Abstract: The disclosure relates to decentralized management of edge nodes operating outside an enterprise network using blockchain technology. A management node may operate within a firewall of the enterprise to manage the edge nodes operating outside the firewall using blockchain technology. The management node may coordinate management by writing change requests to a decentralized ledger. The edge nodes may read the change requests from its local copy of the distributed ledger and implement the change requests. Upon implementation, an edge node may broadcast its status to the blockchain network. The management node may mine the transactions from the edge nodes into the distributed ledger, thereby creating a secure and scalable way to coordinate management and record the current and historical system state. The system also provides the edge nodes with a cryptographically secured, machine-to-machine maintained, single version of truth, enabling them to take globally valid decision based on local data.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a modular switch system that comprises disaggregated components, plugins, and managers that enable flexibility to adjust the dynamic configuration of a switch system. This can create modularity and customizability at different times of the lifecycle of the currently configured switch system.

Abstract: Changing a lighting mode for a human interface device is described herein. A first lighting mode can be initiated for a human interface device. Keys on the human interface device can be selected over a period of time at a frequency that is within a defined range. A second lighting mode for the human interface device can be identified based in part on the frequency being within the defined range. The first lighting mode and the second lighting mode can define a lighting scheme for light sources in the human interface device that reflect a user mood. The first lighting mode can be switched to the second lighting mode.

Abstract: A main body of an image forming apparatus includes a developing device, a mounting portion to or from which a toner refill cartridge is attachable or detachable and which is connected to the developing device to transfer a toner in the toner refill cartridge to the developing device. The main body has a housing provided with a communicating hole so that the toner refill cartridge is mountable on the mounting portion from the outside. The image forming apparatus includes the main body, a pop-up module to push the toner refill cartridge in a removal direction and pop up the toner refill cartridge from the mounting portion, and a controller to cause the toner refill cartridge to pop up by operating the pop-up module when refilling with the toner is completed.

Abstract: Here is described a liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising a pigment; a carrier liquid; a resin; a charge director; a fatty acid amide, and a polyalkylene wax. Methods of forming the liquid electrostatic ink compositions, and plastic substrates with the liquid electrostatic ink composition printed thereon, are also disclosed.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic die is described. The fluidic die includes a plurality of ejection subassemblies. Each ejection subassembly includes an ejection chamber to hold a volume of fluid and an opening through which the volume of fluid is ejected via a fluid actuator. A pitch of the ejection subassemblies aligns with a spatial arrangement of nanowells in an array of nanowells on a substrate.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing a low power and area ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). An example of a TCAM comprises a match line, and a plurality of TCAM cells connected along the match line. Each TCAM cell stores a state of a threshold value. The TCAM cells are configured to pull down a signal over the match line in response to inequality between an input search and the threshold value. The plurality of TCAM cells comprises a number of TCAM cells that is less than the threshold value. The input values can be encoded according to a first encoding scheme and the threshold value can be encoded according to one of a second and a third encoding scheme based on an inequality check mapped to the plurality of TCAM cells.

Abstract: A toner refill cartridge includes a housing having an opening; a toner storage portion arranged inside the housing and to store a toner; a toner discharge portion at an end of the toner storage portion and to discharge the toner; a pump including a variable volume member capable of retracting and expanding, the pump to provide pressure, through a volume change of the variable volume member, for discharging the toner; a driving force input portion rotatable by a driving force received from outside; and a driving force transmission portion to receive a rotational force of the driving force input portion, convert the rotational force into driving force for changing a volume of the variable volume member, and transmit the driving force to the pump.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt assembly includes an intermediate transfer roller located on an inner side of an intermediate transfer belt to support the intermediate transfer belt, an accommodation portion to accommodate foreign matter, the accommodation portion having an inlet open toward the intermediate transfer belt, and a shutter to open or close the inlet.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a nominal distance between a printhead and an X cut line position in a printer; obtaining a predetermined slice length of an image to be printed; determining an adjusted slice length as a function of the nominal distance and an offset; advancing a print medium through a print zone of the printer in accordance with the predetermined slice length or the adjusted slice length, and printing an image slice after a print medium advance; repeating the advancing and printing a number N of times; and after the Nth print medium advance, printing an image slice and cutting the print medium at the X cut line position.

Abstract: A system for efficient multicast control packet forwarding is provided. During operation, the system can maintain a first tunnel between a first switch and a second switch in an overlay tunnel fabric. The encapsulation of a packet sent via the overlay tunnel fabric is initiated and terminated within the overlay tunnel fabric. The system can maintain a second tunnel between the first switch and a third switch, which can be in an external network that excludes the first and second switches. The switch can distinguish the first and second tunnels as intra-fabric and inter-fabric tunnels, respectively. Upon receiving a multicast control packet via the first tunnel, the system can identify the second tunnel as the inter-fabric tunnel and forward the multicast control packet via the second tunnel. Here, a respective multicast control packet received from the first tunnel can be precluded from being forwarded on intra-fabric tunnels.

Abstract: In an example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the processor to maintain, via execution of a write filter executable on the computing device, an overlay region for a protected volume, the overlay region having a first size that occupies a portion of a system memory. Further, the processor may retrieve historical data that describes past behavior of the computing device with respect to the overlay region and a non-overlay region of the system memory. Furthermore, the processor may determine a second size for the overlay region based on the historical data. Prior to a boot of the computing device, the processor may store an instruction to modify the first size of the overlay region in accordance with the determined second size.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic structure to extend between a print fluid reservoir and a fluid ejection device is described. The structure includes a plenum with a first opening to interface with, and receive print fluid from, the reservoir. The structure also includes at least one longitudinal groove extending longitudinally between the first opening and a second opening. The structure also includes a headland surrounding the second opening. The headland is to receive the fluid ejection device for delivering print fluid to the fluid ejection device through the second opening.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluid ejection device component is described. The example fluid ejection device component includes a fluidic structure (100) with at least one channel to deliver fluid to a fluid ejection die and at least one via for passing electrical routing.

Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device includes a network interface to connect to a computer network, a display port operating as a display input, an input/output port, memory having a plurality of profiles, and a processor coupled to the memory. In some examples, the processor is to change an operation of the input/output port based on a profile of the plurality of profiles. In some examples, the processor is to change the display port from the display input to a display output based on the profile of the plurality of profiles.

Abstract: An example container includes: structure having an interior and an exterior. The interior is to contain an electronic product. The exterior comprises: a first label of a first type of polychromatic ink to be activated at a first wavelength; and a second label of a second type of polychromatic ink to be activated at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; the first label to indicate a first set of features to be configured at the electronic product using a first wireless signal; and the second label to indicate a second set of features to be configured at the electronic product using a second wireless signal. The structure is transparent to the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a containerized application software deployment architecture. According to an example, a system includes multiple hosts that are part of aa stretch cluster spanning multiple data centers. Each of the hosts include a processing resource, a memory, and a storage device. Each host of a first subset of the multiple hosts runs multiple containerized instances of a component of a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) application within respective containers. At least one host of the multiple hosts is separate from the first subset and is dedicated to running at least one containerized ingress gateway application operable to load balance requests directed to the SIEM application among the multiple containerized instances running on the first subset of hosts.

Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an adaptive filter and a double talk detector in communication with the adaptive filter. The adaptive filter is to calculate a transfer function with coefficients for a particular time that is applied to an output signal of a microphone to cancel echoes caused by a reference signal in the output signal of the microphone. The double talk detector is to determine a peak of the coefficients, detect double talk based on a location of the peak of the coefficients, and transmit a pause signal to the adaptive filter in response to detection of the double talk, wherein the pause signal is to pause a calculation of updates to the coefficients by the adaptive filter.

Abstract: A printing drum mounting system and method of assembling the mounting system. The mounting system comprising a rotatable shaft; a first mount and a second mount arrangeable on the shaft to clamp a printing drum therebetween, wherein the first mount comprises a first engaging surface to form a mating contact with a corresponding first end surface of the printing drum and the second mount comprises a second engaging surface to form a mating contact with a corresponding end surface of the printing drum; a double-walled flexure to flexibly mount the first engaging surface and the shaft, the flexure to provide the first engaging surface with a single degree of freedom of axial movement relative to the shaft and to maintain mating contact between the first engaging surface and the first end surface of the printing drum as the printing drum thermally expands and contracts; and a releasable fixing to align and rigidly engage the second engaging surface relative to the shaft.

Abstract: According to an example, a media loading device may comprise a motor and a leading-edge sensor. The motor may rotate a media roll having a leading-edge in a winding direction and unwinding direction, the motor being controlled by a processor. The leading-edge sensor may comprise a pivot arm and a detecting element. The pivot arm may contact the media roll and the detecting element may issue a leading-edge presence signal to the processor upon contact between the detecting element and the leading-edge occurs.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, from a user interface and at a planar file system manager executing on one or more processors, a planar file system configuration request comprising a plurality of planes and a plurality of plane relationships, wherein the plurality of plane relationships comprise a sub-planar relationship between a plane and a sub-plane and an orthogonal relationship between two separate planes of the plurality of planes; configuring, by the planar file system manager, a storage environment to include a planar file system based on the planar file system configuration request; receiving, from the user interface, a plane operation request to perform an operation on a plane of the planar file system, wherein the plane operation request comprises a plane identifier corresponding to the plane; and performing, based on the plane operation request, the operation on the plane.

Abstract: In an example implementation, a reagent storage system for a microfluidic device includes a microfluidic chamber formed in a microfluidic device. A blister pack to store a reagent includes an electrically conductive membrane barrier adjacent to the chamber. A thinned region is formed in the membrane barrier, and a conductive trace is to supply electric current to heat and melt the thinned region. Melting the thinned region is to cause the membrane barrier to open and release the reagent into the chamber.

Abstract: Data-driven intelligent networking systems and methods are provided. The system can accommodate dynamic traffic with fast, effective endpoint congestion detection and control. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow can be acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the acknowledgement packets can be sent back to the ingress point of the flow along the same data path. As a result, each switch can obtain state information of each flow and perform flow control on a per-flow basis.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is described comprising: classifying service ticket data relating to a service request into a service topic, wherein the service ticket data is obtained from the service request relating to a device; determining, for the service request, an extent to which the service topic matches a telemetry data class, wherein the telemetry data class relates to activities at the device; and providing an output according to said determination.

Abstract: One aspect of the instant application can provide a storage system. The storage system can include a plurality of byte-addressable storage devices and a plurality of media controllers. A respective byte-addressable storage device is to store a parity block or a data block of a data stripe, and a respective media controller is coupled to a corresponding byte-addressable storage device. Each media controller can include a tracker logic block to serialize critical sections of multiple media-access sequences associated with an address on the corresponding byte-addressable storage device. Each media-access sequence comprises one or more read and/or write operations, and the data stripe may be inconsistent during a critical section of a media-access sequence.

Abstract: A set of AP radios in a wireless network deployment for which configurations are to be deployed is identified. Those configurations deemed to be likely to cause a coverage hole are flagged as high-risk. A candidate deployment order for deploying configurations to the set of AP radios is determined based on deployment ordering criteria. The ordered APs are grouped into candidate deployment batches and a batch refinement process is performed to ensure that no neighbor AP radio is in a same deployment batch as an AP designated to receive a high-risk configuration deployment. The configurations are then deployed to the AP radios in accordance with the refined deployment batches. For any candidate deployment batch that includes a flagged AP radio and a neighbor AP radio, one of the radios is removed from the deployment batch and placed in a re-order list, which is separately subjected to ordering and batching processes.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, in association with a configuration of a proposed cloud solution, a selection of a first cloud solution aspect made by a user of a guidance tool, and generating, using a hybrid recommender system, a recommendation for a subsequent selection of a second cloud solution aspect of the configuration of the proposed cloud solution. The hybrid recommender system may include a collaborative filtering system and a content-based filtering system, and may generate the recommendation according to information that includes user information, prior configuration information, and the selection. The method further includes providing the recommendation to the user via a user interface of the guidance tool; receiving the subsequent selection; and generating, by the guidance tool, a proposed cloud solution output based at least in part on the selection and the subsequent selection.

Abstract: An example apparatus may include a hub and a control unit. The hub may include a first input/output (I/O) connection, a second I/O connection, and a third I/O connection. The first I/O connection may connect to a peripheral device of a video conferencing system, the second I/O connection may connect to a first conferencing application, and the third I/O connection may connect to a second conferencing application via a video conferencing controller connected to the third I/O connection. The control unit may reconfigure the hub to change a connection of the peripheral device from the first conferencing application to the second conferencing application. The control unit may reconfigure the hub based on a location of a computing, wherein the second conferencing application is executed on the computing device.

Abstract: A PCR kit-of-parts is described. The kit-of-parts comprises a first oligonucleotide bound to a bead by a cleavable linker; a second oligonucleotide bound to a bead by a cleavable linker; and an enzyme bound to a bead by a cleavable linker; wherein the first and second oligonucleotide form an oligonucleotide pair complementary to a nucleic acid of interest and the enzyme is capable of extending nucleic acid strands; and each cleavable linker is independently selected from a photocleavable linker and a thermally cleavable linker. Also described is a method of performing PCR and a PCR system.

Abstract: A device may receive a first user interaction signal in response to a first user interaction with a first user interaction element. In response to the first user interaction signal, the device may provide a first instruction to the computing system to perform a first action with respect to the first indicator, wherein the first indicator is active. The device may receive a switch control signal in response to a second user interaction with a switch control element. The device may set the first indicator as the inactive indicator and the second indicator as the active indicator. The device may receive a second user interaction signal in response to a third user interaction with the first user interaction element and use the second controller to provide a second instruction to the computing system to perform a second action with respect to the second indicator.

Abstract: A powder bed material can include from 80 wt % to 100 wt % metal particles having a D50 particle size distribution value from 4 ?m to 150 ?m. From 10 wt % to 100 wt % of the metal particles can be surface-activated metal particles having in intact inner volume and an outer volume with structural defects. The structural defects can exhibit an average surface grain density of 50,000 to 5,000,000 per mm2.

Abstract: In some examples, a management controller is to dynamically vary a parameter that controls an operational characteristic of a bus when transferring different portions of information from a memory over the bus during a process of an electronic device in which a cryptographic operation is performed. The different portions of the information from the memory are to be transferred over the bus with different operational characteristics of the bus.

Abstract: In some examples, a fluidic die includes an arrangement of fluidic elements to dispense a fluid, where each fluidic element of the fluidic elements includes a fluidic actuator and a fluid chamber. The fluidic die includes an array of fluid feed holes in a plurality of dimensions to communicate the fluid with the fluidic elements, where each of multiple fluid feed holes along a first dimension of the plurality of dimensions is distinct from multiple fluid feed holes along a second dimension of the plurality of dimensions. The fluidic die includes circuit elements interspersed in regions between the fluidic elements along different axes of the fluidic die, where each circuit element of the circuit elements includes an active device. The fluidic elements and the circuit elements are formed on a common substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for printing three-dimensional green body objects, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of three-dimensional printing. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for printing a three-dimensional green body object can include an adhesion promoter agent and a binder agent. The adhesion promoter agent can include water and a dihydrazide compound. The binder agent can include water, an organic co-solvent, a glycidyl compound having two or more glycidyl groups per molecule, and latex particles. The latex particles can include polymerized monomers. The polymerized monomers can include a first monomer having an acid group and a second monomer having a vinyl group and without an acid group.

Abstract: An example wireless networking device (e.g., Access point) dynamically managing preamble puncturing for OFDM-based communications. The wireless networking device determines first criteria of a signal quality and further determines to allow preamble puncturing, wherein the signal quality of the determines the occupancy of a subchannel. Based on the determination to preamble puncture, apply dynamically, preamble puncturing to an adjacent subchannel. The wireless networking device further monitors the subchannel signal quality and determines based on a second criteria, an amount of bandwidth useable from an adjacent bandwidth. The wireless networking device, based on the second criteria, dynamically allocate bandwidth from the adjacent subchannel.

Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a device, method, and storage medium. The device receives an image and identifies a computing device in the image. The device retrieves a reference diagram of the computing device and overlays a icon over a portion of the computing device in the image corresponding to a location of a near-field communication antenna.

Abstract: Examples of methods are described herein. In some examples, a method includes generating, using a compensation machine learning model after training, a compensated model based on a three-dimensional (3D) object model. In some examples, the compensation machine learning model is trained by generating candidate compensation plans and evaluating, using a deformation machine learning model, the candidate compensation plans. In some examples, the method includes adjusting the 3D object model based on the compensated model to produce an adjusted model.

Abstract: In some examples, a computer receives an image of a head-mounted user device that is separate from the computer, the head-mounted user device including a display device. The computer determines, based on the image of the head-mounted user device, a position of the head-mounted user device, and based on the determined position of the head-mounted user device, adjusts display content in the display device of the head-mounted user device.

Abstract: In example implementations, a fluidic die is provided. The fluidic die includes a silicon sliver with a plurality of nozzles to eject a printing fluid. A conductive path is deposited along a length of the silicon sliver on opposite sides of the silicon sliver. The conductive path and a portion of the silicon sliver are encapsulated by an epoxy molding compound.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to using a compiler for implementing tensor operations in a neural network base computing system. A compiler defines the tensor operations to be implemented. The compiler identifies a binary tensor operation receiving input operands from a first output tensor of a first tensor operation and a second output tensor of a second tensor operation from two different paths of the convolution neural network. For the binary tensor operation, the compiler allocates a buffer space for a first input operand in the binary tensor operation based on a difference between a count of instances of the first output tensor and a count of instances of the second output tensor.

Abstract: A printing device determines that a consumable item newly installed within a printing device has previously been used, based on a remaining life of the consumable item. In response to determining that the consumable item has previously been used, the printing device resets the remaining life of the consumable item.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving geolocation services, like GPS, using network device measurements. For example, a plurality of access points (APs) or other network devices may be implemented in a network environment and constructed with a GPS chip. Range measurements can be collected from these network devices and incorporated with the GPS locations using various methods described herein to improve the overall location determination of these devices.

Abstract: A multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a tinted anti-coalescing agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The tinted anti-coalescing agent can include an aqueous liquid vehicle, a colored dye dissolved in the aqueous liquid vehicle, and a polyelectrolyte. The polyelectrolyte can have a weight average molecular weight from about 1,000 Mw to about 8,000 Mw, the polyelectrolyte can be water-absorbent at a water to polyelectrolyte weight ratio from about 2:1 to about 1,000:1, and about 90 wt % to 100 wt % of the polyelectrolyte can be dissolved in the aqueous liquid vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to improve traditional chip processing. Using crossbar computations, the convolution layer can be flattened into vectors, and the vectors can be grouped into a matrix where each row or column is a flattened filter. Each submatrix of the input corresponding to a position of a convolution window is also flattened into a vector. The convolution is computed as the dot product of each input vector and the filter matrix. Using intra-crossbar computations, the unused space of the crossbars is used to store replicas of the filters matrices and the unused space in XIN is used to store more elements of the input. In inter-crossbar computations, the unused crossbars are used to store replicas of the filters matrices and the unused XINs are used to store more elements of the input. Then, the method performs multiple convolution iterations in a single step.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system, method, or computer readable medium for providing a differentiable content addressable memory (aCAM) that implements an analog input analog storage and analog output learning memory. The analog output of the differentiable CAM can provide input to a learning algorithm, which may compute the gradients in comparison to historic values and reduce data inaccuracies and power consumption.

Abstract: Approaches for writing data objects to a distributed file system are described. In an example, a size of a data object to be created within a distributed file system may be determined based on a client request. Based on the size of the data object, data content of the data object is inserted into one of the object location table, object data table or a data container within the distributed file system. In an example, metadata corresponding to the data object may be written to an object location table.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a security management system to secure a container ecosystem. In some examples, the security management system may protect one or more entities such as container management applications, container images, containers, and/or executable applications within the containers. The security management system may make use of digital cryptography to generate digital signatures corresponding to one or more of these entities and verify them during the execution so that any compromised entities can be blocked from execution and the container ecosystem may be safeguarded from any malicious network attacks.

Abstract: This disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed articles. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent, a first reactive agent, and a second reactive agent. The fusing agent can include water and a radiation absorber. The radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The first reactive agent can include water and a dissolved first pigment reactant. The second reactive agent can include water and a dissolved second pigment reactant. The second pigment reactant can be reactive with the first pigment reactant to form a water-insoluble pigment.

Abstract: A three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material including from about 80 wt % to about 100 wt % metal particles, a binder fluid including water and latex particles in an amount of from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % based on a total weight of the binder fluid, and an amine-bearing phosphonic adhesion promoter included in the binder fluid in an amount of from about 0.05 wt % to about 3.5 wt % based on a total amount of the binder fluid, or a separate adhesion promoter fluid in an amount of from about 0.1 wt % to about 5 wt % based on a total amount of the adhesion promoter fluid.