Abstract: A method includes collecting user activity data for a first online media item. The user activity data can be data for a user consuming the first online media item. The method further includes segmenting a second online media item into a plurality of segments, and identifying one or more of the plurality of segments with user activity data satisfying one or more criteria. The identified segments comprise a set of frames of the plurality of frames of the second online media item. The method further includes selecting a frame from the set of frames from the second online media item. The method further includes sending a recommendation of the selected frame as a thumbnail recommendation for the second online media item to a client device.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method may include establishing a connection with a client device via an application executing on the client device; detecting one or more web pages that the application of the client device has visited during the established connection; determining a target audience for the connection based on the detected one or more web pages; responsive to determining the target audience, identifying a set of content items from memory based on each content item of the set having a stored association with an identifier of the target audience in the memory; selecting a first content item from the set of content items; and transmitting the first content item to the client device over the connection for display on a web page.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed herein for remote, direct memory access (RDMA) technology that enables direct memory access from one host computer memory to another host computer memory over a physical or virtual computer network. In one example, RDMA functionality is provided by combining a host executing instructions for RDMA software applications with dedicated hardware accelerator, where the host has access to substantially all RDMA connection context (e.g., configuration, status, state machine, counters, etc.) and a hardware accelerator stores a portion of the context information for a set of currently active transactions. The hardware accelerator derives a transaction identifier from header information in received RDMA packets and performs a local RDMA operation using at least a portion of the received data, a destination address of the location RDMA operation being based at least in part on a memory address determined using the transaction identifier.

Abstract: A system for providing a web service on a network of addressable nodes, said web service comprising a plurality of discrete, individually-addressable microservices, said system comprising: (a) at least one load balancer configured for routing a request from a node for a microservice to one of a plurality of virtual addresses, each virtual address corresponding to a unique microservice, and (b) one or more physical nodes associated with each virtual address, each physical node comprising one or more microservices, each microservice comprising a microservice-specific module for executing a particular function, said microservice-specific module linked to an interface for communicating over said network, each microservice being one of a plurality of individually-addressable microservices constituting a web service.

Abstract: Systems and methods for personalizing messages in a conversational chatbot are disclosed. An example method may include receiving clickstream event data corresponding to click events by users of an application, generating featurized clickstream data based at least in part on the received clickstream event data, determining one or more predicted intentions for a first user based at least in part on the featurized clickstream data, and generating one or more personalized messages for the first user based at least in part on the one or more predicted user intentions.

Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein collect user data in real-time and organize them (e.g., using a collaborative filtering matrix) into groups (e.g., cluster assignments). The system then determines statistical distributions of observed real-time intents (e.g., based on actual selections made by users) for each group. The system then merges this distribution with existing model predictions (e.g., a model trained on historical training data) to balance between historical and dynamically updated information.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a service rule that is to be enforced across a first set of sites and that is defined by reference to a group identifier that identifies a group of machines. The method distributes the service rule to each site in the first set of sites. The method identifies at least one site in the first set of sites that is not in a second set of sites that has already received a definition of the group. The method distributes the group definition to each identified site in the first set of sites that has not already received the definition of the group.

Abstract: Systems and methods to link meetings with units of work of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain input information conveying user input into work unit pages of units of work; in response to requests to generate meetings regarding individual units of work, generate and store resource information in individual work unit records of the individual units of work; obtain meeting information conveying content of the meetings; effectuate one or more actions within the collaboration environment based on the content of the meetings; and/or perform other operations.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated message delivery feedback that includes receiving a set of messaging requests to transmit a message to at least one recipient device; making a set of messaging attempts, each of the set of messaging attempts including an attempt to deliver the message to the at least one recipient device; receiving delivery feedback and automatically associating the delivery feedback to one messaging attempt of the set of messaging attempts; and updating a delivery status of the at least one messaging attempt.

Abstract: Restrictions to control of wireless resources shared openly on a wireless network for playing media are described. At a high-level, advertisement are broadcast for an openly shared resource service are restricted with respect to who, when and where control is permitted. A resource controller app can be implemented on a Wi-Fi controller, on an SDN controller, or as a separate server to intercept advertisements (e.g., service advertisements) being sent for broadcast by an openly shared resource. The advertisements are then transmitted over unicast according to specific parameters concerning specific users, devices, or locations, for example.

Abstract: Methods and systems for tracking sources of after-hours activity based on events managed via an electronic communication application. One method includes accessing a log storing time information, receiver information, and originator information of an event managed via the electronic communication application, determining, based on the receiver information, a predetermined after-hours period of a receiver of the event, determining, based on the originator information and stored organizational data, an organizational group of an originator of the event, and determining, based on the time information, whether the event occurred during the predetermined after-hours period of the receiver.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a group definition for a group of machines. The method receives the group definition, which includes (i) a span of the group that specifies a set of sites at which the group is to be used and (ii) a set of criteria for machines to be included in the group. The set of criteria includes at least a location criteria specifying one or more sites. The method distributes the group definition to each site in the set of sites. At each site in the set of sites, a local network control system of the site determines a set of machines in the group based on the set of criteria. Only machines in the one or more sites specified by the location criteria are determined to be in the group.

Abstract: Systems and methods to host a social network locally on a user's computing device using social data at the user device. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining, on a local computing device of a user, social data regarding social relationships of the user in order to support a social network of the user; and hosting, via the local computing device, the social network.

Abstract: A server receives from a client device that is executing a web browser application a request to initiate a remote application in the server. The server instantiates an instance of the remote application. The server intercepts draw commands associated with the remote application instance. The server provides the draw commands to the client to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on the draw commands. The server receives an input event from the web browser application. The server provides the client one or more draw commands based on the input event to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on those draw commands.

Abstract: A method comprises, at a local participant device, establishing audio connections with remote participant devices over a network for an online voice conference. The method includes generating ultrasound signals for corresponding ones of the remote participant devices, and transmitting the ultrasound signals over corresponding ones of the audio connections. The method further includes collecting indications, transmitted by corresponding ones of the remote participant devices over the network, that indicate whether the corresponding ones of the remote participant devices detected the ultrasound signals. The method includes identifying which of the remote participant devices detected the ultrasound signals based on the indications, and localizing degraded voice quality to particular ones of the local participant device and the remote participant devices based, at least in part, on results of identifying.

Abstract: An apparatus includes receive path circuitry configured to receive a Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) container and a processing device configured to identify locations of one or more media fragment units (MFUs) in the MMT container using a hint track within the MMT container. Another apparatus includes transmit path circuitry configured to transmit an MMT container and a processing device configured to identify locations of one or more MFUs in the MMT container using a hint track within the MMT container.

Abstract: One or more implementations of the present specification provide an information transmission method. Target information selected by a user of a first computing device is obtained by the first computing device. A unique identifier is obtained by the first computing device and from a second computing device, subsequent to the second computing device receiving the unique identifier from a server. The unique identifier is associated with the second computing device according to a mapping relationship. The unique identifier and the target information are sent to the server. The server identifies the second computing device associated with the unique identifier from the mapping relationship and forwards the target information to the second computing device.

Abstract: Device, computer program product and method for checking properties of resources, wherein a checking device for checking properties of resources of a web server includes a calculation unit for calculating an identifier identifying a particular resource using the particular resource, a detection unit for detecting a license requirement for the particular resource using the calculated identifier, and a determination unit for determining an existing license for the web server in the case of a license requirement detected for the particular resource using the calculated identifier, such that unauthorized posting of a particular resource to a web server can be easily detected and prevented.

Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing, configuring, and operating multi-access edge computing (MEC) services and service consumption through zoning hosts in multi-vendor or multi-system environments. An apparatus operating as a MEC orchestrator to manage services consumption using zones is configurable to perform operations to: receive, from an application executing at a host, a request for a list of services and corresponding proximity zones; in response to receiving the request for the list of services, query a plurality of hosts for performance metrics of respective services offered from the plurality of hosts, the respective services to be used by the application executing at the host; construct a zone map, the zone map maintaining a mapping between the application and the plurality of hosts based on the performance metrics; and manage migration of the application or a service of the respective services, based on the zone map, to ensure QoS of the application.

Abstract: An interconnection device for interconnecting two sub-networks, on which UPnP devices are connected: determines actual IP addresses and port numbers of servers of the UPnP device; allocates a port number to each server, establishes a connection with a UPnP device of the femtocell and a connection with a UPnP device of the local area network; replaces, in frames received via one of said connections, each actual server IP address and port number allocated by the interconnection device to said server; and replaces, in frames received via one of said connections, each actual IP address and port number with an IP address of the interconnection device to said server; and replaces, in said received frames, each IP address of the interconnection device and port number allocated by the interconnection device to a server with the IP address and port number of the corresponding server.