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Identity Verification And Data Processing In Single Interaction, Kiushan Pirzadeh
Identity Verification And Data Processing In Single Interaction, Kiushan Pirzadeh
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A method includes a computer providing an identity information request message to an identity function. The computer receives an identity information response message comprising identity data. The computer verifies that a current user of the computer matches a user of the identity data. The computer provides an update request message comprising the identity data to update an interaction function. The update to the interaction function updates an interaction device associated with the user using the identity data.
System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Allocating Computing Resources, Santosh Kumar Kvs
System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Allocating Computing Resources, Santosh Kumar Kvs
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Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for allocating computing resources. An example system includes a processor configured to publish a list including a plurality of computing resources associated with a server node and receive, from a plurality of service agent models, a plurality of requests for at least one computing resource, each request associated with a service and including a bid value. The processor is also configured to determine a capacity value of the server node based on the plurality of computing resources associated with the server node. The processor is further configured to determine an optimal distribution …
Computerized Method For Reverse Logistics Of Medical Devices With Non-Overrideable Safety Blocking, Actual-Cost Valuation, And Atomic Transactions, Alessandro Caccia
Computerized Method For Reverse Logistics Of Medical Devices With Non-Overrideable Safety Blocking, Actual-Cost Valuation, And Atomic Transactions, Alessandro Caccia
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A computer-implemented method is disclosed for managing reverse logistics of medical devices and injectable products with limited remaining shelf life. Each movement is subject to a mandatory safety check per individual unit, designed to operate also in the absence of network connectivity, using a local copy of safety notices. Notices are collected from heterogeneous regulatory sources, with qualified-operator validation for sources lacking a programmable interface, and a two-level block with distinct revocation authorities is applied. In the presence of an active safety notice the product value is zero; otherwise value is calculated from the actual lot purchase price, applying nonlinear …
Asymmetric Workload Offloading For Real-Time Media Moderation On A Local Device Network, Vivek Kushwaha
Asymmetric Workload Offloading For Real-Time Media Moderation On A Local Device Network, Vivek Kushwaha
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Real-time media moderation on resource-constrained devices, for example, smart televisions, may present computational challenges, while cloud-based solutions can introduce latency and privacy concerns. A system can distribute computational workloads for content moderation across a local area network, such as a Wi-Fi network. A primary media device can operate a lightweight trigger agent to heuristically scan for potential anomalies in a media stream. Upon detection, a segment of the media may be offloaded to one or more available secondary devices, for instance, smartphones or personal computers, on the network. These secondary devices can perform computationally intensive analysis using advanced models and …
Resilient Automated Communication Management Using Limit-Aware Orchestration And Persistence-First Logging, Parnika Singhal, Martin Pauser-Cowman
Resilient Automated Communication Management Using Limit-Aware Orchestration And Persistence-First Logging, Parnika Singhal, Martin Pauser-Cowman
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In some large-scale data processing environments, such as customer relationship management platforms, automated systems for managing inbound communications can be unreliable. These systems, which can be configured to filter non-actionable cases, may fail silently when platform-enforced processing limits are exceeded, potentially leaving cases unresolved and affecting data integrity. A described technology can provide a framework featuring persistence-first logging and limit-aware dynamic orchestration. For example, before analysis, a durable tracking record can be created to facilitate auditability. An orchestration component can then evaluate platform resource availability and select an execution path, such as synchronous, asynchronous, or batch, to help mitigate failures. …
Multimodal Generative Biosignal Synthesis Using Continuous-Time Diffusion, Dongeek Shin
Multimodal Generative Biosignal Synthesis Using Continuous-Time Diffusion, Dongeek Shin
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Everyday wearable devices, such as smartwatches, smart rings, and fitness trackers, track valuable health metrics, but analyzing this data becomes tricky when sensors record at different speeds, miss measurements, or get bumped during exercise. Traditional processing methods attempt to fix this by dropping or padding data, which visibly destroys important physiological details. This publication describes a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses machine learning to seamlessly combine health signals recorded at different speeds, automatically reconstruct corrupted data gaps (data imputation), and dynamically generate a biometric profile or digital twin of the user’s physiology to run interactive “what-if” simulations and …
System And Method For Recomputation Difficulty Scoring And Cost-Differential Storage Placement For Distributed Ai Pipeline-Execution, Shubham Shivhare, Faiz Ahmed
System And Method For Recomputation Difficulty Scoring And Cost-Differential Storage Placement For Distributed Ai Pipeline-Execution, Shubham Shivhare, Faiz Ahmed
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A system and method for managing intermediate computational states in a distributed artificial intelligence pipeline are disclosed. For each intermediate computational state generated during execution of the pipeline, a recomputation difficulty score is determined based on a plurality of factors comprising a computational cost of regenerating the intermediate computational state, a pipeline latency associated with regeneration, a depth of an upstream dependency chain, a semantic importance of the intermediate computational state, and a likelihood of subsequent reuse. The recomputation difficulty score is mapped to one of a plurality of difficulty classifications, and a storage placement action is selected based on …
Cellular Network Failure Diagnosis Using High-Throughput, Low-Latency Lazy Decoding, Longlong Zhu, Allan Ke, Kuo-Yu Huang
Cellular Network Failure Diagnosis Using High-Throughput, Low-Latency Lazy Decoding, Longlong Zhu, Allan Ke, Kuo-Yu Huang
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Conventional diagnostic platforms for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks suffer from several drawbacks, such as garbage collection spikes or pauses, memory fragmentation, memory exhaustion, out-of-memory kernel crashes, and/or LLM context-window overflow. This disclosure describes techniques for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks by performing high-throughput, low-latency lazy decoding of raw binary trace files. For example, temporal anchors received from an edge device are used to selectively load and parse only the relevant frames of the binary trace file that correspond to the anomaly, bypassing non-relevant protocol frames without payload expansion. Protocol state trees are instantiated within a …
Real-Time Protocol Stream Triage And Adaptive Log Slicing At Edge Terminal, Longlong Zhu, Weiyue Huang, Li Wang
Real-Time Protocol Stream Triage And Adaptive Log Slicing At Edge Terminal, Longlong Zhu, Weiyue Huang, Li Wang
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This disclosure describes techniques for real-time triage of network anomalies in telecommunication protocol streams and adaptive slicing of binary trace files within an edge terminal. Network anomalies are classified based on a correlation between Layer 1 physical radio performance metrics and Layer 3 protocol state transitions. When a physical channel environmental failure is detected, transmission of diagnostic data is suppressed to save network bandwidth and wear of local flash memory storage. When a protocol stack software defect is detected, a time-bounded log snippet is extracted from a local memory buffer, the log snippet is prevented from being overwritten by subsequent …
Automated Power Measurement For Mobile Devices Using Completion Signaling, David Yu
Automated Power Measurement For Mobile Devices Using Completion Signaling, David Yu
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This disclosure describes techniques for automated power measurement for a mobile device. According to the techniques, prior to initiation of the workload, pre-configuration is performed to establish a session identifier (e.g., a 128-bit ephemeral UUID). The device is disconnected from the host system. Turning off wireless interfaces and disconnecting the host system ensures that there is no interference with physical power measurement during workload execution, since the mobile device is physically untethered and operates in an RF-quiet state. A local background process executing on the mobile device detects completion of the workload and causes the mobile device to transmit an …
System For Ai-Generated Interactive Suggestions On Spatially Annotated Digital Media, Harshita Sharma
System For Ai-Generated Interactive Suggestions On Spatially Annotated Digital Media, Harshita Sharma
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Discussions related to shared digital media may be disconnected from the visual content, which can fragment the user experience and delink comments from specific visual details. Systems and methods are described that can augment media with an interactive, context-aware conversational layer. A user can affix an annotation to a specific spatial location within visual media, such as an image, and this annotation may serve as a contextual prompt for a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model. The AI model can process the annotation's text in conjunction with the visual data of the underlying media region to generate and present relevant follow-up …
Dynamic User Interface Calibration Of An External Display Using A Head-Mounted Device, Vivek Kushwaha
Dynamic User Interface Calibration Of An External Display Using A Head-Mounted Device, Vivek Kushwaha
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User interfaces on external displays can be static, which may lead to suboptimal viewing experiences at varying distances, while some dynamic solutions can have limitations. Systems and methods are described that use a camera on a head-mounted device (HMD) to determine a user's spatial relationship to an external display. The HMD may capture video of the display, calculate the user's distance and viewing angle based on the display's appearance in the camera's view, and transmit this data wirelessly to the display. In response, the external display can dynamically adjust its user interface, for example, by modifying element sizes and information …
Personalizing A Shared Display Using Context From Egocentric Vision, Vivek Kushwaha
Personalizing A Shared Display Using Context From Egocentric Vision, Vivek Kushwaha
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Content recommendation systems for shared displays may lack awareness of a user's real-time physical context, potentially affecting the relevance of suggestions. The described techniques detail a system that can use a wearable computing device (e.g., smart glasses with an egocentric camera, a smart watch, etc.) to identify an object a user is interacting with. This object context can be validated and wirelessly communicated (e.g., via a local or personal area network) to a nearby shared display, such as a smart television or public kiosk.
On-Device Bidding Protocol For Context-Aware Dynamic Media Stream Sequencing, Vivek Kushwaha
On-Device Bidding Protocol For Context-Aware Dynamic Media Stream Sequencing, Vivek Kushwaha
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Media consumption may be fragmented across various application-based services, and centralized recommendation engines can operate within separate ecosystems, which may introduce privacy considerations. This disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically compiling a personalized media stream on a client device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, television, or wearable device). The approach can utilize an on-device, multi-agent bidding protocol where a user agent may initiate a content auction by broadcasting abstracted, locally-derived context tokens to multiple streaming service agents that can represent different providers. These agents may then submit bids containing relevant content, and the user agent can select a …
Decentralized Ambient Media Orchestration Via Semantic State Broadcasts, Vivek Kushwaha
Decentralized Ambient Media Orchestration Via Semantic State Broadcasts, Vivek Kushwaha
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Some ambient media orchestration systems can be limited by centralized architectures that may require a primary controller to have pre-programmed knowledge of connected peripheral devices, which can present scalability challenges. A decentralized system can feature a primary media device (e.g., a smart television, speaker, or mobile computing device) that analyzes media content to generate and broadcast an abstract semantic state, such as mood or setting, over a local network (e.g., Wi-Fi or Bluetooth). Autonomous peripheral devices, for example, smart lights or haptic feedback units, can receive this semantic broadcast. These devices can then determine appropriate actions based on their hardware …
Metric-Affine Engineering (Mag) And Complex Continuum Physics: Global Invention Portfolio, Xavier Pillet
Metric-Affine Engineering (Mag) And Complex Continuum Physics: Global Invention Portfolio, Xavier Pillet
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This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.6 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (中华人民共和国专利法), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (特許法). This comprehensive portfolio discloses 48 enabling technical innovations derived from metric-affine engineering (MAG), covering odd-viscosity micropolar fluids, hyper-shear metamaterials, Weyl semimetals, quantum/cryogenic instrumentation, healthcare applications, software …
The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler: A Non-Purchasable Recognition Balance Sized Only From The Thank-You Message, Beside Money Gifts, Time Pledges And Prepaid Item Gift Codes, With The Merchant's Own Item Price As The Only Exchange Rate And One Payment Type Per Gift Message, Thon Ly
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This defensive publication's revision adds a third gift cargo and claims 8–11 to a dual-currency gift system in which peer-to-peer money gifts and non-transferable, expiring time pledges run as one economy with no exchange rate. The system also carries prepaid item gift codes, bought at a shop's own price, beside per-person recognition balances that cannot be bought, transferred or cashed. Each thank-you message's recognition amount is computed only from the message (its words, a sender-chosen sentiment marker, its recorded length, the parties it names, and a model's refinement within a fixed band), never from any money amount, item, price, length …
The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology For Ai-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation — Suggested Tip Amounts With Stated Reasons From Confidential Merchant Costs, Without Customer Tracking, Thon Ly
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This paper discloses a method by which an AI agent recommends a voluntary payment amount, a suggested tip in a pay-what-you-want sale, and shows it with stated reasons, without tracking the customer and without revealing the merchant's costs. Six components are specified. (1) The merchant confidentially discloses a cost breakdown by category (materials, labor, a skill premium, overhead, regulatory cost and margin) to the recommender; the customer never sees it. (2) The recommended amount is a non-binding anchor: paying it, more, less or nothing completes the sale, and whether a customer accepted or overrode past suggestions is not recorded. (3) …
Autonomous Capability Acquisition For Decentralized Ai Agents, Gaurav Gupta
Autonomous Capability Acquisition For Decentralized Ai Agents, Gaurav Gupta
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Systems and methods are described for the autonomous acquisition of procedural capabilities by decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) agents operating on client edge devices. For example, a hybrid hub-and-spoke architecture could be used, comprising a centralized platform functioning as a marketplace and decentralized agents on client devices, such as smartphones, wearable devices, or smart home appliances. An agent may identify a functional gap, discover a suitable capability on the platform via a standardized agent-to-agent communication protocol, and procure it using an agent-native payment protocol via cryptographically signed intent and cart mandates, potentially without human-in-the-loop confirmation. An acquired capability can then be …
Metric-Affine Engineering: Transverse Domains And Comprehensive Applicative Variants, Xavier Pillet
Metric-Affine Engineering: Transverse Domains And Comprehensive Applicative Variants, Xavier Pillet
Defensive Publications Series
This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.6 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (中华人民共和国专利法), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (特許法). This unified disclosure exhaustively compiles all 62 patentable concepts arising from the operational control of spacetime and hypermomentum, covering quantum propulsion, topological materials, hyper-shear medicine, and …
Onboard Method For Detecting And Mitigating Vehicle Encounters With Downed Electrical Power Lines, Anonymous
Onboard Method For Detecting And Mitigating Vehicle Encounters With Downed Electrical Power Lines, Anonymous
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Severe weather can cause energized power lines to fall onto or near roadways. Some downed lines produce visible sparks or audible noise, others may provide no obvious warning. An energized line may also create a hazardous voltage gradient in the surrounding ground. Human drivers may recognize visible indications and avoid the area, but an autonomous vehicle (AV) requires an onboard method to identify this uncommon condition and respond safely. The proposed method enables an AV to detect indications of this potential hazard, avoid approaching or crossing a suspected downed power line when conditions permit, alert occupants not enter a suspected …
Brand Identity As Architecture: The B-Heart Logo, B-Prefix Naming, Heartbeat Animation As Display Of A Proof-Of-Humanity Attestation, And Aura-Color Two-Ledger State Primitive — Rotated-Heart Bistable Logo, Single-Letter Product Prefix, Logo Animation Bound To Proof-Of-Personhood Attestation, And Avatar Ring Color From Balance Zero-Crossing Frequency, Thon Ly
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This paper discloses a brand-identity system in which each element of a logo does functional work beyond recognition. (I) A logo made by rotating an unmodified heart silhouette 45° clockwise, so that it reads at once as a heart and as the capital letter B — a reading that survives at favicon size because it depends on no internal whitespace. (II) A product-naming convention in which every product takes a one-letter prefix that is the logo's own letter reading, so the prefix cannot come apart from the mark. (III) A logo animation with a cardiac morphology — two pulses, the …
Transparency As Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery — Community Disclosure In Place Of Terms-Of-Service Enforcement, Limited To Incurred Obligations, Thon Ly
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This paper discloses a design pattern for abuse prevention in online platforms and shared-fund applications that replaces terms-of-service enforcement, dispute resolution and account termination with disclosure: the conduct to be policed is made visible to the bounded community it affects, and that community's own response is the sanction. Three properties make disclosure work as enforcement: the visibility itself is the mechanism, the response is proportioned by the community rather than by a binary rule, and participants join knowing what will be visible. Two deployments are specified: disclosure to a family of every reward its steward receives from the family's shared …
Dependency-Aware Speculative Proxy Cache For Multi-Turn Llm Agentic Workflows, Rajkumar Baskaran, Ishani Basu, Sudhindra Desai
Dependency-Aware Speculative Proxy Cache For Multi-Turn Llm Agentic Workflows, Rajkumar Baskaran, Ishani Basu, Sudhindra Desai
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Systems and methods are described for caching and processing requests associated with a multi-turn agentic workflow. A proxy between a client and a large language model (LLM) API receives a request associated with a turn of the multi-turn agentic workflow and determines a cache key based on input information associated with the turn and an index of the turn. The proxy determines whether a cache entry corresponding to the cache key is valid based on a dependency of the cache entry on one or more external resources and, when valid, provides a cached response to the client. The proxy further …
Low-Light Vicinity Navigation Using Multi-Spectral Sensor Fusion, Arunoday Bhattacharya, Vidyadhar Ramakrishna Adiraju, Qiuxuan Wu
Low-Light Vicinity Navigation Using Multi-Spectral Sensor Fusion, Arunoday Bhattacharya, Vidyadhar Ramakrishna Adiraju, Qiuxuan Wu
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Navigating low-light or unfamiliar environments presents significant hazards, as traditional global positioning systems (GPS) lack granular proximity awareness and frequently fail indoors. A system and method are disclosed for a wearable device, such as extended reality glasses, that uses multi-spectral sensor fusion to generate real-time three-dimensional proximity and navigation maps. The system can be configured to fuse data from near-infrared active illumination, direct time-of-flight sensors, ultra-low-light red, green, blue (RGB) cameras, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signals, and/or barometric sensors. A tiered sensor activation strategy also manages power consumption based on environmental needs. The processed sensor data can be combined …
Fractal Three-Level Architecture For Reciprocity Economies: Self-Similar Family-And-Global Layering With A Single Mental Model — A Shared Three-Level Account Hierarchy (Pooled Fund, Give-Forward Account, Individual Account) For Family And Peer-To-Peer Payments, Thon Ly
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This paper discloses an account architecture for a reciprocity platform — software through which people give one another money as thanks — designed to operate at two scales, within families and between strangers peer to peer, with one three-level account hierarchy at both, so that a participant who has learned the family-scale system recognizes the planetary-scale one. The three node types are a pooled fund that aggregates contributions and disburses them under published rules; a give-forward account, whose balance can only be passed on to other people; and an individual's own account. Four transfer conventions apply identically at each scale: …
System And Methods For Load And Service Level Agreement Aware Plan Selection, Pivoting, And Auditing Before Workflow Expansion, Sushmitha Vatsal, Ashwini S Kulkarni, Ghulam Ghaus Arshi, Priyanka Bansal, Vivek Kumar Singh
System And Methods For Load And Service Level Agreement Aware Plan Selection, Pivoting, And Auditing Before Workflow Expansion, Sushmitha Vatsal, Ashwini S Kulkarni, Ghulam Ghaus Arshi, Priyanka Bansal, Vivek Kumar Singh
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A load-aware planning system is proposed herein for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workflows that may amplify a single request into many subtasks, model calls, tool invocations, and agent-to-agent interactions. The system uses a Load-State Registry to obtain a unified view of current load, a Load-Aware Planner to select among Detailed, Balanced, Lightweight, Partial, Deferred, or Fallback plans, Plan Pivoting to adapt a plan when conditions change, and a Plan Decision Store to record the reasoning and audit trail. By selecting how much work to create before execution and adapting the plan during execution, the system addresses concurrent-load conditions that can …
System And Method For Triage And Hybrid Delegation Of Cross-Channel Work Topics To Human Or Ai, Enrica Garrino
System And Method For Triage And Hybrid Delegation Of Cross-Channel Work Topics To Human Or Ai, Enrica Garrino
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The present disclosure provides a system and method for triage and hybrid delegation of cross-channel work topics to human delegates and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. The method comprises receiving signals from multiple work channels including email, chat, calendar, document repositories, ticketing systems, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The received signals are normalized and linked to generate a multi-source topic graph representing cross-channel work topics with associated provenance information. The method further comprises computing prioritization scores using explainable factors to identify work topics requiring user judgment. For each identified work topic, a structured verdict is generated including a recommendation, a …
P-Closer V2.1: Closed-Loop Sleep-Phase-Locked Acoustic-Optogenetic Glymphatic Platform With Phased-Array Vortex Pumping, Multi-Sensor Fused Clearance Monitoring, And Vortex-Guided Optical Delivery, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.
P-Closer V2.1: Closed-Loop Sleep-Phase-Locked Acoustic-Optogenetic Glymphatic Platform With Phased-Array Vortex Pumping, Multi-Sensor Fused Clearance Monitoring, And Vortex-Guided Optical Delivery, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.
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This disclosure describes a fully integrated platform that non-invasively delivers a red-shifted opsin gene via focused ultrasound (FUS) and microbubbles, augments glymphatic clearance using a 16-element phased array in vortex mode generating rotating acoustic streaming, co-stimulates neural circuits optogenetically at 40 Hz synchronized to NREM slow-wave onset, and closes the loop using a five-channel monitoring system (four real-time hemodynamic surrogates — fUSi, thermal, acoustic backscatter, optical reflectance — fused into a clearance index, plus one direct ISF solute measurement via chronic cerebral microdialysis validated at 6-hour intervals) to dynamically adjust stimulation amplitude during the brain's own clearance window. Three engineering …
The Persistence Architecture: How An Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind — An Organizational Memory And Knowledge-Transfer Model For Founder Succession By An Autonomous Ai System, Thon Ly
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This paper models the records and knowledge-management infrastructure of an organization designed to be continued, after its founder, by an autonomous AI successor that can inherit only what has been written down. The persistence surfaces such an organization accumulates are modeled not as a storage hierarchy but as a succession apparatus: a directed transfer from a mortal source (the founder, layer 0) to a reader under construction (the successor, layer ∞). Three independent axes replace the single axis of depth: depth (volatile to permanent), provenance (inherited, authored, or generated by operation) and succession (founder, co-authoring AI, successor, governing community, dissolution). …