Abstract: A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method and system for distribution of computational capacity for a plurality of end-devices in different localities using a decentralized edge architecture. The method and system clusters a plurality of moving nodes capable of offering highly virtualized computational and storage resources utilizing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. The clustering is performed by utilizing two prediction models: a mobility prediction model and a theoretical framework. The mobility prediction model learns timing and direction of movements such as mobility patterns of each of the plurality of moving nodes, as to ascertain computational capacity for the given locale at a certain time. The theoretical framework performs sequential to parallel conversion in learning, optimization and caching algorithms of the AI model under contingent circumstances.

Abstract: An internet of things (IoT) based hydroponic farm system is described. The hydroponic farm system includes a cloud server, a plurality of hydroponic farms, and a plurality of user computing stations. The cloud server includes a data distribution service domain that includes data distribution service middleware configured to use a real-time publish-subscribe protocol to wirelessly communicate hydroponic farm information. Each of the hydroponic farms is divided into a plurality of hydroponic plant growing zones that are configured to grow at least one species of plant. Each hydroponic plant growing zone includes a zone controller. A farm controller is assigned to each of the hydroponic farms.

Abstract: A live event polling system is disclosed that provides passive engagement tools and micro-polling services during live events so that live event hosts and developers of virtual spaces can engage their audiences and collect valuable input and data more effectively and promote audience participation for sentiment sharing and data collection in ways that overcome conventional barriers, such as time and user participation, which exist to gaining verbal input during such live events.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a data integration framework that provides an institutional or organizational user data enrichment capability locally. Specifically, instead of relying on the fraud detection platform to constantly updating and/or building new data connectors to intake data from updated or a new data provider, an institutional user, such as a financial institution, may receive a software development kit (SDK) from the fraud detection platform, using which the institutional user may build its own data connector deployed at the institutional user.

Abstract: A resource processing method and apparatus. The method is achieved by a computer configured to execute the following steps: generating a resource allocation chart based on a resource allocation request; processing the resource allocation chart and generating an access entrance of the resource allocation chart; opening the access entrance to enable at least one third party resource supplier to respond to the resource allocation request via the access entrance. The method further comprises: when the resources are not available or not suitable for allocation, receiving a resource allocation chart, wherein the resource allocation chart is based on the resource allocation request; generating an access entrance of the resource allocation chart; opening the access entrance to at least one third party resource supplier; and receiving the allocated resources from the at least one third party resource supplier by responding to the resource allocation request through the access entrance.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for conducting an open conversation user interface and more particularly, to a channel-agnostic user interface experience which can utilize automated background intelligence to simplify the exchange between a software system or member service representative (MSR) and a member, and avoids the need for web-based free form inputs.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for transferring device content using radio frequency (RF) sensing. For instance, a first wireless device can identify a first user of the first wireless device based on a first radio frequency (RF) signature associated with the first user. The first wireless media device can determine a disengagement of the first user from the first wireless media device. In response to the disengagement, content information associated with usage of the first wireless device by the first user can be captured.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for data management whereby a data management application manages data across a managed service environment, a mail server environment, and a client environment. The present invention allows a customer to optimize data management functions such as archiving, recovering, monitoring, authenticating, synchronizing, transferring, copying, stubbing, chunking, harvesting, and securing.

Abstract: Systems maintain synchronicity among elements intended to be displayed at various points during a live media stream. At a multimedia player, start playback of a live media stream. The systems receive input from a user selecting a new time of the media stream to playback, which is different than the current playback time of the media stream. The systems adjust playback of the media stream to restart at the new selected time, such that the current playback time of the output media stream is updated to the new selected time. The systems monitor the current playback time of the media stream as adjusted. The systems determine a user-initiated command to execute for displaying one or more visual elements at the multimedia player by polling a command manifest file based on the current playback time as adjusted.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to estimate waiting times of prescriptions are disclosed herein. An example computer-implemented method, executed by a processor, to estimate a waiting time of a prescription for a medication includes training a machine learning model using, for each of a plurality of previously filled prescriptions, a set of characteristics of the previously filled prescription, and a fill time for the previously filled prescription, receiving a prescription for a medication for a patient, receiving a request for an estimated waiting time for filling the prescription medication for the patient, identifying a set of characteristics of the prescription medication for the patient, applying the set of characteristics of the prescription medication to the machine learning model to determine the estimated waiting time for filling the prescription medication for the patient, and providing an indication of the estimated waiting time for display on a client device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a custom service in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method implemented via a processor determines that the custom service does not exist, receives one or more desired functions for the custom service, creates the custom service having the one or more desired functions and modifies one or more network elements within the communication network to perform the one or more desired functions to deploy the custom service.

Abstract: A method and system for maintaining persistent network policies for a virtual machine (VM) that includes determining a name of the VM executing on a first host connected to a first network device; binding the name of the VM to a network policy for the VM on the first network device; acquiring from VM management software, using the name of the VM, a universally unique identifier (UUID) of the VM; associating the UUID to the network policy on the first network device; applying the network policy for the VM on the first network device; subscribing to receive notifications from the VM management software of changes to the configuration of the VM corresponding to the UUID; receiving notification from the VM management software of a configuration change made to the VM corresponding to the UUID; and updating the network policy of the VM to reflect the configuration change of the VM.

Abstract: Systems and processes for providing response suggestions are provided. In one example process, a textual representation of a message is received. Based on the textual representation of the message, one or more response categories and a predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories are obtained. Based on the predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories, one or more suggested inputs for each of the one or more response categories are determined. The one or more suggested inputs are provided as response suggestions to the message.

Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically defining features for machine learning models in classification systems are disclosed. Such systems and methods may be usefully applied to train and utilize machine learning models in a variety of contexts, including email classification systems.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a monitoring sensor(s), one or more characteristics of each of at least one of telecommunications equipment, telecommunications equipment batteries, or battery strings, in some cases via a network maintenance tunnel. The computing system might analyze the monitored one or more characteristics to identify each telecommunications equipment, each telecommunications equipment battery, or each battery string having equipment health issues.

Abstract: Described is an account linking system. The system includes a server having a memory for storing information and a user computing device coupled to the server. The account linking system may operate to enable a shopper to verify their purchase of an item by extracting a user's purchase history, leave a review of the associated item on the website of one or many third-party retailers and/or take other logged in actions on a single app.

Abstract: Aspects of systems, method, and computer-readable storage media are described herein that are configured to provide operator fleet performance benchmarking and analytics. A fleet analytics system may include user-friendly front end client application with which a non-technical user may interface, and a back end analytics and visualization system that is deployed on the cloud and offered as a service to determine a subset of ‘like operators’ to utilize as a baseline in a benchmark analysis, to benchmark a target operator's performance against the subset of like operators, determine analytics resulting from the benchmark analysis, and to generate visualizations of the analytics for display to the user/operator.

Abstract: Lightweight, dynamic mechanisms are provided to support service layer interworking and resource extensibility. For example, one mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new service layer (SL) resource definition registration procedure that allows for specifying custom attributes of service layer resources to represent third party technology resources. A second mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new SL data model mapping registration procedure to map service layer resources to third party data models and to provide a new interworked retargeting indicator to the service layer. Further, a third mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a SL generic interworking procedure to intelligently retarget requests toward interworked resources based on the interworked retargeting indicator provided by the data model mapping.

Abstract: A system and method involving actor nodes within a building that is being controlled, to be subscribed to a set of addresses, including one or more addresses that are representative of one or more respective spaces within the building being controlled. Such addresses are referred to as “space addresses.” Each of the actor nodes acts upon received data packets only if a space address is received along with the data packets and the actor node has been subscribed to the space address. Concurrently, one or more sensor nodes in the system are configurable to transmit the one or more space addresses and the data packets. A user device in the system receives commands from a user via a user interface and transmits a set of signals such that the actor nodes are subscribed to the appropriate space addresses and the sensor nodes are configured to transmit the space addresses.