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Automatic Telemetry Throttling Based On Risk Determination, Branden Archer, Pauline Anthonysamy

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Application developers may include telemetry logging to their application code to determine the circumstances around behavior regressions; to triage bugs; etc. Risks associated with telemetry include the risk to the user of sensitive information being uploaded; the risk assumed by the service provider in accepting telemetry data; etc. This disclosure describes techniques to compute the risk associated with telemetry data by weighing each piece of data by a data-type-dependent weight and summing over the volume of data. The aggregate risk is used to make informed decisions on the types of telemetry to be targeted for risk reduction. Risk reduction can …

The Composite Projection Configuration Which Have The Capability To Display Multiple Color Combinations Utilizing Multiple Projection Projecting Displays., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes a composite projection configuration which have the capability to display multiple color combinations utilizing multiple projection projecting displays. The composite projection configuration will contain 6 identical projection projecting displays and 6 beam splitters. Each projection projecting display will have the capability to project a projection, which will be projected onto the user’s field of view as a virtual image area. The virtual image area that will be projected utilizing each projection projecting display, will consists of a 2 dimensional array of color units. In the virtual image area that will be projected utilizing each projection projecting display, …

Self-Improvised Multimodal Context Assessor Cum Resolver (Simcar) For The Enhancement Of Context Intelligibility And Readability By Optimizing The Complexity For Mixed Skilled Audiences, Anupam Mukherjee, Prasad N Kamath, Vibhor Jain

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When the context (live or recorded) in an online session (e.g., a meeting, a call, digital channels, etc.) becomes unproductive due to intelligibility or readability issues, a Self-Improvised Multimodal Context Assessor cum Resolver or 'SIMCAR' as proposed herein can enhance the context intelligibility and readability for the session by optimizing the content complexity for all the participants of the session that may possess different skill levels with regard to the content of the session. Through techniques of this proposal, the SIMCAR may provide each participant with a preferred level of optimized (simplified or augmented) content as per a configured SIMCAR …

An Improved Process For The Preparation Of Anticoagulant, Anonymous

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This report is related to an improved process for the preparation of 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-7-oxo-6-[4-(2-oxopiperidin-1-yl)phenyl]-4,5-dihydropyrazolo[3,4-c]pyridine-3-carboxamide.

Highlight Recovery Using Multi-Exposure Fusion And Floating-Point Tone-Mapping, Henrique Teles Maia, Jack Qiu, Wei-Sheng Lai, Woody Chow, Shota Kuroda, Jan Klopp, Andrew Kae, Ryan Geiss, Francois Bleibel, Sung-Fang Tsai, Derek Pang, Yichang Shih

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For scenes with high dynamic range, smartphone cameras may clip highlights, which can result in the loss of crucial scene details that are visible to the human eye and can cause the photographs to be aesthetically unappealing and/or appear artificial. Manual multi-exposure photography requires extensive manual editing, while automatic multi-exposure fusion techniques demand meticulous alignment of multiple frames at capture time to prevent artifacts. Per techniques of this disclosure, the captured dynamic range is extended at capture time through a new capture strategy that includes captures of an ultra-short exposure frame (bracketing frame) and a dedicated RAW image creation pipeline. …

Natural Language Based Video Guardrails For Parental Control, Sundarrajan Raman

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Video content can include portions that are inappropriate for certain groups of viewers, e.g., children. While parental controls are available, these can be ineffective for online video content from video creators and do not provide personalization to individual viewers. This disclosure describes the use of artificial intelligence techniques to automatically analyze portions of a video that are coming up for playback to generate a summary. The summary output by the model is evaluated against pre-configured guardrails provided by a parent. The pre-configured guardrails can be specified via natural language input. If the summary matches the guardrails, indicating that the upcoming …

Adaptive Led Intensity Control Based On Camera Blocked State Detection, Hung-Hsin Wu, Gang Sun, Yun David Tang, Gazi Yamin Iqbal, Ruben Velarde

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When video recording with flash is activated and the camera is placed on a surface that blocks the camera or in an enclosed space, the camera does not automatically transition to sleep mode. As a result, the LED of the flash continues to operate at full current which may cause overheating and can lead to melting of the LED lens, which is a safety concern. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically detect if a device camera is blocked during video recording or other conditions during which the flash is used. The detection is based on analysis of captured images from …

Enhancing Cloud Security Via Polymorphic Infrastructure, Assaf Namer, Brandon Maltzman, Shachar Bobrovskye, Daniel Lees, Guy Rinkevich, Hauke Vagts, Asjad Nasir, Nir Oz

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Traditional cloud computing security relies on static infrastructure configurations. Such configurations are vulnerable to various threats. This disclosure describes polymorphic cloud computing techniques that leverage generative artificial intelligence to counter security threats by continually and intelligently modifying the underlying infrastructure of cloud workloads. By dynamically altering configurations, resource names, deployment parameters, and/or other infrastructural elements, a constantly shifting landscape is created that significantly hinders the ability of an adversary to maintain persistent access or predict the layout of the environment. The techniques substantially reduce the value of reconnaissance to an attacker, making a successful attack more difficult. The techniques enhance …

Text-To-Audio Conversion Using Llms To Preserve Character Identification, Spencer Chin, Dan Kimberg

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Automatically generating audiobooks from text that features a dialog between two or more individuals faces a challenge in identifying the character that is speaking each line of quoted dialogue. Accurate character identification is particularly important as it directly impacts the clarity and comprehensibility of the generated audiobook. Producing audiobooks using manual annotations is not scalable, is prone to delay, and is costly. This disclosure describes the use of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) techniques, including large language models (LLMs) and/or multimodal generative models to automatically identify speech in narrative written text and attribute it to particular characters. The LLM is …

Using Cryptography To Offload Device Provisioning To A Cloud-Based Service, Max Bires, Andrew Scull

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Multi-step factory provisioning of electronic devices is slow and costly. Provisioning steps are performed in the factory because most devices being provisioned require a level of security that guarantees that an end-user cannot mess with or inspect the values being provisioned. This disclosure describes techniques that enable simple, fast, and secure provisioning for devices in a factory, while other parts of secure provisioning are offloaded to when the device is first used by a customer. Per the techniques, a device manufactured in the factory is provisioned with a device-specific private key and a public key associated with a secure provisioning …

Context-Based Adaptive Haptics For Mobile Devices, Chris Paulo, Hong Tan, Ming-Shin Lu, Vince Leung, Aurelien Duval

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On mobile devices that provide alerts (ringtones, alarms, notifications) via vibrations, vibration parameters may in some cases be set to intensities unsuited to the user’s context. This can result in missed notifications in loud environments or disruptive notifications in quiet environments. This disclosure describes techniques to provide haptic notifications on mobile devices in an adaptive manner consistent with the user context. With user permission, readings from device sensors (such as but not limited to, microphone, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and accelerometer) are used to determine the user’s context/environment, e.g., the ambient noise and light levels, device motion, etc. The …

Using Multimodal Llm For Material Type And Emissivity Determination To Enhance Accuracy Of Infrared Temperature Measurement, Fang Liu, Nick Sanders

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Smart devices equipped with infrared (IR) sensors offer convenient temperature measurement capabilities. However, the accuracy of temperature measurement using IR sensors is dependent on estimating the emissivity of the target surface. Currently, manual categorization of the object is necessary so that its material properties can be determined. Requiring such manual input is inconvenient and detracts from the user experience. This disclosure describes techniques that utilize a multimodal large language model (LLM) to automatically determine material type of an object whose temperature is to be determined. Per the techniques, an image of the object captured by a camera is provided to …

Improved Wireless Antenna Performance By Parasitic Elements In Convertible Pc., Hp Inc

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Antenna design is a crucial aspect of enhancing wireless communication performance in hybrid devices. With the widespread use of wireless technology across multiple devices, it is essential to address the performance challenges posed by different operating modes, such as clamshell and tablet modes in laptops. One way to improve wireless performance is through the use of parasitic elements, which can significantly enhance the radiation efficiency and gain of WLAN antenna.

The structural changes in tablet mode often degrade WLAN performance due to alterations in the radiation environment. To mitigate this issue, we propose a solution that leverages parasitic antenna technology. …

Malicious Fingerprint Enrollment Prevention Using Full-Screen Fingerprint Sensing, Justin Eltoft

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It is possible for malicious actors to register their fingerprints on an unlocked mobile device (e.g., left unlocked by the user, or unlocked based on location or other settings) to gain the ability to unlock the device at any future time. This disclosure describes techniques for secure fingerprint enrollment that utilize device capabilities to perform substantially simultaneous fingerprint sensing. Per the techniques, when registering a fingerprint (or any other biometric such as face) beyond the first registered fingerprint, the user is required to provide additional authentication, even when the device is unlocked. The additional authentication is provided by a previously …

Remotely Querying On-Device Logs For Issue Diagnostics, Chinmay Dhodapkar

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As consumer devices age and on-device software modules get updated, it can become difficult to trap quality problems and determine prevalence and severity of respective problems. This disclosure describes techniques to perform on-device diagnostics pertaining to a particular issue. Queries are sent to devices in the field and responses are received that include information about the existence and attributes of a bug/issue. The devices run the queries on respective on-device logs and report back the requested information in a privacy-preserving manner. The prevalence and severity of the issue, which are major deciding factors in rolling out a fix, can be …

A Process For Purification Of Temazepam., Anonymous

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The present invention relates to a process for purifying Temazepam

The Composite Light Capturing Configuration That Contains Multiple Categories Of Light Capturing Configurations Where There Are Overlapping 3d Spatial Configurations., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes a composite light capturing configuration that contains multiple categories of light capturing configurations where there are overlapping 3D spatial configurations. The composite light capturing configuration will contain 2 main light capturing configurations, one main configuration per each eye. Altogether, in the composite light capturing configuration, there will be 4 categories of light capturing configurations. Each main configuration will contain 3 categories of light capturing configurations. The 3 categories of light capturing configurations containing within each main configuration will have the capability to collectively capture a wider area in the field of view of the eye.

Modular Bed Organizer Kit For Pick-Ups, Anonymous

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Neutral User-Defined Identifiers For Computational Resources, Brandt Newton, Ramesh Dharan

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Clients of cloud service providers often require that controls be placed on cloud-resource names and attributes such that these cannot be read by employees of the service provider. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to define descriptive, recognizable, and memorable identifiers that prevent deciphering of the significance of the object underlying an identifier. Such user-defined identifiers, termed as ‘neutral’ or ‘innocuous,’ are similar to secure IDs, and can be used to label sensitive resources to prevent unauthorized individuals from guessing the nature of the data underlying the identifier. Neutral, user-defined identifiers are created by having the identifiers conform to …

Heat-Sink-Free Convection Cooling Enhancement For Pluggable Optical Modules, Anonymous

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The present disclosure relates to pluggable optical modules and specifically to cooling improvements without the use of conventional thermal materials such as heat sinks, thermal interface materials, or the introduction of high-conductivity parts. The present disclosure relates to pluggable optical modules in a front-to-back airflow system, e.g., pluggable modules can include SFP+, SFP28, QSFP, QSFP28, QSFP-DD, OSFP, OSFP-XD, etc. In high-temperature ambient conditions, and for relatively high-power SFP modules (e.g., ~2W), it is challenging to cool, in particular when it is in the bottom row of a stacked array of modules.

Distributed File Server To Service Network Device Needs In Controller Environments, Akshay Singh, Shyam N Kapadia, Rajesh Nataraja

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Proposed herein are techniques to scale out Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) and/or Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) services based on a username received for SCP/SFTP sessions involving different micro-services in such a way that, externally, only one network endpoint (e.g., Internet Protocol (IP) address/port number) is exposed but, internally, load balancing can be performed to load balance the sessions to different micro-services. Such techniques may be useful for realizing three core benefits, such as prioritizing traffic based on username in order to serve critical requests over non-critical requests, provision different sets of compute resource in order to adequately scale out …

Two-Tier Chip Packaging For High-Bandwidth Communication, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques to provide high bandwidth connectivity for chip packages. Per techniques of this disclosure, a two-tiered chip package is provided that includes two tiers of substrates. A first tier (Tier 1) substrate includes an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) substrate that is utilized to house the chips while a second tier (Tier 2) substrate includes a substrate like PCB (SLP) substrate or a high density interconnect (HDI) that is utilized to provide connectivity via a CPC connector. Micro ball grid arrays (BGAs) are provided on the tier 1 substrate, while BGA balls with a pitch greater than 1 …

Validating Multi-Os Machines In Datacenter Repair, N/A

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The mean time-to-repair (MTTR) and downtime costs of multi-node machines, often deployed for high-value cloud and machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) server fleets, can be high. This disclosure describes techniques to expedite repair validation in multi-node servers by tailoring installation and test procedures to repair actions. Repair actions proposed by a diagnoser based on component-to-node maps are used to compute a subset of nodes to be installed and tested. Installation and testing are performed at the submachine level alongside a subset of nodes that are relevant to the performed repair actions. Testing is split into a focused test …

High Accuracy Closed-Loop Tuning Of Occupancy Models For Ambience Control, D Shin

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Conventional building occupancy modeling is open loop where occupancy is detected based on sensor data and predefined rules/thresholds and ambient controls for illumination, temperature, or other settings are adjusted accordingly without taking into account human feedback regarding the level of comfort. Such an open-loop occupancy model can result in suboptimal ambience in certain situations. This disclosure describes techniques that incorporate user-initiated tweaks to ambience controls to train occupancy models. Per the techniques, modifications to ambience settings made by users are encoded into a preference signal for reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF). Model weights are closed-loop tuned based on both …

Smooth Continuous Zoom In/Out Via Generative Map Interpolation, D Shin

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Digital map interactions such as zooming in/out or panning can be hampered by the latency for fetching granular (for zooming in), wide field-of-view (for zooming out), or adjacent (for panning) data before the selected region of the digital map can be rendered. This is a suboptimal user experience. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage generative interpolation to provide visually smooth transitions between zoom levels. When a user of a digital map app changes the region being viewed, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model is applied to perform outpainting or inpainting on the current view to create a series of interpolating …

Adaptive Hardening Of Large Language Model Security, Assaf Namer, Brandon Maltzman

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Current techniques to secure large language models against prompt attacks (injection, hacking, and other attacks) are typically static and do not adjust to the continuously evolving prompt attack landscape. They are expensive to operate, introduce latency, and add management/monitoring overhead by requiring ongoing tuning. This disclosure describes techniques to dynamically adjust the security configurations of a large language model (LLM) based on the current risk evaluations of prompt attacks and other vulnerabilities. An attack classification model, trained over various types of prompt attacks, infers an appropriate control profile for the current threat situation and the input prompt sequence and response. …

The Composite Light Capturing Configuration That Contains 3 Categories Of Focal Lengths Which Is Utilized To Capture The Same Scene., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes a composite light capturing configuration that contains 3 categories of focal lengths which is utilized to capture the same scene. The composite light capturing configuration will contain 2 main light capturing configurations, one main light capturing configuration per each eye. Each main light capturing configuration will contain 3 light capturing configurations where each light capturing configuration will have a unique focal length. The composite light capturing configuration, by utilizing the 6 light capturing configurations it contains, will have the capability to capture the scene in front of it where the 3 categories of focal lengths will enable …

Stackable Power Architecture For Power Supply Parallel Operation, Hp Inc

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A modern PC (Personal Computer) system usually with multiple input power interface, example: Barrel type or USBC type power input interface. Since there are several power input ports can be used to deliver power to PC system so maximize and optimize power source has always been a popular topic to investigate. In some user scenarios if a PC connects to a barrel adapter and a USBC display at the same time. (display USBC port with PD -Power Delivery function) If there is a proper design in PC system it is possible to take power from both Barrel Adapter and USBC …

Auto Detection Of Power Level Of Connected Power Supply Using Transient Step Load Signature, Anonymous

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The present disclosure relates to automatically detecting the power level of a connected power supply using a transient step load signature. This is a novel application using transient load response of a power supply (peak undershoot and overshoot voltage level) to detect Power Supply Unit (PSU) wattage level, such as to automatically provision, manage, indicate, and disable the remaining Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports based on available power from the PSU. This enables the use of any commoditized power supply adapter to meet auto provisioning requirement.

Multi-Layered Dynamic Personalized Videos, Sumeetha Thahira Salim, Satya Sri Suraj Thotakura, Sneha Reddy, Akhil Sai Ram Chennareddy

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Personalized videos are known to achieve better customer engagement than traditional channels of communication from businesses. The conventional approach to producing and delivering the personalized videos often involves high costs, both on infrastructure and operations. As the video content length, degree of personalization or the number of target audience increases, it could lead to a massive increase in storage costs as well as the complexity of managing assets. Personalization with a fixed video asset per customer in the conventional methodologies also limits the level of interactivity that can be achieved within the videos. To overcome these issues, presented herein is …