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Brain-Dependent Biometric Authentication Via Analysis Of User Tasks, And Corresponding Cryptographic Key Generation, Will Drewry
Brain-Dependent Biometric Authentication Via Analysis Of User Tasks, And Corresponding Cryptographic Key Generation, Will Drewry
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Provided are computerized systems and methods for biometrically authenticating a user’s identity using a learned representation of the user’s neurological patterns, processes, and/or decision making, which may generally be referred to as a “biometric brain fingerprint”. Example techniques include asking the user to perform a task and comparing their performance or response to a biometric brain fingerprint learned from prior user performance on tasks. For example, the user’s response can be compared to a predicted response that has been predicted by a machine-learned biometric model that has been trained based on data from the prior user performance on tasks. The …
Gathering Missing Image Elements, D Shin
Gathering Missing Image Elements, D Shin
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The technology relates to requesting missing data and, in particular, missing images associated with a geographic location to update and/or add to a mapping database. The system may utilize incentives to increase user participation in gathering the missing images. The collected images may be used to create a 3D reconstruction of the geographic location. The mapping database may be updated to include the revised, or new, 3D reconstruction of the location.
Automated Detection And Organization Of Objects Of Interest In Human Conversations, Jaime Guajardo, Gabi Lanning, Dmitrii Boiarshinov
Automated Detection And Organization Of Objects Of Interest In Human Conversations, Jaime Guajardo, Gabi Lanning, Dmitrii Boiarshinov
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Human conversations often involve discussion of various objects of interest, e.g., recommended restaurants or movies, items to buy, books to read, etc. However, to remember objects mentioned in a conversation, the participants need to write them down immediately. This disclosure describes the use of a virtual assistant to help users memorize objects of interest mentioned in a conversation. A participant can activate a virtual assistant and instruct it to identify and store objects of interest mentioned in a conversation. Upon receipt of the user command and permission to activate a microphone to listen to the conversation, the virtual assistant utilizes …
Crypto Now Pay Later, Surendra Vyas, Sindhu Shankar Rao, Som Madhab Bhattacharya
Crypto Now Pay Later, Surendra Vyas, Sindhu Shankar Rao, Som Madhab Bhattacharya
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A method and a system for performing transaction based on a Crypto Now Pay Later (CNPL) scheme. The method comprises displaying a payment options window on a user device on successful selection of a product or a service. Further, the method comprises receiving a payment method selection from a customer from the payment options window for payment of the product or the service and performing transaction for payment of the product or service based on the payment method selection. Thereafter, the method comprises presenting a payment transaction statement in equivalent of stable coin value for the performed transaction at an …
Filtering Existing Data Interfaces To Meet Privacy Needs, Hp Inc
Filtering Existing Data Interfaces To Meet Privacy Needs, Hp Inc
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To more readily meet changing data privacy requirements, data source devices include a filtering layer, on top of the data generation layer. Data filters, which specify which data can be exchanged with external devices, are dynamically applied to the data source to ensure compliance.
Dynamic Data And Policy Relationship Technologies For Data Privacy Compliance In Ecosystem, Hp Inc
Dynamic Data And Policy Relationship Technologies For Data Privacy Compliance In Ecosystem, Hp Inc
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A cloud system controls data collection from clients and devices in compliance with privacy requirements without the need for software and/or firmware changes to the clients or devices.
System And Method For Telephonic Payment Credential Collection, Patrick Flanagan, Vanessa Maren
System And Method For Telephonic Payment Credential Collection, Patrick Flanagan, Vanessa Maren
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Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for telephonic payment credential collection. A user, via a communication device 101, can establish a telephonic connection to a client device (e.g., associated with a resource provider) to initiate a transaction. The client device can join an automated payment collection assistant (APCA) application 102 to prompt the user for fields relating to a payment device, translate the fields into text, and authenticate the speech of the user (e.g., by comparing the voice of the user with a stored biometric voice print previously provided by the user). Data relating to the …
Mechanism To Enhance Security Of The Quic Based Communication, Niranjan M M
Mechanism To Enhance Security Of The Quic Based Communication, Niranjan M M
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Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is based on UDP/HTTP and TLS. While TLS provides adequate security, it is not very far to crack it with the increasing compute power of the devices, as TLS is based on Public Key Infrastructure (private/public key) methods, where-in keys are derived mathematically. As we know, asymmetric encryption (PKI) methods are not immune to cryptanalysis attacks from quantum computers, whereas symmetric encryption (with sufficiently large key sizes) is immune to cryptanalysis attacks. Hence there is renewed interest in symmetric encryption methods to deploy quantum secure networks. In short, currently QUIC uses TLS based method to …
Compliant Coherent Module Functional Management, Anonymous
Compliant Coherent Module Functional Management, Anonymous
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The present disclosure relates to compliant coherent module functional management. As network operators disaggregate the purchasing of network elements and co-resident modular coherent technology, it is now important to control the behavior of the pluggable coherent module to match the known-good configuration that has been validated and approved for deployment. Network operators wish to have a single product usable for deployments generally across any/all network equipment. However, different network platforms place different and unique requirements on the pluggable modem. Such unique requirements must be verified and validated at the system level, and once verified, network operators would want to avoid …
Early Detection Of Mental Health Problems, N/A
Early Detection Of Mental Health Problems, N/A
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A portion of psychiatric patients relapse when the treatment runs its course, or sometimes before. The psychiatric or psychological evaluation of patients is complicated by patients’ frequent refusal to cooperate with medical specialists. Such clinical evaluations may also be unable to detect subtle changes in the patients’ conditions or may not be timely enough. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with appropriate permissions, for automatic monitoring of patients to detect changes in the patient behavior that predict a relapse or worsening of their mental health. Various sensors in user devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, or other wearables, as well as other …
Semantic Indexing And Retrieval Of Web Pages In A Web Browser, Duc-Hieu Tran
Semantic Indexing And Retrieval Of Web Pages In A Web Browser, Duc-Hieu Tran
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This disclosure describes techniques for semantic indexing and retrieval of web pages. Per techniques of this disclosure, a web browser includes a semantic bookmark system that indexes the web page content and enables subsequent retrieval of the web page via a semantic search. A content extraction model is applied to extract the content of a web page that is bookmarked. The extracted content is semantically indexed, linked with the corresponding uniform record locator (URL), and stored. During web page content retrieval, bookmarks corresponding to a user search query are retrieved and provided to the user. Semantic indexing and retrieval enables …
Access Control Policy Enforcement Through Route-Based Micro-Segmentation And Contract Tags, Victor Moreno, Sanjay Hooda, Steve Wood
Access Control Policy Enforcement Through Route-Based Micro-Segmentation And Contract Tags, Victor Moreno, Sanjay Hooda, Steve Wood
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Large networks service a significant number of endpoints, each of which access a sizable number of applications. This results in the definition of access control policies that are extremely lengthy and therefore difficult to render in common network elements, such as routers and switches, due to the limited amount of memory (such as ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM)) that is included in such platforms for the enforcement of policies. To address the type of challenge that was described above, various solutions are provided herein through several techniques. A first technique supports, among other things, the scaling of the access control entries …
Determination Of Traffic Utilization For Dwdm Networks And Enhanced Traffic Engineering Applications, Navdeep Sood, Praveen Kumar
Determination Of Traffic Utilization For Dwdm Networks And Enhanced Traffic Engineering Applications, Navdeep Sood, Praveen Kumar
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Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) User-Network Interface (UNI) client (UNI-C) to UNI network (UNI-N) environments created overlay models which broke the isolation barriers between the dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) world and Internet Protocol (IP) router world. Techniques are presented herein that support the bridging of a gap in an IP over DWDM environment. By applying aspects of the presented techniques, a DWDM interface becomes capable of knowing the actual data rate of a given IP interface. Such information is highly useful in traffic engineering (TE) decisions and vendor network optimizations.
Energy Harvesting Battery-Less Smart Card With Vicinity Communication Capability, Yuexi Chen, Mustafa Top
Energy Harvesting Battery-Less Smart Card With Vicinity Communication Capability, Yuexi Chen, Mustafa Top
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The present disclosure focusses to simplifying the user's ability to make payments, accumulate rewards, or authentication by including information relating to multiple cards, and allowing the user to conveniently select a card among the multiple cards by operation of a user input unit, and to use various payment methods. The method includes performing predictive analysis/ early detection of discounts, promotion. Further, sorts and displays the Card Program Promotion Advertisement (CPPA) that may match the card of the user to obtain the offers. Also, identifies the user area of interest based on the time that he/she may spend in front of …
Operating System-Level Survey Platform, Krishna Shukla
Operating System-Level Survey Platform, Krishna Shukla
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An operating system (OS) of a computing device (e.g., a smartphone, mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a wearable device, etc.) may provide a survey platform that applications installed at the computing device can use to generate customizable, general-purpose surveys. For instance, the OS may allow the applications to perform a library call or a remote procedure call (RPC) to generate a customizable survey graphical user interface (GUI), which may be overlay-based, notification-based, etc. In some examples, the OS may control (e.g., restrict, limit, regulate, etc.) usage of the survey platform by the applications based on OS-wide permissions …
Packaging And Propagation Of Molecular Documentation Responses, Vishal Palliyathu, Anu Kothari, Manju Joseph, Swetha K.S
Packaging And Propagation Of Molecular Documentation Responses, Vishal Palliyathu, Anu Kothari, Manju Joseph, Swetha K.S
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Techniques are presented herein that support the tokenizing of semantically enriched information sets (such as the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)) to associate ontological relationships between the various entities and intents in a product information library and rendering them as API responses. The method uses an Inverted Disclosure Plot and a weighted algorithm to determine the order of kinship based on the varied relationships that occur between the extracted entities and various intents. Subsequently, a domain ontology may be generated as a Resource Description Framework (RDF) and, the RDF may be translated into a series of application programming interface (API) …
Method To Support Ipsk For Wpa3 Clients As Well As Reduce Online Dictionary Attacks, Niranjan M M, Vijay Kothamasu, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
Method To Support Ipsk For Wpa3 Clients As Well As Reduce Online Dictionary Attacks, Niranjan M M, Vijay Kothamasu, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
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WPA3 was developed with the backward compatibility into consideration, i.e., if WPA3 is enabled on WPA2+PSK SSID (also called mixed mode), then both WPA3 and WPA2-only clients can associate to same SSID. This will work as long as SSID is configured to use default-PSK. In other words, if SSID is configured with iPSK, then WPA2-only clients can associate to the SSID using iPSK, but WPA3 clients fails to associate to this SSID using iPSK, as current WPA3 SAE negotiation does not consider iPSK (unique PSK per client). Also, WPA3 was introduced to combat offline dictionary attacks on WPA2+PSK by using …
Systems And Methods For Unified Remote Control Of Multiple Appliances And Devices, Shyam Ramamurthy, Puneet Gupta, Kedar Chitnis, Smitha Naik, Nitin Sharma
Systems And Methods For Unified Remote Control Of Multiple Appliances And Devices, Shyam Ramamurthy, Puneet Gupta, Kedar Chitnis, Smitha Naik, Nitin Sharma
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Disclosed herein is an improved mechanism for providing unified remote control of multiple appliances and devices, which can include network-connected devices or devices having network capabilities (sometimes called smart devices) and non-smart devices which do not have such network capabilities. A remote control application executing on a user device can be configured to add devices for remote control, where a remote control configuration file can be retrieved from a cloud service that communicates with the remote control application can receive and manage remote control configuration files for particular devices from device manufacturers and third-party developers (e.g., in response to scanning …
Interactions Of Internet-Of-Things (Iot) Devices With Augmented Reality, Andy Lavery, Corville Allen
Interactions Of Internet-Of-Things (Iot) Devices With Augmented Reality, Andy Lavery, Corville Allen
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Augmented reality (AR) technology today doesn’t incorporate sound, nor does it enable the interactivity of AR objects with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. This results in user experiences that are less engaging than would be possible with accurate sound or IoT device interactions. This disclosure describes techniques that enable information from IoT devices to be classified along multiple dimensions. Such information can be used to obtain classifications to trigger an action in AR or physical space. In an AR scene, the action can be taken by a virtual object such as a virtual or AR assistant. In a physical scene, the action …
Vxlan Extensions For 5g User Equipment Sessions, Mahesh Satyanarayana
Vxlan Extensions For 5g User Equipment Sessions, Mahesh Satyanarayana
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A Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) is typically used to create a Layer 2 (L2) fabric across datacenters and multi-cloud environments. A VXLAN is also useful in isolating traffic belonging to multiple tenants hosted in a cloud environment, or even to bridge applications spread across multi-cloud environments. Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards for Fifth Generation (5G) networks define an Ethernet Protocol Data Unit (PDU) type that provides L2 accesses to user equipment (UEs). Presented herein are techniques to enhance such Ethernet PDU capabilities in order to provide an L2 interconnect between 5G accesses and remote datacenters and/or cloud …
Optical Phased Array Light Shaping, Michael Robert Watts, Katia Shtyrkova
Optical Phased Array Light Shaping, Michael Robert Watts, Katia Shtyrkova
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An apparatus comprises: a photonic integrated circuit comprising an optical phased array, a first focusing element at a fixed position relative to the optical phased array and configured to couple an optical beam to or from the optical phased array, and a second focusing element at a fixed position relative to the first focusing element and configured to couple the optical beam to or from the first focusing element. At least one of the first or second focusing element is externally coupled to the photonic integrated circuit, and the first and second focusing elements have different effective focal lengths.
Semi-Automated User Account Profile Generation Using Existing Social Media Data, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Russell Goldenbroit, Elisabeth Jeremko
Semi-Automated User Account Profile Generation Using Existing Social Media Data, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Russell Goldenbroit, Elisabeth Jeremko
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Online interactive services provide the ability for users to create profiles that specify their preferences and/or interests and showcase their photos. It is burdensome and time-consuming for users to provide manual input of the various pieces of information included in such profiles and to keep the profile updated over time. This disclosure describes techniques for automating the generation of a user profile for an online service. With user permission, a preview of the proposed user profile for a new service is generated automatically based on information about the user aggregated from the user’s other accounts. Data from the other accounts …
Automatic Adjustment Of Wireless Access Point Settings Based On Client-Side Rf Measurements, N/A
Automatic Adjustment Of Wireless Access Point Settings Based On Client-Side Rf Measurements, N/A
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In settings where multiple access points (APs) provide WiFi coverage, the radio frequency (RF) environment experienced by a client device is non-stationary due to various factors such as the emergence and disappearance of hotspots; spectrally uncoordinated APs; the number of clients; the sensitivity of client devices to noise; the mutual distances between clients, RF noise sources, and metallic structures; etc. Since the RF environment experienced by a client device is materially different from that experienced by an AP, attempting to optimize network parameters based on measurements at the AP frequently fails or further degrades WiFi service. This disclosure describes techniques …
Distributed Computing Using Dynamic Local Network Of Edge Devices, N/A
Distributed Computing Using Dynamic Local Network Of Edge Devices, N/A
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Conventional cloud computing operation involves direct communication between nodes in the cloud and individual client devices. Such an approach is inefficient for handling situations in which cloud nodes or client devices may be occasionally offline. This disclosure describes an architecture that provides operational flexibility by forming a dynamic local network of multiple client devices associated with a user that provides redundancy and avoids computing bottlenecks. The dynamic local network is used to distribute computations in a manner that can overcome the bottlenecks that result from a cloud node or client device being offline. When a cloud node is offline, one …
Responsive User Interface Updates For Remote Computation, Xu Cao
Responsive User Interface Updates For Remote Computation, Xu Cao
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Remote display protocols send local user inputs such as keystrokes and mouse clicks received at a client device to a remote server and update the local display based on responses received from the remote server. This can sometimes result in unacceptable latency between user commands and display actions, e.g., when performing computation heavy operations such as computer-aided design, version control for large software repositories, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to generate a low-latency response to user inputs by providing a display module and a compute module within client software that executes locally. The display module locally processes display-related user commands …
Novel Method For Capturing, Storing, And Exchanging Security Key Performance Indicator (Kpi) Data For 5g Network Slicing, Prapanch Ramamoorthy, Akshay Dubey, Vijay Venugopal, Selina Sun
Novel Method For Capturing, Storing, And Exchanging Security Key Performance Indicator (Kpi) Data For 5g Network Slicing, Prapanch Ramamoorthy, Akshay Dubey, Vijay Venugopal, Selina Sun
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Network slicing is a key capability provided to Fifth Generation (5G) mobile network operators. The industry has defined many predefined network slice types that depend on various key performance indicators (KPIs) such as bandwidth, throughput, and latency. However, one missing component, in terms of KPIs for defining network slices, is security, as there is currently no mechanism to translate network security or segmentation of traffic into a 5G core network or Radio Access Network (RAN). Presented herein are techniques to enable micro segmentation of a 5G network by using security as a KPI. The techniques provided herein can be achieved …
Authenticated Machine Learning In 5g Network Deployments, Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
Authenticated Machine Learning In 5g Network Deployments, Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
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Techniques are presented herein that employ a HyperLedger (i.e., a private blockchain) to allow authenticated machine learning (ML) components to interact with each other and sign messages (having pre-processed data) which are exchanged between the components to provide message authenticity. Along with authenticity, aspects of the presented techniques provide for the traceability and accountability of ML components. Aspects of the presented techniques may be employed across different operators and domains wherein a HyperLedger provides for the authenticity of the ML components. Further aspects of the presented techniques may be employed within an operator or within an instance (such as an …
Lawful Intercept In Multi-Provider 5g Deployments Using Holochain, Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
Lawful Intercept In Multi-Provider 5g Deployments Using Holochain, Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
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Since Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth generation (5G) wireless technology enables the potential for billions of connected network devices, a secure and scalable lawful intercept (LI) capability is needed across the mobile core. Although LI for third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) networks is a well-known concept, new challenges are posed with respect to the implementation of an LI capability in a 5G network, particularly when such a network employs a Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) architecture. Also, in a 4G network and in a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) environment a user plane and a control plane are …
Shared Usb-A, Usb-C Power And Charging Ecosystem Based On Devce Landscape, Hp Inc
Shared Usb-A, Usb-C Power And Charging Ecosystem Based On Devce Landscape, Hp Inc
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USB Type‐A and USB Type‐C have separate power and charging specifications under the USB Implementers Forum, Inc (USB‐IF). There is no way for Type‐A ports to share a power budget with Type‐C ports due to limitations in the specifications. Additionally, in many applications that have a strict power budget, it is not possible to supply every USB port on the host system with the necessary power to classify it as a charging or power delivery port. The circuit outlined in this document allows for every port – Type‐ A or Type‐C – on a system to become a charging‐capable or …
Using Low-Level Telemetry In Cloud Platforms To Mitigate Latency Risks For High-Performance Computing, Radu Iorga, Aurélien Legrand
Using Low-Level Telemetry In Cloud Platforms To Mitigate Latency Risks For High-Performance Computing, Radu Iorga, Aurélien Legrand
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Latency minimization is critical to high-performance computing (HPC). Network monitoring tools that rely on out-of-band data to control latency cannot assist latency-sensitive network workloads in real time. This disclosure describes techniques that combine in-band network telemetry (INT) with the software-defined network (SDN) controller used by the cloud platform to mitigate HPC latency. INT gathers hardware-level information about buffer and queue utilization. Such information is used by the cloud SDN controller to make changes to the virtual environment. The SDN controller can directly affect decisions of the HPC master node relating to the assignment of tasks to worker nodes. The techniques …