Abstract: The present disclosure provides an armored cable (100) comprising a plurality of sub units (104), the sub units (104) comprising a plurality of optical fibers (106). The sub units (104) are enclosed in a thin protective layer (110), which is placed within an armor layer (108). An outer cable jacket (112) surrounds the armor layer (108), which optionally comprises at least a strength member (114).

Abstract: In various embodiments, a messaging system is provided, where message streaming is employed to exchange information among various components in a network to facilitate Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP hereinafter). In those embodiments, messages may pass through the messaging system via REST API or Kafka with consistent message schemas across the messaging system. In various embodiments, message adaptors are provided when different message schemas of the same message is used in the network.

Abstract: Provided herein are soluble soft tissue protein compositions that can contain one or more soft-tissue bioactive factors, methods of making the soluble soft tissue protein compositions, and methods of using the soluble soft tissue protein compositions.

Abstract: Accessing information associated with a virtual memory address by receiving a virtual memory address, translating the virtual memory address into a nominal physical memory address, receiving the nominal physical memory address at a memory migrator, and using the memory migrator to determine an old physical memory address corresponding to the nominal physical memory address and access the information at the old physical memory address or a new physical memory address. The accessing operation may be performed as part of migrating the information from an old physical memory location corresponding the old physical memory address to a new physical memory location corresponding to the new physical memory address.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide RU/DU/CU chaining in an O-RAN by ZTP operations automatically. The chaining creates a logical gNB for achieving flexibility in the O-RAN. In some embodiments, one or more RUs are chained to a DU in a cell site when the DU is initiated in the O-RAN. In those embodiments, a network management system is employed to store and manage O-RAN configurations to facilitate the RU/DU/CU chaining. In some embodiments, the cell site is customized during the chaining process.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that provides operational control signaling in support of interoperability functionalities with surveillance infrastructure. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes establishing communication between a network element and one or more multimedia/security/surveillance (MSS) entities using an MSS interface. The network entity may transmit operational control signals to the MSS entities via the MSS interface. The MSS entities may then act on the operational control signals and transmit MSS data to the network element via the MSS interface. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A method for cabling verification of a Cell Site Router (CSR) including CSR ports that are cabled to a server including server ports, the method including: providing a wiring configuration including pairings including a CSR port ID of one of the CSR ports and a server port ID of one of the server ports; connecting, with cables, the server ports with the CSR ports per the pairings; getting, on the server, addresses of the server ports; learning, at the CSR, distal addresses of the server ports connected to each of the CSR ports; matching, based on the pairings, a respective address of a respective server port ID with a respective distal address of a respective CSR port ID. In some embodiments, the getting may be performed by the CSR and the learning may be performed by the server.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an armored cable (100) comprising a central core (102) comprising a plurality of intermittently bonded ribbon (IBR) bundles (104) enclosed in a protective layer (106), which is placed within an armor layer (108). An outer cable jacket (110) surrounds the armor layer (108), which optionally comprises at least a strength member (114).

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for analyzing performance and operation of one or more downstream applications by: (i) asynchronously capturing one or more event message payloads, (ii) providing, using a producer client, the one or more event message payloads as an input topic to a streaming server that is configured to provide, to one or more consumer clients, (1) one or more input topic streams that comprises the one or more event message payloads and (2) one or more output topic streams, (iii) applying a transformation to the one or more event message payloads received from the input topic by a consumer client of the one or more consumer clients, and (iv) providing, using the producer client, one or more transformed event message payloads as an output topic to the streaming server.

Abstract: In various embodiments, ZTP execution workflows are provided to enable integration of individual cells into an O-RAN. In various embodiments, this involves provisioning computer hosts including a first computer host, a second computer host and a group of computer hosts. In those embodiments, this includes provisioning a server management software on the first computer host; creating a node pool using the group of computer hosts; provisioning a distributed unit (DU) on the second computer host; and configuring a RAN using the DU.

Abstract: A validation method of facilitating automated provisioning in a telecommunication network is provided. In some embodiments, the validation method comprises managing a first validation app and a first validation worker; receiving a validation request indicating a requested validation; identifying the first validation app to process the requested validation; generating, by the first validation app, a job to perform the requested validation; placing the job onto a job queue; retrieving the job, by the first validation worker, from the job queue; executing, by the first validation worker, the first job; receiving, by the first validation worker, information regarding the execution of the first job; placing, by the first validation worker, the information onto a message queue; retrieving, by the first validation app, the information; and generating, by the first validation app, a result for display to a user based on the information retrieved. Other embodiments are contemplated.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to improve bass response of speakers in portable devices are disclosed. An example speaker includes a speaker box having a front face and a back face, a distance between the front face and the back face being less than 1 inch. The speaker box has a first portion of a back volume and a second portion of the back volume, the first portion of the back volume defined between the back face and a first region of the front face, the second portion of the back volume defined between the back face a second region of the front face. The example speaker further includes an active speaker driver including a first diaphragm, the first diaphragm coupled to the first region of the front face. The example speaker also includes a second diaphragm coupled to the second region of the front face, the second diaphragm being passive.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an armored cable (100, 200) including a plurality of optical fibers (106) arranged in a plurality of IBRs, which can be bundled or unbundled. The IBRs are enclosed by a first layer of thin polymer sheath (102, 202). The first layer (102, 202) is further enclosed in a second layer (108, 208), which is placed within an armor layer (110, 210). An outer cable jacket (112, 212) surrounds the armor layer (110, 210), which optionally comprises at least a reinforcing member (114, 214).

Abstract: A system for measurement is provided. The system comprises a core optical module and a scanning interface module. The core optical module is configured to generate a light for generating signals for analyzing an object through the scanning interface module and detect a light including the signals from the object through the scanning interface module. The scanning interface module is changeable for each application and configured to connect with the core optical module by a light transferring unit to scan the object with the transferred light from the core optical module and to receive the light from the object to transfer to the core optical module.

Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to compounds that are inhibitors of KRAS, and the disclosed compounds are allosteric inhibitors of KRAS which render them extremely useful for therapeutic intervention in a variety of disorders and diseases in which inhibition of DHODH can be clinically useful, e.g., cancer. In various aspects, the disclosed compounds are substituted 7-(piperazin-1-yl)pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine analogs. In further aspects, the disclosed compounds can be used in methods of treating a cancer. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

Abstract: The present invention discloses additive package comprising a mixture of (a) 6-10% by weight of fatty acid (b) 7-15% by weight of alkoxy ether and (c) 60-85% by weight of linear or branched chain monohydroxylated aliphatic saturated alcohol (C2-C8) for improving stability of mixtures of methanol-gasoline, ethanol-gasoline blends containing at least 5-15% by volume of short chain alkanol (methanol/ethanol). The additive composition is added to the alcohol-gasoline blends to improve low temperature stability, provides corrosion protection and to normalize vapor pressure of methanol/ethanol-gasoline blends.

Abstract: A decentralized identity access management (IAM) architecture that executes IAM service code on the distributed nodes (i.e., replicas) of a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) system is provided. For example, the IAM service code may be implemented as a blockchain smart contract or as a native execution engine that runs on each replica. With this decentralized architecture, up to f replicas (where f is a threshold number defined by the system's BFT consensus protocol) can be faulty/corrupted without affecting the security of the system.

Abstract: The system can include a set of joints, a controller, and a model engine; and can optionally include a support structure and an end effector. Joints can include: a motor, a transmission mechanism, an input sensor, and an output sensor. The system can enable articulation of the plurality of joints.

Abstract: Non-disruptively moving a storage fleet control plane, including deploying, on an edge device, one or more agents that are managed by a control plane residing in a cloud computing environment; mediating one or more API requests, generated by the control plane, directed to the one or more agents on the edge device; and migrating, in response to a first condition, the control plane to the edge device.