Digital Commons Network^™

Differentiable Position-Based Simulations

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure generally relates to enabling an efficient differentiable unified simulation model with contact, and more specifically, by computing derivatives of high degrees of freedom (DoF) and high geometric resolutions.

Merchandise Returns Predictability, Deepak Tomar, Veerendra Singh

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure pertains to the field of payment processing and predictive modelling for the Merchandise returns transactions in the context of payment transactions. More specifically, it focuses on developing a new model that offers predictability scores for merchandise returns, allowing merchants and acquirers to make informed decisions about the clearing of the original transactions. This innovative solution leverages historical data and employs linear regression to predict likelihood of a potential merchandise returns, potentially saving huge costs and resources for the merchant and acquirer and all the parties involved in the transaction processing.

Identifying Originators/Speakers Of Statements/Ideas In Virtual Meeting Environments, Hazim Dahir, Zaheer Aziz, Subha Dhesikan

Defensive Publications Series

In technology, entertainment, business, and/or legal proceedings, especially in scenarios in which significant monetary and/or legal rights are at stake, it can be important to determine when a statement was made and by whom the statement was made. As a majority of business is currently conducted virtually or as a hybrid (e.g., partial virtual presence), it would be desirable to be able to determine, with high certainty, an originator of an "idea", phrase, formula, etc. This proposal provides techniques that may be utilized to enable speaker attribution for virtual meeting environments.

A Security Antenna Design With Front-End Spacial Layout Structure, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

To avoid the internet security concern, the free spectrum users need to have a lot of the security behavior to avoid the internet attack such like to use VPN or other protocol authorization such like to use Bluetooth authorization for the WiFi connection in ISM band. The way to use these method will increase the users effort by increasing extra time for these activities for example the steps below:

(1) User link to the company WiFi and link to the enterprise website

(2) Connection to the login website (5 seconds)

(3) Link to the cell phone (2-3 seconds)

(4) Turn …

Smart Mal-Tracker Protection, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The Bluetooth tracker is a popular device that uses Bluetooth technology to help you locate your belongings. It is designed to be attached to valuable items such as keys, wallets, bags or even placed inside items like laptops or backpacks. The tracker device connects wirelessly to your smartphone or tablet, allowing you to track its location using a dedicated mobile app. Here are some key features and functions of Bluetooth tracker: Tracking, Out-of-Range Alerts, Crowd-Sourcing Network, Reverse Tracking, Smart Home Integration, Replaceable Battery

Bluetooth tracker offers numerous benefits for tracking and locating personal belongings, providing users convenience and peace of …

Damped Hard Drive Mounting, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed herein is a system for mounting a hard disk drive to a rack of a data center. A grommet is optimized for limiting the vibrational forces between the hard disk drive and the rack. Particularly, various grommet designs are optimized to limit the vibrational forces imparted on the rack such that neighboring hard disk drives are not affected by the vibrational forces emitted by neighboring hard disk drives, thereby increasing the lifespan of the grommets and hard disk drives and allowing the hard disk drives to be replaced quicker. The grommets are designed to have different stiffnesses and materials …

Forecasting Engineering Team Capacity And Work Estimates Using Product Roadmaps, Saif Khalaf, Mailys Levassort, Amisha Singh, Kimberly Reardon

Defensive Publications Series

Despite substantial research, deriving work estimates and team capacity for a given software development project continues to be notoriously difficult to get right. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically and rapidly calculate, in the same unit of measure, engineering team capacity and engineering work estimates for a given set of product features. With use of the described techniques, software development projects can be better organized, and engineering talent can spend time on engineering problems rather than on planning. The automated team capacity and work estimate calculations can be more accurate than typical human-generated estimates, and lead to more accurate product …

In-Conference Tool Virtual Assistant With Real Time Speaking Latency, Dongeek Shin

Defensive Publications Series

A framework is proposed for reducing latency for real-time speaking applications, such as virtual assistants. The framework utilizes a hybrid scheme between a large language model (LLM) and a small sound model (SSM). The SSM timestamps the end of a user’s verbal query and notifies the transcription engine that the query has ended. The transcription engine will then abort and send the existing set of transcriptions to the LLM for processing without waiting for the buffer to meet the specific value or time. This minimizes the net response time for real time speech-based models due to the reduced latency from …

Meeting Summarization And Alerts For Video Conference Participants, Shiblee Hasan, Kathleen Bryan

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is proposed for summarizing meetings to help distracted participants transition back into conversations during video conferences. Processing logic may receive, from a video conferencing platform, a video file including multiple frames and audio. The processing logic may determine a period of time where a participant is distracted based on the participant’s body movement, eye movement, and camera settings. This determination can be made using a machine learning model. The processing logic can also generate a summary of the meeting based on received voice input, chat comments, and participant expressions. This summary may be generated using a generative artificial …

Facial Recognition And Animation From User Input

Defensive Publications Series

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to recognizing user input as a facial element and animating the facial element. Implementations of a computing system permit a user to provide user input, such as drawing via a cursor. For example, the user input is provided within an environment that comprises passthrough visuals of a real-world environment. Implementations of a user computing system can capture a real-world environment that includes a real-world object, and the environment displayed to the user can include the object. The user can draw elements (e.g., circles, other shapes, free form drawing, etc.) on the object. Implementations …

Context-Based Fast Motion Estimation And Mode Decision Methods In Video Encoding

Defensive Publications Series

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to context-based fast motion estimation and mode decision methods in video encoding. For fast mode decision in code encoding, current depth prediction and early termination methods do not consider the statistics change between blocks and between frames, and may fail for scene change and need refreshment periodically. For fast motion estimation, current sub-sampling methods do not consider the statistics of the block. In addition, the current video encoding motion estimation and mode decision algorithms are too complex and consume too much power. Some implementations described herein reduce the computational complexity and save power.

Capture Shortcuts For Smart Glasses Using Electromyography, Isaac Rose, Andrew Clayton Butler, Chetan Parag Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to capture shortcuts on smart glasses using electromyography (EMG). Some implementations can detect certain gestures using a wearable EMG, such as an EMG band or other smart device incorporating an EMG sensor. Some implementations can map these gestures to content captured on the smart glasses, such as image capture or video capture. For example, a user can make a clicking (i.e., "air tap") motion with his fingers to take a picture using the smart glasses. In some implementations, the user can perform different actions for different types of capture, such as finger snapping …

Burn-In Compensation With Foveated Rendering Display

Defensive Publications Series

Systems, methods, and devices for compensating image(s) or video(s) data are provided. A device may divide a display panel including a plurality of pixels into one or more estimated blocks including pixels associated with an original image. The device may also calculate stress data separately for the estimated blocks by calculating a stress value of the pixels associated with the estimated block. The device may also generate an accumulated stress data based on an accumulation of stress data. The device may also degrade data associated with the original image to generate compensation data based on the accumulated stress data.

Packaging Without Single Use Plastic

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

The Virtual Content Viewing Configuration Which Consists Of Four Cyclically Arranged Overlapping Projection Systems, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a virtual content viewing configuration which consists of four cyclically arranged overlapping projection systems. The configuration consists of four cyclically arranged projection systems. Each projection system consists of a video projecting video display, a concave mirror part and an angled beam splitter. The four cyclically arranged projection systems will collectively project the virtual imagery into the field of view of the user of the configuration.

Personalized Phrase Dictionary For Voice Dictation, Pu-Sen Chao

Defensive Publications Series

Users can use voice dictation capabilities of their devices to provide text input (or commands) and/or to edit text by using their voice. Speech recognition mechanisms are imperfect, leading to personalized names and phrases not being correctly transcribed, and requiring cumbersome manual corrections. This disclosure describes personalized automatic corrections to the transcribed text generated from voice dictation using a user-editable personal dictionary of correction pairs. With user permission, the personal dictionary can be generated automatically based on manual corrections to the transcribed text and shared across devices and applications associated with the user. Entries are added to the dictionary only …

Method And System For Processing Installments On Debit Accounts, Amal Jose Thomas, Galyna Odnorog, Harsha Sathyanarayana Naga, Prasad Vasudevan Menon, Otto Williams

Defensive Publications Series

Methods and systems for processing debit installments are disclosed. The system includes receiving an authorization request and instalment plan for processing an instalment transaction associated with a debit account. The request may be received from a payment network managed by VISA or other entities. The system validates credit limits associated with the debit account for approving the authorization request. The system approves the authorization request based on the validation of credit limits and analyzes the instalment plan on approval of authorization request. The system further generates loan ledgers, repayment schedules and recovery transactions based on the analysis of instalment plan.

On-Demand Server-Less Log Multiplexer For Single-Container Processes, Alankrit Kharbanda, Sowmya Dayanand, Aj Ortega

Defensive Publications Series

In single-container processes, which limit the number of compute processes per container, the capture and transmission of logs can become infeasible because a separate, disk-based, log-capture and emission process is disallowed. This disclosure describes a log multiplexer that uses memory-multiplexing techniques to transport logs to multiple destinations within a single-container process. The log multiplexer interfaces with an in-memory, single process, shim layer that encompasses a generic, single-container application, becoming a single-point pipe pass-through for all emitted logs. Based on a static or a dynamic configuration provided to the application, the single-point pass-through multiplexer determines the endpoints where the logs are …

Self-Diagnostic Of A Device With Voice Feedback, Hee Poh Sin, Jian Song, Jia Jiunn Khng

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

A Cost-Effective Method To Prevent Data Exfiltration From Llm Prompt Responses, Assaf Namer, Jim Miller, Hauke Vagts, Brandon Maltzman

Defensive Publications Series

Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to security risks wherein malicious attackers can manipulate LLMs by poisoning their training data or using malicious text prompts or queries designed to cause the LLM to return output that includes sensitive or confidential information, e.g., that is part of the LLM training dataset. This disclosure describes the use of a data loss prevention (DLP) system to protect LLMs against data exfiltration. The DLP system can be configured to detect specific data types that are to be prevented from being leaked. The LLM output, generated in response to a query from an application or …

System And Method For Fabricating Polarization Selective Element, Yun-Han Lee, Mengfei Wang, Stephen Choi, Kieran Connor Kelly, Lu Lu, Kyle Justin Curts

Defensive Publications Series

A system includes a surface relief grating configured to forwardly diffract an input beam as two linearly polarized beams. The system also includes a waveplate optically coupled with the surface relief grating and configured to convert the two linearly polarized beams into two circularly polarized beams having orthogonal circular polarizations. The two circularly polarized beams having orthogonal circular polarizations interfere with one another to generate a polarization interference pattern.

A Method And System To Implement Adaptive Training Algorithm: Adam Q, Ka Lok Ng, Panos Chatzigiannis

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to providing a method and system for training neural networks. It discloses an adaptive training algorithm Adam Q to overcome the challenges associated with its predecessors. It proposes a look-up table to be fused with the existing Adam algorithm such that Adam Q may not need to run all the computational operations while determining the updated weights and instead may directly see the results from the fused look-up table. It further goes on to propose a quantization technique where the received inputs from the previous iterations are first quantized and then taken as an input for …

Infinity Pay, Sahil Arora

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to the field of contactless payment systems and biometric authentication. More specifically, it relates to a novel system and method for enabling secure contactless payments using biometric identification, even in situations where the user's primary device is unavailable. This innovative solution incorporates a combination of machine learning, neural networks, blockchain technology, and interconnected IoT devices to facilitate seamless and secure transactions.

Large Language Model Powered Chatbot For Natural Language Query Responses, Priya Mathur, Zhaoying Han

Defensive Publications Series

While dashboards provide structured information on various metrics, they cannot answer specialized questions. For such questions, data scientists need to develop custom database queries based on natural language questions specified by users, which is costly and time-consuming. This disclosure describes a virtual data assistant that leverages large language models to automatically translate natural language queries to structured database queries and to translate structured responses into natural language answers. The models can be trained on pairs {natural language query, structured query} and {structured answer, natural language answer}. The virtual data assistant can be implemented as a chatbot that enables users to …

System And Method For Dynamic Link Activation In Email Messages For Phishing Prevention, Alok Roy

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for dynamic link activation in email messages to prevent phishing attacks. The present disclosure suggests receiving incoming emails from a user’s computing device. Thereafter, the received emails are analyzed to detect suspicious emails, and the detected suspicious emails are sent to a link activation system. Upon receiving suspicious emails, the link activation system disables all embedded links in the suspicious email and generates a user interface. The user interface allows users to review information related to disabled links. Subsequently, the user may choose to activate or deactivate the links based …

Laser Ablation Of Electrode To Extend Rsw Electrode Life And Save Production Cost, Feng Wu, Yan Lin, Julio Malpica, Joao Felipe Carvalho De Moraes, Dechao Lin, Jinwen (Kevin) Duan, Tao (Atom) Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This invention presents an RSW electrode cost saving solution for resistance spot welding of aluminums, including apparatus with automation, ablation process and method. It is achieved by cleaning with a laser ablation process that minimizes the metal removal amount each time compared to a current mechanical electrode dressing method (Laser ablation 0.02mm vs electrode dressing 0.2mm). To make it effective and reproductive, the laser ablation process is preferably performed on the welding electrode prior to serious electrode sticking. RSW on various aluminum grades and joint stacks have been tested and validated in a lab scale, it has shown that the …

Llm-Based Task-Oriented Dialog System With Few-Shot Retrieval Augmentation, Rahul Goel, Chris Hidey, Hafeezul Rahman Mohammad, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Fei Liu

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional rule-based dialog systems are suitable only for a narrow set of scenarios and types of questions, and are not easy to extend to new domains and/or higher complexity questions. Traditional machine learning models require substantial data to train and retraining can affect previously released functionality. This disclosure describes an LLM augmented with an index of examples and a retrieval system for use in dialog systems. The techniques leverage the instruction-following capabilities of LLMs. Upon receipt of a user query, the conversation context and a set of examples retrieved from an index are utilized to generate a prompt for the …

Foldable Display Stack-Up Structures With A Divided Thin Glass Layer, Howard Hou, Ken Foo, Yi Tao, Qi Qi, Mark Mienko

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes improved foldable display structures with a divided thin glass layer that enables thinner foldable devices with improved visual perception and increased mechanical strength. In aspects, a foldable device includes a foldable display structure that includes a thin glass layer. The thin glass layer includes a first thin glass portion defining a first non-folding area, a center portion defining a folding area, and a second thin glass portion defining a second non-folding area. The center portion is positioned between the first thin glass portion and the second thin glass portion. The first and second thin glass portions may …

Location Identification For Network Devices, Parthiv Shah, Roberto M Kobo

Defensive Publications Series

Information Technology (IT) managers and administrators often need to correlate the actual physical location of device (e.g., within a closet at address X, building 5, 2nd floor, east side) with an identity of the device that is shown within an IT management system. Such device identification is typically provided via device configuration or through the use of add-on "tags" that can be located on a device. However, many network devices or other types of "virtual constructs" (e.g., many devices acting as a single virtual box), particularly virtual systems can be located far apart from each other (e.g., across different floors, …

Enhanced Wearable Devices For Visually Impaired Users, Olga Vladimirovna Barykina-Tassa, Pradip Sairam Pichumani

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for enhanced wearable devices for visually impaired users. A system of enhanced wearable devices may comprise a first plurality of wearable devices located on a user, and a second plurality of wearable devices located on a service animal. The first plurality of wearable devices may include at least a pair of smart glasses, such as augmented reality or virtual reality glasses, and one or more sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an image sensor, an acoustics sensor, GPS sensors, or the like. Each wearable device of the second plurality of wearable devices may be …