Abstract: A valve assembly that can be deployed in a subterranean well that includes a valve adapted to selectively isolate a region of the subterranean well, and a separating apparatus. The separating apparatus may further include at least one member being formed from a functional material and at least two sleeves connected by the at least one member.

Abstract: Ethylene-based polymers are generally characterized by a high load melt index of less than 12 g/10 min, a weight-average molecular weight from 200,000 to 550,000 g/mol, a number-average molecular weight from 18,000 to 48,000 g/mol, a CY-a parameter of less than 0.12, a tan ? at 0.1 sec?1 from 0.5 to 0.9 degrees, a tan ? at 100 sec?1 from 0.5 to 0.75 degrees, and a viscosity at 0.001 sec?1 from 1.3×106 to 1×107 Pa-sec. These ethylene polymers can be produced by peroxide-treating a bimodal molecular weight distribution dual metallocene-catalyzed resin, and can be used to produce blow molded bottles and other blow molded products.

Abstract: Synchronizing stereoscopic cameras using padding data setting modification may include: receiving a first frame from a first camera and a second frame from a second camera; calculating a differential between a first time corresponding to the first frame and a second time corresponding to the second frame; determining whether the differential exceeds a threshold; and increasing, responsive to the differential exceeding the threshold, a frame rate of the first camera relative to the second camera by transmitting a padding data instruction to the first camera or the second camera.

Abstract: A device may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request to allocate one or more computing resources for an application executing on the UE. The device may be associated with an edge node of a mobile network and the UE may be within a coverage area associated with the edge node. The device may receive a remote execution file package that is associated with code to be executed using the one or more computing resources. The device may assign the one or more computing resources for the application. The device may cause at least one of installation of the code for execution by the one or more computing resources, or execution of the code using the one or more computing resources. The device may transmit a response that provides an indication that the one or more computing resources have been allocated for the application.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output image. In one aspect, one of the methods includes generating the output image intensity value by intensity value according to a generation order of pixel—color channel pairs from the output image, comprising, for each particular generation order position in the generation order: generating a current output image representation of a current output image, processing the current output image representation using a decoder neural network to generate a probability distribution over possible intensity values for the pixel—color channel pair at the particular generation order position, wherein the decoder neural network includes one or more local masked self-attention sub-layers; and selecting an intensity value for the pixel—color channel pair at the particular generation order position using the probability distribution.

Abstract: Capacitively isolated current-loaded or current-driven charge pump circuits and related methods transfer electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side over a capacitive isolation boundary, using a controlled current source to charge isolation capacitors with constant current, as opposed to current impulses, while maintaining output voltage within tolerance. The charge pump circuits provide DC-to-DC converters that can be used in isolated power supplies, particularly in low-power applications and in such devices as sensor transmitters that have separate electrical ground planes. The devices and methods transfer electrical energy over an isolated capacitive barrier in a manner that is efficient, inexpensive, and reduces electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with current control for a multicore processor are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multicore processor may include a plurality of analog current comparators, each analog current comparator to measure current utilization by a corresponding one of the cores of the multicore processor. The multicore processor may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to cause the cores to individually throttle based on measurements from the corresponding analog current comparators. In some embodiments, a memory device of the multicore processor may store instructions executable to operate a plurality power management agents to determine whether to send throttle requests based on a plurality of histories of the current measurements of the cores, respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a flexible membrane for use with a carrier head of a substrate chemical mechanical polishing apparatus. The membrane comprises an outer surface providing a substrate receiving surface, wherein the outer surface has a central portion and an edge portion surrounding the central portion, wherein the central portion has a first surface roughness and the edge portion has a second surface roughness, the first surface roughness being greater than the second surface roughness.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls a driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more processors compare a control processor competence level of an on-board SDV control processor in controlling the SDV to a human driver competence level of a human driver in controlling the SDV while the SDV encounters a current roadway condition which is a result of current weather conditions of the roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling. One or more processors then selectively assign control of the SDV to the SDV control processor or to the human driver while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition based on which of the control processor competence level and the human driver competence level is relatively higher to one another.

Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein describe tokenizing data to generate a secure token that is limited in scope (e.g., directed to a specific recipient) and limited in time (e.g., valid for only a specified period of time). A detokenization process may be employed to recover encrypted data of the secure token without the need for any relational database lookup processes, thereby reducing cost while maintaining robust protection against unintended recipients that attempt to recover the encrypted data.

Abstract: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) computing system and methodology are provided to predict a textual representation of received input speech data. A context acoustic biasing (CAB) engine of the ASR computing system receives historical textual content and an ontology data structure. The CAB engine matches key terms identified in the historical textual content with concepts present in the ontology data structure to generate a contextual term list data structure comprising the concept terms related to concepts matching the key terms. The CAB engine generates acoustic representations of the concept terms in the contextual term list data structure and inputs them to an ASR computer model of the ASR computing system which processes an input speech signal to generate a predicted textual representation of the input speech signal. The predicted textual representation is biased towards the acoustic representations of the concept terms in the contextual term list data structure.

Abstract: The disclosed technology provides enhanced financial statements such as credit statements that provide customized payment options to a customer that takes into account the total amount owed by the customer, and past payments made by the customer. The customized payment options are determined with the goal of providing more payment options that encourage financial health, while not overwhelming the customer with too many options or irrelevant options. The customized payment options can be displayed in an interactive user interface for paying a credit statement that can visually inform a user of the benefit of the respective payment options with respect to the impact of the respective payment option on the customer's financial health—at least as it pertains to a credit account for which the statement was issued.

Abstract: A software as a service (SaaS) management platform, includes: an uploader process for receiving a plurality of contract files relating to purchases of a SaaS application; parsing logic that identifies terms in the plurality of contract files; normalization logic for assigning a normalization SKU to respective contract files based on the terms identified in the respective contract files; a background process that generates anonymized contract data by storing the terms of each contract file in association with the normalization SKU assigned to the contract file in an anonymous manner; a backend process that, responsive to a request from a client device, accesses the anonymized contract data to generate a distribution of terms of the anonymized contract data, generates benchmark data identifying an approximate location of terms of a given customer's contract file within the distribution, and returns the benchmark data to the client device for rendering through a user interface.

Abstract: A printing system for producing at least one three dimensional (3D) printed part is described. The printing system includes a deposition system configured to continuously deposit a layer onto a cylinder to outwardly extend a diameter of the cylinder, wherein the layer comprises a first pattern. The printing system also includes a rotating system configured to rotate the cylinder, and a control system configured to synchronize the deposition system with the cylinder.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for performing search queries. The method comprises transmitting a list of active indexers in an indexer cluster from a cluster master for receipt by a first search head, wherein the cluster master is communicatively coupled with an indexer cluster comprising a plurality of indexers and the first search head. The method further comprises receiving a first slot request at the cluster master in response to a query from the first search head, wherein the first search head is operable to transmit the query to the active indexers for execution if granted the slot request. Further, the method comprises evaluating a plurality of policies to determine if the first slot request can be granted and responsive to a positive determination, transmitting an authorization token for a slot to the first search head.

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a financial transaction are provided. In a method conducted at an issuing server computer associated with a first entity, a transaction request message is transmitted to an acquiring server computer associated with a second entity. The transaction request message is in respect of a push transaction in which funds from the first entity are transferred to the second entity and includes a first set of data elements. In response to transmitting the transaction request message, a transaction response message and a second set of data elements are received. The second set of data elements are associated with the first set of data elements and the financial transaction is processed using information contained in the first set of data elements and the second set of data elements.

Abstract: A network interface controller (NIC) associated with a virtual machine (VM) in a cloud computing network is configured to be flexibly attached and detached from a parent NIC to thereby enable the virtual machine to simultaneously be attached to multiple different virtual networks (VNets) and/or subnets that are associated with the same or different subscriptions. The inventive NIC, referred to herein as a flexibly extensible NIC (eNIC), enables a service provider to inject compute instances into an existing VNet using a multi-homing configuration in which the data plane uses a dedicated network interface to connect the customer's VNet, while another dedicated network interface provides management plane connectivity to the service provider. Such multi-VNet homing advantageously provides data plane isolation for the customer's VNet to comply with applicable security policies without disrupting management traffic between the injected resources and the service provider.

Abstract: Surfactants capable of releasing and/or dissolving polymers to form water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer solutions are disclosed. In addition, polymer compositions containing a water-in-oil emulsion comprising the surfactant are provided and can be used, for example, in methods of dissolving a polymer. Also disclosed are detergent compositions and methods of cleaning articles and/or membranes using the surfactants herein. These surfactants and polymer compositions can be used in various industries including for water clarification, papermaking, sewage and industrial water treatment, drilling mud stabilizers, and enhanced oil recovery.

Abstract: A method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, including: providing, over a network, a user interface for rendering by a client device to an employee of a customer of the SMP; receiving, over the network, input from the client device via the user interface, said input identifying a request by the employee for a SaaS application that is one of a portfolio of SaaS applications used by the customer and managed by the SMP; accessing an approval setting stored in association with the SaaS application, the approval setting configured to authorize automated approval of the employee for the SaaS application; responsive to receiving the input, and based on the approval setting, then triggering a single sign-on (SSO) service to provision the employee as a user of the SaaS application.

Abstract: A method for determining the gas pressure may include generating, via a downhole tool, neutron radiation in a cased wellbore of a geological formation and measuring a response to the neutron radiation. The method may also include determining, via a processor, at least one of a sigma, a neutron porosity, or a fast-neutron cross-section of the formation. Additionally, an equation of state of the gas may be estimated, and a gas pressure of the gas may be determined by solving a relationship, based at least in part on the equation of state, between the gas pressure and the at least one of the sigma, the neutron porosity, or the fast-neutron cross-section.