Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed storage and processing systems using estimate-based schedulers are described. A node receives estimated processing data for each storage device including redundant copies of data chunks for a data unit. The node determines, based on the estimated processing data and data paths to each data chunk, a task time estimate for data paths to each data chunk and selects data paths for at least one copy of each data chunk to be processed using a corresponding set of compute tasks. The compute tasks are sent for processing based on the assignments of the node.

Abstract: A system includes a memory configured to store data, a first master configured to issue a first data transfer request to the memory, a division unit configured to divide the first data transfer request into a plurality of data transfer requests, and output the plurality of data transfer requests, and a second master configured to issue a second data transfer request to the memory.

Abstract: A memory controller and a storage device including the same are provided. The memory controller for performing a buffering operation of temporarily storing data to be written to a non-volatile memory and data to be read from the non-volatile memory in a buffer memory includes a buffer request queue configured to store a plurality of buffer write requests requesting data to be temporarily stored in the buffer memory and a plurality of buffer read requests requesting data stored in the buffer memory to be read, a buffer traffic monitor configured to calculate the total amount of requested data in real time by summing the lengths of data specified in the respective buffer write requests and the respective buffer read requests stored in the buffer request queue, and a buffer manager configured to control execution of the buffering operation by setting an execution ratio based on the total amount of requested data calculated in real time.

Abstract: A memory system includes a controller that transmits, to a memory chip, one first command set indicating a head of a third storage area being one of second storage areas, in a case where first data is read to a first buffer of the memory chip. The first data includes a plurality of first data segments having been stored in the second storage areas. The memory chip includes circuitry that outputs a second data segment and a third data segment to the controller in a period after the controller transmits the first command set to the memory chip before the controller transmits a second command set to the memory chip. The second data segment is a data segment having been stored in the third storage area. The third data segment is a data segment having been stored in a fourth storage area different from the third storage area.

Abstract: Technologies for efficiently accessing data columns and rows in a memory include a device with circuitry configured to receive a request to access memory in which each bit of a logical column of bits is located in a different physical row and a different physical column than any other bit in the logical column. The circuitry is additionally configured to access, in response to the request, the memory. In accessing the memory, the circuitry rotates one or more bit positions in a data set read from or written to the memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relate to dynamically changing predictive latency related attributes to increase the deterministic window (DTWIN) of operation. The host device workload characteristics as well as the memory device's current condition provide valuable information for the duration of the DTWIN. If the memory device is near the end of life, then the DTWIN duration will be smaller. Additionally, if the workload from the host device is heavy, then the DTWIN duration will also be smaller. Rather than utilizing a fixed DTWIN duration based upon worst case scenarios for host device workload and memory device condition, dynamically adjusting the DTWIN duration based upon the workload and condition will provide a DTWIN duration that can gradually decrease over time from a much longer DTWIN duration than is currently available.

Abstract: A first storage node communicates with at least one second storage node. A physical disk included in the at least one second storage node is mapped as a virtual disk of the first storage node. The method may include: receiving a first write request, where the first write request carries first to-be-written data; striping the first to-be-written data to obtain striped data, and writing the striped data to a physical disk and/or the virtual disk of the first storage node; and recording a write location of the striped data. For example, the technical solution may be applied to a storage system that includes an NVMe SSD.

Abstract: A memory device includes a processing device configured to iteratively update a center read level according to a first step size after reading a subset of memory cells according to a set of read levels including the center read level; track an update direction for the processing device to use when iteratively updating the center read level, wherein the update direction corresponds to an increase or a decrease in the center read level; detect a change condition based on updating the center read level according to the first step size; and iteratively update the center read level according to a second step size based on detection of the change condition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor system including a semiconductor device and a controller. The semiconductor device outputs a temperature code corresponding to an internal temperature thereof. The controller controls, based on the temperature code, the semiconductor device to set a temperature measurement mode among at least two temperature measurement modes having different temperature measurement periods and to measure the internal temperature in the set temperature measurement mode.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, media and systems for multiple sets of trim parameters are described. A non-volatile memory device may comprise a first register, a second register, a multiplexer, a first set of I/O lines, each coupled to the first register and the multiplexer, each associated with a particular trim set among multiple trim sets stored in the first register, one or more second I/O lines, each coupled to the second register and the multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to receive a control signal. The multiplexer is configured to output, based on the control signal, a particular trim set among the multiple trim sets to the second register using the one or more second I/O lines.

Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed storage and processing systems using storage controllers for load sharing are described. A host processor may receive a function request that corresponds to a plurality of compute tasks, such as map compute tasks targeting data in local storage. The host processor may fetch the data from local storage devices through storage controllers. At least one storage controller, such as a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) interface controller, may be configured to execute overflow tasks for the function request. Another storage controller may be configured for executing other processing and management activities, such as reduce compute tasks.

Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The memory device can include memory cells. The processing device can store operation system data in the memory cells in a single level cell (SLC) mode. The processing device can assert a flag indicating that the data written to the memory cells in the SLC mode is to remain stored in the SLC mode. The processing device can de-assert the flag, thereby indicating that the data is foldable into memory cells in a non-SLC mode.

Abstract: A memory device includes a memory bank including a plurality of banks, each including a memory cell array; a calculation logic including a plurality of processor-in-memory (PIM) circuits arranged in correspondence to the banks, each of the plurality of PIM circuits performing calculation processing using at least one selected from data provided from a host and information read from a corresponding bank among the banks; and a control logic configured to control a memory operation on the memory bank in response to a command and/or an address, each received from the host, or to control the calculation logic to perform the calculation processing, wherein reading operations are respectively performed in parallel on the banks for the calculation processing, offsets having different values are respectively configured for the banks, and information is read from different positions in respective memory cell arrays of the banks and provided to the PIM circuits.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a computing device of a storage network, data for storage and interpreting metadata associated with the data to determine data storage requirements. The method further includes selecting a plurality of storage units of the storage network as target storage units based on the data storage requirements and a storage sequence and transmitting a solicitation message to the target storage units. The method further includes receiving favorable responses from at least some of target storage units, selecting storage units from the at least some of the target storage units to produce a set of selected storage units, determining an error coding dispersal storage function, encoding a data segment of the data in accordance with the error coding dispersal storage function to produce a plurality of encoded data slices, and outputting the plurality of encoded data slices to the set of selected storage units for storage therein.

Abstract: Proposed are concepts for providing resilience (i.e., fault tolerance) for the temporary data needs of a distributed file system. Such concepts may, for instance, provide a virtual storage layer in a data node of a distributed file system. The virtual storage layer may provide resilience for the temporary data needs of a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) SQL on Hadoop engine.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus performs operations comprising searching for devices connected to a network; displaying a screen for selecting a device to be used from among devices discovered through the search; when the device selected through the screen is a device which can perform encrypted communication and for which a result of processing for verifying a certificate received from the device is a failure, inquiring with a user as to whether to allow or reject communication with that device; and obtaining information of the selected device by communicating with the device when a user operation for allowing the communication has been made in response to the inquiring, and performing control for not establishing encrypted communication with the selected device when a user operation for rejecting the communication has been made.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of performing appropriate processing under a predetermined usage agreement. To this end, the information processing apparatus repeatedly communicates with a server saving agreement information and obtains the agreement information in a case where the information processing apparatus is in a second state in which a predetermined service is available. In this case, the information processing apparatus switches from the second state to a first state in which the predetermined service is unavailable based on a time and date at which the communication with the server fails.

Abstract: A control method executed in an image processing apparatus includes generating image data for outputting a printed material which is to be pasted onto a frame, selecting an image, arranging the selected image on at least a front surface area of the image data, specifying image processing to be executed in relation to a side surface area of the image data, and executing specific analysis processing on an area of a range in accordance with the specified image processing. A plurality of image processes includes image arrangement processing for arranging at least a portion of the selected image on the side surface area by enlarging the selected image, and in a case where the specified image processing is the image arrangement processing, the specific analysis processing is executed on the front surface area and the side surface area.

Abstract: Example printing devices and methods of the printing devices are disclosed. Target data is received responsive to imaging the source item. The source item includes a mark indicative of rendering information. The target data is used to detect the rendering information. The target object is output based on the target data and the rendering information.

Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention comprises: image processing groups each of which includes modules that perform predetermined image processing on pieces of divided image data obtained by dividing input image data and each of which outputs the pieces of image data processed in the respective modules via a predetermined one of the modules; an obtaining unit to which the image processing groups are connected in parallel and which obtains the pieces of image data processed and outputted from the image processing groups; a detection unit which detects an error module not performing normal processing among the modules; and a control unit which sets a usable group that is usable for the image processing among the image processing groups based on a result detected by the detection unit and which causes the usable group to execute the image processing on the pieces of divided image data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operating part configured to form an image, a detection unit configured to detect a status of the operating part to generate sequential data which is updated sequentially, a determination unit configured to determine whether the sequential data satisfies a predetermined condition or not, a storage unit configured to store the number of times of determination of whether the sequential data satisfies the predetermined condition or not, a preprocessing unit, and an accumulation unit. The preprocessing unit is configured to generate data, having a data size smaller than that of the sequential data, to be used for predicting a state of the operating part. Further, the accumulation unit is configured to accumulate the data based on the sequential data which is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition by the determination unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first and a second information processing apparatus including a memory and one or more processors. In the first information processing apparatus, the processor is configured to acquire information on utilization of a resource utilized in the operation and cause the memory to store information, and with a condition satisfied with the information on the utilization of the resource, output to second information processing apparatus the information on the utilization of the resource from memory. In the second information processing apparatus, the processor is configured to cause the memory to store information on the utilization of the resource output from first information processing apparatus and select a solution responsive to the information on the utilization of the resource stored on the memory via artificial intelligence that has learned through machine learning to select the solution responsive to the information on the utilization of the resource.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a printing medium; and a controller, wherein the printing apparatus is configured to perform communication with an external mediation apparatus configured to perform communication with a management server via the Internet, and wherein the controller is configured to: switch the printing apparatus to a dormant state in response to a predetermined time having elapsed since a specific operation mechanism of a plurality of operation mechanisms including the printing unit became anon-operating state, the printing apparatus being incapable of performing communication with the external mediation apparatus in the dormant state; execute periodic information processing including at least one of information transmission to the external mediation apparatus and information reception from the external mediation apparatus; and prohibit the switching of the printing apparatus to the dormant state during the executing of the periodic information

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first controller that performs control that does not depend on hardware; a second controller that is connected to the first controller through a communication path and performs control that depends on the hardware; and a memory in which first attribute information reflecting a first attribute of the first controller and second attribute information reflecting a second attribute of the second controller are stored. The first controller acquires a first control program for the first controller that is associated with a combination of the first attribute information and the second attribute information and performs control on a basis of the first control program, and the second controller acquires a second control program for the second controller that is associated with a combination of the first attribute information and the second attribute information and performs control on a basis of the second control program.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for communicating with a printing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate, when communication with the printing apparatus using first port setting information in a print queue for the printing apparatus is disabled, second port setting information that is different from the first port setting information and that enables communication with the printing apparatus, the generation of the second port setting information being based on information acquired from the printing apparatus; and a change unit configured to change port setting information in the print queue from the first port setting information to the second port setting information.

Abstract: A function executing device may send screen display information to a terminal device via a first wireless interface without executing, via the first wireless interface, communication using specific authentication information, wherein the screen display information is for causing the terminal device to display a function screen. In a case where a first execution instruction for causing the function executing device to execute a first function is inputted to the terminal device after a function screen has been displayed in the terminal device, the function executing device may execute the communication using the specific authentication information with the terminal device via the first wireless interface and execute communication of first function execution information for executing the first function via the first wireless interface with the terminal device.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a wireless communication section configured to perform wireless communication, a storing section configured to store identification information of a terminal device to which the wireless communication section has an achievement of connection through a network, and a processing section configured to perform communication control for the wireless communication section. The processing section performs searching processing for external access points, performs second searching processing for searching for the terminal device corresponding to the identification information stored in the storing section in a network formed by the external access points found by the searching processing, and causes the wireless communication section to connect to the external access point to which the terminal device found by the second searching processing is connected.

Abstract: A physical unclonable function (“PUF”) object can be used to encode the geography or region in which device to which the PUF is attached may operate. Disclosed are two potential ways to regionalize a device using a PUF disk: placing the magnetic sensor at a different radius depending on the region or geography intended for sale; and altering the magnetic structure of the disk to magnetically encode the region into the sensor data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a receiver, and a controller. The scanner scans a document to obtain image data representing the scanned document. The receiver receives faxed image data. The controller includes a processor and a memory, performs processing for reducing usage of a consumable material on the image data obtained by the scanner, and does not perform the processing on image data obtained from an external apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method and system for providing series of serialized unique information on a substrate together with product related information. The method comprising steps of: printing a first product relevant information on the substrate using a first set of printer device (15); storing said first product relevant information a data storage device (20); providing said series of serialized unique information from a source of serialized unique information, using a second set of printer device (30) or marking device on the substrate; storing information about the serialized unique information to a data storage device (20); printing a second set of product related information on the substrate using a printer device (42); and analysing the printed serialized unique information and the first and the second set of product related information on the substrate when formed to a package.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores set contents that are obtained by changing standard set contents, a reception unit that receives information regarding the set contents, a search unit that searches, based on the information received by the reception unit, contents stored in the memory unit for the changed set contents that correspond to the information, and a display control unit that performs control in such a manner as to display a search result obtained by the search unit.

Abstract: A wireless output device for connecting to a wireless local area network and receiving digital content from servers over a network that includes the Internet is herein disclosed and enabled. The wireless output device may include, among others, a television, a speaker, a projector, or an output controller. The wireless output device includes an interface and wireless communication units. The wireless communication units of the wireless output device may receive information from a portable electronic device. The wireless output device may further receive the digital content from one or more application servers or content servers operated over the Internet by a digital content service. The digital content may include audio digital content or video digital content. The output device may process the received digital content and render the processed digital content onto a display medium.

Abstract: A document management system includes a processor configured to receive print data of a document to be printed, the print data being transmitted from a first user, transmit, to another user belonging to a predetermined group, document specification information that specifies the document when a request to print the document is received from the other user, and compute a number of other users who have printed the document on a basis of the document specification information and user specification information that specifies another user, the information being transmitted from a printing device when the other user uses the printing device to print the document on a basis of the document specification information.

Abstract: A system for displaying information is intended to be incorporated in a motor vehicle including at least a dashboard, a central console, a display screen on the central façade and a front windscreen. The display system includes a manual or automatic selection device for selecting among at least three display modes each containing information, being progressively off-centre with respect to the vehicle.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display method and a display system. The display method includes: connecting a plurality of display devices in series with each other, the plurality of display devices including a main display device and at least one slave display device, the main display device having EDID; setting the connection order of the display device; correspondingly changing the EDID of the main display device according to the connection order of the display device; configuring the main display device to receive the display image according to the changed EDID; and configuring the display device to perform an image segmentation operation on the display image according to the connection order to respectively display multiple segmented regions of the display image.

Abstract: An apparatus configured, based on a first virtual space in which visual imagery is presented to a first user and a second, different, virtual space in which visual imagery is presented to a second user, the first and second virtual spaces based on respective virtual reality content that comprises visual imagery and wherein a representation of the first user, viewable by the second user, is provided in the second virtual space and based on a communication initiation input from the second user; to provide for communication and presentation in the second virtual space, at a virtual location based on a location of the second representation of the first user, of a context-volume comprising a sub-volume of the first virtual space at least partly surrounding the first user to enable the second user to seethe first virtual space currently experienced by the first user.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes circuitry to: transmit a participation request for requesting participation in a remote conference being conducted between one or more other communication terminals, to a communication management apparatus that manages data being shared between the other communication terminals; receive screen data of a display screen being currently displayed at the other communication terminals from the communication management apparatus, the screen data of the display screen being one of a plurality of items of screen data generated at at least one of the other communication terminals in the remote conference; and control a display to display the display screen based on the screen data that is received.

Abstract: A client device receives a first image frame from a server, stores the first image frame and generates a first modified image that corresponds to the first image frame. The client transmits, to a remote device, the generated first modified image. The remote device uses the first modified image to determine the instruction for displaying the second image frame. The client receives, from the remote device, an instruction for displaying a second image frame. In response to receiving the instruction, the client device displays, on a display communicatively coupled to the client device, the second image frame.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing multi-tasking using an external display device in an electronic device are provided. A method for performing a multi-tasking work using an external display device in an electronic device includes the operations of executing at least one application, determining whether to output an application screen to the external display device, in response to determining to output the application screen, sending an emulator execution request to the external display device, and, after sending the emulator execution request to the external display device, determining an application identifier in a screen of an application whose screen is determined to be outputted to the external display device, and transmitting a signal corresponding to the screen and the application identifier to the external display device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow activation of, and intuitive interactions with, a companion-display mode for an electronic device. An example method includes: receiving an instruction to operate the first electronic device in a companion-display mode in which user interfaces generated by a second electronic device are displayed at the first electronic device. In response to receiving the instruction to operate in the companion-display mode, the method also includes: concurrently displaying, on the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device: a user interface generated by the second electronic device; and a plurality of user interface objects, including a first user interface object associated with a first function of a plurality of functions for controlling the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device while it is operating in the companion-display mode, and a second user interface object associated with a second function of the plurality of functions.

Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch input part that is installed on a vehicle and includes a tabular panel to be touch-operated and an actuator causing a vibration of the panel; and a control unit that performs at least one of a first control and a second control, the first control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates in response to touch operations, and the second control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates at an audible band. The touch input device is positioned such that a directivity of a sound emitted from the panel is increased toward an ear of an occupant of the vehicle.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating audio output samples predicted to be communicated by a user. One example system includes a first user device having a first user. The first user device initiates a communication session between the first user and a second user of a second user device. The first user device obtains a neural network model of the second user. The neural network model is trained to generate, conditioned on audio input samples received up to a current time step, an audio output sample predicted to be communicated by the second user at a next time step. The user device repeatedly provides received audio input samples as input to the neural network model and plays audio output samples generated by the neural network model in place of received audio input samples communicated by the second user.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for smoothing audio gaps using adaptive metadata identifies an initial audio segment and a subsequent audio segment that follows the initial audio segment. The method accesses a first set of metadata that corresponds to a last audio frame of the initial audio segment and accesses a second set of metadata that corresponds to the first audio frame of the subsequent audio segment. The first and second sets of metadata include audio characteristic information for the two audio segments. The method then generates a new set of metadata that is based on both sets of audio characteristics. The method further inserts a new audio frame between the last audio frame of the initial audio segment and the first audio frame of the subsequent audio segment and applies the new set of metadata to the new audio frame. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a group of playback devices to play audio content together in synchrony based on playback timing and clock timing, where the audio content and playback timing and the clock timing for use with playing the audio content according to the clock timing are provided by different playback devices in the group of playback devices.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include managing playback devices with limited capabilities and playback devices with advanced capabilities by way of a control device. In some embodiments, the control device may control a first playback device by way of a legacy control application including a first control interface comprising first playback controls operable to control the first playback device in performing a set of legacy playback functions. The mobile device may control a second playback device by way of a production control application including a second control interface comprising second playback controls operable to control the second playback device in performing a set of production playback functions.

Abstract: Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user.

Abstract: Techniques and architectures may be used to provide an environment for a speech-based intelligent user assistant (IUA) having a flexible operating system that is based, at least in part, on the context of interaction of a user of a computing system with the computing system. Such a flexible operating system may allow for non-obtrusive communication of the IUA with the user. Thus, for example, a user may communicate with the IUA without interrupting their other activities on the computer, such as playing a video game.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a microphone, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores an application for monitoring user information, and the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to record a plurality of parameters associated with the user information in the application when a predefined event occurs to record a first parameter and the first parameter is not recorded in the application, to output a message for obtaining the first parameter, to receive a user response associated with the first parameter, to transmit data associated with the user response to an external server, to receive a first response from the external server, and to record the first parameter in the application by allowing the electronic device to have information about sequences of states of the electronic device. The first response includes information about sequences of states of the electronic device for recording the first parameter in the application.

Abstract: A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-independent input method editor, and receiving a spoken input from the user. The spoken input corresponds to input to an application and is converted to text that represents the spoken input. The text is provided as input to the application.

Abstract: Apparatus includes hardware logic arranged to normalise an n-bit input number. The hardware logic comprises at least a first hardware logic stage, an intermediate hardware logic stage and a final hardware logic stage. Each stage comprises a left shifting logic element, the first and intermediate stages each also comprise a plurality of OR-reduction logic elements and the intermediate and final stages each also comprise one or more multiplexers. The OR-reduction logic elements operate on different subsets of bits from the number input to the particular stage. In the intermediate and final hardware logic stages, a first of the multiplexers selects an OR-reduction result received from a previous hardware logic stage and the left shifting logic element is arranged to perform left shifting on the updated binary number received from an immediately previous hardware logic stage dependent upon the selected OR-reduction result.