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A Trusted Execution Enclave Within Dual-Confidential Computing Hardware, Jerome Glisse
A Trusted Execution Enclave Within Dual-Confidential Computing Hardware, Jerome Glisse
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In confidential computing (CC), the program and the data are expected to be provided by the same user. However, there has been a rapid rise in the number of workloads where the program and the data come from distinct users wanting to maintain confidentiality from each other. This disclosure describes techniques to create trusted execution enclaves (TEE) within dual-confidential computing (DCC) hardware. In DCC-TEE, the program is encrypted using a key controlled by the program owner. The user data is encrypted using a key controlled by the user. The encrypted program and the encrypted user data are both sent to …
Environmental Adaptation For Head Mounted Displays
Environmental Adaptation For Head Mounted Displays
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When virtual reality (VR) users initially don their headset, the initial scene displayed can be much brighter than the ambient light the users are adapted to. This can cause some levels of eye discomfort. Gradual transitions from the real world to the virtual environment (VE), and smooth transitions from one VE to another can increase immersivity of the virtual experience.
Quantitative Framework For Application Release, Anonymous
Quantitative Framework For Application Release, Anonymous
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A quantitative framework for application release is described, which includes techniques for quantifying application release for a variety of binaries, including mobile binaries and a server binary. The techniques include receiving data from a developer tool for storage as a scenario, determining a composite latency and/or a composite reliability associated with latency and/or reliability including the scenario, and transmitting an alert if the composite latency is above a threshold and/or if the composite reliability is below a threshold.
Intelligent Network Probe Adjustment Based On Leosat Conditions, Dave Zacks, Robert Barton, Tim Szigeti, Jeff Apcar
Intelligent Network Probe Adjustment Based On Leosat Conditions, Dave Zacks, Robert Barton, Tim Szigeti, Jeff Apcar
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Techniques are presented herein that support the ability to dynamically create, implement, and monitor the performance of network probes in a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite (LEOsat) deployment such that the probes can alert, as rapidly as possible, to real network and application performance issues while avoiding both the false positive and false negative conditions that are associated with more traditional, static network probe definitions. While such a dynamically defined probing capability would be valuable in any network deployment, it is especially so in a LEOsat deployment with its combination of highly variable delay, jitter, and packet loss, even between …
Enhanced Wi-Fi Fingerprinting For Security, Vishal S Desai, Shayne Miel, Ardalan Alizadeh, Akshaya Nagarajan
Enhanced Wi-Fi Fingerprinting For Security, Vishal S Desai, Shayne Miel, Ardalan Alizadeh, Akshaya Nagarajan
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Techniques described herein provide for an enhanced risk-based authentication method that greatly improves the quality of identifying the Wi-Fi identity associated with a remote worker and significantly reduces necessity of multiple multifactor authentication attempts. Techniques described herein support enhanced Wi-Fi-based user identification while still maintaining compliance with user privacy by not collecting user location information. Techniques described herein enhance Wi-Fi fingerprinting solutions by using unique physical layer signatures to curtail false positives and improve accuracy for detection of device identities.
System And Method To Maintain User Profile In Metaverse, Kireeti Kesavamurthy
System And Method To Maintain User Profile In Metaverse, Kireeti Kesavamurthy
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The present disclosure provides a method and system for maintaining user profile in metaverse. The system integrates user identity, wallets, integrated payment methods, subscriptions and access controls with various metaverse systems. Initially, user creates a digital identity on blockchain by verifying identity through a government-issued ID or similar secure means. This identity is used as a unique identifier within the metaverse and acts as a user profile. Further, these user profiles are used to implement access controls, ensuring that the users have the appropriate level of access to different areas of the metaverse systems. Thus, the present disclosure prevents the …
Utilizing A Human Computer Interaction Technique For Enabling Non-Disruptive Exploration Of App Contents And Capabilities In A Query Recommendation System, Keun Soo Yim
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Conventional techniques for launching apps do not provide any facility to quickly launch app contents or app capabilities. This disclosure describes techniques for quickly launching app capabilities and contents, surfacing those capabilities/contents that result in high user interaction rate (UIR) without harming a total clicks metric. In contrast to conventional techniques, app contents and capabilities with high potential UIR are adaptively determined using heuristics and user-permitted interaction data. A quick scroll button advantageously enables providing a scroll interface with suggestions that are otherwise hidden behind a virtual keyboard or not displayed. App contents and capabilities with high potential UIR are …
A Type-To-Talk Framework Using Generative Voice Cloning Methods For Privacy-Preserving Communications, Dongeek Shin
A Type-To-Talk Framework Using Generative Voice Cloning Methods For Privacy-Preserving Communications, Dongeek Shin
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A method for providing a text-to-speech framework that generated speech that mimics a user’s voice is disclosed. The proposed method receives sample speech from the user, and generates speaker embeddings specific to the user. The speaker embeddings are generated using a neural network. The speaker embeddings are used to fine-tune a generative vocoder. The finetuned generative vocoder can be used to generate speech that mimics the speech patterns and vocal characteristics of the user. Thus, text entered by the user can be converted to audio that sounds like the user’s speech. The generated audio is then transmitted to other participants …
Making User-Generated Content Available When A Device Is Offline, Hari Bhaskar S, Ashish Gupta, Nikhil Shirish Ketkar, Debabrata Bagchi
Making User-Generated Content Available When A Device Is Offline, Hari Bhaskar S, Ashish Gupta, Nikhil Shirish Ketkar, Debabrata Bagchi
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Some applications such as digital maps support offline use, including download of certain types of data, e.g., map data of a region for navigation. However, the downloaded information does not include user-generated content (UGC), reviews, external feeds, problem reports, geo-tagged news, etc. Such content can include timely and topical information which is unavailable to users if their device is offline. This disclosure describes techniques to make curated UGC and third-party feeds of specific types available when a device is offline. UGC is curated by topic and location using a multimodal large language model or other suitable technique. With user permission, …
Determining User Journey Risk Trajectories In Information Seeking Sessions, Abhishek Roy, Ellie Jin, Rebecca Umbach
Determining User Journey Risk Trajectories In Information Seeking Sessions, Abhishek Roy, Ellie Jin, Rebecca Umbach
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This disclosure describes techniques to measure risk trajectories in user journeys involving online search tasks performed by a user using a search engine, chatbot, or another query answering engine. Search tasks include the user interacting with (e.g., selecting and viewing) search results, chatbot generated answers, and web pages linked to those search results. Based on metadata about user-submitted queries, the user search session is divided into user visit segments that include sensitive queries by the user relating to seeking assistance (“help seeking”) or seeking potentially detrimental content (“harm seeking”). Determination of risk categories for sensitive queries are made (e.g., by …
Offline Drafting And Posting Of Ugc Reviews, Hari Bhaskar S, Nisheeth Shrivastava
Offline Drafting And Posting Of Ugc Reviews, Hari Bhaskar S, Nisheeth Shrivastava
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This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to draft a review when offline, to post it when network connectivity is restored. An offline user can review any entity, e.g., locations visited and select a feature to review. The draft review, comprising text and media, can be stored on device in a lightweight database. An on-device machine learning model can be implemented to provide suggestions for improving text as well as image content of the review. When the user device is online, the review is posted in accordance with user settings. Offline drafting-and-posting can be integrated with third-party apps, enabling …
Systems And Methods For Generating Content Items Via Machine Learning
Systems And Methods For Generating Content Items Via Machine Learning
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The present disclosure provides systems and methods for a user interest profile and recommendations in association with a user profile. In various examples, systems and methods may receive data indicating interaction with content, such as photos, posts, videos, stories, reels, marketplaces or shops, or the like associated with a user profile. An interest extraction module may determine an interest attributed to the user with respect to the content. A machine learning module may develop a set of characteristics associated with the interests. A set of recommendations may be generated based on an association between the set of characteristics and product …
Techniques To Enhance User Plane Function (Upf) Load Metrics To Improve Upf Selection, Swapnil Barai, Suyog Subhash Belsare, Bhavin Desai, Ravi Shekhar
Techniques To Enhance User Plane Function (Upf) Load Metrics To Improve Upf Selection, Swapnil Barai, Suyog Subhash Belsare, Bhavin Desai, Ravi Shekhar
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Mobile network architectures, such as Fifth Generation Core (5GC) architectures are designed to serve a variety of use cases in which each of the use cases can demand very different network resource allocation and traffic treatment. The introduction of the Control and User Plane separation (CUPS) architecture in the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) mobile network architecture, requires the control plane (CP) to select an appropriate User Plane Function (UPF) to serve a service request from a user equipment (UE) with a desired Quality of Service (QoS). This proposal provides techniques through which optimum UPF usage can be determined by considering …
Multiplexed Optical Coherence Tomography (Oct) Imaging System
Multiplexed Optical Coherence Tomography (Oct) Imaging System
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Implementations of systems and methods of multiplexed OCT systems are disclosed herein. The field of view (FOV) and/or the wavelength of multiple OCT systems may be multiplexed. In contexts where the human eye will be imaged, power safety limits constrain the signal-to-noise (SNR) and/or speed of the OCT imaging. For retinal imaging, near-infrared wavelengths of 800 nm - 1100 nm may be used. For non-retinal imaging, 1200 nm – 1800 nm may be more typical. In implementations of the disclosure, a wavelength and FOV multiplexed OCT system generates whole eye biometry. The whole eye biometry may be at a first …
Visa Accessible Card (Vac) For Specially Abled Users, Saikat Dutta, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Nabadeep Haloi, Deepali Gupta
Visa Accessible Card (Vac) For Specially Abled Users, Saikat Dutta, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Nabadeep Haloi, Deepali Gupta
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The present disclosure relates to a VISA Accessible Cards (VAC) (202) which are designed for easy and secure transactions. The VAC (202) has limited alphabetic characters (102) as the card number, presented in Braille (104) and regular characters for both specially abled people and normal people. The card may not have other details like CVV or expiry date. The card information, such as PAN, expiry date, and CVV may be mapped to the VAC characters and stored securely in a cloud server. Users may choose different engravings on front of the card for easy identification. The card may accompanied by …
Loyalty Nft Engagement Solution, David Nissly, Edmar Soriano, Todd Sawyer
Loyalty Nft Engagement Solution, David Nissly, Edmar Soriano, Todd Sawyer
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The present disclosure relates to a system and method of providing enhanced loyalty NFT engagement solution using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and web3 technologies. The enhanced loyalty NFT engagement solution is provided by integrating a real-time transaction tracking system (offers platform) with a loyalty engagement solution to immediately engage users who make specific transactions. The method includes registering a user with a loyalty NFT engagement solution via a merchant program enabled with web3 mobile application. The user is registered using the user’s email address. Further, the user may opt-in to enroll the user’s payment cards with the loyalty NFT engagement solution. …
Systems And Methods For Media Transfer Based On Wireless Link Capacity
Systems And Methods For Media Transfer Based On Wireless Link Capacity
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Systems and methods are disclosed for media transfer using wireless link capacity to alter battery power consumption. A method of processing a media file may include establishing a wireless link between a first device and a second device; performing a real time estimation of a wireless link capacity (WLC) of the established wireless link; comparing the WLC with a threshold; based on the WLC being below the threshold, determining a power cost of processing a media file on the first device and comparing the power cost to a threshold power level of the first device; and based on the WLC …
Determining Device Position Using Ultrawideband To Customize Surround Sound, Aditya Ghadiali, Uiliong (Will) Lau
Determining Device Position Using Ultrawideband To Customize Surround Sound, Aditya Ghadiali, Uiliong (Will) Lau
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Traditional surround sound experiences require precise placement of speakers at positions that are optimal for audio playback. Even after a careful setup, the audio experience may suffer depending on where the user sits relative to the speakers, since there is no way to intelligently adjust the equalizers for the different speakers distributed in space without localization information about the speakers. The techniques described in this disclosure utilize ultrawideband ranging to determine the relative position of different audio playback devices in an environment and the position of the user. A central node customizes the audio streams provided to each speaker device …
Recommendation Of Distribution Channels For Merchant, Shruti Dahiya, Swathykrishna K. Chandran, Ambareesh Ramakrishnan
Recommendation Of Distribution Channels For Merchant, Shruti Dahiya, Swathykrishna K. Chandran, Ambareesh Ramakrishnan
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The present disclosure provides a system and a method for generating recommendations for a new merchant 108 or a seller. The disclosure proposes a recommendation system 110 which collects data from different sources to generate recommendations related to one or more parameters of the new merchant’s interest. In particular, the recommendation system 110 may apply one or more filters such as collaborative filtering and content-based filtering to analyze customer patterns, behaviors and product attributes to generate recommendations regarding best possible locations 112 and distribution channels 114 to the new merchant.
Accent Adjustment Based On Spoken Feedback, Keith Griffin
Accent Adjustment Based On Spoken Feedback, Keith Griffin
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In some instances, such as for online video conferences, call center interactions, etc., it can be difficult to understand what someone is saying based on their accent. Presented herein is a solution through which natural language processing (NLP) can be utilized to facilitate an accent detector that can determine a problematic accent intent and adjust a speaker's accent by adjusting and normalizing the speaker's speech to a more relatable accent of a person with whom the speaker is communicating.
Aggregating Sensor Data From User Devices At A Fire Scene To Support Rescue Operations, Michael Xuelin Huang, Cutter Coryell
Aggregating Sensor Data From User Devices At A Fire Scene To Support Rescue Operations, Michael Xuelin Huang, Cutter Coryell
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In structural firefighting and rescue operations, firefighters need to locate individuals to evacuate from the fire zone while protecting themselves from fire-related dangers. Currently, there is no mechanism to use data from user devices within a fire zone that include sensors that can provide fire-related information to support rescue operations. This disclosure describes techniques that enable the use of sensor data from user devices present at or near a fire scene for rescue operations. With appropriate user permissions, data from relevant sensors in user devices present at or near an active fire can be made available for rescue operations. The …
Charging A Stylus Using Mobile Device Near Field Communication (Nfc) Coil, Chengliang Qian, Hu-Chi Chang, Weiyang Wu
Charging A Stylus Using Mobile Device Near Field Communication (Nfc) Coil, Chengliang Qian, Hu-Chi Chang, Weiyang Wu
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This disclosure describes techniques to charge a stylus using the existing near field communication (NFC) integrated circuit and coil on the mobile device. The storage slot for a stylus in a case that holds a mobile device is designed such that upon insertion, the stylus NFC coil automatically aligns with the phone NFC coil, thereby enabling charging during storage. Effectively, the storage slot functions as a charging dock for the stylus. Since the storage slot of the phone case is the normal home for the stylus, charging takes place in the background and becomes a seamless experience for the user. …
On-Device Frame Interpolation For High Frame Rate Video Conferencing, Lijun Li
On-Device Frame Interpolation For High Frame Rate Video Conferencing, Lijun Li
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This disclosure describes techniques to use frame interpolation to provide high quality, high frame rate video streams displayed on a mobile device in applications such as a video conference with low power consumption. A video stream having a low frame rate is received at a mobile device. On-device frame interpolation is performed using techniques such as motion estimation and motion compensation, voxel flow, or machine learning to determine a new frame between consecutive frames of the video stream. The video stream including the interpolated frames is displayed on the mobile device at a higher frame rate, providing smooth motion.
Application Testing Under Developer Specified Device Resource Occupancy, Tracy Wang, Wendy Dai
Application Testing Under Developer Specified Device Resource Occupancy, Tracy Wang, Wendy Dai
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During normal usage, consumer devices may remain switched on without a shutdown and restart for long durations of time. A lengthy period of time since the last restart can lead to high usage of device resources such as CPU, memory, storage, etc. Program performance issues as well as errors caused by these are hard to detect using clean functional test environments. This disclosure describes techniques to emulate end-user scenarios as lengthy times since last restart and high resource utilization by providing the developer with the ability to easily configure the usage of the CPU, memory, and storage of a device-under-test …
Gesture-Driven Audio Bookmarks Powered By Large Language Model, Pol Henri Adrien Peiffer
Gesture-Driven Audio Bookmarks Powered By Large Language Model, Pol Henri Adrien Peiffer
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It is difficult to make a note of a fact, look up an entity, or perform other actions on audio content in the moment to enable remembering things for later. This disclosure describes techniques to create bookmarks for audio content such as podcasts, audiobooks, etc. with easy to perform gestures without interrupting the listening session. In response to the user performing the gesture, a capture flow is executed to transcribe, save, and make the audio content available for later search, reference, consumption, sharing, or browsing, e.g., via a bookmark. A large language model (LLM) can be utilized for various purposes …
Systems And Methods To Differentiate Access Ports And Uplinks In Telecommunication Networks Using Machine Learning, Anonymous
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This invention is adapted to identify uplinks vs access ports automatically using supervised Machine learning (ML) techniques. Once uplinks vs access ports are identified, the present methods automatically suppress/reduce the noise/non-actionable/non-important alarms from the access ports. Network Operations Centers (NOCs) will be able to change the uplinks vs access ports predicated by ML, and based on feedback from NOCs, required action will be taken against the access port alarms. This makes noise reduction and network operations faster and easier for the operators of enterprise networks.
Method And System For Providing Delegated Access For Processing Payments Using A Payment Gateway, Gurpreet Bhasin
Method And System For Providing Delegated Access For Processing Payments Using A Payment Gateway, Gurpreet Bhasin
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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing an efficient and simpler OAuth for delegated access in a secure way. The method comprises receiving, by a payment gateway (PG) 105, a request comprising a payload and an indication of authorization for processing transactions on behalf of a merchant associated with the merchant device 101. The method comprises transmitting, by the PG 105, an acknowledgment request to registered contact details of the merchant device 101. The acknowledgement request may comprise a request to approve or grant authorization to the PPP 103 for processing the …
Cfm Fault Notification Enhancements, Anonymous
Cfm Fault Notification Enhancements, Anonymous
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This disclosure describes Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) which is the protocol used in Ethernet Networks for detecting, verifying, and isolating connectivity failures. The CFM protocol uses Continuity Check Messages (CCMs) to detect and report faults in a service. A CFM service may be created between 2 endpoints (called MEPs) or it can also be created between multiple endpoints. In case of a multipoint-to-multipoint service, the CCMs are exchanged between multiple MEPs (present on different devices). The fault notification reporting mechanism defined in the IEEE 802.1Q-2018 standard, defines faults based on the local endpoint. This is not an optimized method of …
Multi-Layer System Capable Of Considering Constraints And Objectives From Both Ip And Optical Layers, Anonymous
Multi-Layer System Capable Of Considering Constraints And Objectives From Both Ip And Optical Layers, Anonymous
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With networking trends driving traffic increasingly towards the edge of the network, IP-Optical convergence has come to the forefront of architecture evolution discussions. IP-optical convergence offers a means to streamline and simplify network operations and lower network costs. While network convergence has attracted a lot of industry interests in the areas of management and control and hardware integration, there has not been much focus on the amalgamation of the optical and IP layer design processes. At present, the IP and optical layers are planned by separate network teams with little or no co-ordination. The designs of each layer are made …
Recovering Clean Speech From Noisy Audio Input Via Ambient Speech Characterization, D Shin
Recovering Clean Speech From Noisy Audio Input Via Ambient Speech Characterization, D Shin
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Video and audio conferencing hardware and software can implement noise filters to remove non-speech background noise captured when a participant is in a noisy environment. However, while noise filters can help remove non-speech background noise, the audio signal can still contain unwanted background speech from parties co-located with the speaker. The quality of a speaker’s audio can additionally be impacted by hardware and/or software issues which noise filters cannot remove. This disclosure describes the use of generative voice models to clean up degraded audio of a user’s speech. The recovery of the user speech is based on dynamically updated ambient …