Abstract: A method of managing a personalized data storage on a multi-function device (MFD), the method including receiving a request for a new personalized data entry, determining if available storage space exists on the personalized data storage, if available storage space does not exist on the personalized data storage, identifying an existing personalized data entry unused for a first predetermined period of time, determining a user associated with the existing personalized data entry, and sending a query to the user. In some embodiments, the personalized data entry is associated with a consolidated work-flow.

Abstract: A tire, preferably an aircraft tire has a cut protector belt formed of a monofilament reinforcement cord.

Abstract: The invention, as shown by the system in FIG. 2, relates to a client-side content tracking system of media files, e.g. digital music files. Audio tracking—or indeed multimedia tracking—is shifted to a client-side perspective, with the client tasked with establishing use of a selected source audio track by tracking—and then reporting uplink to the server—at least one of: entry and exit points associated with playing of at least one of said musical sections in the identified source audio track, and how the identified source audio track was used, performed or manipulated at the client device. Server functionality is designed, having regard to the reported tracking data and its link to a unique identifier to permit the media file (e.g. source audio track) to be selected and/or identified, to store or relay—possibly in the context of a subscription service and billing regime for content use—tracking data related to use of at least a portion of the source audio track at or by the client device.

Abstract: A property vector representing extractable measurable properties, such as musical properties, of a file is mapped to semantic properties for the file. This is achieved by using artificial neural networks “ANNs” in which weights and biases are trained to align a distance dissimilarity measure in property space for pairwise comparative files back towards a corresponding semantic distance dissimilarity measure in semantic space for those same files. The result is that, once optimised, the ANNs can process any file, parsed with those properties, to identify other files sharing common traits reflective of emotional-perception, thereby rendering a more liable and true-to-life result of similarity/dissimilarity. This contrasts with simply training a neural network to consider extractable measurable properties that, in isolation, do not provide a reliable contextual relationship into the real-world.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel process for preparing Spiro derivatives, in particular 7-methyl-2-[4-methyl-6-[4-(trifluoromethyl)-phenyl]pyrimidin-2-yl]-1,7-diazaspiro[4.4]nonan-6-one, and to novel intermediates for use in said process along with processes for preparing said intermediates.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide immunogenic compositions for protection against S. pneumoniae, in particular against S. pneumoniae serogroup 9, while limiting the number of conjugates. The present invention therefore relates to new immunogenic compositions for use in pneumococcal vaccines and to vaccination of human subjects, in particular infants and elderly, against pneumococcal infections using said immunogenic compositions.

Abstract: There is a need for dynamic and scalable optimization solutions to allow for generic portfolio construction as a way to enhance portfolio-suitability for clients. In the present innovation, a generalized asset mixer is optimized for client-specific portfolios by incorporating multiple decision-making perspectives in a cloud-based environment. First, the client specifies the constraints by which they wish to construct their portfolio, resulting in a metric which encompasses client preferences. Then, techniques that best encapsulate this metric are used to construct technique-based portfolios. Based on the importance of each of these constraints, a weight is assigned to each individual portfolio in order construct one master-portfolio which includes all common assets in each of the technique portfolios along with other unique assets that are determined through a modified Metropolis-Hastings procedure and, if the frame diverges, an additional Markov Chain weighting iterative procedure.

Abstract: Digitized computer democracy systems allow for agents to make decisions on the behalf of clients and or beneficiaries by virtually polling their beliefs as conditions change over time. In the proposed innovation artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics are used to dynamically predict the most important states to survey in a process. Beneficiaries are then surveyed about their preferences over various options in these surveyed states. When one of the states that is surveyed occurs, then voting logic and economic theory is used to make a decision on the appropriate course of action. When a state that has not been surveyed occurs, Bayesian methods are used to dynamically predict what a user's ballot would have looked like if that state had been surveyed. This Bayesian prediction is then tested, and if the result is found to be robust then a decision is reached using voting logic and economic theory.

Abstract: The present document relates to methods and apparatus for rendering input audio for playback in a playback environment. The input audio includes at least one audio object and associated metadata, and the associated metadata indicates at least a location of the audio object. A method for rendering input audio including divergence metadata for playback in a playback environment comprises creating two additional audio objects associated with the audio object such that respective locations of the two additional audio objects are evenly spaced from the location of the audio object, on opposite sides of the location of the audio object when seen from an intended listener's position in the playback environment, determining respective weight factors for application to the audio object and the two additional audio objects, and rendering the audio object and the two additional audio objects to one or more speaker feeds in accordance with the determined weight factors.

Abstract: Examples of a monolithic phosphor composite for measuring a parameter of an object are disclosed. The ceramic metal oxide phosphor composite is used in an optical device for measuring the parameter of the measuring object. The device comprises a fiber optic probe with a light guide, a light source operatively coupled to the fiber optic probe to provide excitation light into the light guide, a monolithic ceramic metal oxide phosphor composite functionally coupled to a tip of the fiber optic probe, a sensor operatively coupled to the fiber optic probe to detect the emitted light and a processing unit functionally coupled to the sensor to process the emitted light. The monolithic ceramic metal oxide phosphor composite can be embedded in a notch made into the object or can be adhered to a surface of the object with a binder.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for selection of characters from an electronic user interface. In one embodiment, a letter selection interface displays letters in a row, some of which are recordable by an input interpreter and others that are unrecordable. In one embodiment, unrecordable letters visually separate letters that are both (1) recordable, and (2) assigned to different but adjacent selection buttons. In response to received touch-screen activations, an interpreter records recordable letter selections and a display displays both recordable and unrecordable letter selections. The interpreter composes a sequence of the recorded letters. An algorithm identifies alternatives to the recorded sequence by editing one or more letters of the sequence, such that each edit changes a selected letter to an adjacent unrecordable letter. The algorithm outputs words that match the originally composed sequence or one of the identified alternatives.

Abstract: The present invention discloses gas and moisture vapor barrier coating compositions that comprise an amine modified polyvinyl alcohol and an acetoacetate modified polyvinyl. The barrier coatings of the invention exhibit enhanced gas and moisture vapor properties. The barrier coatings of the invention maintain gas and moisture vapor properties even after repeated flexing of a coated substrate.

Abstract: A remote control console or operator's station includes a proportional travel control joystick that effects continuous changes in machine travel speed through movement of the joystick away from a central-biased position, a sensor that measures progressively changing positions of the joystick, and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the sensor and the joystick. The electronic controller is programmed to perform a closed loop control including mapping the progressively changing positions of the joystick to corresponding desired machine travel speeds, and adjusting the speeds of an engine used to propel the machine and the amounts of service braking used to slow the machine to achieve desired machine travel speeds.

Abstract: A method for use in managing a secure object store in a computing system includes: securing the secure object store including creating, maintaining, and using a hierarchical key system and accessing an encrypted data object using the Node Key Encryption Key and a selected one of the Data Encryption Keys. The securing includes: generating a Node Key Encryption Key; generating a plurality of Data Encryption Keys that are encrypted using the Node Key Encryption Key; and encrypting a plurality of data objects using the Data Encryption Keys, each data object being encrypted by a respective Data Encryption Key.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, from a client device, a first notification of an ad space from a seller, identifying ad conditions corresponding to an ad space inventory to which the ad space belongs comprising a first condition that identifies an allowed creative media type for the ad space inventory, sending a second notification requesting a bid on the ad space to bidders, each bidder representing a respective buyer, receiving bids from the bidders, each bid corresponding to a respective bid price, buyer, and a creative, determining that a first bid of the bids corresponds to a first creative having a media type different from the allowed creative media type, and identifying a preexisting arrangement between the buyer corresponding to the first bid and the seller and, based thereon, allowing the first creative to be served to the ad space.

Abstract: A media-content augmentation system includes a processing system that receives input data in the form of temporally-varying events data. The processing system resolves the input into one or more categorized contextual themes, correlates the themes with metadata associated with at least one reference media file, and then splices or fades together selected parts of the media file, thus generating as an output, a media product in which transitions between its contextual themes are aligned with selected temporal events in the input data. The temporarily-varying events take the form of a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature, or a specific point in time for a hit point. A method aligns sections in digital media files with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product. The system augments a sensory experience of a user by dynamically changing and then playing selected media files within the context of the categorized themes input to the processing system.

Abstract: A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of oxidized polyolefin (OxPO). The microparticles are irregular-shaped rigid aggregates and are sized and packed to yield a hydraulic permeability greater than 0.01 Da. The OxPO have absorbed portions of a preservative to be removed and/or a drug for delivery in solution, as can the copolymer.

Abstract: Artificial intelligence and optimization theory in an asset management process to develop a platform for the automated management of money managers in a portfolio construction process. The present innovation includes the process of connecting databases of securities information to asset manager information to create a linked database of information for the overview and management of portfolios. This linked database is then analyzed using a statistical optimization procedure, converted into a series of metrics and compressed and represented by a series of contrasts. These contrasts are analyzed using Data Shapley, Statistical Cointegration and a Democratized Digital Voter System to construct a utility function estimation. This estimated utility is typically high-dimensional in nature and is not always analytically solvable. In order to determine an optimum allocation convex hull optimization processes are run across the function to determine the appropriate weights to assign to each money manager.

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards transporting data out of isolated network environments. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, that include receiving a request string comprising request data related to a request from a first application of a device. The operations further include intercepting a processing of the request string, and based on the intercepting, extracting usage data of a second application of the device encoded in the request string, wherein the usage data is unrelated to the request.

Abstract: The present invention provides immunogenic compositions having one or more polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which one or more polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial capsules are conjugated to a carrier protein in an aprotic solvent such as dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The present invention also provides methods for providing an enhanced immune response to a pneumococcal polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine comprising administering to a human subject an immunogenic composition comprising polysaccharide-protein conjugates prepared in DMSO conditions.