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Providing A Meeting Reminder To An Invitee Not In Attendance At A Meeting, John Costello, Ollie Fagan, Robert Headon, Owen Friel

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How often, in this busy world in which we work, has a meeting invitee forgotten to join a meeting (in time or at all)? Let's be honest—it happens all the time and sometimes it's important that a particular invitee is present, particularly for meetings in which other attendees are relying on the invitee's input during a meeting. Techniques presented herein provide for the ability for an absent invitee for a meeting to receive a reminder to join the potentially forgotten and, more importantly, potentially vital meeting when the absent invitee's name is mentioned during the meeting.

Intelligently Leveraging Mental Wellness State In Cognitive Collaboration Workflows, Bhavik Shah, Chidambaram Arunachalam, John Groetzinger

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A person's mental wellness plays a critical role in determining how efficiently a complex task that requires cognitive abilities is successfully completed. However, current solutions do not offer a mechanism for detecting an individual’s mental wellness in a real-time and proactive manner. To address that lack, techniques are presented herein that leverage a range of information including electroencephalography (EEG) signals (e.g., as captured from an EEG headset); real-time health parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. (e.g., as captured from health monitoring devices such as wearable physical fitness monitors); etc. Such information may be processed by an online communication …

Using Cross-User Understanding To Develop Better User Embeddings, Nithya Kota, Maneesh Dewan, Ganesh Mallya, Jatin Chhugani

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Digital payment apps, e.g., available via smartphones, can make multiple payment instruments available to a user; however, a user may not link all their cards to a payment app. Some payment apps include analytics features based on data from cards linked to the app. However, such data can give an incomplete financial picture of the user. This disclosure describes techniques to develop a more complete representation of a user that has provided only a partial view of their finances. Two embedding vector spaces are created, one trained over users with incomplete financial profiles and another trained over users with complete …

Averting Workplace Tailgating And Cyberstalkers Through Location-Powered Multi-Factor Authentication, Shankar Ramanathan, Jatin Katyal, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Akram Sheriff

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With a hybrid workplace environment and an influx of talent, many people in an office barely know or recognize each other in person. Although there are safety and security policies regarding an individual badging into a building, tailgating by individuals standing close to a person remains a common occurrence. Tracking device-powered cyberstalking is also an active threat to safety and security. Techniques are presented herein that re-use existing network components (including wireless capabilities, elements of an advanced digital network architecture, a cloud-based location services platform, and an identity and access control policy/mobile device management (MDM) platform) and leverage existing capabilities …

Extension To Nft Smart Contracts For Fine-Grain Management Of Copy Rights For Digital Media Contents, Hp Inc

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) enable tracking ownership of digital media contents, such as images, photographs, videos, music, media streams, … in blockchain based distributed ledgers. However, in the current common implementation of NFTs, using de-facto standards such as ERC- 721, there is no way to protect the digital media data associated to the NFT. So, although the intention of the content creator may be protecting the copy rights of the digital media, this cannot be ensured with current common implementations. The proposed solution addresses this issue by allowing the content creator to specify in the NFT contract the rights for using …

Authentication And Key Management Of Iot Applications With Extended Wifi Authentication (Wifi Akma), Rajesh I V, Ram Mohan R

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Internet of things (IoT) devices frequently apply insufficient authentication mechanisms with their application servers due to the constrained nature of such devices. For example, most IoT devices lack the resources that are necessary to store usernames and passwords, certificates, and keys in a secured manner. The challenge that was described above is solved in a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth-generation (5G) wireless environment through the Authentication and Key Management for Applications (AKMA) initiative. However, there is no AKMA-equivalent facility within a WiFi environment. Accordingly, techniques are presented herein that extend the WiFi authentication process to support application server authentication …

Moving An Online Collaboration Meeting From A Pc To A Mobile Device, Xiaodong Shao, Kai Wang, Mithun Baphana, Preton Xie, Wallis Tong, Yang Cai

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When users are employing a meeting within an online communication and collaboration facility (which brings together capabilities such as video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, Web conferencing, and calling), the process of migrating the meeting from a personal computer (PC) to a mobile device is frequently difficult and may even be annoying. For example, a user may need to repeat the complete meeting process (such as entering a password, confirming a disclaimer, etc.) and their account and meeting status may also be lost during the process. To address the type of challenge that was described above, techniques are presented …

Artificial Reality Enhanced Learning, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes techniques for performing a medical operation in an artificial reality environment. The described techniques include providing, via a user device configured to render the artificial reality environment, first artificial reality content that simulates performance of the medical operation. Anatomical features of a subject being treated by the medical operation are labeled. An audio signal corresponding to a video frame of the first artificial reality content is determined and the video frame is annotated based on the audio signal. The techniques further include reproducing the audio signal based on determining second artificial reality content corresponding to the performance …

Unitary Ported Shroud For Compressor Housing For Flow Stability And Noise Reduction, Mohan Javvadi

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Ported Shroud for a turbocharger allows air from downstream of compressor to recirculate back to upstream in order to increase flow stability and avoid surge. However, this results in an increase in noise produced by turbocharger. Noise suppressors that are typically added at the inlet to address this problem make inlet assembly complex and increase the cost. This article proposes a novel design of ported shroud that also functions as noise suppressor.

Automatic Selection Of Suitable Device For Call Origination, Anonymous

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Many users have multiple devices with calling capability available, e.g., smartphone, smartwatch, or other mobile devices. In scenarios where multiple devices are available, a user may attempt to initiate a call on one device, while another device may actually instantiate and service the call. Techniques are described herein that provide robust call origination through intelligent analysis of the current operating condition of multiple available devices to select an appropriate device to place the call. Per the techniques, various mobile client devices connected to one another are analyzed to determine the thermal status, radio conditions, and ongoing activities of each device. …

Image Capture For Bill Self-Submission And Automatic Cross Validation, Paras Mamgain

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Automated bill payments work so long as a bill has been generated and shared with the customer; such is the case for services such as broadband, mortgage payments, etc. However, for utility services (gas, electricity, water, etc.) to customers with legacy (e.g., not internet-enabled) meters, the service provider lacks the information required to generate the bill until a person tasked with reading meters visits the customer location and reports the meter reading. This disclosure describes techniques to enable a customer to self-generate a utility (or other service) bill by uploading a photo of the current meter reading via a payment …

Gesture Detection Using Doppler Sonar, D Shin

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While some computing devices include specialized hardware for gesture detection that enables hands-free operation, many commodity devices such as laptops do not include such hardware. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to automatically detect gestures performed in proximity of commodity devices at no additional cost by employing the on-device speakers and microphone as a Doppler sonar (sound navigation and ranging). The on-device speaker(s) generate an ultrasonic ping signal inaudible to the human ear and the device microphone(s) capture reflections from the user’s body parts. The type of Doppler shift in the reflected signal can indicate the direction of …

Detecting The Direction Of A Uwb Anchor Or Tag Using Secondary Radiation, Kiavash Faraji

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An ultra-wideband (UWB) tag is a device that can be attached to objects to locate them or for other operations such as unlocking a device based on proximity to another device. Common implementations utilize at least three antennas on the device that detects a precise location of a UWB tag. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage secondary radiation caused by the metal case of a laptop (or other devices) to accurately locate a UWB tag while utilizing just two antennas, simplifying hardware design and reducing cost.

Camera Focus Adjustment Using Depth Estimated Via Ultra-Wideband (Uwb) Handshake, D Shin

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Many video conferencing applications support portrait mode where the participant is in focus and their surroundings are blurred. Portrait mode based on computer vision techniques can sometimes be unsatisfactory due to difficulties in separating the user and the background. This disclosure describes techniques that use existing ultra-wideband (UWB) hardware on commodity devices to perform crisp and more accurate segmentation. A UWB handshake protocol is utilized to estimate the distance and angle between the camera and another device that the conference participant is wearing. The estimate is used to automatically adjust camera focal length to focus on the conference participant while …

Personalized Shopping Via Conversational User Interface, Abhishek Yadav, Amit Handa

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Online and offline shopping activity often requires shoppers to spend substantial amounts of time researching, finding, and refining their product search to identify the right product that meets their requirements. Some of this time may be spent in searching and filtering results on general-purpose search engines or merchant websites, neither of which are optimized for shopping related research. This disclosure describes techniques that enable shopping via a rich, multimedia conversational interface. The techniques provide an online shopping experience that is simple, uncluttered, and does not overwhelm the user. The user is provided guidance throughout their shopping journey.

Measuring Audio Smoothness, Richard Zhang, Colin Downs-Razouk

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may determine audio smoothness (e.g., an aspect of audio quality) of an application session based on an audio smoothness metric that measures the number of bytes of an audio sample that arrive at audio output device (e.g., a headset, an earpiece, a speaker, etc.) on time. For example, the computing device may determine the audio smoothness metric based on the number of buffer overruns (e.g., an anomaly that occurs when a program writes data to a buffer at a faster speed than the data is …

Behavior Of A Multi-Planetary Search Engine, Ashish Duggal

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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for providing search results to users located in remote areas utilizing local hardware and locally cached data to return search results at little or no cost and providing a greater search breadth tier that utilizes remote hardware and data with an associated cost. User profiles associated with the users located in the remote areas may drive an aggregate, anonymized and frequency adjust model to determine subjects of interest to the plurality of users.

Global Fraud Detect, Simon Hopley

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for aggregating card transactions to detect fraud globally, wherein transactions that take place when the issuer’s accounts are known to be in a sleep state condition or comparable condition. The present disclosure suggests collecting data from an issuer, where there is a failure to detect system-wide fraud. Thereafter, the issuers are enabled to share fraud findings that may include more than simply one card network’s cards. Also, the present disclosure enables cross-card program frauds to be detected and stopped considerably more quickly, consequently reducing the size of a fraud and …

Real-Time Insights-Guided Beforehand Call Status And Quality Prediction Alerts For To-Be-Called Number, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain, Rajarathinam Chidambaram

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Based on a number of factors (including the available bandwidth, network issues, or service provider issues), when a call is made that call may or not be successful. Additionally, the quality of a call may also experience a setback due to those factors. Currently, there is no “beforehand” guidance system in place within a call control ecosystem which can alert a user to the probable relevant issues before a call is made. Techniques are presented herein that address that deficiency. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass a Real-time Intelligent Insights Engine as part of a real-time calling solution (within, for …

Personalization Of Graphical User Interfaces - Id-06099, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to an adaptive user interface (UI) for controlling a kitchen appliance, e.g., a hob system. The hob system comprises a display unit and a programmable microcontroller (µC) which communicate with each other. The display unit is a TFT display and shows the adaptive user interface (UI) allowing the user to interact with the hob system. The programmable microcontroller (µC) is configured to receive the input signals from a user via the adaptive UI and deliver commands to the UI or operational components of a hob system. The adaptive UI may include featured icons, cooking functions, setting modes, …

Templatized, Attribute-Driven Search To Generate Stories, Nithya Kota, Maneesh Dewan, Ganesh Mallya, Jatin Chhugani

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically generate stories for users based on their spending histories. The stories can be formed by aggregating or clustering transactions around common themes or attributes using templatized search. Templatized searches are filled on the fly, and with user permission, are executed over the user’s transaction history to obtain matching results. The search results are used to form a story that can be displayed to the user in engaging and insightful ways, e.g., spending locations highlighted on maps; spending histograms; spending versus time; summary statistics (sum, average, max/min); etc.

System And Method For Cumulative Information Overlay To Adapt Motion Behavior In Vehicles, Anonymous

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The presence of deteriorated road conditions like potholes, damage to roads, black ice on a road can adversely impact components of the vehicle passing over such spots and create unpleasant driving experience to the users in the vehicle.

Current systems utilize data from front axle data to adjust rear axle parameters on impact, tire data, crowd reported information, accidents on third party assisted map devices, or detected pothole.

There have been methods to adapt ride based on sensing and analysis. However, they don’t have real time data, visual overlay of information based on recorded sensing data, localized precisely with fusion …

Network Status Management And Networkless Logging, Theodore Obbard, David Phillips, Bhawana Sharma

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This disclosure describes techniques of networkless logging of client application events when the client device does not have an internet connection. Networkless logging as described herein is request-agnostic, stores requests locally (e.g., on device memory or disk), and, if a network connection is presently unavailable, sends out the requests at a later time when the network connection becomes available. This disclosure also describes a network status manager that can accurately and reliably obtain the state of the network (connected or disconnected) by sending fast, lightweight requests to a remote endpoint that is geographically close to the user.

Autopayments Via Account Abstraction, Andrew Beams, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mohammad Mohsen Minaei Bidgoli, Mahdi Zamani, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Wanyun Gu

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The present disclosure focuses to simplify the user’s ability to make autopayments without making use of the private key associated with the user while using a non-custodial wallet. The present disclosure describes that without making use of user’s private key, a smart contract can make an autopayment on behalf of the user to the merchant to whom the user wishes to make the payment. In other words, the smart contract will make the automatic payment to merchants associated with the user if the merchant’s details are present in the allowed list of the user, else, the smart contract may reject …

Supporting L2 Multicast In L2vni-Only Deployments, Rajeev Kumar, Sanjay Hooda

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Techniques are presented herein that support an optimized Layer 2 (L2) multicast capability in software-defined access (SDA) fabric environments by modifying Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping, IGMP forwarding, and multicast forwarding behavior in such environments. Such modifications help to address multiple customer requirements where customers need multicast traffic to be forwarded at L2, especially for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass modifying multicast router (mrouter) learning, handling IGMP control traffic, and handling sources and receivers.

Automatic Detection Of Phrase Boundaries And Highlighting Phrases In Text, Ajit Narayanan, Rain Breaw Michaels

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This disclosure describes techniques to display text in a way that enhances readability through phrasal grouping. Using dependency-parsing techniques, sentences are automatically split into phrases. The display of text is adapted to phrasal groupings, e.g., using highlighting, with or without synchronized audio. For example, a text-to-speech (TTS) reader voices phrases sequentially while the phrase currently being voiced is synchronously highlighted. The grouping of text into phrases and their highlighting during audio-visual consumption by the user can improve comprehension.

Antennas Embedded In The Front Frame Of Smart Glasses, Joshua Moore, Josh Tiffin

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Ergonomic head-up display is enabled by reliable, low latency, radio frequency (RF) communication between smart glasses and smartphones. The form factor of antennas on head-worn frames is impacted by the proximity of the frame to the human head and by cross-body interference. In addition, the large bandwidth required on the glass-to-phone link entails the use of multiple antennas, limiting the space available to route signals. The presence of antennas also restricts the choice of material for the front frames. This disclosure describes a multi-element, front-frame structure for smart glasses that enables metallic front-frame materials that enable superior cosmetic, structural, and …

Smart Cookware Usable For Pan And Food Sensor - Id-06016, Christian Mohr

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Active Capacitors To Supply Surges In Power Demand, N/A

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To control thermal runaway in PCIe, SATA, and similar interfaces, the maximum drawable power from a slot is limited. The increasingly bursty load (including CPUs, ASICs, motors on HDDs, etc.) on the PCIe/SATA slot demands such power that the electrical design power (EDP) can be much larger than thermal design power (TDP). When this happens, the slot power specification can limit the performance of the load, and the datacenter power supply design needs to be overprovisioned for the EDP, if it can last long enough. This disclosure describes techniques of local energy storage that enable riding through EDP power excursions …

Correlation-Mode Gossip Protocol, N/A

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This disclosure describes a noise-tolerant gossip protocol suitable for a network of nodes communicating via noisy channels such as radio frequency or ultrasonic waves. The probability of error between two nodes is modeled as increasing with inter-node distance, mirroring the decay of electromagnetic or acoustic energy with distance. A node with information to transmit randomly selects one or more nearby nodes for reception, with the selection weighted towards lower error probability (geographically closer) nodes. A node that receives information retransmits the information to other nodes after confirming the veracity of the information by performing redundancy correction, e.g., by performing a …