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Frame-Level 3d Biometric Provenance For Video, Thomas Eric Boldt Oct 2026

Frame-Level 3d Biometric Provenance For Video, Thomas Eric Boldt

Defensive Publications Series

Frame-Level 3D Biometric Provenance for Video describes a method for proving that a previously authenticated person is genuinely present in every frame of a video recording, closing a gap that existing content provenance and deepfake defenses leave open.

Signing a video proves the file has not been altered after capture. It does not prove that the person on screen is who they claim to be, or that their face was not replaced. This disclosure addresses that gap with three linked techniques:

  1. Trust handoff: an initial strong authentication of the subject (for example a passkey, ID check or human verifier) is …


Cores-1.0: Caldwell Open Research Ecosystem For Oncology Systems Analysis, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Oct 2026

Cores-1.0: Caldwell Open Research Ecosystem For Oncology Systems Analysis, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

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ABSTRACT

1. Executive Summary & Statement of Intent

Recent clinical setbacks across high-profile oncological treatments (including mRNA-based immunotherapies and targeted solid-tumor therapeutics) underscore a persistent industry-wide challenge: therapies frequently fail not due to a lack of intrinsic molecular activity, but due to insurmountable physical, microenvironmental, and systemic barriers in the human body.

Rather than attempting to patent individual molecular entities or clinical interventions, this technical disclosure establishes CORES-1.0—a comprehensive, open-hardware research framework that integrates over 20 distinct modular sub-systems (CUCORE, UORS, C-OHRP, GCI #16-B, NFTDVE-1.0, Mariana-Caldwell, etc.). CORES-1.0 provides academic institutions, research labs, and open-source bioengineers with a standardized architecture …


Unifying Dna And Memory Systems, Peter Stevenson Oct 2026

Unifying Dna And Memory Systems, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

Providing evidence that memory systems and DNA utilize exactly the same mechanisms for encoding


Spatially Aware Test Pattern Optimization, Kartikeya Pandey, Srinivas Vooka, Ajaykumar Prajapati Oct 2026

Spatially Aware Test Pattern Optimization, Kartikeya Pandey, Srinivas Vooka, Ajaykumar Prajapati

Defensive Publications Series

A scan test program for a large digital integrated circuit block typically contains thousands of automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) patterns.  A test engineer traditionally evaluates a reduction that saves automatic test equipment (ATE) time by a single die‑wide aggregate number that carries no spatial location information.  The rest of the die can therefore dilute a total coverage loss in a small region to a few hundredths of a percentage point (pp).  To address this deficiency, this disclosure describes a spatially weighted scoring method that resolves each fault to a grid cell and weights each lost fault exponentially by the …


Compact Ltm-Candidate-Specific Scell Identifier For Addressing Candidate Scells In The Cell-Switch Command, Anonymous Oct 2026

Compact Ltm-Candidate-Specific Scell Identifier For Addressing Candidate Scells In The Cell-Switch Command, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A user equipment (UE) stores layer 1/layer 2 triggered mobility (LTM) candidate configurations, each listing candidate secondary cells (SCells) with a short identifier unique within that candidate and the sCellIndex used in the candidate's RRC container. On receiving a cell switch command medium access control (MAC) control element, the UE derives the SCell activation bitmap length from the short identifiers configured for the target candidate, without a size indicator. It maps each set bit to an sCellIndex and activates the mapped SCell when that sCellIndex exists in the target configuration. The UE ignores a set bit without a valid mapping, …


Wolfonsite — Supplemental Disclosure: Project Rename And Addition Of Methods N And O, Aubrey L. Douglas Oct 2026

Wolfonsite — Supplemental Disclosure: Project Rename And Addition Of Methods N And O, Aubrey L. Douglas

Defensive Publications Series

This supplemental disclosure extends and updates the previously published defensive  disclosure originally titled "WOLF" (hereinafter "the Original Disclosure"), which  described methods for guardian-controlled child safety monitoring with  zero-knowledge evidence preservation and signed-record evidentiary chains.   This supplement discloses:   (1) A formal project rename from "WOLF" to "WolfONsite." The system, methods,  architecture, and defensive scope originally described remain unchanged in substance.  The name "WolfONsite" supersedes "WOLF" in all future descriptions of the system.  All methods disclosed in the Original Disclosure (METHODS A through M) remain in  force and are incorporated herein by reference.   (2) METHOD N — Zero-Knowledge Evidence Packet Generation and …


Multi-User Agentic Collaboration On Shared Artifacts Within A Chat Interface, Lana Webb, Pramod Gupta Oct 2026

Multi-User Agentic Collaboration On Shared Artifacts Within A Chat Interface, Lana Webb, Pramod Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

Digital productivity and coding environments are commonly single-player by design, imposing sequential workflows, while artificial intelligence (AI) assistants operate as per-user chatbots isolated from group conversations and shared artifacts. The disclosed technology provides a multi-user, multi-agent collaboration environment within a chat interface. Shared artifacts, such as documents and code, are attached to a group chat thread and rendered in a side-by-side panel that expands into a real-time collaborative editor. A shared agentic state makes the actions, reasoning, and context of one or more AI agents visible to and editable by all participants. The AI agents monitor interactions among participants and …


Context-Aware In-Store Shopping Evaluation Mode For Digital Video Platforms, Gautam Chaitanya, Ankur Kumar, Soumya Sahu Oct 2026

Context-Aware In-Store Shopping Evaluation Mode For Digital Video Platforms, Gautam Chaitanya, Ankur Kumar, Soumya Sahu

Defensive Publications Series

A context-aware in-store shopping evaluation mode is provided for a digital video platform. A user device is detected as being present within a physical retail environment. A physical product within the physical retail environment is identified. Media content associated with the physical product is identified from a content sharing platform. Product information associated with the physical product is generated based on the media content. The user device is provided with access to the product information while the user device is present within the physical retail environment. The physical product may be identified based on camera frames captured by the user …


Computer Implemented Information Development And Recording System, Michael Jorgensen Oct 2026

Computer Implemented Information Development And Recording System, Michael Jorgensen

Defensive Publications Series

The systems and methods described herein relate to a computer implemented system for information development and recording which maintains a complete history of all related data in a sequentially coherent state history. The present system is able to systematically update a specific method set used for the information development by use of the computer implemented recording and feedback elements. The origination of the system design is rooted in the concept that there is significant useful information that is lost to history in the industry standard methods of capturing detailed information disclosures and interacting with formal examination functions.


Dynamic Integration Of Sponsored Content In Generative Ai Imagery Via Auction-Based Semantic Slot Filling, Jyotika Bhatti Oct 2026

Dynamic Integration Of Sponsored Content In Generative Ai Imagery Via Auction-Based Semantic Slot Filling, Jyotika Bhatti

Defensive Publications Series

Systems for monetizing ambient display inventory on computing devices, such as smart televisions, smart displays, smartphones, or wearable devices, may face limitations, as some existing methods can be disruptive or lack dynamic scalability. The described technology relates to systems and methods for dynamically integrating sponsored content within imagery synthesized by a generative model. A process can involve generating a text prompt template with one or more auctionable semantic slots, for example, [slot: appliance]. A real-time auction may allow advertisers to bid on filling a slot with a descriptive text string for a product. A generative artificial intelligence model can then …


Interaction And Synthesis Techniques In Moredaw, A Browser-Based Music Workstation, Michael Winters Oct 2026

Interaction And Synthesis Techniques In Moredaw, A Browser-Based Music Workstation, Michael Winters

Defensive Publications Series

MoreDAW is a music workstation that runs in a web browser. This publication discloses five techniques it uses. (1) A circular note pad whose dots are laid out by phyllotaxis, each turned 137.5° (the golden angle) from the last, with other layouts including Fibonacci rings and a harmonic (Tonnetz) grid. Touch or mouse gestures on it are recorded against the musical beat and replayed on every loop pass. (2) Conducting a virtual orchestra with an ordinary mouse and no button held: the bottom of each down-up stroke is a beat that sets the tempo, and the size of the stroke …


Graph-Based System For Nosql Query Authoring, Validation, And Cost Estimation, Leonardo Nigro Oct 2026

Graph-Based System For Nosql Query Authoring, Validation, And Cost Estimation, Leonardo Nigro

Defensive Publications Series

Constructing and optimizing queries for schemaless, document-oriented non-relational (NoSQL) databases can be challenging due to implicit data relationships and opaque cost mechanics. The disclosed techniques describe a system for interactive, graph-based query authoring, validation, and cost estimation. This system can utilize a bidirectional, three-way synchronization engine to link natural language input, a visual graph representation, and executable query code through a canonical intermediate data model. A change made in one modality, for example, manipulating the visual graph or entering a plain-language request, can be translated by the engine to update the other representations. The system may also include a pre-execution …


Steering Mirrors In Follow Spot And Performer-Tracking Systems: A Documented History, 1920–2010, And A Disclosure Of Variants, Michel Honold, Paul Hermann Oct 2026

Steering Mirrors In Follow Spot And Performer-Tracking Systems: A Documented History, 1920–2010, And A Disclosure Of Variants, Michel Honold, Paul Hermann

Defensive Publications Series

This publication documents the history of steering mirrors in follow spot and performer-tracking systems from 1920 to 2010 and discloses variants. A steering mirror (moving mirror, mirror head or mirror attachment) turns the beam of a stationary follow spot or other luminaire, so that only a light, low-inertia part moves: the beam responds faster, lags less behind the performer, moves steadily, and fewer parts move. Dated patents, trade press and manuals trace gimbal-mounted mirrors in front of a spotlight lens operated by hand, cords and motors from 1920; remote mirror follow spots such as the Telescan and the Pan Can; …


Unified Visual Workflow For Managing The Machine Learning Model Lifecycle In A Data Warehouse, Leonardo Nigro Oct 2026

Unified Visual Workflow For Managing The Machine Learning Model Lifecycle In A Data Warehouse, Leonardo Nigro

Defensive Publications Series

The development of machine learning models within data warehouses can present challenges, as it may depend on the manual authoring of complex structured query language (SQL) statements. A disclosed technology relates to a visually-guided workflow for managing the machine learning model lifecycle. A graphical user interface can guide a user through processes such as dataset selection, feature configuration, and model training. A SQL synthesizer layer can translate these visual inputs into executable SQL statements. A model definition registry can also store persistent, versioned blueprints of a model's configuration as shareable resources. This approach may simplify the end-to-end process of model …


K17 Addendum 2: Escrow Top-Up On The State-Advancing Cycle And A Third-Party Funder Protocol For A Utxo-Chained Stack Machine, Jerry D. Chan Oct 2026

K17 Addendum 2: Escrow Top-Up On The State-Advancing Cycle And A Third-Party Funder Protocol For A Utxo-Chained Stack Machine, Jerry D. Chan

Defensive Publications Series

This second addendum to the K17 disclosure (Technical Disclosure Commons, October 20, 2026) describes three mechanisms that let any party add value to a running stack machine whose suspended process lives in one unspent transaction output. First, an escrow top-up on the state-advancing cycle: the cycle method takes a topUp argument, the next machine output holds value minus reward minus payout plus topUp, pinned by the output hash, and extra inputs from any party pay for it; a cycle that produces no next state (HALT, any fault, the dead-man halt, an unaffordable payout) must carry a zero top-up, so a …


Turquoise Cafe, Sheik Abdullah Shajahan Oct 2026

Turquoise Cafe, Sheik Abdullah Shajahan

Defensive Publications Series

Here is your abstract for **TD Commons** — ready to submit in your Yellow bg / Turquoise text theme:

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### **TURQUOISE: A Fashion Café Concept for Brighton Lanes — Sustainable Experience Design with Edible Sugar Spoons**

**Abstract — TD Commons Submission 2026**

**TURQUOISE** is a boutique fashion-corner café concept located in Brighton Lanes, designed to disrupt the corporate coffee chain model dominated by Starbucks and Costa. The project addresses two critical gaps in the Lanes ecosystem: the absence of an Instagrammable, fashion-forward hospitality space for 11M annual visitors, and the environmental burden of 15,000+ single-use plastic sachets discarded per …


Multi-Substrate-Coupled Consensus For Safe And Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent Remediation, Joe Leblanc Oct 2026

Multi-Substrate-Coupled Consensus For Safe And Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent Remediation, Joe Leblanc

Defensive Publications Series

Managed distributed systems increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to remediate faults and configuration drift, but fully autonomous remediation can create significant operational risk, while requiring extensive human oversight or full-capability inference for every incident does not scale efficiently. A joint-coupled multi-agent remediation architecture is proposed herein in which a single dependency-graph-derived impact score, computed once per candidate remediation action, jointly drives consensus weighting and adaptive quorum, cryptographic and attestation posture, dissent-preserving memory engagement, and per-agent AI inference-resource allocation. A fifth substrate, substrate-observable behavioral trust, is jointly consumed by the four action-governing substrates. Structural invariants align consensus and cryptographic …


Predictive Key-Value Cache Prefilling And Loop Recovery For Multi-Model Agent Systems, Rohan Grover, Satish Kondalam, Muninder Sambi, Aman Ahuja Oct 2026

Predictive Key-Value Cache Prefilling And Loop Recovery For Multi-Model Agent Systems, Rohan Grover, Satish Kondalam, Muninder Sambi, Aman Ahuja

Defensive Publications Series

In multi-model artificial intelligence agent systems, performance may be affected by latency when a task is escalated from a smaller utility model to a larger frontier model, as this can involve recomputing the session’s key-value (KV) cache.  A stateful orchestration gateway can monitor an agent's session to manage context across different models. For example, the gateway can use idle periods, such as during an external tool call, to predictively pre-compute the KV cache for a potential escalation. The gateway can also detect agentic loops, roll back the KV cache to a last known good state, inject a summary of the …


Earning The Right To Act, Volodymyr Kotegov Oct 2026

Earning The Right To Act, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

Safety Is Designed Before Capability Growth: Boundaries, stop mechanisms, verification criteria, and rules for expanding authority must exist before the system receives the corresponding freedom. “We’ll patch it later” does not work when the consequence is irreversible.

A Claim Is Not Evidence: Neither the developers’ words (“we checked everything”) nor the system’s own words (“I am safe”) count as engineering evidence. Trust is built on a structure of checks that can be independently repeated.

Freedom Grows in Steps, Alongside Verifiability: Autonomy is not a switch but a set of distinct authorities. Each step requires its own basis, and verification depth …


Verified Intent Execution (Vix), Volodymyr Kotegov Oct 2026

Verified Intent Execution (Vix), Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

VIX is an autonomous system for the synthesis, formal verification, execution and controlled evolution of computational systems. It transforms high-level business goals into verifiable behavioural models and executable Dataflow structures, independently explores alternative algorithms and architectures, enforces mandatory invariants, and can propose alternative interpretations of goals without activating them unless authorised.

VIX manages the full life-cycle of a computational realisation: interpretation of business intent, synthesis of candidates, verification, execution, observation of behaviour, and safe modification of the running system. The human does not write implementation code, does not manually enter mathematical formulae, and is not required to understand internal formal …


Two-Stage Controller-Agent Architecture For Highthroughput, Scalable, And Secure Data Connections, Joshith Rayaroth Koderi, Rajesh Nataraja, Sapna Joshi Oct 2026

Two-Stage Controller-Agent Architecture For Highthroughput, Scalable, And Secure Data Connections, Joshith Rayaroth Koderi, Rajesh Nataraja, Sapna Joshi

Defensive Publications Series

A two-stage connection-upgrade mechanism is provided for controller-agent architectures. An agent first establishes an authenticated control connection through an application programming interface (API) gateway, which routes the connection to an agent-server instance. The server creates a session key, selects a suitable server node, and instructs the agent to reconnect directly using the selected node's Internet Protocol (IP) address, port, session key, and configuration parameters. After validating the session key, the selected server establishes a direct data connection that bypasses the API gateway and intermediate cluster hops. The mechanism retains gateway-based authentication and load distribution while supporting higher throughput, lower latency, …


Modular System With A Detachable Charging Core And Interchangeable Host Housings, Alexander Suen, Raghu Srivatsa, Michel Jiang, Thomas Bock Oct 2026

Modular System With A Detachable Charging Core And Interchangeable Host Housings, Alexander Suen, Raghu Srivatsa, Michel Jiang, Thomas Bock

Defensive Publications Series

Charging systems for portable electronic devices, such as smartphones or smart watches, can utilize a monolithic design with a captive cable, which may reduce portability, and create cable clutter. A system can include a modular charging system comprising a detachable, non-captive charging core. This core may feature a device-specific charging interface on one surface and a standardized power input, such as a universal serial bus type-c port, on another. The core can be interchangeably docked into various host housings, for example, a protective keychain carrier, a direct-mated portable battery sled, or a desktop stand. This modular architecture can decouple the …


Automated Framework For Firmware Performance Diagnostics And Autonomous Fault Repair In Accelerator Computing Fleets, N/A Oct 2026

Automated Framework For Firmware Performance Diagnostics And Autonomous Fault Repair In Accelerator Computing Fleets, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described herein relates to an automated system that continuously diagnoses and repairs firmware performance defects using foundation models, structured agent scheduling, telemetry analysis, and tool-integrated code maintenance pipelines. The system evaluates firmware performance signals to localize temporal windows of degradation, correlates telemetry with system error logs, performs automated fault localization in firmware source code, and generates verified code updates. Keywords: computational accelerator, firmware diagnostics, performance repair, foundation model, fault localization, telemetry analysis, automated patch generation, agent scheduler, cloud platform telemetry.


Design-Accurate Generative Rendering Of Engineered Structures Into Photographs Of A Real Site, With Verification Against The Design's Own Guide, Matthew Sexstone Oct 2026

Design-Accurate Generative Rendering Of Engineered Structures Into Photographs Of A Real Site, With Verification Against The Design's Own Guide, Matthew Sexstone

Defensive Publications Series

A method and system for producing a photorealistic image of a planned structure — for example a deck, dock, patio, stair, railing, fence, pergola, or building addition — inside a photograph of the actual site, such that the rendered structure matches an engineered design rather than an approximation invented by an image-generation model. Structural geometry comes from a deterministic engineering model; a generative model supplies appearance only; a separate model verifies each render against a guide image derived from the design itself, and the system corrects or regenerates within a bound. Further sub-assemblies may be rendered onto an accepted result …


System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Dynamically Reorganizing Multi-Tier Feature Cache Placement Based On Machine Learning Model Deployment Topology, Ruiyang Xia, Hao Qin Oct 2026

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Dynamically Reorganizing Multi-Tier Feature Cache Placement Based On Machine Learning Model Deployment Topology, Ruiyang Xia, Hao Qin

Defensive Publications Series

A system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for dynamically reorganizing multi-tier feature cache placement based on machine learning model deployment topology. The system includes a deployment controller, a cache controller, a cache memory, and multiple cache tiers configured to store feature data utilized during machine learning inference. Upon detection of a model deployment event, a feature dependency manifest associated with an incoming machine learning model is accessed to identify features required for inference operations. The cache controller evaluates feature placement across cache tiers and performs promotion of required features into a higher-performance cache tier while demoting non-required features …


Keyboard Serviceability With A Link Bar Mechanism Design At Top Mount Design Of Keyboard, Hp Inc Oct 2026

Keyboard Serviceability With A Link Bar Mechanism Design At Top Mount Design Of Keyboard, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This article is to have a link bar mechanism design for Keyboard abnormal at end user side and need to service.


Systems And Methods For Price Matching Through Payment Dispute Flows, Deepak Tomar Oct 2026

Systems And Methods For Price Matching Through Payment Dispute Flows, Deepak Tomar

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods for price matching through payment dispute flows are provided. A request to initiate a price match is received from a consumer for a transaction made using a payment credential issued by an issuing bank. The issuing bank generates a price match dispute message and transmits the price match dispute message through a payment network to an acquirer associated with a merchant of the transaction. The merchant is notified of the price match dispute, and a response to the price match dispute is received from the acquirer or the merchant. The response indicates either agreement with the requested …


System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Routing A Machine Learning Inference Request To A Model Version Based On Properties Of A Format-Preserving Encrypted Identifier Without Decryption, Hao Qin, Ruiyang Xia Oct 2026

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Routing A Machine Learning Inference Request To A Model Version Based On Properties Of A Format-Preserving Encrypted Identifier Without Decryption, Hao Qin, Ruiyang Xia

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for routing machine learning inference requests based on properties of a format-preserving encrypted identifier without performing decryption. The method comprises receiving a transaction request containing an identifier encrypted using format-preserving encryption, wherein the encrypted identifier preserves the format and length of the original identifier. The method includes extracting a prefix portion of the encrypted identifier without performing decryption and without accessing cryptographic key material. The method includes matching the extracted prefix against a pre-computed routing table that maps encrypted prefixes to machine learning model versions, wherein the …


Account-Context-Affinity Routing For Transformer-Based Payment Authorization With Key-Value Cachestate Freshness As A Routing Signal, Durga S. Kala, Tomer Rabani, Benjamin Nativi Oct 2026

Account-Context-Affinity Routing For Transformer-Based Payment Authorization With Key-Value Cachestate Freshness As A Routing Signal, Durga S. Kala, Tomer Rabani, Benjamin Nativi

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for account-context-affinity routing in a distributed transformer inference grid. The method includes recording, by a cache state monitor embedded in each inference stack, KV cache hit and miss events for each account bucket and determining a rolling hit rate for each account bucket over a sliding window. The method includes aggregating the rolling hit rates from the inference stacks into a preference matrix mapping account buckets and inference stacks to hit rates and publishing a snapshot of the preference matrix to a routing signal bus. The method includes receiving an authorization …


Cryptogram Key Scheme Migration For A Device Token, Yuexi Chen Oct 2026

Cryptogram Key Scheme Migration For A Device Token, Yuexi Chen

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for migrating a cryptogram key scheme of a device token. The method comprises detecting that a device associated with the device token is migrated to a second key scheme and determining whether an issuer associated with the device token is migrated to the second key scheme. The method includes provisioning a single token key of the second key scheme where the issuer is migrated and provisioning a first token key of a first key scheme in an active state together with a second token key of the second key scheme in …