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Artificial Reality Interaction Models

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In some implementations, the technology can render a dense layout of interactive mechanisms (e.g., selectable text and/or graphics) that are responsive to low accuracy input methods on the XR device. In some implementations, an XR device can associate a shortcut with the physical object (e.g., an action relative to the physical object, an option to perform an action relative to the physical object, etc.). In some implementations, a workload manager can select an augmentation workload using one or more of captured environment data (e.g., captured visual frames, audio, etc.), output from the initial stage model(s), any other suitable data.

Providing An Automated Authentication Token Allocator For Proxy Servers, Lakshmi Shashanka, Kumud Nawani

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Techniques are presented herein that support an automated authentication token allocator service running on any virtual machine (VM) or server, in the same network as any requesting entities, that can allocate the tokens that are to be used by an entity (such as a proxy server, devices, other services, etc.) that wishes to send a registration request to a management application (such as a network management application) so that it can be authenticated and then managed.

Selective Delivery Of Private Information On Device Lock Screen In Trusted Contexts, Sneha Ashok

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To avoid inadvertently revealing private information, delivery of query responses and notifications is restricted when a device is in a locked state, based on user configuration. In many contexts, e.g., when using the device in a hands-free mode while engaged in activities such as cooking or driving, the user can benefit from receiving such information without having to unlock the device. This disclosure describes techniques that permit users to receive results on the device lock screen for queries made to a virtual assistant and for notifications without needing to unlock the device first. The techniques provide flexible display of query …

Media Upload Prioritization Based On User Preferences, Yu-Sheng Chen, Connor Mckeon, Ella Mihov, Matt Wagner, Fish Lin

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Poor wireless network conditions limit the ability of security cameras and other devices to upload media. Consequently, viewers may not be able to watch video streams in a timely manner. On the other hand, even successfully uploaded media available for viewing is sometimes found to not be of interest to the user. This disclosure describes techniques to determine media segments (e.g., live video captured by a camera) likely of greatest interest to viewers and prioritize the uploading of those segments. The criteria for uploading or storing media under poor network conditions are selected to optimize the user experience on a …

Automated Onboarding And Time-Sensitive Network (Tsn) Flow Creation Of Devices In A Tsn Network Environment, Robert Barton, Indermeet Gandhi, Maik Gunter Seewald

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Techniques described herein provide for automating a time-sensitive network (TSN) configuration using an edge inventory system. In particular, according to techniques described herein, an asset inventory system discovers a TSN-capable device, identifies the requirements of the TSN-capable device, and adds a TSN tag to the asset inventory system that describes the function of the device. The asset inventory system provides instructions to on-board the device to a network as TSN-mandatory and sets the latency bounds for the network based on known or discovered characteristics of the device.

Deterministic Information Pull And Aggregation In A Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (Dodag) Topology, Pascal Thubert, Jerome Henry, Patrick Wetterwald

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Techniques are presented herein that support a deterministic collection method in the form of a scheduled pull mechanism, whereby a collection point may compute a schedule and then distribute the same so that all of the collecting nodes and network nodes can optimally transmit, aggregate, and relay information to the collection point. Under aspects of the presented techniques, a distributed set may be organized as a Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) topology to the collection point. The above-described schedule may then be generated whereby the DODAG parents emit only after all of their children (and, recursively, all of their descendants) …

Remote Agent-Based Observability Technique For Iot Application Telemetry Data Collection, Akram Sheriff, Rajiv Asati

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Techniques are presented herein that support a remote observability capability (comprising remote visibility, monitoring, and troubleshooting) for Internet of things (IoT) devices that are connected behind an IoT gateway (by agnostic network connectivity) through a dynamically deployed Enterprise Agent that is able to monitor all of the underlying state changes (through a southbound interface in an operational technology (OT) protocol agnostic manner) in IoT devices and then relay the collected telemetry data to a cloud-based facility. Aspects of the presented techniques leverage an embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM)-based Java Card facility to collect telemetry data through a metrics, events, logs, …

Combo Hood Breeze Function As Dryer Feature_Id-05698, Paolo Markovina

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The invention disclosures a method of combo hood (the induction cooking hob integrated with down suction hood) inner cavity and filters drying after the cooking process for the scope to enable the air cleaning filters (grease and odors) regeneration for the next cooking cycle, without reduced filtering performances.

In particular, since that dry airflow prevents the molds and yeasts generation and growth, the concept predicts to ventilate and dry the appliance cavity, a built-in furniture, and a backwall close to appliance installation, for some time after cooking process ended, since that the same became wet through the cooking phase, when …

Improving Location Accuracy Using Multiple Gps-Capable Devices Carried By A User, D Shin

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Location determination using the global positioning system (GPS) can suffer from signal quality issues caused by multipath effects or signal fading, as well as device-specific GPS-signal integration techniques. Accurate location determination is important for many user tasks. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to automatically obtain accurate location based on the most accurate location measure among all available devices by using the device(s) with the least noisy GPS signal. Unsupervised clustering of data from device motion sensors can be employed to determine the available devices. Impulse characterization can be used to measure the quality of the location signal by …

Lifecycle Management And Security Of On-Device Machine Learning Models, Hari Bhaskar S

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Endpoint management solutions cannot be utilized to manage on-device machine learning models. This disclosure describes techniques to integrate the best-in-class capabilities of cloud ML model management and endpoint management to enable lifecycle management and security of on-device ML model deployments. Endpoint management solutions as described herein include the capability to manage on-device models, e.g., to perform tasks such as model tracking, upgrade, and wipe out compliance. The described techniques, which can be implemented as part of an endpoint management solution, use a model catalog to track device deployments for a given machine learning model. When a model upgrade is available, …

Moving/Rotating Antennas For Wireless Access Points, Alessandro Erta, Pascal Thubert, Domenico Ficara, Carmine Benedetto, Luca Bisti, Arun G Khanna, Sudhir K Jain, Kasi R Nalamalapu, Stefano Ferrari, Salvatore Valenza, Vincent Cuissard, Loris Gazzarrini

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Conventionally, the position and orientation of antennas for wireless access points depends on the position in which a wireless access point is oriented during installation and typically does not change unless the positioning of the wireless access point is changed. Thus, wireless antenna position/orientation typically remains static once an access point is installed. Techniques proposed herein introduce a sensor fusion approach for controlling the direction/orientation of wireless access point antennas in order to improve wireless communications for wireless networks.

Low Latency And Energy-Efficient Hotword Detection Based On Mouth Movement, D Shin

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Devices that provide virtual assistants that respond to spoken queries monitor the user’s speech to detect a hotword to trigger the virtual assistant application. However, hotword detection requires some components of the device to be always on which make such devices power hungry. Always-on microphones are a problem especially for small devices such as hearables that have a small battery. This disclosure describes techniques that gate hotword detection with a lightweight neural network that estimates mouth motion signatures using signals from a low-power, always-on inertial measurement unit (IMU). Because the IMU has lower bandwidth than microphones, signals generated by the …

Use Of Data From Physiological Sensors For Automatic Labeling Of User Sentiment, N/A

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Mobile devices and wearable computers can detect a variety of events to automatically trigger actions. However, it is hard to determine the level of user satisfaction with such automatically triggered actions. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to determine a user’s reaction to automatically triggered actions. Upon the execution of an automatically triggered action, sensors on a wearable device are utilized to measure physiological parameters such as changes in heart rate, blood oxygen concentration, blood pressure, etc., and/or mechanical movements. Physiological and movement data are used to automatically generate ground-truth labels for a triggered action based on the …

On Device Security Agent To Mitigate Inference Attacks On Machine Learning Models, Hari Bhaskar S

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The advent of on-device machine learning allows developers to deploy models on end-user devices. A trained machine learning model can be a representation of the dataset used to train the model and may carry knowledge of decision making based on training. Malicious actors can perform inference attacks to exploit open-ended, unprotected on-device machine learning models, e.g., by taking the device offline to block information from being sent to the cloud and sending several inference requests to extract the patterns of data and/or training of the machine-learning model. This disclosure describes an on-device security agent that monitors the patterns of inference …

A Temporary Card Lending System And A Method Thereof, Reshu Pratap Ms

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Present disclosure discloses a temporary card lending system (104) and a method thereof. The temporary card lending system may receive a request for issuing the temporary card and thereafter, the temporary card lending system may send an evaluation request for evaluating user details to bank A (106). Bank A (106) may evaluate the user details based on one or more parameters using one or more evaluation techniques and may send an evaluation report which includes an evaluation score to the temporary card lending system. Thereafter the temporary card lending system may send a card issuance request and the evaluation report …

Personalized Spatial Advertising In Augmented Reality (Ar), Kathleen Bryan, Shiblee Hasan

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Augmented reality technologies can augment physical artifacts with interactive digital capabilities, accessible via various user devices. This disclosure describes techniques that enable personalized advertising based on interactive AR experiences. With user permission, a spatial element is added to personalized advertising by connecting it with the physical spaces or products involved in AR interactions. The content of the advertisement can be personalized to relevant aspects of the user’s characteristics and context, determined based on user-permitted data. Personalization can be achieved by associating physical objects and users with spatial anchors that capture relevant parameters of AR interactions. The personalized AR experience of …

A Virtual World For Troubleshooting Distributed Systems, Sundarrajan Raman

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An observerse is proposed, to provide users of cloud-based distributed systems with tools for streamlined debugging and root cause analysis. The observerse serves as an observability platform, incorporating aspects of virtual reality technology to help users efficiently navigate the system to resolve operational issues.

Splitting And Authorising Card Payments Across Multiple Users Online Via A Single Payment Token, Samuel Oliver

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The present disclosure relates to a method for splitting and authorizing payments online using tokens. The present disclosure demonstrates how a token based on card or payment account reference of a cardholder can be used to trigger payments from multiple accounts to split the total transaction cost based on a set of pre-determined rules. The method allows users to link multiple payment accounts to a single lead token, which in turn can be used to make payments from said accounts according to a set of rules. Generating a single lead token, allows this payment splitting method to be used at …

Stirrer With Wireless Communication - Id-05920, Paolo Markovina

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The invention disclosure the application of a multisensory solution, for the food temperature and stirring speed active monitoring and communication with induction heating cooktop appliance, by the wireless manner, in order to adjust the food heating power and stirring speed, according to the preloaded values, enabling the concept of the assisted cooking process.

Reading Comprehension Assessment Using Llm-Based Chatbot, Alan Wong, Vincent Lacey, Chaitanya Gharpure, Rebecca Hao, Priya Venkatraman, Gal Elidan, Roee Engelberg, Lidan Hackmon, Roni Rabin, Michael Fink, Paxon Yu, Tiffany Yang, Vitaliy Dikker, Adva Levin

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Users who are learning to read or learning about a topic by viewing content on a device can benefit from conversational activities, such as question-answer turns for the viewed content. This disclosure describes techniques to perform natural language assessments of content that is being consumed on a user device. A chatbot is implemented using suitable technology, such as a large language model. With user permission, the model is used to generate questions that evaluate the user’s understanding of the content viewed. User provided answers are evaluated and suitable responses are provided to the user. The techniques enable automated assessment and …

Managing Devices In A Device Ecosystem By Detecting Eye Gaze, Gestures, And User Medical Diagnostics, Ramprasad Sedouram

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A network of interconnected user devices and peripherals is used together in such a way that eye tracking, gestures, and medical diagnostics detected by one or more devices in the device ecosystem are used to control, manage, and interact with other devices in the ecosystem.

A Method And A Device For Performing A Transaction Using Digital Payement Card Linked With A Sim Card, Alok Roy

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The present disclosure relates to a method and device for linking digital payment card with a SIM card. Initially, a user 101 may request an issuer bank for issuing a payment card. Further, the user may receive a digital payment card from the issuer bank 103. The issuer bank 103 may transmit the digital payment card to the user only upon successful authorization of the user. Thereafter, the user may register the digital payment card with the existing SIM card 105 of the user’s mobile device 109 using an application installed within the user device associated with the user 101. …

Techniques To Provide Edge Relays With Privacy-Preserving Caches, Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Michele Papalini, Mauro Sardara

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Real-Time Communication (RTC) traffic typically leverages one or more media bridges (often located in the cloud) and, in order to reduce latency and/or offload cloud resources to the edge, one or more real-time edge relays can be utilized in order to optimize such traffic. However, edge relays may also be exploited by malicious entities and, thus, certain protective mechanisms are typically utilized at edge relays that, while reducing the probability of being exploited, can reduce the throughput of such edge relays. Techniques presented herein may help to preserve data privacy at edge relays through the use of a time-local caching …

A Global Atm Locator And A Method Thereof, Manas Sharma Mr

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The present disclosure is related to a global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) locator and a method thereof. The method includes receiving, by a global ATM locator, a request message from an electronic device of a user for details related to a nearest ATM. The global ATM locator initiates an API call to a payment network provider associated with the global network provider to fetch the information related to the nearest ATM for the user, as per the information given in the request message and current location of the user. Thereafter, the global ATM locator receives the requested details related to …

Real-Time Audience Analytics System For Measuring Engagement And Sentiment During Live Presentations, Peter Hraška, Lubo Drobny, Jozef Cechovsky, Gregor Karetka, Marek Šuppa

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A presenter’s ultimate goal is the effective communication of their message to their audience. However, it can be difficult ensuring that such a message resonates with and is understood by everyone in an audience, considering an audience’s size, language makeup, and (e.g., possibly remote) location. Techniques are presented herein that leverage wearable technologies, which can provide valuable insights into the engagement, confusion, and amusement of an audience as a whole. Using biometric data (such as heart rate activity and gyroscope and accelerometer readings) that may be collected from such technologies, a deeper real-time understanding of how an audience is feeling …

Ai-Assisted Video Editing And Sharing Framework, Priyam Chatterjee, Aayush Bhutani, Roderick Hodgson, Yury Gitman

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An AI-assisted video editing and sharing framework that provides video clipping recommendations and automatically reformats the final video based on surfaces through which the final video is to be published.

Avoiding Generation Of A Gtp-U Error Indication During A Network Initiated Session Or A Bearer Deletion, Swapnil Barai

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Techniques described herein prevent a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U) error indication from being generated from the user plane during a network-initiated session or bearer deletion, which saves overall network and radio resources and reduces the operating expenditures for the operator. In addition, techniques described herein eliminate additional Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) signaling between the control plane and the user plane nodes, which increases the reliability and provides faster communication of messages over the Sx/N4 interfaces.

Fast Edge Access Control For Routed Traffic, Luca Muscariello, Michele Papalini, Giovanna Carofiglio

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Real-Time Communication (RTC) traffic typically leverages one or more media bridges (often located in the cloud) and, in order to reduce latency and/or offload cloud resources to the edge, one or more real-time edge relays can be utilized in order to optimize such traffic. Presented herein are techniques to secure a media edge relay node without requiring an authentication for a connection involving the media edge relay node.

Hitless Graceful Insertion And Removal Of A Router/Switch In Highly Reliable Multicast Networks, Francesco Meo, Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram, Stig I Venaas, Martin Hospodar, Swetha Velamuri

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Currently, the support for graceful insertion and removal (GIR) within a Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) environment is limited. As a result, there is no mechanism today that allows for a soft migration of flows when, for example, planning for a maintenance window. Techniques are presented herein that support a hitless upgrade capability that avoids impacting any flow during the upgrade and reload of a spine switch. This is the most difficult task today for customer networks, where multicast flows run all of the time and no disruption is acceptable. Aspects of the presented techniques include a new PIM hello message type-length-value …

Near Field Communication (Nfc) And Secure Element (Se) Integrated Gaming Controller, Yuexi Chen

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Disclosed herein is a system 202 for providing an NFC 212 and a SE (Secure Element) 218 integrated gaming controller 210. In particular, when a user 112 taps a contactless payment card 110 on the NFC antenna 212 of the gaming controller 210 for purchasing digital assets, a cryptogram of the contactless payment card 110 is obtained through the APDU exchange by the gaming controller 210 and a device token is thereafter provisioned by a server 230 in communication with the gaming controller 210. This associates the user 112 account with the generated device token which is further used to …