Abstract: An HttpDNS scheduling method includes receiving a domain name resolution request from a client, the domain name resolution request including a customized parameter related to accessing resources; resolving the domain name resolution request and determining a target server based on the customized parameter; and returning an IP address of the target server to the client.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for server-side manipulation of underlying video content in order to dynamically place overlay content within a video stream in a manner whereby a viewing user sees the advertisement content over or integrated within a portion of the base video content. Segments of the original video file may be modified by a server to display overlay content over a portion of the original content, and a revised manifest file may be generated by the server and sent to a client device. The revised manifest file may cause a video player on the client device to present in sequence (a) a first original portion of the video, (b) a second portion of the video modified to include overlaid advertisement content or other overlay content within the second portion, followed by (c) a third original portion of the video.

Abstract: A system for delivering notification messages across different notification media comprises a processor. A processor is configured to provide an indication of a new platform notification channel to one or more platform notification services. The indication is provided to one of the one or more platform notification services through a communication module specific to the one of the one or more platform notification services. The processor is configured to create a mapping from a new universal notification channel to a set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers. Each platform notification channel identifier of the set of platform notification channel identifiers is received from a platform notification service. The processor is configured to provide the set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers to a content provider of the new universal notification channel. The processor is coupled to the memory and is configured to store instructions.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method includes accessing cluster hardware information that identifies at least two different types of storage media within a cluster and provides an indication of a respective amount of data throughput for each identified type of storage media. The method next includes accessing popularity information for digital content that is to be stored in the cluster. The popularity information indicates how often the digital content is predicted to be accessed over a specified future period of time. The method also includes allocating the digital content on the different types of storage media within the cluster according to the popularity information. Accordingly, digital content predicted to have higher popularity is placed on storage media types with higher throughput amounts, and digital content predicted to have lower popularity is placed on storage media types with lower throughput amounts. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic eyewear device communicates with a backend service system via a device hub that provides an edge proxy server for a service request from the electronic eyewear device to the backend service system. The device hub provides a standardized request/response optimized schema for providing a standardized communication between the electronic eyewear device and the backend service system in response to the service request in a standardized format adapted to minimize network requests. A standardized communication is provided to at least one backend service of the backend service system, and a standardized response to the standardized service request is received from the backend service(s) and provided to the electronic eyewear device. In one configuration, the device hub may issue asynchronous requests to backend services in response to a service request from the electronic eyewear device and merge responses into a standardized response for the electronic eyewear device.

Abstract: A method for preparing usage data for a relay implemented in a computer network is disclosed. In one aspect, the network comprises at least one source device, one destination device, and at least one relay constituting a circuit to set up a communication between the source device and the destination device. The source device first of all retrieves the identifiers of the relays constituting the circuit and sends a proof of use (PoU) frame addressed to the destination device, each relay of the circuit adding to the PoU frame, at the time of passage, a signature made from a challenge and a key proper to the relay.

Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for transferring a session associated with an application between electronic devices. For instance, system(s) may receive, from a first electronic device, a first selection associated with the network application. The system(s) may then create the session for the network application and send, to the first electronic device, first content related to the session. Later, the system(s) may receive, from a second electronic device, a second selection associated with the network application. The system(s) may then determine that the session is still active for the first electronic device and transfer the session to being active for the second electronic device. As such, the system(s) may begin to send, to the second electronic device, second content related to the session. In some circumstances, the system(s) may also cause a control device to begin controlling the session that is now active for the second electronic device.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs products are described for optimizing circuit synthesis for implementation on an integrated circuit. A register transfer level code description of logic behavior of a circuit. The register transfer level code description is converted into structurally defined circuit designs for multiple types of components and feature size technologies. A floor plan of each structurally defined circuit design is generated. A physically simulated circuit is created for each floor plan. A range of operating conditions is swept over to analyze power, performance, and area of each physically simulated circuit.

Abstract: Provided are systems for detecting an anomaly in network activity using Domain Name System (DNS) query data that include a processor to receive data associated with a plurality of DNS queries from a plurality of data sources, parse the data associated with the plurality of DNS queries to provide DNS query data and network domain data, route the DNS query data to a first queue using a queries exchange, route the network domain data to a second queue using a domains exchange, poll the first queue and the second queue with a microservice application to receive the DNS query data and the network domain data with the microservice application for processing, and detect a characteristic of the one or more DNS queries of the plurality of DNS queries based on the DNS query data and the network domain data. Methods and computer program products are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a system of dynamically managing permissions of storage blocks. The method includes predicting at least one storage block that will be accessed by a user on a storage device and predicting a time window when the storage block will be accessed the user. The predictions can be performed by a machine learning model trained using the historical accesses and access times of the user. The method also includes granting the user an access to the storage block during the time window and monitoring whether the storage block is accessed by the user. The method also includes determining, based on the monitoring, that the user accessed the storage block, and revoking the access to the storage block granted to the user after a predetermined access time.

Abstract: A broadcasting signal reception device may include a reception unit for receiving, through the broadcasting network, a broadcasting signal including a first component of a DASH content which can be received through a broadcasting network and a broadband network; a delivery module for de-capsulating the received broadcasting signal, outputting LCT packets transmitted through one or more LCT channels, and parsing signaling information used for acquiring segments corresponding to the first component of the DASH content included in the LCT packets; and a decoder for decoding the acquired segments.

Abstract: A method and a system for arranging a user multi-session from a plurality of user sessions, where the sessions are received from a plurality of computerized client devices communicatively coupled via a communication network to at least one content server. At least some of the client devices may be operated by a same user, and the data content may include at least part of data communicated between any client device and any content server. The method including dividing the received data content into a plurality of sessions, where at least two sessions are associated with the same user, selecting at least two sessions received from at least two respective client devices associated with the same user, and associating the selected at least two sessions to form a multi-session.

Abstract: A message sending method includes: receiving at least one first input; adding, in response to each first input, at least one message input box to a message editing interface corresponding to a target contact; receiving at least one second input; and sending message content in a first target input box to the target contact in response to each second input, where the first target input box is a message input box of message input boxes displayed in the message editing interface.

Abstract: Provided are a device and method for synchronizing data between hubs in real time. The method includes verifying a session interworking environment, deriving session negotiation candidates, generating a session negotiation protocol message, transmitting a session negotiation request signal including the generated session negotiation protocol message to a second data hub, receiving a session negotiation settlement signal corresponding to the session negotiation request signal from the second data hub, generating a session module on the basis of the session negotiation settlement signal, and transmitting a session negotiation settlement signal to the second data hub.

Abstract: In a distributed system that includes a collection of machines, a server system generates a global dictionary from sampling responses received from machines in the collection of machine, at least a subject of the sampling responses including information indicating one or more terms in a corpus of information stored at a respective machine in the collection of machines. The global dictionary includes global document frequency values corresponding to the document frequencies of terms in the corpora of information stored in the collection of machines. The server system generates a similarity search query for a target document, the similarity search query including identifiers of terms in the target document and optionally document frequency information for those terms, obtained from the global dictionary, and sends, through one or more linear communication orbits, the similarity search query to one or more respective machines in the collection of machines.

Abstract: Examples of methods and systems to generate information about news source items appearing in user social media feed content, where the news source items describe news events or topics. The news events or topics can be identified by the recognition of news information associated with a news source in information configured for use as user social media feed content. The generated information can be displayed on a user device along with assigned bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings for news sources that describe the news source events. The news source items, news sources, and information can be selected on the user display for further user review. Notifications associated with news source bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings and information associated with user engagement with social media feed content can also be generated. Bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings for user social media accounts can be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, methods and techniques related to delivering a service widget that collects data and provides a service. A service widget is provided in response to a widget delivery request received from a user browser. The delivered service widget enables the user browser to request item-related services from an enterprise. A request for the item-related services is received by an enterprise from the delivered service widget. Provision of the service is enabled upon confirmation that an authentication token fetched from the client backend system is valid for the client backend system, the services request may be delivered to an enterprise server. The enterprise, in response to an analysis of the information related to the item available for purchase, may indicate that the item available for purchase meets a purchase threshold of the enterprise and provide an evaluation result including parameters of the item-related services.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system. The method receives a request from a user of the research system for information about a particular category. The method generates a chart that displays a set of events associated with the particular category over a particular period of time. The method incorporates the chart into a GUI for the particular category for transmission to the user. Some embodiments generate a list of events associated with the particular category and generate a GUI that displays the list of the events. Each event is represented in the list by a title of a document identified by the research system as representative of the event.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for managing a roadside device in vehicle road cooperation, a cloud control platform and a system. The method includes: acquiring, by a cloudside device, a data packet from a roadside device, the data packet including at least one of state information of the roadside device and dynamic traffic information associated with the roadside device; and adjusting a packet transmission policy for a data link associated with the roadside device based on the data packet, the data link comprising at least one of a first downlink from the roadside device to a vehicle, a first uplink from the vehicle to the roadside device, a second uplink from the roadside device to the cloudside device, and a second downlink from the cloudside device to the roadside device, so that personalized management for roadside devices is achieved.

Abstract: A relay device is provided that may identify a quantity of empty data byte locations in a data buffer of the relay device. The relay device may receive an indicator associated with transmitting data packets. The relay device may pause or enable a lossless flow of data between the relay device, a host device, and a peer device based on the quantity of empty data byte locations, the indicator, or both. The relay device may include a first data interface coupled with a peer device, a second data interface coupled with a host device, a data buffer configured to store data packets received from the host device, and a state machine that enables a lossless transmission of data between the host device and peer device. The state machine may transmit a pause frame to the host device based on a data buffer utilization reaching a data storage capacity.

Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes receiving a device type identifier, network access data, and a user identifier that correspond to an order identifier from a terminal. An allocated device serial number corresponding to the order identifier is obtained, the device type identifier, the device serial number, the network access data being written into a customized controlled device. The customized controlled device that is identified by the allocated device serial number and the device type identifier is connected to. A device registration request is received from the terminal and, in response to receiving the device registration request, device registration is performed based on the device type identifier, the allocated device serial number, and the user identifier.

Abstract: A computer system and method for transferring a file from a device in proximity, including start downloading a file from a message addressed to a recipient, checking the message for one or more common recipients of the message; downloading the file from a remote server in response to no common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, downloading the file from a remote server in response to the file not being available for transfer from any common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, automatically applying file transfer permissions to the downloaded file for each of the common recipients of the message, checking if a common recipient device in proximity has requested to download the file, and transferring the file to the requesting common recipient device in proximity in response to the common recipient device in proximity being a mapped trusted device of the recipient device.

Abstract: A main computing device integrated into a vehicle may perform various aspects of the techniques described in this disclosure. The main computing device comprises a memory and a processor. The memory may store a first and second instance of a runtime environment. The processor may execute a first container that enables execution of a first instance of the runtime environment, and execute a second container that enables execution of a second instance of the runtime environment. The first instance of the runtime environment may detect a supporting computing device, transfer, responsive to detecting the supporting computing device, the second container to the supporting computing device, and interface with the second instance of the runtime environment to jointly present the user interface by which the operator of the vehicle controls the functionality of the vehicle.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing content are disclosed. An example method can comprise receiving and/or storing first content comprising a first break point, receiving and/or storing second content comprising a second break point, providing the first content, and providing the second content at the second break point in place of the first content at the first break point. In an aspect, the first and second content can be first and second episode of a television show. The first content and the second content can comprise portions that may be commercials, alternate scenes, previews. The portions in the second content can be received at a later time. For example, the portions in the second content can be a newer version or updated version of the respective portions in the first content. The portions in the second content can be played when the first content is provided.

Abstract: A content management system (CMS) provides integration between APPS configured for use with an editor application of the CMS, the CMS including at least one server computer configured to perform the following operations: installing a first APP and a second APP in a content project of the CMS, wherein installing the first and second APPs enables functionalities of the first and second APPs to be accessed for the content project through the editor application, wherein the editor application provides an interface for editing the content project; receiving from the first APP a request to invoke an action by the second APP; responsive to receiving the request, then validating contents of the request; responsive to successful validation of the request, then sending an acknowledgement to the first APP, and generating a call to the second APP to invoke the action by the second APP.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of securing remote technical support includes monitoring a computing environment for at least one indicator of remote-control software in the computing environment in accordance with stored authentication settings. The method also includes, responsive to the monitoring, detecting the at least one indicator of remote-control software in the computing environment. The method also includes, responsive to the detection, identifying an authentication profile in the stored authentication settings that is applicable to the at least one indicator of remote-control software. The method also includes executing an authentication workflow in accordance with the authentication profile. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and a method that enable reliable transmission of data even in communication using a plurality of bands. The wireless communication device collectively manages a sequence number of data transmitted using each band in communication using a plurality of bands and controls of transmission of information on a notification method of a reception result of the data and information on a management method. The present technology can be applied to wireless communication systems.

Abstract: A system and method for initiating a personalized virtual reality session via a virtual reality communication system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The system includes a profile subsystem configured to store an inmate profile of the inmate of the controlled environment. The system also includes a virtual reality subsystem that retrieves the inmate profile associated with the inmate from the profile subsystem, initiates the virtual reality session involving a first communication device used by the inmate of the controlled environment, and personalizes the virtual reality session based on the inmate profile. The system also includes a communication subsystem configured to transmit information related to the virtual reality session to a monitoring system.

Abstract: An ontology management method includes receiving, by a machine-to-machine (M2M) platform, an ontology mapping request sent by a first application entity, where the ontology mapping request carries a first ontology identifier, a second ontology identifier, and mapping method description information, determining, by the M2M platform, a first ontology and a second ontology based on the first ontology identifier and the second ontology identifier, determining, by the M2M platform, a mapping manner based on the mapping method description information, and creating mapping between the first ontology and the second ontology according to the determined mapping manner, and storing, by the M2M platform, the mapping between the first ontology and the second ontology in an ontology mapping resource, and returning an identifier of the ontology mapping resource to the first application entity.

Abstract: Autonomous human traffic monitoring systems and methods are described herein. The autonomous human traffic monitoring system includes scanner nodes, a server node, a user device, and a user interface. The system can be configured to detect electronic transmissions from smart devices, receive commands and the data transmissions, process commands and data transmissions, store data, and send commands and data transmissions. The system collects data from smart devices in a coverage area and transits the data to a user device for processing to determine a count of persons in a coverage area over a specific period of time.

Abstract: A content management system server can obtain a protocol based data transmission via a computer network from a script that executes at the publisher device server, and can obtain search result content items from an index of electronic documents that include snippets of text extracted from the search result content items and that include hypertext links to the search result content items. The system can extract feature vectors and document identifiers of the search result content items, and can determine information retrieval scores of search result content items. Based on the network identifier, location probabilities of device locations can be ranked and compared to thresholds. The system can determine a confidence threshold representing a minimum degree of certainty of the geographical location of the devices and can select content for protocol based transmission accordingly.

Abstract: A method includes, in response to each write request of a plurality of write requests received at a memory-side cache device coupled with a memory device, writing payload data specified by the write request to the memory-side cache device, and when a first bandwidth availability condition is satisfied, performing a cache write-through by writing the payload data to the memory device, and recording an indication that the payload data written to the memory-side cache device matches the payload data written to the memory device.

Abstract: A journaling file system may implement remote durable logging. Updates to a file system may be received, and log records describing the updates may be stored in a locally-accessible file system change log. The update may then be acknowledged as committed. The log records may then be sent to be stored in a network-based data store in a remote version of the file system change log. Once it may be determined that the log records are stored in the remote version, storage space for the log records in the local file system change log may be reclaimed. Various types of restoration and duplication techniques may be implemented based on the remote version of the change log to restore a file system at an originating device or to duplicate the file system at a different device.

Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both.

Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting an interactive game in augmented reality on the display of a smart eyewear device. A hand tracking utility detects and tracks the location of hand gestures in real time, based on high-definition video data. The detected hand gestures are compared to library of hand gestures and landmarks. Examples include synchronized, multi-player games in which each device detects and shares hand gestures with other devices for evaluation and scoring. A single-player example includes gesture-shaped icons presented on a virtual scroll that appears to move toward an apparent collision with corresponding key images, awarding points if the player's hand is located near the apparent collision and the detected hand shape matches the moving icon.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for encoding and decoding a packet buffer for data exchange over a communications network, including parsing a data container definition file to determine a packet format; generating a code file based on the data container definition file; inserting the code file into a source tree of an application; compiling the source tree to generate an executable file; and executing the executable on a computing device in communication with the communications network, wherein the executable file encodes and decodes the packet buffer for data exchange over the communications network.

Abstract: For providing an efficient network use and resource allocation within the network a method for operating a network is provided, wherein user network traffic is controlled by an operator, comprising the following steps: a) monitoring user network traffic data on a per user basis, b) using said network traffic data in a learning process for providing a prediction of user network traffic on a per user basis, and c) controlling user network traffic under consideration of said prediction, including allocating network resources under consideration of said prediction to one or more users, preferably for providing a definable Quality of Service, QoS, per at least ne of said one or more users and/or per at least one other user. Further, a corresponding network is claimed.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, exposed stimuli based on sensor data; monitoring, by the computing device, a response to the stimuli based on the sensor data; detecting, by the computing device, a deviation between the response to the stimuli and an expected response to the stimuli, wherein the expected response to the stimuli is determined based on information stored by a knowledge corpus; and executing, by the computing device, a deviation instruction based on the detecting the deviation.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to ways to resolve autonomous vehicle (AV) routes based on verbal descriptions of landmark features. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving speech instructions, wherein the speech instructions indicate an autonomous vehicle (AV) destination, analyzing the speech instructions to identify one or more landmarks associated with the AV destination, and determining location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. In some aspects, the process further includes calculating a route based on the location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the creation, management, and utilization of a multi-region virtual overlay wide area network from a plurality of special purpose network appliances. In exemplary embodiments, multiple regions are created for the virtual overlay wide area network, each region having its own network topology. At least one network appliance from each region is in communication with at least one network appliance from each other region, for inter-region connectivity within the virtual overlay wide area network. A subnet sharing protocol can be utilized to exchange routing information among each network appliance within each region, and between each region.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a first bank statement at a hybrid pipeline including a set of lookup tables and a deep learning (DL) model that can each be used to determine customer IDs from bank statements, providing a first key based on data associated with the first bank statement, and determining that the first key is included in a first lookup table of the set of lookup tables, and in response: identifying a first set of customer IDs from the first lookup table, the first set of customer IDs including one or more customer IDs, and outputting the first set of customer IDs to computer-executable software that matches the first bank statement to one or more electronic documents at least partially based on the first set of customer IDs.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for tracking incomplete purchases in correlation with application performance, such as application errors or crashes, are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention facilitate monitoring transaction and application error events and analyzing data associated therewith to identify data indicating an impact of incomplete purchases in relation to an error(s) such that application performance can be improved. In various implementations, application data associated with an application installed on a mobile device is received. The application data is used to determine that an error that occurred in association with the application installed on the mobile device correlates with an incomplete monetary transaction initiated via the application. Based on the error correlating with the incomplete monetary transaction, a transaction attribute associated with the error is determined.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for location-based data tracking for dynamic data presentation on mobile devices. A user's device may be used to track user data for the user, including locations visited by the user and activities by the user at the locations. These may be correlated to likely behavior by the user at the location so that a predicted activity by the user at a location may be determined. Thus, when a user visits a location, the predicted activity of the user at the location may be determined. Using the predicted activity, application data for an application may be generated and may be dynamically presented through one or more interfaces of the user's device. This may be presented without user input at the location so that the user may quickly perform the activity through the user's device.

Abstract: A system can apply file placement rules to dynamically place files and directories within file system views backed by objects in an object storage system. After detection of an update to a first file system view that causes an update of an object in a storage grid, an object manager begins evaluation of file placement rules against metadata of the object. For each file placement rule that is triggered, the object manager determines identifies gateways that export the first file system view. The object manager then instructs the gateways to update their representations of the first file system view. The disclosed embodiments may be able to scale to managing hundreds of billions of files spanning thousands of file system views, especially in the presence of disconnected operation.

Abstract: Embodiments of a device and a method for providing data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a processing system configured to split data of a request into messages by splitting the data based on a node of the data, where the messages fit a supported size, and provide the messages that include the data of the request to a communications interface.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for decentralized notification services are disclosed. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to: providing a distributed notification service configured to execute on each node of a plurality of nodes of a decentralized peer-to-peer platform; determining, by the distributed notification service of a first node, a notification definition, where the notification definition is from a catalog of notification definitions and included in a distributed application executing on the first node; sending, by the distributed notification service of a second node, a notification message, where the notification message is associated with the notification definition; receiving, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message; and delivering, by the distributed notification service of the first node, the notification message in the distributed application executing on the first node.

Abstract: A method is used in managing truncation of files of file systems. A request is received to delete a portion of a file of a file system. The file system includes a plurality of files. Metadata of the file is evaluated for determining a number of file system blocks associated with the portion of the file that are available for de-allocation. Storage space associated with the file system blocks is reported as available storage space to a user of the file.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods which increase the throughput of a TCP-based communication between a first network node and a second network node. First, the first network node sent a first plurality of TCP segments to the second network node. Second, when the second network node receives a second plurality of TCP segments, which is all or part of the first plurality of the TCP segments, the second network node responds by sending one or more TCP acknowledgements to the first network node with the last sequence number of a last segment among all TCP segment within the second plurality of TCP segments. The present disclosure are able to increase the throughput of a TCP connection while decreasing its reliability.

Abstract: A method of configuring an HVAC system uses a Specifier Library that includes specifier options for a plurality of HVAC components. An engineering tool accepts a user selection of an HVAC component that will be part of the HVAC system and displays one or more options for the selected HVAC component. The engineering tool accepts selections of one or more options by the user and creates one or more points for the selected HVAC component based on the user selections, each of the one or more points having one or more point parameter values. The engineering tool creates a configuration package to configure a controller based at least in part on the user selections and the one or more points and downloads the configuration package to at least partially configure the controller. At least part of the HVAC system is controlled using the controller.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer implemented method for maintaining a record of an order of messages appearing on one or more blockchains, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of transactions is included on any of the one or more blockchains; and storing a record of the plurality of messages in a data store, wherein the record is indicative of the relative order of the plurality of transactions.