certified data for one or more vaccines administered to the user, the vaccine transaction provided by a medical facility administering the vaccines. The processor assigns a hash to the received vaccine transaction, and stores the hash and the vaccine data package in a block in a distributed ledger-architected database.

Abstract: A health status platform includes a receiving component that receives a test result a test of a biological sample collected from a human patient. The test result includes an indication of a presence of an infectious disease in the patient, and an identification and a verification of the patient. The platform includes a certificate component that issues a certificate of origin of the biological sample; and a data merging component that cooperates with a venue access manager that controls access to a venue. The data merging component implements a distributed ledger system that stores encrypted test results of the patient and the identification and verification of the patient, and an end-to-end encryption system that receives an encrypted venue access request from a venue access manager, decrypts the access request, determines if an access request is valid, and if valid, provides an encrypted certificate of origin to the venue access manager.

Abstract: A vaccine system implementing a secure vaccine service to provide vaccine accounts for users, includes a display and user interface component providing user access to the vaccine service; a communications component providing third-party access to the vaccine service; a processor; and a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon, machine instructions for operating the vaccine service. The processor executes the machine instructions to establish a secure vaccine account for the user, receive a vaccine transaction on behalf of the user, the vaccine transaction including a vaccine data package. The vaccine data package includes certified data for one or more vaccines administered to the user, the vaccine transaction provided by a medical facility administering the vaccines. The processor assigns a hash to the received vaccine transaction, and stores the hash and the vaccine data package in a block in a distributed ledger-architected database.

Abstract: A system optimizes data transmission along network paths includes a communications interface; a processor, and a non-transient computer-readable storage medium having machine instructions for path optimizing and sequencing data transmission. The processor is configured to receive a model of a utility of data transmission in the network, receive a job that includes a sequence of data transmission tasks that optimize the utility of the data transmission; determine that a sequencing process represents an intractable problem; identify a best task insertion order for inserting tasks into a sequence, retaining as a current best task insertion order, a task insertion order that produces a current best score of a general utility function, until a stopping condition is reached; and using the current best task insertion order, apply the tasks to optimize the sequence of tasks of the job.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for optimizing control of a process includes a computer receiving a process definition and a collection of elements to be arranged in a way that optimizes the utility of the process; initializing the process using a collection of discrete elements (stops, events, work orders, tasks, locations, etc.), and producing a solution for said collection by inserting the elements into the solution using the Minimum Insertion Heuristic; modifying the order of the elements to be inserted and continuing the process to produce solutions with better scores; and continuing to produce solutions based on improving the order of insertion until the process is determined to be sufficiently optimized.

Abstract: A health safety method executed by a processor includes receiving, by the processor, from a medical facility, a certificate of vaccination for a particular disease for an individual, the vaccination conferring immunity to the individual for the disease; receiving by the processor an access request from a venue for the individual; and responding to the venue access request by providing a health safety certification including the certificate of vaccination for the individual and an effective date range of the certificate of vaccination.

Abstract: A health status platform includes a receiving component that receives a test result a test of a biological sample collected from a human patient. The test result includes an indication of a presence of an infectious disease in the patient, and an identification and a verification of the patient. The platform includes a certificate component that issues a certificate of origin of the biological sample; and a data merging component that cooperates with a venue access manager that controls access to a venue. The data merging component implements a distributed ledger system that stores encrypted test results of the patient and the identification and verification of the patient, and an end-to-end encryption system that receives an encrypted venue access request from a venue access manager, decrypts the access request, determines if an access request is valid, and if valid, provides an encrypted certificate of origin to the venue access manager.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for optimizing control of a process includes a computer receiving a process definition and a collection of elements to be arranged in a way that optimizes the utility of the process; initializing the process using a collection of discrete elements (stops, events, work orders, tasks, locations, etc.), and producing a solution for the collection by inserting the elements into the solution using the Minimum Insertion Heuristic; modifying the order of the elements to be inserted and continuing the process to produce solutions with better scores; and continuing to produce solutions based on improving the order of insertion until the process is determined to be sufficiently optimized.

Abstract: A health safety method executed by a processor includes receiving, by the processor, from a medical facility, a certificate of vaccination for a particular disease for an individual, the vaccination conferring immunity to the individual for the disease; receiving by the processor an access request from a venue for the individual; and responding to the venue access request by providing a health safety certification including the certificate of vaccination for the individual and an effective date range of the certificate of vaccination.

Abstract: A health status platform includes a receiving component that receives a test result a test of a biological sample collected from a human patient. The test result includes an indication of a presence of an infectious disease in the patient, and an identification and a verification of the patient. The platform includes a certificate component that issues a certificate of origin of the biological sample; and a data merging component that cooperates with a venue access manager that controls access to a venue. The data merging component implements a distributed ledger system that stores encrypted test results of the patient and the identification and verification of the patient, and an end-to-end encryption system that receives an encrypted venue access request from a venue access manager, decrypts the access request, determines if an access request is valid, and if valid, provides an encrypted certificate of origin to the venue access manager.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a relative contribution of a first group of J data sets in a collection of N data sets, wherein N>J, includes first applying the collection of N data sets and second applying the first group of J data sets to a model and generating one or more observations O on the collection of N data sets and the first group of J data sets, including generating a N NSA curve comprising computing, using the model, an observation ON on the collection of N data sets; and generating a N?J NSA curve for the first group of J data sets by removing the first group of J data sets from the collection of N data sets, and generating, using the model, an observation ON?J with the first group of J data sets removed. The method then includes generating a measure MJ of contributions of the group of J data sets based on the N NSA curve and the N?J NSA curves.