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Low Latency Low Loss Under 1 Msec Protection In 5g/Lte-A Packet Fronthaul, Prashant Anand, Dinuraj K, Guru P. P, Manoj Kumar

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Protection switching is important in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation (5G) fronthaul network and for ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) types of applications. For example, protection switching requirements may necessitate an under one millisecond (msec) low loss and low latency protection switch over to, among other things, avoid a cell reset and support the emerging area of URLLC. To address those types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support, among other things, a dedicated protection mechanism that is handled in a data plane where such protection switching is triggered in the data plane itself without …

Automated Audio Generation For Testing Voice Interface Devices, Amit Singhal, Yao-Jen Chang, Srikrish Subramanian, Xinchen Wang

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Testing of voice interface devices across multiple languages and locales is difficult due to factors such as the lack of availability of native speakers, inconsistency of human speech samples across languages, difficulty in scaling the number of human-provided query samples, etc. This disclosure describes the use of automated translation and text-to-speech generation technologies to obtain machine-generated audio in various languages. A set of query strings is translated into multiple languages and a text-to-speech synthesizer generates a consistent set of audio samples. The generated audio samples can be used to test voice interface devices.

A Method To Automatically Manage Ai Training Task On Hybrid Computing Platform, Hp Inc

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Developing AI model is becoming more and more complex. Researchers need to manage

heterogeneous computing resources to run their training tasks. We propose a system to manage

all the heterogeneous computing resources and schedule AI training tasks. This system can

greatly reduce researchers’ effort on managing resources and training tasks. With this system

researchers can focus on developing AI models with lower cost and higher efficiency.

Optimizing Data Transport From A Sender To Receiver Storage Device Utilizing A Smart Network Interface Controller (Smartnic), Michael Kowal, Stephen Orr, Ray Blair, Kapil Bakshi

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Within a computer network environment, solutions that address the issue of performance degradation between a network interface controller (NIC) and a disk device (i.e., NIC-to-disk) are lacking. To address that lack, techniques are presented herein that support a Smart NIC (SmartNIC) containing a built-in storage controller that leverages multiple metrics (e.g., storage throughput, storage disk health, and Internet Protocol (IP) traffic throughput) to influence network configuration and/or flow control on a remote SmartNIC and, thus, address NIC-to-disk performance. For example, a SmartNIC may detect congestion or a speed mismatch between itself and the disk to which it is writing and …

Testing Library For Smart Driving Companion Applications, Rafael Lima, Billy Lam

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This publication describes systems and techniques for providing a testing library for smart driving companion applications. A smart driving companion application may be an application that executes at a mobile computing device, such as a smartphone, to project a graphical user interface (GUI) to the head unit of a vehicle, such as by projecting its GUI to a display device of an infotainment system of a car or truck. A developer may write a smart driving companion application that uses a smart driving companion library that is specific to smart driving companion applications. A developer of a smart driving companion …

Enabling In-Context Shopping By Unbundling E-Commerce Processes, Wenfeng Li, Amit Handa, Sunil Nambiar

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Shopping aggregator services list products and services from third-party sellers and marketplaces. Sellers can choose to use shopping aggregators for listing only or can delegate the entire selling operation to the shopping aggregator service. In each case, the front-end selling aspects of the transaction and the back-end payment and order processing are performed by a single entity. This disclosure describes mechanisms that unbundle the full chain of operations for an e-commerce transaction by separating the user interface of the front-end selling operation from the back-end operations, enabling shopping aggregators to handle front-end selling while enabling sellers and marketplaces to retain …

Zero Touch Provisioning Of Resilient Ethernet Protocol Rings, Ramesh R, Sonal Shah, Nipun Joy

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When a network device comes online, a fair amount of manual configuration needs to take place before the device is fully functional. Day Zero techniques automate such processes, bringing network devices into a functional state with minimal- to no-touch. However, today a resilient Ethernet protocol (which for convenience may be referred herein to as ‘REP’) does not support Day Zero technologies, since by design there is no support for this requirement at the protocol level. Consequently, current REP ring provisioning requires manual intervention, is time consuming, and involves high operational cost. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented …

Processing-In-Memory For Weight Updates In A Neural Network Accelerator, N/A

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Leveraging the vectorizability of deep-learning weight-updates, this disclosure describes processing-in-memory (PIM) techniques for weight-updates in a large class of deep learning networks. Rather than importing the state of the deep-learning optimizers to the computational die, the techniques send gradients to a die of a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stack and perform the modest number of optimizer updates in compute units located in the die. Since reads and writes are done inside the HBM stack, the techniques can substantially reduce the CPU-HBM bandwidth requirements. Weight-related memory traffic, dominant for multilayer perceptrons and transformers, is also reduced.

Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Based Methods And Systems For Maximizing Credit Card Revenue, Avinash Gupta, Dmytro Dovgan, Sunali Sood, Somdutta Sinha, Ghanashyama Mahanty, Nicolas Khoury

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The present disclosure is related to field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and finance that provides AI based methods and systems for maximizing credit card revenue. The objective of the methods and systems disclosed in the present disclosure is to induce spending by personalizing offers and communications that are tailored towards customer need, identifying potential revolvers in the credit card portfolio to give them right line of credit and treatment to enrich their revolving experience, build portfolio balance through installment loan sell and proactively, identifying potential attritors and stop the portfolio leakage. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, the claimed invention provides …

Automatic Personalization Of User Interfaces Based On User Interaction Analytics, Matthew S. Rendely, Tommy Nyquist, Thomas Boonsiri, Tarun Bansal, Michael Crouse, Filip Gorski, Mingpu Hu, David Trainor, Akancha Gupta

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The default user interface (UI) of software applications is the same for all users, even though users differ in terms of their needs and preferences for using the software. UI customization is typically limited to the most advanced and/or highly active users. As a result, a significant proportion of users of a software do not reap the benefits of having a UI that is personalized to them. This disclosure describes techniques to determine and present a personalized UI to each user or an application, with the user’s permission. UI personalization is performed based on analytics of user-permitted data of user …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Dispute Resolution Using Customized Batch Files, Prasad Neelakantam, Venugopala Medahalli, Thaison Chu

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The present disclosure related to method for dispute resolution using customized batch files is disclosed. A method may include receiving a customized batch file including disputed transaction data and metadata. The disputed transaction data may have a customized format. The customized batch file may be communicated to a repository and/or retrieved by a processing engine. The metadata associated may be detected. A mapping from the customized format to a universal format may be determined based on the metadata. The disputed transaction data may be translated from the customized format to the universal format based on the mapping. A plurality of …

Method And System For Automatically Generating Artificial Intelligence Powered Prototypes, Carolina Barcenas, Ms, Harishkumar Majithiya, Mr, Shizhe Ma,, Prasad Kudtarkar, Mr, Sugandh Sachdev, Mr, Roshni Samuel Ms

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for automatically generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered prototypes. Here, a plurality of AI models is provided in a user interface of the system. Further, a selection of a set of the AI models is received via the user interface. For each of the set of the AI models, identification of input features and data sources is received via the user interface for training each of the plurality of AI models. Further, a selection of one or more rules for aggregating model inputs and model outputs is received via the user …

Certified Temperature Measurement, Bernd Lienau

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This disclosure relates to a device for measurement of a temperature in compliance with safety certificate regulations. Disclosed is also a method relating thereto and a control loop for usage of said device.

System And Method For Providing Instant Loading For Requested Payment To White Label Prepaid Card, Oleg Chanchikov

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The present disclosure provides a system and a method to provide instant loading/crediting for requested payment to white label prepaid card, upon initiating transaction from customer. The proposed system provides loan to customer using a pseudo credit card. The proposed system allows Micro-Finance Centre (MFC) to receive loan request along with prepaid card application from customer. The proposed system allows customer to do transaction with the prepaid card and provides instant loan for the requested amount from account of the MFC. The instant loading/crediting of requested amount may be accessed through website or mobile banking application provided by the MFC. …

System And Method For Generating Fund Sufficiency Score For A Cardholder, Guillermo Sepulveda Rodriguez

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The present disclosure provides a system and a method for generating fund sufficiency score for a cardholder. The proposed system generates a fund sufficiency score when there is not enough fund available in account of the cardholder to complete a transaction. The fund sufficiency score is communicated to an issuer through ISO message or API interface. Further the cardholder also receives a message stating confirmation of authorization for the transaction. The proposed system allows the cardholder to pay his bill even when the cardholder account has less funds. However, if the fund sufficiency score for the cardholder is less then …

Smart Ticket System, Aditi Gupta, Pooja Parkash, Berenice Guerra Martinez, Vaibhavi Ashar, David Hanes

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Many event venues allow attendees to present digital tickets through digital wallets or email confirmations using a basic technology, such as Quick Response (QR) codes for authentication. However, the value of the digital ticket stops there. There is no additional function for current digital ticket technology besides basic attendance to an event. This proposal seeks to take traditional digital tickets to the next step by converting them to Smart Tickets, which can encompass metadata that can enable an individualized, automated experience at any venue. By making a ticket 'smart', events can provide different tiers of experiences to different types of …

Smart Walking Stick For Visually Impaired Individuals, Biswarup Pal

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It is often difficult and sometimes dangerous for senior citizens or visually impaired individuals to navigate a busy street or cross a road. Further, senior citizens may forget to take their phones with them and may then be unable to locate themselves using GPS or communicate with their families in case of an emergency. This disclosure describes a smart walking stick for use by the elderly or the visually impaired. The smart walking stick includes a variety of sensors that address the above-identified issues of navigation, obstacle avoidance, low-light vision, self-localization, emergency assistance, etc. The smart walking stick can be …

Data Analytics By E-Commerce Platforms To Generate Recommendations For Merchants, Xinru Yang

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Merchants promote and sell their products and services via advertisements on websites and/or enrollment in e-commerce platforms. Online advertising and aggregation platforms enable merchants to increase their visibility and geographical reach for attracting potential consumers. This disclosure describes techniques for e-commerce platforms to provide merchants with guidance to improve their customer reach by reaching additional potential customers and to and/or to increase customer satisfaction. Such guidance is based on customer data obtained and analyzed by the platform with appropriate user permissions, e.g., using machine learning or other suitable techniques. Implementation of the techniques with permission can help businesses enhance the …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Transaction Authentication, Marcin Witkowski, Maciej Maciejewski, Igor Zacharjasz

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Methods, systems, and computer program products for transaction authentication may use a mobile phone number as a consumer identifier to trigger transaction authentication inside a trusted mobile application. A consumer may select a payment device associated with the application at an e-commerce website, enter the mobile phone number, and in response thereto, receive a notification on a mobile phone associated with the application. The consumer reviews the transaction details and approves the transaction via the application using biometrics and/or a personal identification number (PIN).

Interruptible Decentralized Automated Management Of Bios Passwords At Scale, Parth Shukla

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Access to the hardware settings as well as boot sequence and settings related to certain hardware/software functionality of a computer is protected by an access password for the Basic Input/Output Services (BIOS). While a simple and memorable password can help mitigate the risk of password loss, it provides weaker security, especially if the password is reused across multiple machines of a large fleet. This disclosure describes techniques for automated, decentralized management of machine-specific BIOS password using a centrally managed policy file that each machine fetches to determine if the current BIOS password is to be rekeyed. If a BIOS password …

Redundant Communication By A Driverless Transport System In A Modular Assembly System, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Methods, Apparatuses And Computer Program Products For Analyzing Public Social Content And Providing Social Commerce Content Items To Entities

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An online system for providing social commerce data to one or more network entities is disclosed. The online system may analyze public social content generated by one or more users associated with the online system such as, for example a social-networking system. The online system may determine similarities among data items associated with the social content. The online system may determine whether the data items associated with the social content relates to one or more products. The online system may classify one or more determined similar products into corresponding product groups. The online system may determine trends and insight data …

Client Application Communication With A Host, Rafael Lima

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A projection application for projecting a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet computer, smartglasses, a smartwatch, a portable gaming system, a laptop computer, etc.) to a head unit (e.g., an infotainment system) of 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 process an input provided to a notification of an application installed at the computing device to launch the application. In accordance with the techniques described here, the projection application may …

Method And System For Establishing Cardless Atm Authentication And Validation Using Face Detection, Cesar Otero

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for card-less Automated Teller Machine (ATM) authentication and validation using face detection. The cardholder's image is captured using the ATM's built-in cameras. Determine the weather condition at the present location obtained from National Weather Services and correlate with the CCTV captured image. Thereafter compare the CCTV captured image with the user data stored in a database. Further, verify the user movements by using a motion detection method, and based on verification, user is prompted to enter a PIN number to authenticate the transaction. Based on the PIN number authentication, the user …

Device To Device Content Transfer Using Orthogonal Haptic Codes, D Shin, Rick Marks

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Transferring content such as a link or a photo across devices requires manual steps. For example, such steps may include uploading content to cloud storage from one device and downloading it from the other device, sending the content via email or a messaging app, or pairing the devices via Bluetooth. This disclosure describes secure, single-step, vibration-based techniques of content transfer without explicit device pairing. A transmitting device, e.g., a smartphone, has a haptic motor that is activated to vibrate the device at millimeter amplitude. The vibrations encode the transmitted content, with symbols being selected based on a codebook Upon being …

'Event Mesh' Triggered Method For Hybrid Cloud Chaining Via Tunneling, Akram Sheriff, Dave Zacks, Tim Szigeti, Drew Pletcher, Nagendra Kumar Nainar

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The evolution of cloud native application architectures has yielded infrastructures (comprising microservices, etc.) entailing a variety of challenges. The need exists for an optimum ‘Event Mesh’ type of technique for sending data via asynchronous event handling mechanisms across cloud scale data center sites (e.g., in different regions) that is agnostic to any underlying facilities. Such a sharing of contextual data between clusters across hybrid cloud environments may be referred to as ‘Hybrid Cloud Chaining’ within the context of the techniques that are presented herein. To address the types of challenges that were described above, techniques are presented herein that provide …

Privacy Dashboard, Jingyu Wu, Dave Chung, Joyaa Lin, Sara N-Marandi

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A computing device may display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a privacy dashboard showing permission usage of sensor data (e.g., location, microphone, camera, etc.) and content provider data (e.g., files, media, contacts, calendar, short message service (SMS), call log, etc.) by applications for a given time period (e.g., the past 24 hours, the past 7 days, etc.). The privacy dashboard may include graphs, lists, and other visual indicators for displaying information about the permission usage per sensor and/or per application in a clear, concise, and comprehensible way. In the privacy dashboard, the computing device may include certain types of …

Removing Bias From Deep Learning Systems, N/A

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Generally, the present disclosure is directed to training machine learning models, e.g., deep learning models, such that the impact of any implicit bias in the training dataset on the trained model is eliminated or minimized. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage a generative adversarial configuration with a generator model and a discriminator model such that the resultant trained model (generator) performs its function free of any implicit bias that may be present in the training dataset. The model as trained herein can be any type of machine learning …

Provide Vehicle Microphone For A Third-Party Application, Rafael Lima, Ozge Kirimlioglu, Christian Gonzalez

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When a user is driving 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.), a computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet computer, smartglasses, a smartwatch, a portable gaming system, a laptop computer, etc.) may be located in the user’s pocket, purse, etc., potentially worsening the quality of the audio data recorded by a microphone built into the computing device. To address this issue, the computing device may enable applications installed at the computing device to use microphones built into …

Multi Active Pen Support With Unidirectional Protocol, Hp Inc

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Adding a Bluetooth module to a computing platform allows multiple active

pens having only unidirectional protocol to be supported on the platform.