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Transfer Of User Interests And Preferences Between Software Platforms, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

User data, such as page views, app installation/usage data, etc. is not easily available on some mobile device platforms. This paucity of data makes determination of interests and preferences of users of such platforms difficult, e.g., for advertisers. With user permission, this disclosure uses machine-learning techniques to find features that indicate user interests and preferences on one platform, and transfer them to another.

Combined Low- And High-Voltage Fan Integrated In A Joint Frame For A Cooling System Of A Full Cell Vehicle, Verena Schwaiger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Creating A Common Secured Tunnel For Network Functions, Ravi Shekhar, Ameo Ghosh

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for efficient tunnel management for secured communication between Network Functions (NFs) across different Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) through Security Edge Protection Proxies (SEPPs). A common secured tunnel is created for all the NFs to interact between visited SEPPs (vSEPP) and home SEPPs (hSEPPs). There is a choice to select different authentication methods between different vSEPP-hSEPP pairs.

Generating Training Databases Used In Vector Based Object Recognition In Hybrid Cloud Using Public Profiles, Ashutosh Malegaonkar, Ming'en Zheng, Haihua Xiao, Rizhi Chen, Li Kang, Stacy Ling

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein for generating a face data set which contains badge identifier photos and photos from social media. The faces are automatically tagged using facial recognition, text recognition, and human relationship mining.

Optimizing Signaling In 5g Non-Standalone Network Deployments Enabled With Presence Reporting Area, Somaraju Kaki, Anjaneyulu P.V.M.K.P

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein for helping to address excessive Gx signaling. A Presence Reporting Area (PRA) feature coupled with Dual Connectivity New Radio (DCNR) / 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) network deployments enable Packet Data Gateways (PGWs) to offer Quality of Service (QoS) upgrade/downgrade of the respective bearer that was switched as part of a path update procedure based on the PRA Identifier (PRA-ID). This avoids upgrading/downgrading all the bearers associated with the Packet Data Network (PDN). Without these techniques, when the Master eNodeB (MeNB) triggers a path update for certain bearers, the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) would end up …

Improving Quality Of Service Performance In Low Power And Lossy Networks, Lele Zhang, Yajun Xia, Yinfang Wang, Chuanwei Li

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein to improve Quality of Service (QoS) performance of Low power and Lossy Networks (LLN). This guarantees a special high speed link for high priority data packets for LLN without reducing the performance of normal priority throughput.

High Efficiency Sleep Schedule For Battery Based Endpoints In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Lele Zhang, Huimin She, Yajun Xia, Li Zhao

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for a high efficiency sleep schedule method to save energy for Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). Nodes are not distinguished as Full Function Device (FFD) or Reduced Function Device (RFD), as the strategy depends on hop count and the parent node’s sleep schedule. This is an improvement over current WMNs, which do not account for power management for Battery Based Endpoint (BBP) devices.

Adaptive Tone Map Request Control In Power Line Communication Mesh Network, Zaochun Zhang, Xiaopu Zhang, Yuping Wang, Xin Chen

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein for a sliding window mechanism to adjust the macMaxAgeTime dynamically to adapt to different environmental conditions. This solution can greatly reduce issues caused by a fixed macMaxAgeTime, such as communication failure due to tone map parameters not being updated, or valuable bandwidth being wasted due to needless tone map request/response. Consequently, this improves data throughput and network robustness of the whole system.

A Virtual Sub-Domain Routing Mechanism To Improve Routing Efficiency For Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Dechen Xu, Jianfeng Mao, Xiang Fang

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein to optimize the routing path between normal nodes and a fog node in a non-storing mesh network. The transmission between normal nodes and the application fog node is more efficient and little additional calculation or storage is required on the normal nodes.

Systems And Methods For User Feedback, Lixia Liu, Cassandra Xia

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for identifying user input to a computing system, such as to identify when a user is dissatisfied with a service. According to aspects of the present disclosure, a computing system that is providing the service can monitor for a trigger event that signals a user’s dissatisfaction with the system. The system can collect in-the-moment data associated with the user’s dissatisfaction with the system, and attempt to immediately improve the user experience based on the trigger event and/or attempt to improve the user experience through training based on data associated with the trigger event. …

Pre-Auction Filtering Prediction To Prevent Creative Filtering, Stanislav Belov, Don Greenberg

Defensive Publications Series

Methods and systems, including computer programs, for a real-time bidding system that includes “don’t submit” information in a real-time bid request that is sent to bidders. The “don’t submit” information tells the bidders to not submit bids for specified creative identifiers (IDs) based on an analysis by the system as to the likelihood that the creatives having those IDs will be filtered out. The system supplies real-time, or near real-time, information identifying certain creatives that are highly likely to be rejected to the bidders if provided as a response to a bid request. The system prevents submission of bids for …

Data Saving Using Contextual Signals, Victor Carbune, Thierry Coppey

Defensive Publications Series

Mobile device applications and operating systems offer a data-saving option such that online content that is believed to be unchanged since last load is not reloaded. However, this sometimes leads to a situation where online content that has actually changed is not reloaded or that stale content is reloaded. The misdetection of fresh content as stale or vice-versa occurs due to the heuristics that are used by the data-saving algorithms of the application/ OS, due to misconfigured servers, etc.

This disclosure presents machine-learning techniques that determine if a web page or a portion thereof is to be reloaded. The techniques …

Self-Grounding Esd Tables, Laura Doll

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method that provide self-grounding to an electrostatic discharge (ESD) table is disclosed. The system includes a workbench that has an ESD dissipative top. The top is connected to the foot of the workbench through a boot that effectively grounds the workbench on an ESD protected passing floor. With the passing floor as the grounding source the system may be freely moved without installing additional grounding cables. The method keeps the sensitive computer components safe and allows work to be set up anywhere in a building that has the ESD protected passing floor. The advantages of the self-grounding …

Improved White Balance Based On Multiple Photos Of Same Subjects, Thomas Deselaers, Victor Carbune

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to perform improved automatic white balance correction to digital images in a user’s collection. With user permission, multiple photos that depict the same subjects are found in the user’s collection in photos depicting a variety of different lighting and environments, and an automatic white balance correction is determined based on the multiple photos. The white balance correction can be automatically applied to new photos and/or older photos in a user’s collection. Such features enable automatic white balance to more accurately applied and produce higher quality photos with accurate colors.

Crowdsourcing Training Data For Real-Time Transcription Models, Sara Basson, Dimitri Kanevsky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method are disclosed to train speech transcription models via crowdsourcing. Users of a media sharing platform may view real-time transcriptions associated with media on the user devices and identify the transcriptions as correct or incorrect. Users may determine with high accuracy correct and incorrect parts of transcribed text, using a general context of a conversation that is being transcribed. The users may select or mark blocks of transcription text and assign the selected text as correct transcription or incorrect transcription on the input user device. The system may aggregate a large amount of marked transcriptions from multiple …

Linking Video Content, Verena Schwaiger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Bjb Assembly Concept, Verena Schwaiger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Tool For Assembling Components With Corrugated Bellows, Verena Schwaiger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Preference-Based Acceleration Of Video Material, Dimitri Kanevsky, Sara Basson

Defensive Publications Series

Video material, such as movies and TV shows, often includes visual and auditory information for users that have sensory disabilities. For example, a blind movie watcher will listen to audio descriptions of visual scenes of the movie and a deaf movie watcher will read descriptions (e.g., closed captioning) of audio information of the movie. Users may prefer to skip or accelerate certain portions of the video material while other portions of the video material are presented in full. These users may include viewers with various disabilities, such as blindness, deafness, autism and so forth, that prefer to only watch portions …

Sealed Keyboard With Normal Typing Feeling, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A sealed keyboard achieves a normal typing tactile feel through the addition of

a rubber skin over the keys that has a flex-zone around keycaps that reduces the extra

force needed to press the key due to the rubber skin.

Drone Discovery Protocol For Enterprise Drones Via Smart Contracts, Khevatraj Purmanan, Anamika Abhoypada Das, Somesh U. Malimath

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for targeting the Enterprise drone market where the authorization and traceability of unmanned drones for service deliveries will be necessary in the near future. Currently, the implementation of drone tracking and its end to end flight validation is still poorly defined. Therefore, a consensus mechanism tying all entities within the drone ecosystem is needed (e.g., the manufacturer, insurance companies, smart city authorities, traffic controller, etc.). Described within is a consensus based smart contract using blockchain technology within the drone application which makes it permissible to fly and be tracked by a drone discovery protocol.

New Method To Protect The Notebook Hdd Data, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Normally, user likes the notebook speaker volume output as loud as possible when listening to rock music or playing a PC game or watching a movie. When user turns on the internal speaker volume at maximum output, the speaker vibration will impact the HDD then cause the HDD data crash and impact the system stability.

Keyboard For Usb-C Tablet, Gregory Granito, David Schneider

Defensive Publications Series

Tablet computing devices without pogo pins connect to keyboards via Bluetooth or micro-USB. These connectivity options have certain problems - Bluetooth consumes additional power and often has connectivity problems, while micro-USB keyboards exclusively occupy the USB port, which makes simultaneous charging of the tablet or use with other accessories impossible.

USB-C enables simultaneous fast charging and data transfer over USB. Leveraging USB-C technology, this disclosure provides techniques that enable tablets with USB-C port to reliably connect to a keyboard for simultaneous USB-based fast charging and access to other USB accessories.

Dynamic Location-Based Shopping Lists Using Smart Assistants, Ruxandra Davies, Scott Davies

Defensive Publications Series

Despite the growth of online retail, shopping at brick-and-mortar stores remains a powerful draw for even tech-savvy customers. For example, many customers still like to examine certain items, e.g., fruits, vegetables, clothing, etc., prior to purchasing such items. Customers who make purchases at physical stores often create shopping lists on their mobile devices. With user permission, the techniques of this disclosure detect the user’s location (or navigation plan) to determine if items on the shopping list are available at physical stores in proximity to the user’s current or immediate-future locations, and notify the user appropriately.

Real-Time Multi-Variate Multi-Time-Scale Anomaly Detection System For Next Generation Networks, Antonio Nucci, Song Cui, John Garrett, Gurvinder Singh, Kenneth Croley

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for a real-time multi-variate, multi-scale, context-aware anomaly detection system. This system is built using concepts of edge/cloud distributed processing and orchestration.

Dynamic Device Compromise Footprint Pre-Filtering, Eric Voit, Jared Pendleton, Chris Mccoy

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein to enhance detection of compromised network devices by maintaining a list of network device indicators of compromise (i.e., a footprint), determining the viable footprints relevant to the device’s specific deployment context, and placing checks for these footprints onto a device. Based on the reduced set of footprints, these footprints are placed in a cryptoprocessor (e.g., Trusted Platform Module (TPM)) to ensure that potentially relevant evidence cannot be silently discarded. As soon as a new footprint is characterized, devices may forward found instances of these footprints to a security controller. This allows the security controller to do …

Gender-Aware Natural Language Translation, James Kuczmarski, Melvin Johnson

Defensive Publications Series

Languages differ in the way they express gender. Some languages are gender-neutral, while others have masculine, feminine, or neuter forms. When translating gender-neutral text into a language with gender, there can be more than one valid translation. For example, the Turkish query “O bir doktor” is translated into English as either “He is a doctor” or “She is a doctor.” Historically, machine translation has not been able to generate more than one gender specific translation. Put differently, machine translation would “choose” a single masculine form, feminine form, or other gender variant as the translation output. In neural machine translation, this …

Moderated User Input For Editing And Extending Knowledge Bases, Leon Nicholls

Defensive Publications Series

Currently, conversational apps do not have the capability for the user provide input that can edit or extend a backend knowledge base from which the app derives the output. This disclosure describes a framework to support the creation of conversational apps with backend knowledge bases that can be updated by users. The framework includes capability to enable the user to provide feedback and input regarding the answers provided by a conversation app in response to a query. Such user contributions are processed by corresponding moderators to edit the associated content within the knowledge base as needed.

Authentication Using Sparse Modeling Of Fingerprint Images, Firas Sammoura, Matthew Robbins

Defensive Publications Series

Fingerprint sensors often have difficulty authenticating users if the user’s fingers are wet or moist, e.g., due to sweat. This disclosure presents robust techniques for fingerprint identification based on the K-SVD algorithm, which is a technique to represent images in a sparse manner. A K-SVD dictionary is created out of enrolled fingerprint images. A fingerprint that is to be authenticated is segmented into blocks, and each block is projected against the dictionary. A heat map of highest projection coefficients is formed, and overall match-score is calculated. The overall match-score is used to authenticate the fingerprint. The dictionary stores the essential …

Active Stylus Wireless Charging Design, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This publication disclosed an active stylus wireless charging method on notebook PCs

or tablet PC systems. The design target to improve active stylus charging design when

compared with traditional micro USB or USB type-C charging method. The new design

will take advantage of magnet attraction force to attract flexible mounted pogo pins to

charge active stylus automatically. When active stylus is magnetically attached to

notebook PC or tablet PC, the correspond magnet inside notebook PC or tablet PC will

be attracted and pull out the pogo pins outward to charge active stylus. When the active

pen is removed from notebook …