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Location Inference Using Co-Presence Of Multiple Devices, Chetan Bhadricha
Location Inference Using Co-Presence Of Multiple Devices, Chetan Bhadricha
Defensive Publications Series
A system is disclosed for inferring physical or semantic location using co-presence of multiple mobile devices. The system gets the location reports from several nearby mobile devices and sends back an accurate location for all these devices. The location reports from each device’s sensors (such as Wi-Fi, cell tower, Bluetooth or GPS) that are close together are used to determine the semantic location for these devices. Each type of sensor is provided a reliability weightage when combining data from the multiple devices. The system then statistically combines the signals from the multiple devices to determine the semantic location more accurately …
Pornography Detection In Video Using Characteristic Motion Patterns, Rahul Sukthankar, Shumeet Baluja
Pornography Detection In Video Using Characteristic Motion Patterns, Rahul Sukthankar, Shumeet Baluja
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A mechanism for detecting pornographic content in a video based on an analysis of characteristic motions in the video. The motion-based mechanism is to appearance-based and audio-based approaches, and therefore can be employed in combination with such approaches, or by itself. In one implementation, the mechanism employs a first phase of unsupervised learning, and a second phase of supervised learning. In the first phase, characteristic motion patterns are discovered and clustering is performed. In one implementation, characteristic motion patterns are discovered by analyzing the relative displacements of large numbers of ordered trajectory pairs over time. In the second phase, a …
Partial Click Protections For Ads, Matthew Burriesci, Joon Ho Cho, Nathan Lucash, An-Tai Li
Partial Click Protections For Ads, Matthew Burriesci, Joon Ho Cho, Nathan Lucash, An-Tai Li
Defensive Publications Series
Partial click protections for ads are introduced in this publication. The partial click protections for ads include applying one or more click protections to one or more specific portions of an ad unit instead of the entire ad unit. The one or more specific portions of the ad are differentiated from other portions of the ad based on various criteria. The one or more specific portions of the ad unit include specific portions of a button in the ad unit.
Conversion Attribution Based On Viewable Impressions, Chun Kok, Eric Wood, Kimberly Swennen, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Glenn Wilson, Keegan Mosley
Conversion Attribution Based On Viewable Impressions, Chun Kok, Eric Wood, Kimberly Swennen, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Glenn Wilson, Keegan Mosley
Defensive Publications Series
Viewable View Through Conversion (vVTC) are introduced in this publication. vVTC is a way to attribute view-through conversion events back to the impressions that deserve credit for them. vVTC may measure viewability for each impression and attribute conversions to impressions based in part on the measured viewability of each impression. In some implementations, vVTC considers only viewable impressions for attribution.
Multiple Tier Low Overhead Memory Leak Detector, Ben Cheng, Simon Que
Multiple Tier Low Overhead Memory Leak Detector, Ben Cheng, Simon Que
Defensive Publications Series
A memory leak detector system can be used to detect memory leaks, which is when a computer program fails to release unneeded memory allocations, in a computer that executes multiple programs. The system utilizes a multi tier methodology to detect memory leaks. In a first tier, the system collects a histogram representing allocation counts for different allocation sizes of memory at the computer. If the system detects an above-a-threshold increase in the number of allocations for one or more of the allocation sizes, the system marks the one or more allocation sizes as suspected leaks and proceeds to a second …
Authenticating Financial Accounts, Ryan Weber, Andrew Nelson
Authenticating Financial Accounts, Ryan Weber, Andrew Nelson
Defensive Publications Series
A transaction manager system associates a payment account with a user to allow future transactions with the payment account to be conducted in online transactions, mobile transactions, and other transactions. A user enters payment account information, such as a credit card account or a debit card account, into a user interface of the transaction manager system. The user enters user credentials for the user account on the card issuer that issued the payment account. The transaction manager system requests an authorization hold on the user account with the card issuer system. The transaction manager system submits the provided user credentials …
Live Audience Engagement System, Sarah Ali, Ramona Bobohalma, Julien Marchand
Live Audience Engagement System, Sarah Ali, Ramona Bobohalma, Julien Marchand
Defensive Publications Series
A live fan engagement system enables video creators to engage with viewers while the viewers are watching a video. The system sets up online group viewing sessions for creator and viewers. When the creator and viewers join these sessions, the system initiates playback of a desired media and concurrently starts a chat session. Further, the system determines whether the creator or the viewers have a second screen device available during the session. If the second screen device is present for any of the viewers or the creator, the media is played on one of the screens and the chat session …
Systems And Methods For Automatic Institution Skills Optimization, Jennifer Su
Systems And Methods For Automatic Institution Skills Optimization, Jennifer Su
Defensive Publications Series
An automated system and method are disclosed for the optimization of multidimensional skillsets in a hiring process. The system extracts skills from existing individuals in an organization that are then aggregated to build an entity of skills at a company or network level to identify the distribution of skills in aggregate. The method compares a specific organization to a baseline organization to determine the gaps in skills. The external market conditions and the company’s financial data are used as signals to forecast and provide the necessary staffing recommendations. The output provided is a set of job descriptions and compensation information …
System For Recommending Job Titles Based On User Provided Titles And Categories, Xuejun Tao, Hao Jiang, Roger Hernandez Jr, Mark Rivera, Christian Posse, Maria Helena Buhr, Sarah Lin
System For Recommending Job Titles Based On User Provided Titles And Categories, Xuejun Tao, Hao Jiang, Roger Hernandez Jr, Mark Rivera, Christian Posse, Maria Helena Buhr, Sarah Lin
Defensive Publications Series
The present disclosure relates to a system and method of recommending job titles based on user-provided titles and categories. The system leverages an occupational ontology with multiple levels such as a job title, minor occupational category and major occupational category. The system receives job title or category as inputs from a user. It then classifies the job title or job category into one or more minor job categories. The system then uses a number of recommendation algorithms to generate several job titles. It then presents recommended job titles to the user in one final recommendation list. The user interface could …
Mobile Crowdsourcing For High-Accuracy Thunderhead Prediction, Jeffrey Hoy, Daniel Klein
Mobile Crowdsourcing For High-Accuracy Thunderhead Prediction, Jeffrey Hoy, Daniel Klein
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed to predict location of a thunderhead using crowd sourced mobile technology. The system comprises multiple smartphones enabled to detect relative wind speed, direction and pressure gradients. The crowd-sourced wind movements determine thermal rise locations that are fed into weather models. The system software uses this information to provide targeted emergency weather alerts with pinpoint precision. The resulting thunderhead discoverability is valuable to any group that provides or relies on accurate weather predictions.
Use Of Inaudible Data Stream Embedded Into Movie Trailers For Setting Up Reminders When Movie Premieres, Thomas Price, Tuna Toksoz
Use Of Inaudible Data Stream Embedded Into Movie Trailers For Setting Up Reminders When Movie Premieres, Thomas Price, Tuna Toksoz
Defensive Publications Series
The disclosure presents a system and method that enable users to receive reminders of movie premieres of interest. The system comprises an inaudible data stream that is embedded into movie trailers comprising data such as movie name, year of movie, release date and producing studio, etc. This data stream is picked up by an application installed on a user’s mobile device which prompts the user to select trailers they would like to receive release reminders on. The system then adds reminders to the user’s calendar for when each movie actually premieres. Also these inaudible data streams could be incorporated into …
A Mechanism To Report Credit Card Scams, Adam Liss
A Mechanism To Report Credit Card Scams, Adam Liss
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed to trace the source of a credit card scammer using a single use duress credit card number. If someone receives a request for credit card information, the potential victim can respond by providing a fake duress number. The duress number can be obtained via a special service set up for that purpose. The duress credit card number is generated and provided to the potential victim. The scammer uses the duress number to verify/charge the account via standard mechanisms. The verification/charges appear to succeed, but no funds are transferred; instead, the scammer’s identity is captured …
Ultra Local Micro Lending, Filip Verley, Jonathan Ricketson, Anna Min, Richard Lyon
Ultra Local Micro Lending, Filip Verley, Jonathan Ricketson, Anna Min, Richard Lyon
Defensive Publications Series
An ultra-local micro-lending system is proposed that will provide a community, access to a common pool of funds available only to members of that community. Funds could be provided to the community pool based on the population size of the community. The funds are also generated through encouraging the community members to save. Savings add money to the community pool, which is available for borrowing by others in the community. The system and method encourages the borrower to repay loans through social pressure by informing the loan details to the local community, also incentivize against default through increased access to …
Adaptive Voltage Conversion For Energy Efficient Computing, Liang Jia
Adaptive Voltage Conversion For Energy Efficient Computing, Liang Jia
Defensive Publications Series
A server rack may require DC voltages at various levels such as 12 volts, 1.8 volts, 1.2 volts, etc. that are suitable for different computing devices. In operation, a supply voltage is converted to the voltage required by corresponding computing devices. The voltage-level conversion is done in stages. A first stage converts from the supply voltage, e.g., 48 volts, to an intermediate voltage, e.g., in the range 7 to 15 volts. A second stage converts from the intermediate voltage to the appropriate output voltage. Efficiency of power conversion system varies with load, and depends on the intermediate voltage. This document …
Planning Personal Assistant, Mihai Danila
Planning Personal Assistant, Mihai Danila
Defensive Publications Series
A planning personal assistant system and method is disclosed for producing plans for day-to-day activities. The system enables a user to delegate the process of planning the execution of tasks to a computing device. The method is provided through a software application executed in any computing device that can engage in assistive communication with a user. The system receives a collection of tasks and produces one or more plans based on user location and constraints associated with each of the tasks. The plans are produced by optimizing a parameter such as total time spent performing all the tasks, distance traveled, …
Context-Based Cache Filling From Peer Caches, Christopher John Scott Dougall
Context-Based Cache Filling From Peer Caches, Christopher John Scott Dougall
Defensive Publications Series
A network cache serves as a local repository of items such as video, audio, images, web pages, files, etc. within a network, e.g., a local area network (LAN). This disclosure describes techniques to fill a network cache with digital assets such as videos, web pages, data files, etc. Assets are selected for the cache based on popularity. One indicator of popularity is the recent demand for different assets. Another indicator of popularity is geographic location of the internet cache. Different assets are downloaded to a cache from different peer caches within a LAN.
Video Recommendation Algorithm, Scott Davies, Justin Lewis
Video Recommendation Algorithm, Scott Davies, Justin Lewis
Defensive Publications Series
Users on social media sites, such as YouTube, may have dramatically different viewing behaviors, based on a number of factors. Many of these factors are considered by social media recommendation algorithms when identifying videos to recommend to a user. One commonly used algorithm is largely based on co-viewership. This algorithm relies on monitoring the videos that a user watches and identifying a group of other users that have also watched the same or similar video genres. The videos that have been watched by other members of the group, but not watched by the original user, may be selected as a …
System For Detecting Headphones For Hrtf Rendering, Minyue Li, Bastiaan Kleijn
System For Detecting Headphones For Hrtf Rendering, Minyue Li, Bastiaan Kleijn
Defensive Publications Series
Head-related transfer functions (HRTF) describe the changes in a sound wave as it propagates from a spatial source to the eardrum of a human. With many portable user devices, such as laptop computers, tablet computers, and the like, it has become more common to use HRTF for any audio rendering performed with the devices, as doing so significantly improves the listening experience for the user. However, in such applications it is imperative that the user device knows whether the rendering is performed over headphones or over free-standing loudspeakers. Accordingly, the system and method described in this publication relates to a …
Systems And Methods Of Managing Geofences, Levent Besik, Alessio Pace
Systems And Methods Of Managing Geofences, Levent Besik, Alessio Pace
Defensive Publications Series
This paper discusses systems and methods of dynamically prioritizing geofences on a server such that a device can only receive and setup relevant geofences in accordance with a maximum geofence limit of the device, application, or operating system. The system can then maintain those geofences as the device moves around. For example, a system (e.g., one or more processors executing on a server) receives several geofences. The system dynamically prioritizes the geofences based on one or more input signals, including, e.g., an advertisement bid amount made by a content provider or advertiser requesting a geofence around a location, popularity, mapping …
Automatic Video Content Item Creation From Static Content Items, Eli Danziger, Amit Sharma
Automatic Video Content Item Creation From Static Content Items, Eli Danziger, Amit Sharma
Defensive Publications Series
This paper discloses an automated video creation system by processing static content, such as text and images. The system can apply natural language processing algorithms such as key phrase extraction to extract phrase from a database of text. The system can execute image processing algorithms to select images from a database of images. The system can then determine which video templates are most suited for the extracted text and the selected images, and render the video according to the specifications of the selected video template.
A Method For Controlling Access To Wireless Electricity, Maxwell Sills, Ian Wetherbee
A Method For Controlling Access To Wireless Electricity, Maxwell Sills, Ian Wetherbee
Defensive Publications Series
A wireless electricity access control system provides a way to authenticate access to a power network. The system provides a method for a user of a wireless energy receiver to perform an authentication action at the receiver. Upon successful authentication, the system presents an advertisement or other media file to the user. After the consumption of the media file, the energy receiver receives a shared secret and a timestamp. The energy receiver uses this information to synchronize clocks at the energy receiver and an energy transmitter such as the power network. The energy receiver then selects a frequency using the …
Packet Loss Detection Based On Recent Acknowledgement (Rack), Yuchung Cheng, Neal Cardwell
Packet Loss Detection Based On Recent Acknowledgement (Rack), Yuchung Cheng, Neal Cardwell
Defensive Publications Series
This disclosure describes techniques for packet loss detection in networks based on Recent ACKnowledgement (RACK). RACK technique uses the notion of time, instead of conventional approaches for packet loss detection such as packet or sequence counting. Packets are deemed lost if a packet that was sent sufficiently later has been cumulatively or selectively acknowledged. In example implementations, a sender that implements RACK technique records packet transmission times and infers losses using cumulative or selective acknowledgements.
Name Normalization, Vladimir Yakunin, David Talbot
Name Normalization, Vladimir Yakunin, David Talbot
Defensive Publications Series
"This disclosure is directed generally to methods and apparatus for normalizing tokens found in text input prior to attempting to match those tokens to a database of names (e.g., a contact list). In various implementations, a set of suffix tuples, which may be optionally annotated, may be used to normalize tokens found in text obtained from, for instance, a user speaking into a microphone of a mobile phone or smart watch. For example, a suffix tuple,may indicate that the suffix “u” may be replaced by the suffix “a” to normalize a name, and that the resulting normalized name should be …
Image Orientation Detection, Krzysztof Kulewski, Sevket Babacan
Image Orientation Detection, Krzysztof Kulewski, Sevket Babacan
Defensive Publications Series
An orientation detection system sets an orientation of an image or a video based on the detection of an orientation of objects present within the image or video. The system detects the presence of one or more objects within the image or a frame of the video. The system determines spatial orientation parameters for the detected objects in the image. The system then constructs a histogram with a plurality of bins based on the determined spatial orientation parameters. The system counts the number of objects in each of the bins. The system determines the highest number of objects (M) in …
Method For Lightweight Representation And Comparison Of Cad Files, James Vines, William Grossman
Method For Lightweight Representation And Comparison Of Cad Files, James Vines, William Grossman
Defensive Publications Series
A method and system are proposed to greatly reduce the size of computer aided design (CAD) files. The system represents and stores the CAD files as a sequence of operations to create the end object. The sequence of operations describes the CAD geometry including a range of mathematical descriptions in text form. The CAD file is structured as a hierarchical set of operations. Each change in operation is stored as a delta version taking up very little storage space. Major versions are saved with graphics for quick view, similar to current CAD files storage. The textual representation of the CAD …
Systems And Methods For Dynamically Managing Rendering Of Animation Content, Eugenio Marchiori
Systems And Methods For Dynamically Managing Rendering Of Animation Content, Eugenio Marchiori
Defensive Publications Series
This paper describes methods and systems for dynamically managing rendering of animation content. At present, some types of internet display advertisements require animation to occur in the client (e.g., browser) to maintain the appropriate quality. However, rendering can be costly to computer resources and therefore to performance, quality, load times, etc. Animations typically have a fixed frame rate (e.g., 24 frames per second), which results in advertisements taking longer than desired to load if the rendering is slow, which can cause latency and degradation of user experience. This paper discusses methods and systems for dynamically managing rendering of animation content. …
Application Of Patterns To Image Features, Alex Powell
Application Of Patterns To Image Features, Alex Powell
Defensive Publications Series
Features are described to apply visual patterns or designs to image features of an image. A pattern image depicts a pattern or design created by a user which is intended to be applied to an image feature such as a face. The pattern image is to be applied to modify an input image having detected features such as faces. For example, a face mask is determined that indicates which pixels in the input image are facial skin pixels that are suitable to receive application of the pattern. The pattern image is warped to fit a detected face, and blended pixel …
Fast Time-Of-Flight Camera Lens Assembly, Mark Fralick, John Jacobs, Charles Tally, Richard Waters
Fast Time-Of-Flight Camera Lens Assembly, Mark Fralick, John Jacobs, Charles Tally, Richard Waters
Defensive Publications Series
A four-element lens assembly for implementation in a time-of-flight (ToF) camera for a head mounted display (HMD) device provides a wide field of view (FOV), high contrast and illumination at high resolution across the FOV over a relatively long working distance, a sufficiently small package/form factor so as to permit implementation in an HMD device, and relative insensitivity to ambient illumination other than that emitted by the ToF light source
Demographic Detection Through Input Device Interaction, Lidia Bolotova, Oliver Gaymond
Demographic Detection Through Input Device Interaction, Lidia Bolotova, Oliver Gaymond
Defensive Publications Series
A system for the detection of demographic profile during user interaction through an input device is disclosed. The system tracks a range of signals about a user's interaction with the device and analyzes the signals via a model to provide the estimated probability that the user is within specified demographic buckets. The user’s monitored online demographic profile is used to make realtime changes in the targeting of advertising and content that takes account of shared devices.
Personalized Media Streaming System, Nazif Tas
Personalized Media Streaming System, Nazif Tas
Defensive Publications Series
A personalized audio/video streaming system can be used to synchronize an audio and a video of a content playing on separate devices by establishing an audio conference. The system receives a request for content associated with a content ID and a request to publish the audio of the content from a first device. The system, in turn, transmits the request with the associated content ID to a video server. The system receives the requested content and a stream ID from the video server and streams the requested content to the first device. The system further transmits the stream ID to …