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Bridge Devices For Wireless Projection Of Vehicle Operating Systems, Sriram Viswanathan, Eugene Koh, Haris Ramic, Mickey Kataria, Zhen Yu Song

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Vehicles may provide an infotainment experience that is hosted by a head unit or other computing device. The head unit may execute a native operating system that provides an execution environment in which an operating system client may execute to support execution of a different operating system hosted by another computing device (e.g., a smartphone, laptop computer, tablet computer, etc.). The head unit may require that the computing device physically interconnect with the head unit as the head unit may not support wireless connections (or only support limited wireless connections in the form of bandwidth limited connection – e.g., personal …

System For Automotive Data Management, Carsten Isert, Tobias Haamel, Ram Bulantnikov, John Patterson

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Vehicles may include computing devices, referred to as head units, capable of communicating with mobile computing devices carried by users. A mobile computing device may store or otherwise have access to data. For instance, a mobile computing device may store an address. While it may be desirable for a head unit to have access to data, it may be inconvenient for the user to provide data to the head unit or the user may be reluctant to provide data to the head unit. In accordance with the techniques of this disclosure, a mobile computing device may share at least a …

Peeking User Interface For Foldable Devices, Yameng Lee Thorp, Hideaki Matsui

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This disclosure describes techniques to utilize an exposed portion of the display screen of a foldable device in a folded state to display a peeking user interface. Per techniques of this disclosure, a user interface displays selected content on the exposed portion of a display screen when a device is in the folded state. The selected content can include important notifications such as incoming calls, received text messages, contextual information, items that need user attention, etc. The exposed portion of the display screen in the folded state can be utilized to display icons associated with applications that are of likely …

Inserting Multimedia Content Captured By One Device Into A Document On Another Device, Thomas Deselaers, Victor Carbune

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Many applications include capabilities that allow users to capture and insert multimedia content into a document by capturing it with the device camera. However, document creation and editing tasks are often performed on traditional desktop or laptop computers on which the camera is typically positioned in a fixed location above the screen. Capturing multimedia content that includes matter other than that located directly in front of the computer screen is awkward and often infeasible. On the other hand, integrating multimedia content captured by another device into a document being edited on the separate device requires a cumbersome and inefficient multi-step …

Suggesting Titles For Audio Recordings, Itay Inbar, Amit Pitaru, Isaac Blankensmith, Dror Ayalon, Tiago Camolesi, Guilherme Santos, James Lemieux, Sherry Lin, Jason Cho

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Techniques of this disclosure may enable a computing device to suggest one or more titles based on the content of audio being recorded or audio that was previously recorded, and other data such as time and location. Rather than applying a general default title or audio file name, the computing device may request authorization from a user to analyze the contents of a recorded audio file and, after receiving explicit authorization from the user, analyze the audio, including speech, and automatically suggest titles that are indicative of the content of the audio and/or other data. The computing device may convert …

Efficient Wireless Network Scans For Computing Devices, Kai Shi, Kumar Anand

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Computing devices increasingly provide wireless network connections rather than wired network connections. In order to support the wireless network connections, the computing devices scan for wireless access points (WAPs) in a number of different ways that may avoid needless consumption of power. For example, the computing devices may support periodic preferred network offload (PNO) scans that enable low-power wireless network scans for so-called “preferred networks” while the primary processor is in a low power (or, in other words, stand-by state). The computing devices may also separately enable roaming scans for switching between WAPs associated with the same wireless network (e.g., …

Providing Content Items Based On Determination That A Chat Conversation Relates To A Business Transaction, Anonymous

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An online messaging application receives content that describes a conversation conducted via the online messaging application between a user and a business entity having a presence on the online messaging application. Features are extracted from the content and a transaction prediction model is applied to predict a likelihood that the conversation describes a transaction between the user and the business entity. Based on the predicted likelihood that a transaction has occurred, content items are identified for presentation to the user.

Improved Message Facilitator For On-Time And Quick Response, Amy Zhang, Cliff Sze

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Increasing reliance on written electronic communication has created a need for automated ways for users to efficiently manage and respond to the various emails, texts, and other electronic messages that they receive. Some solutions have already been introduced to help remind users respond to messages after some number of days have passed, and to help users compose messages. However, through the use of natural language processing, these features can be improved so that users are kept aware of pending response deadlines, and presented with proposed responses that take account of the context of a given message, as well as any …

Method For Providing An Independent Power Source For Integrated Lot Beaconing Device Within A Mobile System, Hp Inc

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Disclosed is a method that describes how to provide an independent power source for an integrated IoT

device that maybe used on a mobile system. Typically, a mobile system will have a battery that supplies

power to all of its system resources. This battery will be charged when needed to supply power to the

entire mobile device. However, when the battery is completely discharged there is no way to provide

power to the system unless the system is plugged into an AC outlet.

Triggering Alarms At Dynamic And Flexible Times Based On External Factors, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers

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Users often set alarms to be reminded of events or tasks that occur at specific times. In addition to specifying a time, alarms can be set in the form of a timer that goes off after a specified period. Currently, setting an alarm requires that the user know in advance the specific time or period when the alarm is to go off. This disclosure describes the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for setting alarms on a user’s device with the user’s permission. Such alarms can be set to go off at a time that can vary dynamically instead of …

Efficient Cellular Radio Access Management For Mobile Computing Devices, Meng Wang

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Next generation cellular radios are being developed that facilitate higher (compared to legacy cellular radios) bandwidth, lower latency, etc. While mobile computing devices may include the next generation cellular radios, deployment of next generation cellular base stations that provide full next generation support is sparse. As such next generation cellular radios have only recently been introduced, the next generation cellular radios have not been subjected to extensive power optimization, resulting in significant power consumption (particularly when not connected to the sparsely deployed next generation cellular base stations). Techniques described in this disclosure enable efficient cellular radio access management for mobile …

Smart Power Management On Multi-Unit Usb Power Delivery Chargers, Hp Inc

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Multi‐unit USB power delivery chargers allow multiple notebooks/devices to charge simultaneously from

a single charging station through USB power delivery over USB Type‐C ports. Such chargers are powered

from a fixed capacity power supply and are responsible for charging multiple units of varying power

requirements. The technique described below enables the multi‐unit charger to regulate charging

capabilities of different ports and implement a scheme that allows maximum number of notebooks to

charge in a given time with a fixed power supply.

Ifs - Intelligent Friend Ship, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Combining Detected Motion With Multiple Facial Images For Biometric Authentication On An Electronic Device, N/A

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This publication describes techniques for combining detected motion with multiple facial images for biometric authentication on an electronic device. The motion is detected by one or more motion sensors on the electronic device. The motion may be indicative of a gesture made by the user of the electronic device, for example, a twist of the device in the user’s hand. Motion information is analyzed to determine a user’s intent to access the device. Responsive to determining a user’s intent to access the device, multiple images of the user’s face are captured by a front-facing RGB camera to build a composite …

Intelligent Selection And Utilization Of One Or More Provider Plans, Matt Ruhstaller, Phil Ames

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This paper describes techniques for intelligently selecting and utilizing components of one or more provider plans, such as one or more mobile service provider (e.g., mobile carrier) plans, which are configured for use on a mobile computing device. Various modern mobile computing devices are equipped with two or more subscriber identity modules, or SIMs. The techniques of the present paper enable a mobile computing device (e.g., smartphone) that is equipped with multiple SIMs to intelligently select and utilize a particular mobile service provider plan, or components (e.g., voice, text, data components) of multiple different service provider plans that are associated …

Contextual User Experience Based On Altitude Or Air Pressure, Hp Inc

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An air pressure or altitude sensor in a computer is used to automatically adjust

operating settings of the computer based on an altitude, or change in altitude, of the

computer.

Type C Function Explorer For Usb-C Device, Hp Inc

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An App assists a user with identifying and resolving connection problems

between a host and a USB Type C device by conducting a VDM session with the device.

Travel Itinerary Mapping And Planning Using Image Search, Diane Wang, Aiko Nakano

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Users refer to online content such as travel blogs, travel videos, etc. for inspiration regarding places to visit and things to do. However, such content often does not include place annotations. Due to this, the user needs to perform multiple web searches to identify points referred to in the content. This disclosure describes techniques to provide users with information based on analyzing an image. The user can provide an input image or video, which is analyzed to recognize depicted objects or places. Information regarding the identified objects, e.g., location, knowledge base information, additional images of the object, place suggestions based …

Generating Dynamic Emotive Animations For Augmented Reality, Manuel Christian Clement, Anshuman Kumar

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The method may include receiving, at a user interface generated for the electronic device, an indication to access an augmented reality fitting environment associated with at least one shopping item; receiving a selected image of a location in which to display the augmented reality fitting environment; obtaining user measurement data, shopping item data, and emotions analytics data associated with the augmented reality fitting environment; and generating, based on the obtained user measurement data, a plurality of three-dimensional avatars representing a user accessing the augmented reality fitting environment on the electronic device. For each avatar, the method may include generating, using …

Virtual Assistant Based Study Guide, Justice Ogbonna

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This disclosure describes a virtual assistant based study guide that helps students preparing for examinations. The virtual assistant is fed with textual material and past exam papers. The virtual assistant answers questions derived from the corpus and indicates how it arrived at an answer, e.g., by pointing to locations in the corpus that it used to construct the answer. The virtual assistant can also compose questions for the student to answer.

Application User-Interface Specific Emotional Response Collection, N/A

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A computing device is described that is configured to determine an emotional response of a user to an application being used by the user. For instance, when an application developer wishes to improve an application, the computing device may collect emotional data by utilizing sensors (e.g., cameras, microphone, touch panel, motion sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope, etc.) embedded within the computing device running the application. The computing device may correlate the collected emotional data to specific portions of the application so that the computing device may locate within the application where the emotional data appears to suggest the user is confused. For …

Interworking Between Legacy And Next-Generation Multicast Virtual Private Network (Mvpn) Transports, Arvind Venkateswaran, Rishabh Parekh, Ijsbrand Wijnands, Jayashree Subramanian

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Proposed herein is a technique that allows next generation (next-gen) Provider Edge (PE) devices with minimal investment in legacy transports to interwork with legacy multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) PE devices.

Universal And Automatic End-To-End Testing Of Smart Tvs, Ping Zhou, Amit Agarwal, Achal Pandey, Eric Yin

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End-to-end testing of smart TVs has proven to be challenging due to various reasons, such as: the proprietary nature of hardware and software from different TV manufacturers; the difficulty of identifying performance bottlenecks due to visual rendering being performed by cloud-based renderers; etc. As a result, end-to-end testing of a smart TV still relies heavily on time-consuming and costly manual testing. This disclosure describes a framework for end-to-end testing of smart TVs that is automatic, e.g., uses minimal human intervention, and universal (agnostic to TV manufacturer).

Recognition Of Spelled Out Words In Spoken Queries, Felix Weissenberger, Victor Cărbune, Bogdan Prisacari

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This disclosure describes techniques to enhance automated speech recognition by enabling automatic recognition of words spelled out by users. Machine learning techniques are utilized to detect explicit user intent to spell out a word as well as detect spelled out words without an explicitly stated user intent. If it is determined that the user is spelling a word, a spelling mode is triggered wherein received letters are concatenated together to form a word. If the user permits, data that includes the user context, audio of the word, audio of the user spelling out the word, and the textual representation of …

Wireless Charging Dock With Low Frequency Speaker, Luigi Zevola

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High quality audio playback requires faithful reproduction of low, middle, and high frequency portions of audio. Low frequency sound playback on small devices such as mobile phones is difficult because of the relatively small size of the transducers used and other constraints. This disclosure describes a charging stand with a built-in speaker that receives and plays low frequency portion of audio from a phone coupled to the stand. The speakers in the phone are utilized for playback of other portions of the audio. Low frequency audio content is obtained using a low pass filter on the phone and is sent …

Quick And Convenient Establishment Of Wireless Communication, Feng-Jui Kuo

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Communication between paired Bluetooth devices is not always immediate. This is because there are often several devices in the vicinity that are paired with a user’s device, and the user may need to go through a process of selecting one of the paired devices to route communications. This device selection procedure can be further complicated by the sometimes cryptic names assigned to the devices. Per the techniques of this disclosure, images of a Bluetooth accessory are captured at the time of pairing with a Bluetooth device. The user points a camera to the Bluetooth accessory to establish a communication path.

Browser That Provides Website Navigational Assistance, Benjamin Azose, Kathy Brennan Phd

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It is often not clear to a user of a web browser as to where to go next when viewing a website. This disclosure describes techniques to ease web navigation by providing the expected next link in a clear and useful way. The techniques include display of a prominent browser next button that allows the user to select and navigate to the next page from a webpage. The described techniques can be implemented in a web browser application or other applications that display webpages.

An Auction-Based Marketplace For Notifications Delivery, Rio Akasaka

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A notification delivery module is described that enables a computing system to selectively deliver notifications to a user. The notification delivery module may set a total budget (e.g., a total number of notifications a user may receive for a week) for the user based on prior notification delivery history. The notification delivery module may change (e.g., increase or decrease) the total budget for the user based on user history (e.g., volume and quality of the notifications that are delivered and interacted by the user). The notification delivery module may periodically (e.g., every 24-hour window) allocate a budget to every application …

Pacing Data Consumption For Computing Devices Using Daily Data Allocations, David Hoffman

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Network providers (e.g., a cellular data provider, cable internet provider, or other network provider) allocate a finite or fixed amount of cellular data or mobile data to a computing device for use during a time period (e.g., one month). A computing device may partition or divide the total amount of data into a general data pool and a reserve data pool. The computing device may divide the general data pool for the time period into smaller amounts of data for a portion of the time period (e.g., daily). For example, the computing device may determine a daily data allocation, allotment, …

Virtual Lottery, N/A

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Users typically purchase lottery tickets at brick-and-mortar vendors. Users need to physically visit the vendor, securely store the lottery ticket, and perform manual matching to determine winnings. This disclosure describes techniques to provide users with an online option to purchase lottery tickets. Per techniques of this disclosure, users are provided with a tab, visual card, or other online user interface that enables them to purchase lottery tickets. The online lottery interface is displayed in response to a user search for lottery, lottery tickets, etc. The UI enables the user to browse and purchase a lottery ticket, after verifying their identity …