Abstract: A hub is configured to provide voice control without assistance from a remote system, which allows the hub to provide a user with the ability to control second devices in an environment by issuing voice commands, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet). The hub is also configured to execute rules without assistance from the remote system, which allows the hub to execute rules, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet).

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a subband full duplex (SBFD) pattern report, indicating a candidate SBFD pattern. The candidate SBFD pattern may indicate a candidate number of downlink or uplink subbands, a number of or location of guard bands, frequency locations of the uplink or downlink subbands or guard bands, a total uplink and downlink bandwidth, time locations of SBFD symbols or slots, transmit/receive beam pairs, transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state pairs or timing, or any combination thereof. The network may configure the UE with an SBFD pattern based on receiving the SBFD pattern report (e.g., which may or may not be the same as the reported candidate SBFD pattern).

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In a wireless communication system, a first wireless node may transmit a configuration message indicating one or more spatial configurations for communicating with a second wireless node. A spatial configuration may include one or more different sets of spatial parameters for half-duplex communications and full-duplex communications between the wireless nodes. In some examples, the first wireless node may select a first set of spatial parameters for half-duplex communications or a second set of spatial parameters for full-duplex communications based on an explicit indication or a resource configuration. The wireless nodes may perform half- or full-duplex communications using the first or second set of spatial parameters, respectively, in accordance with the configuration message.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for using computer vision to automatically generate a unit test case. A computer converts a text file of a source code to an image file of the source code. A computer inputs the image file to a neural network having been trained with source code images. The neural network identifies elements in the image file. The neural network generates a resulting image including identified elements in the image file. A computer extracts the identified elements from the resulting image. A computer generates a text file including a key value map of the identified elements. A computer generates a scaffold of a unit test case, based on the key value map.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments a code simplification system. An embodiment operates by determining that a software version of a coordinator node is different from a software version of one or more worker nodes. Commits by the one or more worker nodes to a database are disabled based on the determination that the software versions differ. An update is performed on each of the one or more worker nodes. An acknowledgement that the update on each of the one or more worker nodes has completed is received, and the commits to the database by the one or more worker nodes is enabled.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods to deploy a chemical inhibitor (e.g., a scale inhibitor, a corrosion inhibitor, a biocide, a wax control substance, an asphaltene control substance) in an oil well.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting device may add a first extension before modulated symbols of a communication, the first extension including data from an end portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may add a second extension after the modulated symbols, the second extension including data from a beginning portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may apply a first weighting function that overlaps the first extension and the beginning portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may apply a second weighting function that overlaps the end portion of the modulated symbols and the second extension. The transmitting device may add one or more of a header before the first extension or a tail after the second extension. The transmitting device may transmit the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication from a base station that a downlink shared channel resource in a scheduled occasion, such as a semi-persistently scheduled occasion, includes downlink control information (DCI). The UE may monitor the downlink shared channel resource for the DCI based on the indication. The UE may determine a set of uplink control channel resources based on one or more parameters of the DCI and the downlink shared channel resource. The parameters of the DCI on the semi-persistently scheduled downlink shared channel may implicitly indicate the set of uplink control channel resources to the UE. The UE may transmit an uplink control message to the base station using the set of uplink control channel resources.

Abstract: To perform Recovery Point Objective (RPO) driven backup scheduling, the illustrative data storage management system is enhanced in several dimensions. Illustrative enhancements include: streamlining the user interface to take in fewer parameters; backup job scheduling is largely automated based on several factors, and includes automatic backup level conversion for legacy systems; backup job priorities are dynamically adjusted to re-submit failed data objects with an “aggressive” schedule in time to meet the RPO; only failed items are resubmitted for failed backup jobs.

Abstract: Mitigating mistranscriptions resolves errors in a transcription of the audio portion of a video based on a semantic matching with contextualized data electronically garnered from one or more sources other than the audio portion of the video. A mistranscription is identified using a pretrained word embedding model that maps words to an embedding space derived from the contextualizing data. A similarity value for each vocabulary word of a multi-word vocabulary of the pretrained word embedding model is determined in relation to the mistranscription. Candidate words are selected based on the similarity values, each indicating a closeness of a corresponding vocabulary word to the mistranscription. The textual rendering is modified by replacing the mistranscription with a candidate word that, based on average semantic similarity values, is more similar to the mistranscription than is each other candidate word.

Abstract: A method for authenticating a user includes receiving an authorization request for a transaction from an account. A plurality of authentication questions each having a corresponding correct answer are associated with the account. A first set of authentication questions of the plurality of authentication questions is transmitted to a communication device by way of an interactive voice response (IVR) call. A first set of user-generated answers corresponding to the first set of authentication questions is received from the communication device. The method further includes determining whether the user is an account holder of the account based on at least the first set of user-generated answers. The transaction is processed based on the determination that the user is the account holder of the account, thereby authenticating the user.

Abstract: A distributed data storage system can be configured with a host connected to a first device and an initialization module that performs a default initialization procedure on the first device in response to detecting the first device has an unknown manufacturing origin. Conducting the default initialization procedure may allow the first device to service data access requests from the host. In response to the connection of a second device to the host and initialization module, a manufacturing origin of the second device is identified with the initialization module before the initialization module customizes the default initialization procedure to a custom procedure that is executed to allow the second device to satisfy a background operation prescribed by the initialization module.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may generate a first time-domain reference signal sequence of a first sequence length, and may truncate the first sequence length to a second sequence length and may append a header portion and a tail portion to the truncated first time-domain reference signal sequence. The transmitting device may perform a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the truncated first time-domain reference signal sequence to generate a frequency-domain reference signal sequence associated with a phase constant, and may perform an inverse fast-Fourier transform (IFFT) on the result of the DFT. The transmitting device may then transmit the result of the IFFT to a receiving device, which may further process the signal by performing a fast-Fourier transform (FFT), dividing by the phase constant, and taking the conjugate of the received sequence.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for identifying substitute products for a target product via a distributor's product management computer system, the method includes: receiving, at a distributor's product management computer system, data representing a target product of interest to a user of the system, wherein the target product is described by a plurality of variable-value attributes associated therewith; processing the received data through a machine-learning-produced algorithm and thereby generating data representing a first set of substitute product candidates for the target product and wherein each substitute product candidate has a corresponding match-score that represents a degree of determined similarity between that substitute product candidate and the target product; transforming the generated data that represents the first set of substitute product candidates into data representing a refined set of substitute product candidates by processing the generated data utilizing a constraint-based algorithm;

Abstract: Computer-based provision of recommendations includes determining an item of interest to a user and a geographic region of the user. The item, as available from different e-commerce websites (websites) of geographic regions that are different from the geographic region of the user are aggregated within blockchain. Social network data for the user is retrieved and processed using natural language processing to determine contacts of the user located in the geographic regions of the websites. A likelihood of each contact traveling to the geographic region of the user is determined based on the social networking data. A website is selected that offers the item and that corresponds to a geographic region of a selected contact. The selected contact of the user has at least a minimum likelihood of traveling to the geographic region of the user. The selected website is presented to the user as an option for obtaining the item.

Abstract: A recombinant immune cell expresses a heterologous IgG Fc receptor. In some embodiments, the heterologous IgG Fc receptor can be a chimeric IgG Fc receptor. Generally, the chimeric IgG Fc receptor includes an extracellular domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain. The extracellular domain generally includes a sufficient portion of CD64 to bind to an IgG Fc region. The intracellular domain of the chimeric IgG Fc receptor includes a sufficient portion of an Fc receptor allowing immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) to initiate cell signaling when an IgG Fc region binds to the extracellular domain.

Abstract: A product management computer system that can include one or more processors, and a computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processors, can cause the processors to: receive data representing a target product of interest to a user of the system, wherein the target product is described by a plurality of variable-value attributes associated; process the received data through a machine-learning-produced algorithm and generating data representing a first set of substitute product candidates for the target product and wherein each substitute product candidate has a corresponding match-score that represents a degree of determined similarity between that substitute product candidate and the target product; transform the generated data that represents the first set of substitute product candidates into data representing a refined set of substitute product candidates by processing the generated data utilizing a constraint-based algorithm; and output data representing

Abstract: A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.

Abstract: A product management computer system that can include one or more processors, and a computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processors, can cause the processors to: receive data representing a target product of interest to a user of the system, wherein the target product is described by a plurality of variable-value attributes associated; process the received data through a machine-learning-produced algorithm and generating data representing a first set of substitute product candidates for the target product and wherein each substitute product candidate has a corresponding match-score that represents a degree of determined similarity between that substitute product candidate and the target product; transform the generated data that represents the first set of substitute product candidates into data representing a refined set of substitute product candidates by processing the generated data utilizing a constraint-based algorithm; and output data representing

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a bearing, an outer race located radially outward of the bearing and supporting the bearing, a bearing housing located radially outward of the outer race and supporting the bearing and the outer race, and a bearing lubricant drain including a multi-directional passage formed in one or both of the outer race or the bearing housing, the lubricant drain arranged to cause a lubricant to flow from a first location to a second location. The second location is radially outward and axially offset from the first location. A gas turbine engine includes a shaft configured to rotate about a centerline axis of the gas turbine engine and the bearing assembly configured to facilitate the rotation of the shaft.