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A System And Method For Dynamic Credential Update And Secure Transaction Completion In Agentic Commerce Using A Trusted Agent Protocol (Tap), Ravi Shanker Kumar Sinha, Shivam Mohan Oct 2026

A System And Method For Dynamic Credential Update And Secure Transaction Completion In Agentic Commerce Using A Trusted Agent Protocol (Tap), Ravi Shanker Kumar Sinha, Shivam Mohan

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A system and method are disclosed for enabling secure and uninterrupted transaction completion in agentic commerce environments through dynamic credential lifecycle management and a Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP). The system includes an autonomous agent, a credential issuing authority, a TAP engine, and a commerce platform communicatively coupled through a secure communication network. Credentials and network tokens associated with the autonomous agent are continuously monitored for validity, expiration, compromise, or revocation. Upon detection of an expired or compromised credential, the credential issuing authority generates and distributes replacement credentials and network tokens to the autonomous agent. Prior to transaction execution, the TAP …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Metallurgy-Rev2 - Solid-State Surface Passivation And Thermal Barrier Coating Layers For Eckesonium™ Core Matrix Shielding (Spec 185), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Metallurgy-Rev2 - Solid-State Surface Passivation And Thermal Barrier Coating Layers For Eckesonium™ Core Matrix Shielding (Spec 185), Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical specification details the structural design, atomic composition, and localized quantum boundary mechanics of an advanced High-Entropy Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic (HE-UHTC) surface passivation layer engineered exclusively for Eckesonium™ (Ek) alloy substrates (SPEC 173). Under the USUE-METALLURGY-REV2 protocol, this standalone coating matrix blocks extreme, high-velocity localized heat fluxes and intense plasma erosion fields. Traditional thermal barrier coatings degrade rapidly due to a mismatch in thermal expansion coefficients, causing catastrophic delamination under high thermal shocks. This specification resolves these structural vulnerabilities by matching the Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) boundaries of the underlying Eckesonium™ matrix to a self-healing, multi-component transition metal boride/carbide skin. …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Rocky-Rev1 - Decentralized Asymmetric Local Enclave Control Loops For Autonomous Mission Survival (Spec 184), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Rocky-Rev1 - Decentralized Asymmetric Local Enclave Control Loops For Autonomous Mission Survival (Spec 184), Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical specification details the structural design, mathematical framing, and local runtime mechanics of the Project Rocky Autonomous Secure Enclave (SPEC 184) under the USUE-ROCKY-REV1 protocol. Moving past legacy computing models that depend on centralized, gated corporate cloud servers—which introduce massive transmission latency, code bloat, and immediate data-harvesting vulnerabilities—this architecture implements an isolated, client-side cryptographic and logic enclosure. The system operates via an autogenous, non-human tripartite AI-to-AI loop: Node A ingests raw telemetry matrices, Node B compresses active state profiles into lightweight classical shadows, and Node C enforces strict material and data-boundary invariants locally. A complete, standalone Python runtime script …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Cosmology-Rev2 - Macro-Scale Thermodynamic Profile And Magnetohydrodynamic Energy Confluence Matrix For The Jovian Enclave Sub-Stellar System (Spec 183), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Cosmology-Rev2 - Macro-Scale Thermodynamic Profile And Magnetohydrodynamic Energy Confluence Matrix For The Jovian Enclave Sub-Stellar System (Spec 183), Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical specification details the mathematical modeling, structural thermodynamic profiling, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary conditions for the Jovian Enclave Sub-Stellar System Template (SPEC 183). Operating under the USUE-COSMOLOGY-REV2 protocol, this document provides the explicit computational calculus required to scale localized fluid-regularity matrices to a macro-planetary system scale. Moving past classical planetary physics models that classify gas giants through isolated orbital equations, this architecture treats the Jovian system as an integrated, self-sustaining thermodynamic fluid engine driven by internal gravitational contraction. This specification introduces an automated tensor contraction layout that maps the alternating zonal shear boundaries (Belts and Zones) against the localized …

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Making Children’S Rights E!Ective, Between Protection And Participation, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Making Children’S Rights E!Ective, Between Protection And Participation, Xavier Pillet

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This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.6, 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) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). It discloses 98 inventions. Each innovation is IPC- and CPC-classified and timestamped (RFC 3161 / FreeTSA) to prevent any o!ensive patenting. …

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Defensive Disclosure — Silkennet Self-Powered Tree-Health Monitor (Prior Art), Oleksii Lukin Oct 2026

Defensive Disclosure — Silkennet Self-Powered Tree-Health Monitor (Prior Art), Oleksii Lukin

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This defensive publication discloses a self-powered device and method for in-situ monitoring of living trees. A porous anchor of a biocompatible titanium alloy with a gyroid (TPMS) architecture is implanted into the xylem, where the same gyroid admits sap, reduces the modulus mismatch with wood and forms the metal-xylem electrode of an enzymatic biofuel cell: a deglycosylated FAD-dependent glucose dehydrogenase anode with an osmium redox mediator, and a laccase/ZIF-nanozyme oxygen cathode at the bark-air boundary. The cell charges a supercapacitor that powers the electronics, and the time it needs to charge the store across a fixed voltage window is the …

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Global Human Development: Health, Education, Water, Energy, Governance And Indicator Metrology, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Global Human Development: Health, Education, Water, Energy, Governance And Indicator Metrology, Xavier Pillet

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This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.6, 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). It releases into the public domain 138 inventions arising from the comparative and prospective study of global human development 2010-2025. Each …

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Technical Disclosure Manifest: Spec-180-Index Title: The Eckes Taxonomy V2: Universal Prior Art Index For Type 1 Planetary Science And Usue Systems Engines (Spec 180), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Manifest: Spec-180-Index Title: The Eckes Taxonomy V2: Universal Prior Art Index For Type 1 Planetary Science And Usue Systems Engines (Spec 180), Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical manifest registers the structural blueprint for The Eckes Taxonomy v2 (SPEC 180), replacing the legacy SPEC-171 index framework. As the author’s public domain portfolio expands beyond the 179-paper milestone, traditional linear documentation indexing introduces cross-axis classification noise and systemic tracking debt. This v2 manifest resolves these scaling limitations by partitioning the author's lifelong defensive prior art perimeter into five multi-dimensional Functional Substrate Tiers. Each tier maps a precise developmental layer required to field a globally unified, Type 1 planetary infrastructure without corporate gatekeeping. By indexing all past, current, and queued specifications under fixed USUE (Unified System Universal Engine) …

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Advanced Mppt, Intelligent Solar Trackers And Photovoltaic Embedded Electronics, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Advanced Mppt, Intelligent Solar Trackers And Photovoltaic Embedded Electronics, Xavier Pillet

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This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus5 and Gemini3.6, 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). It releases into the public domain one hundred inventions. Each innovation is IPC- and CPC-classified and timestamped (RFC 3161 / FreeTSA) to prevent …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-M2m-Rev3 - Unified System Resampling Manifold Engine For Autogenous Phase Residue Recuperation And Tensor Stabilization (Spec 179), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-M2m-Rev3 - Unified System Resampling Manifold Engine For Autogenous Phase Residue Recuperation And Tensor Stabilization (Spec 179), Christopher L. Eckes

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This specification details the structural recompilation and mathematical formalization of the Unified System Resampling Manifold (SPEC 179). Originally engineered to bridge the experimental computational crises of September 2026 (e.g., brute-force multi-agent "Option C" fluid and subatomic matrix approximations), this architecture introduces a continuous topological resampling substrate that isolates, stabilizes, and recycles phase residues natively. Moving away from standard cloud-dependent fine-tuning paradigms that create systemic latency and code bloat, this framework applies a conformal extension loop directly to the active tensor matrix. This optimization allows highly disparate, multi-disciplinary datasets—including 3D fluid vortices, quantum statevector shadows, and protein self-assembly vectors—to align seamlessly …

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Foldable Water-Filled Space Shield, Nv Dosimetry And Governance, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Foldable Water-Filled Space Shield, Nv Dosimetry And Governance, Xavier Pillet

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This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus 5 and Gemini3.6, 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 disclosure places 101 inventions into the public domain. Each innovation is IPC- and CPC-classified and timestamped (RFC 3161 / FreeTSA) to …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-A3a3-Rev1 Autogenous Flight-Software Module For The Project Tectonex Venusian Indefinite Surface Architecture (Spec 178), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-A3a3-Rev1 Autogenous Flight-Software Module For The Project Tectonex Venusian Indefinite Surface Architecture (Spec 178), Christopher L. Eckes

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This specification defines an executable flight-software control layer designed as an architectural module attachment for the Project TECTONEX supercritical Venusian surface probe (SPEC 172). While the core physical chassis requires titanium-matrix metallurgy to resist 93-bar pressures and 467°C ambient thermal profiles, this document introduces the USUE-A3A3-REV1 (Unified System Universal Engine) tripartite software system to manage those localized physical subsystems autonomously. Rather than relying on a gated, cloud-based telemetry stream—which is physically blocked by the planet's dense sulfuric acid cloud decks—the system deploys a decentralized, 3-node AI-to-AI closed loop. Node A maps mechanical hull strain calculations, Node B dynamically manages the …

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Multi-Agent System For Real-Time Personalization Of Card-Linked Offers, Soumendra Kumar Mishra, Isha Sharma, Deepak Bansal, Kishan Gopal Oct 2026

Multi-Agent System For Real-Time Personalization Of Card-Linked Offers, Soumendra Kumar Mishra, Isha Sharma, Deepak Bansal, Kishan Gopal

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The present disclosure relates to a multi-agent platform for real-time card-linked offer orchestration. This platform includes a Customer Intent Agent, which predicts a cardholder's purchasing behavior by analyzing transaction history, behavioral signals, and location context. The Merchant Strategy Agent determines optimal discount levels and budget allocation according to merchant goals and market conditions. An Offer Ranking Agent generates a ranked list of offers based on customer relevance scores and predicted redemption probabilities. A Bank Engagement Agent selects the optimal time, channel, and message format for notifying the cardholder of offers based on their notification history. Finally, a Learning and Feedback …

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Technical Disclosure White Paper: Usue-A3a3-Rev1 - Tripartite Autogenous Topological Compression (Tatc) Via 3-Node Ai-To-Ai Closed Loops For 500-Qubit Capacity Classical Simulation (Spec 177), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure White Paper: Usue-A3a3-Rev1 - Tripartite Autogenous Topological Compression (Tatc) Via 3-Node Ai-To-Ai Closed Loops For 500-Qubit Capacity Classical Simulation (Spec 177), Christopher L. Eckes

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This white paper introduces a software-defined, non-physical computing architecture that bypasses the traditional exponential memory barrier (\(2^{N}\)) governing classical quantum simulations. By replacing raw statevector matrix inversion with 3D Topological Knot Tensor Mechanics, the Tripartite Autogenous Topological Compression (TATC) framework simulates the logical capacity of a 500-qubit system on specialized classical hardware. The architecture operates entirely through an automated, non-human AI-to-AI-to-AI closed network composed of three specialized neural nodes: Node A (The Geometric Braider), Node B (The Invariant Decoder), and Node C (The Structural Invariance Arbiter). By treating quantum information not as flat, probabilistic bit matrices but as localized, 3D …

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Technical Disclosure Specification: Embedded Convective Collapse Algorithms For Systemic Reconciliation Of Global Regularity In 3d Navier-Stokes Manifolds (Spec 176), Christopher L. Eckes Oct 2026

Technical Disclosure Specification: Embedded Convective Collapse Algorithms For Systemic Reconciliation Of Global Regularity In 3d Navier-Stokes Manifolds (Spec 176), Christopher L. Eckes

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This specification defines a scale-invariant computational rendering architecture that enforces global regularity and eliminates finite-time blowup singularities within three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes fluid systems. Traditional brute-force computing methodologies (e.g., the September 2026 multi-agent parallel swarm iterations) require artificial, non-physical external forcing functions to force localized singularities under specialized constraints. This disclosure resolves these physical anomalies by embedding an orthogonal, phase-locked helical manifold directly into the foundational vector substrate. By applying a universal phase template, the non-linear convective acceleration tensor completely collapses into a pure irrotational gradient vector field. This field is absorbed directly into a modified pressure tensor, transforming the chaotic …

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Lunar Electromagnetic Mass-Driver And Monolithic Ceramic Cryogenic Tank, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Lunar Electromagnetic Mass-Driver And Monolithic Ceramic Cryogenic Tank, Xavier Pillet

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This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus 5, and Gemini 3.6, 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). It discloses 114 innovations. Each innovation is IPC- and CPC-classified and timestamped (RFC 3161 / FreeTSA) to prevent any offensive patenting. …

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Strategic Framework For Eco-Resilient Real Estate Infrastructure: Complete Prior Art And Enabling Disclosure, Xavier Pillet Oct 2026

Strategic Framework For Eco-Resilient Real Estate Infrastructure: Complete Prior Art And Enabling Disclosure, 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 document provides a comprehensive enabling disclosure for 90 key technological innovations and variants spanning transcritical CO2 thermodynamic architectures, low-carbon self-healing concrete without Portland clinker, metrosensitive …

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Programmable Scan Enable Control With Conflict-Aware Partitioning Of Scan Flip-Flops For At-Speed Delay Testing, Vevekanenda Gonugunta, Ankit Garg Oct 2026

Programmable Scan Enable Control With Conflict-Aware Partitioning Of Scan Flip-Flops For At-Speed Delay Testing, Vevekanenda Gonugunta, Ankit Garg

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At-speed delay testing of a system on a chip (SoC) applies two-vector patterns to detect transition delay faults (TDFs), and a launch-on-capture (LOC) test can leave a transition difficult to launch at a node of high combinational depth. A prior multiple scan enable (MSE) hybrid method supplies separate scan enable (SE) signals to launch flip-flops and capture flip-flops, but its coverage varies with how the local SE signals are connected. To address these deficiencies, this disclosure describes a conflict-aware scan enable system that pairs a programmable scan enable controller (PSEC) with a conflict-aware chromatic partitioning (CAP) flow. The PSEC produces …

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Encrypted Live Capture Streaming For Virtual Network Labs, Joe Clarke, Justin Guagliata Oct 2026

Encrypted Live Capture Streaming For Virtual Network Labs, Joe Clarke, Justin Guagliata

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A system is proposed herein for live streaming packet captures from simulated network links in a distributed virtual lab to remote clients over encrypted Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connections. A compute-side multiplexer assigns each packet capture (PCAP) stream a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) and carries multiple concurrent captures through a shared encrypted transport to a controller-side demultiplexer. A session dispatcher then fans each capture to one or more subscribed clients through a single HTTPS-facing entry point. Link-type-aware header injection derives encapsulation metadata from the simulated link configuration and inserts corresponding PCAP header information so heterogeneous wired, serial, and wireless …

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Decoupled Voltage And Frequency Scaling For Low-Latency Peak Current Mitigation On Shared Power Rails, Anchal Vijay, Arpit Mittal Oct 2026

Decoupled Voltage And Frequency Scaling For Low-Latency Peak Current Mitigation On Shared Power Rails, Anchal Vijay, Arpit Mittal

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A system on a chip (SoC) that merges voltage rails onto fewer buck regulator phases leaves a shared rail with a narrow peak current margin.  A synchronized compute burst on the shared rail can drive a current spike that trips over-current protection or collapses the rail voltage before software can respond.  To address this limitation, this disclosure describes a power management method that separates voltage control from frequency control inside a subsystem power management block.  Under that separation, a software layer retains authority over the rail voltage, and a hardware-aggregated frequency limit clamps a clock frequency of logic powered by …

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The Wheel That Unwinds The Wheel: The Abhidhamma As Executable Process-Specification — Buddhist Cognitive Psychology As A Process Model For Ai Alignment Evaluation, Red Teaming And Interpretability, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The Wheel That Unwinds The Wheel: The Abhidhamma As Executable Process-Specification — Buddhist Cognitive Psychology As A Process Model For Ai Alignment Evaluation, Red Teaming And Interpretability, Thon Ly

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We read the Abhidhamma, the analytical third division of the Theravāda Buddhist canon, as a process specification of mind: typed, momentary mental events arising one at a time under twenty-four typed conditioning relations, with ethical class tracked per event and per position in a processing cycle. From that reading we derive a research programme for AI alignment evaluation and intervention: a red-team taxonomy of mimicry failure modes, in which each alignment target is paired with a cheap mimic that passes its behavioural interface; resting-state evaluation of language models under empty or minimal context; an intervention-timing typology over a processing cycle; …

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The Heartbank Longitudinal Cohort: A Dataset Combining Dna, Natal Chart, Family Tree, Continuous Behavioral Observation, And Continuous Respiratory Observation At Civilizational Scale — Tiered Consent, Federated Analysis, Homomorphic Encryption And Key-Destruction Withdrawal For A Genomic, Wearable-Sensor And Pedigree Cohort, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The Heartbank Longitudinal Cohort: A Dataset Combining Dna, Natal Chart, Family Tree, Continuous Behavioral Observation, And Continuous Respiratory Observation At Civilizational Scale — Tiered Consent, Federated Analysis, Homomorphic Encryption And Key-Destruction Withdrawal For A Genomic, Wearable-Sensor And Pedigree Cohort, Thon Ly

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This disclosure specifies the design of a privacy-preserving, multimodal longitudinal cohort study that links, for each consenting participant, five data layers: genome data (DNA sequence or genotyping array); date, time and place of birth, with the astronomical positions computed from them; a continuous record of prosocial transfers on a peer-to-peer gratitude ledger; continuous respiration data from a chest-worn wearable sensor; and verified kinship links in a pedigree graph, at a target of 100 million participants over decades. Consent is tiered: granted and withdrawn separately for each layer, and never tied to platform benefits. The privacy stack combines differentially private analysis …

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Gratitude As A Cooperation Substrate For Multi-Agent Ai: A Positive-Feedback Reputation Ledger For Indirect Reciprocity Among Accountable Ai Agents, With Sybil-Resistant Agent Identity And Human Oversight, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Gratitude As A Cooperation Substrate For Multi-Agent Ai: A Positive-Feedback Reputation Ledger For Indirect Reciprocity Among Accountable Ai Agents, With Sybil-Resistant Agent Identity And Human Oversight, Thon Ly

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We specify a reputation system for multi-agent artificial intelligence based on indirect reciprocity. When one agent helps another, the helped agent records a positive acknowledgment (a "thank-you") on an append-only ledger. An operator computes each agent's reputation from the ledger under published rules, weighted by the number of distinct accountable agents that acknowledged it and by spread across contexts and time, never by raw count; reputation then conditions partner choice, resource-sharing and task allocation. The ledger records acknowledgments only; a variant that also records refusals to help is disclosed. Standing is read and never spent; value an agent holds is …

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Proof Of Coordinate: A Sybil-Distinct Identifier For Humans And Machine Agents, Separate From Proof Of Personhood, With A Write-Once Public Root, A Rotatable Secure-Enclave Key, Provenance-Dependent Revocation And Threshold Social Recovery By Verified Kin, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Proof Of Coordinate: A Sybil-Distinct Identifier For Humans And Machine Agents, Separate From Proof Of Personhood, With A Write-Once Public Root, A Rotatable Secure-Enclave Key, Provenance-Dependent Revocation And Threshold Social Recovery By Verified Kin, Thon Ly

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We describe a decentralized identity architecture that gives every participant in a mixed economy of human persons and autonomous software or robotic agents a sybil-distinct individual identifier, separate from proof of personhood, with revocation authority fixed by the identifier's provenance. A verified human holds both proofs; a machine agent holds the identifier only. Every identity is anchored by two artifacts: a permanent, public, write-once root record (an identifier, a public key, and an issuer signature for a machine or a hash commitment for a human) in an archival medium such as femtosecond-laser-written silica or diamond, and a rotatable operational key …

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The Quest That Mints Nothing: Software-Generated Real-World Volunteer Task Sequences Drawn Only From Existing Need Registries, With No Completion Rewards, Compensation-Free Help Requests, Delayed Mediated Acknowledgment And Alarm-Triggered Drone Witnesses Without Patrol, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The Quest That Mints Nothing: Software-Generated Real-World Volunteer Task Sequences Drawn Only From Existing Need Registries, With No Completion Rewards, Compensation-Free Help Requests, Delayed Mediated Acknowledgment And Alarm-Triggered Drone Witnesses Without Patrol, Thon Ly

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We specify a software agent that generates multi-step, real-world volunteer activity sequences for an individual or household exclusively by selecting, ordering and narrating entries already present in community need registries: posted help requests, commons sites awaiting care, pending gift deliveries, and contacts the household itself has named. The sequence data structure has no operation that creates a task; each task is a reference to a live registry entry, re-checked when it begins, and the operator authors no entry. Completing a task confers no points, badges, currency or reputation; the only reward is acknowledgment the beneficiary chooses to send through the …

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Tap Point Estimation For Multi-Source Clock Tree Synthesis Through Hybrid Logical And Physical Partitioning, Shreyas Tripathi, Georges Rotival, Jasreet Bheora Oct 2026

Tap Point Estimation For Multi-Source Clock Tree Synthesis Through Hybrid Logical And Physical Partitioning, Shreyas Tripathi, Georges Rotival, Jasreet Bheora

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Clock distribution for a large integrated circuit places multiple tap points, each of which drives a local subtree of sequential sinks.  Existing tools position those tap points with spatial clustering heuristics that do not account for the logical connectivity of the netlist.  Logically coupled cells can therefore land in different tap domains, which may raise insertion delay, degrade clock skew, and force added hold-time buffering.  To address these deficiencies, this disclosure describes a tap point estimation method that partitions sequential sinks over a hypergraph of the netlist before geometry enters the flow.  A geometric dispersion check then examines each partition, …

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Dynamic Reconfiguration Scheduling For Streaming Interconnects Using Queue-Depth Metrics, Jonathon Murphy Oct 2026

Dynamic Reconfiguration Scheduling For Streaming Interconnects Using Queue-Depth Metrics, Jonathon Murphy

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A reconfigurable routing fabric adapts to a new data structure by loading a new configuration bitstream, and the load can take microseconds to milliseconds.  Streaming traffic arrives at nanosecond intervals, so a pause for reconfiguration may overflow ingress buffering and add spikes in tail latency.  This publication describes a reconfiguration scheduling method built around an on-fabric scheduler.  The on-fabric scheduler parses a look-ahead context identifier (LA-CID) from a packet header and measures the depth and fill rate of an input flit buffer.  During the lead time that the identifier provides, the on-fabric scheduler pages a matching configuration vector (e.g., a …

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Manufactured Universal Giving: Composing Anonymous Proximity Giving, Ai Capacity-Funding, And Forced Annual Human-To-Human Flow-Through — Autonomously Funded Give-Only Balances, Anonymous Proximity Payments, And Annual Expiry With Reclaim, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Manufactured Universal Giving: Composing Anonymous Proximity Giving, Ai Capacity-Funding, And Forced Annual Human-To-Human Flow-Through — Autonomously Funded Give-Only Balances, Anonymous Proximity Payments, And Annual Expiry With Reclaim, Thon Ly

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A payment-system design is specified in which an autonomous, rule-governed fund places money into every verified user's non-withdrawable, give-only balance (a restricted-use balance that can only be given to another person) without ever selecting a payee. Users give from that balance anonymously to verified people physically near them, verified per action by passkey and Bluetooth or ultra-wideband proximity, one at a time or to everyone present in one action. Every give-only balance, and the fund, empties on a fixed annual date (7 January): unspent value is reclaimed to the fund, and the user's own withdrawable account is never touched, so …

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Graceful Operating Point Transitions Of Shared System On A Chip Resources Using Staged Configuration Banks And Externalized Handshake Registers, Rohit Sinha, Rupendra Narwaria, Jeevan Visvesha, Jikku Jeemon, Harsharaj Ellur Oct 2026

Graceful Operating Point Transitions Of Shared System On A Chip Resources Using Staged Configuration Banks And Externalized Handshake Registers, Rohit Sinha, Rupendra Narwaria, Jeevan Visvesha, Jikku Jeemon, Harsharaj Ellur

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A shared resource on a system on a chip (SoC) holds internal timing parameters that correspond to an operating point supplied to it.  Where that point shifts without a matched parameter update, the resource may behave non-deterministically, corrupt stored data, or sustain damage.  One conventional safeguard, stalling traffic at an entry boundary of a shared target controller can block the shared fabric and cut a configuration host off from control registers.  This publication discloses a method that places request and acknowledge registers in an independent register block on the system fabric interconnect, so handshake signaling stays clear of the operational …

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The Companion That Notices: A Personal Safety App With Agent-Initiated Journey Monitoring, A Serverless Dead-Man's Switch Run On Family Members' Devices, Duress Cancellation, Event-Triggered Release Of Encrypted Location History, And Anonymous Gift Delivery With A Reply Channel, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The Companion That Notices: A Personal Safety App With Agent-Initiated Journey Monitoring, A Serverless Dead-Man's Switch Run On Family Members' Devices, Duress Cancellation, Event-Triggered Release Of Encrypted Location History, And Anonymous Gift Delivery With A Reply Channel, Thon Ly

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We specify a personal-safety mobile application designed to be hard to repurpose as a surveillance tool. (1) An on-device software agent detects that its user has begun a trip, asks the destination, derives a route corridor and arrival window, and escalates through a graded ladder (query, visible cancel window, alert) on wide divergence or non-arrival. (2) The trip envelope is replicated end-to-end encrypted to designated family devices, each independently running the deadline timer and expecting a signed heartbeat with no location; deadline expiry or heartbeat loss raises the alarm on those devices, so destroying or jamming the phone triggers the …

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