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Inferring Restaurant Affordability From Menu Prices, Xinru Yang

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Online information sources such as websites, search engines, digital maps, etc. provide restaurant information which often includes an affordability indicator that indicates the general level of prices charged by the restaurant for the items on its menu. Currently, such affordability indicators are derived from subjective and expensive consumer surveys, which can be prone to error.

This disclosure describes techniques to automatically infer an affordability indicator for a restaurant using data obtained from existing data sources and provided as input to a suitably trained machine learning model. Prices are obtained from sources of high-quality structured information and/or lower-quality unstructured information, such …

Removing Bias From Deep Learning Systems, N/A

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Generally, the present disclosure is directed to training machine learning models, e.g., deep learning models, such that the impact of any implicit bias in the training dataset on the trained model is eliminated or minimized. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage a generative adversarial configuration with a generator model and a discriminator model such that the resultant trained model (generator) performs its function free of any implicit bias that may be present in the training dataset. The model as trained herein can be any type of machine learning …

Companion-Screen Docking For "Pull-Forward" Portable Computers, Hp Inc

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An easy, ergonomic, one-action docking system for pull-forward portable

computers.

Generating A Software Defined Segmentation Policy From Static/Dynamic Access Control Lists And Active Directory Integration, Mnason Pattan, Ankush Arora, Manasi Jain

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With multiple customers looking to migrate from traditional campus networks into software defined access (SDA) architectures, it is of paramount importance to enable such transitions in a simplified and automated fashion while still maintaining the current level of segmentation. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that addresses an important part of such a transition by defining a method of generating a software defined segmentation policy by integrating with an active directory (AD) and referencing the current access policies along with other known methods.

Network Data Objectivization, Classification, Verification, And Privacy Via Ring-Oriented Metadata, Dave Zacks, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Michele Guel, Carlos M. Pignataro, Tim Szigeti, Robert Barton

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Data from network devices is commonly made available without any regard to, or concern, for the ability to provably verify the classification level of the involved data. The owner of a network device frequently will wish to restrict data access, visibility, and processing as a policy action. To address these types of challenges, techniques presented herein support a multi-step approach to addressing the issue of how owners of network device-generated data may share such data with other parties (e.g., a vendor’s technical assistance center, partners, etc.) in a controlled way that respects data and other privacy controls and provides verification …

Virtual Leds For Real-Time Monitoring And Debugging In Electronic Hardware, N/A

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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are ubiquitous in electronic hardware, where they serve to indicate device state and/or provide debug information, e.g., during product development. If indicator LEDs are retained in production hardware, equipment owners incur substantial capital and operating costs. This disclosure describes the virtual LED (vLED), a technique that leverages connectivity through an on-board controller such as a baseboard management controller (BMC) to transmit real-time information equivalent to the state of the physical indicator-LED to a log file communicated through a browser or other tool. The vLED provides the equivalent functionalities as a physical LED while costing nearly nothing and …

Low-Churn Back-End Subsetting, N/A

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A front-end task delegates work to one or more back-end tasks. Back-end subsetting is a technique for dividing up the pool of back-end tasks into subsets, one subset per front-end task. This disclosure describes techniques for back-end subsetting that provide optimality and differing trade-offs on such performance parameters as connection balance, front-end churn, back-end churn, subset diversity, subset spread, etc.

Utilizing Web Data To Detect Harmful Application Software, Badthody Anil Shenoy

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This publication describes techniques that enable a developer of an operating system (OS) to protect a user(s) and/or an electronic device(s) (e.g., a smartphone) by detecting, disabling, and/or removing a third-party application(s) that may be a potentially harmful application (PHA). The PHA may cause signature symptoms on the smartphone of the user. The signature symptoms may be related to a performance of the smartphone (e.g., the smartphone crashes), billing fraud, unwanted applications, a battery of the smartphone, a temperature of the smartphone, and so forth. Using a search engine, the user may submit a search query regarding the signature symptoms …

Improving Remote Customer Interaction Experiences Using Machine Learning, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shiblee Hasan, Dustin Abramson, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.

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A common problem in contact centers is high employee turnover. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that have been introduced to smoothen interaction and improve the customer’s experience can have opposite effects, e.g., by requiring the customer to navigate complex menu options. This disclosure describes AI-based techniques applied to agent training and customer calls. The techniques can reduce turnover at contact centers and improve the experience of end users who interact with customer service agents. Per the techniques, suitable AI techniques are implemented to train human customer agents, and human feedback is in turn used to train AI techniques. Human-AI augmentation can …

Capturing Frames With Enhanced Colors Using Scene Detection, Liang Liang

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This publication describes techniques and apparatuses that enable an electronic device (e.g., a smartphone) with at least one camera to capture high-quality static frames, a burst of frames, and/or video recordings. The camera includes at least one image sensor. In addition to the image sensor, the camera and/or the smartphone may include other sensors. The other sensors may include one or more phase-detection sensor, motion sensor (e.g., gyroscope, accelerometer), motion-detection sensor (e.g., proximity sensor), spectral sensor, light-intensity sensor, ambient light sensor, and so forth. The camera uses an algorithm(s) that performs an auto white balance (AWB), an auto brightness control …

System And Method For Rapid Resource Provider Support, Elizabeth Rich, Helen Jing Jing Wang, Joy Guerra, Keith Foy, Alex Hoye, Julia Hinger, Sonie Botta, Swapnil Baware, Moorthi Nataraj, Mimie Wu, Catherine Dillon, Rahul Deou

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The present disclosure relates a method and system (100) for promoting businesses during or after emergency events. Data is received and the received data is related to businesses associated with a specific geographic area where emergency event had occurred. The transactions are occurring at one or more merchants within the specific geographic area are determined. A display of information regarding the one or more merchants is provided on a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to allow a user to perform operations such as filtering businesses, picking from a list of predicted business categories, pick business names, …

Using A Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (Stir) Personal Assertion Token Extension To Improve Audio Dial-In Experience In Meetings, Ram Mohan R, Rajarshee Dhar, Deepesh Arora, Radha Krishna Saragadam

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Public-Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) dial-in is a common way to join a teleconference (e.g., a teleconference meeting, etc.), which could be an audio-only teleconference or a video teleconference in which the audio portion of the call involves a PSTN path). Many teleconference vendors provide toll-free numbers and/or other PSTN numbers that can be used to dial-in to a teleconference. However, PSTN call-in processes for teleconferences have not evolved much in the last decade and often experience problems. This proposal seeks to address various problems/challenges associated with current PSTN call-in processes for teleconferences by providing novel techniques in which an extension …

Automated Frequency Coordination Guided Radio Assignment For Wi-Fi 6e Access Points, Vishal Desai, Santosh Kulkarni, Pooya Monajemi, Young Il Choi

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Within a wireless local area network (WLAN) involving many Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 access points (APs) in a high-density network, radio operating mode assignments for dual band (2.4 Gigahertz (GHz)/5GHz) or tri-band (2.4GHz/5GHz/6Ghz) capable radios can be provided using various radio assignment techniques in order to optimize radio coverage and reduce interference, which can improve user experience in such a high-density network. Presented herein is technique that re-architects traditional coverage-based radio assignments to adhere with 6GHz standards, high efficiency (HE) station load requirements, and Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) regulations when determining optimal radio role transformations for …

Ovc Mac’S Bus – Eol Test Method_Id-05655, Christian Mohr

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A cooking appliance with a circuit board assembly is provided. The cooking appliance can be an electric cooking range or a gas cooking range, which includes an oven. The circuit board assembly is assembled to the frame structure of the appliance, thereby providing easy access for testing equipment to electrically connect to power and control electronics on the circuit board assembly. The assembly comprises a support bracket, a frame, and a PCB with a test terminal. A standardized positioning of the terminal among the appliance variants provides optimum conditions to efficiently test the electronics in an automatized manner.

Sponsored Next Steps In Search Engine, Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru, Hinali Marfatia, Ramakrishnan Kandhan, Chalmers Wang, Senthil Hariramasamy, Gang Wu, Abhineet Bhardwaj

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Search engines can be accessed by client devices to improve search experiences, return on investment for content providers, and monetization of the search engine. A data processing system can construct a journey for a client device by suggesting subsequent steps for the client device to follow. The data processing system can generate search queries associated with a search query input by the client device, where each search query can include a statistical conversion rate. A subset of the search queries can be selected based on their statistical conversion rate. Consequently, the data processing system can transmit a search result including …

Context-Based Contact Suggestions For Content Sharing, Eusebius Lai

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When a user selects content to share, some operating systems present a user interface in which the user is shown a shortcut to share the content with particular contacts and/or via particular applications. However, such suggestions often do not match the user’s intent and are therefore inaccurate and accordingly, have low click-through rates. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to assign an affinity signal to a given piece of content, such that the suggestion interface offers the most relevant contacts to share the content with. The affinity signal is based on the content as well as the context, …

Cloud-Native Ipv4 Over A Native Ipv6 Cloud, Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Jerome Tollet, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Ali Sajassi

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Techniques presented herein provide a variation of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For Comments (RFC) 8505 to register stub prefixes to a fabric, and also of RFC 6877 to combine Network Address Translation (NATing) and Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 (v4) to v6 and also v6 to v4 translation. The new operation provides for the ability to transport IPv4 cloud-native application flows between applications and services over an IPv6-only fabric without a change in the containers running the applications and services. The techniques further provide for the ability to load-balance services over the Internet, using a variation of RFC …

Password-Less Trust Based Access Authorization For Remote Internet-Of-Things (Iot) Devices, Shweta Palande, Shivani Suri, Madhuri Dewangan, Vinay Saini

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The industry is moving away from password-based authorizations as they are often difficult to manage and are associated with various risks. Techniques herein solve an important issue with regard to remote Internet of Things (IoT) gateway access by utilizing a password-less trust-based authentication mechanism through which dynamic trust-based authorizations can be provided for devices utilizing a combination of a user trust score and a device risk profile in a unique manner. Such an approach will improve IoT security and will also help to solve an important security issue within the IoT/industrial world.

Simplified Parameter Selection For Enterprise Private 5g Network Provisioning, Vijay Marthi

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For enterprises having multiple locations, potentially across the world, deploying private 5G networks across these locations can be cumbersome. Techniques herein provide for the ability to simplify the process of 5G network provisioning utilizing a centralized system that interacts with various enterprise locations to deploy an enterprise private 5G network with minimum required parameters.

Ml Assisted Context Awareness Identification, Hp Inc

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The explosive growth of users of Smart Phone, Web Connected devices and Web has changed how content was absorbed and

presents tremendous opportunity for Data acquisition, Data Mining, Data Rendering, Data Classification and Visualization.

We being leader in the Printing and Personal System domain we have unique opportunity to direct this data to our Cloud Print

enabled printers and various Web Connected Devices for providing various solutions.

This paper aims at defining a machine learning based context awareness identification platform for data acquisition, extracting

context from unstructured data and helping various data driven solution e.g. enhancing user experience of digital …

Minimum Thrust Function Targeted Energy Destruction By The Brake, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

System To Enable Contract-Less/Agreement-Less Roaming Across Mobile Operators, Nitin Maheshwari, Praveen Joseph

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Mobile roaming is a service that allows mobile users to continue to use their mobile phones or other mobile devices to make and receive voice calls and text messages, browse the internet, and send and receive emails while visiting another geography where a home network connection does not exist. However, issues may arise for scenarios in which a visited network may not have a roaming agreement with a user's home network in a given country and/or an agreement may be cost prohibitive for the user to utilize. Presented herein are techniques to facilitate agreement-free or contract-less roaming across network operators …

Scanning And Ranking A Stream Of Visual Objects, Matthew Sharifi, Abhanshu Sharma

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When examining a product in the store, users can use augmented reality (AR) devices to research the product. However, unlike in online shopping, making product comparisons while shopping in the store is time-consuming, burdensome, and error prone. This disclosure describes the use of object recognition techniques to enable AR-based visual searches and product comparisons. With user permission, products in the user’s field of view are detected and identified, and a dynamic buffer of product information is maintained. The buffer serves to transform the searches for individual products within a visual search session into a ranked list that can be sorted …

Improved Security And Reliability In The Dns Provider Discovery Mechanism Of Domain Connect Protocol, Navneet Goel, Aditya Gopalakrishnan

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Domain Connect is a publicly available standard that enables DNS Providers to provide a mechanism for Service Providers to place DNS records on the domain, thus freeing the customer from having to manually set the records. There however exist some security and reliability challenges arising from the current Domain Connect specifications which Service Providers might want to protect themselves from. Specifically the _domainconnect TXT record, in theory, can be compromised to point to a server controlled by a bad actor; the protocol does not provide a facility to shut down DNS Providers known to have downtime or other issues; and …

Detecting A Sequence Of Related Queries To Provide A Combined Set Of Structured Answers, Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune

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When a sequence of queries from a user is formed of queries that are related to each other and generate the same type of direct structured answers, current search engines will serve them independently. As a result, users cannot conveniently view and directly compare answers from the search engine across the multiple queries because these answers are provided within respective answer boxes on the search result page corresponding to each query. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, that detect when a user enters a sequence of queries that yield the same type(s) of answers that can be compared …

Important Message Guardian-A Smart Dock To Help You Guard The Important Message, Hp Inc

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Modern standby (MSC) is a good and popular mechanism in computer industry. We use it to

replace the S3 as the default shipping configuration. However, when user get into MSC by

close lid, we always miss important or critical message of your computer since the computer

is in deep low power mode and cannot do things that consumer more computing power. For

example, turn on display to display something, nerveless, your lid is closed. Dock is a good

product whatever in home or office to provide persistent power and extent communication

source for computer. That is the reason why it …

Distributed Parameter Monitoring For Wireless Deployments, Mirko Raca, Domenico Ficara

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Using machine learning (ML) to make observations of network operations is faced with many constraints, including collection constraints, storage constraints, and processing constraints. Additionally, in many instances, data collected from a network may be unusable and will incur collection, storage, and processing costs with potentially limited return. Presented herein are techniques through which pre-filtering tasks can be distributed to wireless access points (APs) to highlight valuable metrics and learn from network deployments.

Ssh Connections In Chat Applications, Daniel Clarke

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Many operating systems and web browsers provide a terminal application to execute SSH commands and interact with servers. SSH interaction has notable overhead, especially when the user needs to run a quick command or two. This disclosure describes techniques that add SSH connections as an additional class of communication to the unified communication mechanisms included within operating systems, web browsers, and applications such as chat and email.

Low Latency 5g/Lte Mobile Fronthaul Traffic In Tdmpon/Xgs-Pon Networks, Prashant Anand, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Manoj Kumar, Raghupathi S, Ajay Sandhir

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Ensuring low latency in a passive optical network (PON) environment for a mobile fronthaul use case is critical and raises a number of challenges. To address those types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support, among other things, the coordination between a PON scheduler and a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation (5G) scheduler where the expected traffic in an uplink direction is intimated in advance to the PON scheduler. Such advance knowledge of a bandwidth scheduling requirement in an upstream direction eliminates, for example, the serialization of scheduler latency. Aspects of the techniques …

Authenticated Isolation In Deduplicated Storage, Sandip Agarwala, Shravan Gaonkar, Sandeep Kumar

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Multi-tenancy, security, and deduplication are important features for distributed storage systems for either on premise or on cloud deployments. However, implementing these features can be difficult, as the features often do not play well together when building a performant system. Presented herein is a technique to provide a seamless, transparent deduplication system that incorporates all of these features without inter-dependence and without impacting performance.