Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for allocating a PDU session ID for a terminal device. The method comprises: selecting (S101), for a terminal device, a protocol data unit session identity, PDU session ID, from a group of PDU session IDs. The group of PDU session IDs are not allocated to the terminal device. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the network node may select, for the terminal device, a PDU session ID from a group of PDU session IDs, which are not allocated to the terminal device yet. Thus, any newly selected PDU session ID may be ensured as unique.

Abstract: A service handover method includes receiving a handover request signaling sent by a multi-card user equipment. The handover request signaling is configured to request a handover to a second communication system, the handover request signaling carries second service information, and the second service information is service information of a to-be-transmitted service of the multi-card user equipment in the second communication system. The method further includes generating a handover response signaling in response to determining to allow the multi-card user equipment to perform a handover operation based on first service information and the second service information. The handover response signaling carries handover configuration information, and the first service information is service information corresponding to the to-be-transmitted service of the multi-card user equipment in the first communication system.

Abstract: A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a storage network includes identifying a storage unit of a set of storage units for testing, where a data segment of data is error encoded into a set of encoded data slices that is stored in the set of storage units. The method further includes determining whether a threshold number of favorably performing other storage units of the set of storage units will be available during the testing. When the threshold number of favorably performing other storage units will be available, the method further includes initiating the testing of the storage unit and setting a status of the storage unit to unavailable. When the testing has been completed, the method further includes updating the status of the storage unit to available. The method further includes generating a testing report regarding the testing of the storage unit.

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for variable speed playback. In one aspect the disclosure provides for receiving content having a first playback speed, determining a second playback speed for at least a portion of the content based on a playback factor, associating the second playback speed with the portion of the content, and providing at least the portion of the content at the second playback speed to a display device.

Abstract: Embodiments of a system for determining a data gravity index score and implementing pervasive data center architecture is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system can calculate a data gravity index score based on the amount of data stored in a given location, an amount of data in motion in the given location, a bandwidth index associated with the given location, and a latency index associated with the given location. Based on data gravity index scores, in some embodiments, the system can localize traffic to improve network performance, improve security operations, and generate software-defined-network overlay.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, including: receiving, by a computing device, a post referring to a multimedia content; identifying, by the computing device, a time in the post; generating, by the computing device, a validity score based on analyzing contextual data of the time in the post; determining, by the computing device, a correlation between the time in the post to the multimedia content based on the validity score; and publishing, by the computing device, the post with an interactive link to a corresponding time of the multimedia content based on the determined correlation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed techniques include methods for estimating network performance of a path between a terminal device and an application server through a core network. In one embodiment, the method comprises measuring network performance of a portion of the path within the core network to obtain one or more partial network performance measurements in a first period, obtaining one or more end-to-end measurements of the path in the first period, where the end-to-end measurements are values of an end-to-end performance indicator; and estimating one or more values of the end-to-end performance indicator in a second period after the first period, using partial network performance measurements in the second period and the machine learning function.

Abstract: A consent system enables a consumer to save consent choices so that the publisher can retrieve the consumer consent choices when the consumer visits the publisher site, without requiring the consumer to make additional selections corresponding to consent choices. The consumer can save consent choices as a consent system first party cookie or in an account at the consent system. The consumer can save consent choices when visiting a publisher site or by accessing the consent system. The publisher can retrieve the consumer consent choices from the consent system first party cookie or from the account at the consent system. Multiple publishers can retrieve the consumer consent choices saved in an account with the consent system, enabling “cross-platform consent.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are configured to: initiate a transaction in response to receiving a readiness probe request from a requesting system; set a probe flag for the transaction to a first state; send the transaction to a user application for processing; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, keep updates to recoverable resources in-flight while the user application is processing the transaction; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, roll back the updates to the recoverable resources in response to the user application ending processing the transaction; and send a readiness probe response to the requesting system based on how the user application ended processing the transaction.

Abstract: In an approach, a processor monitors messaging data between a plurality of users from a first collaboration application. A processor identifies an unanswered message within the first messaging data. A processor, subsequent to identifying the unanswered message, identifies that the plurality of users attends a collaborative session. A processor captures a second messaging data of the collaborative session. A processor determines that the second messaging data contains subject matter that meets a threshold of similarity to the unanswered message. A processor annotates the unanswered message.

Abstract: Particular embodiments may detect, by a core network, a change in network traffic types from a first network traffic type to a second network traffic type. The core network includes one or more network functionality components. Each of the one or more network functionality components is decomposed into multiple service types. The core network may determine several service instances for deployment in response to the change in the network traffic types. Each of the service instances may belong to one of the multiple decomposed service types. The core network may deploy several service instances to one or more server machines of the core network according to a decomposed service type of a respective service instance.

Abstract: A method and bot assistance system (101) for identifying ideal virtual assistant bots for providing response to user queries is disclosed. The bot assistance system receives user query. The user query is processed to identify context and intent using Natural Language Processing (NLP). The bot assistance system identifies at least one virtual assistant bot for responding to user query based on confidence score of each virtual assistant bot associated with intent of user query, using pretrained model. The identification of at least one virtual assistant bot includes either determining ideal virtual assistant bot based on context of user query, using predefined governance rules. Otherwise, initiating polling between plurality of predefined virtual assistant bots when context of user query is unidentified. The plurality of predefined virtual assistance bots is provided to user associated with user query if each of predefined virtual assistance bots are selected during polling.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for selecting an optimal edge computing node in an Internet of vehicle (IoV) environment. The method includes: acquiring and analyzing properties of computing tasks of a vehicle in the IoV environment; acquiring and analyzing properties of different edge computing nodes; computing matching degrees between the properties of the computing tasks and the properties of the nodes; analyzing computing demands of different tasks, and assigning weights to different types of matching degrees; and selecting a node having an optimal sum for products of the matching degrees and the weights as an optimal edge computing node to compute each of the computing tasks of the vehicle.

Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to cause transmission of media, received from a service provider, to a media device in response to a first request for the media, the media including instructions to cause the media device to determine a source Uniform Resource Locator and transmit a second request for metadata of the media to the apparatus, and cause transmission, to the media device in response to the second request, of metadata associated with the source Uniform Resource Locator.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a computerized device management framework that adaptively determines and applies security and configuration parameters to a device on a first network, and enables the adaptive application of such parameters as the device disconnects and connects to other networks. The disclosed framework enables the automatic detection of different networks being relied upon by the device for access to the Internet, upon which, management control policies of the device's activities can be controlled and managed in a unified manner. Accordingly, the disclosed framework can enable security and configuration mechanisms applied on a first network, upon which they are associated, to be seamlessly applied on another disparate network via a virtual private network connection enabled via proprietary mechanisms implemented on the device.

Abstract: Implementations can identify a given assistant device from among a plurality of assistant devices in an ecosystem, obtain device-specific signal(s) that are generated by the given assistant device, process the device-specific signal(s) to generate candidate semantic label(s) for the given assistant device, select a given semantic label for the given semantic device from among the candidate semantic label(s), and assigning, in a device topology representation of the ecosystem, the given semantic label to the given assistant device. Implementations can optionally receive a spoken utterance that includes a query or command at the assistant device(s), determine a semantic property of the query or command matches the given semantic label to the given assistant device, and cause the given assistant device to satisfy the query or command.

Abstract: A service data management method and apparatus for service building blocks (SBB), a device and a storage medium are provided, and a service data setting interface is extended. When service data needs to be set, the service data is received through the service data setting interface, and service data to be set is added into a service data set of a service corresponding to service identification information according to the service identification information and the service data to be set in the service data setting instruction. When it is detected that an SBB needs to be configured with the service data, service data corresponding to the SBB in the service data set corresponding to the SBB is directly configured for the SBB, i.e., the set service data takes effect immediately and is able to be called by the corresponding the SBB in real time.

Abstract: A program causes a processor to carry out: a step of defining a virtual space including a web browser; a step of providing web content on the web browser based on an access to a URL address, a step of providing the web content displayed on the web browser as a 360-degree web content developed in the virtual space based on a first operation input of a user; a step of controlling a field-of-view from a virtual camera arranged in the virtual space in accordance with a movement of a head of the user; and a step of displaying a field-of-view image corresponding to the field-of-view on an image display apparatus associated with the head of the user. The web content and the 360-degree web content are web screens for selecting moving image content to be reproduced from one or more pieces of moving image content.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for accessing a data service using a data service Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) object. An embodiment operates extracting a name-value pair of each parameter stored in the data service class object. The embodiment generates a parameter context URI using the one or more extracted name-value pairs according to a data service specification of the data service. The embodiment extracts one or more filter range items for each filter option stored in the data service class object. The embodiment generates a filter context URI using the one or more extracted filter range items according to the data service specification of the data service. The embodiment generates a context URI using the parameter context URI and the filter context URI. The embodiment then accesses the data service according to the context URI.

Abstract: Disclosed is the technology for computer-based “Daily Brief” service, which includes methods and corresponding systems for proactively providing push notifications for users of chat information systems. The push notifications are dynamically generated and presented to the user based on identification of one or more triggering events, which may include predetermined time/date, current geographical location, activity of peers and friends in social media associated with the user, scheduled events, appointments, meetings, emails, instant messages, and many more. The described technology improves the interaction interface between the user and chat information system.