Abstract: This disclosure provides for devices, methods, and systems for generating a plurality of droplets within a collecting container at an extremely high rate (e.g., of at least 1 million droplets per minute, etc.), each of the plurality of droplets comprising an aqueous mixture for a digital analysis, wherein upon generation, the plurality of droplets is stabilized in position within a region of the collecting container. The inventions enable partitioning of samples for digital analyses at unprecedented rates, where readout of signals from targets within such partitions can still be achieved in accordance with various assays.

Abstract: The disclosure provides compositions, methods, and systems for implementation of highly multiplexed molecular diagnostic assays involving color combinatorics, stimulus-responsive probes, tandem probes, conjugated polymer probes, and other mechanisms for increasing the number of targets that can be simultaneously detected in a digital assay. Multiplexed detection of targets is achieved in a rapid manner, with respect to sample partitioning and target detection using multiple color channels for detection. Implementation of methods described also achieve detection with significantly improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to techniques for reducing inaccuracies in context aware policies (CAP) with real-time feedforward validation in extended reality environments. In a particular aspect, a extended reality system is configured to author, by a user using the head-mounted device, a rule or policy or context aware policy (CAP) including one or more target actions and triggering context instances, capture, using one or more sensors, context history records for the user, render, by the head-mounted device, one or more validation scenes based on the rule or policy or CAP and the context history records, validate, by the user using the head-mounted device, the one or more validation scenes within an extended reality environment, and update, by the user using the head-mounted device, the rule or policy or CAP based on the validation.

Abstract: Features described herein generally relate to learning and recognizing object-centered routines. Particularly, object-centered routines can be learned and recognized by collecting data corresponding to a user. The data can include information representing interactions by the user with respect to objects in an environment. The routine can be learned by presenting a visual graph to the user. The user can define nodes associating an interaction with an object, specify a relationship between nodes, and arrange the nodes into segments. The visual graph can be stored, and a routine can be recognized based on the visual graph.

Abstract: An Adaptive Tangible User Interface (ATUI) for use in an extended reality environment in which tangible interfaces are composed in real time based on identified affordances of existing objects in the physical environment and the input tasks of a user. An extended reality system can be provided with instructions executable by one or more processors to perform processing including: generating a representation of the real-world environment within a field of view of the user; identifying physical objects within the real-world environment; generating a set of possible performable gestures afforded by available object affordance factors; determining potential input tasks; composing performable gestures for the potential input tasks; and selecting a physical object for use as an adaptive tangible user interface. Techniques for designing a virtual user interface, overlaying the virtual user interface on a selected ATUI physical object, and maintaining alignment of the virtual user interface, are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to refining context aware policies in extended reality systems. In one aspect, an extended reality system is provided that performs operations including: accessing data collected from user interactions while using a context aware policy in an extended reality environment, determining a support set and confidence score for the context aware policy based on the data, generating replacement policies for the context aware policy, determining a support set and confidence score for each of the replacement policies based on the data, identifying a replacement policy from the replacement policies as a replacement for the context aware policy based on the support sets and confidence scores, and updating one or more conditions or an action defined by the context aware policy with a modified version of the one or more conditions or the action defined by the replacement policy to generate an updated context aware policy.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to defining and modifying behavior in an extended reality environment. The systems and methods include capturing, using the one or more audio sensors, a natural language explanation of a rule or policy from the user, extracting features from the natural language explanation of the rule or policy, wherein the features include one or more conditions, one or more actions, and connections between the one or more events, conditions, and actions, predicting a control structure comprised of one or more conditional statements based on the extracted features and model parameters learned from historical rules or policies, and generating the rule or policy based on the control structure, wherein the rule or policy comprises the one or more conditional statements for executing the one or more actions based on evaluation of the one or more conditions.

Abstract: Features described herein generally relate to predicting policies with an artificial intelligence (AI) platform based on shared or similar interactions. Particularly, data that includes information about users and a corpus of policies is collected, embeddings are generated for the collected data, and policies are predicted based on the embeddings. The policies can be predicted based on content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, and/or game theory approaches.

Abstract: Features described herein generally relate to generating and modifying policies with an artificial intelligence (AI) platform based on user activities. Particularly, data comprising characteristics of activities performed by a user in real-world and virtual environments is collected, a control structure is predicted based on the data and model parameters learned from historical policies, and a new policy is generated or a pre-existing policy is modified based on the control structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for defining and modifying behavior in an extended reality environment. The systems and methods include receiving a request to build or modify a rule or policy for a given user or activity, obtaining a template based on the user or the activity, displaying the template and tools for editing the template, receiving a modification to the template via the user interacting with the tools of the user interface, and modifying the template based on the modification to generate the rule or policy. The modification includes changing the initial value for the actions or the conditions of the template and saving the template as a separate instance representative of the rule or policy, and the rule or policy includes one or more conditional statements for executing one or more of the actions based on evaluation of one or more of the conditions.

Abstract: Techniques for analyzing contextual clues from an extended reality environment and, based on the analysis of the contextual clues, intuitively superimposing and integrating customized digital information into the artificial reality environment via a virtual assistant to recommend and lead the user into suggested action. In one particular aspect, a computer-implements method is provided that includes obtaining input data from a user, generating a graph of objects, attributes, and relationships between objects extracted from the input data, determining one or more interactions to be presented, initiated, or executed based on the graph and a profile associated with the user, determining virtual content data to be used for rendering virtual content based on the one or more interactions, and rendering the virtual content in an extended reality environment displayed to the user based on the virtual content data. The virtual content is used to present, initiate, or execute the one or more interactions for the user.

Abstract: A disease treatment system disclosed herein includes a first electronic device configured and operable to receive information about a patient, a server configured and operable to receive the information from the first electronic device over a network, a control module included in, and/or forming a part of, the server. The control module controls the server to analyze the received information and generates a draft treatment plan for the patient using the treatment plan template. Also disclosed is a second electronic device configured and operable to receive the draft treatment plan and review, revise, and/or authorize the draft treatment plan to produce a finalized treatment plan. The control module further controls the server to analyze the finalized treatment plan and generate therefrom one or more treatment plan implementation calendars each containing one or more events.

Abstract: A communications system for a remote healthcare platform comprises a central server having connected thereto a plurality of electronic devices each operated by a healthcare provider or patient making up a care unit for the patient; and a communications ruleset stored in the central server. The communications ruleset configures the communications system to control the manner in which the plurality of electronic devices communicate with each other, and the communications ruleset is specific to the care unit for the patient.

Abstract: A healthcare provision and management system comprises a first electronic device, the first electronic device configured and operable to receive information about a patient; a server, the server configured and operable to receive the information from the first electronic device over a network; a control module, the control module being included in, and/or forming a part of, the server, the control module being configured to control the server to analyse the received information and, based on the received information, generate a draft treatment plan for the patient; and a second electronic device, the second electronic device configured and operable to receive the draft treatment plan and review, revise, and/or authorise the draft treatment plan to produce a finalized treatment plan. The control module is further configured to control the server to analyse the finalized treatment plan and generate therefrom one or more treatment plan implementation calendars each containing one or more events.

Abstract: A system and method for managing wireless communications for a plurality of devices in a high occupancy vehicle is presented. The method comprises steps of creating a global bandwidth usage map across all vehicles, routes, and passengers, transmitting the global bandwidth usage map to a vehicle controller, interpreting the global bandwidth usage map and creating a local usage map, and commanding a wireless concentrator to manage the wireless communications for the devices in accordance with the local usage map. Further, the global map can be created by gathering ticket and route information, obtaining customer productivity data from a network, and parsing obtained data into canonical form. A step of inputting the ticketing information by one of the user, and a ticketing agent can be included. A step of displaying messages using a wireless access application residing on the device can be included.

Abstract: An inventive system and method for group communication among devices in M2M networks comprises associating one or more of the devices with a gateway having a unique identifier, initiating registration of the devices at an M2M network using the unique identifier of the gateway, providing from the network a temporary identifier to the gateway and associating, in the network, the temporary identifier with the gateway, attaching the devices to the network using the temporary identifier, and communicating information between the network and the device through the gateway. In one aspect, the devices can be classified into sub-groups and each sub-group has a sub-group head that can be attached to the gateway so that the devices can communicate with the network through the sub-group head instead of the gateway. Each sub-group can be associated with a unique temporary identifier, in addition to the temporary identifier associated with the gateway.

Abstract: A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server device and method of providing DHCP server services on a network uses a set of commands to convert the DHCP client/server device to function as a DHCP server. The DHCP client/server device is converted when a response message in response to a request message for an IP address from the DHCP client/server device over the network is not received within a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A system and method for managing wireless communications for a plurality of devices in a high occupancy vehicle is presented. The method comprises steps of creating a global bandwidth usage map across all vehicles, routes, and passengers, transmitting the global bandwidth usage map to a vehicle controller, interpreting the global bandwidth usage map and creating a local usage map, and commanding a wireless concentrator to manage the wireless communications for the devices in accordance with the local usage map. Further, the global map can be created by gathering ticket and route information, obtaining customer productivity data from a network, and parsing obtained data into canonical form. A step of inputting the ticketing information by one of the user, and a ticketing agent can be included. A step of displaying messages using a wireless access application residing on the device can be included.

Abstract: A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server device and method of providing DHCP server services on a network uses a set of commands to convert the DHCP client/server device to function as a DHCP server. The DHCP client/server device is converted when a response message in response to a request message for an IP address from the DHCP client/server device over the network is not received within a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A system and method for preventing unauthorized installation of a software program utilizes an activation key that is based on a hardware key and a software key. The hardware key is associated with a particular hardware device, while the software key is associated with the software program to be installed. Installation of the software program in a hardware device is enabled to proceed only if the software key extracted from the activation key matches the software key of the software program.