Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that dynamically and selectively modify portions of a displayed interface to include interface elements that, when selected by a user through a single provided input, initiate a performance of a data exchange in accordance with parameter values consistent with prior initiated data exchanges. For example, a communications device may display, on a display unit, a first interface element representative of a first data exchange and may receive expected values of parameters that characterize the second data exchange. When a determined parameter value is consistent with the expected parameter values, the communications device may modify the first interface element and present, on the display unit, the modified first interface element and a second interface element within the interface.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a graphical user interface to a computing device are described.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that perform a real-time delegated approval of initiated data exchanges by network-connected devices. For example, an apparatus determines determine a value of a parameter that characterizes an exchange of data and a first data type involved in the data exchange, and generates and transmits a first signal to a communications device associated with a second data type available for use in the data exchange and associated with the first data type. The apparatus receives, from the communications device, a second signal that includes information indicative of an approval of the second data type for use in the data exchange, and in response to the received approval, the apparatus performs the data exchange using the second data type and in accordance with the parameter value.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for delivering audible alerts are described. In one aspect, an event for generating an audible alert for a user is detected. In response to detection of the event for generating the audible alert, it is determined whether an authorized audible interface device is within a threshold distance of the user based on a location of the user and a location of one or more authorized audible interface devices. In response to determining that an audible interface device is within the threshold distance of the user, alert instructions for the audible interface device are generated. The alert instructions cause the audible interface device to generate the audible alert in accordance with alert data provided in the alert instructions. The alert instructions are sent to the audible interface device over a wireless network via a communication module.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that use a trained process to reply to a request comprising query data defining a query and context data defining contextual factors for the query from a device. The query is answered by one or more selected APIs of a plurality of APIs that invoke respective services to prepare a response. The trained process determines an execution plan responsive to the query data and the context data and is configured using training to define execution plans comprising selected APIs where a particular API is selected for the plan if it answers at least a portion of the query and the selected APIs together prepare the response optimized for the device according to the context data. The plan is provided to an execution component to execute the plan using the selected APIs and send the response to the requesting device.

Abstract: A method for authenticating a wearable device is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, from a tokenization service provider (TSP), a signal representing a first code derived by the TSP from decrypting a security token previously provisioned in the computing device, wherein the security token was received at a terminal from the computing device and transmitted to the TSP; obtaining, based on the received signal representing the first code, a device identifier of the computing device and an identifier of an account; querying a device database to verify that the computing device is associated with a first status; verifying that the account is enabled for an operation initiated using the computing device; and transmitting an authorization message to the terminal, the authorization message authorizing the operation.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that dynamically and selectively modify portions of a displayed interface to include interface elements that, when selected by a user through a single provided input, initiate a performance of a data exchange in accordance with parameter values consistent with prior initiated data exchanges. For example, a communications device may display, on a display unit, a first interface element representative of a first data exchange and may receive expected values of parameters that characterize the second data exchange. When a determined parameter value is consistent with the expected parameter values, the communications device may modify the first interface element and present, on the display unit, the modified first interface element and a second interface element within the interface.

Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, authenticate device identity and authorize exchanges of data in real-time based on dynamically generated cryptographic data. For example, an apparatus may receive a first signal that includes a first cryptogram associated with a client device, and may perform operations that authenticate an identity of the client device based on a comparison of the received first cryptogram and a second cryptogram generated by a computing system associated with an application program executed by the client device. In response to the authenticated identity, the apparatus may load profile data associated with the client device from a storage unit, and perform operations consistent with the profile data in accordance with the authenticated identity.

Abstract: A system for tracking a piece of medical equipment intraoperatively using a collinear array of fiducial markers positioned at known fixed distances relative to each other on the medical equipment and a camera capturing an image on a single image plane. Representations of the fiducial markers are segmented from a captured image, 3D orientation and position of the medical equipment are calculated using the segmented representations, and the orientation and position of the medical equipment are tracked relative to the camera. The orientation and position of the medical equipment may be registered within a 3D virtual space. The system may be used as part of a surgical navigation system.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for a remittance system that pre-populates remittance data based on historical usage of remittance transactions. One example system includes operations to generate, using a predictive model, data indicating a predicted likelihood of a user selecting at least one data exchange transaction, wherein the data indicates the predicted likelihood of the user performing the at least one data exchange transaction. A request is received to access a remittance page. In response, the at least one data exchange transaction that was previously generated is selected from a repository of predicted likelihoods. Remittance data associated with a UI element is generated that includes the at least one data exchange transaction. The remittance data is transmitted to the device. An indication from the device is received for interacting with the UI element. The data exchange transaction is executed in response to receiving the indication.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems reliant on establishing a common session key between an electronic device and a computer server are disclosed. The method and systems may be for processing de-tokenization requests in payment transaction processing and for preparing an electronic device to perform payment transactions. During such a transaction, the server may perform a method that includes receiving a de-tokenization request including a payment token and a cryptogram generated by the electronic device using a session key generated by the electronic device based on a fingerprint of the electronic device, a secret value previously shared with the electronic device, the payment token, and a transaction counter; retrieving the fingerprint, the secret value, and the transaction counter and generating the session key based on the same; verifying the cryptogram using the session key; retrieving an associated account number; and sending response to the request including the account number.

Abstract: A computer system provides a user interface efficient in its use of screen space allowing values to be provided for attributes. The computer system comprises a processor and a display, an input interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computer system to: display, within a first region of the display, a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of attributes; receive, via the input interface, input corresponding to a drag-and-drop operation wherein a particular one of the plurality of icons is dragged to and then dropped at a drop position within a second region of the display; and assign a value to an attribute corresponding to the particular one of the plurality of icons based on a location of the drop position within the second region. Related methods and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, devices, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically implement and manage consent and permissioning protocols using container-based applications. By way of example, a device may receive, through a programmatic interface, a first request for an element of data generated by an executed application program. When the first request is consistent with consent data associated the executed application program, the device may obtain the requested data element and a digital signature applied to the requested data element by a computing system. Based on a verification of the applied digital signature, the device may generate and present a representation of the requested data element within a digital interface, along with an interface element that confirms the verification of the digital signature.

Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented devices, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, perform dynamic biometric authentication based on distributed ledger data. For example, a device may compute a first hash value based on first biometric data captured by a sensor unit, and may transmit a request to, and receive a response from, a computing system across a communications network via the communications unit. The request may cause the computing system to execute instructions maintained within the distributed ledger data, and to extract second biometric data maintained within an element of the distributed ledger data. The second biometric data may include a second hash, which the computing system may incorporate into the response. The device may authenticate an identity associated with the device when the first hash value corresponds to the second hash value incorporated within the response.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for intraoperative tissue stimulation during port-based surgery. The apparatus includes an access port and electrical terminals attached to the access port for tissue stimulation. In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus may include an access port, with or without electrical terminals attached to the access port for tissue stimulation, and electrocorticography sensors attached to the access port. The method includes inserting an access port into a tissue, applying an electrical potential to the tissue using electrical terminals attached to the access port, and measuring consequent neural activity using electrocorticography sensors attached to the access port.

Abstract: Multichannel optical coherence systems and methods involving optical coherence tomography (OCT) subsystems are operably and respectively connected to optical fibers of a multichannel optical probe, such that each optical fiber forms at least a distal portion of a sample beam path of a respective OCT subsystem. The optical fibers are in optical communication with distal optical elements such that external beam paths associated therewith are directed towards a common spatial region external to the housing. Image processing computer hardware is employed to process OCT signals obtained from the plurality of OCT subsystems to generate an OCT image dataset comprising a plurality of OCT A-scans and process the OCT image dataset to generate volumetric image data based on known positions and orientations of the external beam paths associated with the OCT subsystems.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for intercepting data exchange requests and automatically imposing a hold period while the data exchange is evaluated for a user profile initiating the request. One example system includes operations to detect a data exchange request prior to completion of the attempted data exchange, the data exchange request including information defining the attempted data exchange and associated wherein the attempted data exchange is associated with a particular user profile. A portion of the information is transmitted to a data exchange analysis system for execution of a user profile-specific data exchange analysis based on the information and a status of the user profile. A hold state is initiated for the data exchange request while the analysis is performed. The results of the analysis are presented and a confirmation to proceed is required before allowing the attempted data exchange to be processed.

Abstract: A server includes a processor that receives, from a first device, initiation message(s) each including a service identifier and a service value and, for each initiation message, saves in a database a record comprising the service identifier in association with the service value. The processor receives, from a second device, authorization message(s) each including one of the service identifiers and an authorization value, and for each authorization message, validates one of the initiation messages by (i) locating in the database the record comprising the one service identifier, and (ii) confirming that the service value in the located database record matches the authorization value. The processor updates a journal with an entry identifying a transfer between a first ledger and a second ledger in an amount equal to a sum of the service values of the validated initiation messages, and provides the first device with a message confirming the transfer.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for presenting recommendations for suggested activities. One example method includes receiving a first signal from a device that includes a current context of the device that includes location information for the device. The device is associated with a particular profile. A preferred language associated with the device is determined from the profile. The profile is analyzed to determine a contextual activity preference associated with the device. A repository of establishment information is searched to identify an activity that matches the current context associated with the device and the contextual activity preference. An activity description of the identified activity is translated from a foreign language to the preferred language to create a translated activity description. A second signal is transmitted to the device that includes the translated activity description for presentation at the device.

Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, devices, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically implement and manage consent and permissioning protocols using container-based applications. By way of example, a device may receive, through a programmatic interface, a first request for an element of data generated by an executed application program. When the first request is consistent with consent data associated the executed application program, the device may obtain the requested data element and a digital signature applied to the requested data element by a computing system. Based on a verification of the applied digital signature, the device may generate and present a representation of the requested data element within a digital interface, along with an interface element that confirms the verification of the digital signature.