Abstract: Methods and systems of using machine learning to create a trusted model that improves the operation of a computer system controller are provided herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning method includes training a model using input data, extracting the model, and determining whether the model satisfies the trust-related constraints. If the model does not satisfy the trust-related constraint, modifying at least one of: the model using one or more model repair algorithms, the input data using one or more data repair algorithms, or a reward function of the model using one or more reward repair algorithms, and re-training the model using at least one of the modified model, the modified input data, or the modified reward function. If the model satisfies the trust-related constraints, providing the model as a trusted model that enables a computer system controller to perform system actions within predetermined guarantees.

Abstract: A system for accepting or rejecting a container containing a meat batch comprises a reader and a controller cooperating to effect the acceptance or the rejection of the meat batch. The reader is configured to interrogate a machine readable tag attached to the container to retrieve information stored thereon into the controller which is configured to respond to the information retrieved by the reader to access batch information comprising at least information indicative of a fat content of the meat batch, to compare the batch information with a criterion of a recipe related to a target fat content to determine a suitability of the meat batch for inclusion in a mix meeting the recipe, and to generate a control signal dependent the determination usable to effect acceptance or rejection of the meat batch as appropriate to the determination.

Abstract: A logistics information processing server includes a data processor configured to receive environment sensing data collected from at least one environmental sensor disposed in a cargo storage device in which at least one cargo is stored and cargo related information collected from a cargo tag attached to the at least one cargo, and to perform processing by classifying the environment sensing data and the cargo related data into cargo storage environment data, cargo information, and transportation environment information according to data attributes; and a logistics trust index generator configured to generate a logistics trust index indicating a degree of influence exerted on the quality of the cargo from the cargo storage environment data, cargo information, and transportation environment information output by the data processor.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes consumables configured to be restored by replacement or refill, a notification section configured to make a notification of alert information based on remaining amount information of the consumables, a remaining amount information obtaining section configured to obtain the remaining amount information of the consumables, a determination information obtaining section configured to obtain determination information for determining a state of replacement or refill of the consumables, and a learning section configured to perform machine learning of the notification of the alert information based on a learning model obtained by associating the remaining amount information with the determination information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of positioning a target object in a target space by means of a ranging apparatus, the method comprises: acquiring a first size parameter of the target space on a first dimension; acquiring a second size parameter of the target object on the first dimension; and determining a first layout indication according to the first size parameter, the second size parameter and a first predetermined rule, the first layout indication containing information regarding a first target position of the target object on the first dimension of the target space. By means of the method in accordance with the invention, a desired positioning of the target object in the target space by means of a ranging apparatus may be implemented, such as being placed at the center or being placed at a one-third aliquot point, thus implementing the object placement and layout in the object space.

Abstract: An electronic image that includes information related to a pharmacy prescription of a user of a first account (e.g., a store account) is received from a client device. The pharmacy prescription information is electronically extracted from the electronic image, and a second account (e.g., a pharmacy account) is identified based thereon. If the user of the first account is different from the user of the second account and if the user of the second account has approved the user of the first account, the user of the first account is granted access to a subset of the information in the pharmacy account.

Abstract: A method for displaying an information graphic via an electronic user interface to integrate information from accounts held at a financial institution. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying a first graphic element to display first information associated with at least one first account and displaying a second graphic element to display second information associated with at least one second account. A dimension of the first graphic element is representative of the first information and a dimension of the second graphic element is representative of the second information. Displaying the second graphical element includes displaying a first portion of the second graphic element that is selectable to alternately virtually hide and display a second portion of the second graphic element.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems, and methods wherein pre-event and post-event analyte concentration readings associated with an event are collected and processed to determine a numerical delta. The numerical delta may be displayed on a visual display to aid in a ready determination of the affect that the event (alone or in combination with medication and/or insulin dosages) had on the analyte concentration levels. Medication and/or insulin dosages may be displayed alongside the numerical delta to gauge immediate relationships between numerical delta, dosage, and/or an associated event. Apparatus and systems for calculating and displaying the numerical delta are described, as are other aspects.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed utilizing cognitive computing to improve banking experiences. A user's financial account(s) and location may be monitored to predict when a user is near a retail store and the user has not used a particular account in a predetermined amount of time. The techniques disclosed include receiving a location for a user's mobile device, and determining when the mobile device is within a predetermined threshold distance of a retail store. The techniques include building a shopping profile for the user based upon shopping habits for the user. The shopping profile may be used to determine what commercial communications should be transmitted to the user to encourage them to utilize an inactive account to make a purchase at the retail store when the user is within the threshold distance of the retail store.

Abstract: An information graphic displayable via an electronic user interface to integrate information from accounts held at a financial institution. In one embodiment, the information graphic includes a first graphic element to display first information associated with at least one first account and a second graphic element to display second information associated with at least one second account. A dimension of the first graphic element is representative of the first information and a dimension of the second graphic element is representative of the second information. A first portion of the second graphic element is selectable to alternately virtually hide and display a second portion of the second graphic element.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed utilizing cognitive computing to assess customer value and provide specific promotional campaigns based upon this assessed value. Users may opt in to a rewards program. With user permission or affirmative consent, user behavioral data may be monitored that may be relevant to the user's relationship as a customer with a particular business and may include various indications of the users' behaviors, actions, and/or preferences. This data may be stored as part of each user's behavioral profile, the contents of which may be analyzed to determine which customers are more profitable to the business than others. Each user may be assigned a customer value indicative of his or her individual profitability, which may be used to provide specific promotional campaigns in an attempt to maintain the more profitable customers and to improve the profitability of others.

Abstract: A new demodulator with consistent sensibility to signals received from different directions, low power consumption, and low manufacturing cost is provided. The demodulator may include a first demodulator branch and a second demodulator branch electrically connected in parallel, and a DC circuit to provide DC power to the demodulator. The DC circuit has a first diode and a second diode electrically connected in series between a DC power supply Vcc and the ground. The second demodulator branch can share a low pass filter and a DC blocking capacitor of the first demodulator branch for example, and can multiplex or reuse a bias current from the first demodulator branch.

Abstract: Price mining and product re-pricing data processing systems and methods are disclosed. A computer system is configured for displaying (e.g., on an electronic display associated with a particular product in a brick-and-mortar store) a first price for the particular product. The system monitors one or more competitor websites for competing prices, adjusts the first price to a second price if the competitor's pricing for the particular product differs from the first price and updates the first price to the second price on the electronic display. In various embodiments, adjusting the first price to the second price occurs substantially automatically. In some embodiments, the system tracks price change trends of competitors for one or more products and determines a predicted price change prior to an actual competitor price change. In some embodiments, the system changes one of the first price or the second price to the predicted price prior to an actual price change by the competitor.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is, with respect to a portable terminal which is provided with an electronic money function, to facilitate restoration of an original state if a terminal has been discovered, while preventing unauthorized usage of electronic money at a time of loss for a terminal which is provided with an electronic money function. If a terminal is lost, an electronic money server is accessed from a second terminal in order to perform a loss lock request. The electronic money server turns ON a loss lock flag corresponding to an electronic money ID in order to output a negative flag ON instruction for an electronic money function section at a point at which access has been made from the terminal. For the electronic money function section, by turning ON a negative flag, the electronic money function section is locked so that settlements and charges are disabled.

Abstract: An enhanced automated teller machine (ATM), system and method for securely authenticating and enabling a financial transaction at the ATM. The method includes receiving at a central computer system, planned transaction data representing a future financial transaction. The central computer system generates first and second verification information, sends electronic data including the first verification information to the ATM, and sends electronic data including the second verification information to a user device. The central computer system receives multiple sets of electronic data from a user device and multiple sets of electronic data from the ATM. Multiple comparisons of certain sets of the electronic data from the ATM to certain sets of the electronic data from the user device are conducted at the central computer system. If the comparisons result in positive verifications, the central computer system sends electronic data including instructions for the ATM to execute the planned financial transaction.

Abstract: Embodiments describe systems and methods for tracking produce with an electronic device. A method includes, during each of a plurality of instances of time, receiving one or more clam codes, receiving a tray code, associating the one or more claim codes with the tray code, receiving a palette code, associating the palette code with the tray code, and storing the one or more clam codes, tray codes, and the palette code in a database. After associating the one or more clam codes with the tray code and the palette code with the tray code, the method includes receiving a request to identify the tray code or the palette code associated with a specific clam code, wherein the specific clam code is included in the one or more clam codes; and identifying the tray code or the palette code associated with the specific clam code.

Abstract: There is provided a secure provisioning manifest used to authenticate and communicate with peripherals attached to a computer. A secure I/O module, that is separate from an operating system and transaction software executed by a processor of the computer, uses the secure provisioning manifest to establish a secure encrypted session for communicating with each peripheral attached to the computer when a peripheral is authenticated and able to establish a secure encrypted session.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method for operating an e-purse, relating to the information security field. The method includes that a CPU card enters into a contactless induction area of a terminal, is powered up and initialized, receives an operation initializing instruction from the terminal, reads and stores data comprising transaction amount in the operation initializing instruction, and performs the related operation. The operation initializing instruction is a complex loading initializing instruction or a purchase initializing instruction. The data comprises transaction amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides the method for users to access different content when users snap a picture of a single Optical Code. The present invention relates to a method and system that provides a single user or concurrently provides multiple users with controlled access to custom and interactive content. The present invention stores a Unique Key within the Optical Code used to look up programmed instructions. The present invention uses the snap of the camera on the portable computer and imaging device to initialize the programmed instructions associated with the Unique Key. The System provides a method by which a set of actions can be performed with the simple snap of the Optical Code using a portable computer and imaging device.

Abstract: Provided are method and apparatus for writing and reproducing a multimedia service using a tag in order to provide an intuitive interface for a user using a multimedia service. The method includes selecting a multimedia service to be written; generating tag information identifying the selected multimedia service; and writing the generated tag information to a tag. Accordingly, multimedia service information and content information can be stored in a tag by being written to tag information using a common format, and thus the user can later execute a service operation by easily writing information of a desired service operation to a tag and then simply connecting the tag to a tag reading device.

Abstract: A method and an equivalent system of transferring information (9, 12) relating to textile tools—preferably to knitting-machine and felting needles—from a tool sales organisation (1) to the tool user (2) is described and claimed. With this system, each type of textile tool is provided with a name (5) by the tool sales organisation (1), wherein •a software system books orders (4) from tool users (2), •at least one identification device (27) is provided with which quantities of textile tools are provided with labels (8), •the software system can activate the identification device (27), which assigns labels (8) that do not contain the name (5), •a forwarding system (7) is provided, •an information carrier (10) is provided, which is accessible to the tool user (2) and on which information (9, 12, 19) concerning the quantity of textile tools is assigned to the label (8).

Abstract: In a method of operating an apparatus for manufacturing or analyzing semiconductor wafers, sound in a process chamber of the apparatus during an operation of the apparatus is detected. An electrical signal corresponding to the detected sound is acquired by a signal processor. The acquired electrical signal is processed by the signal processor. An event during the operation of the apparatus is detected based on the processed electrical signal. The operation of the apparatus is controlled according to the detected event.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless power supply system in which a remote device is provided with different control methodologies depending on one or more factors. One type of wireless power supply can selectively control one or more remote devices according to a first control methodology and another type of wireless power supply can control the remote device according to a second control methodology. In one embodiment, a wireless power supply system is provided for wirelessly powering a display circuit in a product located at a point of display differently than when charging at a point of use, or when the device is in use. In another embodiment, a wireless power supply is programmed to operate a remote device according to a primary control methodology and the remote device is programmed to operate the remote device according to a secondary control methodology where the remote device includes circuitry for enabling the primary control methodology instead of the secondary control methodology.

Abstract: A low-cost, multi-function system with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates the components needed to implement a combination of different functions and also is able to perform a useful ancillary function that otherwise would have to be performed with the attendant need for additional materials, labor, and expense. An example adhesive product that integrates sensing components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the components of the tracking system but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various applications and workflows, including person and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for inspecting and recording leak detection and repair components. The method and systems provide a visual representation of the inspection data and provide feedback to the operator to indicate the location of a maximum reading so that the location of the maximum reading may be properly interrogated for a predetermined response time multiple.

Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.

Abstract: A control system for indoor position and vector tracking includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters to detect a mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The control system includes an intelligent controller to receive location information from the RF transmitters and to calculate a vector associated with the mobile RFID tag. The intelligent controller may utilize the vector as a control input to an algorithm for selecting a control operation for one or more of plurality of networked devices.

Abstract: In an information processing terminal, code image data acquired by an imaging unit imaging an information code and terminal identification information stored in a storage unit are transmitted to a server. A control unit performs a process based on information received from the server in response to the transmission. In the server, when code identification information is acquired by an interpreting process from the code image data received from the information processing terminal, a single process among a plurality of processes associated with the acquired code identification information is selected based on the received terminal identification information. Selection information related to the process to be selected is transmitted to the information processing terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content generating, hosting and/or providing system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic discovery of high quality digital content. According to embodiments, the present disclosure describes improved computer system and methods directed to analyzing raw image data, such as features and descriptors of images in order to identify a high quality image(s). Such images can be identified from a database of images, and such images can be identified in real-time, or near real-time during the capture of an image(s) by a camera.

Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus include: generating, by a terminal device, a first public key and a first private key; sending the first public key to a key generation center (KGC), where the first public key is used by the KGC or a server to generate a transform key, and the transform key is used by the server to transform data that is encrypted based on an attribute structure of the terminal device into data that is encrypted based on the first public key; receiving second data sent by the server, where the second data is data that is generated after the server processes first data according to the transform key; and decrypting the second data according to the first private key. In the data processing, main work is completed by the server with no need to use a secure channel to transmit a key.

Abstract: A method for operation of a central office point of delivery includes: in response to a pluggable interface module being plugged into an access node port of a line termination node of the central office point of delivery, transmitting, by the line termination node, a request message to a control node of the central office point of delivery, wherein the request message comprises interface module information related to the pluggable interface module, and wherein an activation clearance is requested, via the request message, from the control node; receiving, by the line termination node, from the control node, an acknowledgement message related to the activation clearance requested by the request message, wherein the acknowledgement message corresponds to a verification operation and/or activation clearance operation having been successful; and activating, by the line termination node and/or by the access port node, the pluggable interface module.

Abstract: An operation guide apparatus includes a display and a processor. The display displays, on a display screen, operation guide information for providing a guide on an operation for continuously using a device. The processor performs processing to enable an operator who is doing the operation with such a posture that the operator is unable to see the operation guide information displayed on the display screen to recognize the operation guide information.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive deposit information related to a point of sale deposit from a mobile device, and generate a deposit token retaining at least the deposit information and deposit authorization information. The one or more processors may also be configured to transmit the deposit token to the mobile device for displaying a readable code generated based on the deposit token, receive a point of sale deposit authorization notification from the merchant device indicating at least receipt by the merchant device of the deposit token from the mobile device, and transfer funds to a financial service account based on the received deposit information and authorization notification.

Abstract: A registration sever receives registration data from a client terminal, wherein the registration data includes user identity information and payment account information, and is generated by the client terminal through scanning one or more tangible information carriers provided by a user and extracting the user identity information and payment account information from one or more images obtained through the scanning.

Abstract: A battery degradation authentication device includes: a communication portion configured to communicate with a server; an input portion configured to receive specification information to specify a specific battery as a battery selected by a user; and an output portion. The communication portion acquires battery information including at least one of degradation information of the specific battery and related information related to the degradation information from the server. The output portion outputs an authentication mark based on which the battery information is acquirable.

Abstract: A slip processing device including a scanner which irradiates a slip with a light beam and reads identification information from a barcode provided on the slip, a camera which captures an image of the slip, and a processor which functions as an information acquisition control section which starts reading of the identification information by the scanner and image capturing of the slip by the camera, in response to an information acquisition instruction from a user, and a recording control section which records the captured image of the slip in a predetermined recording section on condition that the reading of the identification information has been judged as successful.

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, may enable network services to be efficiently and effectively implemented as containers by computing devices operating in a cloud computing environment. Container images may be built and tested locally by an operator device and pushed to the computing devices for deployment of containers defined by the container images. The computing devices may enable the containers to communicate with one another by applying a domain name service (DNS) and port mapping tool to the containers. The computing devices may provide data collection, data search, and data visualization tools to enable an operator to monitor and manage the containers themselves as well as the activity of the containers.

Abstract: A hand therapy kit includes hand therapy modules and a housing having defined receptacles in which the hand therapy modules are removably disposed. A module presence sensor is disposed in each receptacle to detect the presence or absence of the corresponding hand therapy module. A microprocessor disposed in the hand therapy kit sends the module presence sensor data to a remote computer that analyzes the module presence sensor data to determine whether the patient is complying with a prescribed treatment regimen. The remote computer can generate warnings, alerts, and/or notifications when noncompliance is detected.

Abstract: A near-field magnetically coupled anti-counterfeiting tag including a sacrificial conductive track crossing a sacrificial zone of the tag. Each segment of the sacrificial track crossing the sacrificial zone is split longitudinally into a plurality of sub-segments, the sub-segments being in electrical contact with each other at the ends of the segment.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for provisioning credentials on an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a secure platform system may be in communication with an electronic device and a financial institution subsystem.

Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a production or manufacturing apparatus that performs processing for sequentially producing an item to be produced through units arranged in a line, includes: a physical quantity acquirer that acquires a physical quantity representing a state of processing in a unit subjected to monitoring for each cycle, the cycle being defined as unit processing time of processing performed by each unit; an abnormality determiner that determines occurrence of an abnormality in the unit, based on the physical quantity or a feature value extracted from the physical quantity; and a control instructor that specifies, when it is determined that an abnormality occurs in the unit, a cycle during which a downstream unit performs processing on an item to be produced that is affected by the abnormality, and perform control so that abnormality handling processing is performed as processing in the specified cycle by the downstream unit.

Abstract: A system and method for providing resident-managed guest access to a residential community selectively accessible through an access gate provides an application running on wireless mobile devices of a respective community resident, guest of the resident, and a security guard manning a community access gate. A request for admission may be initiated by the guest via the guest's mobile device and communicated to the resident's mobile device via a pass-based remote access control management system. An access request response generated by the resident via the resident's mobile device and communicated to the remote access control management system generates a digital access pass including, inter alia, a readable unique QR code and a digital image of a guest photo ID. A security guard may scan the QR code and view the guest photo ID digital image in order to verify admission of the guest.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for Artificial Intelligence (AI) theft prevention and recovery, such as by utilizing image object analysis to identify and report pilfering-type cargo or materials theft events.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed in which cash deposits may be made at merchant locations who support such deposits. Using a mobile phone or other hand-held device, a bank customer requests a cash deposit from a banking app, receives a barcode on the mobile device, the barcode containing embedded information indicating the cash deposit amount, and presents the barcode to the merchant, along with the cash to be deposited. Once the transaction with the merchant is complete, the account of the bank customer's account is credited with the cash amount. The bank uses behavioral and historical data of the bank customer to customize a cash deposit limit for the customer.

Abstract: An object bearing a three-dimensional rotatably-readable encoding of data configured for optical rotational machine-reading, the object being a subject of the data, the encoding of data including a multiplicity of three-dimensional shapes formed on a label adhered to a surface of the object, the surface being arranged for rotation in a plane coinciding with the surface, the multiplicity of three-dimensional shapes being formed to reflect light impinging thereupon while the surface is rotated, characteristics of the reflected light representing data encoded within the multiplicity of three-dimensional shapes.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for secure cardless cash withdrawal are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method may include detecting presence of a user device at an automated teller machine (ATM) by one or more sensors, requesting an authorization indicator for a cash request in response to the detecting, receiving the authorization indicator associated with the cash request at the ATM where presentation of the authorization indicator at any one of a plurality of ATMs would authorize the cash request, and distributing funds associated with the cash request in response to receiving the authorization indicator.

Abstract: A wireless device stores financial account card data and data relating to authorized users of the financial account. The wireless device is configured to perform the method of receiving card data associated with a financial account, storing the card data in a memory of the wireless device, receiving identification data of authorized users of the financial account card, storing the identification data in association with the stored card data in the memory of the wireless device, receiving a request to authorize a transaction using the financial account card, receiving identification data of an individual associated with the requested transaction, determining whether the identification data of the individual corresponds to the identification data of the owner or the stored identification data, and authorizing the transaction based on a determination that the identification data of the individual corresponds to the identification data of the owner or the stored identification data.

Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for an automatic teller machine. In some embodiments, an automatic teller machine may comprise a touch-sensitive display, one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to receive authentication data associated with a user, retrieve user profile information based on the authentication data, determine user interface attributes based on the user profile information; and generate an automatic teller machine interface based on the user profile information.

Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving ad information from a seller; generating, using one or more processors, a single conversion ad using the received ad information, where the single conversion ad has an available inventory of one such that only a single conversion of the ad can be performed; transmitting the single conversion ad to one or more potential buyers; receive an input from one of the one or more potential buyers; and notifying the seller of the user input. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices, and in particular, methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices that are communicating with and may be monitored and/or controlled by a remote (e.g., cloud) server.