Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a processor, a storage, and a first determining unit. The processor is configured to control a control target mounted in the vehicle. The storage is configured to contain unauthorized entry data. The unauthorized entry data indicates a presence of an unauthorized entry into the vehicle. The first determining unit is configured to make a determination on a necessity of a secure boot process upon activation of the processor, on the basis of the unauthorized entry data.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a selection program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes receiving identification information regarding a terminal from the terminal; selecting one or more user state transition patterns, a number of which is according to the identification information, from among a plurality of the user state transition patterns, which are a plurality of patterns of user state transition obtained by clustering information that indicates the user state transition, which is a time-series transition of a state of a user during a predetermined unit time; and transmitting the one or more user state transition patterns to the terminal.

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for detecting and/or isolating any causes of defective and/or partially defective IoT device or individual sensor device(s). In embodiments the present invention generally relates to fixing, replacing, and/or troubleshooting IoT devices and/or individual sensor device(s) that are defective and/or partially defective.

Abstract: A system includes a memory, and a processor. The processor receives a request to register a device. In response, the processor extracts a set of parameters from the device, and stores a baseline record associated with the device, which includes the set of parameters, in the memory. The processor determines that an update to the device modified the set of parameters. In response, the processor extracts the modified set of parameters from the device, and stores a new record associated with the device, which includes the modified set of parameters, in the memory. The baseline record was used to validate an identity of the device prior to the processor determining that the update modified the set of parameters. The new record is used to validate the identity of the device subsequent to the processor determining that the update modified the set of parameters.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one icebreaker people highlight, with respect to a person of interest in a target group, to be shown on one or more user devices. The target group is determined, along with a set of feature values in common among the target group. Similarly, a reference group related to the target group is determined, along with a set of feature values for the reference group. For each feature value in the set of common target group feature values, a frequency of the feature value with respect to the determined reference group is determined. Based on the determined frequency, at least one icebreaker people highlight from the determined set of feature values in common among the target group is caused to be presented on the user device.

Abstract: A method, system and computer readable media for detecting entry of an IoT pack into a geofenced location. The method may begin by broadcasting a Bluetooth inquiry message from a Bluetooth radio that forms a part of an IoT pack. Upon receipt of one or more responses to the inquiry message a Bluetooth radio that forms a part of a given beacon used to demark a geofenced location, the IoT pack energizes an ultra wide band radio that forms a part of the IoT pack and begins sending and receiving ultra wide band signals to an ultra wide band radios that form a part of the given beacon. Ranging information is calculated from the IoT pack to the one or more beacons on the basis of the received ultra wide band signals, which is analyzed to determine the location of the IoT pack relative to the geofenced location.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for remotely accessing a computer system or network to identify storage devices and to retrieve metadata from the storage devices that are respectively unique to files stored in the storage devices. The metadata provides information regarding each file stored on the storage devices and each metadata is associated with a respective file. A scanning tool compares the metadata retrieved from the computer system or network to a database or list of known metadata of known restricted content. Metadata retrieved from the computer system or network that matches metadata from the database or list of known restricted content is flagged and the file associated with the matching metadata is flagged and reported as potentially storing restricted content. During the scanning, restricted content itself is not scanned, not copied, not transferred and not stored.

Abstract: An approach for publishing posts on a social network through one or more user accounts with different levels of attribution is disclosed. A secure user account publishes a post through a programmatically linked buffer user account. The secure user account and the buffer user account are programmatically linked. Posts published via the buffer user account can be modified to add attribution image data or other visual indicators of the original post creator.

Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent traffic control within a bridge that allows efficient and timely communication between Internet of Things (IoT) devices and a cloud-based server are disclosed. One method is for adding an IoT device to a cloud-based system for controlling IoT devices. The method includes in response to determining there is a request from a user to add an IoT device, obtaining information pertaining to the IoT device. The method further includes adding the IoT device to the cloud-based system via a bridge installed in the cloud-based system, where adding the IoT device to the cloud-based system includes sending required data to the IoT device via the bridge according to a communication protocol of the IoT device. The method further includes determining whether the IoT device was successfully added to the cloud-based system. The method further includes in response to determining the IoT device was successfully added, updating the bridge with the information pertaining to the IoT device.

Abstract: A method for configuring multiple electronic devices in a batch, is described. The method can include initializing, by a first computing device a communication network based on a pre-defined configuration parameter. The pre-defined configuration parameter is associated with a first instance of an application on the first computing device. Further, the method includes identifying, by the first computing device, an initialization of a second instance of an application at a second computing device. In response to identifying the initialization of the second instance of the application at the second computing device, the method includes, sending, by the first computing device configuration settings for the second computing device over a secured communication network. In this regard, the configuration settings can comprise at least the pre-defined configuration parameter for configuring the second computing device.

Abstract: A method for redundancy control is disclosed. CIoT reader devices act as collaborative IoT gateways for connected objects and collect received data from the connected objects and transmit the data to a backend cloud infrastructure. The method includes assigning to each connected object an identifier ID and a freshness indicator, where the freshness indicator is a label having a value of “fresh” or “expired”, upon receiving data from at least one connected object, setting the freshness indicator to “fresh” for each respective connected object, wherein for each connected object the freshness indicator is configured to change to “expired” after a pre-determined period of time, and sending a message to coordinator device, the message containing a fresh list of ID's of connected objects for which the freshness indicator has “fresh”, wherein the coordinator device broadcasts the fresh list to CIoT reader devices within a broadcasting range of the coordinator device.

Abstract: An information technology (IT) and security operations application enables the automatic assignment of incident events to analysts based on a variety of characteristics of the incident events to be assigned, the analysts and analyst teams, and other considerations. An IT and security operations application can perform the automatic assignment of incident events based at least in part on data indicating each analyst's knowledge of certain types of incidents, data indicating each analyst's efficiency at responding to certain types of incidents, and the like, where such data is automatically created and maintained by the application.

Abstract: A computing device can receive flow data from one or more flow tables for a programmable network switch. The computing device can also generate, based on the flow data, a graphical user interface showing relationships between recirculation operations defined in the flow data. The graphical user interface can include a directed graph having nodes representing the recirculation operations. The graphical user interface can also include directed links specifying a sequential order in which the recirculation operations are to be applied to data packets by the programmable network switch. Each of the nodes can correspond to a respective recirculation operation among the recirculation operations.

Abstract: An environment of sensors and actuators is operated in accordance with predetermined policies, and the effectiveness of individual policies is monitored by comparing inputs from the sensors (550) with intended outcomes from policies controlled by previous inputs from one or more of the same sensors. Each policy includes a check function (554), wherein a sensor, other than the one that triggers the actions, monitors the actions generated by the policy and generates an output (556) indicative of whether a system state is approaching a condition specified by the policy.

Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure is executed by a first server of servers in a system including one or more IoT devices and the servers. The method includes: obtaining first transaction data including operation notification information and time information from each of the IoT devices, the operation notification information including identification information on the IoT device and a notification indicating that the IoT device is operating, the time information indicating a time when the IoT device has obtained the operation notification information; transferring the obtained first transaction data to second servers different from the first server; executing a first consensus algorithm together with the second servers; and recording a block containing the first transaction data in a distributed ledger of the first server, when the authenticity of the first transaction data is verified by the first consensus algorithm.

Abstract: A network gateway device (10) for determining information related to a designated data transmission rate for a wireless link includes at least one means for communicating (12) for communicating with a wireless modem means (200). The network gateway device (10) includes a means for controlling (14) configured for obtaining information related to an instantaneous data transmission capacity of the wireless link via the at least one means for communicating (12). The means for controlling (14) is configured for determining the information related to the designated data transmission rate based on the information related to the instantaneous data transmission capacity of the wireless link. The designated data transmission rate is lower than an average data transmission capacity of the wireless link. An availability of the designated data transmission rate over the wireless link is higher than an availability of the average data transmission capacity over the wireless link.

Abstract: A networked lighting control system having the capability to identify problems within its own wireless network. The system includes a plurality of luminaire nodes. Each luminaire receives, via a wireless mesh network, a series of messages containing an output control indication. The indication represents a “delta” value, which the luminaire uses, for each received message, to generate a control signal to increase the light output of its lamp by a known amount. The luminaire transmits a series of messages containing the output control indication, wherein each transmitted message corresponds to each message that had been received by the luminaire. After a series of such “delta” messages have been originated and broadcast over the mesh network, the luminaires that failed to receive some of the messages will appear dimmer than the luminaires that received all, or more of, the messages, providing a visualization of signal propagation problems.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for remote application sharing. An exemplary method comprises detecting a user establishing a connection with a remote application server, authenticating the user based on login information associated with the user, determining that the user has requested execution of a shared application hosted on the remote application server, responsive to determining that the user has requested execution of the shared application, gathering information for accessing the shared application hosted on the remote application server, establishing a user session for executing the shared application, generating an application link comprising the information for accessing the shared application over the user session and publishing the application link for distribution to one or more third party users, wherein activation of the application link by the one or more third party users shares the user session with the one or more third party users.

Abstract: A client-server computer system includes a client-side application executing on a computing device, operative to communicate with a native application executing on the computing device to obtain and store a multi-media content file generated using the native application in a native content file format. A server includes a server-side application operative to communicate with the client-side application, and operative to: create an association between the multi-media content file, a recipient computing device, and a courier tracking number; determine that delivery of a parcel associated with the courier tracking number has occurred; and transmit the multi-media content file in the native content file format to the recipient device in response to determining that delivery of the parcel has occurred.