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Automatic Temperature Control Of Air Conditioning / Seat Heating Via A Thermal Image Camera, Daniel Hoppe

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AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF AIR CONDITIONING / SEAT HEATING VIA A THERMAL IMAGE CAMERA

Apply 3d Print Components To Improve Aerodynamics On A Vehicle, Daniel Hoppe

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APPLY 3D PRINT COMPONENTS TO IMPROVE AERODYNAMICS ON A VEHICLE

Woptimop - A Cloud Based Intelligent Method Of Automatically Creating And Delivering Workload Optimized Platform Contents, Suprateeka R Hegde, Sujoy Saraswati, Amrita H S

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UNIX/Linux being the most preferred enterprise operating platform, provides state-of-art compiler and developer tool chain for almost all programming languages. And so far, has greatly helped enterprise application developers to optimize their applications for their specific workloads, through various set of options and tunables.

However, the solution is still partial, as only the application is optimized for the workload. The Operating System and other components of the platform, though allows tuning and customization, is common for all. Hence each and every application and workload being characteristically different, cannot benefit much from such operating platforms.

Here we propose a unique innovative …

Performant Shuffling Heuristic For Arbitrarily Large Playlists, Senthil Palanisami

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A mechanism is discussed that uses a heuristic for shuffling arbitrarily large playlists of media content items in a performant manner. The mechanism breaks up the larger playlist into smaller windows of media content items and randomizes those windows. The mechanism also breaks up the windows into smaller subwindows of media content items and shuffles the order of the subwindows. The mechanism allows customizing the tradeoff of performance and randomness to meet the behavior desired by tuning/configuring the window size and subwindow size of media content items. In addition, the mechanism enables presenting the resulting randomized playlist in a user …

Product Unboxing, Setup, And Registration Using A Low Power Beacon, Andrew Lewis, Peter Lewis

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Products are typically shipped with paper manuals and guides with instructions regarding setup, registration, and operation. Paper-based instructions can be expensive and inefficient and lack customization. Moreover, the experience of dealing with paper while setting up and operating a product can be cumbersome and inconvenient.

This disclosure describes use of a small low power transmitter within product packaging to transmit a signal upon unboxing of the product. The signal includes a product identifier. Upon receiving the identifier, appropriate product information is retrieved by a nearby receiving device to trigger relevant actions. For example, the user is provided with customized multimedia …

Intent Preserving 360 Video Stabilization Using Constrained Optimization, Chetan Arora, Vivek Kwatra

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A system and method are disclosed, that solve for rotational updates in 360 videos by removing camera shakes, while preserving user intended motions. The method uses a constrained nonlinear optimization approach in quaternion space. At first, optimal 3D camera rotations are computed between key frames. 3D camera rotations between consecutive frames are then computed. The first, second, and third derivatives of the resulting camera path are minimized, to stabilize the camera orientation path. The computation strives to find a smooth path, while also limiting its deviation from the original path. The system keeps the orientations close to the original, for …

Flexibility Ranking To Schedule Events, Terence Bennett

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A system and a method are disclosed, to identify suitable time slots to schedule events. The method involves providing flexibility ranking to time slots in a calendar based on events scheduled. When a new event with attendees is created, the system looks into each attendee’s calendar to rank the time slots based on flexibly. The time slot with maximum flexibility is identified as suitable. The system enabling flexibility ranking to schedule events further creates a quantifiable framework to analyze calendar conflicts. At the time of a calendar conflict, the system determines calendar density percentage of each attendee. The system then …

Automatic Setup / Configuration For New Devices, Yevgeniy Gutnik

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide for automated setup and/or configuration of new devices for a user. More particularly, the present disclosure can enable automatic setup and/or configuration of a new device for a user based on a user’s already provisioned device. In an example implementation, a user-new device association can be established for a new device and the user and the user-new device association can be provided to a user’s already provisioned companion device. The user’s companion device can use the user-new device association to identify a new device and begin an automated setup and/or configuration …

Machine Learning Prediction System Based On Tensor-Flow Deep Neural Network And Its Application To Advertising In Mobile Gaming, Leon Li

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This disclosure analyzes the background of the industry and proposes solutions to the challenges faced by complex applications or games, such as strategy games. From the perspective of the system architecture, this disclosure describes how to clean up data, identify salient features, model predictive classifiers, and automate analysis and selection for content delivery. Data collection and processing have a great influence on the accuracy and applicability of the model. Four kinds of behavioral parameters (or more) may be used to predict conversion events, with PCA used to reduce the dimensions utilized as inputs to the model. In addition, by adjusting …

Context Aware Routing For Automobiles, Hilary Richardson, Maxwell Sills

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Routing of automobiles is typically based on user-provided input such as starting point, destination, intermediate point, etc. Such user-provided input itself arises from some user constraints, e.g., a meeting at the destination, a pick-up at the intermediate point, etc. Further, vehicle parameters, e.g., fuel level, can influence the route. This disclosure describes creation of vehicle routing plans based on user constraints and vehicular state. User constraints can be expressed directly by the user, e.g., to a virtual assistant, or determined based on permitted user data, e.g., from the user’s calendar. Routing plans tailored to user context are more efficient and …

Biodegradable Filler Rod, John Korman, D. Clay Cox, David Walsh

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This disclosure describes a biodegradable filler rod for use in trenches that house cables. The filler rod can be made from materials such as cornstarch and placed above flat fiber laid on the floor of the trench. Access to the filler rod is obtained through entry points provided in the trench. When additional fiber is to be laid in the trench, water is added to the trench which causes the biodegradable filler rod to dissolve, and a new void is created in its place. The additional fiber optic cable is rodded and placed in the void. The biodegradable filler rod …

Stabilizer Channels For Trenches, John Korman, D. Clay Cox, David Walsh

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This disclosure describes a trench profile that includes horizontal stabilizer channels along the sides of the trench. The trench profile enables greater robustness of a trench seal to environmental conditions during a sealant application process. When a sealant is applied, the horizontal stabilizer channels in the sidewalls of the trench create a locking key that prevents the solidified sealant from rising above grade under conditions when the sealant is incompletely secured to the sidewall. The horizontal stabilizer channels prevent solidified sealant from sinking below grade as a result of compression of filler material or the filler rod in the trench. …

Cutting Tool For Trench Stabilization Channels, John Korman, D. Clay Cox, David Walsh

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This disclosure describes a cutting tool for cutting horizontal stabilizer channels along sidewalls of trenches. The cutting tool includes a shank with a depth stop, a bearing guide, and a cutting head. The cutting head is configured to make a horizontal cut into the sidewalls of the trench at a specified depth. The depth can be adjusted to accommodate different engineering requirements. The cutting tool is driven by a vertical shaft from an electric or gasoline powered walk behind router. The cutting tool can be utilized to provide horizontal stabilizer channels in trenches that can reduce repair costs due to …

Context-Sensitive Display Adaptation, Sanjay D'Abreu Noronha

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide for dynamically adapting the display of content based on the content and/or the environment context. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for adjusting the parameters of a display device based on the content being displayed and the context of the display device to enhance a user experience. In some implementations, a device can obtain content to be displayed. The context of the display device and factors associated with the content to be displayed can be determined. Based on the content factor(s) and the context, one or more display parameter adjustments can …

Shared Document Access Control Using Keystores, Emmanuel M. Arriaga

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User-generated content, e.g., documents, media, etc. is often created and shared over online document creation and file-hosting services. One technique to restrict access to shared documents is to specify a list of individuals with whom a document is to be shared. Current services do not address the scenario, frequent within enterprise settings, in which a document is made accessible to different groups of individuals based on their rank and clearance levels.

Techniques of this disclosure encrypt shared documents such that access is granted to individuals in possession of a certain key. Certain documents, e.g., sensitive documents intended for view only …

Capacity Planning For Computing Clusters, Lu Huang, Ana Radovanovic, Radovanovic Ye, Alexandre Duarte, Walfredo Cirne Filho

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This disclosure provides techniques that enable elastic computing service providers to optimize allocation of computing resources across multiple tiers of service level objectives, while allowing for periods of oversubscription to be met by cross-tier movement of resources. Further, the techniques enable providers of computing services to plan their computing investments given rates of oversubscription and anticipated demand across tiers. Service providers frequently plan investments based on peak, rather than average, demand and may therefore be left with surplus capacity during periods of below-peak demand. While such surplus can be resold at lower levels of service guarantees, such reselling increases demand …

Systems And Methods For Identifying A Speaker And/Or Their Attention With Cameras And/Or Microphones, Seth Raphael

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that can determine a context of an audible query based at least in part on a source and/or a source location of the query. More particularly, the present disclosure enables a computing system, and methods for controlling the same, to determine a source location of an audible query, identify a source (e.g., a user/speaker) of the audible query, and determine a context for the audible query based in part on a subject of an attention of the source. The computing system can user the determined context to improve a response to the audible …

Seamless Traffic Preemption For Emergency Vehicles Using Ussd Services With Set Triggers, Thippeswamy Jhm

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This paper attempts to explore a method and system for providing a solution for preemption of the traffic for Emergency vehicles such as ambulance,Fire service and VIP vehicles using SUPL enabled terminals (SET) using Unstructured Supplementary Services.

Selecting Native Ad Units Using Gestures, Bo Lin, Tyler Pletz

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Native advertisements are advertisements that closely match the look-and-feel of the publication in which the ads are placed. Native ads are especially popular on mobile platforms, where they are integrated into the editorial feed of the publication. For native ads to provide an integrative user experience, publishers provide style-related instructions to ad-networks. An important step in providing such instruction is selection of the slot for the native ad. Slot selection is relatively easy on desktop but challenging on mobile devices. The present disclosure provides several gesture-based techniques to select an ad slot using mobile devices.

Direct Measurement Of Digital Television Signal Quality, Alexei Zverovitch

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This disclosure describes techniques to measure the quality of digital TV signals. Publicly available television broadcasts are received using high-quality reception equipment to obtain an error free training set. Transmission errors such as signal corruption and packet loss are simulated by injecting common faults into the error free training set to generate faulty signal training data sets. A machine learning model is trained using a combination of error-free and faulty digital TV signal training data sets. The trained machine learning model is used to measure signal quality of an MPEG transport stream of a digital TV signal and generate a …

Multi-Level Donation Attribution In Social Networks, Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Davies

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Online fundraising platforms (including social media platforms) encourage donors to publicize their donations via social media to increase visibility for the cause being funded. Credit for social donations is generally given only from one level to the next. For example, credit is given to the user who shares the event of their donation if their sharing led to another donation. However, if the user’s share in turn shared the event of their donations, the original user that started the train of donations is not credited for donations originating beyond the first audience. This disclosure provides techniques such that when a …

Real-Time Scheduling For Software Testing, Keun Soo Yim, Yuexi Ma

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Software is subjected to a large variety of tests on different devices prior to public release, including pre-submit and post-submit tests, that have different scheduling attributes. The number of physical devices available for testing is limited, e.g., due to the devices being unreleased or under development. This disclosure provides techniques for scheduling software tests on a scarce pool of physical devices. The tests have differing scheduling attributes, e.g., durations, periodicity, degree of preemptiveness, etc. Tests are scheduled such that a test experiences low latency (queueing delay) regardless of test duration, the availability of the device pool is improved, and device …

Digital Advertising Effectiveness Measurement, Zachary Lupei, Dasarathi Sampath

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This disclosure describes techniques to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. For example, the techniques can be implemented to measure brand lift generated by an advertising campaign. Advertisements are displayed to a set of users that form a treatment group and are selectively withheld from another set of users that form a control group. Offers of discounts, coupons, complementary samples, etc. are provided to both sets of users. Uptake of offers by users in the control and treatment groups is utilized to measure brand lift from the advertisements.

Disabling Facial Unlocking Using Facial Expression, Bernadette Alexia Carter

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The techniques of this disclosure temporarily disable biometric recognition in a device to prevent unlocking of the device. The user registers one or more specific facial expressions as do-not-unlock expressions. If the facial recognition tool recognizes a registered do-not-unlock facial expression, then unlocking of the device is disabled until preconfigured conditions are met. The user can also register context, e.g., location, time, environmental parameters, etc., that makes the device ineligible for the biometric unlock.

Comparative User Feedback Rating, Lingyi Zhang, Raamesh Deshpande, Mohamad Susli

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This disclosure describes comparative user feedback for products and services. Users are presented with choices of products and/or services and requested to make an ordered selection of their preferred choice(s). A user’s spatial ordering of choices on a slider provides information about the degree of user preferences. The comparative user feedback data are analyzed and used to train a machine learning (ML) model using ordinal regression. Absolute training data are provided to the machine learning model as seed training data. Ordinal ML regression is used to generate a comparison metric based on the comparison data, and is utilized for ranking …

Long Short Term Memory Based Total Traffic Prediction For Container Load Balancing, Manoj Ragupathy, Xueqiang Sherman Ma

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Predictive load balancing is becoming increasingly relevant with the rapid adoption of machine learning models. Current load balancing approaches only considers the current state of the system, even though the current state of the system often varies. Accordingly, dispatch requests are provided herein which not only consider the current load on the system, but also the future load.

Massive On-Die Capacitor For Integrated Circuits, Woonseong Kim, Houle Gan, Teckgyu Kang

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This document proposes a solution to the problem of fluctuations in voltage supply voltages due to changing current demands of power-hungry integrated circuits (ICs) such as microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). By fabricating the IC with additional layers including a massive capacitor, such as a deep-trench capacitor, di/dt voltage ripple can be reduced to a negligible level. Two configurations of massive on-die capacitors are proposed, including a wafer-to-wafer configuration, where a capacitor wafer substantially underlies the entire IC, and a chip-to-wafer configuration, where smaller capacitors are placed underneath regions of the IC with the highest …

Secure Audio Processing, Thad Hughes, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Aleksandar Kracun, Pedro Moreno

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Automatic speech recognizers (ASR) are now nearly ubiquitous, finding application in smart assistants, smartphones, smart speakers, and other devices. An attack on an ASR that triggers such a device into carrying out false instructions can lead to severe consequences. Typically, speech recognition is performed using machine learning models, e.g., neural networks, whose intermediate outputs are not always fully concealed. Exposing such intermediate outputs makes the crafting of malicious input audio easier. This disclosure describes techniques that thwart attacks on speech recognition systems by moving model inference processing to a secure computing enclave. The memory of the secure enclave and signals …

Directed Messages With Natural Identifiers, Oliver Gaymond, Lidia Gaymond

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide for routing messages among devices located around a physical location without requiring the sender to know the current location of the recipient. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for combining a plurality of devices, such as smart speakers, home assistants, and/or the like, located around a physical location, such as an office, building, and/or the like, with intelligent voice matching capabilities to enable inter-room messaging by addressing the individual recipient without needing to know the room they are currently located in. In some implementations, the devices can monitor their surroundings for …

Insertion Of Information In Hierarchical, Daniel Hoppe

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Insertion of information in hierarchical

structures within a spreadsheet program