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Jered D Aasheim

Yongqi Yang

Pranish Atul Kumar

John Kalkman

David B Appel

Paul Fraedrich Estes

Raymond Robert Ringhiser

Keith Douglas Senzel

Peter E Loforte

Dominique Fortier

Tai Chian Chou

Steven P Maillet

Kun Zhang

Ethan John Aasheim

Michael Anthony Hall

Daniel Reed

Punit Narendra Java

Akshay Johar

Robert C Houser

Nicolas Trescases

Cory Alan Hendrixson

Jesse William Wesson

Aaron Clarke

Paul Adrian Foy

Ryan Pangrle

David Owens

Robert Daly

Jay Daniels

Joe LeBlanc

Colin Arenz

Stephan Schueerholz

Jason Whitehorn

Michael Hall

Systems and methods for constructing a grid model within video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: overlay one or more field line, hashmark line, or sideline on one or more frame of video; construct a plurality of evenly spaced longitudinal lines parallel to the one or more field line; detect, using a neural network model, one or more field object in the one or more fame of video; construct one or more anchor line along a top portion of a detected field object; construct a plurality of evenly spaced latitudinal lines parallel to the one or more hashmark line or the one or more anchor line; and overlay the plurality of evenly spaced longitudinal lines, the one or more anchor line, or the plurality of evenly spaced latitudinal lines on the one or more frame of video.

System and method for geolocating players on the field of play within video of American football

Systems and methods for identifying a moment of snap within video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: train a neural network to detect one or more essential offensive formation element; identify, using the neural network, one or more essential offensive formation element within input video; determine, using the identified one or more essential offensive formation element, one or more video frame including a valid formation; and determine, using the detected one or more essential offensive formation element, one or more video frame in which the valid formation disbands.

System and method for identifying moment of snap within video of American football

A method may include accessing a ratings datastore, the rating datastore including ratings for users with respect to a feature of a software application; transmitting a request for generating a content unit with respect to the feature to a first user of the users based on the first user's ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; receiving the content unit from the first user; selecting a set of users from a first class of users to review the received content unit based on the set of users' respective ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; storing the received content unit in a content datastore as associated with a content rating for the feature based on ratings received from the set of users.

Automated content generation

A method may include receiving request from a first user via an application, for assistance with completion of a document within the application; determining expected characteristics of the completed document, the expected characteristics identifying: a plurality of tasks to be performed to generate the completed document; and a document value; performing a computer-implemented matching process to match the first user with a second user based on the plurality of tasks and document value; and configuring permissions of the application to allow collaborative editing within the application between the first user and second user to complete the document.

System for collaborative editing based on document evaluation

A method may include accessing user activity data with respect to performances of a feature within an electronic application by a user; calculating a similarity score for the user with respect to a level of proficiency for the feature based on the accessed user activity data; and based on the similarity score meeting a threshold value: updating a level of proficiency value in a user profile for the feature of the electronic application; and enabling the user to enter into a collaborative editing mode with another user to complete a document using the feature of the application.

System for classification based on user actions

A method may include maintaining in a database, a plurality of documentation content items for an application; receive, from a user, a request to modify a content item of the plurality of documentation content items, the content item associated with a feature of the application; accessing a rating of the user with respect to the feature; and based on the rating meeting a threshold: authorizing the user to modify the content item; receiving modifications to the content item from the user; and updating the content item in the database based on the modifications.

Metric-based content editing system

A method may include identifying a first set of objects that are part of a document, the document created by an application, and the first set of objects placed in the document by a first user; based on the first set of objects, determining an intent of the first user for the document; automatically adding, by the application, a second set of objects to the document according to the intent; and configuring permissions of the document to allow collaborative editing within the application between the first user and a second user to add a third set of objects to the document.

Machine learning using collaborative editing data

A computer system assists in fixing issues. Ticket management logic receives an issue detected on a device. Diagnosing logic identifies the issue based on contextual information received from the device and stores issue data related to the issue into a data store. Routing logic receives an indication of a flagged component of the issue data, flagged by a developer, and initiates communication between a user and the developer based at least in part on the flagged component.

Automated system for fixing and debugging software deployed to customers

A storage abstraction system is described herein that exposes storage from an operating system as a uniform storage device and abstracts from applications the selection of a particular storage location and different properties of storage devices. The application provides the data to store and some information about the application's goals for storing the data, and lets the operating system route the data to the right place based on the data's characteristics. The operating system may choose to store data anywhere from L2 cache to a cloud-based storage service and anything in between, based on information about the data's persistence requirements, expected usage, access frequency, security needs, and so forth. The system lets applications and users focus on expressing their goals and needs for the data, and lets the operating system manage the hardware.

Storage media abstraction for uniform data storage

Pairing information is used by the target application to determine how to connect to the correct controller. A network pipe is established between the target application and the controller. The network pipe is used to pass information, such as to deliver/receive test information, between the controller and target application. A bridge may also be established between the controller and an analysis tool for the device hosting the target application. The bridge creates a communication path for the controller to send/receive information (e.g. commands, queries) to the analysis tool s to perform tests of the target application. Code may also be injected into the target application such that dynamic linked libraries may be simulated. Crash data may also be obtained by the controller (or some other device) that may not be typically available by a particular device platform.

Remote device automation using a device services bridge

A network toolset enables developers to automatically generate a C header file and underlying signal software, as well as automatically generate a managed code assembly from a network description. The managed code assembly can be generated in a binary format and may include sufficient metadata to support extended functionalities for a network. The managed code assembly can be relatively easily integrated with an existing image (e.g., machine code for a network device) without any compilation required. A software development kit can also be generated to help programmers manage the generated assemblies.

Generation of managed assemblies for networks

A power context system is described herein that makes decisions related to device power usage based on factors such as location, load, available alternatives, cost of power, and cost of bandwidth. The system incorporates contextual knowledge about the situation in which a device is being used. Using the context of location, devices can make smarter decisions about deciding which processes to migrate to the cloud, load balancing between applications, and switching to power saving modes depending on how far the user is from a power source. As the cloud becomes more frequently used, load balancing by utilizing distributed data warehouses to move processes to different locations in the world depending on factors such as accessibility, locales, and cost of electricity are considerations for power management. Power management of mobile devices is becoming important as integration with the cloud yields expectations of devices being able to reliably access and persist data.

Power and load management based on contextual information

A heterogeneous processing system is described herein that provides a software hypervisor to autonomously control operating system thread scheduling across big and little cores without the operating system's awareness or involvement to improve energy efficiency or meet other processing goals. The system presents a finite set of virtualized compute cores to the operating system to which the system schedules threads for execution. Subsequently, the hypervisor intelligently controls the physical assignment and selection of which core(s) execute each thread to manage energy use or other processing requirements. By using a software hypervisor to abstract the underlying big and little computer architecture, the performance and power operating differences between the cores remain opaque to the operating system. The inherent indirection also decouples the release of hardware with new capabilities from the operating system release schedule.

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