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User-Centric Test Sequence Generation For Fault Detection, Kun-Da Wu, Berlin Hsin
User-Centric Test Sequence Generation For Fault Detection, Kun-Da Wu, Berlin Hsin
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Test engineering, including development of new test cases from large volumes of log data, can be expensive. User reports often do not include clear description of the context of poor user experience. The effectiveness of a test case derived from user reports is hard to validate. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques such as attention based neural networks, language models, etc. to generate from user reports realistic, multi-faceted test sequences designed to trigger failures. A pattern extractor extracts critical events relevant to particular failures from session logs. A test sequence generator generates user-like action sequences or event …
Automated Detection Of Known Issues And Recovery By Nms/Sdn Applications, Anonymous
Automated Detection Of Known Issues And Recovery By Nms/Sdn Applications, Anonymous
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The present disclosure relates to automated detection of known issues and recovery by Network Management System (NMS)/Software Defined Networking (SDN) applications. The present disclosure includes an NMS/SDN application which provides automated detection and recovery of known issues as per pre-defined rules; user configurable option to raise notifications in the NMS or apply workarounds as well in the NMS after a known issue is encountered; allows handling issues which are seen post deployment as well by entering trigger conditions and workaround steps; includes log generation for customer analysis/product quality analysis activities; and can be used to apply workarounds on third party …
Twamp Sessions Over Controlled Sr-Te Paths, Anonymous
Twamp Sessions Over Controlled Sr-Te Paths, Anonymous
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The present disclosure relates to Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) sessions over controlled Segment Routing-Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) paths. A new field “reply path identifier” is proposed in TWAMP control request message, to initiate TWAMP Req/Resp tests sessions over SR-TE paths. A 32bit fixed length field “reply path identifier” contains color of the reverse SR policy for SR-MPLS and SRv6. A New Error code is proposed in Response, if the SR-TE path does not exist on a Server. This can enable TWAMP for two-way delay measurements on SR-TE paths for bidirectional data traffic.
Method And System To Automatically Synthesize Smart Contracts Using Transaction Traces, Ranjit Kumaresan
Method And System To Automatically Synthesize Smart Contracts Using Transaction Traces, Ranjit Kumaresan
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The present disclosure relates to a method and system to automatically synthesize smart contracts using transaction traces. The present disclosure suggests collecting transaction trace raw data from a blockchain network and transmitting the transaction trace raw data obtained to a transaction decoder system for initial data preprocessing. Thereafter, call frames are extracted from the transaction trace raw data and a Depth-First Search (DFS) traversal is performed on the extracted call frames. Subsequently, at each step of the DFS traversal, the contract address associated (that is, “to” address) with the extracted call frame is verified to determine if it is known …
Method And System For Controlled Information Disclosure Based On User Context Using Principles Of Just-In-Time And Just-Enough-Access, Sachin Cherian Mathew, Ying Teo
Method And System For Controlled Information Disclosure Based On User Context Using Principles Of Just-In-Time And Just-Enough-Access, Sachin Cherian Mathew, Ying Teo
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The present disclosure discloses a system and method to controlled information disclosure based on user context using principles of Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access, during package transportation. The system includes a unique identifier generator module for receiving transportation information, associated with a package, and generates a machine-readable unique identifier. The generated unique identifier is stored in a database and placed on the package. Upon receiving the package at the shipper sites, the unique identifier on the package is scanned using a scanning device with a GPS module and the information is provided to a computing unit, for computing and retrieving information about …
A Method For Establishing Card Relationships And System Thereof, Hunny Huria, Kira Blundell
A Method For Establishing Card Relationships And System Thereof, Hunny Huria, Kira Blundell
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The present disclosure relates to a technique for establishing a relationship between a plurality of payment cards held by the cardholder and further utilizing the established relationship to suggest alternative payment options, in case the first card is declined. The technique involves sending a query to a relationship manager (RM) by the merchant if the initiated transaction is declined to inquire whether it stores any established relationship between the cardholder’s multiple payment cards, communicated to it by the issuer entities. In response, the RM searches its database and deploys the learning model to suggest the best replacement option out of …
Techniques To Facilitate Graphics Processing Unit (Gpu) -Aware Vector Packet Processing (Vpp) Flow Offloads For Edge Compute Resources, Dennis Lanov
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Presented herein are techniques that address issues related to enabling a Vector Packet Processing (VPP) core for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and/or Augmented Reality (AR) workload(s) on edge compute resources in which the edge compute resources can provide multiple edge applications. Some applications provided at the edge compute resources may utilize generic Central Processing Units (CPUs) while others may utilize Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
Payment Reminder Technique With Enhanced Efficiency, Alok Roy Visa
Payment Reminder Technique With Enhanced Efficiency, Alok Roy Visa
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The present disclosure relates to the payment reminder process. It proposes to improve the efficiency of payment reminder process by sending the reminders at customer’s preferred timing (like at what time in the day, on which day of the week, on which date of the month) and communication channel (like email, SMS, phone call). A reinforcement learning technique and particularly Q-learning may be used to derive the decisions based on parameters like customer’s payment history, past reminder interactions at different timings, reminder channels (like email, SMS, phone call); and find the best possible timing and channel of communication for the …
System And Method For Managing Faults In A Distributed Environment, Vrinda Rastogi, Seth Rinkle, Rushil Sharma, Pragya Priyadarshini, Yash Dwivedi, Asheesh Gupta
System And Method For Managing Faults In A Distributed Environment, Vrinda Rastogi, Seth Rinkle, Rushil Sharma, Pragya Priyadarshini, Yash Dwivedi, Asheesh Gupta
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The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for managing faults in a distributed environment 102. In the present disclosure, the method includes monitoring health metrics of systems 106 in the distributed environment 102. Further, the method includes detecting faults associated with the systems 106 in the distributed environment 102 by identifying abnormal patterns based on monitored data. Furthermore, the method includes reconfiguring the distributed environment 102 to maintain system resilience and performance based on fault detection. Further, the method includes determining a recovery action based on severity of faults. Furthermore, the method includes analyzing and diagnosing issues by …
Method For Visualising Energy Sources Powering Blockchain Transactions And Apparatus Thereof, Sean Terribilini
Method For Visualising Energy Sources Powering Blockchain Transactions And Apparatus Thereof, Sean Terribilini
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The present disclosure relates to a technique for providing visualization of energy sources powering the blockchain transactions. The technique involves determining the energy consumption pattern of each participating node during a transaction. The health of a card associated with a user is displayed by comparing the energy consumption associated with the blockchain transactions performed by the user with a pre-determined threshold. In one embodiment, the health of the card is determined based on the energy consumption report and carbon footprints associated with the transactions. Further, the technique further comprises triggering car linked offers (CLOs) for the user to offset the …
Dynamic Card Art Service, Ranjiva Prasad, Pratomchai Pusakolcharoensak, Mathieu Andre Guy Altwegg, Samuel Oliver, Nahom Beyene
Dynamic Card Art Service, Ranjiva Prasad, Pratomchai Pusakolcharoensak, Mathieu Andre Guy Altwegg, Samuel Oliver, Nahom Beyene
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The present disclosure provides a system and a method for implementing a dynamic card art service. The disclosure proposes using a dynamic card art platform, associated with a digital transaction service, to provide contextualized dynamic card art that is interactable. The card art provides a context related to a digital transaction. The platform receives transaction information from the client and parses the request to determine required data items. Cardholders may interact with the card art to make real-time payment preferences and/or decisions. The platform uses a data acquirer to connect with data sources to acquire the data items. Furthermore, the …
Obo (On Behalf Of) Multi Factor Authentication, Bhanu Pratap Seth Visa, Sangeeta Patnaik Visa, Bipul Bushan Jha Visa, Kanika Dureja Visa, Suresh Kalakrishnan Visa
Obo (On Behalf Of) Multi Factor Authentication, Bhanu Pratap Seth Visa, Sangeeta Patnaik Visa, Bipul Bushan Jha Visa, Kanika Dureja Visa, Suresh Kalakrishnan Visa
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The present disclosure relates to an authentication method to enable a person to authenticate transaction on behalf of the cardholder. On behalf of (OBO) authentication allows the card holder to designate an authorized user to authenticate on behalf of them for multi factor authentication, login or any other operation. When the cardholder initiates the transaction, a request to authorize the transaction may be sent to the authorized user, and the authorize user may approve the transaction on behalf of the cardholder.
Real Time Settlement Of Card Transactions To Enable Instant Payments To Merchants, Alok Roy Visa, Sudip Kumar Manna Visa
Real Time Settlement Of Card Transactions To Enable Instant Payments To Merchants, Alok Roy Visa, Sudip Kumar Manna Visa
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The present invention provides a system and method for establishing an authorization process and real time settlement of card based payment transactions between an acquirer 113 and a seller 120 through an issuer 112 via payment networks 111. The acquirer 113 undergoes an authorization process for accepting card payments that involves sending an authorization request (114a, 114b, 114c) and receiving an authorization response (115a, 115b, 115c) for card transactions between the acquirer 113, the payment network 111, the issuer 112, and the seller 120, where the authorization response (115a, 115b, 115c) is an approval or decline of authorization for the …
Browser With Automatic Redirection For Inaccessible Web Pages, Benjamin Azose
Browser With Automatic Redirection For Inaccessible Web Pages, Benjamin Azose
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If a web page that a user attempts to access is unreachable, web browsers display the 404 page not found error. There are other ways to retrieve such content, e.g., from a local browser cache, a search engine cache, from the Internet Archive, by conducting a search using keywords that match the web page, etc. This disclosure describes a web browser that, with user permission, automates the process of accessing web content that returns a 404 not found error. The user can specify their preferences of what action to perform upon such an error, e.g., retrieve from cache, retrieve from …
A Method And System For Facilitating Customers On E-Commerce Websites To Do Financial Contributions, Mohamed Ajimal Nambiarkandy Abdulla Kunhi, Weiping Li
A Method And System For Facilitating Customers On E-Commerce Websites To Do Financial Contributions, Mohamed Ajimal Nambiarkandy Abdulla Kunhi, Weiping Li
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for facilitating customer on eCommerce websites to do financial contributions to an appropriate donation drive provided by a merchant. The system includes a merchant, a customer, payment network, a donation drive enabler, and a payment interface. The customer on purchasing through a merchant application initialize a transaction and probes the donation drive enabler to retrieving a donation drive created using the rules engine and display it to the customer on the merchant application. The customer may donate a certain amount to the donation drive while doing the checkout process in …
Confrontare, Shivangi Rochiramani, Samrat Saha
Confrontare, Shivangi Rochiramani, Samrat Saha
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This disclosure presents an innovative system and a method designed to efficiently compare vast datasets while optimizing time and cost considerations. Comprising a Learning Module and an Execution Module, the system dynamically determines optimal execution factors, ensuring resource-efficient performance. Challenges posed by extensive data and execution time are tackled by breaking tasks into stages. The system not only identifies impacted columns but also employs a proprietary Execution SQL to overcome limitations in existing techniques. A machine learning-based algorithm enhances the execution process, efficiently detecting missing and mismatched data. This integrated solution redefines data comparison, blending machine learning, advanced SQL, and …
Automatic Side-By-Side View For Web Applications That Refer To External Content, N/A
Automatic Side-By-Side View For Web Applications That Refer To External Content, N/A
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In many contexts, such as legal removal requests, price comparison, etc., users that view online content in a browser need to switch between a main tool (e.g., a legal removals tool) and other content (e.g., content for which a complaint is received). Such switching imposes a significant burden on the user and can lead to errors. This disclosure describes a browser extension/plug-in that provides an “in-context review” button that, upon selection by a user, opens the URL (e.g., content that is subject of a complaint) in a second browser window that is displayed adjacent to the main window, e.g., that …
Time And Context Variable Topologies (Tcvt) For Sustainability-Aware Network Operational Focus Modes, Carlos M. Pignataro, Madhan Sankaranarayanan, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Akram Sheriff, Jaganbabu Rajamanickam
Time And Context Variable Topologies (Tcvt) For Sustainability-Aware Network Operational Focus Modes, Carlos M. Pignataro, Madhan Sankaranarayanan, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Akram Sheriff, Jaganbabu Rajamanickam
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Techniques are presented herein that leverage the concept of Time-Variant Routing (TVR) to create time and context variable topologies (TCVTs) that offer a scalable and versatile solution for supporting a proportional response to changes in a network’s traffic levels, allowing a network operator to maximize sustainability gains in a network having variable, tidal, and periodic traffic. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass sub-topological planes (which can be made available to a topology as a function of time), network operational focus modes (which employ such planes to create objective-optimized topologies), and mappings between the two. The techniques allow an optimal set …
A Method For Frictionless Signature-Based High-Risk Permissions Management On Computing Devices And System Thereof, John Markh
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The present disclosure provides a method for frictionless signature-based high-risk permissions management on computing devices. The method includes an onboarding process involving the inclusion of new software vendors by the OS or MDM vendor, a process that verifies vendor legitimacy and the necessity of their access to sensitive resources. During onboarding, the OS or MDM vendor generates an "upload key," securely provided to the software vendor, and an "app signing key," securely retained within the vendor's Key Management System (KMS). Further, the method includes releasing or publishing applications to a digital distribution service managed by the OS or MDM vendor …
Language Models With Self-Contained Computational Resource Scheduling, D Shin
Language Models With Self-Contained Computational Resource Scheduling, D Shin
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Scaling language models for inference can be difficult due to the computational resource requirement. LLM deployments typically include computational resources for the LLM itself and additional resources that run separate hand-turned or learned models for resource allocation. The overall complexity of resource configuration for server-based LLM deployments includes that for the LLM itself as well as that for the separate models. This disclosure describes the use of a language model to perform its own computational resource management. Per the techniques, resource management metadata is provided as input to the language model as an additional input along with the incoming query. …
Aggregated End-To-End Visibility And Its Application On Rapid And Automatic Outage Triage In Monitoring Microservices, Kyusoon Lee, Thomas Adamcik, Parker Roth, Jan-Jan Van Der Vyver Xiv, Mayur Kabra
Aggregated End-To-End Visibility And Its Application On Rapid And Automatic Outage Triage In Monitoring Microservices, Kyusoon Lee, Thomas Adamcik, Parker Roth, Jan-Jan Van Der Vyver Xiv, Mayur Kabra
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In a microservice architecture, a user request can go through a large number of servers owned by several different teams before a response is returned. The request can fail due to failure in any of the servers. Troubleshooting an outage that affects the end user experience in microservice architecture can involve multiple teams and can take a substantial amount of time. This disclosure describes techniques to rapidly locate the root cause entity of a customer-facing failure to node(s) deep within the infrastructure of the service. Per the techniques, end user product teams mark requests with metadata known as critical user …
Payment Support For Hierarchy Of Third Party Sellers, Nagaraju Shiramshetti
Payment Support For Hierarchy Of Third Party Sellers, Nagaraju Shiramshetti
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Third party sellers and sub-partners can provide a range of benefits to primary sellers, such as lower operating costs, specialized expertise, and access to new markets. However, payment systems may not be set up to work with such hierarchies, e.g., may not be set up to calculate commissions that are owed to multiple partners. This disclosure describes payment systems with built-in support for a hierarchy of third party sellers and sub-partners. The payment systems allow sellers in a marketplace to automate billing and invoices, including for third party sellers and sub-partners, based on an item sold in the marketplace. Payments …
Large Language Model Powered Test Case Generation For Software Applications, Victor Dantas
Large Language Model Powered Test Case Generation For Software Applications, Victor Dantas
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Test cases for software are designed to provide code coverage as well as to test the code against real user behavior. Building such test cases can be challenging. Current tools to build test cases rely on macros (scripts) to simulate user behavior. Building such macros requires manually programming test cases and/or randomizing user actions during the test. This disclosure describes the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to learn the patterns of user behavior on a website, app, or other software to be tested. For example, a large language model (LLM) can be utilized to learn the patterns. The …
Tag Aggregation Across Public/Private Clouds, Magdy Louis
Tag Aggregation Across Public/Private Clouds, Magdy Louis
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Techniques described herein provide for using existing native private/public cloud tags' constructs across different clouds while still being able to normalize groups and rules constructs for an effective enforcement that is cloud independent, region independent, and IP address independent. Techniques described herein provide for normalizing the tags into a common format, normalizing the tags into a common address space, and propagating the tags and rules across clouds/systems for effective enforcement.
Method And System For Implementing Haptic Surfaces In Payment Cards, Madhusudan St, Manas Sharma
Method And System For Implementing Haptic Surfaces In Payment Cards, Madhusudan St, Manas Sharma
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The present disclosure relates to a technique for implementing haptic surfaces in the payment cards to facilitate convenient operation by visually impaired users. The technique involves embedding a suitable power source on the payment card and storing the electrical energy from the power source within the card such that whenever the power button is switched ON, the electrical energy flows from the stored source to the haptic surface enabled digits embedded on the payment card so as to bubble-out the haptic surface enabled digits. These bubbled-out digits may be easily read by the cardholder by touching the popped-up surface. When …
Transmitting View-Once Content In Messaging Platform
Transmitting View-Once Content In Messaging Platform
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A method and system for transmitted view-once (VO) documents, such as a PDF, through a messaging platform, or the like, is provided. The method includes receiving a document, wherein the document is uploaded to the messaging platform on a first user device. The method also includes determining that the document is to be transmitted as a VO message, encrypting the document, based on the determining that the document is to be transmitted as a VO message, using a unique encryption key, transmitting the encrypted document to one or more second user devices, and decrypting the transmitted document at the one …
Method And System For Creating A Database 2 (Db2) Connector Support In A Datahub, Deepak Garg, Harsimran Singh, Jayachandra Adusumalli
Method And System For Creating A Database 2 (Db2) Connector Support In A Datahub, Deepak Garg, Harsimran Singh, Jayachandra Adusumalli
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for creating a Database 2 (Db2) connector support for a datahub. The present disclosure suggests obtaining the input data sources from a Db2 database. Thereafter, the obtained data sources are ingested into the datahub. Subsequently, a metadata change proposal is generated based on the Db2 sources. Further, the generated metadata change proposal is sent to the datahub though the data sinks, wherein the data sinks include REST API and Kafka.
Equalauth: Fair And Secure Biometrics For All Abilities, Sahil Arora
Equalauth: Fair And Secure Biometrics For All Abilities, Sahil Arora
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The present disclosure relates to a behavioral biometric based authentication system. User device sends user data associated with a user to a system. The user data includes behavioral biometric data such as keystroke dynamics, mouse movements, touchscreen interactions, voice patterns, device handling and the like. The system identifies a disability based on the user data and extracts a pre-trained model associated with that specific disability from any one of: database and model repository. The model is further trained using the user data to generate and store a user profile. The user sends an authentication request during processing of a user …
System And Method For Enabling Identification (Id) Card For Transactions, Jenny Abraham, Aishwarya Chembilathel Ramachandran
System And Method For Enabling Identification (Id) Card For Transactions, Jenny Abraham, Aishwarya Chembilathel Ramachandran
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The present disclosure provides a method and system for enabling Identification (ID) card for transactions. The system of the present disclosure provides an application through which an individual login using their ID card. Upon login, income details of the individual are self-declared in the application. Further, the system of the present disclosure categorises the individual based on the income and provides options of issuers/Fintech that may service this income group category. Further, once an issuer/Fintech is identified, the ID card is linked to a bank account. In the application, an e-wallet is also configured that allows easy transfer of funds …
A Method To Classify Consumers Based On Consumer Spending Pattern, Jyothi Jayakumar
A Method To Classify Consumers Based On Consumer Spending Pattern, Jyothi Jayakumar
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for creating inferred attributes using spend bands and/or basket size of spending. The basket size range may be generated by multiplying an index and range size along each spending group, wherein the spending groups are assigned based on the amount spent by the consumers to purchase one or more items. The present disclosure suggests preparing the input data obtained from a data input device to estimate the age of the consumers. Thereafter, an inferred attribute, that is, inferred age groups are created using spend bands and/or basket size of the …