Abstract: A method for verifying eligibility of a domain name registrant via a verification web interface for a domain name either registered or in the process of registration with a registrar over a communications network. The method comprising: provide a network link to the registrar or to a registry operator of the domain name; receive an event request for the domain name via the verification web interface including a claim ID associated with the domain name for a domain event; receive a verification request using the network link via the verification web interface including a registrant claim ID and registrant identification information, the registrant claim ID previously provided to the registrant; confirm matching of the registrant claim ID with the claim ID; obtain registrant verification information; access external verification information and compare against the registrant verification information a confirm domain event message or a deny domain event message.

Abstract: A data storage apparatus includes an interface and one or more processors. The interface is configured for communicating with a cloud-based object storage system 5 having a built-in versioning mechanism that assigns version numbers to objects stored therein. The one or more processors are configured to receive data for storage from one or more workloads, to store the data as objects in the cloud-based object storage system, and to 10 update and record reference counts for at least some of the objects, by forcing the built-in versioning mechanism of the cloud-based object storage system to update the version numbers so as to match the reference counts.

Abstract: An object interface for quick access to object(s) of a communication platform is described. Server(s) of the communication platform can receive, in association with a user interface of the communication platform, a request to associate an object with an object interface associated with a virtual space of the communication platform. The server(s) can cause one or more objects to be presented via the user interface and can receive a selection of a particular object from the one or more objects. The server(s) can cause, in response to the selection, a user interface element representative of the particular object to be associated with the object interface, wherein the user interface element is associated with an actuation mechanism that, when actuated, causes the particular object to be presented via the user interface. Notifications associated with the particular object can be indicated by annotation(s) to the user interface.

Abstract: An example Internet of Things (IoT) sensor application hosted on a mobile device is configured to add the mobile device as a data sensor or source in the IoT system. The IoT sensor application is configured to provide an interface between an input or output component of the mobile device and a data pipeline or application and/or to cloud data storage associated with an IoT system. The IoT sensor application is configured to connect to an edge device of the IoT system and search for a data source identifier associated with the type of data source component, and corresponding application(s) and/or data pipeline(s) to which the data source is connected. Once connected, the IoT sensor application provides captured data to or receives processed or playback data from the data source.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include obtaining a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schema that corresponds to legacy data. The legacy data may include a plurality of legacy data points corresponding to device features of a legacy device. The plurality of legacy data points may be delimited according to a legacy data format. The JSON schema may include a plurality of property definitions corresponding to the legacy data points. The JSON schema may additionally include a legacy object that describes the legacy data format in a manner that allows for processing of the legacy data using the JSON schema. The method may also include processing the legacy data using the plurality of property definitions and the legacy object included in the JSON schema in a manner that allows the legacy device to be used as a web-of-things Thing.

Abstract: A system and method for receiving video from multiple sources, compositing those sources and then republishing the composited video as a source to a virtual camera driver endpoint. In one embodiment, the present method comprises displaying multiple media streams, represented by worksurface image on a shared display. The shared display worksurface image is then re-encoded, and the re-encoded composite image is transmitted to a client computer, where the re-encoded image is transcoded to simulate a device connected to the client computer. The transcoded media stream is then transmitted to a teleconferencing system.

Abstract: A method for controlling operation of garden equipment with a battery pack including a control unit for performing the method, when the battery back is inserted into a recess of the garden equipment and in data communication, via a data bus, with a control unit of the garden equipment. The control unit reads an identifier of the garden equipment, which identifier is used to retrieve operational control data for the specific garden equipment from a memory medium of the control unit. The control unit also collects sensor data from garden equipment sensors and controls the operation of the garden equipment from the control unit based on the retrieved control data and the collected sensor data.

Abstract: Various examples are disclosed for performing dynamic chains of action for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In some aspects, IoT event data is received from an IoT device. An IoT dependency graph is identified based on an initial IoT event specified by the IoT dependency graph. An IoT event subsequent to the initial IoT event is identified according to the IoT dependency graph. A command is transmitted to an IoT device to perform the IoT event.

Abstract: A smart edge controller for building equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition within a building. The controller includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining sensor data indicating environmental conditions of the building and include determining an amount of available processing resources at the smart edge controller or at the building equipment. The operations include automatically scaling a level of complexity of an optimization of a cost function based on the available processing resources and include performing the optimization of the cost function at the automatically scaled level of complexity to generate a first setpoint trajectory. The first setpoint trajectory includes operating setpoints for the building equipment at time steps within an optimization period.

Abstract: In a method of data processing executed in a gateway, a communication protocol matched with a target device is selected from a device driver database of the gateway; a connection with the target device is established according to the matched communication protocol; a sensing data of the target device is acquired; a data cleaning processing is performed on the acquired sensing data; and the processed data is shared to a third-party platform.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a condition monitoring device includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is configured to store in advance a template related to a second operation segment signal. The processor is configured to acquire a time-series signal from a first sensor, acquire operation timing information, detect a first operation segment signal from the time-series signal based on the operation timing information, detect a second operation segment signal in a segment identified based on a degree of similarity to the template of the first operation segment signal, and determine a condition of the monitored target based on the second operation segment signal. The template is updated based on the detected second operation segment signal.

Abstract: A management server, which facilitates search for information, includes storages, a network interface, and a processor. The network interface performs communication with an external device. The processor is configured or programmed to perform a process of associating monitoring target information, sensor information, and time information, with one another to be stored in the storage. Further, the processor is configured or programmed to perform a process of receiving designation information from a host controller, and combining the monitoring target information corresponding to the obtained designation information with the sensor information associated with the monitoring target information to generate combined information and output the combined information to the host controller.

Abstract: A contact center is operated by reference to response time statistics and social media analytics. A method for identifying a user population's sensitivity to response time delay comprises monitoring social network messaging activity to identify user messages associated with the user population. In some embodiments, the activity relates to at least one of an entity or a product or service associated with the entity. The user population may be selected on the basis of a socio-demographic characteristic or on the basis of observable social networking behavior and/or sentiment over a prior selection phase. The method further includes selecting a loyalty transition boundary identified by detecting a difference in aggregate sentiment between a first group of users receiving a response delayed by a first time period and a second group of users receiving a response delayed by a second time period greater than the first time period.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product collects and provides for display operational status data in several levels of detail about multiple client computer systems.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a co-managed configuration service. A network device stores parameters for the co-managed configuration service. The parameters identify exposed services for an enterprise network that uses devices from a network service provider. The network device receives, via a customer portal, a vendor-agnostic change request for the enterprise network. The change request includes a user role and a change request name for one of the exposed services. The network device authenticates the change request based on the user role and the change request name and retrieves vendor director information for an SDN device implementing the configuration change. The network device invokes, in response to the change request, the configuration change for the enterprise network based on the vendor director information.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for network device configuration update. A method includes selecting a group of network devices to receive a configuration update; ranking the network devices according to an importance; updating each of the network devices in order of the ranking, from least important to most important, comprising: generating a first health score for the network device, the first health score representing a performance level of the network device prior to the configuration update; updating a configuration of the network device according to the configuration update subsequent to generating the first health score; generating a second health score for the updated network device subsequent to updating the configuration of the network device; and responsive to the second health score being lower than the first health score by more than a predetermined score threshold, rolling back the configuration update for the network devices that have been updated.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer readable storage medium, the data transmission method including: on a first network side, providing first data to a first network address in a first network; determining, based on mapping of first network addresses in the first network and second network addresses in a second network, a second network address according to the first network address; and transmitting the first data to a terminal device located at the determined second network address in the second network based on a Message Queue Telemetry Transmission (MQTT) protocol.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method of a multimedia conference terminal and a multimedia conference server. The control method of the multimedia conference terminal includes: determining whether multimedia information of a conference site collected by the multimedia conference terminal meets a preset condition; if the multimedia information does not meet the preset condition, acquiring multimedia information of the conference site collected by the multimedia conference terminal; and if the multimedia information meets the preset condition, closing the multimedia conference terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to provide an application programming interface (API) group for controlling a device coupled via a network, the information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to execute a receiving process that includes receiving data on any API of the API group from a terminal, execute a code execution process that includes executing first code indicating processing to be executed by the information processing apparatus, the first code being included in the data, thereby causing an API specified in the first code, of the API group, to be invocable from the terminal, and execute a control process that includes, in response to an invocation request for the API specified in the first code, the invocation request being transmitted from the terminal, performing control in accordance with the API over the device.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for identifying issues related to digital interactions. For example, a detection system may be provided to analyze suspect sessions to determine if one or more stages associated with the suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with similar sessions. The detection system may provide a user interface that allows a user to select one or more attributes that may be associated with one or more sessions. Selection of the one or more attributes may identify multiple sessions (referred to as suspect sessions herein). The one or more suspect sessions may be analyzed to determine whether one or more stages associated with the one or more suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with one or more other sessions determined to be similar to the one or more suspect sessions.