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Automatic Playlist Creation For Group Events, Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster

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A playlist creation engine for automating the creation of a playlist which intelligently incorporates the interests, tastes, and preferences of every attendee of a group event which has indicated a preference to include their personalized consumption profiles based upon their consumption of media content through the content sharing platform is described. The playlist creation engine identifies a type of event and a group of users attending an event to provide the attending users with a request to build each user’s personalized consumption profile for use in generating a requested playlist. Playlist entries are determined from the personalized consumption profiles and …

Millimeter-Wave Radio System, Mark Felipe, Sean Keys

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A millimeter-wave radio system enables a need-based communication between a set of radios to improve performance metrics, such as signal strength/power performance, that impact the quality of service. The system monitors performance of a radio receiver using a software engine present within the radio receiver. Based on the monitored power performance, the system makes adjustments internally as a first course of action and then provides an update to a radio transmitter. Based on this update, the radio transmitter transmits a message to the radio receiver which acts as a second course of action for the receiver to optimize the power …

Calibration-Free Estimation Of User-Specific Bending Of A Head-Mountable Device, Erfan Davami, Thad Starner

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Disclosed is an approach for determining camera rotation relative to an individual’s eye, which could then be used for applications such as calibration-free estimation of user-specific bending of a device (e.g., a head-mountable device (HMD)), among others. Due to biological conditions, an average gaze vector of an eye most often corresponds to a straight-forward gaze by an individual. Therefore, the average gaze vector is often known with respect to a coordinate system of an individual’s eye. Additionally, when the HMD is worn by a user, the HMD uses an eye-facing camera to determine the average gaze vector of the user’s …

Intelligent Generation Of Physical Products, Luke Mulcahy

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Users search for products via a search engine by submitting search queries. Users are presented with search results based on the search queries. The search results may include offers for products that are relevant to a search query or may include no relevant offers. The search system logs search query data including logging whether offers related to the search query were presented in the search result and whether users submitting the search queries selected any offers associated with the search results. The search system designates search queries in which users selected offers in the search results as converted search queries …

Producing A Sharable Link For Replaying Online User Actions, Reinaldo Aguiar

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A mechanism is provided for a Web browser application that is initiated by a first user to automatically produce a single sharable link that, when opened by a second user, re-plays the actions performed by the first user who shared the link. For example, the second user can use the sharable link to automatically play back the actions on a different computer system. The actions can include, for example, search terms that were used, web sites that were accessed, and other steps that were performed.

Nfv Dynamic And Adaptative Contextual Execution, Ignacio Aldama, Ruben Sevilla Giron, Javier Garcã­A Lopez

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Network function virtualization is an emerging technology that is changing the paradigm of operations within the telco industry. Associated with the virtualization benefits it also appear a growing complexity to manage and operate complex and dynamic scenarios.

In a traditional network all the elements are physical and so they are limited and very rigid. You may have N and only N elements and it is not easy, neither cheap and neither fast, to either increase or decrease that number.

In an NFV world you got one additional layer as the “physical elements” become virtual and run as software on top …

Client-Side Session-Based Contextual User Model Builder, Arthur Asuncion, Kang Li

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A client-side user model is created and maintained for use in selecting content. For example, a user model builder creates and updates a client-side user model. The client-side user model is populated with information from a video-specific user model received from a server and updated at the client side using information from a user activity history, including a video watching history. When requesting a video from the server, the client device can send a user profile derived from the client-side user model. The server can use information from the user profile to personalize content provided to the client device.

Displaying Closed Captioning Using Speech-To-Text, Brant Candelore, Mike Nejat, Peter Shintani

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A system and method for providing synchronized Closed Captioning (CC) for live programming is disclosed herein. The method includes providing CC by speech-to-text conversion of the live content followed by synchronization of the CC with the dialogue to be displayed in a device. The speech-to-text conversion may be run in real-time or non-real time. The system provides annotations for different speakers and background music. The live content may also be stored on a video recorder, such as a set-top box, and processed offline. Similarly, a web stream may be recorded and processed offline. Alternatively, it may also be possible to …

Algorithm To Enrich Display Of A Link In A Web Application, Erwan Gereec

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This document describes a universal algorithm to enhance display of a link tag in web applications. The purpose is to display at least the title of the website, a little description and if exist, some preview of images which are displayed on the website. Thus, the user who receive a link will have relevant information to know what is the content of the website.

Modifying Metadata Based On A Received Gesture, Ricardo Marquez, David Tabb, Amit Chandak, Ella Musina, Melissa Nikolic, Reagan Kim, Jennifer Low

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A metadata modification system can be used to modify metadata associated with one or more products displayed at a display screen. The system presents the metadata associated with one or more products at the display screen of the electronic device. The system receives a gesture from a user at the display screen. The system modifies the metadata associated with one or more products based on the received gesture from the user.

A Novel Method To Discover Datacenter Hardware Instantly Using Software Defined Grid Model, Umesh M L, Naveena Kedlaya

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Hardware (Servers, Storage, Switches) in Research & Development (R&D) datacenters may be used for ongoing research, development, testing, build, qualification and certification, performance, regression testing, resolving customer issues, and the like. Engineers may move the hardware frequently without involving the IT department to meet project requirements and may shutdown the hardware whenever not in use. Currently, there are no solutions available to locate the hardware when it is powered off. It may be useful to detect datacenter hardware instantly, even if the hardware is shutdown, powered off, or exists in an isolated private network. Further, a reporting module capable of …

Crowd Opinion Mining And Scoring, Hassan Abolhassani

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A system and method are disclosed for mining and rating one or more crowd opinions. The system uses a machine learning approach for crowd opinion mining and scoring. The machine learning algorithm creates and updates concepts of the target query in the server by simultaneously mining the web to update opinion scores. A search interface is provided to find concepts and opinions on the targets. Based on the search, the system retrieves the target-related opinions from the server. The system sends crowd-sourced opinions or answers to users. Crowd knowledge is utilized to find opinions and the scores are displayed in …

Cross-Device Private Search, Iyad Assad, Matthias Heiler

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A system is described that facilitates cross-device private search. The cross-device private search may facilitate using a first device to search content on a second remote device without the second remote device uploading the content to a cloud server. A query received on the first device may be forwarded to a third-party server of a service provider. Then the service provider can forward the query to the second remote device, receive search results from the second remote device based on the query, and forward the search results to the first device. Alternatively, in some implementations where the first device and …

Identifying Similar Meaning In Word Sequences, Jakob Uszkoreit

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A system for determining semantic similarity of phrases (word sequences) uses weak supervision of neural networks to generate an embedding space for determining phrase similarity. The training of the neural networks uses input from two orthogonal sources: click distribution of queries and phrase translations.

Active Protection Of Voice-Activated Assistant Against Accidental And Malicious Activations, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers, Victor Carbune

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System and method are disclosed to protect a voice-activated assistant against accidental or malicious activation. The system includes a device interacting with the cloud having an assistive device, which in turn is protected by another, protective assistant. The protective assistant detects incoming malicious (or spurious) actions triggered by a third party which tries to connect to the device through the assistant. The protective assistant then emits a signal that would perturb the third party signal, or prepares and issues “cancellation” commands to automatically cancel the action. The system may also notify the user via SMS / phone call / email …

Smart Layout For Printing, Victor Carbune, Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers

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A printing system that adjusts the print layout for content to be printed based on the content itself in order to improve the print results. For example, the printing system may include a printing adjustor that intelligently suggests one or more print layouts for content to be printed by changing the size of the content so that it fits on a single page, arranging the content with two columns instead of one, and/or removing unimportant parts from the content such as a lengthy disclaimer, for example. As a result, the printing system can print content in a more efficient manner …

Automatically Managed Pools Of Large Test Environments, Andrew Carter

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Large production-like test environments (sandboxes) are widely used to perform manual and automated code testing, feature validation, and evaluation of uncommitted code. Sandboxes represent the production jobs, datastores, and configurations needed to effectively replicate a production environment. However, sandboxes can be difficult to start, have a steep learning curve for configuration, and suffer from reliability concerns. Also, sandboxes can be challenging to share beyond an original engineering team, e.g., for integration testing. Due to such challenges, engineering time is wasted deploying sandboxes, and some development teams instead utilize live production environments for testing putting a product or service at risk. …

Auction Floor Optimization, Don Greenberg

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A reserve price optimization (RPO) system estimates bids of individual bidders for an auction based on bidding information specific to the individual bidder. Auction data and bidder specific information are input to a model (e.g., neural network) that determines an estimated bid. Each of the estimate bids for each of the individual bidders of an auction are used as inputs in determination of an auction floor estimate optimization for a current auction. The auction floor estimate can be discounted by a safety bias to decreases likelihood of the auction floor estimate surpassing an actual top bid of the bidders.

Api Test Framework Using Meta-Descriptor, Murugesan Arumugam, Hiro Rameshlal Lalwani, Jayasankar Nallasamy

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Current trend demands the IT infrastructure to move towards cloud centric service adapting open standards like open source software, open data-center hardware, open networking standards etc. There has been a steady increase in Open API software but it lacks a common validation frameworks to meet the growing demand. So there arises the need for a generic API validation framework that can apparently help developers to validate public as well as private APIs. Testing a software sub-system, which houses a large number of such APIs each of which accepts a number of parameters always ends up as a highly monotonous work. …

Using A Graph Database To Identify Nfv Domain Monitors During Run-Time, Praneeth Nerimetla

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This disclosure relates to the field of Infrastructure in virtualized performance monitoring of Virtual Network Functions’ standard resources built on ETSI Guidelines. In real-time, the monitoring requirements are identified using a graph database with a faster, more efficient and monitoring identification made easier using graph data-modelling techniques.

Clustering And Sorting Responses To Short Answers In Electronic Quiz, Tynia Yang

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A teacher can generate an electronic quiz with questions and model answers. Students will type or otherwise enter free-form responses to the questions. A computing system will cluster similar responses together, and sort the responses based on similarity to the model answer. The computing system will present the sorted responses to the teacher, and the teacher will enter scores for the responses. When subsequent teachers generate electronic quizzes with the same questions, the computing system can use scores entered by previous teachers to rank the responses provided by subsequent students.

Translation On-The-Fly Add-On Based On Existing Translation Files And Machine-Translation, Yi-Qun Ren, Uriel Lustig, Kai Hu

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A new method for translating webpage on-the-fly is disclosed. This method use a browser add-on to auto localize the newly developed webpage or web application using existing translation files or machine-translation, so that web UI developer can detect & fix potential layout issues (including bad layout and truncation) during development time.

Graphical Interface To Create And Suggest A Travel Day Plan To A User, Aleksandra Mirisola, Simon Schuler, Markus Clermont, Stefan Frank, Lucia Terrenghi, Alessandro Cerruti, German Kopytkov, Thomas Wittek, Dario Cazzaro, Duc Dung Nguyen, Volodymur Grachov, Yurii Samsoniuk, Margaret Lisowiec

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A graphical user interface provides a suggested travel day plan and allows a user to create or modify a suggested day plan. The user may select and pin sites of interest that are then generated in an itinerary for the day. The plan can be updated and refreshed by the user to add or delete pinned sites in the generated day plan until a satisfactory plan is provided.

Advanced Fan Pinout, Geoffrey Sun, Peter Liao, Eason Chen, Mealy Cheng

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An Advanced Fan Pinout can minimize the number of control signals and pins in a server thermal cooling circuit, resulting in a more simplified design that saves design costs.

Analyzing Crowdsourced Location Data To Trigger Actions, Michael Greene

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Knowledge of the occupancy of campuses or buildings is important in order to deploy and distribute resources. Likewise, knowledge of the directions and types of movement of people and vehicles is important for urban planners, governments, facilities managers, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to derive real-time and long-term occupancy and people-movement data based on information received from devices. Such data can be utilized by a variety of customers, such as insurers, facilities managers, urban planners, governments, property owners, etc.

A Scholarly Paper Index With Strong Truth-Seeking Incentives, Alexandros Salazar Cardozo

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A system and method are disclosed to automatically estimate the quality of individual papers published by a scholar in a web search engine. The index of search engine consists of a graph model which has three main elements - papers, scholars and publications. Paper edges such as cites-presumes true, replicates, fails-to-replicate and meta-analyzes are the features where most of the power resides. This graph-dependent method provides truth-seeking incentives for scholars to obtain higher or lower rating for their published papers based on the information estimated from the paper edges. The credibility metrics are preserved and updated live, as they propagate …

Replay Real World Network Conditions To Test Cellular Switching, Weihua Tan, Vijay Thurimella, Jeffrey Palm, Michael Rowland

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A system and method for capturing real-world conditions for designing test cases for testing of network switching algorithms is disclosed. Two devices working on different communication networks are taken while commuting from home to office or vice versa. Different real-world conditions like time, network type: e.g. LTE, 3G, etc. signal strength, location, device state, e.g. moving or stationary etc. are continuously captured on the way. These pieces of information are captured by an app installed on the respective devices. It is feasible to capture additional information that a test case designer is interested in. In the end, the device will …

Executable Knowledge Base For Virtual Chat System, Wen-Ying Yang, Rui Han, Ding-Jun Chen, Xun Wang, Yuan-Chun Liao

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A virtual chat system enables the end user to interact with knowledge base by chatting with a virtual assistant. Besides knowledge article, a virtual assistant can also perform automation flows such as restart a virtual machine, reset the password for a PC. In many virtual chat systems, AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) is used to train the virtual agent to interact with human beings. It is also possible to integrate knowledge system and automation flow system with AIML interpreter to quickly empower virtual assistances with various domain knowledge. The disclosure provides a method to convert or link an automation flow …

Inline Voice Commands In Word Processor, Georges Rotival, Victoria Fritz, Kelly Moran, Shawn Lauriat, Kirti Agarwal

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Invoking a command in a word processor typically involves a break in the flow of writing. For example, if a user wants to insert a table into a document that she is editing, she has to execute an operation such as pressing a key combination, performing a mouse movement, or a gesture to invoke a command. Such breaks in flow causes a loss of productivity. Further, performing such movements may be difficult for users with motor disabilities. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to issue voice commands without a break in the flow of writing.

Tooltip For Automated Conversion Of Data In Electronic Form, Peter Schiller

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Disclosed herein are a system and a method for a calendar tooltip that includes the designation of significant dates for filling electronic forms with numerical information. The application visually differentiates the significant dates with a highlight app or by some other tool. The servers may process the information given by the user, and a database resolves the given date to a standard format. An assistive tooltip or annotation acts as a feedback mechanism to alert the user about the conversion. Thus, the system may perform smart interaction, and users may discern significant dates without relying on separate apps and services.