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Changes To Cell Markers Within A Spreadsheet, Daniel Hoppe

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Changes to cell markers within a spreadsheet

program

Analysis Of Variants Within A Spreadsheet, Daniel Hoppe

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Analysis of variants within a spreadsheet

program

Analysis Of Cells Within A Spreadsheet, Daniel Hoppe

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Analysis of cells within a spreadsheet

program

Translation Of Tables Into A „Linear“, Daniel Hoppe

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Translation of tables into a „linear“

format within a spreadsheet program

Configurable Data Import Of Multiple Excel, Daniel Hoppe

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Configurable data import of multiple Excel

files

Device For Leak Testing Components Of, Daniel Hoppe

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Device for leak testing components of

battery housings

Virtual Control Panel / Control Panel, Daniel Hoppe

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VIRTUAL CONTROL PANEL / CONTROL PANEL

WITH INDICATORS ON A FZG.-INTERIOR PANEL

WITH OPTIONAL HAPTIK AND ACOUSTICS

Integrated Rescue Data Sheet Accessible, Daniel Hoppe

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Integrated rescue data sheet accessible

from the outside

Heatpipe Cooling Of A Rotor Of Electrical, Daniel Hoppe

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Heatpipe cooling of a rotor of electrical

machines

Pivotising Text Within A Table Calculation, Daniel Hoppe

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PIVOTISING TEXT WITHIN A TABLE CALCULATION

PROGRAM

Automatically Emphasizing Displayed Content In Video Communication Interfaces, Bailiang Zhou

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Video calls, video conferences, and similar real-time communications between devices display users and other subject matter to other users participating in the communication in a user interface. This disclosure describes techniques in which display of particular video content can be emphasized in the user interface based on particular characteristics of the video content. The emphasized display can be used to automatically highlight video content at appropriate times, allow easier viewing of video content by other users in a communication or other video capture or display application, etc.

Change Of Hierarchical Structures Within, Daniel Hoppe

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Change of hierarchical structures within

a spreadsheet program

Structure Of Hierarchical Structures, Daniel Hoppe

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Structure of hierarchical structures

within a spreadsheet program

Aggregation In Hierarchical Structures, Daniel Hoppe

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Aggregation in hierarchical structures

within a spreadsheet program

Coloring Hierarchical Structures Within A, Daniel Hoppe

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COLORING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES WITHIN A

SPREADSHEET PROGRAM

Voice Input For Authentication, Nick Felker, Shuyang Chen, Sachit Mishra

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Recent years have seen a proliferation of systems designed to respond to voice, e.g., smart speakers, smartphones, and other voice-activated devices. Such systems are convenient and intuitive to use. However, they also open the possibility for malicious actors to gain control of sensitive information through fraudulent use of speech commands. For example, a malicious actor can spoof the voice recognition system through a recording of the user’s voice or by using a computer to synthesize the speech mimicking the user. The techniques of this disclosure thwart such attacks by providing a random phrase for the user to repeat and verifying …

Hands-Free Voice Assistant Application In A Vehicle, Ashwin Gururaghavendran

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This disclosure describes the integration of a digital voice assistant application with a vehicular hands-free (e.g., Bluetooth) calling system. A user pairs their mobile device, e.g., smartphone, tablet, etc., with a vehicular hands-free system to facilitate hands-free calling. The dialing of a designated number using the mobile device serves as an indicator to the Bluetooth stack and/or the operating system to trigger the voice assistant application. When triggered, the voice assistant application receives commands and input via voice over Bluetooth. Responses from the voice assistant application are played over the speaker system.

Adaptive Hvac Operation To Reduce Disruptive Fan Noise Levels During Noise-Sensitive Events, Paul Gyugyi

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Some heating, ventilation, and air condition (HVAC) systems produce a significant amount of noise. Such systems can have a fan that is active when heating or air conditioning is occurring to circulate air. Noise generated by such a fan can be disruptive, especially if one or more nearby persons are participating in a noise-sensitive activity, such as watching television or talking. Embodiments are focused on determining when such noise-sensitive events are occurring or are likely to occur and adjusting control of an HVAC system to decrease or eliminate the sound or noise generated by the HVAC system while the noise-sensitive …

Video Data Stream Compression Models To Reduce Data Storage Space, Bert Martens

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Techniques are disclosed which reduce the required storage capacity for streams of high-resolution video. The captured video is post-processed, with certain portions of the video being converted to, and stored as, low-resolution video rather than high-resolution video, thus using less data storage space.

Blockchain Based Rating And Review Platform, Dong Lin

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This disclosure describes a blockchain based rating and review platform for web content. The platform provides a distributed and open access framework for ratings and reviews. With user permission, data corresponding to the rating, review, evaluation, etc., of an item (article, picture, sound clip, etc.) of web content by a user is stored in a blockchain record. A single blockchain record can contain one or more review actions. The blockchain record serves as a trusted ledger of reviews and ensures that the rating records are immutable. Rating data retrieved from the platform can be utilized for analytics and to assist …

Automatic Evaluation Of Contractual Terms, Alex Zheng

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This disclosure describes use of machine learning and natural language processing techniques to assist users in reviewing terms and conditions (T&C), e.g., provided by online product and service providers. A database of T&C is created and indexed according to factors such as country, industry, application, etc. The database is utilized to identify T&C content that is common for a given industry application in a specific jurisdiction. When a user provides permission to analyze and provide assistance for a T&C document, such document is analyzed to determine a risk score. Further, any anomalous content in the T&C is flagged. The user …

Automatic Translation And Transcription Of Voicemail, Jan Jedrzejowicz, Alex Zheng

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This disclosure describes automatic translation and transcription of foreign language voicemails into a language of a user’s choice. Language detection, translation, and transcription techniques are employed to generate the text transcript in the preferred language. The user is provided a text transcript of voicemail in their preferred language with an indication that the voicemail was translated.

Concurrent Speculative Execution Of Multiple Communication Applications, Steffen Meschkat, Sandeep Siddhartha

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Upon detecting user context to communicate with a contact, an operating system speculatively launches communication applications that serve as communication channels between the user and the contact. With user permission, the availability of the contact on each of the communication channels is displayed along with the history of the user’s communication with the contact. The user interface enables selection of a suitable communication channel for communicating with the contact without having to switch applications.

Reward Calculation Based On Quality Of Task Completion, Luis Benavides Oyaga, Ravi Solanki

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This disclosure describes techniques to incentivize higher quality in tasks performed by users as part of goal based advertising. Machine learning techniques are utilized to determine a quality score for tasks completed by users. Tasks are assigned in parallel to multiple users based on the quality score. The quality score is used to determine and provide rewards upon task completion.

Automatic Quality Assessment Of Native Advertisements, Bo Lin, Bin Fu

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Native advertisements are advertisements that closely match the look-and-feel of the publication in which the ads are placed and are an important category of online advertisements. It is important for a publisher to determine whether a given native ad is of high quality and adheres to a stylebook for the publication. Manual evaluation of native ads can be costly, time consuming, and subjective. This disclosure describes use of machine-learning techniques to automatically score a native ad style for aesthetics and conformance to stylebooks. Publishers benefit with the automated quality assessment of a given native ad style and can improve aesthetics …

Automatic Generation Of Native Ad Styles, Bo Lin

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Native advertisements mimic the look and feel of a publisher’s content slots and are used to monetize content inventories. Currently, native ad styles are based on hand-written rules and heuristic which can result in ad styles that are not consistently high-quality. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning models to automatically generate native ad styles for online or mobile publishers. For a given content slot and elements therein, native ad styles are automatically generated that closely resemble publisher style, match page context, and perform well. Local and global features of the content slot and elements are used to generate …

Goal Completion Based Content Access, Luis Benavides Oyaga, Ravi Solanki

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This disclosure describes techniques to use goal based advertising. Users are enabled to unlock ad-free content or obtain services in exchange for completion of advertiser specified actions. Advertisers and other parties define the actions as predefined goals. The available goals from various parties are ranked, e.g., using an auction. The ranking can be based on the probability with which a user is likely to complete actions corresponding to each goal. The number and type of actions to be offered to a user are determined. When users permit use of user data, the offers can be tailored to user interests. The …

Low Profile Air Duct For Double Width Slot, Shou-Jen Yang, Pinche Tsai, Minh H. Nguyen

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Components within a computer server are generally laid out with a balance of electrical, mechanical, power, and thermal requirements. In most cases, the thermal limit of every downstream component is affected by the preheat of components in its direct upstream airflow path. Supporting different form factor components also requires compromises in one or more of the facets listed above. The disclosed invention, an air duct assembly and a supporting bulkhead bracket, addresses the problem of supporting low profile (LP) GPU PCIe cards in full length full height (FLFH) double wide GPU card slots laid out in series of each other.

Orthogonally Hot Plug Enabled Blindmate Socket Connect, John Norton, Kevin Leigh, Sunil Ganta

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Supporting flexible transceiver types and high-density in servers and switches requires significant overhead in server and switch designs. Some switch systems use line cards to modularly implement different product options, such as fabric protocols and fabric interface signal lane counts. This requires large PCB and high lane-count right-angle electrical midplane connectors that are typically large, causing signal integrity and airflow blockage issues. Other implementations use hot-pluggable transceivers that are difficult to cool within metal cages (e.g., standard pluggable transceiver modules) and require right-angle connectors, while some designs use embedded mid-board optics transceivers that are not hot-pluggable or replaceable.

Secure Modular Scalable Management For Rack Mount Switches, John Norton, David Koenen

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Next generation rack mount switches will be required to support a higher bandwidth densities through the faceplate as switch ASICs grow in lane count. Management interfaces in switches currently take up that valuable faceplate space. In addition, the server market is looking for an ever increasing ability to scale out infrastructure and configure to specific workloads. This scalable management interface for switches is external to the switch chassis, integrated into the rack, and physically secure.