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Seamless Transfer Of Ongoing Video Conference By Touching Devices, Diego Rivas, Sweyn Venderbush, Chris Igo
Seamless Transfer Of Ongoing Video Conference By Touching Devices, Diego Rivas, Sweyn Venderbush, Chris Igo
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When a user wishes to switch to another device in the middle of a video call, it requires the user to join the already-in-progress call from the other device and subsequently end the call on the previous device. Such an approach is time-consuming, burdensome, and can confuse others in the video call. This disclosure describes techniques to overcome these shortcomings by enabling users to transfer an in-progress video call from one device to another by touching the two devices to each other. User permission is obtained to access call information, which is provided to the target device via a hardware …
Removing Crutch Phrases From Audio Containing Speech, Ken Schow
Removing Crutch Phrases From Audio Containing Speech, Ken Schow
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Speakers generally find crutch phrases useful to pause and compose their thoughts as they speak. Listeners can find such utterances distracting and/or confusing. Crutch phases in technology-mediated communication such as audio and/or video calls can affect the quality of interaction. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to process speech audio to detect and remove crutch phrases from speech audio. Phrases in the speech are compared with a standard library to detect crutch phrases in the audio stream and to remove such phrases. With permission, natural language processing and/or machine learning techniques can be used to train a model …
Face Mask With Microphone And Speaker For Speech Enhancement, N/A
Face Mask With Microphone And Speaker For Speech Enhancement, N/A
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Wearing a mask muffles the wearer’s voice thus making it difficult for the wearer to communicate and be understood by others. This disclosure describes techniques to improve the output speech from a person that is wearing a mask. Per the techniques, a microphone and a speaker is provided (e.g., as part of the mask) and are configured to add missing frequencies to the speech. Missing frequencies/sounds are identified based on a comparison with normal speech of the user when the user is not wearing a mask and are added by outputting sounds from the speaker.
Ip Spoofing Mitigation Procedure In The Communication Between Two Computers, Punarjeewa Abeysekera
Ip Spoofing Mitigation Procedure In The Communication Between Two Computers, Punarjeewa Abeysekera
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This paper disclosures a method to mitigate ip spoofing in the communication between two computers. Two computing devices: a client type computer and a server type computer communicate with each other. The client type computer does not have a static ip address and can communicate from an arbitrary geographical location. And the server type computer has a static ip address and is stationary. The client type computer has the static ip address of the server type computer built into its memory. The server type computer does not know the ip address of the client type computer in advance. It will …
Android Security, Nancy Mehra
Android Security, Nancy Mehra
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Android is the most popular mobile operating system among the most used touch devices. Today, 80 percentage of touch devices are using Android Operating System . The universality of Android devices has a direct impact on the app store Google Play, which was first introduced under the name of Android Market. Android is an open source operating system. Thus convincingly available and recognized by various operating system and code familiar to java , its applications can be easily developed and implemented on the Smartphones. Thousands of mobile apps are released through the Google Play Store every day ,so to …
Techniques To Detect Nearby Workers And Allow Interactions Through Asset Tracking Systems For Sensor Failure Scenarios, Shridurgha Janakiraman
Techniques To Detect Nearby Workers And Allow Interactions Through Asset Tracking Systems For Sensor Failure Scenarios, Shridurgha Janakiraman
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In industrial Internet of Things (IoT) environments, assets are often remotely tracked and/or monitored to prevent early wear and tear, misplacements, etc. Typically, sensors are attached to assets to facilitate remote monitoring. However, sometimes these sensors can stop communicating or responding to remotely triggered commands and a human may be needed to interface with such assets. Provided herein are techniques in which sensor failures may trigger an asset tracking system to recognize and identify workers in a close proximity in order to use any information from the workers to substitute in the place of missing information and/or to initiate real …
Secure Execution Of Jsonp Scripts Within A Sandbox, Sebastian Lekies
Secure Execution Of Jsonp Scripts Within A Sandbox, Sebastian Lekies
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The same-origin policy isolates web applications from each other based on application origin, but can prevent legitimate data exchange between two web applications with different origins. JavaScript Object Notation with Padding (JSONP) is a workaround for the same-origin policy in which data is inserted into a script file included within another application. However, this approach is vulnerable to malicious or compromised external sources. This disclosure proposes a solution that performs execution of third-party JSONP scripts within a sandbox in order to isolate them and avoid causing harm in case the code contained in the script is malicious. The sandbox is …
Invoking Visual Search With Device Camera Using Intuitive Physical Gestures, Brett Aladdin Barros, Ali Stanfield, Bo Brinkman, Nada Elassal, Paulo Coelho
Invoking Visual Search With Device Camera Using Intuitive Physical Gestures, Brett Aladdin Barros, Ali Stanfield, Bo Brinkman, Nada Elassal, Paulo Coelho
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Invoking a visual search typically requires a user to open an application that supports the functionality before pointing the camera at the space or objects for which visual search is desired. Such an approach for invoking a visual search is time-consuming and cumbersome and limits the types of actions that can be supported by these capabilities. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to invoke visual searches from their device cameras via intuitive physical gestures. Users can then take further actions on objects within view.
Fraud Mitigation On Digital Payment Platforms, Santhosh Kumar Edukulla
Fraud Mitigation On Digital Payment Platforms, Santhosh Kumar Edukulla
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Digital payment platforms enable users to pay merchants and to carry out a variety of online and offline financial transactions. However, there is a risk of fraudulent transactions, whereby payment credentials are misused to post fraudulent charges. This disclosure describes techniques that obtain a fraud rating for a merchant and provide it to users of a digital payment platform prior to the user conducting a transaction with the merchant via a payment application. The merchant fraud rating can be derived based on merchant and fraud rating data obtained by the payment platform from payment networks. The payment platform can also …
Methods To Improve Efficiency Of Highly-Reliable / Ultra-Reliable Applications Using Coordinated Multi-Point Techniques, Mukesh Taneja, Vimal Srivastava, Indermeet Gandhi
Methods To Improve Efficiency Of Highly-Reliable / Ultra-Reliable Applications Using Coordinated Multi-Point Techniques, Mukesh Taneja, Vimal Srivastava, Indermeet Gandhi
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Existing Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) mechanisms do not take into account reliability aspects of ongoing URC (or URLLC) services effectively. Presented herein are techniques that involve enhancing or optimizing CoMP mechanisms for applications that involve Ultra-Reliable Communication (URC) or Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) services. These optimizations can also help to support a higher Highly Reliable Communication (HRC), URC, URLLC, and other Quality of Service (QoS) -aware applications in a network. Further, optimizations are proposed to provide URC or URLLC services over a single Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session in order to save Radio Access Network (RAN) and/or core network resources by …
Humidity Condenser For Potable And Non Potable Water Generation, And Water-Metal-Ground Heatsink, Luca Aiello
Humidity Condenser For Potable And Non Potable Water Generation, And Water-Metal-Ground Heatsink, Luca Aiello
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This working hypothesis involves the use of a humidity condenser with heat sink that works from a depth of 5 meters and beyond (up to 10 meters depending on the sizing requirements), using water, thermal conductive metals and good conductive gravels or soil. The dissipator cools the water so that, with a circulation pump, it cools the exchanger placed in the humidity condenser. The exchanger/condenser, in copper or aluminum, with tube and tube bundle, on the one hand produces condensed water (distilled) and cold air, and on the other hand introduces into the cooling circuit the water slightly heated during …
In-Vehicle Localization Of A Computing Device, D Shin, Wei Li, Jian Guo
In-Vehicle Localization Of A Computing Device, D Shin, Wei Li, Jian Guo
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An in-vehicle system may use speakers and microphones to determine the location of a computing device within a vehicle (e.g., an automobile, a motorcycle, a bus, a recreational vehicle (RV), a semi-trailer truck, a tractor or other type of farm equipment, train, a plane, a boat, a helicopter, a personal transport vehicle, etc.). For example, a vehicle head unit and the computing device may determine the location of the computing device within the vehicle by performing multilateration (e.g., triangulation) based on round trip times (RTT) of ultrasonic pings emitted by various speakers in the vehicle. Based on the location of …
User Authentication To Provide A Secure Cloud Clipboard, Brett Aladdin Barros, Alexander James Faaborg
User Authentication To Provide A Secure Cloud Clipboard, Brett Aladdin Barros, Alexander James Faaborg
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Cloud clipboards that allow seamless copy-pasting of content across devices associated with the same user account are available. However, at present, such clipboards provide content on all devices that are logged in to the user account, which can cause inadvertent leakage of information of the clipboard to another person that may be using a user device at the time the information is placed on the cloud clipboard. Alternatively, the user may be offered an option to select a particular device to which the content is provided, which can fail if the user doesn’t recognize the target device by name. This …
Destination Search With User-Specified Constraints, Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
Destination Search With User-Specified Constraints, Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
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When issuing destination-related queries users sometimes include on or more constraints within the query. Even though a search engine can be used to search for data regarding each constraint individually, users need to integrate the individual results manually based on separate searches for different types of data. This disclosure describes techniques to retrieve and present search results for destination-related queries based on user-specified constraints present within a user query. The results are obtained by performing separate searches based on various constraints specified in the user query and combining and filtering the results to include only those results that match all …
Refinement Of Embedded Payment Links Via User Reports, Hailun Zhu, Guiheng Zhou, Chun Fan, Fausto Araujo
Refinement Of Embedded Payment Links Via User Reports, Hailun Zhu, Guiheng Zhou, Chun Fan, Fausto Araujo
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Payment applications make use of QR codes, NFC tags, etc. to encode information related to particular merchant physical assets and locations. Large scale deployment of such codes is difficult and prone to human error since the payment application provider needs to access merchant information to generate codes specific to each asset and the merchant needs to deploy the codes to specific matching locations. This disclosure describes the use of codes with unique but generic embedded links that can be deployed at any physical asset. When a payment is attempted by scanning such a code, the user is requested to provide …
Proximity-Based Triggering Of Screen Restrictions To Avoid Eye Strain, Eric Liu
Proximity-Based Triggering Of Screen Restrictions To Avoid Eye Strain, Eric Liu
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Viewing device screens in close proximity can cause eye strain. Some devices use front-facing cameras to detect and recognize faces in order to personalize the user experience (UX) to the user close to the device. However, such personalized operation does not include functionality that depends on the user’s proximity to the device screen. Proximity sensing within devices is used to turn the screen off in situations when the device is held against the user’s head. Such capacitive proximity sensing operates at distances from the screen that are relatively short. This disclosure describes techniques to change the operation of a device …
Predictive Road Safety Alert System, N/A
Predictive Road Safety Alert System, N/A
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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically provide alerts to users driving a vehicle when unsafe driving conditions may soon occur. An alert is determined based on vehicle speed and road conditions such as tight curves, pavement conditions, and weather, and with user permission, based on an ascertained skill of the user driving the vehicle as indicated by past driving occurrences. Safe speeds to handle upcoming road conditions can also be output. Described features provide information and guidance regarding appropriate driving speeds based on road conditions, vehicle characteristics, and driver ability.
Secure Communication Using Deterministic Key Rotation Over Elliptic Curves, Ismail Turk
Secure Communication Using Deterministic Key Rotation Over Elliptic Curves, Ismail Turk
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This disclosure describes techniques for using deterministic key rotation in encryption to secure communication of data between clients in a server-client configuration. A unique encryption key is generated by a client for each client message without exchanging the key between clients. The server can translate a message encryption key from one client to a form usable by other clients and send the encrypted message to other clients without performing re-encryption. Described techniques reduce per-message cryptographic load on a server while maintaining communication security, integrity, and privacy.
A Novel Inter-Personal Area Network Communication Mechanism For Large-Scale Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Huimin She, Harbor Dong, Chuanwei Li, Feiliang Wang
A Novel Inter-Personal Area Network Communication Mechanism For Large-Scale Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Huimin She, Harbor Dong, Chuanwei Li, Feiliang Wang
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For large-scale Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), communications between nodes in different Personal Area Networks (PANs) (i.e., inter-PAN communications) typically have to traverse long routing paths, even for cases in which two nodes may be located physically close to each other. Techniques herein provide a novel mechanism to improve inter-PAN communications by utilizing the nodes that are located at the boundary of PANs.
Mechanism To Speed Up Secure Communication Handshakes In Constrained Conditions, Panos Kampanakis, Rupak Chandra
Mechanism To Speed Up Secure Communication Handshakes In Constrained Conditions, Panos Kampanakis, Rupak Chandra
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It is desirable to speed up secure tunnel negotiations in constrained mediums where numerous clients are "competing" to form secure connections to destination servers or endpoints. In support of that objective, techniques are presented herein that minimize the authentication data that is transferred within encrypted tunnel handshakes under constrained conditions where the data can introduce unacceptable slowness or failures. The techniques may apply to Internet of Things (IoT) constrained environments in which bandwidth is sparse and multiple devices are competing for bandwidth. The techniques may also be used on the Internet with post-quantum algorithms, which can introduce unnecessary slowness due …
Individualized Lifelong Learning And Career Portal, Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari
Individualized Lifelong Learning And Career Portal, Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari
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This disclosure describes a career portal that provides career and job related information to a user based on insights into the learning style, aptitude, and career goals of the user. A recommendation engine includes modules for learning style determination and aptitude determination that utilize user-permitted data, e.g., from the user’s online activity and other data sources, to provide individualized course and career recommendations. A dominant learning style for the user is determined and is utilized together with their career goals to suggest coursework for the user to upgrade their skills. The recommendation engine also suggests suitable job opportunities. The described …
Docking And Bridging Devices, Amelia Schladow, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Tyler John Gough, Seth Ryan Benson, Matthew Sibigtroth
Docking And Bridging Devices, Amelia Schladow, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Tyler John Gough, Seth Ryan Benson, Matthew Sibigtroth
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This disclosure describes core devices, like a phone, tablet, or other screen, and how they could be docked to a second device, like a speaker or charger, to take on a new role. This disclosure describes a system that offers more flexibility and allows users to benefit from different combinations of devices. The techniques allow an object to be docked to effectively create a new device, e.g., a tablet docking to a speaker would be like a home hub, and/or to alter their function, e.g., a phone can be placed in a stand or on a charging mat to default …
Novel Secured Inter-Personal Area Network Group Management In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Nan Yi, Wenjia Wu, Huimin She, Lele Zhang
Novel Secured Inter-Personal Area Network Group Management In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Nan Yi, Wenjia Wu, Huimin She, Lele Zhang
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Low-power and Lossy Network (LLN) environments may comprise, possibly among other things, different personal area networks (PANs) resulting in, for example, node communication challenges across or between PANs. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support a novel secure group management method to self-solve the inter-PAN problem that is both low-cost and customer-friendly. Aspects of the techniques presented herein encompass establishing a secure node-to-node (N2N) communication link between involved inter-PAN nodes, automatically looking for the relay neighbors between different PANs (as the inter-PAN node can help with forwarding the local the Routing Protocol for LLN (RPL) …
Method And System For Facilitating Enhanced Security In Connected Environments For Iot Devices, Harish Murali
Method And System For Facilitating Enhanced Security In Connected Environments For Iot Devices, Harish Murali
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for facilitating enhanced security in connected environments for IoT devices. The system comprises a SOAP sender and a SOAP receiver. Here, the SOAP sender and the SOAP receiver utilize truncated TCP packets in corresponding transport layers of IoT protocol stack, instead of using conventional UDP packet and conventional TCP packet. Due to use of modified TCP packet in the transport layer, security is enhanced as compared to use of UDP packet for CoAP implementation at application layer of the IoT protocol stack. Further, due to truncation of the conventional TCP …
Driving Quality Evaluation And Advice Integrated In Navigation Application, N/A
Driving Quality Evaluation And Advice Integrated In Navigation Application, N/A
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This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with specific permission from drivers, to measure and evaluate driver performance when operating a vehicle. Driving actions performed by the driver are evaluated based on the current context of traffic flow, weather, and other driving conditions. Recommendations are output based on driver performance. The techniques can improve measurement of driver performance and can enable comparisons with cohorts. The techniques can be used to generate a driving performance score, detection of road segments that are potentially unsafe, generation of alerts, and/or custom insurance offers.
Bgp-Mvpn Source Discovery For Multiple Rendezvous Points, Aswin Kuppusami, Vengada Prasad Govindan, Mani Panchanathan
Bgp-Mvpn Source Discovery For Multiple Rendezvous Points, Aswin Kuppusami, Vengada Prasad Govindan, Mani Panchanathan
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In multi-site Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) deployments, it is common to have site local Rendezvous Points (RPs) behind each of the Provider Edge (PE) nodes that participate in MVPN communications. Multiple RPs are necessary for de-centralized management and are used to make receivers join the RP most suited to them in multicast. However, it has always been a problem in such topologies that have multiple RPs for receivers to find sources. Presented herein are techniques that provide a mechanism for MVPN source-discovery that can greatly improve the efficiency of source discovery. In addition, techniques herein …
Autonomous Monitoring Of Blood Alcohol Content, Yun Sun Lee, Luke Brantingham, Aaditya Kandibanda, Kavinaath Murugan
Autonomous Monitoring Of Blood Alcohol Content, Yun Sun Lee, Luke Brantingham, Aaditya Kandibanda, Kavinaath Murugan
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A system may autonomously monitor the blood alcohol content (BAC) and/or degree of intoxication of a user by using a machine learning module. The machine learning module may include a machine learning classification model trained on data relating to the user. The system may collect data relating to the user about a first set of characteristics, such as heart rate, body temperature, physical coordination, physical appearance, and speech quality. The machine learning classification model may receive the data about the first set of characteristics to determine a first BAC and/or degree of intoxication range of the user. If the machine …
Health And Safety Reminders Via Augmented Reality Glasses, Ruofei Du, Shengzhi Wu
Health And Safety Reminders Via Augmented Reality Glasses, Ruofei Du, Shengzhi Wu
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With the proliferation of personal electronic devices, the time individuals spend using their devices is an increasing concern. In particular, users may unconsciously spend too much time looking at a screen; their eyes may be too close to a screen, leading to eye strain; their posture may be suboptimal, leading to back or neck strain; etc. This disclosure describes techniques to leverage depth information detected with user permission via one or more sensors to determine when such situations occur and to provide suitable reminders to users, e.g., via augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Dynamic Acoustic Transparency Control System, Guohua Sun, Leng Ooi, Jae Lee
Dynamic Acoustic Transparency Control System, Guohua Sun, Leng Ooi, Jae Lee
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A dynamic acoustic transparency control mechanism for audio devices such as headphones or earbuds is described. The acoustic transparency level for the device is adjusted based on ambient sound detected using an external microphone. In some configurations, an automatic gain control (AGC) block is utilized in the signal path to automatically boost ambient sound to a designed level. In some configurations, a sound pressure level (SPL) is determined based on sound received at the external microphone and a lookup table is utilized to determine a gain based on the received SPL. In some configurations, the applied gain is determined based …
Identifying Speakers And Limiting Displayed Transcription To Select Speakers, N/A
Identifying Speakers And Limiting Displayed Transcription To Select Speakers, N/A
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Machine-generated speech transcriptions are helpful for people that are hard of hearing or individuals who don’t understand the spoken language to understand conversations that take place near them. Augmented reality glasses can display speech transcriptions to help users understand such conversations. However, the display of transcriptions can be distracting when the user wearing the AR glasses is herself speaking. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically identify speakers in a conversation and only display live transcriptions of speech from conversation participants other than the person to whom the transcription is being provided. Speakers may be identified using user-permitted factors, e.g., by …