Abstract: A computer-implemented method of automatically optimizing a print production process, comprising the operations of: receiving a printed matter specification, comprising data regarding at least one printed matter, as input data from a remote device; and determining an optimized print production specification on basis of the printed matter specification and print production resources data; wherein the operation of determining an optimized print production specification comprises: fetching print production resources data, comprising printing press data regarding at least one available printing press; determining all possible signatures by means of the printed matter specification; determining, for each printing press, all possible print sheet sizes and print areas, by means of the printing press data; determining all possible impositions by means of at least the signatures and the print areas; and determining an optimized production specification by means of at least the impositions, the print areas, and at l

Abstract: An oil distributor is provided for a lubricating and cooling system in a powertrain, comprising a housing with a first oil outlet connected to a first oil chamber and a first oil circuit and a second oil outlet connected to a second oil chamber and a second oil circuit; and a piston arranged in a cavity of the housing and movable between first and second positions and comprising: a first bore partly constituting the second oil chamber; and a second bore connecting the first bore with an outer periphery of the piston, so that when the piston is in the first position, the first oil inlet is connected to the first oil chamber and the first oil outlet, and when the piston is in the second position, the first oil inlet is connected to the second oil chamber and the second oil outlet.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to dynamically assigning product groups to production machines using production groups and producing product groups at a specified ratio using production groups. In one scenario, a computer system dynamically assigns a production entity to a product group based on properties for that production entity. The production entity is to be produced using a production machine. The computer system then dynamically assigns each product group to a production group, where each production group includes production machines that are available to produce production entities for product groups that belong to the assigned production group. The computer system also indicates that a production entity is to be produced using the production machines in the dynamically assigned production group.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to dynamically assigning product groups to production machines using production groups and producing product groups at a specified ratio using production groups. In one scenario, a computer system dynamically assigns a production entity to a product group based on properties for that production entity. The production entity is to be produced using a production machine. The computer system then dynamically assigns each product group to a production group, where each production group includes production machines that are available to produce production entities for product groups that belong to the assigned production group. The computer system also indicates that a production entity is to be produced using the production machines in the dynamically assigned production group.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to scaling services, transitioning from a first service version to a second version and to implementing an external system integration service. In one scenario, a computer system establishes a message broker service that maintains message queues that allow communication between services. The message queues receive messages from publishers and transfer messages to subscribers. The computer system indicates a specified message queue for each service, where the specified message queue is configured to maintain messages for that service. The computer system also moves at least one of the services to a second, different computer system, while the specified message queue maintains messages for the moved service. The computer system further allows an external system integration service to be implemented which subscribes to specified, registered messages and forwards the registered messages to selected external entities.

Abstract: A method, an Activation Node, a computer program and a computer program product for orchestration of activation actions are provided. The solution provides for avoiding an imperative way of specifying the logic and manually defining its level of parallelism. The Activation Node is configured to deploy or fetch a specification, the specification mapping dependencies between a data model for an activation request to a data model of lower layer resources, to be used for orchestrating execution of the activation actions; receive an activation request; match the activation request with a specific flow of activation actions to be executed in in accordance with the specification; and execute the execute logic of the flow of activation actions ordered based on the dependencies between the data models.

Abstract: Halogen-free decorative surface covering compositions comprising a polymer blend, the polymer blend comprising: a) at least one thermoplastic elastomer, the thermoplastic elastomer being a block copolymer comprising hard and soft sequences, wherein the hard sequence is a (co)polymer of one or more vinyl aromatic monomer(s) and wherein the soft sequence is a (co)polymer of one or more alkylene(s) or of a mixture of one or more alkylene(s) and one or more vinylaromatic monomers; b) at least one thermoplastic polyurethane.

Abstract: A powered axle gear (I) for a motor vehicle. The axle gear can cope with large driving torques and at the same time be accommodated in an axle beam between the vehicle's tractive wheels. The axle gear has a gear housing (10) which accommodates a pinion (40) and a crownwheel (50) for transmission of rotary motion to the vehicle's powered axles (Y1, Y2). To this end, there are two bearings (62, 64), one on each side of the crownwheel (50) and the pinion's centerline (X), with a differential situated between the bearings (62, 64). The bearing (64) situated beyond both the crownwheel (50) and the pinion's centerline (X) has running round it an undivided bearing seat (30) provided with a portion running in the circumferential direction which protrudes over the pinion (40) towards the latter's centerline (X) in a configuration which at least partly overlaps the pinion (40). The invention relates also to a motor vehicle with this axle gear.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process to manufacture a substrate-free decorative surface covering, having a relief-like pattern, comprising a non-uniform arrangement of unfused and discrete colored polymer-based particles (9, 10), the particles are obtained by the shredding of a polymer based sheet, and the particles are non-uniformly embedded in, and principally surrounded by, a substantially transparent or translucent polymeric matrix 12.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to a customizable management system for various unique packaging production architectures. The customizable management system can be configurable to universally integrate with various systems within a variety of unique packaging production architectures. For example, the customizable management system can comprise one or more importer modules that receive package creation requests and translate the requests into a second format that is readable by one or more staging and selection modules. The system may also comprise staging and selection modules that are configured to identify within each translated packaging creation order one or more final packaging parameters and identify a workgroup that is capable of meeting the one or more final packaging parameters. The system may also comprise one or more machine group modules in communication with one or more packaging stations.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to scaling services, transitioning from a first service version to a second version and to implementing an external system integration service. In one scenario, a computer system establishes a message broker service that maintains message queues that allow communication between services. The message queues receive messages from publishers and transfer messages to subscribers. The computer system indicates a specified message queue for each service, where the specified message queue is configured to maintain messages for that service. The computer system also moves at least one of the services to a second, different computer system, while the specified message queue maintains messages for the moved service. The computer system further allows an external system integration service to be implemented which subscribes to specified, registered messages and forwards the registered messages to selected external entities.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to dynamically assigning product groups to production machines using production groups and producing product groups at a specified ratio using production groups. In one scenario, a computer system dynamically assigns a production entity to a product group based on properties for that production entity. The production entity is to be produced using a production machine. The computer system then dynamically assigns each product group to a production group, where each production group includes production machines that are available to produce production entities for product groups that belong to the assigned production group. The computer system also indicates that a production entity is to be produced using the production machines in the dynamically assigned production group.

Abstract: A powered axle gear (I) for a motor vehicle. The axle gear can cope with large driving torques and at the same time be accommodated in an axle beam between the vehicle's tractive wheels. The axle gear has a gear housing (10) which accommodates a pinion (40) and a crownwheel (50) for transmission of rotary motion to the vehicle's powered axles (Y1, Y2). To this end, there are two bearings (62, 64), one on each side of the crownwheel (50) and the pinion's centreline (X), with a differential situated between the bearings (62, 64). The bearing (64) situated beyond both the crownwheel (50) and the pinion's centreline (X) has running round it an undivided bearing seat (30) provided with a portion running in the circumferential direction which protrudes over the pinion (40) towards the latter's centreline (X) in a configuration which at least partly overlaps the pinion (40). The invention relates also to a motor vehicle with this axle gear.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for charging control of service usage in an electronic communications system. An invocation of charging control is received from a service client for service usage by a user. Charging related data and rules checked for the user and it is determined whether the session should be charging controlled. In case of a non charging controlled session, a response message is returned to the charging client, indicating that the session is not charging controlled and that the service usage is to be reported at the end-of-session. A report of usage is received—from the client—including information of the usage consumed during the session at the end-of-session.

Abstract: A charging device and method determines rating data for charging of services in an electronic communications network. A modifier operator (56, 76) of a node (46, 66) is accessed in a rating analysis in response to a charging request from a service element for a requested service in the electronic communications network. The modifier operator (56, 76) performs at least one operation involving a number of modifiers (46, 27, 48, 66, 67, 68), and returns a result from the at least one operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for invoking online charging of a service requested via a communications network and to be accessed according to a first protocol, wherein subscriber information is received from a first network element (102) including information for invoking the online charging, and the received subscriber information is interpreted and in response to a service request online charging is invoked from a second network element (103) for the service by means of a second protocol.

Abstract: To provide optimized real-time charging for simultaneous services there is provided a method and apparatus for executing a real-time charging session in a charging system being interfaced to at least one communication network. At start of a charging session or during re-authorization of reserved funds there is executed an optimized fund reservation for multi-service and/or multi-unit type services such that it is possible to optimize the fund resources considering various services and related service types in parallel. Fund reservation is executed for multi-service and/or multi-unit type services such that deviations between time of predicted fund depletion for the at least two services and/or for the at least two service types are minimized. Therefore, the signalling traffic to and from the charging system is reduced significantly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible selection of subscriber and account related data for charging purposes in a communication network. The subscriber account has at least one charging resource type which is instantiated into at least one charging resource of the charging resource type, and the charging resource is associated with at least one subscriber account. Initially, there is executed an analysis of a service data describing a service event and subscriber/subscriber group related data describing at least one subscriber account to which the service event is to be charged using a configurable analysis structure for generation of a charging resource matching key. The charging resource matching key describes what class of charging resource types could be used for charging the service event.

Abstract: A method for operating a computer system to handle switch over between several accounts at account selection in a real time charging system, wherein at a charging rating of a session, a first account is selected from a set of accounts, to be used and rated with its charging interval; the cost of a first charging interval is calculated for the first account; it is determined if the cost for the first charging interval is covered by the balance of the first account; if the cost for the first charging interval is not covered, a second account is selected to be used from the set of accounts; the cost for a next charging interval is determined; it is determined if the cost for the next charging interval minus the residue money left on the first account is covered by the balance of the second account; and if so, continue with the next charging interval, wherein the residue money left on the first account is used before the selected second account is used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process to manufacture a substrate-free decorative surface covering, having a relief-like pattern, comprising a non-uniform arrangement of unfused and discrete colored polymer-based particles (9, 10), said particles being obtained by the shredding of a polymer based sheet, and said particles being non-uniformly embedded in, and principally surrounded by, a substantially transparent or translucent polymeric matrix 12.