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Continual Learning System With Sentence Embeddings, Anonymous
Continual Learning System With Sentence Embeddings, Anonymous
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Recent improvements in computing power and ambient technologies have opened up new perspectives in ambient intelligence and proactive software systems. The need emerges for an ambient and supportive system that deeply understands the user's needs and preferences under the current context. In this work, we propose a recommendation system that aggregates and understands the current situation and continuously learns from the user’s decision history. To leverage a rich pool of contextual data, the system dynamically changes the strategy and scope for contextualization and encodes multimodal data into unified embeddings. A contextual similarity database consisting of these embeddings is leveraged for …
Custom Recommendations For Optimal Sensor Placement In Indoor Spaces, D Shin
Custom Recommendations For Optimal Sensor Placement In Indoor Spaces, D Shin
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Currently, the locations for sensor installations within a room or indoor space are based on broad assumptions about physical spaces, which can result in sensor locations that provide suboptimal coverage in spaces that do not conform to the assumptions. This disclosure describes techniques to add intelligent sensor placement capabilities to products and services for installing and managing sensors in indoor spaces. With user permission, suitable placement of various sensors in a given room can be determined automatically by a trained neural network based on various criteria such as room coverage with the sensor field-of-view (FoV), number of sensing devices of …
Automated And Personalized Outbound Contact Center Campaigns, Anil Kumar M L, Ottalingam T Satyanarayanan
Automated And Personalized Outbound Contact Center Campaigns, Anil Kumar M L, Ottalingam T Satyanarayanan
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Techniques are presented herein that support, within a contact center, an automated solution that addresses two important scenarios – first, the case of a customer who abandons their call to a contact center and second, the case of a customer who remains unsatisfied with their last interaction with a contact center. Aspects of the presented techniques employ natural language processing (NLP)-based models and leverage call interaction records to determine if a caller was satisfied with their last contact center interaction. If the caller was not satisfied, then the caller may be contacted through a proactive outbound message or voice call. …
Method For Enabling Use Of Smartphones For Visually Challenged Users Using Haptic Rendering, Gokul Anand Manimaran
Method For Enabling Use Of Smartphones For Visually Challenged Users Using Haptic Rendering, Gokul Anand Manimaran
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The present disclosure relates to a method for enabling use of smartphones by visually challenged users using haptic rendering. The disclosed method suggests receiving a notification on a user device, indicating for example, receipt of a new message or a transaction request. Thereafter, the message/transaction request is processed by performing a long hold on a specific area of screen of the user device or the outer case of the user device. Subsequently, the user may approve the message/request based on the user’s requirement. The approved message or request is displayed on both the screen of the user device and the …
Remote Pay, Mrutunjaya Chavadi, Devesh Gupta, Faiz Ahmed, Harini R, Shubham Shivhare
Remote Pay, Mrutunjaya Chavadi, Devesh Gupta, Faiz Ahmed, Harini R, Shubham Shivhare
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Disclosed herein is a method wherein a sender device initiates a transaction by requesting Virtual coins (Vcoins) in exchange for actual money through a remote pay application. A portion of this money is reserved for offline transactions. The sender device receives the Vcoins, which are essentially encrypted representations of the money, from a central server. These Vcoins are securely stored on the sender device before being transferred to the receiver device via locally established networks like NFC, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi, facilitated by the remote pay application. The receiver device receives and securely stores the Vcoins. Both the sender and receiver …
Improved Reliability And Survivability In Coherent-Based Optical Networks, Anonymous
Improved Reliability And Survivability In Coherent-Based Optical Networks, Anonymous
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The present disclosure relates to improved reliability and survivability in coherent-based optical networks. Specifically, there is closed-loop interaction between a network management platform and transceivers to enable quicker restoration. There is coordination between orchestration software, a Network Management System (NMS), and transceivers providing a better user experience to improve the speed of restoration in case of fiber cut, equipment failure, and the like. There is a determination of what parameters are needed to perform orchestration and these parameters are stored in a receiver/transmitter database in order to improved the survivability (and the meeting of restoration time Service Layer Agreements (SLAs)). …
Differentiable Position-Based Simulations
Differentiable Position-Based Simulations
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The present disclosure generally relates to enabling an efficient differentiable unified simulation model with contact, and more specifically, by computing derivatives of high degrees of freedom (DoF) and high geometric resolutions.
Forecasting Engineering Team Capacity And Work Estimates Using Product Roadmaps, Saif Khalaf, Mailys Levassort, Amisha Singh, Kimberly Reardon
Forecasting Engineering Team Capacity And Work Estimates Using Product Roadmaps, Saif Khalaf, Mailys Levassort, Amisha Singh, Kimberly Reardon
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Despite substantial research, deriving work estimates and team capacity for a given software development project continues to be notoriously difficult to get right. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically and rapidly calculate, in the same unit of measure, engineering team capacity and engineering work estimates for a given set of product features. With use of the described techniques, software development projects can be better organized, and engineering talent can spend time on engineering problems rather than on planning. The automated team capacity and work estimate calculations can be more accurate than typical human-generated estimates, and lead to more accurate product …
In-Conference Tool Virtual Assistant With Real Time Speaking Latency, Dongeek Shin
In-Conference Tool Virtual Assistant With Real Time Speaking Latency, Dongeek Shin
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A framework is proposed for reducing latency for real-time speaking applications, such as virtual assistants. The framework utilizes a hybrid scheme between a large language model (LLM) and a small sound model (SSM). The SSM timestamps the end of a user’s verbal query and notifies the transcription engine that the query has ended. The transcription engine will then abort and send the existing set of transcriptions to the LLM for processing without waiting for the buffer to meet the specific value or time. This minimizes the net response time for real time speech-based models due to the reduced latency from …
Facial Recognition And Animation From User Input
Facial Recognition And Animation From User Input
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Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to recognizing user input as a facial element and animating the facial element. Implementations of a computing system permit a user to provide user input, such as drawing via a cursor. For example, the user input is provided within an environment that comprises passthrough visuals of a real-world environment. Implementations of a user computing system can capture a real-world environment that includes a real-world object, and the environment displayed to the user can include the object. The user can draw elements (e.g., circles, other shapes, free form drawing, etc.) on the object. Implementations …
Context-Based Fast Motion Estimation And Mode Decision Methods In Video Encoding
Context-Based Fast Motion Estimation And Mode Decision Methods In Video Encoding
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Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to context-based fast motion estimation and mode decision methods in video encoding. For fast mode decision in code encoding, current depth prediction and early termination methods do not consider the statistics change between blocks and between frames, and may fail for scene change and need refreshment periodically. For fast motion estimation, current sub-sampling methods do not consider the statistics of the block. In addition, the current video encoding motion estimation and mode decision algorithms are too complex and consume too much power. Some implementations described herein reduce the computational complexity and save power.
Capture Shortcuts For Smart Glasses Using Electromyography, Isaac Rose, Andrew Clayton Butler, Chetan Parag Gupta
Capture Shortcuts For Smart Glasses Using Electromyography, Isaac Rose, Andrew Clayton Butler, Chetan Parag Gupta
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Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to capture shortcuts on smart glasses using electromyography (EMG). Some implementations can detect certain gestures using a wearable EMG, such as an EMG band or other smart device incorporating an EMG sensor. Some implementations can map these gestures to content captured on the smart glasses, such as image capture or video capture. For example, a user can make a clicking (i.e., "air tap") motion with his fingers to take a picture using the smart glasses. In some implementations, the user can perform different actions for different types of capture, such as finger snapping …
Burn-In Compensation With Foveated Rendering Display
Burn-In Compensation With Foveated Rendering Display
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Systems, methods, and devices for compensating image(s) or video(s) data are provided. A device may divide a display panel including a plurality of pixels into one or more estimated blocks including pixels associated with an original image. The device may also calculate stress data separately for the estimated blocks by calculating a stress value of the pixels associated with the estimated block. The device may also generate an accumulated stress data based on an accumulation of stress data. The device may also degrade data associated with the original image to generate compensation data based on the accumulated stress data.
Personalized Phrase Dictionary For Voice Dictation, Pu-Sen Chao
Personalized Phrase Dictionary For Voice Dictation, Pu-Sen Chao
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Users can use voice dictation capabilities of their devices to provide text input (or commands) and/or to edit text by using their voice. Speech recognition mechanisms are imperfect, leading to personalized names and phrases not being correctly transcribed, and requiring cumbersome manual corrections. This disclosure describes personalized automatic corrections to the transcribed text generated from voice dictation using a user-editable personal dictionary of correction pairs. With user permission, the personal dictionary can be generated automatically based on manual corrections to the transcribed text and shared across devices and applications associated with the user. Entries are added to the dictionary only …
Method And System For Processing Installments On Debit Accounts, Amal Jose Thomas, Galyna Odnorog, Harsha Sathyanarayana Naga, Prasad Vasudevan Menon, Otto Williams
Method And System For Processing Installments On Debit Accounts, Amal Jose Thomas, Galyna Odnorog, Harsha Sathyanarayana Naga, Prasad Vasudevan Menon, Otto Williams
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Methods and systems for processing debit installments are disclosed. The system includes receiving an authorization request and instalment plan for processing an instalment transaction associated with a debit account. The request may be received from a payment network managed by VISA or other entities. The system validates credit limits associated with the debit account for approving the authorization request. The system approves the authorization request based on the validation of credit limits and analyzes the instalment plan on approval of authorization request. The system further generates loan ledgers, repayment schedules and recovery transactions based on the analysis of instalment plan.
Self-Diagnostic Of A Device With Voice Feedback, Hee Poh Sin, Jian Song, Jia Jiunn Khng
Self-Diagnostic Of A Device With Voice Feedback, Hee Poh Sin, Jian Song, Jia Jiunn Khng
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System And Method For Fabricating Polarization Selective Element, Yun-Han Lee, Mengfei Wang, Stephen Choi, Kieran Connor Kelly, Lu Lu, Kyle Justin Curts
System And Method For Fabricating Polarization Selective Element, Yun-Han Lee, Mengfei Wang, Stephen Choi, Kieran Connor Kelly, Lu Lu, Kyle Justin Curts
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A system includes a surface relief grating configured to forwardly diffract an input beam as two linearly polarized beams. The system also includes a waveplate optically coupled with the surface relief grating and configured to convert the two linearly polarized beams into two circularly polarized beams having orthogonal circular polarizations. The two circularly polarized beams having orthogonal circular polarizations interfere with one another to generate a polarization interference pattern.
A Method And System To Implement Adaptive Training Algorithm: Adam Q, Ka Lok Ng, Panos Chatzigiannis
A Method And System To Implement Adaptive Training Algorithm: Adam Q, Ka Lok Ng, Panos Chatzigiannis
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The present disclosure relates to providing a method and system for training neural networks. It discloses an adaptive training algorithm Adam Q to overcome the challenges associated with its predecessors. It proposes a look-up table to be fused with the existing Adam algorithm such that Adam Q may not need to run all the computational operations while determining the updated weights and instead may directly see the results from the fused look-up table. It further goes on to propose a quantization technique where the received inputs from the previous iterations are first quantized and then taken as an input for …
Infinity Pay, Sahil Arora
Infinity Pay, Sahil Arora
Defensive Publications Series
The present disclosure relates to the field of contactless payment systems and biometric authentication. More specifically, it relates to a novel system and method for enabling secure contactless payments using biometric identification, even in situations where the user's primary device is unavailable. This innovative solution incorporates a combination of machine learning, neural networks, blockchain technology, and interconnected IoT devices to facilitate seamless and secure transactions.
Large Language Model Powered Chatbot For Natural Language Query Responses, Priya Mathur, Zhaoying Han
Large Language Model Powered Chatbot For Natural Language Query Responses, Priya Mathur, Zhaoying Han
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While dashboards provide structured information on various metrics, they cannot answer specialized questions. For such questions, data scientists need to develop custom database queries based on natural language questions specified by users, which is costly and time-consuming. This disclosure describes a virtual data assistant that leverages large language models to automatically translate natural language queries to structured database queries and to translate structured responses into natural language answers. The models can be trained on pairs {natural language query, structured query} and {structured answer, natural language answer}. The virtual data assistant can be implemented as a chatbot that enables users to …
System And Method For Dynamic Link Activation In Email Messages For Phishing Prevention, Alok Roy
System And Method For Dynamic Link Activation In Email Messages For Phishing Prevention, Alok Roy
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The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for dynamic link activation in email messages to prevent phishing attacks. The present disclosure suggests receiving incoming emails from a user’s computing device. Thereafter, the received emails are analyzed to detect suspicious emails, and the detected suspicious emails are sent to a link activation system. Upon receiving suspicious emails, the link activation system disables all embedded links in the suspicious email and generates a user interface. The user interface allows users to review information related to disabled links. Subsequently, the user may choose to activate or deactivate the links based …
Llm-Based Task-Oriented Dialog System With Few-Shot Retrieval Augmentation, Rahul Goel, Chris Hidey, Hafeezul Rahman Mohammad, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Fei Liu
Llm-Based Task-Oriented Dialog System With Few-Shot Retrieval Augmentation, Rahul Goel, Chris Hidey, Hafeezul Rahman Mohammad, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Fei Liu
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Conventional rule-based dialog systems are suitable only for a narrow set of scenarios and types of questions, and are not easy to extend to new domains and/or higher complexity questions. Traditional machine learning models require substantial data to train and retraining can affect previously released functionality. This disclosure describes an LLM augmented with an index of examples and a retrieval system for use in dialog systems. The techniques leverage the instruction-following capabilities of LLMs. Upon receipt of a user query, the conversation context and a set of examples retrieved from an index are utilized to generate a prompt for the …
Enhanced Wearable Devices For Visually Impaired Users, Olga Vladimirovna Barykina-Tassa, Pradip Sairam Pichumani
Enhanced Wearable Devices For Visually Impaired Users, Olga Vladimirovna Barykina-Tassa, Pradip Sairam Pichumani
Defensive Publications Series
Systems and methods are disclosed for enhanced wearable devices for visually impaired users. A system of enhanced wearable devices may comprise a first plurality of wearable devices located on a user, and a second plurality of wearable devices located on a service animal. The first plurality of wearable devices may include at least a pair of smart glasses, such as augmented reality or virtual reality glasses, and one or more sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an image sensor, an acoustics sensor, GPS sensors, or the like. Each wearable device of the second plurality of wearable devices may be …
Light Flicker Detector, Vincent Chung, Kart Liao, Chih Wei Chang, Gazi Yamin Iqbal
Light Flicker Detector, Vincent Chung, Kart Liao, Chih Wei Chang, Gazi Yamin Iqbal
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Light flickering can be detrimental to humans even if imperceptible. Headaches, migraine, and/or eye strain can result from exposure to flickering light. This disclosure describes techniques to detect and monitor light flicker. An ambient light sensor detects flickering in environmental lighting. Environmental light intensity is measured over a wide spectrum covering the human perceptive range. The peak flicker frequencies (and their magnitudes), flicker percentages, etc. are determined. If a substantial amount of flicker (greater than a threshold) is detected, an alert is provided. Furthermore, auto-generated instructions enable users to determine the light source that is the source of flickering.
Overextension Hinge Systems For Glasses Devices, Michael Webb, Jack Zhang, Andriy Pletenetskyy
Overextension Hinge Systems For Glasses Devices, Michael Webb, Jack Zhang, Andriy Pletenetskyy
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Systems, methods, and devices, and computer program products are provided for hinge modules for smart glasses systems, and overextension hinge modules usable with one or more electronic components. In an example, an overextension hinge module may include a hinge base, a paddle connected to the hinge base via a travel pin, and a preloaded spring maintaining a base position between the hinge base and the paddle, allowing movement of the hinge base relative to the paddle along a predefined range. Various examples may include a primary pivot axis defining movement between a frame arm attached to a glasses frame, and …
Determining Optimal Routes That Balance Multiple Factors And Constraints, Quinn Tran, Joseph Johnson Jr
Determining Optimal Routes That Balance Multiple Factors And Constraints, Quinn Tran, Joseph Johnson Jr
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Current mechanisms to discover sightseeing routes in a given location or plan a multi-destination trip do not take into account all factors and constraints that are important to users. Users find it difficult to find routing that can optimally combine time, cost, and other constraints for multi-destination trips. This disclosure describes techniques for finding optimal routing that balances a number of relevant factors and constraints, such as distances, travel times, costs, traffic, travel modes, weather, scenery, crowd, noise, opening hours, etc. Users can seek optimal routing by providing a list of destinations or issuing a natural language query that can …
Automatic Creation Of Map Layers Using Machine Learning, Quinn Tran, Joseph Johnson Jr
Automatic Creation Of Map Layers Using Machine Learning, Quinn Tran, Joseph Johnson Jr
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While map layers with different types of information are available, creating such layers currently requires substantial engineering effort and time. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning based clustering techniques for automatic generation of new layers in digital maps. Layers are automatically generated and can be inspected or corrected by human moderators. The layers include visualizations of aggregate geolocated data. The visualization can utilize generative AI for custom visuals. Layer creation is thus automated and faster, increasing the types of uses for digital maps. If the user permits, the automatically generated custom layers can include commerce-related layers or can …
Method To Use Park Aid As An External Service To Other Vehicles, Anonymous
Method To Use Park Aid As An External Service To Other Vehicles, Anonymous
Defensive Publications Series
Many vehicles have Park Aid features, such as rear and front parking sensors or radars, that aid drivers when maneuvering to park their vehicle in a parking spot. Park Aid features do not protect the owner’s parked vehicle by assisting other vehicles parking that might not have their own park aid features; rather, park aid features assist the driver when maneuvering their own vehicle into a parking spot. Scenarios like this are the ones that the method and solution described in this publication address.
Hardware-In-Loop Testing Of Power Protection And Control Systems, N/A
Hardware-In-Loop Testing Of Power Protection And Control Systems, N/A
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Protection and control (P&C) schemes provide reliable electric supply by transferring power supply across sources, changing power levels in response to load conditions, etc. Currently, the field-testing of P&C schemes is static and their performance under dynamic supply/load scenarios is not characterized. This disclosure describes a fully dynamic, mobile, hardware-in-loop simulator for real-time field-testing of P&C schemes with live field equipment. A real-time, digital simulator model is built with the component models and the topology of the P&C scheme under test. The model provides analog outputs, which are amplified and injected into the P&C scheme under test, and digital outputs …
System And Method For Open Integration Lifecycle, Yuexi Chen
System And Method For Open Integration Lifecycle, Yuexi Chen
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The present disclosure provides a method and a server computer for receiving a first domain identifier tag and a first value associated with the first domain identifier tag, from a first service provider computer in a transaction conducted by a user. The first service provider computer performs a first service for the transaction. The sever computer determines a global unique identifier for the transaction. The server computer provides the global unique identifier to the first service provider computer. The first service provider computer provides the global unique identifier to a second service provider computer. The second service provider computer performs …