Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for managing client computing systems, such as a client distributed-computing system. In one embodiment, a desired state of the client distributed-computing system and a current state of the client distributed-computing system are received. Measurement data generated by a plurality of components of the client distributed-computing system is received. The measurement data is processed using one or more analytical or statistical techniques to generate distilled data. Based on one or more policies and the desired state, the distilled data and the current state are analyzed to determine one or more actions predicted to converge the current state of the client distributed-computing system towards the desired state. One or more control commands corresponding to the one or more actions are provided to the client distributed-computing system. The one or more control commands cause the client distributed-computing system to perform the one or more actions.

Abstract: A connection request is received for an account, the account associated with a set of devices, the connection request comprising a request to establish communication between a sending device and a device associated with the account. By analyzing device usage data for a first device in the set of devices, an availability score of the first device is determined. The first device is presented for connection based on the availability score of the first device. Responsive to the presenting, the sending device and the first device are connected.

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the tracking and/or calculating of performance metrics associated with a network by marking traffic and determining performance characteristics of the marked traffic. Such performance characteristics or metrics may include throughput, latency, jitter, and/or other metrics. The marking may be performed on “user” traffic, which may be traffic that is generated or sent via the network by an application or service (e.g., a voice call service, a content streaming service, etc.), as opposed to “synthetic” or “test” traffic, which is traffic that is generated or sent for the purposes of testing performance of the network (e.g., traffic related to a “speed test” or the like).

Abstract: An outer handle device for a vehicle door includes: a base mounted on an outer panel from an inside of the outer panel; an operating handle disposed on an outside of the outer panel and having a support shaft that extends along a swing axis on a support arm part entering the inside of the outer panel from the outside thereof; and a support member that is fitted to the base, engages with the support shaft from a rear, makes a front end of the support arm part abut against an abutment receiving part while the operating handle is swinging, and restrains displacement of the support shaft toward the outer panel. The base is provided with a restricting part that makes contact with the support arm part when the operating handle swings, thus restricting displacement of the operating handle in moving away inwardly from the outer panel.

Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a packet transmission method and apparatus, to resolve a problem that occurs when a packet cannot traverse a NAT device when VTEPs communicate with each other through the NAT device. The method is applied to a VXLAN including a first VTEP, a second VTEP, and a NAT device. The method includes: performing, by the first VTEP, VXLAN encapsulation on a first packet, obtaining a second packet; sending, by the first VTEP, the second packet to the second VTEP through the NAT device; and performing, by the second VTEP, VXLAN decapsulation on the received second packet, to obtain the first packet. The first packet is a packet to be sent by the first VTEP, a destination port number of the second packet is obtained based on a destination IP address of the second packet, and a source port number of the second packet is a preset port number.

Abstract: A computer system for facilitating communications between users is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a geographical location; (D) determining whether the geographical location is located within the user watch area; (E) at least partially in response to determining that the geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message; and (F) dynamically adjusting a shape of the user watch area based, at least in part, on a factor selected from a group consisting of: (1) a number of message postings within the user watch area; and (2) a population density of an area that is within the user watch area.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door lock device having a structure enabling easy mounting of a pivot lever and urging means configured to urge the pivot lever to pivot. The urging means locked to a base member and the pivot lever does not generate an urging force when the pivot lever is positioned at an outside position at which the pivot lever is positioned on one direction side with respect to an in-operation pivoting range, and when the pivot lever pivots from the outside position to the in-operation pivoting range, an elastic deformation piece climbs over a temporary stopper while being elastically deformed, and the urging means locked to the base member and the pivot lever is elastically deformed to generate the urging force.

Abstract: Provided is a push-to-open latch for an oven appliance and other household appliances. The push-to-open latch includes an integrated locking device for locking an appliance door in place and initiate a downstream appliance function such as a self-cleaning function. The integrated locking device includes a rotating cam having a latching slot which engages a pawl. The rotating cam also includes a guiding ramp and a catch surface which may be used to engage a latching finger to lock the cam in place. In addition, the locking device may include a locking slide and a locking slide pin that is actuated by a solenoid to engage the cam. Once the appliance door is locked, one or more switches send a signal to the appliance controller to activate the downstream function.

Abstract: An automobile (10) comprising wheels (12) and a body (14) has front lights (16), a front trunk lid (18) above a front trunk (20) for storing luggage, a front windscreen (22), a front occupant steering position (24), a roof (26), a rear windscreen (28), a rear hood (30) above an internal combustion, hybrid or electrical or other drive system (32) and rear lights (34), a latching system (36) being provided in or near the front trunk (20) and has a striker (38) mounted to the front trunk lid (18) and a catch system (40) mounted to the body (14) on mounting brackets (42), the latching system having a striker (50) movable relative to first and second catches (54, 56) which are adapted to cooperate with the striker to limit relative movement therebetween, a single motor (70) being provided to transmit drive through the latching system to drive both of the catches to positions in which movement of the striker is restricted by the catches.

Abstract: An electric strike having two keepers arranged to pivot about respective shafts extending in a longitudinal direction, a lock lever for locking the keepers in a door-locking position, the lock lever being arranged to pivot about a second shaft extending in a direction that is transverse to the longitudinal direction and parallel to the backside of the strike; and an actuation mechanism for actuating the lock lever. The keepers form side walls of a bolt cavity and are arranged to pivot between a door-locking position and a door-releasing position. Therefore, the bolt may exit the cavity in two directions, e.g., a first direction for a left-handed closure member and a second direction for a right-handed closure member. The strike can thus be mounted in the same orientation for both left-handed and right-handed closure members.

Abstract: A door-lock for household appliances, comprising a casing (12) having an opening (14) for the insertion of a hook (15) carried by a door of said household appliance, a cam (16) rotatable relative to the casing (12) about a first axis (A) between a retaining position and a release position, wherein in the retaining position said cam (16) is adapted to lock said hook (15) in a closed door position, a locking slider (20) cooperating with said cam (16) and movable between an unlocking position and a locking position, wherein in the locking position the slider (20) locks the cam (16) in the retaining position, a locking pin (28) for locking the locking slider (20) in the locking position, a door sensing slider (32) movable between an open door position and a closed door position, the door sensing slider (32) having an abutment portion (36) including a top surface (38) and an inclined surface (40) and a door sensing pin (46) elastically biased against said abutment portion (36) of the door sensing slider (32), wher

Abstract: Provided is a door lock mortise. The door lock mortise includes a structure in which a latch fixing member moves between a latch operating member and a latch cover member when a dead bolt is locked or unlocked. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the door lock mortise including the latch fixing member to have a structural characteristic capable of addressing a problem in that a latch bolt may be moved when the dead bolt is unlocked to release a door lock so that an impact is transmitted only to the dead bolt in a state in which the dead bolt is not unlocked and durability is reduced is disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain a time series dataset having missing values, the time series dataset comprising monitoring data associated with one or more assets. The processing device is also configured to generate, utilizing a machine learning algorithm, a reconstructed time series dataset having imputed values for the missing values in the obtained time series dataset, the machine learning algorithm comprising a generative network implementing inverse network parameter determination for network parameters of the generative network. The processing device is further configured to classify patterns in the obtained time series dataset utilizing the reconstructed time series dataset, to select remedial actions for controlling at least one of the one or more assets based at least in part on the classified patterns in the obtained time series dataset, and to initiate the selected remedial actions to control the at least one asset.

Abstract: A communication method and a communications device, so that both a location and a length of information carried in a data packet header are flexible and variable, the length does not need to be fixed, and the location does not need to be specified. Compared with a conventional protocol, the communication method has stronger flexibility and higher scalability. The method includes: obtaining, by a first device, a data packet, where the data packet includes a first packet header, the first packet header includes first indication information and a value of first packet header information, the first indication information is used to indicate a location of the value of the first packet header information, and the first packet header information is device identification information; and processing, by the first device, the data packet.

Abstract: An electric strike having a keeper arranged to pivot about a shaft extending in a longitudinal direction, a lock lever for locking the keeper in a door-locking position, the lock lever being arranged to pivot about a second shaft extending in a direction that is transverse to the longitudinal direction and parallel to the backside of the strike; and an actuation mechanism for actuating the lock lever. The strike is provided with a bearing element arranged to bear against the lock lever. The bearing element acts as a stop against possible lateral motions of the lock lever. Such motions may be induced by trying to force open the door lock when the lock lever is in the locking position. By providing the bearing element, it is avoided that the forces due to these lateral motions are exerted onto the second shaft that connects the lock lever to the strike.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for increasing the efficiency and efficacy of DNS clients. In one technique, DNS clients log information about performance of one or more DNS servers that the DNS clients use to resolve DNS resolution requests. The DNS clients send, to a control server, performance data regarding the DNS resolution requests and/or subsequent connections to servers associated with resolved domain names. Based on the performance data, the control server sends, to one or more DNS clients, configuration data that adjusts the configuration of the DNS clients. For example, if a particular DNS server is taking a considerable amount of time to resolve DNS resolution requests from one or more DNS clients, then the control server may send, to a plurality of DNS clients, configuration data that indicates a different set of one or more DNS servers for the plurality of DNS clients to contact for subsequent DNS resolution requests.

Abstract: A safety device for a motor vehicle, having a lock holder, a pawl and a rotary latch, wherein the rotary latch has a load arm, a catch arm, an opening direction of rotation, a closing direction of rotation, a pre-latching position and a main latching position, wherein the pawl is latched in on the catch arm in the pre-latching position and is latched in on the load arm in the main latching position.

Abstract: Facilitating support functionalities through a support appliance device in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. A method can comprise facilitating, by a support appliance device comprising a processor, a dedicated communication link with a remote support entity via a secure internet connection. The method also can comprise, based on a receipt of a request for an active session, establishing, by the support appliance device, the active session with the remote support entity via the dedicated communication link. Further, the method can comprise receiving, by the support appliance device, input data associated with an item. The method also can comprise outputting, by the support appliance device, an indication on the item based on the support appliance device being in proximity of the item. An instruction related to the indication can be controlled by the remote support entity and implemented by the support appliance device.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for profile switching by the computing device. In an example, a computing device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to execute the instructions. The processor may receive a request to initiate a new instance of a website. The processor may also determine a domain name of the website in response to the request. The processor may also determine a first user profile from a plurality of user profiles that corresponds to the domain name based on profile information corresponding to one or more of profile history data, profile favorites data, or administrative settings data. The processor may also launch the new instance of the web site in a browser according to the first user profile.