Abstract: Various methods and systems for autonomously upgrading deployed resources in a distributed computing environment are provided. An autonomous upgrade system identifies updates such as operating system image updates and virtual machine extension updates for deployment in the distributed computing environment. The autonomous upgrade system identifies eligible tenants, identifies deployed resources that may be impacted by the identified update, batches the resources and upgrades the batched resources. The autonomous upgrade system performs a diagnostic test on upgraded resources to determine whether an upgrade was successful. In some embodiments, the diagnostic test is performed by executing a diagnostic script that can be provided by a tenant. The autonomous upgrade system can stop or pause the upgrade if various success metrics are not satisfied. In some embodiments, the autonomous upgrade system tests and certifies newly published updates for deployment to the distributed computing environment.

Abstract: An application executing on a mobile computing platform provides independent data channels over a mobile network to multiple separate computing systems that each maintain some data pertinent to problem determination and resolution when an incident arises in a monitored information technology (IT) environment. The application maintains and separately exercises the channels to provide timely information in a user interface that composites data to present a single interface with a multi-sourced contextual rendering. Some systems may include an IT monitoring system and a separate incident management system among its sources. Channels may include extended functionality to improve security or other aspects of communication with mobile platforms.

Abstract: A secondary part, which defines a magnetic path for a primary part of a linear motor, includes a spacer element having a plurality of mounting points that, in an application, are configured to fasten the secondary part. Two yoke plates that form lateral sides are configured to be fastened to the spacer element such that the two yoke plates extend in mutual opposition, orthogonally to the magnetic path. The two yoke plates are configured to accommodate a plurality of permanent magnets on respective inner sides thereof. The two yoke plates have, on respective outer sides thereof, a reinforcing structure that is formed by a periodic variation of plate thickness in the direction of the magnetic path. Local minima of the reinforcing structure overlapping with the mounting points along the direction of the magnetic path.

Abstract: A system includes an animated character head having one or more processors configured to receive an input, to make an animation selection based on the input, and to provide a first control based on the animation selection. The animated character head also includes a display configured to provide an indication of the animation selection for visualization by a performer operating the animated character head.

Abstract: Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods for generating a road edge boundary for an edge of a road in an AV map for controlling an autonomous vehicle on a roadway by obtaining map data associated with a map of a geographic location including a roadway associated with one or more locations of one or more vehicles in the roadway during one or more traversals of the roadway, determining one or more prediction scores based on the map data, including one or more predictions of whether the plurality of elements include road edge boundary locations, and generating in the map a road edge boundary based on the one or more prediction scores.

Abstract: Various aspects of the invention relate to methods and devices for treating diseases and conditions including atherosclerosis and endocarditis using low-temperature, non-equilibrium plasmas. A device may be, for example, a catheter that carries electrodes and a dielectric material for generating a localized, non-equilibrium plasma in a bodily fluid such as blood.

Abstract: Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods, for detecting a missing traffic face, including: obtaining sensor data that includes a plurality of images associated with a geographic location including a roadway and associated with a plurality of image capture locations in the geographic location, determining in a subset of images of the plurality of images, a plurality of image areas associated with at least one predicted traffic face, determining a plurality of rays that project through 3-D spaces of the geographic location associated with the plurality of image areas from a subset of image capture locations of the plurality of image capture locations associated with the subset of images, and identifying at least one location of a traffic face in the geographic location based on a sum of unit vectors of the plurality of rays that project through the 3-D spaces of the geographic location at the at least one location of the traffic face.

Abstract: Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods for identifying a speed bump for an autonomous vehicle on a roadway by determining at least one beginning location in the one or more subsets of the plurality of subsets associated with a greatest positive change or a greatest negative change in the one or more parameters and at least one ending location in the one or more subsets of the plurality of subsets associated with the other of the greatest positive change or the greatest negative change in the one or more parameters, and identifying at least one bump or depression in the roadway based on the at least one beginning location and the at least one ending location.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure can be embodied in a systems for heating an exterior surface of a bulk medium. In one example, the system includes two or more coupling strips spaced apart from one another and attached to the bulk medium. Each of the coupling strips has a multi-layer structure extending along a surface of the bulk medium that forms, in combination with the bulk medium, an electrical transmission line. The multi-layer structure includes a first dielectric layer over the bulk medium, a conductive layer over the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the conductive layer, and a conductive shielding layer over the second dielectric layer. A power control system is coupled to the conductive layer of each of the coupling strips and to the bulk medium. The power control system is configured to heat the bulk medium by providing current to the coupling strips.

Abstract: Provisioning resources into the cloud is a constantly increasing technical challenge as more cloud service providers emerge, each offering disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features. A cloud computing provisioning architecture implements a sequence of complex technical analyses that successfully provisions complex cloud computing services. The provisioning architecture disaggregates resources into individual provisioning actions, and also selectively re-aggregates the resources into template blocks which a service provider accepts for native provisioning.

Abstract: A ride system includes a ride vehicle configured to accommodate a passenger and travel along a ride path during a ride in an amusement park, a head mounted display connected to the ride vehicle and configured to be worn by the passenger, and a ride and game control system integrated with the ride vehicle and configured to coordinate a ride experience of the passenger with events occurring during the ride using at least the head mounted display and the ride vehicle. The ride and game control system includes a user interface, a ride controller, and a monitoring system. The ride and game control system also includes a computer graphics generation system communicatively coupled to the head mounted display and configured to selectively generate AR features for display on the head mounted display based on data received from the ride controller, the monitoring system, the user interface, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A method and system to automatically load an application. Based on automatically generated statistics tracking proximities of application access and detected events, an application is selected with a greatest probability of being accessed within a time proximity of an event that is defined by operating environment criteria associated with launching the application. An association is determined, based on the statistics, between a user's launching of the application in proximity to a particular time of day over a plurality of days. In response to detecting an occurrence of the event and based on the association, the application is automatically loaded into a background of the device independent of a present user command to load the application. Based on loading the application and receiving an indication of user presence within a predetermined period of time after the occurrence of the event, the application is brought into a foreground of the device.

Abstract: A method and system for benchmarking a trade compliance program against government agency standards comprised of a database of government agency standards cross-referenced to trade compliance program elements and a web-based interface for user access to the trade compliance program elements. The user inputs information regarding the trade compliance program elements present in the user's trade compliance program. The method and system cross-reference the program elements present in the user's trade compliance program with government agency standards on the database and provide a count of government agency standards met by the user's trade compliance program, and provide a count of government agency standards that are not met by the user's trade compliance program.

Abstract: A network interface controller (NIC), comprising: a Gigabit Fiber Transceiver; a Gigabit Ethernet Controller; a Gigabit Ethernet Switch; and a microprocessor unit (MPU), where the MPU initializes the Gigabit Ethernet Switch to pass Ethernet packets unmolested between the Gigabit Fiber Transceiver and the Gigabit Ethernet Controller, where the Gigabit Ethernet Switch maintains a link between the Gigabit Ethernet Controller and the Gigabit Fiber Transceiver whether or not a link speed between the Gigabit Ethernet Switch and the Gigabit Fiber Transceiver matches a link speed between the Gigabit Ethernet Switch and the Gigabit Ethernet Controller, where the MPU configures the Gigabit Ethernet Switch to match a link speed between the Gigabit Ethernet Switch and the Gigabit Fiber Transceiver with a link speed between the Gigabit Ethernet Switch and the Gigabit Ethernet Controller during normal operation, and where the Gigabit Ethernet Controller can respond to a Wake on LAN (WoL) request from a network.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for autonomously upgrading deployed resources in a distributed computing environment are provided. An autonomous upgrade system identifies updates such as operating system image updates and virtual machine extension updates for deployment in the distributed computing environment. The autonomous upgrade system identifies eligible tenants, identifies deployed resources that may be impacted by the identified update, batches the resources and upgrades the batched resources. The autonomous upgrade system performs a diagnostic test on upgraded resources to determine whether an upgrade was successful. In some embodiments, the diagnostic test is performed by executing a diagnostic script that can be provided by a tenant. The autonomous upgrade system can stop or pause the upgrade if various success metrics are not satisfied. In some embodiments, the autonomous upgrade system tests and certifies newly published updates for deployment to the distributed computing environment.

Abstract: A method and system to automatically load an application. Based on automatically generated statistics tracking proximities of application access and detected events, an application is selected with a greatest probability of being accessed within a time proximity of an event that is defined by operating environment criteria associated with launching the application. An association is determined, based on the statistics, between a user's launching of the application in proximity to a particular time of day over a plurality of days. In response to detecting an occurrence of the event and based on the association, the application is automatically loaded into a background of the device independent of a present user command to load the application. Based on loading the application and receiving an indication of user presence within a predetermined period of time after the occurrence of the event, the application is brought into a foreground of the device.