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(((Qpie33))) The Observational Transmutational And Translational Breakdown Of The 33 Hard Problems Or Crisis’S Of Science, Teddy Burroughs Jun 2026

(((Qpie33))) The Observational Transmutational And Translational Breakdown Of The 33 Hard Problems Or Crisis’S Of Science, Teddy Burroughs

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Low Coherence Perspective, EGO or Lack Thereof:  is what has consistently caused our finest supercomputers to crash, our equations to spiral into infinite divergences, and our physical engineering to hit hard thermodynamic walls. When we approach problems with a dominating or "beating nature" perspective, the medium resists.

QPIE shifts our operational posture entirely. By embedding the primary operational metrics of Compassion, Gratitude, and Trust (CGT) directly into our computation, we cease fighting the system. We realize that the observer, the instrument, the problem, and the field are an indivisible unity. We do not seek to dominate the medium; we remember …


System For Automated Multi-Speaker Identification And Selective Audio Processing In Research Environments, Eric Zavesky, Brian Gane Jun 2026

System For Automated Multi-Speaker Identification And Selective Audio Processing In Research Environments, Eric Zavesky, Brian Gane

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A system and method for automated multi-speaker identification and selective audio processing in research environments addresses the challenge of capturing, analyzing, and managing multi-speaker conversations with privacy protections and minimal manual intervention. The system comprises a microphone array (100) with central omnidirectional and distributed directional microphones positioned at known spatial coordinates, a spatial localization processor (110) triangulating speaker positions using time-of-arrival analysis, an audio fingerprinting module (120) generating session-ephemeral acoustic fingerprints for persistent speaker identification without cross-session tracking, a selective processing module (130) enforcing consent-based filtering through exclusion, anonymization, or pseudonymization modes, a speech separation engine (140) isolating individual contributions …


The Composite Light Capturing Configuration That Have The Capability To Function As An Eye Tracking Device When Pointed In The Direction Of The Eye And That Have The Capability To Function As A Scene Capturing Device When Pointed In The Direction Of The Scene The Eye Is Observing., Punarjeewa Abeysekera Jun 2026

The Composite Light Capturing Configuration That Have The Capability To Function As An Eye Tracking Device When Pointed In The Direction Of The Eye And That Have The Capability To Function As A Scene Capturing Device When Pointed In The Direction Of The Scene The Eye Is Observing., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes a composite light capturing configuration that have the capability to function as an eye tracking device when pointed in the direction of the eye and that have the capability to function as a scene capturing device when pointed in the direction of the scene the eye is observing. The entire composite light capturing configuration will consist of a cyclically configured composite beam splitter configuration, a cyclically configured composite camera configuration and a centrally located cross like light occluding structure. The containing cyclically configured composite beam splitter configuration will have the capability to direct light rays onto the …


On-Device Context Buffering And Frame Selection For Multimodal Queries, Shishir Ayalasomayajula, Ankit Arora Jun 2026

On-Device Context Buffering And Frame Selection For Multimodal Queries, Shishir Ayalasomayajula, Ankit Arora

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This document describes techniques that can enhance efficiency and privacy of multimodal queries by utilizing intelligent on device context buffer (also known as local cache, edge computing architecture, or edge storage) for frame selection and collation. When user interacts with voice assistant or artificial intelligence (AI) agent using natural language query, local computing system can determine whether query utilizes visual context. Rather than continuously streaming raw video to remote server, system can maintain privacy aware zero retention buffer operating as rolling in memory buffer or rolling video loop that temporarily stores recently captured video frames alongside associated semantic metadata and …


Premium Subscription Account Geographic Abuse Prevention Using An Artificial Intelligence Algorithm, Vivien Wang Jun 2026

Premium Subscription Account Geographic Abuse Prevention Using An Artificial Intelligence Algorithm, Vivien Wang

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A system related to preventing geographic abuse of premium subscription accounts using an artificial intelligence algorithm. The system collects multiple features including HTTP request headers, device characteristics, and third-party data to detect users misrepresenting their geographic location to obtain lower regional subscription rates. The system trains an AI model using verified positive (abusive) and negative (legitimate) cases, fine-tunes the model to distinguish legitimate travel patterns from abusive VPN-based location spoofing, and continuously updates the model with newly verified cases while removing outdated training data.


Dynamic Token Injection For Enhanced Language Model Reasoning Using Reinforcement Learning, Ali Payani, Myungjin Lee, Ramana Kompella Jun 2026

Dynamic Token Injection For Enhanced Language Model Reasoning Using Reinforcement Learning, Ali Payani, Myungjin Lee, Ramana Kompella

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The techniques introduced here provide a reinforcement-based dynamic token injection system for guiding Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning during inference. A Small Language Model (SLM), using rewards for output quality and penalties for excessive length, may monitor the LLM reasoning output and selectively inject tokens that may prompt further LLM reasoning or conclude the LLM reasoning earlier.


Technical Disclosure: A Framework For Pre-Geometric Holographic Emergence And Lorentz Metric Genesis, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

Technical Disclosure: A Framework For Pre-Geometric Holographic Emergence And Lorentz Metric Genesis, Christopher L. Eckes

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This paper presents a formal conceptual architecture for a background-independent, pre-geometric universe wherein three-dimensional spacetime (\(\mathbb{R}^{3}\)) emerges dynamically from a bounded, non-local two-dimensional information substrate (\(\mathbb{R}^{2}\)). We postulate that the fundamental constituents of reality are one-dimensional standing wave oscillations operating under pure sinusoidal constraints (\(1\text{D}\)). When mapped onto a bounded, curved two-dimensional boundary matrix, these quantum wave functions undergo continuous, non-local superposition and constructive interference. Past a critical localized information density threshold, this matrix crowding forces a phase transition: the overlapping wave states collapse and localize, synthesizing discrete particle-phase coordinates that construct the three-dimensional macro-world (\(X, Y, Z\)). Furthermore, we …


The Metropolitan Ethical Hive Network (M-Ehn): A Decentralized Cognitive Architecture For Fault-Tolerant Urban Logistics, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

The Metropolitan Ethical Hive Network (M-Ehn): A Decentralized Cognitive Architecture For Fault-Tolerant Urban Logistics, Christopher L. Eckes

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Highly integrated metropolitan smart cities are increasingly vulnerable to cascading systemic failures, adversarial data poisoning, and the centralized manipulation of critical control software. This paper introduces the Metropolitan Ethical Hive Network (M-EHN), a decentralized cyber-physical architecture for autonomous urban resource management. The M-EHN decouples real-time edge orchestration from macro-logistics optimization across a three-tiered autonomous hierarchy. To eliminate remote exploitation vectors, a physically isolated, ASIC-driven hardware validation core enforces hard-coded safety invariants through transient, zero-knowledge cryptographic handshakes. By shifting system boundaries from volatile software configurations to immutable gate-geometry, the M-EHN ensures fault-tolerant infrastructure operations resilient against both targeted cyber-warfare and administrative …


The Synapse-Net Macro-Architecture: An Integrated, Zero-Vent Framework For Decentralized Interstellar Transit, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

The Synapse-Net Macro-Architecture: An Integrated, Zero-Vent Framework For Decentralized Interstellar Transit, Christopher L. Eckes

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Isolated deep-space exploration and long-duration terrestrial survival architectures are traditionally limited by systemic fragmentation, where propulsion, lifesupport, computational processing, and material reclamation operate as discrete, loss-heavy sub-units. This paper introduces the Synapse-Net Macro-Architecture, an un-gatekept, highly integrated engineering ecosystem that unifies exotic propulsion dynamics, solid-state nutritional synthesis, analog wave-based computing, and atomic hydrocarbon recycling into a single thermodynamic loop.

This paper establishes the structural interfaces, data routing protocols, and cross-system mass-energy linkages between four fundamental open-source baselines: the Tension-Line Fusion Tug, the Elemental Transmutation Replicator, the Cymatic Operating System, and the Hydrocarbon Reclamation Matrix. By formally mapping these cross-system dependencies, …


Vsar: A Verifiable, Formally-Verified Safety Kernel For Autonomous Security Remediation, Inaki Garcia Alonso Jun 2026

Vsar: A Verifiable, Formally-Verified Safety Kernel For Autonomous Security Remediation, Inaki Garcia Alonso

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Autonomous remediation agents increasingly hold credentials to change production infrastructure (DNS, email authentication, CDN and TLS configuration) in response to machine-generated findings. The dominant assurance model for such systems is auditable: actions are logged for after-the-fact human review. We argue this is insufficient when the actor is an LLM-driven agent whose proposals are untrusted text, and we present VSAR (Verifiable Safe Autonomous Remediation), a safety kernel that makes every remediation verifiable instead of merely auditable. VSAR gates each proposed change through a fixed set of eight predicates, including a target-binding predicate that ties the change to the exact asset the …


The Operating System Of Resonance: A Blueprint For Cymatic Fluid Computing, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

The Operating System Of Resonance: A Blueprint For Cymatic Fluid Computing, Christopher L. Eckes

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This document outlines the architecture for an analog, wave-based computing system that replaces binary silicon transistors with acoustic metamaterials and fluidic logic gates. The system processing loop operates via three distinct musical phases: The Chord (multi-frequency input tokenization), The Key (geometric context routing), and The Cadence (harmonic resolution and optical wave-collapse reading). By mapping semantic data directly onto physical sine wave interference patterns inside a vibrating silicone oil medium, this design introduces a zero-friction, hallucination-immune computational matrix buildable on a hobbyist garage budget.


The Elemental Transmutation Replicator: A Decentralized Blueprint For Closed-Loop Biometric Molecular Synthesis, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

The Elemental Transmutation Replicator: A Decentralized Blueprint For Closed-Loop Biometric Molecular Synthesis, Christopher L. Eckes

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This white paper introduces a decentralized, zero-agriculture appliance architecture designed to synthesize tailored human nutrition directly from elemental feeds, ambient water vapor, and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂). The Elemental Transmutation Replicator (ETR) bypasses traditional biological growth cycles by utilizing an ultra-vacuum Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) chamber coupled with a Piezoelectric Acoustic Layering Matrix (PALM) to assemble pure amino acids, medium-chain triglycerides, and essential micro-nutrients atom-by-atom. System inputs are dynamically calibrated in real time via an integrated multi-spectral optical and dermal biometric scanning array. This paper details the structural architecture, the 5-stage synthesis loop, and the thermodynamic solutions required to overcome …


Conceptual Design Proposal: The Tethered Fusion-Driven Sail With Integrated Magnetohydrodynamic And Thermodynamic Energy Harvesting, Christopher L. Eckes Jun 2026

Conceptual Design Proposal: The Tethered Fusion-Driven Sail With Integrated Magnetohydrodynamic And Thermodynamic Energy Harvesting, Christopher L. Eckes

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This paper proposes a deep-space vehicle architecture utilizing a tethered, fusion-driven "puller" configuration to eliminate beam-riding instabilities inherent in traditional laser sails. The design integrates a trailing nuclear-fusion tug that pulls a curved, light-reflective sail via a rigid, boron-doped multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) structural tether. To mitigate cosmic radiation and interstellar medium (ISM) degradation at relativistic velocities, the vessel employs a Particle-Ejection Mini-Heliosphere (M2P2) shield inflated by Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YBCO) high-temperature superconducting coils. System efficiency is optimized via a closed-loop energy harvesting matrix consisting of: (1) a three-layer thermodynamic hull utilizing Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Bismuth Telluride (Bi₂Te₃) …


System And Method For Generating Clinical-Trial Edit-Check Rules From Protocol Text With Prompt-Injection Defense, Narendra Nath Sarkar Jun 2026

System And Method For Generating Clinical-Trial Edit-Check Rules From Protocol Text With Prompt-Injection Defense, Narendra Nath Sarkar

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A system and method translate clinical-trial protocol text into structured electronic-data-capture (EDC) edit-check rules (each rule expressed as field / operator / value / action with a severity, an action-on-violation, a confidence score, a human-readable rationale, and a provenance reference to the originating protocol span). Untrusted protocol text is hardened against prompt injection before any model is invoked, via length capping, control-character removal, a configurable set of injection-pattern filters, and role-marker stripping. Rule generation is a hybrid of (a) a deterministic knowledge-base pattern matcher and (b) an optional large-language-model (LLM) augmentation pass; generated rules are bound to a CRF (case …


Gci Cifrs‑N V4.0 — Universal Food‑Water‑Energy Nexus For Desert, Disaster, And Remote Deployment, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Jun 2026

Gci Cifrs‑N V4.0 — Universal Food‑Water‑Energy Nexus For Desert, Disaster, And Remote Deployment, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

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The CIFRS‑N v4.0 Universal Nexus is a modular, skid‑mounted system designed to provide water, soil and nutrients, energy, and food production in extreme or resource‑limited environments:

  • Hyper‑arid deserts

  • Disaster zones (floods, earthquakes, conflict)

  • Refugee camps

  • Remote communities and off‑grid outposts

The system is presented in three build paths, so different teams can choose what they can realistically build:

Option A — Fully Buildable Today  

  • Uses only off‑the‑shelf, proven technologies and simple fabrication.

Option B — Hybrid Real‑World + Near‑Future  

  • Adds advanced but physically realistic modules inspired by the inventor’s prior work (Hyperion, VABR, Phoenix‑Cracker, Arachne, Omni‑Vortex, etc.).

Option C — …


Structural Mechanisms For A Modular Proactive Ai Cloud Operating System: Hierarchical Context Resolution, Anti-Fabrication-Bounded Narration, And Human-Confirmed Multi-Step Action (Icnli), Valentin Scerbacov Jun 2026

Structural Mechanisms For A Modular Proactive Ai Cloud Operating System: Hierarchical Context Resolution, Anti-Fabrication-Bounded Narration, And Human-Confirmed Multi-Step Action (Icnli), Valentin Scerbacov

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Deploying a foundation language model into a real operational domain — hosting, healthcare, finance, government, manufacturing, logistics — exposes a class of failures that the model layer cannot, by its probabilistic nature, eliminate: fabrication of facts never retrieved, unreliable multi-step action, loss of structured memory across sessions and channels, the absence of an enforceable human-control gate, and uncontrolled exposure of private data. This disclosure describes a set of structural mechanisms that bound these failures at a layer outside the model — the orchestration kernel — rather than attempting to train them away inside the model. The disclosed mechanisms are: (1) …


Active-Sleep (Dream-Enactment) Burden As A Longitudinal Self-Tracking Signal In Movement-Disordered Sleep (Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder / Parkinson's), Measured Over A Staging-Independent In-Bed Window Across Nights And Naps, Gerard Ziemski Jun 2026

Active-Sleep (Dream-Enactment) Burden As A Longitudinal Self-Tracking Signal In Movement-Disordered Sleep (Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder / Parkinson's), Measured Over A Staging-Independent In-Bed Window Across Nights And Naps, Gerard Ziemski

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A companion disclosure (the robust overnight-HRV method) computes a robust overnight heart-rate- variability (HRV) figure over the in-bed window by deliberately treating dream-enactment movement as artifact to be absorbed, so the recovery figure stays trustworthy in movement-disordered sleep. This disclosure describes the inverse, complementary use of the same movement-independent in-bed window: quantifying the movement-active ("dream-enactment" / "restless") segments themselves as the signal, and trending their burden over time. From the same in-window stream, the method derives an active-sleep-burden figure — for example the fraction of in-window time that is movement-active, and the count, duration, and timing of active episodes — …


Nap-Level Autonomic (Heart-Rate-Variability) Tracking And A Nap-Day Recovery Comparison For Daytime Sleepiness In Parkinson's Disease, Extending A Staging-Independent In-Bed-Window Method, Gerard Ziemski Jun 2026

Nap-Level Autonomic (Heart-Rate-Variability) Tracking And A Nap-Day Recovery Comparison For Daytime Sleepiness In Parkinson's Disease, Extending A Staging-Independent In-Bed-Window Method, Gerard Ziemski

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A companion disclosure computes a single overnight resting-autonomic figure (heart-rate variability, HRV) over the in-bed window, independent of the device's sleep/wake staging and aggregated with a robust estimator (the median), so that movement misclassification in movement-disordered sleep cannot corrupt it. Daytime sleep — naps — is discarded by mainstream consumer trackers or folded into a daily total. Yet excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset daytime sleep ("sleep attacks") are a recognized part of Parkinson's disease, so naps carry information specifically relevant to that population. This disclosure extends the method to every individual sleep session, night and nap alike: each session is …


Gci #320: Swarm Recovery & Pelletization System (Srps), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Jun 2026

Gci #320: Swarm Recovery & Pelletization System (Srps), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

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This invention discloses a mobile, field‑deployable, modular processing platform that intercepts migrating Mormon cricket bands and converts them into:

  • Nitrogen‑rich fertilizer pellets

  • Chitin soil amendments

  • Biochar‑enhanced carbon‑rich pellets

The system is built in two layers:

Version A — Real‑World, Low‑Regulation System

Uses only proven agricultural machinery and heat‑pasteurization.

This version can be built immediately with no exotic components.

Version B — Advanced GCI Upgrade Modules

Adds Phoenix‑Cracker cavitation, VABR acoustic‑vortex refining, MASA acoustic herding, and Omni‑Vortex power systems.

These are optional bolt‑on modules.

This disclosure includes complete subsystem descriptions, mechanical logic, operational workflow, and engineering rationale.


Underwater Obstacle Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar And Ar, Anonymous Jun 2026

Underwater Obstacle Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar And Ar, Anonymous

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When off-road vehicles engage in water wading, the environment often contains high concentrations of suspended sediments (mud, silt, sand) that render the water entirely opaque. This completely obscures the underlying sub-surface topography and potential hazards, such as rocks or sinkholes. While current Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) are designed for standard road environments, optical cameras and LiDAR are face physical limitations when attempting to penetrate turbid or opaque water. Standard automotive radar (e.g., 77 GHz) operates at high frequencies that cannot penetrate dense, conductive liquid mediums. Furthermore, ultrasonic sensors only measure the vertical distance to the water's surface and lack forward-looking …


Subtitle Lookahead Audio Leveling, Nikita Agarwal Jun 2026

Subtitle Lookahead Audio Leveling, Nikita Agarwal

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Extreme dynamic audio ranges in media content cause uncomfortable transitions between quiet dialogue and loud action sequences. Conventional reactive audio limiters introduce latency and unnatural pumping artifacts. Subtitle metadata is utilized as a lookahead control signal to preemptively adjust audio levels in media content. Text within the subtitle stream is parsed for semantic indicators of high-intensity audio events or low-intensity audio events. Based on these audio event indicators, audio volume is proactively attenuated or amplified, respectively, prior to transient audio spikes or dips. Baseline volume levels are smoothly restored following the event. Audio fidelity is preserved, and a consistent listening …


The Octagonal Shaped Composite Lens Formation Logic That Will Enable To Create Composite Converging Lens Formations And Composite Diverging Lens Formations Where The Lens Constructing Geometry Will Be Optimized For Observation Procedures., Punarjeewa Abeysekera Jun 2026

The Octagonal Shaped Composite Lens Formation Logic That Will Enable To Create Composite Converging Lens Formations And Composite Diverging Lens Formations Where The Lens Constructing Geometry Will Be Optimized For Observation Procedures., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes an octagonal shaped composite lens formation logic that will enable to create composite converging lens formations and composite diverging lens formations where the lens constructing geometry will be optimized for observation procedures. The octagonal shaped composite lens formation logic will incorporate a collection of individual lens structures for the formation of the complete lens formation. Each individual lens structure will be positioned at a unique location within the lens formation. And each individual lens structure will be configured with the curvature that will enable it to deviate the light rays it will receive at its corresponding unique …


Hdfs Grpc Writer: A Unified High-Performance Data Ingestion Engine, Raouf Khan Mr, Mahendra Yadav Mr Jun 2026

Hdfs Grpc Writer: A Unified High-Performance Data Ingestion Engine, Raouf Khan Mr, Mahendra Yadav Mr

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for HDFS gRPC writer for unified, high-performance data ingestion system designed to modernize the way both streaming and batch data are written into HDFS. The present disclosure suggests single, scalable gRPC-based ingestion interface capable of handling multiple data formats, while also efficiently managing batching, schema evolution, fault tolerance, and security. After receiving the data, the present disclosure suggests HDFS gRPC writer addresses the small files problem at its source by implementing intelligent size-based and time-based batching. Thereafter, the present disclosure ensures optimal HDFS file sizes without the need for downstream …


Notifications Management Via Attention Budgeting And Collision Detection, Ashwin Goyal Jun 2026

Notifications Management Via Attention Budgeting And Collision Detection, Ashwin Goyal

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Notifications to mobile devices that persist beyond their contextually relevant windows cease to be informative prompts and can become annoyances. Current notification paradigms treat the notification tray as a static, append-only data repository, placing the burden of notification lifecycle management and cleanup on the user. This disclosure describes automated notifications management techniques that transform notifications from static payloads into dynamic, self-resolving objects. The techniques include temporal notifications-lifecycle management, app-ecosystem intelligence, state synchronization, spatial optimization, device context, etc. Leveraging automated notification updates and retractions, the techniques reduce or eliminate disadvantages of persistent notifications. The techniques change the notification management paradigm by …


Defensive Publication: A Proactive Compliance And Security Enforcement Gateway For Model Context Protocol (Mcp) Servers And Agentic Ai Systems With Two-Stage Bidirectional Inspection, Immutable Sensitivity-Aware Routing, And Tamper-Evident Audit, Tiago Rosado Jun 2026

Defensive Publication: A Proactive Compliance And Security Enforcement Gateway For Model Context Protocol (Mcp) Servers And Agentic Ai Systems With Two-Stage Bidirectional Inspection, Immutable Sensitivity-Aware Routing, And Tamper-Evident Audit, Tiago Rosado

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This document discloses the architecture of a proactive compliance and security enforcement gateway that mediates all traffic between AI agents (or human clients) and the large language models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool servers they invoke. The gateway operates as a reverse proxy enforcing a fail-closed posture: every inbound prompt and every outbound response is inspected by a two-stage pipeline — a sub-5ms offline machine -learning classifier followed by a configurable LLM-based deep-inspection backend — before crossing the boundary. A three-layer sensitivity pipeline (regex, ML, LLM) classifies payloads and routes data graded CONFIDENTIAL or RESTRICTED to local-only models …


Eddy Current Generated From Bicyle Brake Disc., John Riley Mr Jun 2026

Eddy Current Generated From Bicyle Brake Disc., John Riley Mr

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A magnet & coil assembly situated close to (but not in direct physical contact) a bicycle brake disc  which when rotating, generates an eddy current creating electricity for bike lights.


Reverse Hook Tent Peg, John Riley Mr Jun 2026

Reverse Hook Tent Peg, John Riley Mr

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Revised / alternative design to my UK Registered Design  6454255.

Reverse hook tent peg allowing for redirection of forces, improving holding power by up to 80% & providing stability & flexibility to maintain guy line tension more effectively.


Self-Healing Qos Queue Management, Anonymous Jun 2026

Self-Healing Qos Queue Management, Anonymous

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A self-healing quality of service (QoS) queue management system and method are disclosed for a multi-service network node. Ingress traffic is classified by a class of service (COS) map and forwarded by a scheduler to a normal queue set of per-service egress queues. A queue monitor aggregates per-queue telemetry, including credit accumulation statistics, drops, and depth, and feeds the telemetry to a self mapping correction engine over a feedback path. The correction engine distinguishes a queue freeze from transient congestion by detecting that a queue has available credits yet is not draining, and in response rebinds the affected service to …


Robust Overnight Heart-Rate-Variability Estimation Independent Of Sleep/Wake Staging, For Movement-Disordered Sleep (Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder / Parkinson's), Gerard Ziemski Jun 2026

Robust Overnight Heart-Rate-Variability Estimation Independent Of Sleep/Wake Staging, For Movement-Disordered Sleep (Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder / Parkinson's), Gerard Ziemski

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Consumer wearables compute overnight heart-rate variability (HRV) — a widely used "readiness" or recovery signal — by first staging sleep from body movement and then aggregating HRV over the epochs labeled as sleep. In people with movement-disordered sleep, paradigmatically REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), which is strongly associated with Parkinson's disease, this fails: dream-enactment movement during REM is misclassified as wakefulness, so valid cardiac data is discarded and the resulting figure is unreliable. This disclosure describes a method that computes the nightly HRV figure over the full in-bed window — without conditioning on the device's sleep/wake or sleep-stage classification — …


Synchronized Multi-Line Digital Signal Generation Using Plural Independent Software-Triggered Serializer Peripherals With Open-Loop Fixed Start-Skew Compensation, Gerard Ziemski Jun 2026

Synchronized Multi-Line Digital Signal Generation Using Plural Independent Software-Triggered Serializer Peripherals With Open-Loop Fixed Start-Skew Compensation, Gerard Ziemski

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A method is disclosed for generating two or more time-aligned digital output signals — for example a differential pair such as the USB D- / D+ data lines, or more generally any paired, differential, multi-phase, polyphase, quadrature, or multi-channel synchronized output — on a microcontroller or system-on-chip that provides plural independent hardware serializer peripherals (such as two or more SPI master transmit/MOSI engines) but provides no single peripheral and no dedicated hardware capable of driving the desired multi-line signal directly.

Each output line is assigned its own serializer and preloaded with a precomputed bitstream. The serializers are started by back-to-back …