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Dynamic Injection Cutoffs, Jeffrey Cuartero

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A method is disclosed, that optimizes a fulfillment operation for e-commerce retailers that deliver orders to final consumers. The method changes the injection and pack cutoffs dynamically in response to day-to-day fluctuations in customer volume. To optimize the fulfillment operation, a dynamic injection cutoff logic is implemented. The pack cutoffs are configured to continually move earlier in a given day, taking into account the total routing mileage for orders due for delivery on that day. A dynamic injection cutoff logic is executed, to calculate the injection cutoff. For an injection cutoff that is within the lock-in injection cutoff, the injection, …

Cardboard Shipping Boxes With Utilitarian Articles Printed On Them, Jeffrey Cuartero

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Devices and methods are disclosed that provide a cardboard shipping box with the cutout of a utilitarian object such as a VR viewer printed on the box. The major parts of the VR viewer body are printed on the cardboard shipping box used for shipping any article. The virtual reality viewer is a mechanical body that consists of 3 distinct parts: chassis, a body, and a fixture. Each of these parts is outlined on the cardboard box with difference in line types to indicate parts that require cutting or folding according to instructions. The link to instructions for constructing the …

Color-Based Optical Camera Communication Using Deep Learning, Nicola Rohrseitz

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When a network is not available or allowed (e.g., air gap), all benefits of digital communication and the Internet disappear. To enable substantial data transmission, techniques are described herein for using Machine Learning to embed data into color images and to read it with camera-equipped devices. In addition to data transmission, this enables new applications such as embedding of content on packaging (instructions or runnable code and configurations directly on devices), physical documents with selective encryption (role-based permission to read parts of a document), protection from digital tracking, prevention of tampering on physical documents, and more.

Flow Lanes And Map Features For Vehicle Navigation Mapping, Richard Bukowski, Joakim Afvidsson

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The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing geographic information including data indicative of a flow lane that a vehicle can follow to facilitate improved vehicle navigation and/or control. A flow lane can provide an indication of a path of travel for a vehicle relative to a map or other source of geographic information, as well as a reference for localizing a vehicle’s location relative to the flow lane. In some examples, a flow lane can represent an ideal path of travel for a vehicle or other moveable object. Additionally, a flow lane can indicate a region in which …

Software Defined Networking Context Dissociation, Kevin Sheeran, Jerry David, Ramesh Mishra, Anand Pulicat Gopalakrishnan

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Context dissociation techniques are described herein for Software Defined Networking (SDN) applications. This prevents a poor user experience wherein the user is forced to look at a spinner until the operation is complete.

Application Similarity, Lei Yang, Zhikun Wang, Zhen Hao Zhou, Jiahui Liu, Zhen Xu, Zhen Li, Hsu-Chieh Lee, Sean O'Malley

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An application (app) store system may include functionality to determine whether an application is similar to other applications in the store. The application store system may determine similarity based on a number of aspects, such as title, description, icon, and application programming code.

Integrated E-Bike Charger For Battery Vehicles, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Dual Multipool Pendant Socket, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Strategies To Determine Whether Performance Requirements Can Be Satisfied In A 4g/5g/Wlan Network, Mukesh Taneja, Vishal Murgai

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Proposed herein are techniques to determine whether a 4G/5G base station, or a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Point (AP), can meet/satisfy performance requirements of newly added (or handed over) applications or user equipment (UE) in a 4G/5G/WLAN system. The techniques presented herein collect a variety of parameters from different base stations, perform pre-processing, and analyze these parameters at a Performance Predictor Module. The Performance Predictor Module uses Machine Learning (ML) methods, such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) or Support Vector Regressions (SVR) with the feature set and target variables, to learn to predict whether or not a base …

Stored Jobs Pin Regeneration, Hp Inc

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LaserJet printers provide different means of secure printing using smart cards, PIN (Personal Identification Number)

etc. Print jobs secured with a PIN can be stored as a temporary or permanent file on the printer. With the current

behavior on LaserJet Printers, if the user submits a PIN print job and forgets the pin, then the user can neither print

the job nor delete the job. When the job resides as a permanent file, factory reset is only the option to remove the

file from the printer. This paper presents a way to regenerate the PIN in a secure way to …

Smart Home Mirror, David Rempel

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An augmented reality (AR) mirror can allow a reflection of a user to be augmented with additional visual data. An AR mirror may allow a user to view his or her reflection and have the reflection modified using one or more stored or accessed digital images and/or one or more stored or accessed video streams. Such an arrangement can allow for the user’s reflection to be overlaid or otherwise modified by a still or video image of a particular clothing article. For instance, the user can view himself in the mirror to see how he would look if he wore …

A Para-Virtualization Technique To Improve The Performance Of Cross-Platform Emulation, Sanish Suresh, Vrashi Ponnappa Puchimanda Ramacha, Santosh Abraham, Sherin Thyil George

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A cross platform system emulator is a hyper-visor which can emulate a source ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) platform on a different target ISA platform. Since the source instruction cannot be executed directly on the target system, each CPU instruction of the source platform should be converted to one or more target instructions. This incurs additional overhead, thus reducing the overall performance. In this paper we propose a solution to improve the performance of cross platform emulators that use a binary translator to translate a guest ISA to a target ISA. The solution para-virtualizes hot guest functions by invoking a more …

A Least-Disruptive Mechanism To Compile Integral And Pointer Types Of Unknown Compile-Time Size To Efi Byte Code, Kiran Kumar T P, Soumitra Chatterjee

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Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification which describes an interface between the operating system (OS) and the platform firmware. UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. The UEFI Specification describes how to write drivers for a device. One of the design goals in the UEFI Specification is keeping the driver images as small as possible. But the primary disadvantage of this specification is, these device drivers will be platform- and processor-dependent.

In addition to the standard architecture-specific (native) device drivers, the EFI specification also provides for a processor-independent device driver environment, known as the EFI Byte Code (EBC) Virtual …

Prinhead To Powder Space Laser Measure Tool, Hp Inc

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The Prinhead to powder distance (PPD) is cirtical to ensure part quality.

With this tool we provide a way to check PPD on costumers site. With this tool you can measure also is

possible to recalibrate PPD after a mechanical repair.

This tool gives a way to measure PRS in operational conditions (hot machine, and with powder)

Bit-Wise Based Multi-Dimensional Array, Hp Inc

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A method for generating large .Net arrays which are bigger than 2GB (.Net size limitation) and are

performance oriented is disclosed. The method involves using multiple arrays and bit‐wise operations

for array indexing in order to create a new form of a container which functions as array with 64 bit

indexer (as opposed to 32 bit indexing of .Net arrays), based on multiple dimensions.

Transferrable Quota System For Print Devices, Hp Inc

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In the world of printing, a print quota is an administrator imposed restriction which limits the number of prints that can be printed

by a particular user. Such quota services are popularly used in Enterprise Business, Schools, College and Universities. In the quota

service, administrator given credit which may be in terms of currency is based on the calculation of number of pages printed. Once

the quota is over, the user can’t print anymore and they need to buy the credit from the Administrator.

A transferable quota system would be an advantage for the users, especially in the case of …

Interactive Scanner To Have Better Scanning Experience, Hp Inc

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By take advantage of CIS/CCD’s scanning function to collect Scanning target raw

image background information, FW could get the target size and position by

analysing the scan raw image background difference. There will have a message

and sound delivered from control panel to remind user to replace the target if

the target placement will leading image missing or to remind copy target paper

size is different with system setting , or to suggest to use ID copy function to

copy small size media, new design makes the Scanner could interactive with

users, bring to user more friendly and good experience …

Embossed Fulcrum For Access Ease Of Removal, Hp Inc

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The disclosure relates to the removal process for an access panel typically used in computer chassis.

The access panel slides open and closed to gain access to the internal assembly. The panel is interlocked

to the chassis with multiple hooks and contact points for a strong fit. These features also create

frictional force between the panel and chassis along with high inertia to install or remove the panel. To

remove the panel, a handle feature is typically included at the rear of the panel for the operator to

manually pull the panel and separate the panel from the chassis. If …

Protecting Printers From Rogue Dhcp Servers, Hp Inc

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In today’s world, securing devices from Malwares is a big concern. Even though IDS (Intrusion detection

systems) are in place, it is hard to eliminate malwares completely in a network. A vulnerable device in a

network can be attacked by a malware which can act as rogue DHCP server. It can move connected print

device(s) out of network.

This paper proposes a solution to handle rogue DHCP server and protect printers from simulated DHCP

servers by malwares or misbehaving DHCP servers. Our idea is to implement a mechanism in printers

which will provide an ability to protect themselves from rogue …

Whole Sealed Keyboard Module, Hp Inc

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Fabric or soft film material are used to cover whole keyboard module and sealed on the internal

plastic sheet and keycap surface. The cover is water and dust proof, bring out quiet typing

experience and rattling noise, better touch feeling with anti‐fingerprint and high durability.

Shifted Masks For A Better Ink Coverage In 600x1200 Dpi Printmodes, Hp Inc

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To stay within the printer specifications, to achieve high image quality and decrease the firing

frequency, it is often necessary to print an image in a different resolution from his raster

resolution. To this end, the halftoned image rows or columns are duplicated to match the

printing resolution, and printing masks are properly designed to print the image with the same

proportions as the input image is.

The quality of the resulting printed image is going to be dependent of the mask design chosen.

We propose a way to significantly improve the resulting quality by explicitly optimizing the

masking procedure …

Acumen Reading Remotely Using Low Speed Bus Over Ethernet, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of remote communication among devices, in this case cryptographic

device, Acumen IC, which use low speed bus like I2C or similar.

A system is disclosed that presents a way to handle these security encrypted devices in a remote way,

avoiding the usage of costly electronics and making use of Ethernet cable which is an extended and

cheap communication infrastructure.

Wiper Height Adjustment Automatic Check, Hp Inc

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During the printing of a 2D plot or 3D part it is of utmost importance to keep the nozzles of the printheads as clean

as possible. One of the techniques used to clean the printheads while printing is by means of the use of a web

wipe. A web wipe consists of a mechanism holding a cleaning roll of cloth that is pressed against the printheads

by a rubber blade while the carriage is passing on along. The wiper is able to move up (engage) and down

(disengage) the rubber blade so as to wipe or not wipe the printheads …

Smart Home Mirror, David Rempel

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An augmented reality (AR) mirror can allow a reflection of a user to be augmented with additional visual data. An AR mirror may allow a user to view his or her reflection and have the reflection modified using one or more stored or accessed digital images and/or one or more stored or accessed video streams. Such an arrangement can allow for the user’s reflection to be overlaid or otherwise modified by a still or video image of a particular clothing article. For instance, the user can view himself in the mirror to see how he would look if he wore …

Smart Watch With Built-In Camera And Stress Sensor, Hp Inc

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A Smart Watch begins to record and upload video when the wearer of the

watch experiences stress, which may be measured via a heart rate sensor. This could

inform or assist the user's loved ones, health-care provider, or law enforcement agency

Laser-Etched Watch Hands, Hp Inc

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An analog watch uses lighting which illuminates in the shape of a watch hand

to replace or augment physical hands of a watch. Each hand is a thin transparent glass

plate with a laser-etched three-dimensional image of the watch hand which diffuses light

from a light source in the watch to make to the hand visible.

Model-Independent Spot Color Tone-Values Coverage Estimation, Hp Inc

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In the printing industry spot color is a definition of color L*a*b*-value. Emulation of spot color is

usually done by printing process inks with various coverage values. The printed result would have the

desired L*a*b* color coordinates. Furthermore, emulated spot color tone-values are subject to

definition of a specific tone-value model. This is as opposed to spot color ink, where the tone-values

are defined simply by printing various coverage values of the ink.

Auto Detection For Red Seal And Improving Printing Quality For It, Hp Inc

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A method for automatically optimizing the printing quality of red seal in documents is disclosed.

This method involves the red circle seal detection in the documents to be printed.

Concurrent Transmission Mechanism To Improve Throughput Of Bottleneck Devices In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Dechen Xu, Huimin She, Xiang Fang, Chuanwei Li, Xueying Yang

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Techniques are described herein for designing a concurrent channel mechanism to cause mesh network border router devices or key/bottleneck devices to communicate with multiple devices concurrently. This may reduce collision probabilities and thus enhance the scaling ability of a network.

Analyzing And Transforming Time Division Multiplexing Equipment Structure, Randy Zhang, Weiping Wang, Mustafa Cevik, Walid Wakim

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The native Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) equipment hierarchy is not consistent and includes various non-hardware elements and many other obstacles. Techniques described herein provide a methodology for transforming the original structure to a modernized hierarchy that can correctly identify hardware elements and makes analysis and automation much more straightforward.