Abstract: A virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) system (300) for provisioning a virtual Radio Access Network (RAN) that is portable across one or more RAN hardware platforms is provided. The virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) system (300) includes a waveform development kit (WDK) (302), and a waveform execution environment (304). The waveform development kit (302) defines at least one portable Radio Access Network (RAN) application into a form that is instantiated on a RAN hardware (326). The waveform execution environment (304) (i) monitors real-time schedulable resources in real-time, and (ii) collects one or more statistics and monitors the one or more statistics for network automation. The waveform execution environment (304) includes a RAN hypervisor (314) that virtualizes at least one attribute of a spectral resource required to provision the RAN that is portable across at least one hardware platform of the one or more RAN hardware platforms in the RAN hardware.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to 3-substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazole compounds and their derivatives, which are useful as T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 (TIM-3) inhibitors or as dual inhibitors of TIM-3 and the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) signaling pathway. The disclosure also relates to treatment of disorders by inhibiting an immunosuppressive signal induced by TIM-3, PD-1, PD-L1, and/or PD-L2.

Abstract: Learned scheduling of autonomous actions includes generating groups of action executions that execute on a collaboration platform. The groups of action executions are generated by natural language processing of contextual information extracted from one or more Chat Operations conversations. Recommendation candidates corresponding to the action executions are generated by clustering action executions contained in each of the groups. The action executions are clustered based on times of past executions. A leaned schedule is generated by ranking the recommendation candidates based on the contextual information. As generated, the learned schedule indicates one or more recommendations to execute a specific action within a specific time.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for deploying software applications in a cloud computing environment. An administrator is provided an interface for allowing a software application that is designed for a single tenant to be used by a plurality of users. An aspect of the invention is to provide a mechanism for quickly and easily giving multi-user qualities to a single tenant application like autoCAD. As such, multiple users can access the application without the need to download and install a version locally on their system. The system is able to determine the period of time for which an application is in use for a given user, because every application is run on a resource that is part of the cloud environment. Therefore, it is possible for the application provider to charge for the application in a usage-based model—e.g., by the hour, or day—without any re-engineering of the existing application.

Abstract: The disclosed protocol analyser (100) decodes and analyse PCIe signals between a host node (102) and a device node (104), the signals being routed through an interposer (106). The analyser comprises at least a pair of high data rate 1:3 fanout buffers (108). The signals from the interposer are fed to the buffers (108) to obtain three copies of the signals. Three transceivers (110a, 110b, 110c) receive the signals from the fanout buffers and each of them samples one of the three copies of the signals. A link training and status state machine decoder (112) detects a speed or a change in speed in the PCIe signals. Based on the detected speed it selects one of the tapped signals, for protocol decoding and analysis. A protocol analyser logic block (114) analyses one of the copies of the signals conforming to the relevant PCIe protocols, from Gen1 to Gen6.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for configurable application feature experiments is described. The method can include receiving data indicative of a metric to be collected after a feature treatment is deployed to a plurality of configurable applications. The method can also include receiving, from the configurable applications, feature treatment event messages that include metric values associated with the metric. Furthermore, the method can include performing a sequential testing process using the metric values from the event messages to determine when statistical significance has been reached for the metric values satisfying or not satisfying a significance threshold associated with the metric, and using this determination to transmit alerts messages to an application developer system.

Abstract: A thermal management device is provided. The thermal management device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a thermal spreader layer. The second substrate is arranged over the first substrate, and the thermal spreader layer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. The thermal spreader layer includes a first thermally conductive piece having a first edge and a second thermally conductive piece having a first edge. The first edge of the first thermally conductive piece is disposed adjacent to the first edge of the second thermally conductive piece.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for playing a personalized voice recording with a status update to follow-up customer on an inbound call in a contact center. The computer-implemented method includes marking one or more open tickets as predicted for follow-up inbound call and predicted date and time for the follow-up call in an inbound database; updating status of one or more open ticket marked as predicted for follow-up inbound call and predicted date and time; converting the updated status to a voice recording; and operating an inbound software to identify an inbound call as a follow-up inbound call of a customer received via a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network communicating with a customer's mobile device. The customer has an open ticket with an updated status and playing voice recording with the status update in the identified inbound call, thus reducing customers waiting time and agents' workload.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for enabling medical professionals in determining a genetic predisposition of a medical cause from a family tree analysis. Specifically, the approach involves receiving medical symptoms of a patient and medical narrations about family members, which are organized in a family tree. The medical narrations are collected using questions generated using a supporting symptoms list. The narrations are filtered to provide a summary of relevant information. A linked tree of related words is established based on the summary. A natural language processing engine generates insights based on an analysis of the summary. Likelihood paths of genetic susceptibility to a medical condition through the family are determined by identifying family member symptoms in the linked tree of related words. These likelihood paths are then matched with a known inheritance pattern of a disease to provide an alert to the family members about the disease.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) insertion apparatus includes a handpiece body having a distal tip and a proximal section. The IOL insertion apparatus also includes a folding chamber located within the handpiece body, the folding chamber shaped to fold an IOL advancing through the folding chamber. The IOL insertion apparatus also includes an advancement system. The advancement system includes an advancement carriage movable between a first position and a second position within the handpiece body. The advancement carriage includes a spring system biasing the advancement carriage in a distal direction toward the second position and a dampening system to dampen motion of the advancement carriage. The advancement system further includes an elongated advancement plunger that includes a distal end to advance the IOL through the folding chamber and a proximal end connected to the advancement carriage.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for efficient vector-matrix multiply operations across parallel processing unit threads. The techniques include receiving first data of a first thread, the first data comprising a first input vector and a first matrix. The techniques further include receiving second data of a second thread, the second data comprising a second input vector and a second matrix. The techniques further include combining the first input vector and the second input vector into an input matrix and generating a result matrix at least by multiplying the input matrix by the first matrix using a matrix-multiply circuit. The techniques further include separating the result matrix into a first result value and a second result value, the first result value corresponding to the first thread and the second result value corresponding to the second thread.

Abstract: A light sleep power saving system for saving leakage power in a static random access memory (SRAM) is disclosed, the light sleep power saving system is configured to: enable a light sleep (LsEn) mode in a current active cycle: restrict precharging of a plurality of bitlines (BL/BLB) at backend of the current active cycle; analyze that the current active cycle is in the light sleep (LsEn) mode; determine whether the light sleep (LsEn) mode is enabled on at least one cycle ahead to the current active cycle; upon determining, disable the light sleep mode on at least one cycle ahead to the current active cycle; precharge the plurality of bitlines during at least one cycle ahead to the current active cycle; and output the current active cycle comprising access operations on the SRAM. The current active cycle includes access operations that include read and write operations on SRAM.

Abstract: An I/O memory management unit operates to provide hardware moderated restrictions on access to internal I/O device addresses of I/O devices eliminating the interposition of the operating system in such data transfers. As well as providing read/write permissions, the I/O memory management unit can perform address translation for virtualization and may be the combined with the functions of an IOMMU for managing physical addresses.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a fire suppression system includes a body having an inlet end for receiving a flow of fire extinguishing agent from the fire suppression system at an inlet pressure and a nozzle portion extending from the body. The nozzle portion includes an interior cavity having an outlet end, a center body arranged within the interior cavity adjacent the outlet end, and a plurality of exit orifices formed in an outer wall of the nozzle portion, in communication with the interior cavity, for vectoring the flow of fire extinguishing agent exiting therefrom and to reduce a noise level of the nozzle assembly. At least one perforated filter member is positioned upstream from the plurality of exit orifices formed in the nozzle portion, for reducing the inlet pressure of the flow of fire extinguishing agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to viral adaptor proteins which are capable of changing the binding profile of the virus and/or modifying the cellular tropism of the virus. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a covalently-bound adaptor protein for viruses which is capable of changing the binding profile of the virus and/or modifying the cellular tropism of the virus. The present invention also relates to uses of the claimed virus adaptor proteins both to modify viral binding profiles and cellular tropism and as a transduction vector for use as a medicament.

Abstract: Described herein are tiered synchronization systems and methods suitable for use in non-relational database systems distributed across multiple remote locations, which may provide access to some or all functionality of a cloud-tier server at a mid-tier server. For example, the mid-tier server may be locally accessible (e.g., over LAN) to clients independent of any remote connection to the cloud-tier server (e.g., over the Internet). In some embodiments, a mid-tier server may be configured to perform flexible sync functionality, such as flexible partitioning and/or permissions, whether independently and/or in cooperation with the cloud-tier server performing the same or similar functionality. In some embodiments, systems described herein may provide flexible and consistent local data access to non-relational data in locations where remote network connections are intermittent, such as due to weather conditions, relatively frequent network outages, and/or due to the location regularly changing (e.g.

Abstract: Described herein are tiered synchronization systems and methods suitable for use in non-relational database systems distributed across multiple remote locations, which may provide access to some or all functionality of a cloud-tier server at a mid-tier server. For example, the mid-tier server may be locally accessible (e.g., over LAN) to clients independent of any remote connection to the cloud-tier server (e.g., over the Internet). In some embodiments, a mid-tier server may be configured to perform flexible sync functionality, such as flexible partitioning and/or permissions, whether independently and/or in cooperation with the cloud-tier server performing the same or similar functionality. In some embodiments, systems described herein may provide flexible and consistent local data access to non-relational data in locations where remote network connections are intermittent, such as due to weather conditions, relatively frequent network outages, and/or due to the location regularly changing (e.g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for detecting anomalies in a robotic system in an industrial plant. The robotic system is associated with a computing system configured to detect an anomaly in the robotic system. The computer system monitors configuration parameters of the robotic system and process parameters associated with the robotic system. Further, the computing system detects an association between at least one configuration parameter and at least one process parameter for obtaining optimal configuration parameters and optimal process parameters. The optimal configuration parameters and optimal process parameters are analyzed for detecting an anomaly. At least one parameter among the configuration parameters and the process parameters is identified causing the anomaly. Thereafter, the detected anomaly is validated, valid setpoint is estimated and the estimated valid setpoint is updated in the analytics model.