Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting a multimedia communication problem. In one aspect, this is implemented by an execution entity, in a processing phase. A message(s) is received that belongs to at least one stream to be monitored relating to at least one media stream. A correspondence between the received message(s) and rule(s) associated with a stream(s) to be monitored is verified. If verified an error detection massage is sent to a checking entity separate from the execution entity, via a rule management entity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing apparatus for processing a baseband signal demodulated from an RF signal, includes: a synchronizer; a channel estimator; an equalizer; an error corrector to perform error correction based on a signal output from the equalizer; and a mean square error calculator to calculate a mean square error based on a difference between an input signal from the equalizer and a reference signal, wherein when the RF signal includes a co-channel interference signal, the error corrector performs error correction by using a mean square error in a time domain or mean square errors in a time domain and a spatial domain. Accordingly, a baseband signal, from which a defect is removed, may be obtained in response to various communication channels or broadcast channels.

Abstract: Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources. A plurality of requests for access to a resource are received. Each request has an associated group of features. The group of features for each request is analyzed to collect observations about the plurality of requests. A function to predict an outcome of a subsequent request is generated based on the observations. Resources are allocated to service the subsequent request based on the function.

Abstract: A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's account by one or more unique identifiers previously delivered to the remote device from the wireless thermostat.

Abstract: Various techniques for temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management are described, including configuring a host group using a manifest file, receiving a data file at a platform using an application programming interface, parsing the data file to generate a processed data file, the processed data file having a time characteristic associated with the data file, storing the data file at a location by comparing the time characteristic to the time range to determine the class, the server type, and the server on which to store the data file, reconciling the host group to determine whether the data file has changed, and modifying the data file by performing a data operation on the data file if the reconciling indicates the data file has changed.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for protecting DNS traffic locally on an electronic device (e.g., a smart phone) by capturing DNS traffic from network traffic transmitted from the device and ensuring the DNS traffic is routed to a trusted DNS server via a prescribed transmission protocol.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for customized domain name resolution for virtual private clouds are disclosed. A domain name system (DNS) resolution service receives a DNS request from a computing resource associated with a virtual private cloud (VPC) in a cloud provider network. The service determines that the VPC is associated with one or more firewall rules. Responsive to determining that the VPC is associated with the firewall rule(s), the service determines whether the DNS request is allowed or blocked according to the one or more firewall rules. If the DNS request is allowed, the service resolves the DNS request using a DNS server and returns a response to the computing resource. If the DNS request is blocked, the service does not resolve the DNS request.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically replicating configuration parameters from securely identified connected systems are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes discovering a set of one or more systems connected via at least one network; identifying at least one of the one or more systems of the discovered set by processing cryptographic data associated with at least a portion of the one or more systems; establishing a communication session with the at least one identified system by securing at least one application programming interface; replicating one or more configuration parameters from at least a portion of the at least one identified system in connection with the established communication session; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the one or more replicated configuration parameters.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-related content on the social networking platform(s), integrating features to control aspects of how data/content is presented to and visualized by the user, empowering the user to multicast direct messages to other users without the other users having to meet certain constraints, empowering the user to create and/or join a group based on messaging threads, and the like. One or more of these enhanced services/features are associated with a powerful framework of authentication/permission model for access control.

Abstract: Techniques are described for training machine learning (ML) models using one or more electronic lists of items previously used in campaigns and labeled with an engagement rate corresponding to the list. A vocabulary formed from a union of the one or more lists may then be used to generate at least some items of a target recipient list. An engagement rate for the target recipient list may be inferred for the target recipient list. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques may be also be applied to optimize an engagement rate of a target recipient list and/or select content for the list.

Abstract: A DevOps virtual assistant platform may analyze a DevOps workflow request received via a collaboration tool to identify one or more tasks, may activate and assign one or more worker bots to the one or more tasks, may verify, based on user credentials of a user associated with the DevOps workflow, that the user is authorized to access one or more backend DevOps tools, may access, via a DevOps orchestration engine, the one or more backend DevOps tools to automatically perform the task using the one or more backend DevOps tools, may determine that the one or more worker bots have completed the one or more tasks, and may provide, based on determining that the one or more worker bots have completed the one or more tasks, an indication via the collaboration tool that the DevOps workflow request has been processed.

Abstract: A system and method for interactivity testing of text-based customer communications which allows for interactivity testing of different forms of text-based communications with a contact center including two-factor authentication testing, multi-modal communication testing, and load testing.

Abstract: Secure access to a corporate application with translation between an internal address and an external address. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, at a secure access cloud point of delivery (PoD), from a client application on a client device, a request to access a corporate web application that is deployed in a corporate datacenter. The method may also include forwarding, from the secure access cloud PoD, to a connector that is also deployed in the corporate datacenter, the request to access the corporate web application. The method may further include brokering, by the connector and the secure access cloud PoD, authentication of a user, authorization of access by the user, and a secure communication session between the client application and the corporate web application by translating between an internal address of the corporate web application and an external address of the corporate web application.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, operable with a content delivery network (CDN) uses late binding of caching policies; by a caching node in the CDN, in response to a request for content, determining if the content is cached locally. When it is determined that said content is cached locally, then: determining a current cache policy associated with the content; and then determining, based on said current cache policy associated with the content, whether it is acceptable to serve the content that is cached locally; based on said determining, when it is not acceptable to serve the content that is cached locally, obtaining a new version of the content and then serving the new version of the content, otherwise when it is acceptable to serve the content that is cached locally, serving the content that is cached locally.

Abstract: A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to automatically reverse an action indicated by an electronic message. In relation to a method, an electronic message is parsed to separately identify a plurality of fields of the electronic message providing different types of information. The method constructs a response to the electronic message that reverses the action indicated by the electronic message and transmits the response to the electronic message to a request processor that provided the electronic message. The method constructs an alternative message that provides an alternative action to the action indicated by the electronic message and transmits the alternative message to a source. In response to the alternative message, the method receives a subsequent request from the source. If the alternative action is to be taken, the method processes the subsequent request in a different manner than the request that generated the electronic message.

Abstract: Embodiments include devices and methods for managing network communication of an unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV). A processor of the UAV may determine an altitude of the UAV. The processor may optionally also determine a speed or vector of the UAV. Based on the determined altitude and/or speed/vector of the UAV, the processor may adjust the communication parameter of the communication link between the UAV and a communication network. The processor may transmit signals based on the adjusted communication parameter, which may reduce radio frequency interference caused by the transmissions of the UAV with the communication network.

Abstract: Network management of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is standardized in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. An execution service remote from a cloud computing environment being managed implements workflows to manage different aspects of the cloud computing environment, including monitoring, incident management, deployment, and/or buildout. The execution service issues requests to perform management actions for network devices in the cloud computing environment. A device access service in the cloud computing environments receives the requests, and, in response to the requests, the device access service obtains access control data to access the network devices and perform the requested management actions for the network devices.

Abstract: Techniques for streamlined secure deployment of cloud services in cloud computing environments are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include in response to receiving an instruction to deploy a cloud service in the cloud computing system, creating a deployment subscription to resources in the cloud computing system, the deployment subscription being owned by the deployment service and instantiating one or more computing resources accessible by the deployment service in the cloud computing system in accordance with the created deployment subscription. The method also includes retrieving one or more components of an application corresponding to the cloud service based on a manifest with the instantiated one or more computing resources and installing the retrieved one or more components of the application in the cloud computing system in accordance with an installation sequence identified in the manifest.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and storing electronic communications are disclosed. According to certain aspects, the systems and methods may receive an electronic communication specifying a set of recipient users, where at least one of the recipient users is not registered to receive the electronic communication. The systems and methods may receive approval from a sending client to send the electronic communication to the unregistered user, and may send the electronic communication to the unregistered user and store the electronic communication appropriately for later analysis and retrieval.

Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for configuring a distributed computer system comprising a plurality of nodes of a plurality of node classes, configuration files for a plurality of nodes of each of the plurality of node classes are stored in a central repository. The configuration files include information representing a desired system state of the distributed computer system, and the distributed computer system operates to keep an actual system state of the distributed computer system consistent with the desired system state. The plurality of node classes includes forwarder nodes for receiving data from an input source, indexer nodes for indexing the data, and search head nodes for searching the data. Responsive to receiving changes to the configuration files, the changes are propagated to nodes of the plurality of nodes impacted by the changes based on a node class of the nodes impacted by the changes.