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: 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 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: 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.

Abstract: A method for opening a secured lockbox through a digital signature includes: storing, in a memory of a computing device in a lockbox, a public key of a cryptographic key pair; receiving, by an input device of the computing device, a digital signature from an external communication device; validating, by a processing device of the computing device, the digital signature using the public key of the cryptographic key pair; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the computing device, a signal to an electronic locking mechanism of the lockbox interfaced with the computing device; and opening, by the electronic locking mechanism of the lockbox, an electronic lock granting access to contents of the lockbox upon receipt of the signal.

Abstract: A transportation management system determines trip defects associated with trip access points based on historical trip data. The transportation management system aggregates historical trip data in a spatial index. The transportation management system represents the spatial index using a geographic grid including grid cells at various resolutions. The transportation management system determines a defect score for individual grid cells at a given resolution based on the trip data in the spatial index corresponding to the grid cell. The transportation management system uses the defect scores for grid cells to provide a dynamic user experience to users of the transportation management system (e.g., riders or drivers) on their respective client devices.

Abstract: A multi-cluster configuration of a database management system in a virtual computing system includes a server that defines a first policy for a source database on a first cluster of a plurality of clusters. Each of the plurality of clusters is registered with the server and the first policy defines capture of snapshots and/or transactional logs from the source database on the first cluster. The server defines a second policy for the source database to replicate at least some of the snapshots and/or transactional logs from the first cluster to a second cluster of the plurality of clusters, captures a first snapshot and/or a first transactional log from the source database in accordance with the first policy, and replicates the first snapshot and/or the first transactional log to the second cluster in accordance with the second policy.

Abstract: A multi-cluster database management system includes a first cluster in a database management system of a virtual computing system, a second cluster in the database management system, a server on the first cluster, a first agent on the first cluster, and a second agent on the second cluster. The server provides a database management service to a first database stored on the first cluster via the first agent and to a second database stored on the second cluster via the second agent.

Abstract: Resistive memory devices having laser-induced graphene (LIG) composites, and methods of making resistive memory devices having LIG composites.

Abstract: The use of verbascoside or a related compound thereof to enhance the sweetness of a sweetness modifier and to decrease the amount of a sweetness modifier used in a consumable is provided.