Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment are provided. A method includes detecting at least one action initiated by a user using a user device; generating at least one device type watermark for each of one or more second devices capable of performing the at least one action; transmitting, to an IoT cloud server, a request including at least one time slot for each of the one or more second devices, the request requesting each of the one or more second devices to indicate the at least one device type watermark in the at least one time slot; and identifying at least one second device to perform the at least one action, among the one or more second devices, based on detecting the at least one device type watermark indicated by the at least one second device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices associated with an edge device are described. An edge device can include a processing resource and a memory resource having instructions executable to receive, at the processing resource, the memory resource, or both, and from a first source comprising a device in communication with the edge device, first input associated with a user of the device. The instructions can be executable to receive, from a second source, second input associated with a user of the device, determine, based on the first input and the second input, operational instructions for the device and transmit the operational instructions to the device. The instructions can be executable to update, using a machine learning model, the operational instructions responsive to receiving an indication of performance of the operational instructions by the device and responsive to third input received from the first source, the second source, or both.

Abstract: A method and system for managing an operation associated with an object in an Internet of things (IoT) enabled device in an IoT environment are provided. The method includes receiving the object intended for the target IoT device from a remote system. The method also includes determining a criticality index associated with the object based on a set of pre-determined parameters associated with the object. The method includes initiating operation associated with the object by the target IoT device based on the determined criticality index.

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that process, classify, efficiently store, and display large volumes of event messages generated in modern computing systems. In a disclosed implementation, received event messages are assigned to event-message clusters based on non-parameter tokens identified within the event messages. A parsing function is generated for each cluster that is used to extract data from incoming event messages and to prepare event records from event messages that more efficiently and accessible store event information. The parsing functions also provide an alternative basis for assignment of event messages to clusters. Event types associated with the clusters are used for gathering information from various information sources with which to automatically annotate event messages displayed to system administrators, maintenance personnel, and other users of event messages.

Abstract: A service system includes a determining unit configured to determine an API-execution-count limiting value per virtual server on a basis of the number of the virtual servers on which a web service is implemented and an API-execution-count limiting value, and a controller configured to provide the web service or to process the call of the API as an error whether the number of times the API has been executed exceeds the API-execution-count limiting value.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing online to offline services. The systems and methods may obtain a plurality of historical positions of a user terminal within a first predetermined time period in a plurality of days. The systems and methods may identify at least one candidate area based on the plurality of historical positions of the user terminal. The systems and methods may identify one or more of the at least one candidate areas as one or more active areas of the user terminal. The systems and methods may further provide data associated with one or more service requests relating to the one or more active areas to a customer application executed by the user terminal.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for identifying the habitual places of a user, the habitual places of a user being the places where the user spends most of his/her time. In some embodiments, historical location information of a user is accessed, and a plurality of visit points are identified based on the historical location information. The plurality of visit points is clustered into a plurality of clusters. Each one of the clusters is then associated with a habitual place of the user. When the server receives, from a client device associated with the user, current location information of the user, the server identifies a current location of the user based on the current location information, and, if the current location of the user is in a neighborhood of one of the clusters, determine that the user is at the habitual place associated with the cluster.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control module for use in motor vehicles, comprising a plurality of signal inputs, a plurality of signal outputs, a central storage unit which is connected to at least one functional unit for further processing incoming signals. A signal identification number can be assigned to the at least one signal coming into the central storage unit such that the signal can be identified and further used by the at least one functional unit. The at least one functional unit can be exchanged in a modular manner. The invention additionally relates to a system for configuring the control module, to a method for using the control module, and to a motor vehicle control unit comprising the control module.

Abstract: Method, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that divides an application into a plurality of portions that are each associated with one or more functions of the application and determine a plurality of transition probabilities between the plurality of portions. Some technology may also receive at least a first portion of the plurality of portions, and receive a relation file indicating the plurality of transition probabilities between the plurality of portions.

Abstract: A method for providing mobile messages includes generating a message based on received content. A first functional bind to an aggregator is identified. A second functional bind to the aggregator is also identified. The first functional bind and the second functional bind are distinct communication connections to the aggregator. First message recipients are associated with the first functional bind, and second message recipients are associated with the second functional bind. The message is provided in parallel to the aggregator for the first message recipients through the first functional bind and for the second message recipients through the second functional bind.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an edge computing-based distributed network architecture. A central server in the architecture may include a client-location monitoring module for tracking a principle location of a client, which may be co-located with a remote hub institution. The central server may also include a client information packaging module, for packaging information associated with the client into a digital package; a natural-disaster monitor module, for monitoring for future natural-disasters; and a transmission module for transmitting a packaging instruction from the natural-disaster monitor module to the client information packaging module when the natural-disaster monitor module communicates that a natural-disaster is predicted to occur within a certain threshold distance and within a certain threshold amount of time.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a network cache of device input for redundancy during device inoperability. A device may detect that the device is in danger of failure, for example, if a battery is low on the device, the device is damaged, or the device may lose network connectivity. On detection of such a condition, the device may request that a server that performs electronic transaction processing establish or trigger a mode that allows for caching of transaction data as input for the transaction data is entered to a device, which may be done by sending signaling to the server indicating the condition that affects the device's operability. The server may then cache input for the transaction data. If the device fails prior to approving and completing electronic transaction processing, the server may use the cached data to generate a digital ledger for another entity.

Abstract: A system of a machine includes a network of a plurality of nodes distributed throughout the machine, a controller, and a plurality of waveguides. Each of the nodes is operable to communicate through one or more radio frequencies, where the machine includes a cooler portion and a hotter portion. The controller is operable to communicate with the network of nodes using a higher frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the cooler portion of the machine and a lower frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the hotter portion of the machine. The waveguides are configured to guide transmission of the one or more radio frequencies between the controller and one or more of the nodes.

Abstract: A method for operating an Ethernet communication device having multiple external physical interfaces for a motor vehicle includes the following steps: detecting a special state on at least one of the interfaces, generating a control signal to adapt the interface in the special state if the special state is detected; and blocking a forwarding of a message packet arriving on the interface in the special state to a media access control unit of the Ethernet communication device on the basis of the control signal.

Abstract: A computer system for recursive calibration of a sensor network receives a first data communication from a first sensor node that is a neighbor to a calibrated sensor node. The computer system then updates a set of linear regressions between the first sensor node and a set of neighboring sensor nodes, which include the neighboring, calibrated sensor node. The computer system calibrates the first sensor node using an average of the set of linear regressions weighted by a correlation. When the first sensor node is calibrated, the computer system uses the calibrated first sensor node in calibration of a neighboring, uncalibrated sensor node. The computer system then gathers, at the first sensor node, a calibrated sensor reading.

Abstract: A plurality of sensor devices that senses environmental data at installation positions is appropriately arranged. Each sensor device includes a device detection unit, a position fixing unit, a sensor unit, and a transmission unit. The device detection unit performs operation of detecting another sensor device in the surrounding area and generates a detection result thereof. The position fixing unit fixes a position of the own sensor device on the basis of the detection result obtained by the device detection unit. The sensor unit senses environmental data at a position fixed by the position fixing unit. The transmission unit transmits the data sensed by the sensor unit.

Abstract: In embodiments, Internet of Things (IoT) devices may be organized according to an IoT device hierarchy, which may include parent and/or child associations between resources associated with IoT devices and/or with groupings of IoT devices. IoT devices wishing to support an IoT device hierarchy may utilize an extended IoT device resource model which provides for IoT device hierarchy information and interfaces to be provided by supporting IoT devices. A supporting resource may have one or more parent properties and/or child properties which may identify, respectively, parent or child resources which are associated with the resource. In various embodiments, these parent properties and/or child properties may include uniform resource identifiers (URI). A supporting resource may also identify an interface type for a hierarchical access interface, through which one or more descendant resources may be accessed through a single command. Other embodiments may be descried and/or claimed.

Abstract: A disclosed method may include (1) identifying, within a network, a media stream under consideration for a conditional MDI, (2) identifying, for the media stream, an expected packet rate at which the media stream is expected to pass through at least a portion of the network, (3) determining, for the media stream, an actual packet rate at which the media stream actually passes through the portion of the network, (4) calculating, based at least in part on the expected packet rate and the actual packet rate, a media rate variation that represents a reference for determining whether to perform the conditional MDI on the media stream, (5) determining that the media rate variation meets a certain threshold, and then upon determining that the media rate variation meets the certain threshold, (6) performing the conditional MDI on the media stream. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present approach relates to systems and methods for facilitating a client-agent conversation using dynamic, contextual information related to a client portal. The contextual information for the conversation may be determined using a server side script and/or a client side script that provides relevant portal usage data. The contextual information may be used to determine a conversation topic, which may be used to facilitate routing a request to chat to the appropriate agent for the topic.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method (300) and a system (103) for delivering content to a Human Machine Interface (HMI) (101) of a vehicle (100). The system (103) receives a content to be delivered from a third-party application server (104), and vehicle and other data when an event occurs. Once the content is received, the system (103) determines a driver distraction score for the content based on the received data and one or more driver distraction rules defined by an OEM server (102). Further, the system (103) creates a content package based on the driver distraction score and the received data. Further, the system assigns a priority score to the content package based on a type of event. Thereafter, the system delivers the content package to the vehicle for providing to the HMI.