Abstract: Systems and methods for a hierarchical step-up authentication mechanism include monitoring access to one or more private applications; responsive to a request to access the one or more private applications, determining an Authentication Level (AL) of a user associated with the request, wherein determining the AL of the user comprises referencing one or more AL trees; and responsive to determining an AL of the user, performing one or more actions based thereon, wherein the one or more actions comprises one of allowing access to the one or more private applications and denying access to the one or more private applications.

Abstract: A method includes processing parameter selection inputs corresponding to a threshold correlation rule associated with monitoring a communication network. The method also includes processing node selection inputs. The method further includes causing a list of key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with monitoring the communication network to be populated based on the parameter selection inputs and the node selection inputs. The method also includes processing threshold comparison inputs and breach consistency condition inputs to generate the threshold correlation rule. The method further includes comparing KPI values to a threshold comparison target and causing an alert to be generated indicating that an operating state of the communication network is outside a preset performance level.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for preventing data loss at ephemeral and/or volatile storage of a local storage system are provided. These techniques may include synchronizing that state of the ephemeral storage system to a cloud-based storage system and capturing a cloud snapshot of the cloud-based storage system. In the event of a failure at the volatile storage, the cloud-based snapshot can be used as a restore point for the cloud-based storage system, the state of which can then be synchronized back to the volatile storage. Additionally, the local storage system includes durable storage for storing transaction logs. After synchronizing the state of the cloud-based storage system to the volatile storage, the local storage system can playback transactions in the transaction log to restore the volatile segment to the state at the time of the failure.

Abstract: A wave launcher may include a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes a pin that receives a radio frequency (RF) signal. The wave launcher may include a cylinder configured to be electrically coupled to the pin and define an opening. The cylinder may receive the RF signal from the pin, form a transition from coplanar to Goubau line structure with a plate, and generate the surface wave. The wave launcher may include an insulator configured to be physically positioned within the opening and between the cylinder and a power line. The insulator may mechanically isolate the cylinder from the power line and permit the cylinder to launch the surface wave on the power line. The wave launcher may include the plate electrically coupled to a pad and may provide a reference for the pin and the cylinder. The pin and the cylinder may be physically positioned proximate the plate.

Abstract: An integrated circuit interconnect structure includes a first metallization level including a first metal line having a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending a length in a first direction. A second metal line is adjacent to the first metal line and a dielectric is between the first metal line and the second metal line. A second metallization level is above the first metallization level where the second metallization level includes a third metal line extending a length in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third metal line extends over the first metal line and the second metal line but not beyond the first sidewall. A conductive via is between the first metal line and the third metal line where the conductive via does not extend beyond the first sidewall or beyond the second sidewall.

Abstract: Technologies are described for a system and method to generate suggestions for seed problems. The system comprises one or more user devices, a database, at least one computer readable memory and at least one server comprising a processor unit. The system may be configured to receive a seed problem, identify one or more key features from the seed problem, generate one or more key concepts from the key features based on one or more of general technologies, environmentally sustainable technologies, and identified documents, and generate a set of suggestions based on user selected one or more key concepts. The system may be configured to identify the identified documents using text vectorization techniques based on the identified key features from a database. The system may be configured to further employ problem solving methodologies to analyze patterns of inventions in a global patent literature to generate the set of suggestions.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to process raw data received from a network service provider monitoring system to determine one or more pieces of information included in the raw data are relevant to performance monitoring of a communication network based on a matching with one or more recognized data categories for classifying pieces of information that are relevant to performance monitoring of the communication network, and to determine whether any pieces of the information included in the raw data are irrelevant to performance monitoring based on a failure to match any of the recognized data categories. The apparatus is also configured to extract the one or more pieces of information included in the raw data determined to be relevant to performance monitoring of the communication network from the raw data, and store the one or more pieces of information relevant to performance monitoring of the communication network in a central data repository.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are colored gratings in microelectronic structures. For example, a microelectronic structure may include first conductive structures alternating with second conductive structures, wherein individual ones of the first conductive structures include a bottom portion and a top portion, individual cap structures are on individual ones of the second conductive structures, the bottom portions of the first conductive structures are laterally spaced apart from and aligned with the second conductive structures, and the top portions of the first conductive structures are laterally spaced apart from and aligned with the cap structures. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include one or more unordered lamellar regions laterally spaced apart from and aligned with the first conductive structures.

Abstract: Contact over active gate structures with metal oxide cap structures are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate structures above substrate, each of the gate structures including a gate insulating layer thereon. A plurality of conductive trench contact structures is alternating with the plurality of gate structures, each of the conductive trench contact structures including a metal oxide cap structure thereon. An interlayer dielectric material is over the plurality of gate structures and over the plurality of conductive trench contact structures. An opening is in the interlayer dielectric material and in a gate insulating layer of a corresponding one of the plurality of gate structures. A conductive via is in the opening, the conductive via in direct contact with the corresponding one of the plurality of gate structures, and the conductive via on a portion of one or more of the metal oxide cap structures.

Abstract: A first system may receive first data of a user associated with a first identifier and second data of the user associated with a second identifier that exclude user identifying information from a first and second data source, respectively. A key may be received from a second system that associates the first and second identifier with a common identifier generated to preserve user anonymity at the first system. The key may be used to generate aggregated data for the user that includes the first and second data and is associated with the common identifier. The aggregated data may be processed to determine the user as a candidate for an offer set. The common identifier for the user is included in a candidacy list for the offer set, and provided to the second system to facilitate request processing associated with the presentation of the offer set to candidate users.

Abstract: Described herein are IC devices include vias deposited in a regular array, e.g., a hexagonal array, and processes for depositing vias in a regular array. The process includes depositing a guiding pattern over a metal grating, depositing a diblock copolymer over the guiding pattern, and causing the diblock copolymer to self-assemble such one polymer forms an array of cylinders over metal portions of the metal grating. The polymer layer can be converted into a hard mask layer, with one hard mask material forming the cylinders, and a different hard mask material surrounding the cylinders. A cylinder can be selectively etched, and a via material deposited in the cylindrical hole to form a via.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated resource prioritization using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein.

Abstract: Techniques for failure prediction and remediation are disclosed. For example, a method comprises training one or more machine learning algorithms with a training dataset corresponding to a plurality of users, wherein the training dataset comprises at least one of product purchase data, product service data and product return data corresponding to the plurality of users. In the method, an input dataset corresponding to at least one user is received. The input dataset comprises at least one of product purchase data, product service data and product return data corresponding to the user. The input dataset is analyzed using the one or more machine learning algorithms. The method further comprises predicting, based at least in part on the analyzing, a likelihood of whether at least one product corresponding to the user will fail to be returned to a product providing entity when a return of the product has been requested.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods of generating behavior classifications that predict a behavior of an entity by training and executing a base machine learning (ML) model, a plurality of segmented ML models, and a merged ML model. Training data may be historical entity data, which may be grouped into different segments that describe the entity. The base ML model may be trained to predict entity behavior across a plurality of segments. Each segmented ML model may be trained to the generate a segmented behavior class that predicts entity behavior based on a respective segment. A system may provide the base class and the plurality of segmented classes as input to a merged model that was trained based on weights for each of the base ML model and the plurality of segmented ML models to generate a behavior classification representing a prediction of the entity behavior.

Abstract: An access door for a combine harvester includes a body having a top, a bottom, a first side, and a second side. The body includes a height defined between the top and the bottom and a width defined between the first side and the second side. A plurality of ribs is integrally formed in the body for adding rigidity thereto, and a deflector is integrally formed with the body and protrudes therefrom. The deflector has a top surface and a width that is substantially the same as the width of the body. The body is defined within a first plane and the top surface is defined within a second plane such that the second plane is disposed at an angle less than 90° from the first plane.

Abstract: An access door for a combine harvester includes a body having a top, a bottom, a first side, and a second side. The body includes a height defined between the top and the bottom and a width defined between the first side and the second side. A plurality of ribs is integrally formed in the body for adding rigidity thereto, and a deflector is integrally formed with the body and protrudes therefrom. The deflector has a top surface and a width that is substantially the same as the width of the body. The body is defined within a first plane and the top surface is defined within a second plane such that the second plane is disposed at an angle less than 90° from the first plane.

Abstract: A spine for providing structural support for a dual rotor harvesting machine, the spine having a first surface that is solid and directed towards a first rotor configured to rotate about a first axis and a second surface that is solid and directed towards a second rotor configured to rotate about a second axis. The spine also having at least one threshing insert positioned directly on the first surface and extending longitudinally along the first axis of the spine and at least one threshing insert positioned directly on the second surface and extending longitudinally along the second axis of the spine.

Abstract: Privilege escalation in a cloud platform comprises provisioning to a client access privileges to the database entities that are covered by a license. A base escalation matrix is provisioned to the client with additional access privileges not covered by the license. An API request is received and the requested CRUD operation is attempted on a first database entity. Responsive to the requested CRUD operation initially failing because the client does not have required access privileges activation of an exception signaling failure of the requested CRUD operation is detected and used as a trigger to fetch the base escalation matrix. The access privileges of the client are escalated by applying the additional access privileges from the base escalation matrix to a user context of the current API query request, and repeating the requested CRUD operation. The escalated access privileges are then removed.

Abstract: A harvesting machine that has a first rotor rotationally coupled to a chassis, a second rotor rotationally coupled to the chassis, and a spine separating the first rotor from the second rotor. Wherein the spine has threshing inserts coupled thereto to facilitate threshing of crop processed by the first and second rotors.

Abstract: Privilege escalation in a cloud platform comprises provisioning to a client access privileges to the database entities that are covered by a license. A base escalation matrix is provisioned to the client with additional access privileges not covered by the license. An API request is received and the requested CRUD operation is attempted on a first database entity. Responsive to the requested CRUD operation initially failing because the client does not have required access privileges activation of an exception signaling failure of the requested CRUD operation is detected and used as a trigger to fetch the base escalation matrix. The access privileges of the client are escalated by applying the additional access privileges from the base escalation matrix to a user context of the current API query request, and repeating the requested CRUD operation. The escalated access privileges are then removed.