Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a wound stator structure. The stator structure includes a housing, a laminated stator core and windings wound around the stator core. The laminations of the stator core have an annular body and a plurality of teeth extending radially inwardly from the annular body. Projections and recesses are formed at the outer edge of the annular body. When assembled, the recesses of one lamination are aligned with the projections of an adjacent lamination such that when fitting the stator into the housing the projections may be deformed into an axially adjacent recess by contact with the housing. Thus the stator core contacts the housing at discrete locations.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for top-down pricing of an in-flight deal. The method comprises receiving a first set of information relating to the in-flight deal. The in-flight deal comprises multiple services. The method comprises, for each service of the in-flight deal, selecting a corresponding set of peer deals from historical and market data based on the first set of information, and mining costs for the service from the corresponding set of peer deals. The method further comprises determining a set of price points for the in-flight deal based on each cost mined.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising maintaining a weather model based on predicted weather conditions for an air traffic control zone. A hash table comprising multiple hash entries is maintained. Each hash entry comprises a timestamped predicted weather condition for a cell in the zone. A flight plan request for a drone is received. The request comprises a planned flight path for the drone. For at least one cell on the planned flight path, same latitude or same longitude cells, whichever is most closely orthogonal to a direction of the planned flight path, are heuristically probed. Weather conditions for the at least one cell are estimated based on predicted weather conditions for the same latitude or same longitude cells. An executable flight plan is generated if the planned flight path is feasible based on the estimated weather conditions; otherwise, a report including an explanation of infeasibility is generated instead.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising receiving a task set comprising multiple tasks, receiving operational information identifying one or more operating characteristics of multiple drones, and obtaining an initial heuristic ordering of the multiple tasks based on the operational information and the climate information. Each task has a corresponding task location. The method further comprises scheduling the multiple tasks to obtain a final ordering of the multiple tasks. The final ordering represents an order in which the multiple tasks are scheduled, and the final ordering may be different from the initial heuristic ordering.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adjusting service items in service packages, the method includes formulating a service package having a plurality of service items, the plurality of service items including a computer-related service provided over a network, determining an anomaly index value for each service item to identify a service item in the service package to be excluded, wherein the anomaly index value for the service item to be excluded exceeds an anomaly threshold value, identifying a substitute service item from a plurality of substitute services to replace the service item to be excluded, substituting the service item with the substitute service item to generate an optimized service package having a maintained threshold quality level, wherein the optimized service package includes a portion of the plurality of service items and one or more substitute service items, and replacing the service package with the optimized service package on the network.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving historic peer deals relating to at least one service, and a baseline and cost percentage estimation for each service. Historic peer cost data for each service is clustered to form at least one cluster. Each cluster includes similar unit costs, and has an assigned label. A classification model is trained based on each baseline received, each cost percentage estimation received, and each assigned label. For each assigned label, a corresponding probability distribution is computed based on the classification model. For each service of a new client solution, an assigned label for the service is predicted based on the classification model, and, based on a probability distribution corresponding to the assigned label predicted, transforming an initial range of historic peer cost data relating to the service into a narrower range for use in estimating a cost of the service with improved accuracy.

Abstract: A brushless direct current motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The stator includes a plurality of segments arranged circumferentially and a support bracket connecting the segments together. Each segment includes a segment core unit and a winding assembly assembled on the segment core unit. The segment core units of two adjacent segments defining a gap there between. The support bracket is made of non-magnetic material.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a wound stator structure. The stator structure includes a housing, a laminated stator core and windings wound around the stator core. The laminations of the stator core have an annular body and a plurality of teeth extending radially inwardly from the annular body. Projections and recesses are formed at the outer edge of the annular body. When assembled, the recesses of one lamination are aligned with the projections of an adjacent lamination such that when fitting the stator into the housing the projections may be deformed into an axially adjacent recess by contact with the housing. Thus the stator core contacts the housing at discrete locations.

Abstract: A BLDC motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a shaft, first and second end plates, a plurality of cores arranged between the first and second end plates, a plurality of magnets, and a housing. The cores are evenly spaced from each other in the circumferential direction. A space is formed between neighboring cores. Each space receives one magnet. The magnets are magnetized circumferentially such that side surfaces of the magnets have corresponding polarities. The housing is made of magnetically permeable material, surrounding and covering radially outer ends of the magnets and cores.

Abstract: Financial transformation in one aspect establishes a hub and spoke network of models including at least a process model as the hub and at least components model, value driver model, applications model, solutions models as the spoke connected to the process model. A plurality of correlations is inferred among said models using daisy-chain analysis that navigate the hub and spoke network of models, and heat map is generated. Heat map analysis, application shortfall analysis, organization shortfall analysis, solution analysis, and business case analysis are performed.

Abstract: A battery assembling device has two brackets and an assembling unit. The brackets abut each other and can be securely mounted around two battery units. The assembling unit has a quick-release housing and two clamps. The quick-release housing has two electrode holes. The clamps are respectively mounted in the electrode holes and each clamp has two opposite threaded inner surfaces. The battery units can be bundled by the brackets in advance to form regular battery modules. Because the assembling unit is easily and quickly connected with the battery modules, the assembling of a cell of an electrical vehicle is greatly convenient and fast.

Abstract: A method and system for finding a source failure node in a traceable network. The method includes: determining a possible source failure node according to a leaf node that has an exception, wherein the possible source failure node is a node that is most likely to cause the exception; selecting a target node to receive an investigation result corresponding to the target node, wherein the investigation result indicates whether the target node has the same exception; receiving the investigation result corresponding to the target node and updating the traceable network according to the investigation result; and returning to the step of determining a possible source failure node, if it can not be verified according to the updated traceable network that the possible source failure node is the source failure node causing the exception.

Abstract: Irregular food manufacturing detection by using conversion pattern in one aspect generates one or more rules associated with amount of resources used to manufacture a food product, collects data associated with a selected manufacturing process of the food product at a selected manufacturer and determines whether the collected data complies with the generated one or more rules. Irregularity may be identified if the collected data does not comply with the generated one or more rules.

Abstract: A script-based application generation for spreadsheet software reads from one or more spreadsheets rendered by a spreadsheet program, description written in said text-based language, the text-based language for describing user interfaces, data models and/or workflow models or combinations thereof. The text-based language is independent of the spreadsheet program. The description is parsed and from the description one or more user interfaces, data model or workflow model or combinations thereof are generated in the spreadsheet program.

Abstract: A method, system, and article for improving performance of a Boolean combination of at least two filters to a data stream. Stream processing is applied to an expression having two or more logical operators. As the data stream is processed, efficiency of the operators in the expression is evaluated. A sort algorithm is dynamically invoked to ensure that a more efficient operator precedes processing of a less efficient operator.

Abstract: A battery assembling device has two brackets and an assembling unit. The brackets abut each other and can be securely mounted around two battery units. The assembling unit has a quick-release housing and two clamps. The quick-release housing has two electrode holes. The clamps are respectively mounted in the electrode holes and each clamp has two opposite threaded inner surfaces. The battery units can be bundled by the brackets in advance to form regular battery modules. Because the assembling unit is easily and quickly connected with the battery modules, the assembling of a cell of an electrical vehicle is greatly convenient and fast.

Abstract: Network architectural roles of packet switching devices are automatically determined by retrieving and analyzing configuration information of the packet switching devices. The retrieved configuration information typically includes operational details of the packet switching operations performed by the packet switching device, with these retrieved operational details being analyzed in order to identify one or more network architectural roles being performed by a particular packet switching device. Examples of such identified network architectural role include, but are not limited to, a customer edge device, a provider edge device, and a user-facing provider edge device. Knowing the architectural role performed by a packet switching device is useful for operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning of networks of these packet switching devices.

Abstract: A method, system, and article for automated processing of a data stream are provided. Stream processing is applied to a hierarchical self describing data stream. As the data stream is processed, some elements therein are associated with a selected path expression. The selected path expressions are ordered based upon the hierarchy, and a tree structure is created that corresponds to the hierarchy. Each leaf node of the tree is associated with a logical operator or an expression to be applied to data processed from the data stream to the leaf node.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a technique for detecting a break in a pseudowire and automatic shutting down user network interface (UNI) ports affected by the break is provided. In response to the loss of connectivity on the shut down ports, customer edge devices may automatically switch over to redundant circuits (e.g., other UNI ports not affected by the break in the pseudowire) and establish a different pseudowire.