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Side-Cooling Of Pluggable Optical Transceiver Modules, Kevin Leigh, Sunil Ganta, John Norton

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Existing and new industry standard MSA (multi-sourced agreement) optical transceiver modules (e.g., QSFP, OSFP) are plugged into cages with heat sinks attached that are mounted in servers and switches generally designed for front to back cooling. The following descriptions and images describe side cooling methods to enable an airflow path through new MSA module cages and shells, while utilizing the same module paddle cards containing opto-electronics.

Easy Connect Vertical Drive Cage, Eason Chen, Peter Liao, Geoffrey Sun, Mealy Cheng, Phoebus Lin

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An Easy Connect Vertical Drive Cage allows storage drives and cages to interlock together for better mechanical support.

Post-Processing Of Machine Classifier Output For Object Classification, Eric Nichols, Sourish Chaudhuri

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Machine classifiers are typically trained using labeled data sets. If the training data set has categories of objects that naturally co-occur, the machine classifier may have difficulty in distinguishing those categories. For example, audio streams often contain instances of sounds that occur simultaneously; e.g., speech and laughter. In this example, the different sounds are the objects that are to be classified. A machine classifier trained with such audio streams generates false positives; e.g., conflates speech with laughter, if the training data set does not label speech separately from laughter. The difficulty of obtaining well-labeled training sets compounds the problem of …

Fan Control With Reduced Control Signals, Geoffrey Sun, Peter Liao, Mealy Cheng, Chuan-Yu Lin

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Fan Control with Reduced Control Signals can be used as a cost effective method to reduce the number of noisy control signals and allow a design to support limitless system fans.

System And Method Of Sharing Media Content With A Nearby Device, Bernadette Carter

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A system and method are disclosed that enable sharing media content such as an e-book or a video with a nearby device. The user may buy media content such as an e-book, online and access the content during a journey, for example. The user attempts to share the content with another recipient device, as it may be difficult to view the media content with another on the user’s device. The system then filters possible recipient devices based on a number of criteria such as distance, availability of a compatible app, app settings, size of the user device etc. and displays …

Gesture Typing-Enabled Physical Keyboard, Matthew Susskind

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A system and method is disclosed that enables gesture typing on a keyboard. The system includes sensors suitably integrated into the keyboard. The sensor resolution is chosen in a way that any part of the key may be touched, allowing the users finger to glide over the keys. Software included in the system analyzes the pattern of keys hit over time. The software suggests the most likely words, and close alternative word hypotheses may also be presented on screen. The physical keys present enable standard typing and for typing non-dictionary words or character strings such as passwords, specific numbers and …

Smart Button Actions On Mobile Devices, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Victor Carbune

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A system and method are disclosed that trigger a smart response to a button action when two or more running applications have applicable actions on a mobile device. The system includes a machine learning algorithm (MLA) built into the operating system that analyzes and learns from user actions. When the system detects a hardware button press, it retrieves possible actions/events that may be triggered for the current app and other running apps and processes. The actions are evaluated by computing a combination of scores involving machine-learned, rule-based scores provided by the apps and real-time signals such as location, time, user …

Word Id – Intuitive Representations Of Object Identifiers, Gearoid Hynes, Gary Moloney, Chris Coughlan, Patrick Buckley, Gearoid Paul Donnelan

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This disclosure describes a system and a method for mapping the numeric/alphanumeric identifiers of objects to words/phrases/sentences for the purpose of increasing memorability and/or human interactions.

An Efficient Method To Avoid Path Lookup In File Access Auditing In Io Path To Improve File System Io Performance, Arun Vishnu P K, Ramesh Kannan K, Rajkumar Kannan

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One of the biggest challenges in metadata management schemes that sit outside the filesystem layer is their ability to index meaningful path information of files that are being referenced in an external system like a database or in a metadata journal file. Path to a file is a critical requirement that allows both meaningful interpretation of the locality of the file and its metadata and also secondly allows for more efficient user mode services that can transform the file or its metadata. Additionally path information is very essential in compliance systems where audit logs need to tell what happened to …

Sampling Without Replacement: Durstenfeld-Fisher-Yates Permutation For Very Large Permutation Sizes, Martin Harriman

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We present a modification of the Durstenfeld-Fisher-Yates random-permutation algorithm for use in sampling without replacement from a large population.

A Simplified Method For Securing Bluetooth Communication, Van Tu

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Disclosed herein is a simplified Bluetooth communication mechanism that is secure and enables configuration of the security settings when paired with another Bluetooth device. Once paired, the system prompts the user to select either a normal or a secure access mode. The normal mode allows access to normal as well as sensitive or personal data available in the phone, while the secure access mode restricts access to sensitive data. Data access requests are handled by the system to permit access based on the security mode settings. This mechanism provides a single toggle that prevents personal data being synced to any …

Multiple Input Modes Without Specific Mode Selection, Thomas Deselaers, Emmanuel Mogenet, Victor Cărbune

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A system and method are disclosed that enables multiple text input modes for a device without explicitly specifying the desired mode. A machine learning (ML) model is used to handle and interpret the inputs (text, voice, handwritten, etc.). The ML model analyzes sequences of data, and trains itself so that the correct final output sequence is given to the application requiring the text input. A decoder is used to combine the output of the sequence interpretation model with other knowledge sources such as character or word recognition models. Then, a language-model is used in a decoder to obtain the most …

Translation On-The-Fly Add-On Based On Existing Translation Files And Machine-Translation, Yi-Qun Ren, Uriel Lustig, Kai Hu

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A new method for translating webpage on-the-fly is disclosed. This method use a browser add-on to auto localize the newly developed webpage or web application using existing translation files or machine-translation, so that web UI developer can detect & fix potential layout issues (including bad layout and truncation) during development time.

Crowdsourced Selection Of Payment Instrument, Tuna Toksoz, Thomas Price, Tutku Gulkaya

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A payment instrument for a pending transaction using a digital wallet system is selected based on data obtained from crowdsourced responses to selection requests sent to interested users.

Selective Connection To Wi-Fi Networks, Alex Zheng, Kyle Lemons, Tianyu Wen, Eric Enslen

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Devices such as mobile phones, tablets, wearables, head mounted displays, and computers auto-connect to a wireless network (e.g., a Wi-Fi network) regardless of the speed or quality of the connection offered by the network. In some instances, a Wi-Fi network can deliver lower speed and can be less reliable than a cellular data connection. In such instances, the cellular data connection can be preferable to the Wi-Fi connection. Testing connection speeds of various available connections require connecting to the network first, can cause delays in connection, and requires extra network usage and battery power. This disclosure describes techniques that utilize …

A Method Of Providing Meaningful, Self-Descripting Metadata To Rest Return Json Data, Lee A. Preimesberger, Sean Pope, Jasmit Tarang

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A method of providing meaningful, self-descripting metadata to REST return JSON data

This document describes a method where REST data can be wrapped in a well-defined metadata format which enables convenient self-documenting return values and also enables programmatically discovering and utilizing new REST service entry points.

Automatic Wireless Activation In The Presence Of Saved Networks, Alex Zheng, Christian Sonntag, Evan Charlton, Tyler Williams, Joseph Lapenna, Amin Shaikh

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Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptop computers, wearables, head mounted displays, etc. have the capability to access a wireless local area network as well as a cellular data network. Users often turn off the wireless local network access capability, e.g., by turning Wi-Fi off. Turning off such Wi-Fi capability has benefits such as avoiding automatic connections to slow, unreliable or potentially malicious networks, conserving battery, etc. In some instances, users do not remember to turn Wi-Fi back on, which leads to the device utilizing the cellular data network and potentially higher bills, because of charges for cellular data usage. …

Graphical Interface To Create And Suggest A Travel Day Plan To A User, Aleksandra Mirisola, Simon Schuler, Markus Clermont, Stefan Frank, Lucia Terrenghi, Alessandro Cerruti, German Kopytkov, Thomas Wittek, Dario Cazzaro, Duc Dung Nguyen, Volodymur Grachov, Yurii Samsoniuk, Margaret Lisowiec

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A graphical user interface provides a suggested travel day plan and allows a user to create or modify a suggested day plan. The user may select and pin sites of interest that are then generated in an itinerary for the day. The plan can be updated and refreshed by the user to add or delete pinned sites in the generated day plan until a satisfactory plan is provided.

Efficient Externalized Audio Reverberation With Smooth Transitioning, Ian Kelly, Marcin Gorzel, Alper Güngörmüsler

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Audio for immersive or simulated environments such as virtual reality (VR) matches the acoustics of the environment being simulated. Reverberative effects of a simulated environment are reproduced in a manner consistent with a corresponding real-world environment. For example, in a VR game, a user moves between a cathedral and a small room which are virtual environments that have substantially different acoustics. Providing audio reverb that matches a current virtual environment and smoothly transitions between virtual environments is essential for a quality VR experience. Providing smooth audio requires implementing a change in reverberation settings, e.g., filters, synchronously with gameplay which imposes …

Summarizing Existing Conversation For Newly Added Participants In Online Communication, Victor Carbune, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers

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Systems and methods of assisting a user newly added to a communication thread are disclosed. The system includes one or more users connected through a server in a network. The system further includes various machine learning models running on the server to summarize a conversation and to identify user-specific content. The method includes providing a customized summary to the newly added user with previous discussion points, other users involved, action items assigned, attachments added, etc. in the form of an easily readable short snippet of text. The method may also include suggesting adding one or more other users to the …

Tunable Automatic Placement Finder For Third Party Content, Matthew Burriesci, Thomas Long

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This document describes a technique for performing tuning in automatic content slot placement process. A data processing system can send a script to a client device for automatic content slot placement. The script can be executed by the client device to obtain a chunk size report and to transmit the chunk size report to the data processing system. The data processing system can analyze data in the chunk size report and perform tuning based on the analysis. Parameters for how long to hold the main execution thread at the client device can be modified. The data processing system can also …

Modeling Thin Structures From Images And Point Clouds, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Rongqi Qiu, Veselin Dikov, Brett Allen

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A method for creating a 3D model of thin objects is disclosed. This method creates 3D models of each such thin object from cues taken from posed source images and 3D point clouds (which can come from depth maps of these images). The cues could be a vertically aligned line feature or discontinuity in a background image. The 3D models of the thin objects are then added to the input 3D point cloud, and a mesh reconstructed from this augmented point cloud. The above method allows easy creation of 3D imagery of near vertical or thin objects like poles or …

Volumetric Framework For Third-Party Content Placement In Virtual 3d Environments, Siddhant Mehta

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A content distribution system facilitates the placement of third-party content in virtual, three-dimensional (3D) environments. The third-party content may be shown on virtual, 3D objects. The system defines a technical and financial framework by which developers of 3D environments can monetize their environments by allotting space for the display of third-party virtual objects. In some aspects, the content distribution system determines an amount to charge a third-party content provider for placing their content on a virtual object in a 3D environment based on the volume of the virtual object.

Burst Notifications, Michael Cardosa

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A burst notification system can temporarily disable notifications at a user’s electronic device. The burst notification system receives notification settings for an electronic device from the user of the electronic device. The system disables wireless communications notifications as well as any other notifications (in-app notifications) received from applications installed on the electronic device. For power savings, the system may temporarily disable the electronic device’s onboard cell transceivers and WiFi transceivers which are used to receive incoming phone/voice calls, data packets, text messages, etc.

Rendering Native Ads From Other Networks In Html For Mediation Purposes, Stephen Norum, Tuna Toksoz, Priyanshu Jain

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A system and method are disclosed with an ad format that aims to give the publisher almost full control of rendering the ad. The method runs an algorithm which aims to unify the ad format from any ad network. The method involves making a request via the ads SDK to receive the HTML for an ad that is styled by the publisher. The system then makes a request to the third party network to get the ad information such as ad title, description and image bytes. The ads SDK then invokes a JavaScript function to render HTML. The HTML code …

Accelerated Mobile Pages Advertisement And Cascading Style Sheet Merging, Richard Rapp, Justin Lewis

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This document describes a technique for cloaking cascading style sheet rules in accelerated mobile pages so that they can be embedded within a web page without interfering with the page’s layout and without using inline frames to separate rules. With the present technique display advertisements shown on the accelerated mobile pages will be able to be embedded within a host page contents itself without causing any conflicts due to same rule names used on a host page and an advertisement page. Additionally instead of simply using a full image the advertisement accelerated mobile pages can be composed of cascading style …

Position Of A Height Sensor In The Chassis

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Payment Card Image Backup, Owen Jones, Juancheng Rong

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In concert with applications that tokenize payment cards, an image of the card can be

stored to allow use of the payment card outside an electronic payment process.

Adapting Ad Creative Text To Match A User's Communication Style, Jakob Foerster, Matthew Sharifi

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A system and method for adapting the content of an ad-based on a user's communication style is disclosed. The content adaptation may be performed on the user's device or on a central server. On-device personalization can work best for mobile devices which are used as a primary means of communication. The method includes the steps of A) building a representation of the user’s communication style, B) when an advertisement is to be shown to the user, customizing the ad by rewriting it according to the user’s communication style and C) serving the optimized advertisement to the user. Building a representation …

Method For Using Photos As Contextual Information For Ad Targeting, Courtney Hampson, Jason Sanio

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A system and method are disclosed for identifying items, objects, and activities in photos taken by a user, of a user, or shared with a user to target ads. The method works as follows. The user takes photos relating to an interest (interest-1) that he stores in photo library. If a user visits a website relating to another interest (interest-2), and if the website shows ads, the website visit triggers an ad auction. For targeting ads, the system accesses the user’s contextual information relating to interest-2, and additionally the photo library for other interests, identifying interest-1 from the photo library. …