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Panel Mounted Sff-Ta-1002 Connectors With Common Mounting Slot, John Norton

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SFF-TA-1002 is a new standard connector standardized under SNIA and adopted by multiple industry bodies such as Gen-Z, EDSFF, JEDEC and OCP. The signal integrity requirements on future high speed systems (32Gbps+) will require more directly cabled solutions that bypass host PCBs and midplanes. This invention details an SFF-TA-1002 implementation that can be panel mounted and deployed into standard backplanes constructed of either PCB or sheet metal.

Smart Headgear For Display Of Transcribed Or Translated Speech, Sara Basson, Dimitri Kanevsky

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Natural language translation and transcription technologies can now enable x real-time conversation between speakers of mutually unintelligible languages. Such technologies also assist hearing-impaired speakers by providing real-time transcription. Currently, the transcribed or translated speech is typically displayed on a screen that is away from the speaker, e.g., on a hand-held device. Such type of display is not conducive to maintaining the eye-to-eye contact necessary for natural conversation. The techniques of this disclosure describe smart headgear that integrates a display capable of streaming transcribed or translated speech to a listener. The smart headgear integrates or interoperates with natural language processing hardware, …

Disambiguation Of Entity References In Natural Language Interpretation, Steffen Meschkat

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This disclosure describes techniques for disambiguation of entity references in user input. The techniques can be implemented in computing systems that store data as identifiable entities along with relationships between the entities and are effective in user input with possible ambiguities. User input is scanned for references to entities generically. If an input name refers to more than one known entity known, and another entity name is detected in the same user input, the relationships between the entities are used to disambiguate the input.

Concurrent Speculative Execution Of Selector Applications, Steffen Meschkat, Ushasree Kode, Christopher Lane

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Upon detecting a user context to select content items, an operating system speculatively launches software applications that provide the particular type of content items. A user interface is provided that enables a user to select items from collections of items provided by the applications. The user interface enables a user to perform such selection without having to launch additional applications or switch between applications.

Disambiguation Of Entity References Using Related Entities, Steffen Meschkat

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This disclosure describes techniques for disambiguation of entity references in natural language processing. The disambiguation of ambiguous entity references is performed by seeking user confirmation of the intended reference. With user permission, the confirmation query or prompt utilizes phrases that include the name of the ambiguous entity and name(s) of related entities. Entities are stored along with names of related entities and designation of the nature of the relationship. The nature of relationship between stored entities is used to construct appropriate conjunctions in disambiguation phrases. The described techniques can be used in any natural language interface, e.g., text or voice, …

Debugging Large-Scale Data Pipelines With Consistent Hashing, Evgeny Skvortsov, Long Nguyen

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A mechanism is provided for debugging large-scale data pipelines by sampling inputs and outputs of the large-scale data with consistent hashing. The mechanism can ensure the same output set across different pipelines given the same input set and the same machine learning model. The mechanism computes consistent hashing based on inputs and produces a consistent sample (e.g., the same subset) of events in the input and output for computing alignment. The mechanism tracks the alignment of input and output sets throughout the pipeline to identify any bugs and to determine exactly where misalignment is introduced.

Multi Directional Latching Mechanism, Paul E. Westphall

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Disclosed is a latching mechanism that allows multiple modules to be retained in one area without limiting the direction in which the module is installed or removed.

Method For Supporting Large-Scale Inventory For In-App Purchases On Mobile Devices, Brian Schmidt

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A method for supporting large-scale inventory for in-app purchases on mobile devices is described. A server device receives, from a user device associated with a first user account, a user request to purchase a first product item and maps the first product item to a first pricing tier. The server device selects, from a set of product identifiers corresponding to the first pricing tier, a first product identifier that is unused by the first user account. The server device transmits, to a marketplace server, the first product identifier and the first pricing tier to purchase the first product item. The …

Inserting Pictures In Video Content, Chin Ngai Sze, Catherine Cardinal

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Disclosed herein is a mechanism for inserting pictures in video content. The mechanism can, for example, identify a portion of a video content item that is suitable for insertion of a picture. For example, the mechanism can identify a portion of a video content item in which an area of pixels is deemed to be relatively still or without motion across frames of the video within the portion of the video content item. The mechanism can identify one or more pictures to be inserted in the video, for example, based on colors of the video and the one or more …

Managing Virtual Networks And Other Resources In A Mixed Managed Domains, Harish B Kamath, Brajendra Kum Bajpai, Param Jeet Singh, Mohit Gera

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HPE OneView is a resource model based infrastructure management appliance which automates deployment, provisioning and integration of compute, storage, and networking infrastructure in a data center. APIC is a policy based manageability appliance for Cisco ACI fabric and offers services to manage policies on a collection of resources of a data center. Cisco ACI interfaces with VMware and automates creation of virtual networks for VMware environment. Cisco ACI also integrates with OpenStack and Microsoft systems for network automation requirements. Keeping OneView resources current with Cisco ACI policies is complex, time consuming and error prone task. Realizing this through an automated …

Automatic Contextual Recognition Of Hand-Drawn Content, Kyle Williams, Milton Ribeiro Filho, Megan Renshaw

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Digital whiteboards and touchscreens enable users to express concepts using free-hand drawing and writing. Although applications exist that recognize handwritten matter or geometric shapes, such recognition is not based on the user context. This disclosure describes techniques to transform user input on a digital canvas, e.g., hand-drawn strokes on a touchscreen or digital whiteboard, into software editable objects, based on determined context. The context is determined based on user permission for analysis of the strokes. The software editable objects are provided in a format suitable for a software application matched to the context, e.g., as editable graphical structures such as …

Wireless Device For Casting Content To Available Screens, Eric Bellamy

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This disclosure describes a device designed to allow content from a first screen to be wirelessly displayed on a second screen. The device is a wireless mouse-like device that communicates with a monitor or screen. The device is equipped with a first button to select content and to turn on screens by communicating with an infrared receiver in the monitor. A second button on the device is configured to select and move content from one screen to another. The device allows for efficient and quick viewing of content on a larger screen and enables any available monitor to act as …

Normalized Weightage Framework To Report Tangible And Non-Tangible Data From Heterogeneous And Dynamic Data Sources Within A Context To Assist In Decision Alignment, Venkat Maddali, Lakshmi Deepak Kotla Venkata, Gautham Natanasabapathy, David C. Fogaren Jr., Umesh Pathak

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In a process involving decision making, both humans and machines prefer the data to be in a yes or no format. A number by itself to represent a quantifiable entity may not have enough value to make a decision until the data has been triangulated with other interrelated quantitative and qualitative data points and normalized onto a common scale. Our framework mentioned here in the proposal, helps in normalizing such quantitative and qualitative data from various data sources to a set of common metric for decision making.

Cloudslurm: A Multi-Provider Approach For Hpc In The Cloud, Glaucimar Da Silva Aguiar, Andrey Elision Monteiro Brito, Flávio Fonseca, Luís Eduardo Tenório Silva, Lucas Lima Vieira

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This disclosure relates HPC clusters elasticity using cloud nodes. A framework is disclosed that implements an integration of HPC clusters based on the Slurm workload manager and a cloud infrastructure. The main goal is to be transparent for the Slurm user, who may not be familiar with cloud technologies or with a provider-specific API.

Esd And Thermal Improvement For Add-In Cards With Metal I/O, Bao Chen

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With the increasing speed and power consumption of networking cards, EMC and thermal become more and more challenge when designing the products. Optical transceivers are the bottleneck for the thermal challenge because their working temperature is comparative low and there is usually very little space for the heat dissipation. The ESD, part of EMC test item, is dependent on the I/O design of a server and an add-in card. Since servers are usually surrounded with a metal chassis, the only way the electrical energy can escape or jump into the server is through the opening. If that energy can be …

Action Prediction From Conversations, Victor Carbune, Alexandru Damian

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically extract actions and reminders from conversations between users, when users permit analysis of conversations. With user permission, speech recognition, speaker disambiguation, and action extraction, e.g., implemented using trained machine learning models, are utilized to analyze conversations, detect when the conversations include user actions, and determine the owner of the actions. Actions are grouped by user and/or by type. A user interface displays follow-up actions identified from a conversation for review by users and enables users to make corrections.

Cardboard Shipping Boxes With Puzzles Printed On Them, Daniel Lee, Roger Quinlan

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A method is disclosed that provides an interesting mechanism to tear down the cardboard shipping box. The method also allows the user to do something tangible with the box once items are unboxed. Puzzles are printed on or within the box. Specific instructions are provided to the user to open the box, which also make the process of opening interesting for users. The users may give the box to kids to solve the puzzle and have them tear or open the box. Thus, the method of providing an interesting mechanism to open and use the box may go toward solving …

Reverse Auction For Voluntary Time-Off, Jeffrey Cuartero

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A process is disclosed for performing a reverse auction for voluntary time-off (VTO) to reduce excess staff at fulfillment operations at retailers. The process includes determining if there are excess operators at a store and that work queue can be easily cleared. A store lead is informed to reverse auction one or more VTO spots if there are excess operators. The reverse auction includes offering one or more VTO spots with a number of hours being paid for. The operators bid for lower number of paid hours and the bid for least amount of time for the VTO spot wins …

Hybrid Lifi And Wifi Communication System, Xiangyu Kong, Haijiang Ma

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A system and method are proposed that may transfer information between devices using both LiFi and the WiFi technologies. The hybrid system may use LiFi for downlink traffic and WiFi for uplink traffic. The system may include a LiFi receiver/transmitter and also a WiFi receiver/transmitter in the devices. When a device tries to communicate with a network, the data is uploaded from the device to the router connected to the network through WiFi. The device receives response from the network via the router through LiFi. The disclosed hybrid system incorporates the high download speed of LiFi (up to 4 Gbps), …

System For Optimally Shipping Items To Minimize Costs, Jeffrey Cuartero

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A system and method are disclosed that optimally ships items to minimize costs. The method includes receiving by the system an order for the items to be packaged. The system determines various parameters for the order, to provide a parcel recommendation to a packer, which may include determining a possible carrier and rate structure, dimensions, number of items, location, weight of the items, etc. The system uses a suitable optimization model to minimize cost of shipping. The optimization output may be order dimensions including size and weight, and carrier for each package. The system then instructs the packer to pack …

Same Day Delivery Pre-Injection Sortation, Jeffrey Cuartero

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A system and method for prioritizing orders in a specific sequence in a fulfillment queue is disclosed. The system scans and groups the orders in the fulfillment queue according to zip code into a plurality of groups. The system then prioritizes the order in the fulfillment queue based on number of orders present in the plurality of groups. The system processes the orders present in the prioritized group and the processed orders are then palletized. The method creates fulfillment logic for same-day delivery and prioritizes the orders in a specific sequence in the fulfillment queue. Carriers can spend less time …

A System And Method For Parcel Visibility Enhancement Across Carriers, Melissa Pasqua

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A system and method to track parcels that are physically picked up and handled by multiple carriers is disclosed. The system creates an event scan in a server when a parcel label is scanned at a store. The event scan updates the parcel status, as well as customer orders. The packed parcels are sent to the fulfillment facility where it is scanned thereby updating the event scan. The parcels are placed into pallets which are scanned. The scanned pallets are tendered to the carrier(s), where they are scanned before transit. Linking the parcel scan to the pallet identity enables tracking …

Time Dilation Controls For Cameras, Paul Rohde, Gabriel Nava Vazquez, Qiang Zhang, Richard Sprague

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A computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, camera, tablet computer, etc.) may include a camera for capturing/recording video and may present a user interface at a display device (e.g., a presence-sensitive screen) from which a user can interact with the camera of the computing device to change or adjust time dilation effects (making a video record such that it plays faster than it actually occurred, or to record a video that will play slower than it occurred). For example, the user interface may provide a selector to adjusting a playback rate of captured video and a selector for adjusting a …

Integration Of Three-Dimensional Heating, Daniel Hoppe

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INTEGRATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL HEATING

/ THREE-DIMENSIONAL HEATING IN

SCR-CONTAINERS / AD-BLUE®-CONTAINERS /

HWL-CONTAINERS

Key Lock In The Vehicle, Daniel Hoppe

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KEY LOCK IN THE VEHICLE

Safe Parking: Further Development Epb +, Daniel Hoppe

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Safe Parking: Further Development EPB +

Device For Operating Delaying / Acceleration, Daniel Hoppe

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DEVICE FOR OPERATING DELAYING / ACCELERATION

DEVICES OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

Location-Based Jammer For Supl Terminal, Thippeswamy J. H. M.

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A technique is disclosed that provides a location-based jammer for SUPL (Service User Plane Location) enabled terminals ("SET"), using MAP Supplementary Services. Triggers that activate and deactivate call barring are made when a device enters and leaves a call-restricted area respectively.

An Approach Towards Supporting Types With Unknown Compile-Time Size In A Typical C Compiler, Kiran Kumar T P, Soumitra Chatterjee

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One of the basic premises in the implementation of a ISO C compiler is that the size and alignment of all types specified by the language is known at compile time. The ISO C standard unambiguously states the size and alignment requirements of all types specified by the language. It follows that the size and alignment of all composite types is hence also known at compile time. The compiler uses the knowledge of the size and alignment of the types to be able to correctly allocate objects, generate object layouts, compute member offsets into structures and array indices, load/store alignments, …

New Modularizing Cpu Baffle, Tim Ko

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Every computer system has different components layout placement, the CPU baffle is one of the approaches to cooling the processor. Disclosed is a new idea for modularizing the CPU baffle. Assembling by two plastic parts which can fulfill product thermal performance required by different direction combination. The new design also can save some tooling money investment.