Abstract: A mobile device supports positioning with positioning reference signals (PRS) on multiple beam by dividing the PRS processing into two separate modes, an acquisition mode and a tracking mode. In acquisition mode, the mobile device performs a fast scan of all of the beams from a base station transmitting PRS using less than the full set of resources for the PRS, i.e., less than the full bandwidth and/or less than the full number of repetitions of the PRS. The mobile device may select the best beams to use for positioning, e.g., based on signal strength metric. In tracking mode, the mobile device tracks the PRS from only the selected beams using the full set of resources for the PRS. The mobile device may return to acquisition mode after a predetermined number of positioning occasions or if the selected beams are no longer valid due to movement or change in conditions.

Abstract: A technique enables recovery of failover data used to generate one or more High Frequency Snapshots (HFSs) at a source and replicated to a target for storage and recovery. The target is illustratively an intermediary repository embodied as a long-term storage service (LTSS) configured to organize and store the HFSs as recovery points (RPs) in an object store. The LTSS stores a HFS identifier (ID), a logical offset in an object of the object store storing data of the HFS, and a logical timestamp associated with each replicated HFS as a key of a segment descriptor in a key-value database configured to store metadata describing the failover data of the HFS stored as one or more objects in the object store. Upon recovery of the failover data, the technique enables identification of the HFS stored in the object store and creation of a HFS index metadata structure (B+ tree) to extract the identified HFS as a RP.

Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for identifying a virtual object. For instance, a process can include a method for identifying an object. The method may include: receiving pose information associated with a pose of a hand; identifying a cluster of virtual objects the hand is moving toward based on the received pose information, wherein the cluster of virtual objects includes a plurality of independent virtual objects; obtaining a set of expected hand postures associated with virtual objects of the cluster of virtual objects; determining a hand posture based on the received pose information; matching the hand posture to an expected hand posture of the set of expected hand postures to determine an initial hand posture of the hand; and identifying a first initial object of the cluster of virtual objects based on the initial hand posture.

Abstract: Techniques for determining levels of interactions amongst entities in a group are provided. A plurality of mobile electronic devices detect signal data indicating when pairs of devices are proximate to one another. A receiver receives the detected signal data, and a data structure representing a contact network is generated based on the received detected signal data. Based on the contact network, a first metric is generated comprising a quantification of an average number of other entities in the contact network with which an entity in the contact network will have interactions in a predetermined amount of time. Based on the contact network, a second metric is generated comprising a quotient comprising of a size of a component of the contact network divided by an overall network size of the contact network. Based on the first and second metric, a level of interaction amongst entities in the group is determined.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for creating an improved mobile interface of a messaging application. The mobile interface displays unread conversations as a stack of tiles. With the top tile displayed, a user may efficiently mark the conversation as read or unread by swiping left or right. The interface then moves to the next tile in the stack. This allows a user to quickly triage unread messages while in the mobile application. The mobile interface ranks unread messages in an intuitive fashion in determining the ordering of the tiles. The interface may generate these rankings using a trained artificial intelligence based on a user's past behaviors and signals in unread messages. Messages received during the user's review of the stack of tiles may be dynamically inserted in a thoughtful manner.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a carb cap for a portable electronic vaporizing device for use in the vaporization of substances. Methods of using such carb cap with a portable electronic vaporizing device and a vaporization assembly that is compatible with the device are provided.

Abstract: Positioning for user equipments (UEs) in a wireless network is supported by restricting position reference signal (PRS) configuration parameters for a Transmission Reception Point (TRP) based on PRS configuration used by co-located TRPs. The PRS configuration parameters for the TRP may be restricted by restricting orthogonality of the PRS resources with respect to PRS resources from co-located TRPs to only code division multiplexing, and other types of orthogonality such as time division multiplexing and frequency divisional multiplexing are not permitted for co-located TRPs. The PRS configuration parameters for the TRP may be restricted to the same muting sequence type, e.g., inter-instance and/or intra-instance muting, as used by co-located TRPs. The PRS configuration parameters, e.g., related to orthogonality and/or muting, are not restricted with respect to non-co-located TRPs.

Abstract: A method for generating one or more artifact images is disclosed. The method includes obtaining one or more artifact free images and one or more artifacts represented by one or more artifact masks; obtaining a region of interest (ROI) mask identifying one or more ROIs in the one or more artifact free images; generating one or more transformed artifact masks by applying at least one localization parameter amongst a plurality of localization parameters to the one or more artifact masks; generating one or more localized artifact masks by placing the one or more transformed artifact masks on the ROI mask; and generating one or more artifact images by combining the one or more artifact free images and the one or more localized artifact masks.

Abstract: Using artificial intelligence (AI), imagery may be created for content in response to verbal or textual input. The imagery includes an object, such as a product, and a quality of the image is improved using pre-processing techniques before the image is generated and post-processing techniques after the image is generated. The pre-processing may include upscaling the object in the original image, segmenting the object from its background in the captured image, adding an outline or border stroke to the object. The post-processing techniques may include removing the object from the AI-generated background while keeping shadows and other effects in place, blurring portions of the AI-generated background where the object will be positioned, removing the outline from the object, and re-positioning the object in the AI-generated background with the outline removed.

Abstract: A method of generating attosecond entangled biphotons includes exciting a 1s2s 1S0 metastable state of a helium atom in the gas phase using four-photon absorption. The helium atoms relax by emitting extreme ultraviolet (XUV) entangled photons. The method further includes containing the helium gas in a cell at a desired high pressure, placing the cell in a vacuum chamber, collecting the emitted XUV entangled photons via an incidence toroidal mirror at a large solid angle, and collimating the XUV entangled photons into a beam.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a portable electronic vaporizing device for use in the vaporization of substances, as well as a container for holding and heating a vaporizable product. Methods of using such a device and a removably attachable vaporization module that is compatible with the device are provided. A method of heating vaporizable substances is also provided.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a carb cap for a portable electronic vaporizing device for use in the vaporization of substances. Methods of using such carb cap with a portable electronic vaporizing device and a vaporization assembly that is compatible with the device are provided.

Abstract: In an aspect, a UE receives first positioning assistance data (AD). The UE transmits an indication to a network component (e.g., BS, core network component, LMF, etc.) that the UE has received the first positioning AD. The network component determines second positioning AD that is based at least in part upon the first positioning AD. The network component transmits the second positioning AD to the UE.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for preemptively deploying gateways in a first network to one or more external networks. The first network of some embodiments includes a first gateway connecting to the one or more external networks. The method collects a set of statistics for the first gateway associated with bandwidth usage of the first gateway. The method determines that a second gateway needs to be deployed in the first network (1) by using the collected set of statistics to perform predictive modeling computations to predict a future load on the first gateway, and (2) by determining that the predicted future load exceeds a particular threshold. The method distributes a set of one or more forwarding rules to forward data message flows from a subset of machines in the first network to a particular external network through the second gateway.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for deploying cloud gateways between a set of cloud machines in a first network and a set of on-premises machines in an external network. The method collects a set of statistics for a first cloud gateway used to connect the set of cloud machines and the set of on-premises machines. The method analyzes the set of statistics to determine that a second cloud gateway is needed to connect the set of cloud machines and the set of on-premises machines. The method identifies a subset of the set of cloud machines. The method distributes a set of one or more forwarding rules to the subset of cloud machines to forward a set of data message flows from the subset of cloud machines to the set of on-premises machines through the second cloud gateway.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for dynamically deploying gateways for a first network connecting machines. The first network includes segments, routers, and a first gateway that connects to an external network. The method identifies a set of two or more segments that consumes more than a threshold amount of bandwidth of the first gateway. The identified set includes at least first and second segments. The method identifies one or more segment groups by aggregating two or more segments in the identified set. A first segment group includes the first and second segments and a third segment that is not in the identified set of two or more segments. The method configures a second gateway to process flows associated with each identified group including the first group. The method configures a set of routers to forward flows from machines of each segment of each identified group to the second gateway.

Abstract: Methods and Apparatus related to generating representations of information. The information may include menu information for merchants such as restaurants. Referring to menus, methods may include receiving potential information for a first menu and receiving indications of associations of the information with the first menu and/or any number of additional menus. Information and/or associations may later be updated by a desired set of users.

Abstract: A vehicle seat and storage system includes a vehicle seat having a seat base and a seat back extending from the seat base. A storage apparatus is connected to the seat back and is movable from a stowed position against the seat back to an extended position away from the seat back. The storage apparatus is configured to position and secure one or more cargo items. A seat motor is operably connected to the seat. The seat motor is configured to move the seat back from a first position extending upward from the seat base to a second position where the seat back is disposed flat against the seat base.