Abstract: A method for expanding functions of a conference system includes providing a first circuit board and a second circuit board disposed in the receiver, receiving a first wireless packet transmitted from the first transmitter merely through a second communication module of the second circuit board, controlling the second communication module for performing an unpacking process of the first wireless packet by a second processor of the second circuit board to generate first compressed media data, generating a first command signal by the second processor of the second circuit board for controlling a first processor of the first circuit board to receive the first compressed media data through a data channel, and decompressing the first compressed media data by the first processor for acquiring first media contents of the first transmitter.

Abstract: IoT devices within a commercial real-estate or residential building environment may be connected through networks, such as a Building Automation and Control network (BACnet). Systems and methods according to this disclosure provide automatic discovery of IoT devices and relationships in commercial real-estate and residential buildings and integration of the BACnet devices into the digital twin of the building. In some implementations, an IoT gateway is configured to translate the communication received from the BACnet to an IoT cloud platform and configured to normalize the data across the different security platforms into a consistent format which enables integration and interoperability of the different building system platforms that may otherwise be operating in isolation from each other.

Abstract: A network may include multiple allocations. The allocations may include: a first allocation encompassing central infrastructure, such as central office servers, data centers, or other core infrastructure; an second allocation encompassing gateway elements or other central consumer premises network infrastructure; and a third allocation encompassing nodes, such as client devices, terminals, or other nodes. A virtualization management engine may coordinate resources from the various allocations to support virtual functions distributed over multiple allocations of the network. The virtualization management engine may determine the distribution across the allocations for the virtual functions. The virtualization management engine may be implemented as a virtual function and be distributed across the allocations of the network.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a topology recommendation platform that implements a method that includes receiving an original topology that indicates a first design for an application. The original topology is associated with a first resiliency score. The first design is associated with a set of functionalities for the application. A recommended topology is determined based on a model and the original topology. The recommended topology indicates an alternative design for the application. The recommended topology is associated with a second resiliency score that is greater than the first resiliency score. The alternative design is associated with the set of functionalities for the application. The recommended topology is provided. The original topology and/or the recommended topology is based on and/or encoded via one or more topology templates. The first design indicates a first set of components for the application. The alternative design indicates an alternative set of components for the application.

Abstract: One embodiment comprises a non-transitory, computer-readable medium embodying thereon computer-executable instructions for receiving a document design, generating a conversation-enabled document from the document design, exposing the conversation-enabled document on a conversation channel, receiving a participant response, updating the conversation-enabled document based the participant response, and rendering a communication page on a second channel using the updated conversation-enabled document. The document design comprises a page template and a conversation template. The page template specifies content of the communication page and a variable to be populated with a first variable value. The conversation template defines a state machine for an automated conversation, the conversation template specifying a variable to which the participant response is to be written.

Abstract: To reduce a processing load at a reception side in a case where a plurality kinds of audio data items are transmitted. A container in a predetermined format having a predetermined number of audio streams including coded data items of a plurality of groups is transmitted. For example, the coded data items of the plurality of groups include either or both of channel coded data items and object coded data items. Attribute information indicating respective attributes of the coded data items of the plurality of groups is inserted into a layer of the container and/or a layer of an audio stream. For example, stream correspondence relation information indicating which audio stream includes each of the coded data items of the plurality of groups is further inserted.

Abstract: A system for a distributed partitioned map reduce includes a plurality of nodes, a plurality of partitions, and a service node. The one or more partitions of the plurality of partitions are stored on a first node of the plurality of nodes. The service node is configured to receive a task from a client application system. The client application system receives a request to perform the task from a requestor. The client application system selects a service node to manage execution of the task. The client application system provides the service node the task. The service node is configured to provide partition task logic to the plurality of partitions. The partition task logic includes a partition task map reduce. The service node is configured to receive partition results from the plurality of partitions, execute a service node reduce to determine a service node result, and provide the service node result.

Abstract: Technologies are provided for distributed network management. An access-point computing device is configured to receive commands that target network devices in different computer networks. When a command is received, the access-point device determines which network is targeted by the command and stores the command in a queue associated with that network. Other computing devices are configured to access the multiple computer networks and to execute commands that target devices in the multiple networks. These other computing devices can be configured to transmit requests for commands to the access-point device. When such a request is received, the access-point device determines which network the request is for, retrieves a command from the queue associated with the computer network, and transmits the command to the requestor. The requestor, upon receipt of the command, executes the command against network device(s) in the computer network and transmits any result back to the first computing device.

Abstract: A method comprises storing an electronic configuration document that identifies configurations of users, groups, and/or permissions relating to access to computer program artifacts in a first repository of an artifact repository system that is geographically distributed. The users and groups include external user groups who do not have explicit user-based permissions to view contents of a repository of the artifact repository system. The artifact repository system comprise second repositories that respectively replicate third repositories and have associated sets of properties, the third repositories including a repository external to the artifact repository system and associated with an external user group. The configurations comprise at least one configuration for configuring external visibility of computer program artifacts for one or more external user groups.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a wireless wearable computer worn by a user, a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine; obtaining machine data from the fitness machine while the user is engaged in a workout session on the fitness machine; obtaining, from a heart rate sensor of the wireless device, heart rate data of the user; determining a work rate caloric expenditure by applying a work rate calorie model to the machine data; determining a calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user based on the heart rate data and the work rate caloric expenditure; determining a heart rate caloric expenditure by applying a heart rate calorie model to the heart rate data and the calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user; and sending to the fitness machine via the communication connection, at least one of the work rate caloric expenditure or the heart rate caloric expenditure.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a network monitoring device for a supercomputer system having a plurality of supercomputer nodes. The network monitoring device may utilize plug-in software modules to provide network monitoring capabilities related to discovering the network topologies of the supercomputer system, determining network and computing resources that are available for new applications in the supercomputer system, collecting network and computing resources that are being used by running software applications in the supercomputer system, and monitoring running software applications on the supercomputer system.

Abstract: A migration manager (MM) identifies a source group of compute instances (at a first partition of a provider network) to be migrated to an isolated virtual network (IVN) implemented in a second partition. The MM triggers the establishment within the IVN of an equivalence group of instances corresponding to the source group instances. Connectivity between the equivalence group and a first load balancer which was being used for the source group in the first partition is maintained by modifying one or more configuration settings. After a replacement load balancer is established within the IVN, the first load balancer is decommissioned.

Abstract: A system for cross cloud workload identity virtualization including a program having instructions to route a first network call from a workload in a first cloud computing environment addressed to a first cloud computing environment instance metadata service (IMS) having destination data with an IP address of 169.254.169.254 to a universal IMS (UIMS) different from the first cloud computing environment IMS, route a second network call from the workload addressed to a destination other than the first cloud computing environment IMS to the destination indicated by the second network call, respond to the first network call with credentials valid for accessing a cloud service provided in a second cloud computing environment. The workload can access the cloud service from the first cloud computing environment, and access the cloud service from a third cloud computing environment different from the first cloud computing environment.

Abstract: A computing device may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to determine, based upon at least one multimedia filter running at a first client computing device, a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a media cloud source of a video being streamed to the first client computing device using a source filter, and playback control data associated with the video being streamed to the first client computing device. The processor may also cause a second client computing device to independently stream the video from the media cloud source based upon the determined URL, and play the video at the second client computing device synchronously with playback of the video at the first client computing device based upon the playback control data, with the first client computing device being the controller for playback of the video at the second client computing device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a cable distribution system that includes a head end and a remote fiber node that converts received data to analog data suitable to be provided on a coaxial cable for a plurality of customer devices. At least one of the head end and the remote fiber node including a set of commands that traverse a local file system where less than all of the set of commands that traverse the local file system are available to neither of a command line interface nor a graphical user interface. Also, it is configured to access a remote file system based upon a command that includes a label identifying an Internet Protocol address to the remote file system to obtain a file therefrom.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for cognitive information processing. The cognitive information processing includes receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights via an augmented intelligence system, the augmented intelligence system and an information processing system providing a cognitive computing function; performing a learning operation to iteratively improve the cognitively processed insights over time; and, providing the cognitively processed insights to a destination, the destination comprising a cognitive application, the cognitive application enabling a user to interact with the cognitive insights.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a method for determining an accurate measure of unique download sessions in an environment where IP addresses are shared among multiple devices. According to a first preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention may analyze requested server log data to determine the number of unique client devices sharing the same IP addresses. The system may then dynamically adjust the length of lookback windows for each unique device based on observed download behavior and the number of user agents associated with each overlapping IP address.

Abstract: A computing system may include a server, and a client computing device in communication with the server. The server may be configured to provide a corresponding virtual desktop instance for the client computing device. The computing system may include a local device to be coupled to a given client computing device and to be operable in a given virtual desktop instance associated with the given client computing device, thereby generating client initialization packets. The server may be configured to generate a server mapping table. The given client computing device may be configured to generate a client mapping table, replace a client packet with a client mapping ID number to define compressed client initialization packets, and send the compressed client initialization packets to the server. The server may be configured to replace the client mapping ID number with the client packet in the compressed client initialization packets based upon the server mapping table.

Abstract: The disclosure herein pertains to a content creation service utilizing micro-services. The content creation service divides up the tasks for content creation including extracting a start portion, a stop portion, and merging the stop portion, start portion, and segments between the start portion and the stop portion. The content creation service utilizes micro-services in order to perform the tasks. Advantageously, use of micro-services allow for improved scalability and faster processing.

Abstract: Examples described herein may include a playback device receiving, from a control device, a validation-key that includes an application identifier corresponding to a controller application. The playback device may create a session identifier and transmit the session identifier to the control device. The playback device may receive, from the control device, a playback request comprising the session identifier and a playback command. The playback device may determine that the session identifier is valid and then execute the playback command. A computing system may receive identification information related to a controller application and generate the validation-key based on the controller application meeting at least one quality-control metric. The controller application may receive the validation-key from the computing system.