Abstract: Systems and methods for securities claims identification, optimization and recovery are disclosed herein. The disclosed system may maximize returns on security claims assets arising from alleged fraud in the purchase or sale of securities in a securities portfolio. In one embodiment, the disclosed system monitors data, including unstructured data, relating to a plurality of entities' securities, and creates an aggregated data set to which machine learning may be applied to identify characteristics indicative of an event of interest, such as fraud. The systems and methods of the present invention may be used to monitor an investor portfolio using analytic tools to identify asynchronous activity or movements in portfolio securities associated with the event of interest, and perform loss and damages valuation analysis, and assist with identifying securities claims and optimize recovery of revenue associated with the securities claims.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for evaluation of fouling of passages of a spacer plate (10) of a tubular heat exchanger (11), wherein first, second and third pressure sensors (31, 32, 33) are arranged, the method comprising steps of: (a) during a transient operation phase of the heat exchanger determination of a value over time of Wide Range Level NGL, from the measurements of the first and third pressure sensors (31, 33), and of a value over time of Narrow Range Level NGE, from the measurements of the second and third pressure sensors (31, 33); (b) determination of a value over time of Steam Range Level deviation ?NGV, corresponding to the NGL from which a component representative of a variation of free water surface in the heat exchanger has been filtered, from the values of NGL and NGE; (c) comparison of the determined value of ?NGV with a set of reference profiles ?NGVi for said transient operation phase of the heat exchanger, each reference profile ?NGVi being associated with a level of fouling so

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for evaluation of fouling of passages of a spacer plate (10) of a tubular heat exchanger (11), wherein first, second and third pressure sensors (31, 32, 33) are arranged, the method comprising steps of: (a) during a transient operation phase of the heat exchanger determination of a value over time of Wide Range Level NGL, from the measurements of the first and third pressure sensors (31, 33), and of a value over time of Narrow Range Level NGE, from the measurements of the second and third pressure sensors (31, 33); (b) determination of a value over time of Steam Range Level deviation ?NGV, corresponding to the NGL from which a component representative of a variation of free water surface in the heat exchanger has been filtered, from the values of NGL and NGE; (c) comparison of the determined value of ?NGV with a set of reference profiles ?NGVi for said transient operation phase of the heat exchanger, each reference profile ?NGVi being associated with a level of fouling so

Abstract: A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects to implement a quota policy or a part of a relational database. The plurality of objects include a first plurality of immutable objects, a second plurality of immutable objects and a head object. The first plurality of immutable objects contain information kept within the database. The second plurality of immutable objects contain a hierarchy of pages for accessing the first plurality of immutable objects. The plurality of objects also include a mutable object that contains a mapping table that maps identifiers of the pages to identifiers of objects of the second plurality of immutable objects. The information is one of: quota policy information; information within a table of a relational database; a stripe of a thin provisioned file.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for characterising one or more faults in a system grouping together a plurality of internal physical quantities and delimited by a plurality of boundary physical quantities, the system being modelled by a healthy model establishing relationships linking said internal physical quantities with one another and with the boundary physical quantities in the absence of a fault, a fault being defined as an alteration in the relationships linking said internal physical quantities with one another and with the boundary physical quantities with respect to the healthy model, wherein a fault is characterised by counting a number of iterations having involved said fault in a series of iterations involving a fault matrix.

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.

Abstract: An apparatus is described including a large scale distributed storage system. The large scale distributed storage system includes an object store. The large scale distributed storage system includes a plurality of connector nodes coupled to the object store. The connector nodes are to provide access to the object store for respective users that are respectively coupled to the connector nodes. The connector nodes are to provide the following services for the respective users: a snapshot of a storage system implemented within said object store; branching from a snapshot taken of said storage system implemented within said object store; locking of information kept within said storage system implemented within said object store.

Abstract: A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects to implement a quota policy or a part of a relational database. The plurality of objects include a first plurality of immutable objects, a second plurality of immutable objects and a head object. The first plurality of immutable objects contain information kept within the database. The second plurality of immutable objects contain a hierarchy of pages for accessing the first plurality of immutable objects. The plurality of objects also include a mutable object that contains a mapping table that maps identifiers of the pages to identifiers of objects of the second plurality of immutable objects. The information is one of: quota policy information; information within a table of a relational database; a stripe of a thin provisioned file.

Abstract: A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects to implement a quota policy or a part of a relational database. The plurality of objects include a first plurality of immutable objects, a second plurality of immutable objects and a head object. The first plurality of immutable objects contain information kept within the database. The second plurality of immutable objects contain a hierarchy of pages for accessing the first plurality of immutable objects. The plurality of objects also include a mutable object that contains a mapping table that maps identifiers of the pages to identifiers of objects of the second plurality of immutable objects. The information is one of: quota policy information; information within a table of a relational database; a stripe of a thin provisioned file.

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.

Abstract: An apparatus is described including a large scale distributed storage system. The large scale distributed storage system includes an object store. The large scale distributed storage system includes a plurality of connector nodes coupled to the object store. The connector nodes are to provide access to the object store for respective users that are respectively coupled to the connector nodes. The connector nodes are to provide the following services for the respective users: a snapshot of a storage system implemented within said object store; branching from a snapshot taken of said storage system implemented within said object store; locking of information kept within said storage system implemented within said object store.

Abstract: A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.