Abstract: An electronic device includes electrical components in a housing. The components may include optical components such as a display. Protective structures may be used to protect the optical components. The protective structures may include one or more protective transparent layers such as layers of glass or crystalline material such as sapphire. The protective transparent layers may be coated with an oleophobic coating. To enhance coating durability, catalyst may be used to help bond the oleophobic coating. An adhesion promotion layer such as a silicon oxide layer may be deposited on the transparent protective layer. A catalyst layer such as a layer of sodium fluoride may be deposited on the adhesion promotion layer. The oleophobic material may be evaporated or otherwise deposited on the catalyst layer. Heat and moisture may help the oleophobic material form chemical bonds with the adhesion promotion layer, thereby forming a durable oleophobic coating.

Abstract: Techniques and architecture are described for a pull model for obtaining and implementing config changes on network devices are described herein. A user submits intent configuration to the network controller that needs to be delivered to several network sites. The network controller generates a config file. The network controller sends a pull notification message to all network devices that need to retrieve the config file. This pull notification message only contains a corresponding transaction ID for each network device and a location for the network device to use to pull the config file. The network devices may utilize a HTTP REST API exposed by the network controller to obtain the config file from the network controller. The network devices may utilize a REST API exposed by the network controller to reply with statuses of the configuration transaction. The techniques and architecture may be applied to multi-tenant network devices.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing. The device may include metal structures such as a metal member forming a portion of the housing, a portion of a strap, or other portions of the device. A gold-containing coating such as a layer of elemental gold or a gold alloy may cover the metal member to provide the metal member with a gold appearance or other desired appearance. To protect the metal member and the gold-containing coating, the metal member and gold-containing coating may be covered with a protective coating layer such as an organic protective layer. The organic protective layer may have a fluoropolymer layer with thiol coupling groups to promote adhesion to the gold-containing layer or may contain a polymer layer with silane and thiol coupling groups that serves as an adhesion promotion layer for an overlapping fluoropolymer layer with silane coupling groups.

Abstract: A coil support for preformed flat coils of a stator of an electric rotary motor includes an annular supporting structure and a plurality of columns extending upwardly from the supporting structure. The columns are spaced apart from each other to form a corresponding plurality of coil receiving portions configured to hold the preformed flat coils in place before a potting operation. Each of the coil receiving portions is configured to support a lower part of one of the preformed flat coils.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contextual objects. The web content elements may be hyperlink elements, and contextual objects may be identified based on the hyperlink elements. A dominant entity may be identified for the web content, and contextual objects relating to the dominant entity may be identified. When a request for web content is received, contextual objects may be provided with the requested content. Personalized contextual objects may be selected from the identified contextual objects based on data associated with the request for web content. Selection of a contextual object may result in navigation to a browsing environment associated with the selected contextual object.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for increasing user engagement using incentivized user task completion. In some embodiments, the incentivized user tasks relate to game related tasks in exchange for rewards, also referred to as “gamification”. Such gamification techniques entice user interaction by involving introducing user specific games, rewards, and prizes into the online shopping experience. As described herein, such functionality relates to identifying user specific features, identifying a list of prized products for the user, introducing games for the user to engage with, and rewarding the user for successfully completing a game. The games and rewards may be presented to the user in an interactive visual display incorporating the game modules and rewards throughout. The gamification process may be a collaborative endeavor between the online shopping platform and online sellers to develop games and rewards which market products directly to specific users.

Abstract: A tournament application system and method of participation/operation thereof is disclosed herein. The tournament application system and method of participation/operation thereof includes an application system with a computing system capable of interacting with a plurality of users. A server including a module arranged to interact with a plurality of users to operate a game containing a plurality of levels, the system being arranged to operate a tournament structure. The tournament application system includes tournaments which have multiple teams in each game. The method of participation/operation of the tournament application includes the steps of: a) users taking part in an event by grouping themselves into teams; b) the players being able to join the tournament or game at any stage of the tournament; c) the tournament application system provides short tournament in a team format where the teams can be of equal or unequal strength.

Abstract: A cooling cage assembly for a rotary electric motor includes a cooling stator arrangement, and a first cylindrical part and a second cylindrical part fixedly mounted against respective opposite sides of the cooling stator arrangement. The cooling stator arrangement includes a stator and cooling tiles mounted against and around the outer circumference of the stator. Each cooling tile includes at least one channel extending from an upper side to a lower side of the cooling tile. The cooling cage assembly further includes a first plurality of fluidic bridges arranged on the upper side of the cooling tiles and a second plurality of fluidic bridges arranged on the lower side of the cooling tiles to form, together with the channel(s) of the cooling tiles, a serpentine flow path, for a cooling fluid, around the outer circumference of the stator.

Abstract: Markings for electronic devices are disclosed. Markings are formed through a laser-based process which transforms a colorant in a multilayer structure disposed along an interior surface of a cover. The transformed colorant defines a marking visible along an external surface of the electronic device.

Abstract: A stator assembly includes a stator having a plurality of teeth which are distributed around a circumference of the stator and point toward a central axis of the stator. The teeth alternately have a first cross-sectional profile and a second cross-sectional profile, and a plurality of slots being formed between the teeth. A plurality of coils are disposed around the teeth having the first cross-sectional profile. The second cross-sectional profile has a parallel-sided stem portion and an adjoining tapered head portion. A height of the stem portion of the second cross-sectional profile is less than a height of a respective one of the coils that is disposed around an adjacent one of the teeth having the first cross-sectional profile.

Abstract: A coil support for preformed flat coils of a stator of an electric rotary motor includes an annular supporting structure and a plurality of columns extending upwardly from the supporting structure. The columns are spaced apart from each other to form a corresponding plurality of coil receiving portions configured to hold the preformed flat coils in place before a potting operation. Each of the coil receiving portions is configured to support a lower part of one of the preformed flat coils.

Abstract: A cover assembly for an electronic device has a cover member including a glass ceramic material. An adhesion layer couples an interior coating to the cover member. The adhesion layer includes an oxide-based layer, such as a silicon oxide-based layer, and a coupling agent.

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display and other electrical components. The display may be covered with a display cover layer. A rear housing member, the display cover layer, and other structures in the device may be formed from a transparent member. Transparent members in the device may be covered with layers such as layers of ink. The ink may have a polymer with colorant such as dye or pigment. Light-scattering particles such as inorganic dielectric particles may be incorporated into the polymer. The inorganic dielectric particles may have cores formed from materials such as titanium dioxide and coatings that help prevent discoloration of the titanium dioxide and degradation of surrounding polymer when the inorganic dielectric particles are exposed to ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display and a rear housing. A coating may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer for the display or on an inner surface of the rear housing. The coating may include one or more inorganic layers such as inorganic layers in a thin-film interference filter or other layer of material. A buffer layer having a polymer with adhesion promotion additive and embedded silicon oxide particles may be interposed between the coating and a glass layer forming the rear housing or between a patterned indium tin oxide coating on a display cover layer and an adhesive layer that attaches a pixel array to the display cover layer.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing. The device may include metal structures such as a metal member forming a portion of the housing, a portion of a strap, or other portions of the device. A gold-containing coating such as a layer of elemental gold or a gold alloy may cover the metal member to provide the metal member with a gold appearance or other desired appearance. To protect the metal member and the gold-containing coating, the metal member and gold-containing coating may be covered with a protective coating layer such as an organic protective layer. The organic protective layer may have a fluoropolymer layer with thiol coupling groups to promote adhesion to the gold-containing layer or may contain a polymer layer with silane and thiol coupling groups that serves as an adhesion promotion layer for an overlapping fluoropolymer layer with silane coupling groups.

Abstract: Patterned and plasma-treated coatings for surfaces of electronic devices are disclosed. The patterned and plasma-treated coatings may include a linear fluorinated oligomer or linear fluorinated polymer and may be transparent. Regions of a patterned coating may be micro-sized. The pattern defined by the coating may not be visually discernable, but may affect the frictional properties of the coating.

Abstract: A search engine query can be received, along with contextual data encoding information about a context of the query. The query can be classified into a selected user interface profile of multiple available user interface profiles, with the classifying including applying a classification model to the contextual data. A visual structure generator can be selected using results of the classifying, and a search results page can be generated for the query. The generating of the search results page can include using the selected visual structure generator to impose a selected visual structure on the search results page, with the selected visual structure corresponding to the selected visual structure generator. The generated search results page can be returned in response to the receiving of the query.

Abstract: The present invention generates survey related data, wherein unstructured documents comprising survey questions and table specifications is processed by dividing the text into a single token or series of tokens. Thereafter, a second document is created by assigning a unique identifier to each token or series of tokens, the unique identifier being in a machine readable format; and the unique identifiers in the second document are processed to create a third document based upon the unique identifiers, the third document comprising of text in a structured format.

Abstract: A cover assembly for an electronic device has a cover member including a glass ceramic material. An adhesion layer couples an interior coating to the cover member. The adhesion layer includes an oxide-based layer, such as a silicon oxide-based layer, and a coupling agent.

Abstract: Water-borne sealer compositions, multilayer coated substrates, and methods for building up a multilayer coating on a substrate are provided. In one example, a water-borne sealer composition includes an acrylic latex resin, a polyurethane dispersion (PUD), and water. The acrylic latex resin is free of a core-shell latex. The PUD includes a hydroxyl functional reaction product of polyisocyanate and a polyol including a polycarbonate diol.