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Low-Power Device Operation, John Nold
Low-Power Device Operation, John Nold
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An electronic device sleep mode system places an Internet connected electronic device in a low-power “sleep” mode. The system identifies a battery level of the Internet connected electronic device. When the system determines that the battery level has reached a predetermined low battery threshold, the system wirelessly transmits a notification indicating the low battery level to a user of the Internet connected electronic device. After transmitting the notification, the system places the device in a low-power sleep mode. In the low-power sleep mode, the system switches off all wireless connection radios of the device such as WiFi, 3G, etc. The …
A Method For Estimating Flow In A Utility System, Bryan Kennedy
A Method For Estimating Flow In A Utility System, Bryan Kennedy
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A utility usage detection system is used to monitor appliance usage in a household and provide an estimation of overall utility usage. The system estimates utility usage based on appliance usage and then notifies a user of the estimated utility usage. The system further receives user’s feedback on the estimated utility usage. Finally, the system modifies the estimated utility usage based on the user feedback.
Systems, Methods And Apparatus For One Touch Ordering, Scott Savage
Systems, Methods And Apparatus For One Touch Ordering, Scott Savage
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No abstract provided.
Gesture Detection For Gaining Focus In A Video Conference, Alexander Faaborg, Aaron Whyte
Gesture Detection For Gaining Focus In A Video Conference, Alexander Faaborg, Aaron Whyte
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A gesture recognition system based on an accelerometer/gyro or other sensor present on a wearable communication device is disclosed. The communication device is connected to a video conferencing system detects the user’s desire to join the conversation through the user’s physical gestures. Upon detection of the gesture, the system places additional focus on the user in a video conference (VC). In some cases, the system may nonverbally indicate the user’s intention to join the conversation before the user begins to speak.Alexander Faaborg
Hotword Detection And Display Of Results In A Call Or Chat, Alexander Faaborg, Lawrence Chang
Hotword Detection And Display Of Results In A Call Or Chat, Alexander Faaborg, Lawrence Chang
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An application is disclosed that provides for hotword (verbal search prompt) detection and display of results during real-time virtual communications. The application lets users perform a search while on a phone call or audio or video chat. A user presents a query similar to a voice search and the application responds to the query in a way that some or all the users in the interaction can hear orsee it.
Method For Forming Group Using Mobile Computing Devices, Andrian Kurniady, Hoang Viet Nguyen, James Kozianski
Method For Forming Group Using Mobile Computing Devices, Andrian Kurniady, Hoang Viet Nguyen, James Kozianski
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A method for forming groups of users in close proximity using mobile computing devices is disclosed. The method provides simple and ad-hoc formation of groups using a software application in a mobile computing device. The application may allow users wanting to join the group chat to activate within a certain time. Upon activation, a group with the group members in proximity is created in the device. Any kind of data-sharing method such as cloud storage or email could be used, and any content such as text messages, audio-visual communications, documents, email, text, images, or videos can be shared among the …
Method For Starting Group Chat Among Users In Proximity, Alexander Faaborg, Alejandro Kauffmann
Method For Starting Group Chat Among Users In Proximity, Alexander Faaborg, Alejandro Kauffmann
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A method for starting group chat among users using proximity sensing in a communication device is disclosed. The application will allow quick formation of a group using proximity sensing that can be used for communication among the group members. The application for creating groups using the method illustrated can be implemented in any communication device such as phone, computer, laptop etc. or any wearable communication device such as a watch.
Audio-Only Mode For Video Streaming Services, Li Gan
Audio-Only Mode For Video Streaming Services, Li Gan
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An audio-only mode system for video streaming platforms allows a user to stream only audio playback from a video stream. The system detects a selection of an audio-only mode for a video playback. The system then provides an audio stream associated with the video playback in response to the detection of the selection of audio-only mode. This reduces data consumption, which in turn reduces data congestion and improves battery longevity.
Advertisement-Free Media Content While Driving, Gopinath Elanchezhian
Advertisement-Free Media Content While Driving, Gopinath Elanchezhian
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A streaming system provides media content without advertisements to a user’s electronic device while the user is driving. The system may determine that the user is driving if location coordinates of one or more electronic devices associated with the user change above a predetermined threshold speed. When the system determines that the user is driving, the system presents the media content (e.g., songs, videos, or podcast) without advertisements to the user.
Social Network Based Authentication For Secure Access, Sudhanshu Rawal, Nisha Gandotra
Social Network Based Authentication For Secure Access, Sudhanshu Rawal, Nisha Gandotra
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A system and method are disclosed for a user to provide remote temporary access to a locked door of his/her home by performing authentication using a social network site or any other suitable application. The system comprises a camera for authentication and employs an access control system that receives inputs from the user via a network connection. The system has a database to store and recover the picture of previously visited users. The system provides high security for homes by integrating social network-based authentication with the conventional door lock system, obviating the need to share access codes.
Using Machine Translation For Query Rewrite Generation, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Anton Andryeyev, Babak Behsaz, Srinivas Narayanan, Nitin Gupta, Neil Houlsby, Preyas Popat, Wei Wang
Using Machine Translation For Query Rewrite Generation, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Anton Andryeyev, Babak Behsaz, Srinivas Narayanan, Nitin Gupta, Neil Houlsby, Preyas Popat, Wei Wang
Defensive Publications Series
A query rewrite system can be used to improve query understanding of search engines by generating multiple reformulations of the same query using machine translation. The query rewrite system receives an initial query from a user. It then retrieves known related queries to the initial query from a database. Subsequently, the system generates variant queries from the query and the related queries by passing them through a monolingual machine translator. Thereafter, the system ranks the variant queries according to predefined parameters and transmits one or more of the ranked variant queries to a search engine for further processing.
Tracking Location Dependent Advertising Conversions, Senthil Kumar Hariramasamy, Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru
Tracking Location Dependent Advertising Conversions, Senthil Kumar Hariramasamy, Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru
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An ad conversion system proposes a new type of conversion technique. This technique tracks change conversions such as home and job changes which occurred as a result of advertisements (ads) searched. The system receives a search query from a user at a predetermined location for the user. In response to this search query, the system provides ads to the user. Thereafter, the system can receive a user interaction with one of the ads displayed to the user. After receiving this interaction, the system identifies a change in the predetermined location for the user. Subsequently, the system determines a conversion for …
Transparently Sharing Human Interface Devices Between Local And Remote Desktops, Shakeel Butt, Sharjeel Qureshi
Transparently Sharing Human Interface Devices Between Local And Remote Desktops, Shakeel Butt, Sharjeel Qureshi
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No abstract provided.
Content Control Management, Adam Glazier, Michael Jon Sundermeyer
Content Control Management, Adam Glazier, Michael Jon Sundermeyer
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A content control system can be used to control media content that is being played at one or more client devices. The system receives an instruction from a first user’s client device to play media content. The system provides complete control of the playing media content at the first user’s client device. The system provides limited control of the playing media content at the second user’s client device.
Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment On A Corporate Social Network, Steve Hardt, Lia C. R. Lopes
Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment On A Corporate Social Network, Steve Hardt, Lia C. R. Lopes
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This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google+ social network. Liquid democracy decision-making systems can scale to cover large groups by enabling voters to delegate their votes to other voters. This approach is in contrast to direct democracy systems where voters vote directly on issues, and representative democracy systems where voters elect representatives to vote on issues for them. Liquid democracy systems can provide many of the benefits of both direct and representative democracy systems with few of the weaknesses. Thus far, high implementation complexity and infrastructure costs have prevented widespread adoption. …
Automatic Selection Of Noise Abatement Parameters For Touch Controllers, Milton Ribeiro
Automatic Selection Of Noise Abatement Parameters For Touch Controllers, Milton Ribeiro
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When a power adapter is connected to a computing device (e.g., a notebook, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, etc.), the power adapter identifies itself by sending identifier information such as, for example, manufacturer, part number, revision, manufacturing date, etc. The computing device queries a locally-stored table of known power adapters to obtain related touch controller data (e.g., list of hopping frequencies, frequency hopping strategy, filtering strategy and parameters, etc.) to be used by a touch controller in the computing device for noise abatement. If the power adapter is not on the locally-stored table, the computing device queries a remotely-stored …
Smart Refrigerator For Grocery Management, Emily Moin
Smart Refrigerator For Grocery Management, Emily Moin
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The invention discloses a grocery management system. The grocery management system resolves an identity of food products in a refrigerator. The system further determines a status, e.g., expiration dates, weights, freshness, quantity, or any other measure, of the food products shelved in the refrigerator. The system compares the status of the food products with one or more predetermined criterias, e.g., whether the food product is within a threshold number of days of its expiry date, whether the food product is below a threshold quantity, e.g., by weight, volume, count, etc. Accordingly, the system provides customized notifications to a user of …
Mobile Integrated Software Testing System, Chris Sosa, Preeyanka Shah
Mobile Integrated Software Testing System, Chris Sosa, Preeyanka Shah
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A mobile integrated software testing system may be a general computing device configured to provide an infrastructure to run automated tests. The mobile integrated software testing system may be a test system loaded with a customized operating system designed to support testing 20-30 devices. A user may able to connect a test device to the mobile integrated software testing system. The user may designate the test that the user wishes to run and the image that the user wants to test against through an interface provided by the mobile integrated software testing system. The mobile integrated software testing system may …
Detection Of A Vehicle Occupant’S Dropped Items After Vehicle Entry Or Exit, Jonathan Dowdal, Jiajun Zhu
Detection Of A Vehicle Occupant’S Dropped Items After Vehicle Entry Or Exit, Jonathan Dowdal, Jiajun Zhu
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A sensor system detects any items dropped on the ground near a vehicle using a lidar or other sensor. A sensor system takes a reference scan, or other data collection, of the ground before a passenger enters or exits the vehicle. The system takes a comparative scan, or other data collection, shortly after the passenger has entered or exited the vehicle. If a change is detected by the system, an alert could be activated.
Wireless Keyboard Without Need For Battery, Vijay Asrani, James Tanner
Wireless Keyboard Without Need For Battery, Vijay Asrani, James Tanner
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To obviate the need for a battery or other power source, a keyboard may transmit keystroke signals to a tablet computer via a passive antenna, such as a passive Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna and/or radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna. The tablet computer may transmit signals to the keyboard via an active antenna such as an active NFC antenna and/or RFID antenna. When the user presses a key on the keyboard, the passive antenna may modulate the signal received from the tablet computer. The modulation of the signal may include completing and/or closing a circuit in response to the user pressing …
Caching Image Thumbnails As Compressed Video Bitstreams, Andrew Lewis
Caching Image Thumbnails As Compressed Video Bitstreams, Andrew Lewis
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An image thumbnail caching system combines image thumbnails into one or more sets of video frames. The system then encodes the one or more sets of video frames to generate corresponding encoded video bitstreams. Then, the system stores the encoded video bitstreams. The system sends metadata associated with the encoded video bitstreams. Further, a specific thumbnail can be retrieved, for preview at a device, by decoding one or more of the encoded video bitstreams based on the metadata.
Removable Computer Data Storage Medium With Visible MutableBulkProperty Indication, Dave Chess
Removable Computer Data Storage Medium With Visible MutableBulkProperty Indication, Dave Chess
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A system and method is provided wherein a data storage medium, such as a magnetic tape cartridge, includes visual indicia that reflects a changeable property of the medium, such as whether and how much data has been written to the medium.
Mood Advisor Based On A User's Online And Device Activity, Javier Maria Gomez Beltran
Mood Advisor Based On A User's Online And Device Activity, Javier Maria Gomez Beltran
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A system can determine correlations between user moods and user activities performed with devices, and can provide advice affecting user moods based on such correlations. For example, the system records moods of a user, such as by requesting that the user input his or her current moods periodically to devices. The system also determines and records activities and conditions that are engaged in by the user over time, based on the user's usage of devices for physical and online activity and based on detection of user activity using devices and device data. The system correlates moods of the user to …
Ranking Content Suggestions Based On Calendar Data, Mauro Cherubini
Ranking Content Suggestions Based On Calendar Data, Mauro Cherubini
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Content suggestions can be ranked by using calendar data in addition to, for example, travel and map data. First, the system receives calendar data input from the user containing information such as business, leisure, and other activities scheduled to occur on certain dates and times. Then, the system receives travel data from the user. For example, the user might book a round trip flight to and from a certain city scheduled to occur on specific dates and times. The system then uses calendar data in addition to, for example, travel and map data to identify suggestions for lodging, dining, or …
Absolute Attribution Using Frequency Extrapolation, Robert Marsa
Absolute Attribution Using Frequency Extrapolation, Robert Marsa
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Systems and methods pertaining to attribution are provided. In some implementations, a method enables assigning accurate credit to known factors by quantifying the effects of unknown factors in influencing behavior. The method may include examining a lift of being exposed to additional advertising to quantify the effect of the additional advertising. The method may further include measuring the lift directly for the non-zero events and using extrapolation to determine a baseline for the zero event.
Local Content Caching, Eldridge Alexander
Local Content Caching, Eldridge Alexander
Defensive Publications Series
A content caching system caches content, predicted to be streamed in the future, locally at a device, thereby, enabling faster access to the content for a user of the device. The system indexes metadata describing content being offered by a media streaming application. Further, the system receives information about past content previously accessed by a user on the media streaming application. Based on the indexed metadata and the received information, the system determines content that will be accessed by the user in the future. Then, the system sends information about the determined content to be cached at the media streaming …
Systems And Methods For Injecting Ads Into Content Streams Played By Consumer Electronics Devices, Jason Kinner
Systems And Methods For Injecting Ads Into Content Streams Played By Consumer Electronics Devices, Jason Kinner
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This paper describes an automated system for injecting advertisements into audiovisual content streams played on physical digital media, such as DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. The system can include a display, audio/visual receiver, and a playback device. By controlling the playback device, the system can (i) replace existing advertisements with new advertisements; (ii) add new advertisement content to the content stream by pausing the content stream; (ii) add new advertisements to the content stream by buffering the content stream; and (iv) remove the existing advertisements by automatically skipping through the existing advertisements.
Event Relevant Reminders, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Event Relevant Reminders, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
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An event preparation reminder system reminds a user to prepare for an upcoming event. The system analyzes data associated with the user from multiple sources. Further, the system identifies an event from the data associated with the user. Then, the system identifies information that is relevant to the identified event. Further, the system provides the information to the user before the event.
Calendar Event Management, Alexander Faaborg
Calendar Event Management, Alexander Faaborg
Defensive Publications Series
A calendar event management system provides additional and improved functionalities to a user of a calendar application. In one embodiment, the calendar event management system calculates a probability of invitees attending an event and displays this calculated probability to all the other invitees. In a second embodiment, the system manages a presentation of notification for calendar events to an event organizer as well as the invitees. In a third embodiment, the system provides a notification for calendar events to a user based on a virtual location of the user.
Managing Events Based On Space And Time Relationship, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
Managing Events Based On Space And Time Relationship, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
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A space-aware event management system manages spatially conflicting calendar events. The system analyzes events scheduled on a calendar. The system determines an optimized route between the events based on a spatial and time relationship of the events. Further, the system provides the optimized route to the user.