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A Method To Allow Software Detection Of Multiple Different Chassis Types That Use A Common Pca, Travis D. Bishop, Vincent W. Michna, Tom Rhodes, Kevin G. Depew

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Many computer system designs today implement a common printed circuit board assembly that is used in more than one mechanical chassis. This invention describes a design method that allows software to identify in which chassis the PCA has been installed. The system software is able to determine the chassis type be detecting a set of mounting screw connections that are unique for each particular chassis.

System For Optimizing Buffering Of 360 Degree Video Streams, By Taking Current Viewing Angle Into Account And Buffering More Distant Viewing Angles At Separate Bandwidths, Anurag Agrawal, Thomas Price

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360-degree video is divided into a plurality of fields of view from a playback device. For example, In the case of four fields of view, referred to as quadrants, the first quadrant is defined as the current field of view of the user, the second quadrant is to the user's right, the third quadrant is directly behind the user, and the fourth is to his left. During playback and buffering, a server decides what video quality (e.g., low/medium/high) to assign to each quadrant of the video based on available bandwidth and the likelihood of a viewer rotating the device to …

Automatic Determination Of Delays And Appointment Rescheduling, Jorim Jaggi, Yannick Stucki, Sandro Feuz, Adrian Roos

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically predict that a user is likely to be delayed for an upcoming calendar appointment. A trained on-device machine learning model is used to predict delays based on permitted contextual information. Schedule rearrangements are automatically generated, e.g., to rearrange subsequent calendar meetings that are predicted to be affected due to the delay. Rearrangements are presented to the user, and the calendar is updated per user input and preferences. A calendar application or service that implements these techniques can reduce the burden on users to manually reschedule appointments.

Transfer Of Payment Credentials Between Devices, Roman Kalukiewicz, Justin Brickell

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Payment credentials for use in mobile wallets are stored on a user’s mobile device through a provisioning process. When a user switches devices, the new mobile device has to be provisioned with the user’s payment credentials to enable mobile wallet functionality on the new device. Such provisioning can be cumbersome. This disclosure describes secure transfer of payment credentials between mobile devices by physically tapping the devices together. A new mobile device is configured as a payment terminal. The user is instructed to tap the old mobile device against the new mobile device. Upon tapping, the old mobile device transfers payment …

Headlamp With Digital Assistant, Leon Nicholls

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This disclosure describes a headlamp device with a digital assistant application. The headlamp captures images from the user’s context and provides a visual overlay on real-world objects with contextually useful information. The visual overlay includes, e.g., text labels, object outlines, part schematics, etc. The headlamp is a wearable device that enables users to obtain assistance via multiple media, e.g., audio and projected video.

Solving The Delay Issue In Fan Response To Sudden Component Temp Rise By Using Phase Change Material In Servers, Nabeel Fathi

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This patent suggest to add a transient thermal solution to the existing steady state solution. The suggested transient thermal solution is a phase change material heat sink (PCM HS) to be added to the existing heat sink (assuming an air-cooled heat sink is already in place). A heat pipe to be utilized to connect the PCM HS to the existing heat sink. The heat pipe should have the capacity to transfer the max amount of heat dissipated by the component. The PCM heatsink contain PCM between its fins, and it is sealed to prevent leakage. When sudden power increase is …

Adaptive Audio Processing Based On Scene Detection, Leonardo Kusumo, Moonseok Kim

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically adjust audio processing parameters based on acoustic scene detection. A parameter adjustment module utilizes default dynamic range compression settings during initial audio recording using a mobile device. A trained machine learning model is utilized to detect the acoustic scene, based on initial audio signals. Features such as the average loudness, maximum loudness, minimum loudness, acoustic scene, wind noise, and other user context features, as permitted by the user, are provided to the trained model. The model is utilized to adapt audio processing parameters such as the compression profile to the detected scene to improve …

A Methodology For Automated Feature Engineering In Training Of Shallow Neural Networks For Prediction Of Multi-Linear Growth Failures (“Nova Algorithm”), Dermot Cochran, Martin Roe, Cv Goudar, Breda Martyn, Mainak Das, Pratush Uppuluri, Sean Lennon, Basudev Panda, Sarah King, Liam Dolan, James Marshall Hughes

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Deep learning requires a large data set. When working with smaller data sets we need an automated approach for feature learning as a pre-processing step to create the training set for a shallow neural network with one hidden layer. The outcome of the neural net classifier is filtered using post-processing rules over a defined wait and quiet period to create an ensemble prediction with higher quality. This gives us the benefits of deep learning, but with a smaller data set.

A partial implementation of this methodology was used for a pilot release for prediction of Common Previsioning Group (CPG) growth …

Detecting Rack U Location Using Light Based Messages And Camera, Daniel Pol

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As the amount of data generated daily increases exponentially, the hardware needs to process and store all that information increases also, and the speed with which new hardware can be deployed to service those needs becomes more relevant every day. Most of the automated provisioning solutions today still require a lot of manual steps, especially related to initial hardware inventory and setting up basic network communications.

This disclosure relates to the field of Data Center Infrastructure.

A method is disclosed for using light based messages and cameras to detect device physical location within a data center rack cabinet.

Automated Dimm Population Indicator, Peter Liao, Eason Chen, Geoffrey Sun, Mealy Cheng, Chuan-Yu Lin

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An Automated DIMM Population Indicator mechanism can be used to guide users to properly populate memory DIMM modules, optimizing performance and reducing service calls.

Using A Convertible Device As Desktop Peripheral, Alberto Martin, Omri Amarilio

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The techniques of this disclosure enable input devices, e.g., keyboard and trackpad of a convertible laptop and other computing devices to act as peripherals for an external display, e.g., external monitor, television, etc. The techniques, as disclosed herein, determine if a convertible laptop is connected to an external monitor, whether it is in a particular mode, and is upside down. When these conditions are met, the keyboard and trackpad of the convertible laptop are configured to act as peripherals for the external display.

Interactive Web Browser Learning Tool, Eric Bellamy

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Students that suffer from learning disabilities often need specialized educational techniques to enhance learning abilities. Some of these include direct instruction, multi-sensory approaches, and repetition. This disclosure describes techniques to provide an interactive web tool that, with user permission, learns what a student likes and then uses those learned inputs to generate an interactive learning exercise tailored to a student’s learning progress.

Simultaneous Multimodal User Interface, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers

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This disclosure describes techniques to use a combination of voice based input with other input mechanism in human-computer interfaces. The techniques enable users to utilize in real-time, the suitable input mode(s) in a given context, without having to switch between input modes. With user permission, speech analysis techniques are utilized to analyze user speech and detect when speech includes user instructions, and to determine corresponding actions to be performed. By enabling simultaneous user input via multiple modes, the techniques facilitate effective navigation of complex tasks performed using a computing device.

Self-Deployment Of Datacenter Servers Through Bmc Reserved Storage, Prabhu Selvaraj, Avadhoot Nakhwa, Lee Preimesberger

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Server deployment is a process of configuring BIOS, peripheral controllers and installing Operating System with associated drivers & software. In manual server deployment, admins will setup BIOS and peripheral controllers followed by an Operating System installation. As time and human efforts required for deployment will linearly increase with more servers. In automated server deployment, setup complexity grows, with increase in number of tools getting integrated in the automation framework, leading to a high maintenance cost in terms of tool maintenance. By recording various server configuration patterns and reusing them to self-deploy new servers automatically via HPE intelligent provisioning. This eases …

Pdu With Integrated Cable Management Support, Matthew E. Stevens, Keli Barham, Royal H. King

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Cable management within a datacenter rack has become critical as rack densities continue to increase, and additional quantities of Power Distribution Units (PDU) are being installed in a rack thus resulting in less area to route and secure cables. A standard 1075mm deep rack has one PDU mounting bracket per side to mount vertical PDUs which often also gets utilized for cable management, and in some circumstances cables are even secured to the rack frame members.

New Plastic Holder Design To Fix The Hard Disk Drive, Tim Ko

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Every computing systems have different approaches to fix the hard drive disk. The new idea is a plastic part which only needs one screw to fix the hard drive disk in the system firmly. It also provides a convenient way for the customer to install/remove the whole drive from the system.

Out-Of-Band Management On Uefi System Firmware, Hui-Chin Cheng, Yun-Cheng Chang, Shang-Ching Hung

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The modern Redfish is a specification that utilize RESTful interface semantics to access data defined in model format to perform out-of-band (OOB) management through specific OOB software or hardware (such as Baseboard Management Controller, BMC). The OOB management allow users to configure system remotely when the system is in either power-off or power-on state. Industry can expect there are more and more pre-boot firmware drivers (like UEFI drivers) and system peripherals (such as PCI devices, PCI add-on-card and so on) support Redfish Schema/Configuration data model in the near future. This article describes the method to abstract the data communication/synchronization between …

Automation And Orchestration Of Hardware And Firmware Data Mining Using A Smart Data Analytics Platform, Suhas Shivanna

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Effective data mining is going to be important for differentiating and succeeding in the digital economy especially with increased commoditization and reduced barrier to entry for infrastructure devices like servers, storage and networking systems. There is lot of telemetry data from manufacturing facilities and customers that can be used to drive improved supportability experience, unmatched product quality and reliability of infrastructure devices like servers and storage devices. Currently data mining of hardware, firmware and platform logs is a challenging task as the domain knowledge is complex with expertise for large multinational organization distributed across the world. With increasing complexity and …

A Fool Proof Carrier Design For Front Access Storage Expansion Board, Jui Lin Chen, Chia-Yuan Liu

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Storage applications, by their very nature, need an expansion hardware to consolidate more hard drives to a controller. Typically the expansion hardware is designed as an independent printed circuit board and connect to the hard drive backplane in the opposite side of hard drives. When the system is installed in the rack, it requires users to move the whole system box from the position in order to open the lid. It also requires users to power off the system before disconnect the expansion board from the hard drive backplane.

Isolation Of Networking Process In A Browser, Kinuko Toyama, Matthew Menke, Scott Graham, John Abd-El-Malek, Yuzhu Shen, Randall Smith

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Computer programs and applications are often designed such that sub-tasks of a program are executed by a separate process spawned by the main program or application. An advantage to such a design is resilience, e.g., even if one process fails, the remaining processes continue execution, even as the failed process is started anew. In the context of web browser applications, networking requests are typically not spawned as separate processes but rather handled by the main browser process itself. This can lead to problems of stability, security, and resilience. The techniques of this disclosure spawn the networking tasks of a web …

Measurement Of Impact Of Product Placement Advertising, Justin Lewis, Thomas Price

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Online content creators, e.g., video creators, earn revenue from product or brand in their content. However, there are no current techniques to measure the impact of such content. This disclosure describes techniques described to measure the impact of content viewership. For example, the techniques can be implemented to measure the search lift generated by such content. The content is selectively withheld from a subset of viewers. The difference in search volume for content related keywords from viewers in this group is compared with that from viewers that were exposed to the content. The advertiser is provided with the measurement and …

Conversion Funnel Optimization Using Machine Learning, Gang Wang, Yiran Mao

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Conversion funnels represent the journey of a consumer through a marketing campaign resulting in a sale. The described techniques incorporate marketer inputs and apply machine learning to optimize conversion funnels in online advertising. The techniques incorporate initial inputs from marketers and apply machine learning techniques to optimize conversion funnels in the context of advertising. The initial inputs include definitions of states and optimal actions to move consumers to next states of a funnel. With user permission, a machine learning model, e.g., that uses reinforced learning is randomly applied to try other actions defined by marketers (e.g., for other states) to …

Polite Mode For A Virtual Assistant, Thomas Deselaers, Pedro Gonnet

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The use of imperative statements and commands for a voice-activated virtual assistant can set an inappropriate example to children and can potentially lead them to imitate such language in normal conversation. However, current voice-activated virtual assistants are not configured to recognize polite language which can lead to unintended responses. This disclosure describes a virtual assistant that can be configured in a polite mode. The disclosed techniques may be utilized to configure a virtual assistant such that it is responsive only to polite queries. Polite mode is enabled by use of voice stress analysis, sentiment analysis module and natural language understanding …

Net Neutrality Value Pack Using Network Data Analytics, Vidya V. Bharadwaj, Prashanth G.A, M Mahesh Babu, Suhasan Chirravuri

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The advent of mobile internet and the phenomenal growth of the use of smart phones has brought data onto the forefront, creating newer revenue streams for the operators. The data/Internet connection now needs to cater to diverse traffic, just as a city must manage the flow of various vehicles and pedestrians on its streets. In the data world, usage of data ranges across various applications like streaming-video, real time gaming, B2B & M2M applications. Such diverse customers often blame their operators for throttling data flows to the phones or computers. This causes significant delays and losses in data transmission. Any …

Application Live-Upgrading And Error-Recovery Using Code-Data Decoupling, Till Smejkal, Dejan Milojicic, Paolo Faraboschi

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When applications have critical bugs that present security vulnerabilities or may result in serious failures with potential massive business level impact, these applications have to be updated as fast as possible to minimize the harm of the bug. However, mission-critical or other user-facing applications may maintain critical internal state that has to be serialized and restored during the update process introducing signi1cant cost and delay.

Instead of serializing the internal state we propose to implement applications in such a way that the application state is fully decoupled (e.g. in a different address space or shared memory segment) from the application …

System For Recurring Reminders Based On Calendar Events, Benjamin Albert Azose

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A system for providing recurring reminders based on calendar events selected by a user is disclosed. The system provides the user with one or more reminders before a calendar event based on the content of earlier reminders and calendar events stored in the system. In one instance, the system determines the appropriate checklist based on the relation between the content of the reminder and the calendar event. The advantage of using the system is that the user may avoid the extra work of duplicating the same set of reminders for every similar calendar event.

KEYWORDS: Calendar events, checklists, recurring events, …

Audio Output Devices For Head Mounted Display Devices, Leonardo Kusumo, Andrew Nartker, Stephen Schooley

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A head mounted display (HMD) device may include a first audio output device, or speaker, installed at a first side of the housing, and a second audio output device, or speaker, installed at a second side of the housing. The first and second audio output devices may be mounted proximate to optical components of the HMD, with audio output respectively directed toward the user’s ears. This may allow the user to be immersed in the sound output by the audio output devices. An HMD equipped in this manner may provide for a mobile, portable electronic device that can output an …

Automatic Detection Of Sensitive Content, Gang Wang, Yian Gao

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically identify text content is inappropriate or likely in violation of organizational policy. A user interface is provided that enables users to make suitable corrections to written material. The described techniques can be implemented in software (e.g., in document authoring or communications applications).

Spreadsheets With Programmatically Accessible Version History, Tal Cohen

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Spreadsheets enable users to store and track values of a variable. To graph changes in values of a variable over time, a user typically stores in the spreadsheet values of the variable at different time points. Retaining all values in individual, visible cells of a spreadsheet can make the spreadsheet difficult to read and/or maintain.

Modern spreadsheet programs include features to track changes made to the cells of a spreadsheet, e.g., as a version history. The version history enables a user to revert to a prior version. Techniques of this disclosure enable programmatic access to historical values stored in the …

Notifications Management Across Devices, Kyle Schumacher, Jason Sanio

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It is common for an individual user to own multiple electronic devices, e.g., laptop, smartphone, etc. Applications on these devices often provide notifications even when not explicitly opened or accessed by the user. Notifications that have been dismissed by the user on one device may continue to persist as zombie notifications on other devices, leading to a suboptimal user experience. Techniques of this disclosure manage notifications across devices such that notifications are synchronized across devices. With user permission, the techniques enable targeting a notification to an active device and/or a device that is appropriate for the user to act on …