Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices providing for the robotic installation of vehicle electrical systems are described. A vehicle wiring harness includes first and second cables, a robotic gripping arm, and at least two pairs of stiffeners coupled to the cables to define folding points and corresponding segments that enable robotic folding and unfolding of the wiring harness. In other examples, a wiring harness is coupled to a plurality of electrical connectors carried by a carrier plate of an electrical control unit connection system (ECU), which is installed by robotically mating the plurality of electrical connectors carried by the carrier plate.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a connector housing. The connector housing includes a first side having a first opening. The first opening includes a first planar surface within the connector housing. The connector housing includes a second side having a second opening. The connector assembly includes a terminal with an attachment portion and a conductive member. The conductive member includes a tanged portion. The attachment portion includes a socket opening accessible through the second opening of the connector housing. The connector assembly includes a stuffer insertable into the first opening of the connector housing. The tanged portion of the terminal is engageable with the stuffer to urge the conductive member toward the first planar surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a consolidated interface for flexible and customizable code deployment. Specifically, a centralized interface for management and automation of all phases of code deployment; including, but not limited to, code validation, validation approval, code deployment and data reporting/auditing. Code is automatically validated regardless of which standards or regulations apply to the programs/entities, platforms and/or applications associated with a code deployment. In addition, any known, or future known, code deployment tool and/or reporting/auditing tool may be used to conduct the deployment/migration and/or provide requisite reporting. Additionally, the systems herein disclosed are capable of integrating with any new/future platform, new/future software applications/packages and/or updates/revisions to applications/software packages without having to modify or reconfigure the disclosed system.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a consolidated interface for flexible and customizable code deployment. Specifically, a centralized interface for management and automation of all phases of code deployment; including, but not limited to, code validation, validation approval, code deployment and data reporting/auditing. Code is automatically validated regardless of which standards or regulations apply to the programs/entities, platforms and/or applications associated with a code deployment. In addition, any known, or future known, code deployment tool and/or reporting/auditing tool may be used to conduct the deployment/migration and/or provide requisite reporting. Additionally, the systems herein disclosed are capable of integrating with any new/future platform, new/future software applications/packages and/or updates/revisions to applications/software packages without having to modify or reconfigure the disclosed system.

Abstract: A proximity lock is battery powered and includes an infrared (IR) circuit for detecting the presence of an authentication device and a radio frequency (RF) circuit for communicating with the authentication device. RF signals emitted from an RF circuit are received by an antenna within the authentication device. An IR signal recognizes the presence of the authentication device and prompts the RF circuit to communicate with the authentication device.

Abstract: A next generation service node (NGSN) for providing advanced interactive voice response (IVR) services within a telecommunications network. The NGSN includes intelligent peripherals implemented as network audio servers, and application servers which execute customer application files to perform IVR services. The NGSN provides reliability through redundancy of application servers, including automatic application server failover within a node, and automatic node failover between NGSNs. The NGSN features include modular software and hardware architecture with internal function encapsulation. This allows multiple vendors products to be used and provides a common signaling interface to be used to any switch network. Other NGSN features include an open systems architecture with improved scaleability and increased application processing capability.

Abstract: A next generation service node (NGSN) for providing advanced interactive voice response (IVR) services within a telecommunications network. The NGSN includes intelligent peripherals implemented as network audio servers, and application servers which execute customer application files to perform IVR services. The NGSN provides reliability through redundancy of application servers, including automatic application server failover within a node, and automatic node failover between NGSNs. The NGSN features include modular software and hardware architecture with internal function encapsulation. This allows multiple vendors products to be used and provides a common signaling interface to be used to any switch network. Other NGSN features include an open systems architecture with improved scaleability and increased application processing capability.

Abstract: Enhanced voice services (EVS) interactively communicate with a caller so as to provide audio prompting and selection of the final termination of a call. The present improvement includes load balancing, wherein degraded service of audio response units (ARUs) is detected. With load balancing, individual EVS ARU nodes are lumped into groups, where a group is a set of two or more functionally identical EVS audio response units (ARUs) that all support the same EVS customer applications. An inbound call for a given EVS application can be routed, based on a lookup at the data access point (DAP), to any ARU in the group. With the operating level of each ARU in a particular group being known, the percent allocations for each ARU are determined and an update is made at the DAP to route incoming calls to each ARU in the group according to the specified percentages.