Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the use of a stable value digital asset to pay dividends for securities and other financial instruments tied to a blockchain.

Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card having conductors and a contact assembly coupled to the circuit card and cables. The contact assembly includes a contact holder holding signal contacts and a ground bus separate and discrete from the contact assembly. The ground bus is electrically connected to cable shields to electrically connect the cable shields to the ground plane of the circuit card. The ground bus includes a shell having an inner bus member and an outer bus member. The ground bus includes ground blades received in the shell and located between the corresponding cables. The ground blades are electrically connected to the inner bus member and the outer bus member.

Abstract: A cable card assembly for an electrical connector includes a circuit card having circuit conductors defining signal transmission paths through the circuit card. The circuit conductors include cable pads at the cable end and capacitor pads adjacent the corresponding cable pads. The cable card assembly includes twin axial cables electrically coupled to the circuit card. Each twin axial cable includes a pair of signal conductors and a cable shield surrounding the pair of signal conductors to provide electrical shielding for the corresponding signal conductors. The signal conductors configured to be electrically connected to the circuit conductors of the circuit card. The twin axial cable extending along a cable axis. The cable card assembly includes capacitors coupled to the circuit card. Each capacitor is connected between the corresponding cable pad and the corresponding capacitor pad. The capacitor is oriented perpendicular to the corresponding cable axis.

Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card having mating conductors at a mating end for mating with a mating electrical connector and circuit conductors at s cable end. The cable card assembly includes cables having signal conductors and cable shields. The cable card assembly includes a contact assembly coupled to the circuit card and coupled to the cables and a contact holder holding signal contacts. Each signal contact includes a base tab terminated to the corresponding circuit conductor and a mating tab terminated to the corresponding signal conductor. The cable card assembly includes a ground bus separate and discrete from the contact assembly and coupled to the contact assembly. The ground bus is electrically connected to the cable shields to electrically connect the cable shields of the cables.

Abstract: A computer system including a processor in communication with a memory and a database may be provided. The processor may be programmed to: (i) execute a query on the database including a list of user identifiers associated with a plurality of users, (ii) receive license data associated with the user identifiers including a list of licenses and respective license renewal data associated with each user, (iii) determine, from the license data, that one or more licenses of a group of users is in a renewal period, (iv) notify each user of the group of users of the one or more licenses in the renewal period, (v) pre-populate a license renewal application for the one or more licenses in the renewal period the group of users, (vi) transmit the pre-populated application to be approved by the group of users, and (vii) receive the approved pre-populated application from the group of users.

Abstract: A computer system including a processor in communication with a memory and a database may be provided. The processor may be programmed to: (i) execute a query on the database including a list of user identifiers associated with a plurality of users, (ii) receive license data associated with the user identifiers including a list of licenses and respective license renewal data associated with each user, (iii) determine, from the license data, that one or more licenses of a group of users is in a renewal period, (iv) notify each user of the group of users of the one or more licenses in the renewal period, (v) pre-populate a license renewal application for the one or more licenses in the renewal period the group of users, (vi) transmit the pre-populated application to be approved by the group of users, and (vii) receive the approved pre-populated application from the group of users.

Abstract: A pluggable module includes an outer housing having a cavity between an upper wall and a lower wall. A circuit card is received in the cavity having a card edge configured to be received in a card slot of a communication connector. A circuit card holder engages the circuit card and holds the circuit card in the cavity of the outer housing. The circuit card holder includes a locating fin at a top of the circuit card holder. The locating fin has a sacrificial upper edge configured to engage the outer housing to locate the circuit card holder and the circuit card in the cavity. The sacrificial upper edge is deformed when engaging the outer housing to press the circuit card holder and the circuit card in a downward biasing direction.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of displaying video content includes, based on an input to transition playback of a video content item from a first media player that is instantiated in a user interface to a second media player that is instantiated in the user interface, determining a current value of a first state descriptor associated with the first media player; setting a value of a second state descriptor associated with the second media player to match the current value of the first state descriptor; and after setting the value of the second state descriptor, causing the second media player to begin playback of the video content item, wherein the second media player begins playing the video content item based on the value of the second state descriptor.

Abstract: A pluggable module includes an outer housing having a cavity between an upper wall and a lower wall. A circuit card is received in the cavity having a card edge configured to be received in a card slot of a communication connector. A circuit card holder engages the circuit card and holds the circuit card in the cavity of the outer housing. The circuit card holder includes a locating fin at a top of the circuit card holder. The locating fin has a sacrificial upper edge configured to engage the outer housing to locate the circuit card holder and the circuit card in the cavity. The sacrificial upper edge is deformed when engaging the outer housing to press the circuit card holder and the circuit card in a downward biasing direction.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining failure initiation characteristics of a bonding layer of one or more bonded structures and determining, based on the failure initiation characteristics, a first characteristic dimension for each analysis element of a first portion of a finite element analysis model. The method includes obtaining failure propagation characteristics of the bonding layer and determining, based on the failure propagation characteristics, a second characteristic dimension for each analysis element of a second portion of the model. The method includes assigning a first set of material parameters to analysis elements of the first portion of the model and assigning a second set of material parameters to analysis elements of the second portion of the model. The method includes evaluating failure modes of the one or more bonded structures based on a solution to the model, the first set of material parameters, and the second set of material parameters.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a portable wastewater treatment system includes an anaerobic reactor in which organic material within the wastewater can be broken down, a membrane filter that receives wastewater from the anaerobic reactor and filters the water to produce permeate, and a small shipping container in which the reactor and the membrane filter are contained.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining failure initiation characteristics of a bonding layer of one or more bonded structures and determining, based on the failure initiation characteristics, a first characteristic dimension for each analysis element of a first portion of a finite element analysis model. The method includes obtaining failure propagation characteristics of the bonding layer and determining, based on the failure propagation characteristics, a second characteristic dimension for each analysis element of a second portion of the model. The method includes assigning a first set of material parameters to analysis elements of the first portion of the model and assigning a second set of material parameters to analysis elements of the second portion of the model. The method includes evaluating failure modes of the one or more bonded structures based on a solution to the model, the first set of material parameters, and the second set of material parameters.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of displaying video content includes, based on an input to transition playback of a video content item from a first media player that is instantiated in a user interface to a second media player that is instantiated in the user interface, determining a current value of a first state descriptor associated with the first media player; setting a value of a second state descriptor associated with the second media player to match the current value of the first state descriptor; and after setting the value of the second state descriptor, causing the second media player to begin playback of the video content item, wherein the second media player begins playing the video content item based on the value of the second state descriptor.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB and a first electrical connector with first contacts and a second circuit card assembly having a second PCB and a second electrical connector with second contacts. At least one of the PCBs include a slot configured to receive the other PCB when mated in a board mating direction. The first electrical connector is mated to the second electrical connector in a connector mating direction perpendicular to the board mating direction. The first contacts are mated to the second contacts in a contact mating direction as the first PCB and the second PCB are mated in the board mating direction and as the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are mated in the connector mating direction. The contact mating direction is non-parallel to the board mating axis and non-parallel to the connector mating axis.

Abstract: A circuit card assembly for a communication system includes a PCB having a slot receiving a second PCB of a second circuit card assembly in a board loading direction. An electrical connector is mounted to the PCB having a receptacle housing and a mating housing movable within the receptacle housing in a connector loading direction along a connector loading axis parallel to the board loading direction. The mating housing is movable in the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction along a connector mating axis perpendicular to the connector loading axis. Contacts of the electrical connector are mated with contacts of the second electrical connector in a contact mating direction parallel to the connector mating axis.

Abstract: A communication system includes first and second circuit card assemblies mated such that first and second PCBs move relative to each other along a board mating axis parallel to a slot in the first PCB with the first PCB oriented perpendicular to the second PCB and with first and second mating ends of first and second electrical connectors oriented parallel to the board mating axis. The first and second circuit card assemblies are mated such that the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector move relative to each other along a connector mating axis perpendicular to the board mating axis. First mating interfaces of first contacts are mated to second mating interfaces of second contacts in a contact mating direction non-parallel to the board mating axis and non-parallel to the connector mating axis.

Abstract: A circuit card assembly for a communication system includes a PCB having a slot receiving a second PCB of a second circuit card assembly in a board loading direction. An electrical connector is mounted to the PCB having a receptacle housing and a mating housing movable within the receptacle housing in a connector loading direction along a connector loading axis parallel to the board loading direction. The mating housing is movable in the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction along a connector mating axis perpendicular to the connector loading axis. Contacts of the electrical connector are mated with contacts of the second electrical connector in a contact mating direction parallel to the connector mating axis.

Abstract: An electrical connector for a circuit card assembly including a PCB includes a mating housing having a mating end movable relative to the PCB and contact modules coupled to the mating housing including signal contacts having a mating conductor, a mounting conductor and a flexible conductor. The flexible conductor is flexible to allow relative movement of the mating conductor relative to the mounting conductor. The flexible conductor has a bent portion changing shape. The contact modules have ground contacts providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The ground contacts include covers extending along and providing shielding along at least one side of the bent portion of the corresponding signal contact.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB and a first electrical connector with first contacts and a second circuit card assembly having a second PCB and a second electrical connector with second contacts. At least one of the PCBs include a slot configured to receive the other PCB when mated in a board mating direction. The first electrical connector is mated to the second electrical connector in a connector mating direction perpendicular to the board mating direction. The first contacts are mated to the second contacts in a contact mating direction as the first PCB and the second PCB are mated in the board mating direction and as the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are mated in the connector mating direction. The contact mating direction is non-parallel to the board mating axis and non-parallel to the connector mating axis.

Abstract: An electrical connector for a circuit card assembly including a PCB includes a mating housing having a mating end movable relative to the PCB and contact modules coupled to the mating housing including signal contacts having a mating conductor, a mounting conductor and a flexible conductor. The flexible conductor is flexible to allow relative movement of the mating conductor relative to the mounting conductor. The flexible conductor has a bent portion changing shape. The contact modules have ground contacts providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The ground contacts include covers extending along and providing shielding along at least one side of the bent portion of the corresponding signal contact.