Abstract: A method for preparing a metal composite plate by rolling includes the following steps: 1) rolling composite surfaces of a base plate and a cladding plate, respectively, to obtain the base plate corrugation and the cladding plate corrugation for mating with each other; 2) cleaning the composite surfaces of the base plate and the cladding plate to expose the metal matrixes of the base plate and the cladding plate; 3) laminating the base plate and the cladding plate sequentially so that the base plate corrugation on the base plate and cladding plate corrugation on the cladding plate mate with each other, compacting, and performing welding sealing treatment to the base plate and the cladding plate to obtain a composite plate slab; and 4) rolling the composite plate slab after inspection by using a compositing machine to a desirable thickness, to obtain a metal composite plate.

Abstract: A method of generating a key for D2D communication between a first user equipment and a second user equipment in a first radio access node is disclosed.

Abstract: A process for operating a thermal or catalytic cracking unit is described, The process entails generating a product that includes cracked hydrocarbon vapor and solid coke-particles from a heavy hydrocarbon input. The product is communicated towards a fractionator and a quench liquid is introduced into the product for creating a two-phase flow of cracked hydrocarbon vapor and the quench liquid with solid coke-particles entrained in the quench liquid. The two-phase flow is introduced into the fractionator and the cracked hydrocarbon vapor are separated from the quench liquid and the solid coke-particles entrained therein by gravity separation. The two-phase flow can reduce or remove the requirement of a wash zone within the fractionator. A recirculation loop is included in a wash-zone circulation system. The recirculation loop bypasses one or more spray headers of the wash zone and returns to a first end of the wash-zone circulation system.

Abstract: The present invention lies in the field of plant protection, in particular in the field of controlling plant pests and pathogens that affect plants. The present invention relates to a plant comprising a plastid comprising a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) capable of silencing at least one target gene of a pest of a plant or of an agent causing a disease of a plant. The present invention further relates to such a transplastomic plant, wherein said dsRNA comprises two (separate) complementary single-stranded RNA strands. The present invention further relates to a plastid as comprised in the plant of the invention and to a plant cell comprising said plastid. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method of producing a plant of the invention and to a method of controlling a pest of a plant or a plant disease-causing agent or of protecting a plant from said pest or agent.

Abstract: A fast-accessing method may comprise: establishing a first security connection between a first network node and a user equipment; obtaining first information from a second network node, wherein the first information comprises at least one of system information of the second network node and an identifier of a security algorithm selected by the second network node for the user equipment; providing second information to the second network node, in response to an indication of the second network node from the user equipment, wherein the second information comprises security information related to the user equipment; and sending the first information to the user equipment for establishing a second security connection between the user equipment and the second network node.

Abstract: A targeted discovery between a first device and a second device in a network, in particular, a WHDI network, provides discovery for an identified device or a group of identified devices. The targeted discovery determines an identifier for a second device or a group of devices that the second device belongs to, and sends a device discovery message to the second device using the identifier for the second device when the second device is configured to respond to the device discovery message if the device discovery message includes the identifier for the second device. The first device receives a response to the device discovery message from the second device and can start further communication with the second device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for differentiating security configurations in a radio local area network. A method can comprises: at a base station, sending a handover request to a local access point for initiating a handover of a user equipment from the base station to the local access point, the handover request comprising an indication of a scheme of security configuration to be used for protecting a communication between the base station and the user equipment. The method can further comprise, at the base station, forwarding to the user equipment a handover command received from the local access point, wherein the indication is comprised in the handover command by the local access point. The method can further comprise communicating with the user equipment according to the scheme of security configuration after the user equipment is handover to the local access point.

Abstract: A method for diverse security handling may comprise: maintaining a first connection between a user equipment and a first network node, and a second connection between the user equipment and a second network node which has a third connection with the first network node; setting an indicator in a packet to indicate whether a destination of user data in the packet is the first network node or the second network node; and transmitting the packet from the user equipment to the first network node via the first connection.

Abstract: A system and process for video characterization that facilitates video classification and retrieval, as well as motion detection, applications. This involves characterizing a video sequence with a gray scale image having pixel levels that reflect the intensity of motion associated with a corresponding region in the sequence of video frames. The intensity of motion is defined using any of three characterizing processes. Namely, a perceived motion energy spectrum (PMES) characterizing process that represents object-based motion intensity over the sequence of frames, a spatio-temporal entropy (STE) characterizing process that represents the intensity of motion based on color variation at each pixel location, a motion vector angle entropy (MVAE) characterizing process which represents the intensity of motion based on the variation of motion vector angles.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for securing device-to-device communications. A method can comprise: at an access network apparatus, obtaining from a core network apparatus and storing a first key shared between a first user equipment and the core network apparatus for device-to-device communications of the first user equipment; receiving from a second user equipment, a request for generating a second key for a device-to-device communication between the first user equipment and the second user equipment; in response to the request, generating the second key based on the first key and security parameters; and sending the second key to the second user equipment.

Abstract: A targeted discovery between a first device and a second device in a network, in particular, a WHDI network, provides discovery for an identified device or a group of identified devices. The targeted discovery determines an identifier for a second device or a group of devices that the second device belongs to, and sends a device discovery message to the second device using the identifier for the second device when the second device is configured to respond to the device discovery message if the device discovery message includes the identifier for the second device. The first device receives a response to the device discovery message from the second device and can start further communication with the second device.

Abstract: A method and a processing device may be provided for copying animation effects of a source object to one or more target objects of a presentation. The source object and the target objects may be included in presentation templates, or presentation slides of presentation files. The one or more target objects may be included in a same presentation slide as the source object, a different presentation slide as the source object, a same presentation file as the source object, a different presentation file as a source object, a same presentation template as a source object, or a different presentation template as the source object. Animation effects that are supported by a target object may be copied from the source object to the target object. When copying one or more animation effects from the source object to multiple target objects, timing of the animation effects may be serial or concurrent.

Abstract: A targeted discovery between a first device and a second device in a network, in particular, a WHDI network, provides discovery for an identified device or a group of identified devices. The targeted discovery determines an identifier for a second device or a group of devices that the second device belongs to, and sends a device discovery message to the second device using the identifier for the second device when the second device is configured to respond to the device discovery message if the device discovery message includes the identifier for the second device. The first device receives a response to the device discovery message from the second device and can start further communication with the second device.

Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.

Abstract: A method for preparing a metal composite plate/strip by rolling, comprises the following steps: 1) respectively rolling the composite surfaces of a base plate and a cladding plate to obtain the base plate corrugation and the cladding plate corrugation for mating with each other; 2) cleaning the composite surfaces of the base plate and the cladding plate to expose the metal matrixes; 3) sequentially laminating the base plate and the cladding plate so that the base plate corrugation on the base plate and cladding plate corrugation on the cladding plate mate with each other, compacting, and performing welding sealing treatment to obtain a composite plate slab; 4) rolling the qualified composite plate after inspection by using a compositing machine to a desirable thickness, to obtain a composite plate/strip.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for rolling a metal composite plate/strip, comprising the following steps: 1) selecting a metal base plate and a metal cladding plate, cleaning the surfaces of the base plate and the cladding plate to be composited until the metal matrixes are exposed; 2) sequentially laminating the base plate and the cladding plate to obtain a composite plate slab; 3) rolling the composite plate slab through a composite rough rolling mill having a corrugated roll to obtain a composite plate having a corrugated mating surface on its composite surface; and 4) flattening the composite plate having a complete corrugated cladding plate by a composite finish rolling mill to a desirable thickness to obtain a composite plate/strip.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for securing device-to-device communications. A method can comprise: at an access network apparatus, obtaining from a core network apparatus and storing a first key shared between a first user equipment and the core network apparatus for device-to-device communications of the first user equipment; receiving from a second user equipment, a request for generating a second key for a device-to-device communication between the first user equipment and the second user equipment; in response to the request, generating the second key based on the first key and security parameters; and sending the second key to the second user equipment.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are presented herein for improved operation of a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) of one or more user equipment (UE). For example, an example method of wireless communications is presented, which may include monitoring, by a UE, one or more items received from a UICC of the UE during a UICC operation. In addition, the example method may also include determining that at least one of (a) a number of the one or more items having a first item type exceeds a threshold number, or (b) an elapsed time since the UICC operation started exceeds a threshold time. Moreover, the example method may include providing, based on the determining, a notification to a user interface associated with the UE indicating that the UICC operation is ongoing.

Abstract: Provided are a method, a corresponding apparatus and a computer program product for performing a group authentication and key agreement procedure. A method comprises initiating, by a master device in a group of devices, a group authentication and key agreement procedure towards an authentication entity, wherein a shared group key is defined for use in the group authentication and key agreement procedure; performing mutual authentication between the master device and the authentication entity based upon the shared group key; and performing mutual authentication between the authenticated master device and other devices in the group based upon the shared group key for completion of the group authentication and key agreement procedure. With the claimed invention, the impact of the signaling overhead on a network can be significantly decreased without substantive modification to the existing architecture of the network.

Abstract: A method for diverse security handling may comprise: maintaining a first connection between a user equipment and a first network node, and a second connection between the user equipment and a second network node which has a third connection with the first network node; setting an indicator in a packet to indicate whether a destination of user data in the packet is the first network node or the second network node; and transmitting the packet from the user equipment to the first network node via the first connection.