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Intelligent Redundant Calling Application Overlays For A Unique Device Profile For Enhanced Calling Redundancy, Sharma Venkata Satya Kanchinadham Subramanya

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Calling is a very important, critical, and basic service. Some users may employ a single client application to serve their critical calling needs. However, in the event of a software defect or a crash, such an application may not function properly, thus impacting the critical calling service. Commonly, there is no built-in backup application overlay that may be automatically invoked when an application fails, thus resulting in a loss of service. Techniques are presented herein that strengthen calling application reliability by introducing redundant application overlays using the same user, device, and network profile. Such techniques may catapult calling service provider …

Scrolling And Resizing-Aware Annotation Feature For Communication And Collaboration Platforms, Deepesh Arora, Sreekanth Narayanan, Priya Kesari, Keerthana S

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In communication and collaboration platforms (which may support, among other things, video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, etc.), annotation is a critical feature. That feature is playing a very important role during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) period where, for example, universities and companies are relying heavily upon online meeting experiences to seamlessly deliver classes, sessions, presentations, etc. However, current annotation capabilities are not able to adapt to the dynamic nature of a screen share. To address such a challenge, techniques are presented herein that enhance scrolling within or the resizing of an underlying application. Aspects of the presented …

Obtaining User Consent And Indicating Progress During A Sequence Of Automated Actions, Keun Soo Yim, Adam Coimbra

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Automation of actions within a software application can improve user experience, e.g., by enabling repetitive complex sequences to be performed with no user effort. Such actions can include high-level operations, such as actions to be performed via the user interface (UI) of the app. Automation is typically achieved by requesting that a trusted automation service perform each of the high-level actions, including UI input in non-privileged apps running in user space, in the desired sequence on behalf of the user. This disclosure describes techniques to display appropriate UI indicators and get user consent when needed when a sequence of higher-level …

Synchronizing Page Location Between Physical And Electronic Books Using Bluetooth, Taliver Heath

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When a user reads a physical book and attempts to continue reading via such a device, it is necessary for the user to find a location in the electronic book that corresponds to the page where they left off. Currently, there are no mechanisms to have a bookmark move from the physical world to an electronic book. This disclosure leverages short range wireless technology such as Bluetooth, to synchronize between a physical book and a digital device. The cover and spine of the physical book includes a Bluetooth LTE antenna and a low power transmitter. The current page number in …

Enriching Audio Signals In Augmented Reality With Spatial Attributes Of Sound, Corville Allen, Andy Lavery

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This disclosure describes augmented reality (AR) techniques that spatially track audio signals to enable AR interactivity based on audio and on the relationship of the objects that the audio is attached to. An AR object responds interactively based on the properties and the classification of spatially-tracked audio as well as the intent and sentiment inferred from the audio. Spatially separated microphones are leveraged to localize sounds to objects. Alternatively, video object detection is combined with audio processing to localize sounds to objects. AR objects are tagged with spatial audio classification information as they move such that audio information of the …

Cascading Augmented Sound Interactions Among Virtual And Physical Objects, Corville Allen, Andy Lavery

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Current augmented reality (AR) technology does not enable the transitioning of sounds across scenes on multiple AR devices, or even between AR objects within a single scene. This disclosure describes techniques for audio generated by virtual or physical objects in one or more AR scenes viewed via one or more viewports to create interactions between virtual objects in or across scenes. The interactions can cascade from one or more virtual or physical objects in an AR scene to one or more other virtual or physical objects in or across AR scenes across multiple AR devices.

Identifying Duplicate Apps Across Platforms, Trevor Lu, Maggie Cai, Krystal Rose Higgins, Dominick Ng

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App developers release versions of their apps designed for different platforms or operating systems. While there may be variations between the different app versions across platforms, they are fundamentally equivalent. However, there is currently no way of easily knowing whether an app is equivalent to another. This disclosure describes app deduplication techniques that identify apps that are duplicates. Identification of duplicate apps is performed based on app metadata using rules or machine learning models. App deduplication can improve user experience in a variety of ways, e.g., making recommendations to users discovering apps; suppressing duplicate notifications; helping users identify the right …

Smart Cooking Lid For Individual Cookware - Id-06012, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a smart cooking lid for cookware and for assisting a user in a cooking process. Such a cooking process is performed on a kitchen appliance system, e.g., a hob system including a cooking utensil, the smart cooking lid fitting with the size of the cooking utensil, and a hob appliance. The smart lid comprises a handle, a communication arrangement, and an infrared temperature sensor(s). The wireless communication arrangement and the infrared (IR) temperature sensor(s) are placed inside the handle of the multi-size cooking lid. The IR temperature sensor(s) is arranged to capture the area where the …

Physically Realistic Book Page Navigation, D. Shin

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may use user gesture inputs to a graphical user interface (GUI) to determine a number of pages to move forward or back in paged digital content (e.g., electronic book, document file, digital article, word processing document, etc.). A machine learning model at the computing device may receive values such as contact location, pressure, and velocity of the user gesture to determine the number of pages to move forward or back.

Training data to construct the machine learning model may be obtained using physical books. One …

Using Existing Vehicle Proximity Sensors For Remote Mapping Of Empty Parking Spaces, D. Shin

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A vehicle (e.g., automobile, motorcycle, a bus, a recreational vehicle (RV), a semi-trailer truck, a tractor or other type of farm equipment, a train, a plane, a helicopter, etc.) often has proximity sensors to detect adjacent objects. A head unit of the vehicle may use sensor data such as proximity sensor data to detect an empty parking space. The head unit may then report the detected empty parking space to a cloud computing system, such as a mapping service. Data from multiple vehicles may be used to crowd source a relatively detailed understanding of the amount of empty parking spaces …

Emergency Calling For Low Computing Power Wearable Device, Silva Sung, Nina Chueh, Andy Li

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A wearable computing device (e.g., a smart watch, smart glasses, smart bracelet, etc.), referred herein as a "wearable device" or "device," is described that uses a timer that allows for sufficient time to make an emergency call. The time expectations of an emergency system may be such that low computing power wearable devices have difficulty making an emergency services connection in an expected time period which may result in multiple failed connection attempts. The timer may ensure that the low computing power wearable device has enough time after leaving airplane mode to power up and find a suitable emergency services …

Mechanism To Distinguish Between Sr-Te And Non-Te S-Bfd Return Paths At Sr Head Node, Anonymous

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Segment Routing is an emerging technology in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) over these networks is used as Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) mechanisms to provide fast switchovers and thus meet customer Service Level Agreement (SLA). BFD running over Label-switch Paths (LSP’s) can have MPLS/IP encapsulation in forward and backward directions. In case of Seamless BFD (S-BFD) running over Segment Routing-Traffic Engineered (SR-TE) networks, it may happen that BFD switches to a different MPLS/IP path instead of user configured MPLS path thus compromising the guaranteed SLA.

Enabling Touch Capabilities On Auto Dashboard Screens Without Touchscreens, D. Shin

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A vehicle (e.g., automobile, motorcycle, a bus, a recreational vehicle (RV), a semi-trailer truck, a tractor or other type of farm equipment, a train, a plane, a helicopter, etc.) may have displays to make visual presentations of useful information such as maps, personalized routes, media, etc. Often a separate computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, smartglasses, a portable gaming system, a laptop computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may provide the visual presentation data for the vehicle. Newer model vehicles typically have touchscreen displays, but some vehicles may have displays without an associated touchscreen. In those cases, …

Encrypted Memory Access By Peripheral Devices Of A Confidential Virtual Machine, Marc S. Orr, Rachit Mathur, Erdem Aktas, Andrew Honig

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A confidential virtual machine (CVM) uses a hardware-rooted key to encrypt customer data written to memory. For enhanced security, the CVM makes the plaintext-to-ciphertext map depend on the physical address (PA) of the memory location. Peripheral devices operate not in PA space but in input-output address space. Currently, peripherals can only perform memory accesses without encryption, or need to use a two-pass, high-latency, power-intensive encryption procedure involving a transport key distinct from the hardware-rooted key.

This disclosure describes techniques to enable a peripheral device of a confidential virtual machine to access encrypted memory using a single encryption pass. The techniques …

Innovative Policy Enforcement In A 5g/Cups Network Using Header Enrichment, Milind Nadkarni, Sanjeev Panem Jaya

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Today, content providers are looking to offer personalized services to their subscribers. However, they are restricted by a lack of control over the policies that may be enforced for such subscribers within a mobile operator's network. To address such challenges, techniques are presented herein that introduce an in-band communication mechanism between a content provider and an operator's network. Such a facility enables the content provider and the operator to tailor their services while reaping benefits in terms of reduced capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), avoiding multiple signaling hops, and simplifying subscriber policy management.

Removing Potential Disturbances From Audio Based On Context, Ramprasad Sedouram, Puneetha Pai B P

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may monitor a media presentation and adjust the media presentation based on a detected real-life context. The computing device may use microphones and/or other sensors (e.g., position sensor, accelerometer sensor, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, force sensor, vibration sensor, piezo sensor, humidity sensor, etc.) to detect the context. The computing device may evaluate the media presentation and identify media elements. Based on the identified media elements and the context, the computing device may mute or censor potentially distracting, dangerous, or undesirable sounds or images for the …

Proximity-Based Settings And Functionality, Chinmay Dhodapkar

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A first computing device (e.g., a smart speaker, a smart television, etc.) may employ ultrawide band (UWB) technology (e.g., signals with a bandwidth higher than 20% of its center frequency, or signals with a bandwidth higher than 0.5 gigahertz (GHz)) to locate a second computing device (e.g., a smartphone, mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a wearable device, etc.) in order to automatically perform various actions based on the distance (and, optionally, relative position) between the first computing device and the second computing device. In some examples, the first computing device may use time-of-flight to determine distance between …

Automatically Splitting And Routing Foreground And Background Audio To Different Output Devices For Immersive Surround Sound, D Shin

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In the head-lock mode, headphones operate such that the directionality of sound sources within the audio is locked to the location of the headphones and not to locations within a physical scene. The head-lock mode can reduce the realism of the surround sound simulation due to failure to take into account the rotation or tiling of the user’s head to adjust the directionality of the sound sources. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically provide a more physically accurate surround sound experience by splitting the foreground and background parts of an audio stream. The foreground audio is routed to the user’s …

Automatically Setting Photo Visibility Based On Identifying Users Jointly Viewing Photos, D Shin

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When physically together, users can view photos jointly on a device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, etc. During such a session, inadvertent disclosure of photos not shared jointly with all viewers can happen. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically set photo visibility on a device being viewed by multiple users. With user permission, the front-facing camera of the device is used to capture an image of all viewers. The viewers are mapped to user identifiers and access control techniques are implemented to select photos that are viewable by all viewers. All other photos are set to protected mode …

Depth Estimation Using A Single Near-Infrared Camera And Dot Illuminator, Kuntal Sengupta, Hart Levy, Adarsh Kowdle, Andrey Zhmoginov

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This disclosure describes techniques to estimate the depth map of a scene by illuminating the scene with a near-infrared (NIR) dot projector and by using a single NIR camera that captures the resulting dot-matrix image. The use of a single camera and a single dot projector to estimate the depth map of a scene can significantly reduce the complexity, bill of materials, and calibration procedures for various face-based authentication applications.

Audio Signature Based Hotkeys For Smart Glasses And Other Wearable Devices, Joshua Moore, D Shin

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Techniques are described for augmenting user interaction with smart glasses or other wearable devices that receive audio input. In a configuration phase, a user records an audio signature and links the audio signature to action(s) and/or features to be activated when the audio signature is detected. The audio signature patterns are parameterized based on a number of audio events, a time interval between the events, and the type of audio events. Entropy aware coding is utilized such that the most commonly utilized features are linked to audio signature patterns (codes) that are easier to generate. A trained local audio event …

Vehicular Daylight-Saving Time Changes Watch Dog

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Predictive Activation Of Device Components Based On Partially Decoded Command, D Shin

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Users often invoke a virtual assistant to quickly accomplish routine tasks that require the corresponding components of a device to be woken up from an idle state prior to performing the desired action. Activating the components introduces an inherent latency that can noticeably raise the task completion time and degrade the user experience. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce the latency involved by proactively waking up idle device components by predicting the intended task based on the initial words in a user’s spoken command to a voice based virtual assistant. The net effect of starting the wake-up process based on …

Network-Embedded Zero Trust Agent For Automation And Control Systems, Maik Seewald, Laurent Hausermann, Andre Guerard

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Techniques are presented herein that support a zero trust architecture for (e.g., legacy) devices in an operational technology (OT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) environment. The presented techniques support granular segmentation and access control to critical assets based on a network equipment vendor’s ability to host applications (in this instance a proxy) on network components such as switches. Aspects of the presented techniques comprise three key components or artifacts. A first artifact encompasses a proxy component that is hosted as part of a control system. A second artifact encompasses a proxy component – i.e., a zero trust agent (ZTA) …

A Language For Specifying Rate Limits, Joel Trunick

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for developing a language, which is specific for ‘rate limiting’ in digital transactions. The present disclosure uses a specific language to encode ‘rate limiting’ rules and conditions, such that the encoded language is in a readily understandable format and covers many different use cases for ‘rate limiting’. As a result, the present disclosure eliminates requirement of specific version of server and makes it possible to pass rules from one service to another in electronic format. Further, the users may be able to generate automated reports which is in an understandable format.

Automatic Control Of Lighting During Video Capture, Neil Hendin, Fei Wu

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically optimize lighting conditions around a subject of a video or photograph to produce a better lit image. With user permission, ambient light conditions are analyzed by using image processing and machine learning and available light sources are adjusted to optimize the lighting of the scene. In contrast to traditional techniques that passively adapt to existing light conditions, the described techniques actively modify the light falling on the subject. Effectively, the techniques extend and improve AAA algorithms (auto exposure, auto white balance, autofocus) to include auto lighting. The techniques can be applied in any image …

Smooth Migration Of Sms/Mms Conversations To Rich Messaging Apps, Simon J. Perkins

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A phone-based chat conversation between two or more people can begin via text message, with the participants using an application that supports chat SMS or MMS. Text is a convenient mode to start a conversation because it is simple and works for almost everyone. However, SMS/MMS lack features found in more advanced messaging apps, such as typing indicators, read receipts, reactions, persistent rooms, better behavior in areas with poor cell service, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to provide a simple, one-touch way for users of SMS-based messaging apps to migrate a conversation to richer messaging applications and take advantage of …

Reliable Assembly Of Double-Sided Or Clamshell Bga Devices, N/A

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The top and bottom components of double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) can have different thermal masses and therefore, absorb heat at different rates. During reflow soldering, the component with the smaller thermal mass rises and falls in temperature relatively fast, causing PCB warpage and damage of solder joints. This disclosure describes techniques to equalize the thermal masses of the top and bottom components of a printed circuit board by modifying the PCB and component geometry. Balancing of thermal masses can be achieved by adding or modifying the layers in the package substrate and the PCB to allow for a larger …

Method For Generating Complex-Valued Score For Deep Learning Models, Pei Yang, Peng Wu, Dan Wang

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The present disclosure discloses a method to construct deep neural network models (102) that can generate complex-valued scores in FinTech. The method employs conformal mapping, which maps points in the upper half-plane onto the unit disc while using the complex-valued number in the unit disc as the deep learning model's score. This gives the score two degrees of freedom, which helps to avoid the score overlapping problem that happens when using a real-valued score ([0, 1] interval). For training deep learning models, the approach also includes a loss function. On the basis of the Loss value, the deep learning model …

Unified Script File Format For Provisioning The Adf In A Fira Applet, Mbhb Mbhb, Steven Liu, Ning Zhang

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The Common Service Management Layer (CSML) section of the FiRa specification defines certain procedures that facilitate communicating with a secure element of a device to further facilitate the generation of a dynamic scrambled timestamp sequence (STS). Some of these procedures involve communicating an application protocol data unit (APDU) script file from a service provider to a UWB-enabled device and, in particular, to a FiRa applet operating on the device. The specification does not define a standard format for the script file. This shortcoming is addressed herein by specifying a standard format for the script file in the FiRa specification (e.g., …