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Content-Addressed Filesystem For Fast Software Builds, Haamed Gheibi, Taylor Santiago, Rob Seymour, Erik Sanders

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This disclosure describes content-addressed build tools and techniques to accelerate the checkout of source code and building of software binaries. The techniques leverage the observation that a typical software build is highly cacheable, and major parts of a build are reusable when code changes are made. In contrast to traditional, timestamp-based build tools, the techniques use content hashes to trigger rebuilding. A Merkle Tree File System (MTFS) provides a content-hash of the directories and files of the software project. Build inputs are not required to be fully or correctly specified. Files and directories are lazily loaded upon actual access, such …

Personalized Karaoke Experiences With Multiple Views And Ai-Based Coaching, Rakesh Kushwaha

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Home and professional karaoke setups currently offer little to no immersive experiences, are not personalized to the user’s skills and preferences, and do not provide effective feedback on the user’s singing performance. This disclosure describes techniques that employ multiple views and utilize artificial intelligence (AI) features to provide a personalized immersive interactive karaoke experience that users can enjoy at home. The multiple views facilitate enhanced immersion via virtual reality/ augmented reality (VR/AR) features, such as virtual backgrounds, props, costumes, immersive settings, etc., along with pertinent information, such as lyrics synchronized to the song audio. The multiple views can facilitate enhanced …

Biometric Eye Scanner With Wearable Form Factor

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Systems and methods for generating eye models. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for generating an eye model. The method may include scanning, via a wearable device, an eye of a user. The method may include capturing biometric information based on the scanning. The method may include determining a cornea tomography based on the biometric information. The method may include generating an eye model based on the cornea tomography. [

Intelligent Ar Advertisement Auras Around People, Ramprasad S, Puneetha Pai

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The technology generally relates to an integrated augmented reality (AR) based system that functions based on nearby users and/or real-world objects. The system uses one or more sensors on a smart device being worn and/or used by a user to detect nearby objects, logos, users, etc. Based on the detected objects and a profile of the user, the system identifies relevant digital content to provide for display to the user. The relevant digital content may be informational, recreational, or advertisements.

A System And A Method For Generating Dynamic, Personalized Credit Score Predictions, Alok Roy, Prajna Shetty, Kandikatla Varshini, Satyam Raj

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The present disclosure provides a system and a method for generating dynamic, personalized credit score predictions. The system proposes an intelligent interactive tool that provides users with real-time insights as to how different financial decisions and activities of a user can influence his/her credit scores. In particular, the system receives user input on their financial data and decisions, fetches and analyses user’s credit information based on the user inputs and generates dynamic, personalized credit score predictions. Thus, the system empowers the users to explore hypothetical scenarios, enhancing their financial literacy and facilitating better informed decision making.

Printer In Built Scan Mechanism Allows To Receive Various Customized Scan Options Based On User Input By Setting Delimiter On The Original Copy., Hp Inc

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In contemporary document processing, the inability of conventional scanners to selectively scan and convert specific paragraphs within documents poses a significant challenge. This limitation restricts users from efficiently highlighting and emphasizing desired content during the scanning and printing process, thereby hindering productivity and effective communication. To address this gap, a proposed solution involves integrating a delimiter marking system within the original document. This system empowers users to designate start and end points for scanning operations by inserting delimiter markers, enabling scanners to interpret and execute corresponding tasks. The solution enhances user control and flexibility in document processing workflows, allowing for …

Automated Micro-Investment Platform, Palakh Shangle

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The present disclosure provides an automated micro investment platform 104. The disclosure proposes the platform 104 to receive rounding up of everyday transactions to the nearest dollar, with the spare change being invested and may also invest the small amount received in regular intervals. The platform 104 may further employ sophisticated AI algorithms to tailor investment strategies to individual risk profiles and financial goals. Further, the platform 104 may integrate with users' financial accounts to gain a comprehensive understanding of their financial health. The platform 104 may further adapt investment strategies over time, optimizing for changing market conditions and personal …

Secure Access Screen, Colin Hilton

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A simple screen that replaces the need to recall passwords or passcodes for access to secure systems and premises. The concept involves the simple recognition of faces or features familiar to users or their cohorts, such as family members or colleagues. It differs from more conventional means of access or proof of humanity like 'captchas' by being personalised and user-specific.

Providing Audio Guidance For Location Information And Navigation, Dmitrii Boiarshinov, Gabi Lanning, Jaime Guajardo

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Navigating urban environments can pose significant challenges for individuals with visual impairments or those who don’t read the local language. A crucial component of such navigation is the ability for a person to discern their location, including the street they are on, potential routes, and specific details of the vicinity such as businesses, roads, and buildings and street addresses. This disclosure describes techniques to facilitate city navigation and the learning of street layouts for visually impaired individuals at a large scale. A navigation aid inspired by the concept of multi-user dungeons (MUDs) is provided to users to enable users to …

Personalized Route Determination For Physical Activities, Kostas Kollias, Pinci Liao, Ryan Geraghty, Vincent P. J. Chung

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While digital maps enable searching for routes between various points of interest and may also offer routes for activities such as trekking, current digital map applications do not offer personalized routing for fitness activities that meet user-specified fitness goals. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to obtain optimal routes for their physical activities based on parameters relevant to health and fitness. Users can specify their objective(s) and one or more constraints to be used for determining a route for a given physical activity. A digital map user interface enables users to provide such information via selectable controls and/or as …

Best Buy, Manas Sharma, Visa, Vinay Sarda, Visa, Somesh Rajoriya, ,Visa

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The present disclosure relates to techniques for recommending the best payment card to the user for transaction using a recommendation system. The proposed recommendation system may make use of a generative AI model and analyses the factors such as payment terms, instalment options, reward points, cashback promotions and other benefits specific to each card. Accordingly, recommend the best payment card to the user for each transaction. This enhances the shopping experience for the end users and subsequently, increases transaction efficiency for merchants and card issuers. Also, the proposed system increases transaction volume and customer retention through personalized card recommendations and …

Signlanguagestranslator, Hp Inc

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The disclosure attempts to resolve a potential communication barrier: Users with hearing and/or speaking disability often use ‘Sign Language’ to communicate with one another. But not everyone understands Sign Language. Even Sign Languages differ from one country/region to another, hence a local identification is required.

Virtualization And Modularization Of A Vehicle Communication Interface (Vci), Konrad Hirschbeck

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System And Method Of Enabling Scan Now Pay Later Payment Functionality Using Quick Response Codes, Janani Sambedu Visa, Gayathri Vijayakumar Visa, Ankita Juneja Visa

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The subject matter discloses a system and a method of performing single click payments in Person to Merchant (P2M) digital payments. The single click payment method is implemented using Scan Now Pay Later (SNPL) payment solution that includes a Quick Response (QR) based payment ecosystem integrated with a credit payment mode. The method includes scanning a merchant’s QR code using a digital credit application installed and checking if the SNPL mode is enabled in the merchant payment module. If the SNPL mode is enabled, the user mobile device may initiate the transaction in SNPL mode. Further, a digital credit application …

Advanced Prediction Model For Variable Refresh Rate Compensation, Hsin Hsueh Li, Chien-Hui Wen

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This publication describes enhancing image quality and delivering a smooth display experience using a variable reference rate (VRR) by using a compensation algorithm that reduces takt time in mobile device production lines.

Smart Mathematical Model For Variable Refresh Rate Prediction Algorithm, Hsin Hsueh Li, Chien-Hui Wen

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This publication describes a smart mathematical model that involves compensating and calibrating the display to mitigate brightness and color differences when transitioning between different refresh rates for variable reference rate (VRR) compensation.

Dynamic Interest Rates On Missed Bill Payments Based On Past Payment History, Alok Roy

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The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining the dynamic interest rates on missed card bill payments based on past payment history. The system introduces a dynamic interest rate model for card bill payments, which may analyze a customer's historical payment behavior to determine the interest rate for late payment penalty. The dynamic approach of analyzing the customer's historical payment behavior, allows the card issuers to provide lower interest rates on missed card bill payments to customers with a generally good payment history, fostering customer satisfaction and financial responsibility.

Speech Source Separation And Interpretation Based On Manual Trigger For Query Input, D Shin

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Voice queries to a virtual assistant can be misinterpreted when such queries are issued in noisy environments, where a user’s speech (query) is mixed in with other background speech. Such query misinterpretation can result in the virtual assistant response being inaccurate and/or unexpected. This disclosure describes techniques that employ large language models (LLMs) to obtain accurate transcription of a user’s voice input to a virtual assistant when the virtual assistant is triggered with a manual action such as a button press. The techniques can obtain an accurate transcription of the user’s query even when the user’s voice input is mixed …

Visa Ai Agnostic Intelligent Routing (Vaair), Renato Marques Dos Santos, Vinicius Amorim Ferreria De Castro

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The present disclosure relates to an AI-based technique to optimize international transactions/global money movements process. The technique recites generating a query message based on the transaction information received from the sender device. The technique further recites transmitting the query message to the plurality of transaction channels in order to receive the response from the plurality of transaction channels based on the request. Finally, the technique recites identifying the optimal transaction channels among the plurality of transaction channels based on the response from the plurality of transaction channels and transmitting the optimal transaction channels to the sender device.

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Determining A Carbon Foot Print Of Related Merchant Items, Sean Terribilini, Farrukh Umarov, Kaitlyn Sandford, Robert Juan King Lee

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The present disclosure relates to a method that includes receiving a user input comprising a product identifier of a product, determining at least one related product based on the product identifier and at least one factor using a machine learning model, wherein the at least one factor comprises a source of the product, a source of the at least one related product, a predefined budget, past transaction history of the user, and carbon foot print of the product and the at least one related product, and providing data associated with the at least one related product and a total carbon …

Dmc-Based Iot Dock For Hot Desk Reservation System, Hp Inc

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As we all been through covid pandemic situation, more and more companies in the world are building “shared-seat area” for their employees having “hybrid work lifestyle” to work for these companies.

In this disclosure, we’ll demonstrate the designs of IoT dock technologies for cloud-based reservation server, and the IoT dock will be capable to deliver information of attached peripheral devices and I/O port connection status, then reflect to reservation webpage UI.

Automatic Verification Of User Contributed Place Reviews Based On User Location, Paula Marques, Andreas Kramm, Mara Goes

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Online review mechanisms are provided in digital maps, shopping applications, review websites, etc. to enable users to provide and view feedback about entities. However, currently review mechanisms are susceptible to being gamed, since unverified reviews can be generated by users that did not visit a place and can include inaccurate or misleading information. This can harm the reputation of a business at that location and also erode user trust in the platform that hosts such reviews. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically identify place reviews that were provided by reviewers who actually visited the locations in question and provide a …

Common Identifier Social Registry, Nidhi Kapoor, Louise Holden, Piers Clough

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A computer-implemented method of identifying participants globally using a common identifier social registry. The computer-implemented method assists NGOs and Governments have a directory which clearly identifies participants globally and also combines a payment credential link to a proxy id for Government and humanitarian aid disbursements to that participant. A payment network provides access to issuers around the world to issue funds on cards, accounts, wallets, or cash to that individual regardless of location/address.

Facilitating Green And Intelligent Online Video Conference Storage And Consumption Using Multimodal Augmented Text-Attributed Graph (Matag) Techniques, Doosan Jung, Pengfei Sun, Qihong Shao

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Proposed herein are a system and techniques to address issues with insufficient video storage for online video conferences in a manner that provides for reducing the carbon footprint of potentially unused storage. Further, the system and techniques proposed herein may provide for equipping users with a machine-aided understanding of online video conference content by creating machine-digested meeting blueprints, which can help users to avoid tedious/labor intensive, and potentially inefficient downstream tasks. In a multi-recording scenario, the system and techniques proposed herein may be particularly useful to help users understand recording holistically instead of treating each video independently (which can span …

Smartphone With Built-In Web Server To Enable Camera Control From Computer, Avichal Rakesh, Jayant Chowdhary

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Smartphones and other devices can be connected to a host device such as a desktop computer to enable using the smartphone as a webcam during video conferencing. However, when the smartphone rear camera is used for video conferencing, the smartphone touchscreen faces away from the user, which makes it challenging to interact with the smartphone, e.g., to control camera settings such as zoom/pan or selecting a particular camera of the smartphone. While some dedicated applications enable smartphone camera control from a host computer, this does not offer universal compatibility. This disclosure describes a configuration where a connected gadget advertises itself …

Dynamic Ranking For Web And On-Device Suggestions, Jeff Nainaparampil, Maryam Karimzadehgan, Kalyan Desineni

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While standard search-ranking approaches can rank results derived from a single corpus of data (e.g., the Internet or an intranet), such approaches cannot rank results derived from multiple disjoint corpora, e.g., the Internet and on-device data. This disclosure describes ranking techniques that dynamically incorporate scores for results from on-device and cloud sources to generate a composite, more accurate ranking of search results. Ranks of results from cloud-based data sources (e.g., the Internet, application stores, etc.) are compared with the ranks of on-device data sources (e.g., messages, on-device settings, application data, etc.) to generate a multi-part ranking across the two data …

Selecting Optimal Geostationary Satellite For Communication From A Location, Thomas Nguyen, Sooraj Sasindran

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Some mobile devices enable communication via geostationary satellites that can be accessed from any point on earth. Satellite-based communication is typically routed to the geostationary satellite closest to the device. However, the closest satellite may not always be optimal because of noise and obstacles. This disclosure describes techniques for dynamic selection of the optimal geostationary satellite if the connection with the currently selected satellite is poor. The optimal satellite can initially be chosen as the closest one from a list of geostationary satellites accessible from each location, ranked by their current longitudinal distance from the device. The initial choice can …

Automatically Surfacing Contextually Relevant Photos Using Semantic Matching, D Shin

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Viewing contextually appropriate photos from a photo library requires that a user manually perform search or browsing actions to access photos that match their context. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to automatically perform semantic matching of current user context with photos in a user’s photo library to identify photos that are contextually relevant. e.g., of a photo library application, or any other application on the device. Per techniques described herein, context information obtained with user permission is encoded to obtain a context embedding that is compared with visual embeddings for photos from the user’s photo library. …

Creating And Managing Security Policies For Multiple Cloud Platforms, Ujwala Kawalay, Mukesh Marodia, Kishore Garg

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A system for creating and managing security policies for multiple cloud platforms is configured to generate a security policy, use one or more policy engines to convert the security policy to one or more formats compatible with different cloud platforms, and deploy the security policies to the cloud platforms. The system can also retrieve a security policy from a cloud platform and determine whether the security policy has been modified on the cloud platform but not on the system, which may indicate a misconfiguration of the security policy or that a malicious action has occurred.

Techniques For Determining The Location Of Networking Equipment Operated In Mobile Communication Networks, Anshul Tanwar

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Proposed herein is a novel technique to determine the location of networking equipment (e.g., routers, switches, etc.) used in mobile communication networks, such as cellular Fourth Generation (4G) and/or Fifth Generation (5G) communication networks. Once the location of a particular piece of networking equipment is known, this location can then be exported or collected by a central controller, which can utilize the location for various purposes, such as performing further validation of the location of the equipment to confirm that the equipment is being used at a location for which its use is allowed by the equipment manufacturer.