Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for assisting a user with skill or application discovery in a voice assistant device. By assisting the user in this way, avoiding the launching of malicious skills or applications can also be avoided. Additionally, restricting launching of applications to particular users or particular voice assistant devices can also be accomplished.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supports communication over a first (lower) frequency range and a second (higher) frequency range. The UE determines an extent of preference of the second frequency range over the first frequency range, e.g., based on one or more of the following: sensor measurements; physical channel measurements; battery conditions; weather conditions; voice call activity; indoor/outdoor/in-car status; learned relationships between previous location-time conditions and performance on the second frequency range; etc. The UE device may control search activity and/or measurement activity on the second frequency range based on the preference extent, e.g., by controlling rates of repetition of search and/or measurement on the second frequency range, or by adding a measurement bias to a measurement reporting threshold, or by adding a delay to a measurement reporting time for a measurement, or by disabling search and measurement on the second frequency range.

Abstract: System, method, and various embodiments for providing contextualized character recognition system are described herein. An embodiment operates by determining a plurality of predicted words of an image. An accuracy measure or each of the plurality of predicted words is identified and a replaceable word with an accuracy measure below a threshold is identified. A plurality of candidate words associated with the replaceable word are identified and a probability for each of the candidate words is calculated based on a contextual analysis. One of the candidate words with a highest probability is selected. The plurality of predicted words including the selected candidate word with the highest probability replacing the replaceable word is output.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to use a robotic arm to palletize or depalletize diverse items. In various embodiments, data associated with a plurality of items to be stacked on or in a destination location is received. A plan to stack the items on or in the destination location is generated based at least in part on the received data. The plan is implemented at least in part by controlling a robotic arm of the robot to pick up the items and stack them on or in the receptacle according to the plan, including by for each item: using one or more first order sensors to move the item to a first approximation of a destination position for that item at the destination location; and using one or more second order sensors to snug the item into a final position.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus for obtaining a discrete frequency infrared (DFIR) spectroscopic image. The method includes generating, by a laser source, a pulsed laser beam comprising a spectral frequency in a mid-IR region and a pulse repetition rate; transmitting, by a first group of optical components, the pulsed laser beam onto a location of a sample; collecting, by a second group of optical components, an optical signal emitting from the location of the sample onto a detector to obtain a raw electric signal; demodulating, by a demodulator based on the pulse repetition rate, the raw electric signal to obtain an intensity value; and determining, by a control device and based on the intensity value, a pixel value corresponding to the spectral frequency in a DFIR spectroscopic image.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and customized media compositions for culturing CIK NKT cells.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing auto-scaling in a cluster of device instances. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising updating, using a distributed counter, a metric associated with one or more instances executing a network application; identifying that the metric has exceeded a threshold defined in a scaling policy based on comparing the distributed counter to the scaling policy; identifying a command to execute in response to the metric exceeding the threshold; and executing the command to modify the one or more instances.

Abstract: A nozzle for uniform plasma processing comprises an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion has a side surface substantially parallel to a vertical axis. The inlet portion comprises a plurality of gas channels. The outlet portion is coupled to the inlet portion. The outlet portion comprises a plurality of outlets. At least one of the outlets is at an angle other than a right angle relative to the vertical axis.

Abstract: A method includes receiving and temporarily storing data streams from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. The method continues with determining whether some of the data streams have been requested by a subscribing computing entity. When some of the data streams are requested and the request is valid, the method continues with sending the requested data streams to the subscribing computing entity. The method continues with receiving additional data streams from the IoT sensors and overwriting the temporary storage of the data streams with the additional data streams.

Abstract: A slip ring transmitter for electrically connecting assemblies of rotary-table machines is described and comprises a slip ring with a signal unit for transmitting signals and/or data and with a power unit for transmitting electrical power. As the signal unit is formed such that it is modularly detachable can in particular be axially drawn off from the power unit, the signal unit can be inspected and/or replaced separately from the power unit. This improves the reliability of the transmission of signals and/or data and enables individual optimization of the power unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for automatically identifying fraud, waste or abuse in health insurance claims submitted to insurance companies by healthcare providers. Insurance claim information and at one image associated with the insurance claim may be received, where the image has been submitted by a healthcare provider to an insurance carrier as supporting evidence of a medical service performed by the healthcare provider. The system may generate a digital signature representing the image, then may compare the digital signature generated for the image to previously generated digital signatures of other images that have been submitted in association with other insurance claims. The system may then determine a likelihood that the given insurance claim is associated with fraud, waste or abuse, based in part on whether the digital signature is identical or close to one or more of the previously generated digital signatures.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method for ranking messages of conversation graphs in a messaging platform using machine-learning signals includes receiving a conversation view request to retrieve messages of a conversation graph stored on a messaging platform and determining a plurality of predictive outcomes for each of a plurality of messages of the conversation graph using predictive models. The determining step may include obtaining a plurality of signals relevant to the predictive models, the plurality of signals including data structure-related signals relating to the conversation graph and inputting the plurality of signals to the predictive models. The method includes ranking the plurality of messages based on the predictive outcomes and transmitting at least a subset of the plurality of messages to be rendered on a client application according to the rank.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising Compound 1, (3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo [d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl) cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid), and at least one excipient selected from: a filler, a diluent, a disintegrant, a surfactant, a binder, a glidant and a lubricant, the composition being suitable for oral administration to a patient in need thereof to treat a CFTR mediated disease such as Cystic Fibrosis. Methods for treating a patient in need thereof include administering an oral pharmaceutical formulation of Compound 1 to the patient.

Abstract: An online system provides navigation information customized using travel preferences of users. The online system receives actions performed by users that may indicate their geographical locations of interest. The online system may use a model to predict a user's level of interest in destination geographical locations. The online system generates navigation information or travel information that describes routes from origin geographical locations of users to destination geographical locations to which the users are likely to travel. The online system transmits the navigation information to client devices for presentation as personalized or dynamically-created content items to users. The online system may generate navigation information using catalogs describing routes between geographical locations. For instance, the catalog indicates a vehicle for navigation along a route, as well as origin and destination geographical locations.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sustainable stain resistant composition 102 that includes (a) about 3% to 8% of at least one silicon nano particle surface functionalized with (Pentafluorophenyl)triethoxysilane 104, and (b) about 3% to 8% of at least one hydrophobic agent 106 selected from a group comprising polymer of (a) methacrylic esters of aliphatic C1 to C18 alcohols, or (b) vinyl acetate, or (c) acrylonitrile. The stain resistant composition further includes (a) at least one softening agent 110, (b) an extending agent 108, (c) at least one of (i) a wetting agent or (ii) a re-wetting agent 112, and (d) a microencapsulated odour neutralizing agent 114. The present invention also relates to a process for producing stain resistant textile 118 using the sustainable stain resistant composition 102.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to system and method for extracting software development requirements from natural language information. In one example, the method may include receiving structured text data related to a software development and derived from natural language information, extracting a plurality of features for each sentence in the structured text data, and determining a set of requirement classes and a set of confidence scores for the each sentence, based on the plurality of features, using a set of classification models. The method may further include deriving a final requirement class and a final confidence score for the each sentence based on the set of requirement classes and the set of confidence scores for the each sentence corresponding to the set of classification models, and providing the software development requirements based on the final requirement class and the final confidence score for the each sentence.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for deterministically validating an SSD device, based on the occurrence of a triggering firmware event. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method comprising receiving an ID of a triggering firmware event from a computing device and receiving data of a cross feature event from the computing device. A storage device may execute a plurality of NVMe commands as part of a test to generate a plurality of firmware events. An ID of each of the plurality of firmware events is compared to the ID of the triggering firmware event and in response to an ID of one of the plurality of firmware events matching the ID of the triggering firmware event, the one of the plurality of firmware events may be identified as the triggering firmware event and an indication of the match may be generated. At least part of the data of the cross feature event is transmitted to the storage device to cause execution of the cross feature event during execution of the triggering firmware event.

Abstract: A system and method for performing visual inspection using synthetically generated images is disclosed. An example embodiment is configured to: receive one or more images of a compliant manufactured component; receive images of component defects; use the images of component defects to produce a variety of different synthetically-generated images of defects; combine the synthetically-generated images of defects with the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component to produce synthetically-generated images of a non-compliant manufactured component; and collect the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component with the synthetically-generated images of the non-compliant manufactured component into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.

Abstract: A method is provided to control the flow of packets within a system that includes one or more computer networks comprising: policy rules are provided that set forth attribute dependent conditions for communications among machines on the one or more networks; machine attributes and corresponding machine identifiers are obtained for respective machines on the networks; and policy rules are transformed to firewall rules that include machine identifiers of machines having attributes from among the obtained machine attributes that satisfy the attribute dependent policy rules.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for anesthetizing a tympanic membrane of an ear. The systems are personalizable to ensure proper anesthetizing solution administration. The systems and methods may also be useful for administering a solution to the ear canal of a human patient and for maintaining the solution therein.