Abstract: This disclosure relates to scope-based lock management for shared resources of a distributed computing system. A scope-based lock manager may grant a request for a lock of a shared resource of the distributed computing system, where the lock request includes a scope of the lock and a target having the scope. The target may define entities able to access the shared resource when locked. The scope and target of the lock are stored at a lock database including scopes and targets associated with additional locks of additional shared resources of the distributed computing system. The scope based lock manager may determine when a computing node of the distributed computing system has failed and remove the lock from the lock database responsive to a determination that the target of the lock is hosted on the computing node.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for a graphical user interface that presents a quantification of CO2 emissions in a manufacturing process. A selection of a material is received, and the selection is displayed in a graphic user interface. Amounts of material and energy consumed in a manufacturing process are calculated. A chemical composition of the material is decomposed into a set of constituent elements. A first quantity of CO2 emissions is estimated based on the amount of material consumed and a first CO2 emission factor based on a proportional composition of the set of constituent elements in the chemical composition. A second quantity of CO2 emissions is estimated based on the amount of energy consumed and a second CO2 emission factor based on an energy source used in the manufacturing process. Total CO2 emissions, based on both the first and second quantities, are then displayed in the graphic user interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for invalidating page translation entries are described. A processing element may apply a delay to a drain cycle of a store reorder queue (SRQ) of a processing element. The processing element may drain the SRQ under the delayed drain cycle. The processing element may receive a translation lookaside buffer invalidation (TLBI) instruction from an interconnect connecting the plurality of processing elements. The TLBI instruction may be an instruction to invalidate a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entry corresponding to at least one of a virtual memory page and a physical memory frame. The TLBI instruction may be broadcasted by another processing element. The application of the delay to the drain cycle of the SRQ may decrease a difference between the drain cycle of the SRQ and an invalidation cycle associated with the TLBI.

Abstract: An illustrative cloud-based air-gapped data storage management (destination) system obtains authorized access to other (source) systems' backup copies, replicates those copies within the destination system, parses supplemental metadata included in the source backup copies, and integrates the replica copies into the destination system as though natively created there. Replica copies are integrated as backup copies without first restoring the source backup copies to a native data format. The source system lacks knowledge of or connectivity with the destination system, thus maintaining an “air gap” between the systems. The destination system preferably operates in a cloud computing environment. The destination system uses supplemental metadata from the replica copies to re-create or mimic the source's computing environment and to restore backed up data from the replica copies.

Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a surgical console with a tracking device for determining whether a user is engaged with the surgical console and controls a mode of operation of at least one component of the robotic surgical system based on whether or not the user is engaged with the surgical console.

Abstract: Systems and methods monitor a space for environmental pollutants. A sensing device senses and reports air quality anomalies to a cloud detection service. The cloud detection service uses artificial intelligence to analyze raw sensor data from the sensing device, determines whether the raw sensor data indicates an air quality event, and sends an air quality report indicative of the air quality event to a client device associated with the sensing device and/or the monitored space. A sensing device may be deployed in an air extraction vent to detect and report indications of vaping in prohibited spaces. A sensing device may be deployed in a vehicle to detect and report smoking in vehicles where smoking is prohibited. An application running on a mobile device reports detection of a short-range wireless beacon within a serviceable space to a cloud detection service, which tracks servicing of the serviceable space.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for improved decoding CABAC encoded media are described. A decoded binary string is output using two or more previously decoded elements at an end state for a decoding loop and on a first processing thread. A syntax of the decoded binary string is parsed on a second processing thread and a decoded symbol from the parsed syntax is generated on the second processing thread.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an edible energy composition that provides physical and mental benefits when ingested. The edible energy composition includes a methylated xanthine, such as caffeine, a choline derivative, and a source of magnesium. The composition may further include two or more of vitamins B6, niacin and B12 and three or more of glucuronolactone, taurine, L-phenylalanine, and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine.

Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented methods for generating embeddings for objects which may include receiving heterogeneous network data associated with a plurality of objects in a heterogeneous network; selecting at least one pattern of objects; determining instances of each pattern of objects based on the heterogeneous network data; generating a pattern matrix for each pattern of objects based on the instances of the pattern of objects; generating pattern sequence data associated with a portion of each pattern matrix; generating network sequence data associated with a portion of the heterogeneous network data; and combining the pattern sequence data and the network sequence data into combined sequence data. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, methods may include generating a vector for each object of the plurality of objects based on the combined sequence data. Systems and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines comprises at least one public-cloud virtual machine (VM) that performs network address translation; and a plurality of second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines comprises one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the public-cloud VM is configured to receive, via a network tunnel from the private-cloud VM, one or more first packets to be sent to a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of a public network host, translate, using a NAT mapping, a source address of each first packet from a private IP address of the private-cloud VM to an IP address of the public-cloud VM, and send the first packet to the IP address of the public-cloud VM.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for identifying sets of network devices to which to deploy a software upgrade based on an importance to the network of each network device. For example, a network system obtains information identifying a number of instances of an application associated with network traffic forwarded by each network device of a plurality of network devices. The instances of the application are executed by client devices serviced by each network device in forwarding the network traffic. The network system assigns each network device to different upgrade groups based on the number of instances of the application, each upgrade group associated with a different relative priority. The network system deploys a software upgrade to each network device according to a priority of the respective upgrade group relative to a priority of the other upgrade groups.

Abstract: A method for controlling the display of a vehicle includes receiving a video of a vehicle occupant inside the vehicle, detecting an action of the vehicle occupant of the vehicle using the video of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle, and in response to detecting the action of the vehicle occupant, automatically adjusting a setting of the display of the vehicle based on the detected action of the vehicle occupant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a primer coating composition, which is free of or essentially free of metal effect pigments, including besides water and/or organic solvent(s), a film-forming polymer, optionally a crosslinking agent and further a pigment mixture P-C including in turn at least two kinds of pigments being different from one another, namely at least one organic black or inorganic black pigment P-C1, which is not a carbon black pigment, and which is transparent or substantially transparent to NIR-radiation or which is reflective or substantially reflective to NIR-radiation, and at least one inorganic white pigment P-C2, which is reflective or substantially reflective to NIR-radiation. Further disclosed herein are methods of forming a primer coating film and layer, an at least partially coated substrate, a multilayer coating system and a method for preparing the multilayer coating system.

Abstract: Described are a system, method, and computer program product for segmenting a plurality of accounts. The method includes processing transaction data for a plurality of transactions conducted by a plurality of accounts using a plurality of account identifiers, the transaction data for each transaction including data identifying the transaction as an electronic transaction or a physical transaction, segmenting the plurality of accounts into at least two groups including an active customer group and an inactive customer group based on the transaction data for each transaction conducted by each of the plurality of accounts, determining a third subset of customers from the second subset of customers based on at least one predictive model and a transaction profile of each customer of the second subset of customers, and automatically enrolling the third subset of customers into an automated campaign.

Abstract: A system for processing patient data associated with a joint of a patient. The system comprising a computing device executing instructions to generate a 3D patient bone model of the joint in a non-weighted pose. The instructions rearrange 3D first and second bone models in order to mimic a weighted pose of the joint of the patient from a 2D image of the joint of the patient in a weighted pose by performing the steps of: generating a plurality of 2D projections of poses of the 3D patient bone model; comparing the plurality of 2D projections to contour lines of the first bone and the second bone in the 2D image; identifying particular 2D projections that best-fit a shape and size of the contour lines; and arranging the 3D first and second bone models relative to each other according to orientations represented by the particular 2D projections that were identified.

Abstract: Financial audits establish trust in the governance and processes in an organization, but they are time-consuming and knowledge intensive. To increase the effectiveness of financial audit, present disclosure provides system and method that address the task of generating audit recommendations that can help auditors to focus their investigations. Adverse remarks, financial variables mentioned in each sentence are extracted/identified from audit reports and category tag is assigned accordingly, thus creating a knowledge base for generating audit recommendations using a trained sentence classifier. In absence of labeled data, the system applies linguistic rule(s) to identify adverse remark sentences, and automatically create labeled training data for training the sentence classifier.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a universal authentication application from a resource provider computer, a user credential verification request message comprising a user identifier, server computer data, and interaction data for an interaction. The universal authentication application transmits the user credential verification request message to a browser that invokes the authenticator to verify biometric information of a user. The universal authentication application receives a user credential verification response message from the authenticator. The user credential verification response message includes signed interaction data. The universal authentication application sends the user credential verification response message to the resource provider computer. The resource provider computer provides at least the signed interaction data to a plurality of server computers to retrieve a plurality of portable device credentials respectively associated with the plurality of server computers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for analyzing a cross-sectional feature of a structural element on a semiconductor wafer to determine whether an isolated or a systemic failure to reach preselected parameters occurred.

Abstract: A system and a method of preventing generation of duplicate network routes in a Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) are described. A network route management service receives network route information from a network device connected to a subnetwork present in the SD-WAN. The network route information is compared with a master network route information for identifying presence of one or more duplicate network routes in the network route information. Upon identification, the duplicate network routes are removed from the network route information, and the network route information excluding the one or more duplicate network routes is transmitted to the network device.

Abstract: An embodiment semiconductor structure includes a metal layer. The semiconductor structure also includes a redistribution layer (RDL) structure including an RDL platform and a plurality of RDL pillars disposed between the RDL platform and the metal layer. Additionally, the semiconductor structure includes an under-bump metal (UBM) layer disposed on the RDL platform and a solder bump disposed on the UBM layer, where the UBM layer, the RDL platform, and the RDL pillars form an electrical connection between the solder bump and the metal layer.