Abstract: A method of generating a consolidated asset inventory database. The method creates a consolidated asset inventory based on asset information obtained from various sources, in which asset objects are associated with various asset attributes. The consolidation includes, for a given network infrastructure asset, identifying asset data from multiple sources relating to the same asset based on common identifier values and combining the identified asset data into a consolidated data representation of the asset associated with the common identifier value(s) and including attributes from the multiple sources. After identifying an asset attribute for which a value in the consolidated asset data representation is missing or invalid, a trained prediction model is applied to other attributes of the asset to generate a predicted value for the identified attribute which is stored in the consolidated asset data representation in the database.

Abstract: A system includes persistent storage containing data used by software applications, and a server application configured to perform operations, including identifying a subset of the data, where the subset is used to generate a full offline payload for a particular software application and that includes user interface (UI) components selected for the particular software application based on the subset of the data. The operations also include monitoring the subset of the data to identify a modification to particular data and, based on identifying the modification, generating a partial offline payload based on the particular data as modified, where the partial offline payload includes a subset of the UI components, and where each UI component of the subset is updated based on the particular data as modified. The operations further include receiving a request for the partial offline payload and, based on receiving the request, transmitting the partial offline payload.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of interfacing between a source media device and a destination media device. A wireless module passes through an audio signal from the source device to an output device, and transmits a wireless signal to a wireless device that outputs the audio signal. In this manner, the number of devices used for the connections may be reduced.

Abstract: A system includes persistent storage containing data used by software applications, and a server application configured to perform operations, including identifying a subset of the data, where the subset is used to generate a full offline payload for a particular software application and that includes user interface (UI) components selected for the particular software application based on the subset of the data. The operations also include monitoring the subset of the data to identify a modification to particular data and, based on identifying the modification, generating a partial offline payload based on the particular data as modified, where the partial offline payload includes a subset of the UI components, and where each UI component of the subset is updated based on the particular data as modified. The operations further include receiving a request for the partial offline payload and, based on receiving the request, transmitting the partial offline payload.

Abstract: A system includes a memory structure containing a full offline payload including user interface (UI) components and generated by a server application based on corresponding data, and a software application configured to perform operations, including determining that a partial offline payload is available and, based thereon, transmitting, to the server application, a request for the partial offline payload. The operations also include receiving the partial offline payload including a subset of the UI components. Each respective UI component of the subset has been updated based on a modification of the corresponding data. The operations additionally include, for each respective UI component, identifying a corresponding identifier within the partial offline payload and, based thereon, determining a mapping of the respective UI component to a corresponding portion of the full offline payload. The operations further include updating the corresponding portion of the full offline payload based on the mapping.

Abstract: A system includes persistent storage containing data used by software applications, and a server application configured to perform operations, including identifying a subset of the data, where the subset is used to generate a full offline payload for a particular software application and that includes user interface (UI) components selected for the particular software application based on the subset of the data. The operations also include monitoring the subset of the data to identify a modification to particular data and, based on identifying the modification, generating a partial offline payload based on the particular data as modified, where the partial offline payload includes a subset of the UI components, and where each UI component of the subset is updated based on the particular data as modified. The operations further include receiving a request for the partial offline payload and, based on receiving the request, transmitting the partial offline payload.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of interfacing between a source media device and a destination media device. A wireless module passes through an audio signal from the source device to an output device, and transmits a wireless signal to a wireless device that outputs the audio signal. In this manner, the number of devices used for the connections may be reduced.

Abstract: Broadly speaking, the technology relates to using wave field synthesis theory to simulate one or more idealized virtual point sources in a multi-speaker system. The speaker transfer function of each speaker is modeled, and the values and directional gradient of the combined speaker transfer function at test points in a convexly-bounded listening region are compared to the desired values and directional gradient for the idealized transfer function of the idealized virtual point source(s) at the test points to determine filter coefficient sets for each filter. The determined filter coefficients are those which minimize the total difference between the values and directional gradient of the combined speaker transfer function and the values and directional gradient of the idealized transfer function of the idealized virtual point source across all the test points for a plurality of frequency bins.

Abstract: Broadly speaking, the technology relates to using wave field synthesis theory to simulate one or more idealized virtual point sources in a multi-speaker system. The speaker transfer function of each speaker is modeled, and the values and directional gradient of the combined speaker transfer function at test points in a convexly-bounded listening region are compared to the desired values and directional gradient for the idealized transfer function of the idealized virtual point source(s) at the test points to determine filter coefficient sets for each filter. The determined filter coefficients are those which minimize the total difference between the values and directional gradient of the combined speaker transfer function and the values and directional gradient of the idealized transfer function of the idealized virtual point source across all the test points for a plurality of frequency bins.

Abstract: A method for producing pipeline having a thermally insulating coating in which a continuous matrix of water-impermeable material has dispersed throughout it hollow microspheres or cellular particles which improve on heat insulating properties of the basic matrix.

Abstract: An insulated pipeline having spaced sections of heat-insulating material held between a continuous corrosion-resistant coating on the pipe and an outer protective jacket, thereby to provide a flexible composite which renders the pipeline resistant to mechanical and chemical attack while provided heat insulation for the pipeline in a manner which allows the pipeline to flex, for example during laying. The pipeline is preferably in the form of a continuous protective matrix bonded to the pipe and enveloping individual sections of the heat-insulating material.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to can end seamers and similar apparatus, in which end closures are secured on top of successive containers by securing tools, these tools and the support means which carry the containers being rotated simultaneously by a drive common to all the working parts of the machine and derived from a level above the securing tools. A single, unpressurized, gravity/centrifugal, entirely internal lubricating system is described.

Abstract: A mechanism for loading and unloading a container onto and from a vehicle comprises a member having one end thereof for releasable connection to the container and the other end thereof carrying pivot means movable in an elongated guide means for connection to the vehicle. The guide means so guide the pivot means so that a first actuator means, which acts on the pivot means, is operable to move the pivot means in, and relatively to, the guide means to move the member and the pivot means from a loaded position to an unloading position. A second actuator means which acts on the member is operable, with the member and the pivot means in the unloading position, to pivot the member relative to the guide means about the pivot means.