Abstract: An alternating current (AC) impedance spectroscopy method includes providing an AC impedance spectroscopy ripple from power electronics into an electrochemical device, and absorbing the ripple in the power electronics.

Abstract: A cascaded thin-oxide N-Well voltage steering circuit includes a reference voltage generator that outputs a reference voltage within a range of first and second supply voltages, a first voltage steering circuit that outputs a higher available one of the reference voltage and the second supply voltage as an interim voltage, and a second voltage steering circuit that outputs a higher available one of the first voltage and the interim voltage at an output of the second voltage steering circuit. The interim voltage is applied to N-wells of PMOS transistors of the first voltage steering circuit. The output of the second voltage steering circuit is applied to N-wells of PMOS transistors of the second voltage steering circuit. The output of the second voltage steering circuit may also be applied to N-wells of PMOS transistors of other circuitry. The cascaded thin-oxide N-Well voltage steering circuit may consist substantially of thin-oxide PMOS transistors.

Abstract: The technology described herein improves management of core network connectivity in order to limit network connectivity issues from spreading to other areas in the wireless network. A determination that a predetermined threshold of service requests and/or service request failures associated with one or more core network entities in a first geographic area has been exceeded during a first time period serves as the basis for preventing the one or more core network entities from receiving services from a backup UDR during a second period of time, the second time period subsequent to the first time period.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data reporting using a data aggregator and a data retrieval tool such as a file intelligence service. The data aggregator stores two sets of data reporting tables and designates a first one of the sets of tables as an active set and the second one of the sets as a non-active set. The active set of tables stores data corresponding to a most recently successfully completed search. The non-active set stores data retrieved by the data retrieval tool from disparate data sources according to current search. The data in the active set of tables is immediately available for use in requested reports. When the data aggregator completes the current search, it designates the non-active set of tables as the active set so that the data therein becomes available for use in requested reports.

Abstract: A holding structure includes receptacles formed by peripherally formed side walls, an annular gap being formed between a side wall of a container or device and one of the peripherally formed side walls when containers or devices are received therein, the receptacles being compressed in a first direction and expanded in a second direction transversely thereto, with the result that the gap is widened to form a widened clearance for handling containers or devices which are received in the receptacles, the holding structure further including an upper side, the peripherally formed side walls including an upper edge which forms a closed, smooth curve having at least one local maximum and at least one local minimum in a direction perpendicular to the upper side of the holding structure, the at least one local minimum being situated in a region of the widened clearance that is respectively assigned.

Abstract: An aircraft reading light with a color-tunable reading light output includes: a white light source for emitting white light; a colored light source for emitting colored light; and an optical element, which is arranged for directing colored light that is emitted by the colored light source onto the white light source for being diffusely reflected at the white light source. The colored light source is controllable independently from the white light source.

Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide an integrated circuit system including data plane circuitry that includes a packet processing pipeline and extraction circuitry, wherein the extraction circuitry is configurable to extract one or more features of a packet via the packet processing pipeline. The integrated circuit system also includes inferencing circuitry configurable to perform machine learning inferencing based on the one or more features.

Abstract: Increasing use of web-based applications or Software-as-a-Service and IoT devices within enterprise networks increases the variety of network traffic and variables for consideration in managing security posture, which includes policy management. A security posture management system as disclosed herein leverages application identification and device discovery from ongoing collection and analysis of network traffic data to manage policies at device granularity allowing tailored security posture management. The system can tailor policies to handle network traffic depending on identified application and device type inputs obtained from the ongoing collection and analysis. The security posture management system can configure SD-WAN construct based parameters of a policy to tailor policies for different application traffic from different types of devices.

Abstract: A lead-free solder alloy comprising: from 1 to 9 wt. % copper, at least one of: from greater than 0 to 1 wt. % nickel, from greater than 0 to 10 wt. % germanium, from greater than 0 to 10 wt. % manganese, from greater than 0 to 10 wt. % aluminium, from greater than 0 to 10 wt. % silicon, from greater than 0 to 9 wt. % bismuth, from greater than 0 to 5 wt. % indium, from greater than 0 to 1 wt. % titanium, from greater than 0 to 2 wt. % lanthanum, from greater than 0 to 2 wt. % neodymium, optionally one or more of: up to 1 wt. % for: chromium, gallium, cobalt, iron, phosphorous, gold, tellurium, selenium, calcium, vanadium, molybdenum, platinum, magnesium; up to 5 wt. % silver, up to 1 wt. % zinc, up to 2 wt. % rare earth metals, excluding lanthanum and neodymium, and the balance tin together with any unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: An aircraft passenger reading light, which is operable in at least two predetermined configurations, comprises: a light source; an optical element; and an actuation mechanism, which is configured to modify a distance between the light source and the optical element. The distance (D) between the light source and the optical element differs in the at least two predetermined configurations and a spatial extension of the illumination, which results from the light output of the light source and the optical element, differs in the at least two predetermined configurations.

Abstract: An example file server manager disclosed herein receives a registration for a distributed file server, where the distributed file server is hosted in a virtualization environment and includes a cluster of file server virtual machines configured to provide access to a file system. The file server manager further synchronizes metadata with the distributed file server, the metadata including identification of each of the file server virtual machines of the cluster of file server virtual machines, the metadata including information regarding the file system and receiving a management request for the distributed file server. The file server manager further formats the management request for the virtualization environment based on the metadata and utilizing information from the registration to access the distributed file server with the formatted management request.

Abstract: A multi mode aircraft beacon light comprises a mounting portion for mounting the multi mode aircraft beacon light to an aircraft fuselage; at least one visible light source for emitting a visible beacon light output; a plurality of infra-red light sources for emitting an infrared beacon light output; an orientation sensor; and a controller, coupled to the orientation sensor for receiving an orientation sensor signal from the orientation sensor. The controller is configured to determine a mounting orientation of the multi mode aircraft beacon light from the orientation sensor signal, wherein the mounting orientation is indicative of whether the multi mode aircraft beacon light has an upper fuselage mounting position or a lower fuselage mounting position; and to selectively operate the plurality of infrared light sources, depending on the mounting orientation of the multi mode aircraft beacon light.

Abstract: In recent years, researchers have been focusing on the capabilities of radar-based microwave imaging in detection of concealed objects in sealed packages, through-the-wall imaging approach which faces challenge in suppress unwanted return signals. This disclosure relates a method to detect objects in sealed packages. One or more parameters associated with a conveyor are received to obtain a scan time of a radar. A sequence of scanning is determined between one or more antenna pairs based on corresponding position. A sealed package is scanned in the predetermined sequence to obtain range-time datasets with identifiers. The range-time datasets are processed by virtual antenna-pattern-weighted delay-multiply-and-sum technique based on one or more positions of each virtual antenna to determine one or more object signature images. A trained classification model based on extracted features associated with one or more object signature images.

Abstract: A method for handling a service connection in a wireless communication system, including detecting, by a User Equipment (UE), a Mobility Management (MM) service state of the UE is set to ATTEMPTING TO UPDATE, receiving, by the UE, a valid Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) in a TMSI reallocation procedure from a base station via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, changing, by the UE, the MM service state to a NORMAL SERVICE state in response to the receiving a valid TMSI and the detecting a MM service state, and sending, by the UE, a paging response message to the base station in response to the changing the MM service state and a paging indication message received from the base station to establish the service connection, the paging indication message including the valid TMSI.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resilient replication of storage operations. For example, a first storage controller may host first storage having a replication relationship with second storage hosted by a second storage controller. To improve resiliency against transient network issues of a network between the storage controllers, the first storage controller may implement a queue and retry mechanism to retry replication operations not acknowledge back by the second storage controller within a threshold time. The second storage controller may maintain a cumulative sequence number of a latest replication operation performed in order, an operation response map of replication operations performed out of order, and an operation finder map identifying currently implemented replication operations, which may be used to process incoming replication operations. Single write semantics, write order consistency, and reduction of write amplification may be provided.

Abstract: A method is provided comprising storing, in a first subscriber data server, subscriber data for each of a plurality of wireless devices, the subscriber data enabling wireless communication services for the plurality of wireless devices in a wireless network; determining to migrate the subscriber data from the first subscriber data server to a second subscriber data server; upon determining to migrate the subscriber data, initiating a migration process for the subscriber data from the first subscriber data server to a second subscriber data server by copying the subscriber data from the first subscriber data server to the second subscriber data server; and while copying and one or more new wireless devices are being provisioned for the wireless communication services in the wireless network, adding new subscriber data for the one or more new wireless devices to both the first subscriber data server and to the second subscriber data server.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a computer-based process that determines content display preferences of nearby detected devices, and transmits content tracks to those devices according to their individual preferences. For example, language preferences are determined from nearby devices, and content is played with corresponding language tracks sent to each device. In this manner, different tracks of content may be sent to different devices according to each device's preferences, so that individualized or personalized versions of content may be played for each different device. Thus, for instance, content may be played with different language tracks, where each track is selected to conform to the preferences of each different device. Accordingly, content may be played with different users or viewers experiencing the content in their preferred language. Embodiments of the disclosure also contemplate any other settings and preferences besides language.

Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for selecting audio content for a content entity in audio-visual content are described. An example technique involves identifying at least one content entity associated with a content item that is accessible to one or more users in a first language over a communication network. One or more attributes of the at least one content entity are determined. A plurality of audio content samples in a second language are obtained. Each audio content sample includes a different audio sample of a portion of speech of the content entity in the second language. A first audio content sample that satisfies a predetermined condition is determined, based on the plurality of audio content samples and the one or more attributes of the at least one content entity. An indication of the first audio content sample is provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical article (10) includes supplying a first coating composition (A) and supplying one or more additional coating compositions (B) to an ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of a coating apparatus (100). At least one of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) is a photochromic coating composition. The method includes mixing the first coating composition and the one or more additional coating compositions at the ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of the coating apparatus (100), and applying the mixture (C) of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) to at least a portion of the optical article (10) so as to provide a pattern (24) on the optical article upon exposure to actinic radiation.

Abstract: A method in a client backoff filter. The method includes receiving, from a server, a backoff data packet having backoff metadata. The method also includes saving the backoff metadata in a cache local to the client backoff filter. The method also includes receiving a subsequent request for service. The method also includes checking whether an attribute of the subsequent request for service matches the backoff metadata in the cache. The method also includes performing, responsive to checking, an action including at least one of the group including: blocking, responsive to the attribute matching the backoff metadata in the cache, transmission of the subsequent request for service to a server, and transmitting, responsive to the attribute failing to match the backoff metadata in the cache, the subsequent request for service to the server.