Abstract: A frame assembly for an aerial system including a fuselage body and first and second rotor assemblies is described herein. The first and second rotor assemblies are coupled to the fuselage body by respective positioning assemblies. Each positioning assembly including a hinge assembly to enable the first and second rotor assemblies to pivot between a deployed position and a stowed position. A first positioning assembly including tapered positioning shaft. A second positioning assembly including a positioning sleeve having a tapered inner surface defining a cavity that is configure to receive the positioning shaft therein. The first positioning assembly being coupled to the second positioning assembly such that the first positioning assembly is rotatable about the rotor assembly rotational axis independent of the second rotor assembly.

Abstract: An aerial system, preferably including one or more proximity sensors, such as sensors arranged in opposing directions. A method for aerial system operation, preferably including: determining a set of sensors; sampling measurements at the set of sensors; localizing the aerial system based on the measurements, such as to determine one or more obstacle clearances; and controlling system flight, such as based on the clearances.

Abstract: A device and method in a wireless communication system, the device including an access determination unit configured to determine an access requirement of a user equipment (UE); and a control unit configured to switch a target small cell of the device from a closed state to an open state based on the access requirement of the UE, and reallocate to the target small cell a new physical cell identifier different from the physical cell identifier used in the closed state. A physical cell identifier can be dynamically allocated in accordance with the open/closed state of the small cell, reducing the burden of cell planning and maintenance cost, and having greater flexibility.

Abstract: System and method for controlling an aerial system to perform a selected operation using an easy-to-use release and auto-positioning process.

Abstract: A method for controlling an aerial system with a rotor enclosed by a housing, including: operating the rotor in a flight mode, detecting a grab event indicative of the aerial system being grabbed, and automatically operating the rotor in a standby mode. A method for controlling an aerial system including a central axis extending normal to a lateral plane of the aerial system, including: generating a first aerodynamic force with a set of rotors enclosed by a housing, detecting that an acute angle between the central axis and a gravity vector is greater than a threshold angle, and operating each rotor of the set of rotors to cooperatively generate a second aerodynamic force less than the first aerodynamic force with the set of rotors.

Abstract: A system, method and program product that utilizes a hybrid fault tolerance system for managing data. A system includes: a system for partitioning memory into a set of partitions that includes a designated partition for storing immutable objects; a write system for storing an immutable object in the designated partition, wherein the immutable object is coded with a hardware-based fault tolerance system to generate a set of hardware-based codewords, and wherein the immutable object is further coded with a software-based fault tolerance system to generate a set of software-based codewords; a read system for retrieving the immutable object, wherein the read system decodes each hardware-based codeword for immutable object, and in response to a failed decoding of a hardware-based codeword, the read system decodes the software-based codeword containing a failed hardware-based codeword.

Abstract: An aerial vehicle including a set of rotors, a processor configured to configured to control the set of rotors for aerial vehicle flight, and a housing defining a plurality of cooling channels, wherein, for each rotor of the set, a projection of the processor and the cooling channels onto the respective rotor plane does not intersect the swept area of the rotor, and a distance from the rotor axis of a first rotor of the set to a cooling channel is less than 75% of a rotor diameter of the first rotor. A method for aerial vehicle operation, including providing an aerial vehicle including a rotor, a processor, and a housing, flying the aerial vehicle, and, while flying the aerial vehicle, actively cooling the processor, including, at the rotor, forcing airflow toward the processor.

Abstract: An aerial system includes a body, a propeller coupled to the body, and a motor coupled to the propeller. The motor is configured to rotate the propeller in a first direction, wherein an other portion of the aerial system rotates in an opposing second direction. The other portion of the aerial system that rotation in the opposing second direction may be the body or a second propeller. The aerial system also includes a processing system configured to control the motor to cause the aerial system to hover in a substantially fixed pose, and a camera configured to obtain images of an environment proximate the aerial system while the aerial system is hovering.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for a multiple degree-of-freedom (DOF) motor system with reduced number of electromagnet control phases. The motor system includes a first body that is able to move relative to a second body along multiple DOFs. The first body has at least one magnetic positioner attached. The second body has a plurality of controlled electromagnets. Control signals, the total number of phases of which is less than half the total number of electromagnets, energize at least one of the controlled electromagnets to create magnetic interaction with at least one magnetic positioner on the first body, and to control the movement of the first body relative to the second body along designated dimension(s).

Abstract: An aerial system includes a body, a lift mechanism coupled to the body, a processing system, and at least one camera. The aerial system also includes a first motor configured to rotate the at least one camera about a first axis and a second motor configured to rotate the at least one camera about a second axis. The processing system is configured to determine a direction of travel of the aerial system and to cause the first motor and the second motor to automatically orient the at least one camera about the first axis and the second axis such that the at least one camera automatically faces the direction of travel of the aerial system.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of summarization engines, each summarization engine to receive video content, via a processing system, and to provide a summary of the video content, thereby providing a plurality of summaries of the video content. The system includes a plurality of meta-algorithmic patterns, each meta-algorithmic pattern to be applied to at least two of the summaries to provide, via the processing system, a meta-summary of the video content using the at least two summaries, thereby providing a plurality of meta-summaries of the video content. The system includes an evaluator to evaluate the plurality of summaries and the plurality of meta-summaries and to determine similarity measures of the video content over each given class of a plurality of classes of video content, and to select a class of the plurality of classes based on the determined similarity measures.

Abstract: A system, method and program product for exploiting in-storage transparent compression. A storage infrastructure is disclosed that includes: a storage device having physical block address (PBA) storage of a defined capacity, a transparent compression system that compresses data written to the PBA storage, and an LBA-PBA mapping table; and a host having a memory management system that includes: an initialization system that allocates an amount of logical block address (LBA) storage for the host having a capacity greater than the defined capacity of the PBA storage, and that creates a dummy file that consumes LBA storage without consuming any PBA storage; a system that gathers current PBA and LBA usage information; and a dummy file manager that adjusts a size of the dummy file based on the current PBA and LBA usage information.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to authentication using a sequence of images. For example, a computing device may include an input device to receive data from a user and a processor in communication with the input device. The processor provides a request for a private key associated with the user, where the request includes a public key specifying a set of categories each relating to an object. The processor receives, via the input device, the private key in response to the request, where the private key includes a sequence of images based on the public key. The processor authenticates the user when each image in the sequence of images is associated with a particular object previously assigned to the user based on the set of categories.

Abstract: An aerial device includes a body, an optical system having gimbal supporting a camera, a lift mechanism coupled to the body, a haptic sensor coupled to the body and configured to generate haptic data, and a processing system disposed in the body and in data communication with the haptic sensor. The processing system is configured to process the haptic data to understand an intended position of the aerial device and/or an intended orientation of the gimbal and convert the intended position to a target position of the aerial device and/or the intended orientation to a target orientation of the gimbal utilizing said processed data irrespective of an initial position of said aerial device and an initial orientation of said gimbal. Also disclosed is a method for controlling the aerial device.

Abstract: An array of memory stack structures extends through an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers over a substrate. An array of drain select level assemblies including cylindrical electrode portions is formed over the alternating stack with the same periodicity as the array of memory stack structures. A drain select level isolation strip including dielectric materials can be formed between a neighboring pair of drain select level assemblies employing the drain select level assemblies as a self-aligning template. Alternatively, cylindrical electrode portions can be formed around an upper portion of each memory stack structure. Strip electrode portions are formed on the cylindrical electrode portions after formation of the drain select level isolation strip.

Abstract: System and method for controlling an aerial system to perform a selected operation using an easy-to-use release and auto-positioning process.

Abstract: A method for generating a list of recommended merchants based on an input merchant is provided. The method uses a recommender computing device. The method includes receiving an input merchant identifier, retrieving a first electronic data signal based on the input merchant identifier including historical transaction data of the input merchant including historical payment transactions initiated by candidate cardholders with the input merchant, and storing a list of the candidate cardholders. The method further includes retrieving a second electronic data signal that includes historical transaction data for at least some of the candidate cardholders included in the list of candidate cardholders and a candidate merchant identifier that identifies the candidate merchants, generating a list of candidate merchants from the second data signal including a ranking of the candidate merchants, and generating a list of recommended merchants based on the list of candidate merchants.

Abstract: A hybrid approach for performing edit distance searching used for fuzzy string searches. A system is disclosed that includes an FPGA (field programmable gate array) appliance, having: a data input manager that receives an m-byte input pattern and loads an n-byte substring of the m-byte input pattern into a first set of registers, and streams input strings of searchable data through a second set of registers; an edit distance calculation engine having an array of processing elements (PEs) implemented using FPGAs coupled to the first and second set of registers, wherein the array of PEs calculate an edit distance for each input string of searchable data relative to n-byte substring; and an output manager that identifies matching input strings having an edit distance less than a threshold, and forwards matching input strings to a CPU for software-based edit distance processing relative to the m-byte input pattern.

Abstract: A system, method and program product for implementing an LSM tree data store in a storage infrastructure. A system is disclosed having: a system for handling read requests and write requests using a key-value pair index to store and retrieve data in an LSM data store; and a compaction manager that reorganizes data in the LSM data store using: a partition system that (a) partitions a first level file into a set of subfiles when a partition threshold is exceeded, and (b) stores the subfiles from the first level file in an intermediate level between the first level and a second level, wherein the subfiles are partitioned by range to correspond with files in the second level; and a merge system that merges a group of files comprising a second level file with one or more corresponding subfiles when a merge threshold is exceeded.

Abstract: System and method for controlling an aerial system to perform a selected operation using an easy-to-use release and auto-positioning process.