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Smart Drink Bottle, Matthew Tait

Defensive Publications Series

Drinking water is essential for health. The appropriate amount of drinking water per day varies depending on physical activity, age, health issues, and environmental conditions. For example, for those who work in a hot climate, it is better to drink up more water. However, people may drink water at the office, in a restaurant, during workout, or at any other suitable places. It is difficult to know how much water a person drinks per day and if the amount of drinking water is sufficient for health. Thus, a system for keeping track of the amount of drinking water is needed.

Smart Rubbish Bins, Matthew Tait

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Many people are concerned with the environmental impact of their consumption habits. A significant contributor to an individual’s environmental impact is the amount and type of waste that is produced by that individual. Of particular importance is the environmental impact of how much waste ends up in a landfill, as compost, or is recycled.

Smart Floor For In Room Detection, Matthew Tait

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Determining the state of rooms, including whether a room is occupied, can improve the functionality and operation of many devices and services that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Furthermore, sensors associated with a smart floor can perform operations including detecting the state of a room and communicating the state to other IoT devices that can perform operations based on the state of the room (e.g., turning on lights when a person is detected in the room).

Augmented Reality Interface For Visualizing And Interacting With Iot Devices, Christopher Ross

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As the proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) devices increases, so too does the complexity of interaction models and the need for a clear interface with which a user can interact with the complex coordinated tasks that are taking place. The benefits of a more effective augmented reality interface are especially relevant to the many devices that lack a direct interface of their own.

Smart Playing Cards, Charbel Zaarour

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Technology can be used to enhance the experience of existing games including card games. One way this can be accomplished is through the use of near field communications to detect the state of playing cards and use the detected state of the cards to perform experience enhancing actions associated with their respective state. For example, the gameplay experience while playing cards can be enhanced in a variety of ways including keeping score of a game (e.g., a player’s cribbage score), providing special effects (e.g., visual effects or sound effects associated with a card game), and preventing cheating.

Smart Manholes, N/A

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Objects commonly situated in the environment can be used to gather a variety of information about the environment proximate to the respective objects. For example, smart manholes (e.g., manholes configured with sensors and communications devices) or smart manhole covers can include a suite of sensors that can detect various states or events including air pollutants, earthquakes, flooding, gas leaks, sewage, environmental contamination, ultraviolet levels. Furthermore, smart manholes or smart manhole covers can be used to communicate with other devices and perform more complex operations including traffic monitoring.

Using Blockchain To Simplify Session Initiation Protocol Overload Control, Kaustubh Inamdar, Ram Mohan R, Gonzalo Salgueiro

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Techniques are described herein by which the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server overload problem may be significantly simplified by using a distributed system where transactions can be authorized and stored. For example, a technology like blockchain may enable a centralized, shared, and secure transaction database to be used to communicate SIP server overload information. SIP server overload information may be shared between servers that are part of a trust domain. The trust domain may be confined within a network or span across network boundaries (e.g., between enterprise edges / SIP trunk providers / SIP calling cloud providers).

Vehicle Localization Service, Christine Mcgavran, Richard Bukowski, Demyn Plantenberg

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An evaluation system and related processes are provided for evaluating computing systems associated with vehicle mapping, navigation, and/or control. An evaluation system can include ground truth data generated based on sensor data from an evaluation sensor system as an evaluation vehicle traverses a travelway. A trial system can be evaluated by comparing one or more outputs of the trial system with the ground truth data at the evaluation system. The ground truth data can be projected onto a map associated with a trial vehicle position as it maneuvers along a travelway. Simulated output data of the trial system can be …

Surfacing Images Of A Collection Based On Device Context, Matthew Sharifi, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Abhanshu Sharma

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Users have extensive collections of digital photographs or videos on their devices. This disclosure describes techniques to select images from a user’s collection that are relevant to the current context of the device and the user, and display the selected images on a device. The images are labelled with attributes relevant to the context at the time of capture of the images. At a later time, display of past images is triggered based on a variety of conditions related to current context and device activity. Past images having attributes that match the current context are selected and displayed. Displayed images …

Additional Security For Stored Print Jobs, Hp Inc

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Modern printers have a provision to receive print jobs from remote client devices over network and keep them as stored jobs.

At the time of sending a print job, user (at client device) has a choice to associate a PIN with the job and have it stored in

encrypted format on the printer. Even though the combination of the two seem good enough to secure user’s print data, but

this safety relies totally on the confidentiality of the PIN – once the PIN has been leaked, the data safety is compromised.

In today’s world when computing machines are capable of …

Artificial Intelligence Based Personal Assistant For Handling Phone Calls, Manikandan Gopalakrishnan

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When making calls to business entities, an individual often needs to navigate a menu of choices using the phone keypad until a desired option is found. If the desired choice requires speaking with a human, the individual may further need to wait on hold until someone is available to answer the call, thus wasting time. In the case of incoming calls, the number of the calling party may be unknown or blocked. Many such calls are from automated systems used for telemarketing. The techniques of this disclosure describe an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based personal assistant for handling incoming and outgoing …

Assistance Tailored To User Mood, Sandro Feuz, Yannick Stucki, Jorim Jaggi, Adrian Roos

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User interaction with assistive devices and applications often includes use of speechbased interfaces where contents of the user’s speech serve as input. However, in real-life human conversations, people often use additional information beyond the content of speech, such as tone, pace, etc., to infer attributes of the speaker’s emotional state and intention, and make nuanced adjustments to the style and content of their own speech. With user permission, the techniques of this disclosure build and utilize a machine learning model to infer mood based on an analysis of user speech. The inferred mood information is then applied to tailor the …

Human-Style Text Parsing System, Bokai Chen, Xin Guan

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The present disclosure relates to a text parsing system and related method for accurately parsing the content of text in messages and providing an output that can be used by various systems including systems used to detect spam and advertising content. The text parsing system can include a computing system that can parse the content of text (e.g., using a computing system including a machine-learned model or a rules based text parsing system) and provide an output including a list of potential parsed words along with associated word types, language, and confidence of word matching. Furthermore, the text parsing system …

A Method To Print On The Best Printer, Hp Inc

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Modern Printers provide myriad finishing options such as duplex, punch and staple etc. for a printed document.

Typically, the printer driver residing on the print client provides convenience for the user to provide only the IP

address/hostname of a printer to connect to it. This convenience comes with challenges such as when a user intends

to print duplex but has an installed printer that doesn’t support automatic duplex mode. This might force user to

manually re‐enter the page printed on one‐side to the printer’ input tray to get the other side printed as well. At the

same time, the printer …

User Interface For Input With Switches Using Machine Learned Huffman Codes, Etienne J. Membrives

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Users with special circumstances, such as limited mobility or physical strength, are often unable to utilize the normal keyboard of a device. To overcome these difficulties, these users utilize alternative mechanisms for typed input, such as a mouse, trackpad, switches, buttons, etc. These mechanisms operate by mapping the full set of possible inputs onto a limited number of buttons, which makes their use cumbersome and slow. This disclosure utilizes Huffman coding to optimize the encoding of a large set of symbols into a set of codewords based on the probability of use of each symbol, calculated via a trained machine …

Managing Unknown-Unknowns In Cyber-Security, David A. Maluf

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Techniques are described herein for managing unknown-unknowns in cyber-security. Trust degradation is a precursor index to failure. The use cases of scoring the trust degradation in a system span to almost every aspect in networking, edge and cloud included. A well devised Trust Evaluation Function (TEF) will cover many use cases: for example (1) better and adaptive private key management (e.g., re-keying); (2) better and adaptive end user experience password management and its fine grain monitoring in a data center; (3) better and adaptive digital asset certifications; (4) troubleshooting; and (5) real-time scalability and risk assessment for extremely large network, …

Automatic Local Time Conversion In Text Chats And Messengers, Alex Zverev

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Converting time across multiple time zones may be a challenge for members of a global team. To address this issue, techniques are described herein to cause user(s) in various time zones to see the local date and time in addition to the original date and time specified in a message from a sender. The message may be sent in a one-to-one or group chat, and may mention a time in any time zone. This improves efficiency and avoids confusion during collaboration within a global team.

Same User Vs. Different User Detection, Christopher Branson, Adam Champy

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The technology relates to detecting whether a pair of wireless earbuds are being worn by the same person or two different persons. Doing so may include detecting a signal from a sensor in each of the two wireless earbuds, finding a correlation between the signals from the two wireless earbuds, and determining, based on the correlation, whether the two wireless earbuds are being worn by a same person, or by two different persons. Based on this determination, a setting of one or both of the wireless earbuds may be adjusted, such as audio broadcasting, noise cancellation, and/or language settings.

Extended Spi Bus, Leonid Lobachev

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Serial peripheral interface (SPI) is a protocol that enables low-level machine communication between electronics subsystems, e.g., microcontrollers, peripherals, etc. In applying SPI to communications between devices of substantially differing performance characteristics, e.g., clock frequency, memory capacity, or response time, the original SPI has some disadvantages. For example, due to the streaming nature of SPI communication, errors are not detected; due to differing clock frequencies at two ends, synchronization is difficult; due to differing memory capacity at two ends, the buffers of the end with less memory overflow; etc.

This disclosure describes an extension to SPI that features synchronization signaling and …

Color-Based Optical Camera Communication Using Deep Learning, Nicola Rohrseitz

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When a network is not available or allowed (e.g., air gap), all benefits of digital communication and the Internet disappear. To enable substantial data transmission, techniques are described herein for using Machine Learning to embed data into color images and to read it with camera-equipped devices. In addition to data transmission, this enables new applications such as embedding of content on packaging (instructions or runnable code and configurations directly on devices), physical documents with selective encryption (role-based permission to read parts of a document), protection from digital tracking, prevention of tampering on physical documents, and more.

Flow Lanes And Map Features For Vehicle Navigation Mapping, Richard Bukowski, Joakim Afvidsson

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The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing geographic information including data indicative of a flow lane that a vehicle can follow to facilitate improved vehicle navigation and/or control. A flow lane can provide an indication of a path of travel for a vehicle relative to a map or other source of geographic information, as well as a reference for localizing a vehicle’s location relative to the flow lane. In some examples, a flow lane can represent an ideal path of travel for a vehicle or other moveable object. Additionally, a flow lane can indicate a region in which …

Application Similarity, Lei Yang, Zhikun Wang, Zhen Hao Zhou, Jiahui Liu, Zhen Xu, Zhen Li, Hsu-Chieh Lee, Sean O'Malley

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An application (app) store system may include functionality to determine whether an application is similar to other applications in the store. The application store system may determine similarity based on a number of aspects, such as title, description, icon, and application programming code.

Strategies To Determine Whether Performance Requirements Can Be Satisfied In A 4g/5g/Wlan Network, Mukesh Taneja, Vishal Murgai

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Proposed herein are techniques to determine whether a 4G/5G base station, or a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Point (AP), can meet/satisfy performance requirements of newly added (or handed over) applications or user equipment (UE) in a 4G/5G/WLAN system. The techniques presented herein collect a variety of parameters from different base stations, perform pre-processing, and analyze these parameters at a Performance Predictor Module. The Performance Predictor Module uses Machine Learning (ML) methods, such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) or Support Vector Regressions (SVR) with the feature set and target variables, to learn to predict whether or not a base …

Smart Home Mirror, David Rempel

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An augmented reality (AR) mirror can allow a reflection of a user to be augmented with additional visual data. An AR mirror may allow a user to view his or her reflection and have the reflection modified using one or more stored or accessed digital images and/or one or more stored or accessed video streams. Such an arrangement can allow for the user’s reflection to be overlaid or otherwise modified by a still or video image of a particular clothing article. For instance, the user can view himself in the mirror to see how he would look if he wore …

A Para-Virtualization Technique To Improve The Performance Of Cross-Platform Emulation, Sanish Suresh, Vrashi Ponnappa Puchimanda Ramacha, Santosh Abraham, Sherin Thyil George

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A cross platform system emulator is a hyper-visor which can emulate a source ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) platform on a different target ISA platform. Since the source instruction cannot be executed directly on the target system, each CPU instruction of the source platform should be converted to one or more target instructions. This incurs additional overhead, thus reducing the overall performance. In this paper we propose a solution to improve the performance of cross platform emulators that use a binary translator to translate a guest ISA to a target ISA. The solution para-virtualizes hot guest functions by invoking a more …

Acumen Reading Remotely Using Low Speed Bus Over Ethernet, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of remote communication among devices, in this case cryptographic

device, Acumen IC, which use low speed bus like I2C or similar.

A system is disclosed that presents a way to handle these security encrypted devices in a remote way,

avoiding the usage of costly electronics and making use of Ethernet cable which is an extended and

cheap communication infrastructure.

Smart Home Mirror, David Rempel

Defensive Publications Series

An augmented reality (AR) mirror can allow a reflection of a user to be augmented with additional visual data. An AR mirror may allow a user to view his or her reflection and have the reflection modified using one or more stored or accessed digital images and/or one or more stored or accessed video streams. Such an arrangement can allow for the user’s reflection to be overlaid or otherwise modified by a still or video image of a particular clothing article. For instance, the user can view himself in the mirror to see how he would look if he wore …

Smart Watch With Built-In Camera And Stress Sensor, Hp Inc

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A Smart Watch begins to record and upload video when the wearer of the

watch experiences stress, which may be measured via a heart rate sensor. This could

inform or assist the user's loved ones, health-care provider, or law enforcement agency

Concurrent Transmission Mechanism To Improve Throughput Of Bottleneck Devices In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Dechen Xu, Huimin She, Xiang Fang, Chuanwei Li, Xueying Yang

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Techniques are described herein for designing a concurrent channel mechanism to cause mesh network border router devices or key/bottleneck devices to communicate with multiple devices concurrently. This may reduce collision probabilities and thus enhance the scaling ability of a network.

Agent Supply Access Detection Using A Time Of Flight Sensor, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of protecting 3D printing electronics working in a dusty environment,

in this case how to detect the door opening to access to an agent supply with integrated cryptographic

device (Acumen).