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Expediting And Enhancing User Interaction With Interactive Voice Response Systems Utilizing Machine Learning, Siddartha Janga

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This publication describes a technique and methods directed at expediting and enhancing human interaction with interactive voice response (IVR) systems. The technique incorporates the utilization of a machine-learned (ML) system which can interact (e.g., receive and respond to questions) with IVR systems. After sufficient interaction an IVR system, the ML system can generate an application. The application can provide a user interface (UI) which is displayable on a computing device (e.g., cellphone, tablet, watch) for a user. Through the UI, the application can present the questions that the IVR system asks the user. Upon receiving user input, the ML system …

Panic Word, Tajinder Gadh, Marc Stogaitis

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A computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, camera, tablet computer, etc.) may include an integrated display device (e.g., a presence-sensitive screen) at which a user interface is presented. Additionally, a computing device may include a microphone that generates audio data and the capability to process the audio data. For instance, the computing device may process the audio data to identify one or more commands or requests spoken by a user of the computing device, and perform various actions associated with those commands or requests. In some situations, a user may desire for the computing device to perform one or more …

Implementing Transmitter Current Limit During Wireless Charging, Liang Jia, Nagesh Polu

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This publication describes Qi-based wireless-charging protocols that enable and protect user equipment (UE) (e.g., smartphones) that can act as power transmitter (Tx) or receivers (Rx). The UE acting as a Tx, herein referred to as "Tx UE," and a UE acting as an Rx, herein referred to as "Rx UE," can safely enter and maintain a power-transfer phase without causing wireless-charging disconnection due to power limitations of the Tx UE or other system errors, such as out of target output rectified voltage (VRECT), output voltage (VOUT), or control error packet (CEP). The described Qi-based wireless-charging protocols can accomplish the power-transfer …

Touch Pad Embedded In Hmd Device, Hp Inc

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The new machine is able to make the user who wears a HMD device access the host, like PC or NB, without

hand controllers, like joysticks, keyboard, or mouse, but with a touch pad embedded in HMD(Head‐

Mounted Display) device.

Automated Store Planogram Generation And Maintenance, Samrat Saha

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically generate store planograms with the use of network connected cameras. Images are periodically obtained by a camera mounted on a shopping cart while a customer travels through a store. Obtained images are transmitted to a central hub where machine learning techniques such as deep neural networks are utilized to detect item stock and to alert employees if restocking is needed. For example, if an image is received from a camera that indicates a shelf with only a few loaves of bread left, a store employee is automatically notified to restock bread. Additionally, when permitted …

Multi-Input 3d Photos, Anonymous Anonymous

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In a section of the present disclosure, a system for generating a 3D image from a 2D image and a depth map of the 2D image is disclosed. A server receives the 2D image from a client device. A minimum depth value is set for pixels at bottom of the 2D image. An object detection algorithm identifies presence of an object in the 2D image. A maximum depth value is set at a position of the object, if it is detected; otherwise, it is set at top of the 2D image. A continuous depth function varying from the minimum depth …

Grouping Narrowband Internet Of Things End Points With Control Packets Based On Multicast Packet Delivery Functionality From Enodeb, Akram Sheriff, Santosh Patil, Jerome Henry, John Graybeal

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Techniques are described herein to create a multicast Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IOT) User Equipment (UE) group based on a set of four attributes that are not defined in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 14 Standard/Specification. This NB-IOT UE grouping for multicast applications may assist indoor NB-IOT eNodeB (eNB) based deployments.

Telephone Number Anti-Spoofing System, Jian Yao, Dimitris Dimitropoulos

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Communication service providers, such as mobile network providers, plain old telephone service (POTS) providers (e.g., landline providers), and/or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, provide telephone services. A communication service provider operates a computing system that connects calls from a caller to a recipient. The computing system authenticates a caller’s telephone number to determine whether the telephone number is authentic or legitimate to prevent a caller from spoofing or faking his or her telephone number. The calling device places a call over a protocol that includes the telephone number of the sending device and an encrypted security key. The computing …

Privilege Spaces For Secure Communications, Kevin Brune, Eugene Shteyn

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A method for creating and executing a privilege space event for secure communications. A privilege space event can be defined based on a design (including event and project details) specified by a privilege space designer. Pre-event activities are executed in view of the design of the event, such as generating an agenda identifying each participant’s part in the event, selecting tools to be used by the event, and selecting attendees. The privilege space event begins execution using the initial agenda, and attendees selected in the pre-event activities. During execution of the event, an event facilitator adjusts the event in real-time …

Button Lockout, Anonymous Anonymous

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A system for automatically locking buttons (if inadvertently activated) on hand-held controllers is disclosed. The hand-held controllers include motion sensors, such as a tri-axial accelerometer and a tri-axial gyroscope. The tri-axial accelerometer calculates components of a linear acceleration along three axes: x, y and z. The tri-axial gyroscope calculates components of an angular velocity along the three axes: x, y and z. The motion sensors’ readings are fed to an application. The application includes a differentiator module and an analysis module. The differentiator module computes derivatives of the components of the angular velocity to calculate components of an angular acceleration …

Dynamic Transmission Control For Improving Mobile Data Usage, Tim Lin, Aaron Lee

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This paper describes techniques for dynamically calculating values of one or more Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) memory buffer size variables (e.g., “tcp_mem,” “tcp_rmem,” and/or “tcp_wmem” variables), based on consideration of real-time network conditions, to achieve improved data usage of a mobile computing device. By dynamically determining and/or adjusting the values of TCP memory buffer size variables, the described techniques enable a mobile computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, tablet computer, wearable and/or headset device) to avoid sending too many in-flight packets that exceed network capacity, thereby reducing packet loss and the need for data retransmission from the mobile computing device. …

Smart Speech Composition For Augmentative And Alternative Communication Using A Machine-Learned Model, Phil Weaver

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This publication describes an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) user equipment (UE) that enables a user to select autocompleted sentences displayed in a user interface (UI) of the AAC UE. The AAC UE scans ambient sounds to identify speech that is being spoken in the vicinity of the user. After the AAC UE scans for speech, the AAC UE converts the audible speech into digitized speech using a speech-recognition model. Also, the AAC UE identifies the audience in the conversation with the user by employing user input (e.g., the user selects the audience), voice recognition, facial recognition, radar signature, biometric …

Reverting Accidental Key Taps Using Contextual Bandits, Victor Carbune, Alexandru Damian

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A computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, camera, tablet computer, etc.) uses a contextual bandit machine-learning model (e.g., an artificial intelligence model) for reverting accidental user inputs. The computing device may execute an application that employs a user interface to facilitate human-machine interaction. The computing device may collect contextual user data and use a probabilistic model (e.g., a contextual bandit machine learning module) to analyze the collected contextual data to determine a confidence interval for specific user input. The application may receive an indication of the user input, e.g., tapping a particular icon within a graphical user interface (GUI) of …

Supporting Dynamic Network Slicing And Policy Creation For End Devices In Private 5g Networks, Rajesh I. V, Ram Mohan R, Prashanth Patil, Prathap B, Palanivel Murugan M

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Described herein are techniques for handling dynamic slicing requirements of User Equipment (UE) by performing remote activation (e.g., Over-the-Air Provisioning (OTAP)) of the logical profiles captured in the embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) which are created for the different slicing needs in private 5G networks. Also described are techniques for installing policies based on the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a private 5G network and efficiently retaining it during a 5G outage.

Generating A Digest Memorable Highlights From Unstructured Messaging Conversation, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.

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Many social media and photo collection applications offer features to generate a personalized digest of photos or structured text. A digest typically includes highlights of content from a larger collection. Such digest generation and viewing capabilities are not currently available for freeform unstructured conversational interactions, such as those that take place via messaging or chat applications. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically generate a digest of such interactions with permission from the conversing parties. The conversational interactions may contain a mixture of text, images, audio, and video. A user can review and save the digest offline for later personal use, …

Dynamic Adjustment Of Audio Playback Speed, Jonathan Heinberg

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Many applications used for listening to audio provide mechanisms to adjust the speed of audio playback. Due to variation in speaking speeds of speakers in the audio, users often need to keep adjusting the playback speed during playback to achieve a desired speed or have to tolerate listening to the audio at a speed different from their preferred listening speed. Both situations result in a suboptimal user experience. This disclosure describes techniques to standardize the rate of speech in audio to improve a user’s audio listening experience. The standardization of speech can be performed to achieve audio playback based on …

Using Unlock Codes Associated With A User Profile To Access Applications, Saptarshi Bhattacharya, Shree Madhavapeddi

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to using unlock codes associated with a user profile to access applications that are available to a user device. As part of the systems and techniques, a profile manager application manages a user profile that governs access to the applications and associates an unlock code to the user profile. The user profile may be associated with a group of users or an individual user and may be configured through an interface of the user device, pre-determined based on a class of user, or retrieved from an existing account with a service provider that …

Predicting Future Glance Behavior From Gaze Pattern History, Michael Keller

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A computing system predicts where a gaze of a vehicle operator (“driver”) will be in the near future to infer driver attention rather than inferring driver attention based on currently detected gaze data, which may be stale by the time the computing system processes the data and infers attention. The gaze may be predicted based on data from a camera that captures an image of the driver’s eyes, head, posture, or other aspects. In some examples, the computing system uses a machine-learned model (ML model), such as a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to predict future glance behavior. The machine-learned …

Vehicle-To-Everything Threat Protection Using Security Intelligence Engine And Multi-Access Edge Computing, Amitesh Shukla, Manish Jhanji, Satish Kumar Mandavilly, Rakesh Mishra

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Techniques are described herein for a threat protection mechanism for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication channels. This includes shared intelligence at the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) function, Security Intelligence Engine (SIE), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, application providers, and external device vendors. It is capable of securing Vehicle User Entities (V-UEs) simultaneously in real time.

Advertising Based On Usage Characterization Of Household Appliances, Ashish Duggal

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This disclosure describes usage characterization of an appliance (or service) within a household and identification of key decision makers associated with the appliance. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission and express consent, use of appliances and services within a household is linked to respective users from within the household. Use of an appliance is identified with the use of voice recognition techniques to analyze voice commands issued via a virtual assistant to respective appliances by different users in the household. An edge connects an appliance to one or more users and indicates usage of the appliance that meets …

Multi-Level Hexagonal Patterns As An Optimal Marking Techniques For Additive Manufacturing, Hp Inc

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Today, when we need to mark 3D printed pieces to measure their properties, we typically groove them

with numbers that allow easy human part identification and tracking. While this strategy is very

useful for manual processing, is much less susceptible to be automated as indo-arabic figures were not

designed for automated detection.

There is also another difficulty in the process: the available space is short and we typically use just 2

or 3 figures that do not allow a full part identification.

Handling Overheating In A Wireless-Communication Device, Chih-Hsiang Wu

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to handling overheating in a wireless-communication device. A wireless-communication device, e.g., user equipment (UE), includes an overheating manager application. Under certain circumstances in a dual connectivity environment, where the UE is connected to a master node (MN) providing access to master cell group (MCG) and also connected to a secondary node (SN) providing access to a secondary cell group (SCG), a processor of the UE executing the overheating manager application directs the UE to perform operations to mitigate overheating local to the UE. Such operations may include the UE detecting the overheating condition …

Crowdsourced Categorization Of Environmental Noise Data By Wireless-Communication Devices, Tajinder Gadh, Marc Stogaitis, Praveen Chandran

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Exposure to noise pollution has been shown to contribute to cardiovascular effects in humans, can cause permanent hearing loss, and can interfere with the enjoyment of indoor and outdoor activities. As a result, there is a great need to aggregate and categorize environmental noise data to help the world both understand noise pollution as well as how to alleviate it.

This publication describes techniques for wireless-communication devices, such as smartphones, to categorize measured environmental noise data to generate location noise level information. For example, a wireless-communication device can categorize measured environmental noise data into a number of different categories utilizing …

Vehicle-To-Everything Threat Protection Using Security Intelligence Engine And Multi-Access Edge Computing, Amitesh Shukla, Manish Jhanji, Satish Mandavilly, Rakesh Mishra

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Techniques are described herein for a threat protection mechanism for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication channels. This includes shared intelligence at the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) function, Security Intelligence Engine (SIE), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, application providers, and external device vendors. It is capable of securing Vehicle User Entities (V-UEs) simultaneously in real time.

Using Sensors To Improve User Interaction With Application Notifications, Victor Carbune, Sandro Feuz

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This publication describes techniques and methods for improving user interaction (e.g., dismissal, expansion) with application notifications on computing devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or smart glasses. The techniques incorporate the utilization of multiple on-device sensors (e.g., a camera sensor, an accelerometer) that can measure various means of user input. The methods as described herein afford users convenient and quick notification interaction options. Machine-learned (ML) models that employ gaze detection, custom gestures (e.g., hand movement, eye clipping), and/or user actions (e.g., shaking or rotating the device) can provide users the ability to expand, individually …

Rebooking Meeting Room When Meeting Room Becomes Unavailable, Marin Georgiev, Stella Schieffer, Philipp Reichart, Holger Flier, Martin Tritschler, Mohamed Hassan, Markus Vill, Stephan Burkhardt, André Meyer

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In organizations with multiple meeting rooms or conference rooms, meeting rooms can become unavailable after a meeting has already been scheduled in that room. The described system can respond to an indication that the meeting room is unavailable by finding another meeting room for the meeting that meets the requirements for the meeting. The system can notify the participants or attendees of the meeting of the new meeting room.

Automatic Reservation System For Smart Cars, Kathan Shukla

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A virtual, intelligent, or computational assistant (e.g., also referred to simply as an “assistant”) is described that automatically generates a reservation request at a business or for an event, for one or more identified persons. The assistant accesses a video stream from an electronic device and performs image recognition analysis to identify a number of people within a proximity of the electronic device. The assistant further, based on the image recognition analysis, may determine whether there are any people in the car who may require special accommodations (e.g., handicap accessibility, booster seats, highchairs, etc.). The assistant may, upon a user …

Voice Ui For Multiple Ai Agents, Hp Inc

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We are standardizing UI for multiple voice agents on a PC device with a lightweight Voice App which will

run as a background service on all consumer and commercial PC devices.

Visual Representation Of And Interactions With Computing And Network Equipment In A Physical Space, Ashutosh Malegaonkar, Kanwal Komail

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Techniques are described herein for facilitating user interactions with computing and networking equipment in a physical space using augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) techniques. In particular, the techniques described herein enable a person to, using a AR/VR mobile device, walk through a physical space and have presented to them, against a view of the space, information about the various network equipment in the space, including network switches, wireless local area network access points, routers, video teleconference equipment, Internet of Thing (IoT) switches, ruggedized outdoor network switches, beacon devices, etc.

Vehicle-To-Everything Threat Protection Using Security Intelligence Engine And Multi-Access Edge Computing, Manish Jhanji, Satish Kumar Mandavilly, Rakesh Mishra, Amitesh Shukla

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Techniques are described herein for a threat protection mechanism for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication channels. This includes shared intelligence at the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) function, Security Intelligence Engine (SIE), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, application providers, and external device vendors. It is capable of securing Vehicle User Entities (V-UEs) simultaneously in real time.