Abstract: A slide training apparatus is provided including a slide support structure. The slide support structure includes side supporting elements and a cross bar supported by the side supporting elements and having an adjustable height. The side supporting elements may be attached at lower ends to feet, wheels, or base support elements. The apparatus may further include a mat disposed at least partially under the slide support structure.

Abstract: A slide training apparatus is provided including a slide support structure. The slide support structure includes side supporting elements and a cross bar supported by the side supporting elements and having an adjustable height. The side supporting elements may be attached at lower ends to feet, wheels, or base support elements. The apparatus may further include a mat disposed at least partially under the slide support structure.

Abstract: A carrier for ski equipment comprises a rigid lower cross member and a lower membrane attached to an upper surface of the lower cross member; a rigid upper cross member pivotally attached to the lower cross member at first end thereof by a hinge, and an upper membrane attached to a lower surface of the upper cross member; a latch configured to secure the upper cross member in a closed position with respect to the lower cross member; wherein the upper and lower membranes comprise a plurality of transversely offset rows of longitudinally spaced protrusions; and wherein when the upper cross member is in the closed position, each of the plurality of rows of protrusions on the upper membrane interlocks with one of the plurality of rows of protrusions on the lower membrane to fill the gap between the upper and lower cross members.

Abstract: A bicycle carrier is provided with an integrated work stand to support a bicycle during maintenance or repair. The integrated work stand may be used when the bicycle carrier is in a non-use configuration. The non-use configuration may also comprise a storage configuration for the bicycle carrier. The integrated work stand may retract into the bicycle carrier. The integrated work stand may include an arm with a clamp mechanism at one end of the arm. The bicycle carrier may include a locking mechanism to lock the integrated work stand in place with respect to the bicycle carrier. Integrated work stands having jaws may capture the frame of a bicycle in the jaws.

Abstract: A slide training apparatus is provided including a slide support structure. The slide support structure includes side supporting elements and a cross bar supported by the side supporting elements and having an adjustable height. The side supporting elements may be attached at lower ends to feet, wheels, or base support elements. The apparatus may further include a mat disposed at least partially under the slide support structure.

Abstract: An equipment rack for use with a vehicle is described having a sliding member translatably attached to a lower cross member of the rack. The sliding member translates outwardly from the rack to a loading and unloading position. In the loading and unloading position, sports equipment may be placed on or removed from the sliding member. When the sports equipment has been loaded the sliding member may be translated back toward the rack into a stowed position. In the stowed position an upper cross member may be clamped to the lower cross member to secure the sports equipment on the rack.

Abstract: A rack is described for securing equipment, such as a kayak, to a vehicle. The rack has a base member, a support member, and a hinge assembly that pivotally connects the support member to the base member. The rack may be folded from an open configuration to a closed configuration. A handle or actuator on the base member may be operated to engage or disengage a latch mechanism to allow the hinge assembly to pivot or to be fixed to control the movement of the support member between desired positions in relation to the base member. The latch mechanism may comprise a shuttle assembly.

Abstract: A rack is described for securing equipment, such as a kayak, to a vehicle. The rack has a base member, a support member, and a hinge assembly that pivotally connects the support member to the base member. The rack may be folded from an open configuration to a closed configuration. A handle or actuator on the base member may be operated to engage or disengage a latch mechanism to allow the hinge assembly to pivot or to be fixed to control the movement of the support member between desired positions in relation to the base member. The latch mechanism may comprise a shuttle assembly.

Abstract: An equipment rack for use with a vehicle is described having an expandable hinge and latch with a collapsed and an expanded configuration for stowing skis, snowboards, and other equipment. Various configurations of support members are described for securing equipment in the rack, including interlocking protrusions. Various embodiments of the equipment rack are provided with a sliding lower rack and releasable mount assemblies.

Abstract: Computing device file system change detection and change replication methods and systems are described herein. In one embodiment, the change detection is accomplished by comparing two master file tables of two different versions of the same file system and inferring file system name space change, file system metadata change and file data change. The method includes creating a file system name space change log and file data change log for any objects associated with the changes to the file system. The method also includes replicating these change logs to the replication server and applying the change logs to the data store on replication server.

Abstract: Computing device file system change detection and change replication methods and systems are described herein. In one embodiment, the change detection is accomplished by comparing two master file tables of two different versions of the same file system and inferring file system name space change, file system metadata change and file data change. The method includes creating a file system name space change log and file data change log for any objects associated with the changes to the file system. The method also includes replicating these change logs to the replication server and applying the change logs to the data store on replication server.

Abstract: Methods and systems for tracking a user's engagement with an object on an electronic page, such as an ad, are provided. An electronic page have an associated ad is loaded in an application, such as a browser or another native application, on a user computing device. The user computing device determines whether the user is actively engaged with the electronic page while the ad is in view on the display of the user computing device. When a reporting condition is met, the user computing device transmits data representing the result of the determinations obtained over a reporting period to an external computing device. The functionalities for tracking the user's active engagement with the ad can be provided by an ad-tracking code embedded in a webpage retrieved from a publisher's website, or by a component or module of a native application installed on the user computing device.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for monitoring a software agent running in a virtual machine to prevent execution of the software agent from being tampered with. In one embodiment, the software agent bootstraps such monitoring by ensuring that its code is present in memory and providing the code, memory addresses associated with the code, and a cryptographic signature of the code, to a monitoring process upon request. In response to receiving the code, the monitoring process checks the code using the cryptographic signatures and further ensures that the code is present in memory at the provided address. The monitoring process may then placing write traces on all memory pages of the agent and execution trace(s) on certain pages of the agent. By tracking writes to and execution of the respective pages, the monitoring process may determine whether the agent has been modified and whether the agent is still running.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for monitoring a software agent running in a virtual machine to prevent execution of the software agent from being tampered with. In one embodiment, the software agent bootstraps such monitoring by ensuring that its code is present in memory and providing the code, memory addresses associated with the code, and a cryptographic signature of the code, to a monitoring process upon request. In response to receiving the code, the monitoring process checks the code using the cryptographic signatures and further ensures that the code is present in memory at the provided address. The monitoring process may then placing write traces on all memory pages of the agent and execution trace(s) on certain pages of the agent.