Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud templates that represent already deployed cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies. The IaC cloud-infrastructure manager provides an infrastructure-discovery service that accesses a cloud-computing facility to obtain information about already deployed cloud infrastructure and that generates a textual description of the deployed infrastructure, which the IaC cloud-infrastructure-manager then transforms into a set of parameterized cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files, a resource_ids file, and a parameters file that together comprise a parameterized cloud template.

Abstract: Backup communication paths can be determined for use by different circuits of a network in the event of a failure of active communication paths. The disclosed backup path determination techniques can reduce contention in which multiple circuits share a backup path. Contention metrics are determined for communication paths in the network. The contention metrics are used to determine a communication path for contention reduction. A circuit that uses the communication path as a backup path is selected, and the backup path of the selected circuit is modified to avoid the communication path. Contention metrics can then be recalculated, and contention reduction techniques can be repeated until a desired convergence point is reached.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates a parameterized cloud template that represents an already deployed cloud-based infrastructure managed by a different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system and that uses the parameterized cloud template to assume management of the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure. The IaC cloud-infrastructure-management service or system uses an infrastructure-discovery service as well as data representations of the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure generated by the different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to generate the parameterized cloud template and to detect drift in the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically segregates resource descriptors into category-associated files. In a first mode of operation, an automatic segregator receives one or more raw specification-and-configuration files and partitions the resources specified in the one or more raw specification-and-configuration files into category-associated resource groups. The specifications for the resources that are then stored in category-associated files that may, in turn, be stored in category-associated subdirectories of a file-system directory. In a second mode of operation, the automatic segregator transforms a first type of specification-and-configuration files within a first file-system directory into a second type of equivalent specification-and-configuration files within a second file-system directory.

Abstract: A first network node comprises program code including: first receiving code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to receive, from a second network node, a UE context modification request; first transmitting code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to transmit, to the second network node in response to receiving the context modification request, a context modification response; allocating code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to, in response to the UE context modification request, allocate one or more pre-configured grants to the UE, and second receiving code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to receive, from the UE in response to the one or more pre-configured grants, first uplink data, before sending a scheduling request to the base station and receiving corresponding UL scheduling grants.

Abstract: An image encoding device includes: a filter processing unit that performs filter processing on an input image to generate a first image; and an encoding processing unit that generates a bit stream by performing encoding processing on the first image and transmits the bit stream to an image decoding device, in which the filter processing unit: includes a plurality of filters of different types; and selects one filter from the plurality of filters based on usage information indicating image usage on the image decoding device side and applies the selected filter to the input image.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically compacts, and enhances the manageability of, IaC specification-and-configuration files. In a disclosed implementation, specification-and-configuration files used by a first cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to deploy cloud-based infrastructure in a cloud-computing facility are used by a different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to compact and enhance a parameterized cloud template generated by the different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to represent the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure. Compaction and manageability enhancement are implemented using control structures and constructs of a template language introduced into the parameterized cloud template.

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that automatically bind an attribute value, within a resource descriptor in a cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration file, that references a parent resource descriptor via a resource identifier to the resource identifier in the parent resource descriptor. One implementation of attribute-value binding is employed in an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud templates that represent already deployed cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies.

Abstract: Liquid pharmaceutical compositions of apixaban or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are described. More specifically, stable oral liquid pharmaceutical compositions of apixaban for oral administration are provided, wherein the composition is stable for extended periods of time. More specifically, stable liquid pharmaceutical compositions of apixaban at concentrations of 0.4 mg/mL or more are provided. Stable oral liquid compositions of apixaban, methods for their administration, processes for their production, and use of these compositions for treatment of diseases treatable by apixaban are disclosed.

Abstract: A decoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: decodes expression data indicating information expressed by a person; generates a person equivalent image corresponding to the person through a neural network according to the expression data and at least one profile image of the person; and outputs the person equivalent image.

Abstract: A vapor compression heat transfer system includes an evaporator assembly, an ice-prone surface, and an ultrasonic energy source. The ultrasonic energy source when energized vibrating the ice-prone surface at a frequency of from 30 kHz to 60 kHz. The ultrasonic energy source can be a piezoelectric transducer. The piezoelectric transducer can be operated in an ice sensing mode and a deicing mode and can also verify the removal of ice. A method of conducting one of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method of analysis for estimation of relative potency of antibody of interest using ?-hexosaminidase degranulation in human cell line. The present invention relates to characterization of functional assay of anti-IgE antibody with B-hexosaminidase.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates a modified digital image with a modified rendering order of objects within a digital image. For instance, the disclosed systems generate, in response to an input indicating a selected region of a digital image, an object mask for a first object located at least partially within the selected region of the digital image and further generate a vectorized object mask including a boundary of the first object from the object mask. The disclosed systems determine an overlapping region of the vectorized object mask with the selected region and an additional vectorized object mask. The disclosed systems generate a modified digital image by modifying a rendering order of a portion of the first object corresponding to the selected region and a portion of a second object overlapping the portion of the first object within the selected region.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes a power controller having a resource allocation circuit. The resource allocation circuit may: receive a power budget for a first core and at least one second core and scale the power budget based at least in part on at least one energy performance preference value to determine a scaled power budget; determine a first maximum operating point for the first core and a second maximum operating point for the at least one second core based at least in part on the scaled power budget; determine a first efficiency value for the first core based at least in part on the first maximum operating point for the first core and a second efficiency value for the at least one second core based at least in part on the second maximum operating point for the at least one second core; and report a hardware state change to an operating system scheduler based on the first efficiency value and the second efficiency value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to identifying a first user via a mobile device, load a first non-person entity associated with the first user from the mobile device to configure vehicle settings, the first non-person entity including a driver setting, a first entertainment setting and a second entertainment setting; and responsive to identifying a second user entering the vehicle, switch from the first entertainment setting to a second entertainment setting.

Abstract: Security policies are made dependent on location of a device and the location of a device is determined and the appropriate security policy applied without providing the device's location to a server. A device determine its location and identifies a security policy identifier mapped to a zone including the location. The device requests the security policy corresponding to the identifier from a server and implements it. The device may also store a database of the security policies and implement them according to its location. Devices registered for a user evaluate whether locations detected for the devices correspond to impossible travel by the user. Objects encoding geolocation data of a device may be encrypted with a private key of the device and the public key of another to prevent access by an intermediary server.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributed video storage and search with edge computing. The method may comprise caching a first portion of data on a first device. The method may further comprise determining, at a second device, whether the first device has the first portion of data. The determining may be based on whether the first piece of data satisfies a specified criterion. The method may further comprise sending the data, or a portion of the data, and/or a representation of the data from the first device to a third device.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing a distributed control plane to facilitate communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture. The distributed storage architecture hosts worker nodes that manage distributed storage that can be made accessible to applications within the container orchestration platform through the distributed control plane. The distributed control plane includes control plane controllers that are each paired with a single worker node of the distributed storage architecture. The distributed control plane is configured to selectively route commands to control plane controllers that are paired with worker nodes that are current owners of objects targeted by the commands. If ownership of an object has changed from one worker node to another worker node, then subsequent commands will be re-routed to a control plane controller paired with the other worker node now owning the object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the process for the preparation of Nitazoxanide and intermediates thereof. The invention explores readily available starting materials with reaction conditions that are suitable for industrial scale applications. The present invention discloses, a single vessel process to prepare 5-nitrothiazol-2-amine starting from a very basic starting material 1,1-dimethoxy-N, N-dimethylmethanamine. Overall intermediates throughout the process is free from column chromatography and the final product Nitazoxanide is purified by precipitation. All the synthesized compounds were confirmed by various spectroscopic techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, HRMS and elemental analysis.

Abstract: A technique monitors input/output (I/O) and Persistent Reservation (PR) activity patterns to detect degraded performance of a highly available and fault tolerant application executing in a multi-site disaster recovery (DR) environment. Multiple instances of the application execute in different virtual machines (VMs) of a compute layer within a guest clustering configuration that extends across clusters of the sites. A storage layer of the clusters provides shared storage to the multiple VMs across the multiple sites. One of the sites is configured as an active storage site configured to receive and service I/O requests from the compute layer. A single instance of the application is active at a time and configured as a “compute owner” of the shared storage to issue the I/O requests to the shared storage. The compute owner and active storage site may not be co-located on the same site, leading to excessive I/O and PR activity patterns indicative of degraded performance.