Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and techniques for preventing corruption of snapshot data by limiting the visibility of committed data. To do this, the system may maintain an index that indicates the highest transaction identifier value such that no future commits will have a transaction identifier less than or equal to the indexed transaction identifier value. In embodiments, if a read is performed, only transactions having a transaction identifier less than or equal to the index value can be read. Each time that a transaction is committed, the index value is updated to the transaction identifier for the transaction having the highest transaction identifier without any intermediary transactions.

Abstract: A Lepidium meyenii extract, as well as aromatic alkamides thereof are described for use in compositions and methods for improving the taste of a consumable containing a component having an astringent, bitter or off-taste.

Abstract: A highly available database system includes a first instance of a database server on a first cluster of a virtual computing system, a second instance of the database server on a second cluster of the virtual computing system, a first instance of an administration database on the first cluster, and a second instance of the administration database on the second cluster. The first instance of the database server and the second instance of the database server form a highly available database server, the first instance of the administration database and the second instance of the administration database form a highly available administration database, and the first instance of the database server, the second instance of the database server, the first instance of the administration database, and the second instance of the administration database are configured to manage at least one customer database.

Abstract: One or more temperature measuring devices are described that comprise; thermal imaging cameras capable of detection and provision of an exact location of at least one created dynamic image scanned by and triangulated with at least two thermal imaging cameras, and a gate that provides a constrained targeted pathway through which at least one person must travel so that dynamic thermal data of the person is captured as the person is moving through the gate and wherein thermal imaging cameras are geometrically arranged in positions such that the thermal imaging cameras field of view exist on or within the gate and wherein the person is scanned and provides targeted dynamic thermal data that is converted into one or more temperature readings that measure and transmit the temperature readings from one or more photodetectors that sense thermal radiation naturally emitted by people passing through.

Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically providing item reviews. In some examples, a website provides a widget on a website allowing a customer to request an item review for an item. In response to the customer requesting the item review, a computing device determine whether suitable reviews for the item are available. If suitable reviews are available, the reviews are provided to the customer requesting the item review. If suitable reviews are not available, the computing device determines a set of customers to request item reviews for the item from, and provides item review requests to the determined set of customers. The computing device receives responses to the item review requests received from the set of customers, and provides an item review based on the received item review requests. In some examples, the website provides the item review to the customer requesting the item review.

Abstract: A system for data migration is disclosed. The system may receive a migration request comprising a source file path and a target file location. The system may capture source file metadata based on the source file path and the migration request. The system may transfer a source file from a first data environment to an intermediate data environment via a first transfer process. The system may transfer the source file from the intermediate data environment to a second data environment via a second transfer process.

Abstract: A catalyst composition comprising at least one compound with a general formula I: wherein A is N—R3, R3 is C1-C8 linear or branched, x=0-6, n and m are each independently 1 to 6, R1 and R2 are each independently C2-C8 alkyl, and R4 and R5 are —CH3 groups; or A=O, x=0-6. n and m are each independently 1 to 6.

Abstract: A method for anonymizing data includes receiving call data of a call in an interaction recording system located behind a firewall of an internal network sub-environment, and within the internal network sub-environment: (i) storing the call data including interaction metadata, (ii) generating a speech-to-text transcript corresponding to words spoken by one or more callers, and (iii) generating an anonymized transcript by anonymizing personally identifiable information. A computing system includes a processor, and a memory including computer executable instructions that, when executed by the one processor, cause the system to perform the method. A non-transitory computer readable medium contains program instructions that when executed, cause a computer system to perform the method.

Abstract: A hard-apertureless spectrometer includes a housing, a collimator configured to collimate light provided from a soft-aperture of a target, a diffraction grating configured to spectroscopically analyze the collimated light, a condenser configured to condense the spectroscopically analyzed light, and a photodetector configured to receive the condensed light output from the condenser and detect a target characteristic.

Abstract: Implementations of ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) self-test circuits may include: a current transformer coupled to a controller, a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) test loop coupled to the controller, a ground fault test loop coupled to the controller, and a solenoid coupled to the controller. The SCR test loop may be configured to conduct an SCR self-test during a first half wave portion of a phase and the ground fault test loop may be configured to conduct a ground fault self-test during a second half wave portion of a phase. An SCR may be configured to activate the solenoid to deny power to a load upon one of the SCR self-test or the ground fault self-test being identified as failing.

Abstract: A method for processing an electronic payment transaction includes: storing an account profile including a plurality of account numbers; receiving a first authorization request for a payment transaction that includes a first account number of the plurality of account numbers, a first time, and a first location; processing the first payment transaction; receiving a second authorization request for a different transaction including a second primary account number of the plurality of account numbers, a second time, and a second location, where the second account number is associated with a different issuer than the first account number; determining a likelihood of fraud based on the first time and location and the second time and location; and forwarding the second authorization request to the different issuer if the likelihood of fraud is below a threshold, or transmitting an authorization response indicating decline if the likelihood of fraud is above the threshold.

Abstract: A network system receives a service request sent from a computing device of a user. The service request identifies a service to be provided by a provider and a service request location. In response to receiving the service request, the network system identifies a plurality of candidate locations. The network system selects the location from a plurality of candidate locations according to predetermined criteria including a frequency measurement of each candidate location. The network system replaces the service request location with the selected location. The network system sends the selected location to the computing device. Responsive to receiving an acceptance of the selected location from the computing device, the network system generates navigation instructions for the provider from a current location of the provider to the selected location.

Abstract: A service enables a command that refers to a file system object using a hierarchical namespace identifier to be executed against the file system object in a flat namespace. The service selectively distributes the command to one of a plurality of name resolution nodes based on a directory name included in the hierarchical namespace identifier. The identified node resolves the directory name to a flat namespace identifier that is used to execute the command against the flat namespace. After communicating with at least one storage node to resolve a directory name, each name resolution node stores a mapping of the directory name to the corresponding flat namespace identifier in a cache, so that subsequent resolutions of that directory name may be performed more efficiently. Cache entries may be invalidated when an operation occurs that impacts the relevant mapping and/or based on system considerations such as cache expiry.

Abstract: A system and method facilitates an enabling of a functionality of a first device by causing a first data that identifies the first device to be used to determine that the first device supports the functionality, determining that the functionality of the first device is not enabled, and causing a set of instructions for enabling the functionality of the first device to be presented to a user.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: receiving, by a Network Virtualization Edge (NVE) of a first virtual network (VN), a multicast packet from a virtual machine (VM) of the first virtual network (VN); determining, by the NVE, whether the NVE currently supports forwarding the multicast packet to a second NVE of a second virtual network (VN), the second virtual network (VN) being logically separated from the first virtual network (VN); responsively to determining that the NVE currently supports forwarding the multicast packet to a second NVE of a second virtual network (VN) forwarding, by the NVE, the multicast packet to the second NVE.

Abstract: With a forever incremental snapshot configuration and a typical caching policy (e.g., least recently used), a storage appliance may evict stable data blocks of an older snapshot, perhaps unchanged data blocks of the snapshot baseline. If stable data blocks have been evicted, restore of a recent snapshot will suffer the time penalty of downloading the stable blocks for restoring the recent snapshot. Creating synthetic baseline snapshots and refreshing eviction data of stable data blocks can avoid eviction of stable data blocks and reduce the risk of violating a recovery time objective.

Abstract: Systems and methods include determining a plurality of features associated with executable files, wherein the plurality of features are each based on static properties in predefined structure of the executable files; obtaining training data that includes samples of benign executable files and malicious executable files; extracting the plurality of features from the training data; and utilizing the extracted plurality of features to train a machine learning model to detect malicious executable files.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a shared device, first and second compute nodes, and a chassis management controller. The first compute node includes a first management controller, which initiates a firmware update for firmware in the shared device. The first management controller detects that that the firmware update is complete. In response to the firmware update being completed, the management controller sends rollback information for the firmware to the chassis controller. The chassis controller stores the rollback information as a rollback image within a storage location of a memory. The chassis controller further sends the rollback information to the second compute node. The second compute node includes a second management controller, which in turn receives the rollback information from the chassis controller, and updates the rollback information within the second compute node.

Abstract: Systems and methods include, based on monitoring of content including Office documents, determining distribution of malicious Office documents between documents having malicious macros and documents having malicious embedded objects; determining features for the documents having malicious macros and for the documents having malicious embedded objects; selecting training data for a machine learning model based on the distribution and the features; and training the machine learning model with the selected training data.

Abstract: Human biological change information in data form is obtained by one or more computer processing devices that utilize human biological change data from event data stream(s) and allows for ranking one or more changes in the biological change data. The data then correlates biological change data with ranking statistics from an event such that the correlation identifies and measures a magnitude of change of human biological responses from data acquired from event data stream(s). The correlation of human biological change data with ranking statistics creates one or more objects for storage and analysis within in one or more databases, wherein the objects possess time synchronized temporal human biological responses before, during or after an event. These objects also possess biological change data that utilizes correlation of biological change data with ranking statistics and results in objects that also contain one or more ranked values of the human biological responses.