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Structured Data From Multiple Scanned Forms, Shlomo Urbach

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide to obtain structured data from multiple scanned forms, scanned reports, and/or other scanned documents. More particularly, the systems and methods of the present disclosure allow for providing, as input, multiple scanned document files based on some form, report, or other structured printout and receiving, as output, a combined schema with values for each input document and a structured data set comprising the extracted values for all the input documents.

Unmute Key Word For Conference Call Derived From Attendee List, Personal Greeting Or Training, Hp Inc

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A method for training a voice‐activated “nmute”for an audio call is disclosed. The method involves

identifying the names of participants on the call, such that when those names are uttered the intention

of the speaker to be heard on the call is clear and the microphone of the person speaking is unmuted.

Biometric Enabled Proximity-Based User Authentication, Varun S. Rao, Teng Song

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Today, if a user wants to access a device such as kiosks, public computers, and other shared devices, e.g., smart speakers, etc. for transient or periodic user, the user still has to sign into the device, often entering their username and password. The login process can be cumbersome and poses a security risk to the user’s account. This disclosure describes user authentication of host devices based on a combination of user biometrics and user proximity. Upon detection of the presence of a host device by a user’s mobile device, an unauthenticated connection, over channels such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, is …

Emotion-Suffused Messaging, Emmanuel Arriaga

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One well-recognized problem with messaging is the lack of emotional context. In face-to-face or audio/video communication, nuance is communicated via body language, syllable stress, etc. There are currently no provisions for such expression in messaging. This can lead to confusion or disconnects between participants in a messaging conversation. Some of this disconnect is ameliorated by the use of emojis or other expressive elements. However, such elements have to be deliberately inserted by a participant in their messages.

This disclosure presents techniques that detect, with user permission and consent, the emotional context of a message sender. When the context is reliably …

Wi-Fi Rate Selection Using Machine Learning Models, Jerome Poichet

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When a Wi-Fi device tries to connect to access points, it picks a channel, rate, and a particular access point (AP) out of a potentially large number of selections. Different selections result in different quality of user experiences, e.g., as measured by throughput and latency.

In many circumstances, the device has a past history of connecting to various access points in or near its current location. With user permission, this disclosure uses trained machinelearning models and the past history to select an optimal channel, rate, and access point. The selections made using this technique can result in superior throughput, latency, …

Automatic Loading Of Document Content, N/A

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Web pages can use dynamic content loading technology to facilitate viewing on mobile devices. This disclosure describes techniques in which a computer system can automatically initiate loading of additional document content that is not served as part of the initial loading of a document. The computer system can identify and activate controls in the document, such as a “show more” button, that cause additional content to be requested and inserted into the document, initiate scrolling operations that trigger loading of additional content into the document, etc. Described techniques allow a device to automatically and efficiently obtain a more complete version …

Context-Dependent Multi-Mode Chat, Sandro Feuz, Yannick Stucki, Jorim Jaggi, Adrian Roos

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Chat applications often support several communication modes, e.g., texting, voice messaging, voice/video calling, sending memes/GIFs/images, sending video messages, etc. In a group chat, a given participant may not be disposed to use every chat modality. For example, one participant may be in a quiet space and constrained to use only text messaging, another participant may be in a position to receive video but not turn on their own camera, and so on.

With user permission, this disclosure applies machine-learning techniques to detect the user’s context. Based on the context, the user-preferred input and output modes for a group chat are …

Personalized Suggestion System, Benjamin Azose

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This disclosure describes techniques to generate personalized suggestions. The personalized suggestions can be utilized and displayed in different applications. With user permission and consent, past user queries are analyzed to generate personalized suggestions for the user. Failed user queries are analyzed to generate query refinements that would provide a successful response. The personalized suggestions are based on user interests and utilize a prediction of possible future queries from the user. When users activate the feature, the personalized suggestions are suitably presented to the user.

Displaying Advertisements In Video Clips, Catherine Cardinal, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze

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On video-sharing platforms, users access some video clips primarily for audio rather than video content. In such video clips, the display is idle or otherwise possibly uninteresting to the viewer. The techniques of this disclosure apply machine learning to detect if the visual portion of a video clip is likely not of interest to the user. If the visual portion detected to not be of interest to the user, permission is sought from the user to insert a visual ad into the clip while audio continues playing unchanged. If user permission is obtained, ads are inserted in portions of video …

Crowdsourced Mapping Of Ambient Noise Levels, N/A

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Speech recognition, transcription, or translation tools work best when ambient noise levels are low. For users of such tools, e.g., hearing-challenged individuals, it is often a chore to find a quiet spot so as to have a clear conversation. This disclosure proposes the use of mobile device microphones as ambient noise sensors with user permission. Ambient noise levels are measured and reported to an online map service along with time and location of measurement. The online map displays the received real-time ambient noise levels. The crowdsourced real-time ambient noise levels are made available to users of the online map service. …

Efficiently Allocating Radio Resources In The Downlink Direction To Meet Quality Of Service Requirements Of 5g Wireless Networks, Akram Sheriff, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Santosh Patil

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Slice Differentiator (SD) machine learning techniques are provided herein to efficiently allocate resources to meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in 5G wireless networks. This enables adaptive training based optimization of QoS weights for different services.

Heterogeneous Wireless: Dual Lora-Nb-Iot Redundant Connectivity, Patrick Wetterwalk, Pascal Thubert, Eric Levy-Abegnoli

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LoRa refers to a digital wireless data communication technology that enables very-long-range transmissions with low power consumption. Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) refers to a lower power standard focusing on indoor coverage. By combining LoRa and NB-IoT technologies, a low-energy device may receive the benefit of NB-IoT throughput, while consuming an amount of power similar to LoRa. The embodiments presented herein emulate a LoRa device over a NB-IoT network using a virtual gateway.

Power usage of a device can be reduced by using LoRa and waking up NB-IoT on demand. A device may use LoRa as long as LoRa meets expected delivery …

Resource Allocation In 802.11ax Networks, Mukesh Taneja, Bibek Sahu, Ramachandra Murthy, Balamurugan Ramachandran, Ankush Sharma, Prantik Howlader

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Methods of selection of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video and other users to meet quality of service (QoS) goals and optimize overall performance in 802.11ax networks are provided. These methods allow policy based decisions such as controlling the number of video, VoIP or other users or sub-channel sizes for video (or other) users or deciding data rate (or associated modulation and coding scheme) for each user in each scheduling interval (SI), and allow dynamic decisions for the value of the SI.

Smart Linkification Of Content Within Applications, Jan Althaus, Thomas Binder, Jacek Jurewicz, Lukas Zilka, Sebastian Millius, Matthew Sharifi, Regina O'Dell, Abodunrinwa Toki, Evelyn Kao

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When a user initiates text selection within an application, the operating system can examine text content displayed within the application to predict text selection bounds along with a possible destination application for the selected text. Until the user initiates selection, there may be no indication that a piece of text content might be actionable. Further, the functionality may not work as intended in cases where application developers implement a custom operation for the input mode utilized for passing the text content and associated action from one application to another. With user permission, this disclosure applies regular expression parsing and neural …

Active Directory And Calendaring Based Allocation And Reservation Of Wireless Resources, Sukrit Dasgupta, Jp Vasseur, Santosh Pandey

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Present techniques dedicate wireless channel resources based on applications that will be used in collaborative meetings. The degree of reservation is determined using machine learning algorithms that have knowledge from a prior history of meetings, participants in the meeting, etc. This ensures that collaborative applications will perform favorably, leading to more effective collaborations. Several novel components are involved in these techniques, which control the network infrastructure, determine the users that need reservation(s), identify the applications that will be used, and also utilize machine learning to model the usage and requirements.

Dormancy Prediction And User Equipment Driven Active-Dormant Transitions, Sooraj Sasindran, Naveen Kalla

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The decision to move a mobile device to dormant radio resource state is typically driven by the mobile network. For example, after a period of observed inactivity, the network may move the mobile device to dormancy. However, mobile applications may send data shortly after the mobile device is moved to dormancy which results in sub-optimal power and bandwidth use. This disclosure provides techniques that enable the mobile device to predict immediate data transmission requirements. The predictions are used by the mobile device to drive active-dormant transitions at the radio resource control (RRC) layer.

Intelligent Ranking For Photo Galleries Using Sharing Intent, John Oberbeck

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Users often share digital photographs over communication links, e.g., via SMS, chat, URLs, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to determine and present ranked candidate images for sharing to other users and user devices. The ranking is based on a variety of characteristics of the images, including time of capture of the images, as well as other user-permitted factors that can indicate user intent, such as history of previous sharing of images by the user, the current or recent device context of the user (chat or conversation, application being used, data on the user’s screen, and so on), etc. By intelligently …

Machine Learning For Wireless Solution Optimizations: Intelligent Ue Paging Retry Timer, Tariq Habibullah, Dennis Lanov, Solomon Ayyankulankara Kunjan, Chad Crum

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Dynamic changes in the behavior of Radio Access Nodes (RANs) require dynamic adjustment of core network's communication strategy with such RAN. The techniques presented herein specify a novel approach to dynamically calculate and adjust the paging retry timer on a radio access network, such as a 5G Mobile Network, in order to prevent excessive signaling on the radio access network causing unnecessary usage of valuable radio resources. The techniques presented herein leverage subscriber and RAN statistics to perform supervised time-series regression in order to calculate the optimal time the core network should wait before attempting to retry the paging message …

Spiral Data Reporting Mechanism In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Xiaopu Zhang, Caijun Jiang, Dapeng Zhu, Zaochun Zhang

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The embodiments presented herein relate to low-power and lossy networks (LLNs), and more specifically, to dividing LLN nodes into groups. Groups may be determined by traversing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) topology in a spiral manner. In this manner, contention, collisions, and interference may be minimized, while bandwidth usage can be maximized.

Converged Wireless Technology Architectures: Hybrid Networks Consisting Of Lora And Wi-Sun Nodes, Pascal Thubert, Huimin She

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The embodiments presented herein utilize class B LoRa to avoid conflicts with Wi-SUN traffic that is on the same band. In areas covered by a LoRa edge, portions of the time slots of specific channels may be aggregated into longer time slots to adapt to LoRa spreading factors. Edge mesh nodes may use class B to pull traffic from channels of LoRa devices at the appropriate time. LoRa may be configured to operate in the appropriate channels, and any interference with Wi-SUN can be minimalized.

Sleep And Wake Commands For Voice-Activated Devices, N/A

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Voice-activated devices continue to increase in popularity, availability, and functionality. To use a voice-activated device, a user will speak a particular keyword or hot word. In order to respond to a command at all times, the voice-activated device actively monitors the surrounding environment for the keyword or hot word using a microphone or other device, which means that the microphone of the voice-activated device hears all sound received while active. Although active monitoring may increase user interaction or satisfaction with the voice-activated device, audio monitoring may raise privacy concerns. To address these concerns, voice-activated devices can be equipped with a …

Son-Powered Dynamic Optimization Of Relay Layer To Enhance Coverage And Capacity Of A Cellular Network Combined With Centralized Son On Macro Layer, Alon Ben Ami, Tal Dunsky

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The usage patterns of cellular networks can change dramatically over short periods of time, such as when a large number of people crowd a very small space within a cell's coverage area for only a short period of time. In order to save on costly and inefficient current solutions, the techniques presented herein suggest a Self-Organizing Network (SON)-optimized system of relays as a layer on top of an existing system. Such relays can be deployed ad hoc, such as in the cars of people arriving at a troubled location, to alleviate temporary coverage and load issues. SON will control the …

Massive Mimo Optimization Using Self-Optimizing Networks, Krishna Veni Thombarapu, Murali Mohan Cheekati, Prasada Rao Ponnamaneni

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Massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), which refers to the practice of employing a large number of antennas at a base station to achieve better spectral efficiency using the same time and frequency resources, has received extensive interest as a potential solution for a next-generation cellular system. Presented herein are techniques to optimize a MIMO antenna configuration in order to reduce power consumption (and therefore operation cost) in a next-generation cellular network, paving the way to an energy-efficient wireless network.

Personalized Ordering For Presentation Of Help Topics, Victor Carbune

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Users often consult online help when they encounter problems. Many online help resources are organized as a list of question-answer pairs or topics presented in a fixed order. Upon user consent, the techniques of this disclosure utilize a machine learning model to personalize the order in which the list of question-answer pairs or topics is presented to the user. The personalized ordering utilizes the knowledge of the context of the user to sort the presented list of help content based on the match of the content with the problem the user is likely facing.

Defending Against Attacks On Biometrics-Based Authentication, Tanmay Wadhwa, Neil Dhillon

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Many devices include biometrics-based user authentication in addition to secret-based authentication. While secret-based authentication involves a precise match with the known secret, biometrics-based authentication involves fuzzy matching that verifies that the input is similar to known biometrics within an acceptable threshold level of difference. As a result, biometrics-based authentication techniques are susceptible to attacks in which a malicious actor attempts to authenticate as the user via biometrics data that is crafted carefully to be similar to the stored biometrics within the threshold.

The techniques of this disclosure guard against such attacks by use of a generative adversarial network (GAN) where …

Automatic Rebooking Of Hotels Using Virtual Assistants, Saptarshi Bhattacharya

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Hotel prices fluctuate based on demand and supply. Hotel bookings are often refundable if cancelled. A user with a refundable hotel reservation can therefore cancel and rebook the hotel if the price drops. Currently, such cancellation and rebooking requires a user to keep track of hotel prices and rebook upon detecting a drop in the price, e.g., from that paid by the user. This disclosure describes an automated method to monitor hotel prices after a refundable booking is made and automatically take action upon detection of a price drop.

Internet Of Things - Data Security And User Authentication Management, Ronald Heiby

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide for managing user authentication and data security for “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for providing an IoT device with a public key portion of a PKI key pair belonging to an authorized user (e.g., owner, etc.) of the IoT device. The PKI key pair of the authorized user can be used to provide user authentication and data security when connecting to and/or communicating with the IoT device. The systems and methods of the present disclosure can provide for improved user control over IoT devices and …

Active Chassis With Rotary Spring, Daniel Hoppe

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ACTIVE CHASSIS WITH ROTARY SPRING

Illuminated Moldings And Frames Radiator, Daniel Hoppe

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ILLUMINATED MOLDINGS AND FRAMES RADIATOR

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Triggering An Update Of A Client Application By Selecting A Deeplink, Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Davies

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In some instances, a user of a mobile device may trigger an update of a client application by selecting, from an application other than the client application, a deeplink (e.g., a hyperlink or a uniform resource locator (URL)) that has context and that also links the mobile device to a host program. If the client application is out of date and not compatible with the host program or content provided by the host program, the mobile device triggers an update to the client application. During the updating of the client application, the mobile device maintains the context so that the …