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Link Coloring In Multiprotocol Label Switching (Mpls) Networks To Enable Selective Link Deprioritization, N/A

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In multiprotocol label switching, link colors can be assigned to network interfaces to exclude (or to include) certain classes of traffic from specific paths. Under certain network failure scenarios, a color-exclusionary link can disrupt traffic. This disclosure describes path-computation techniques that penalize, rather than completely exclude, links with specific link colors. Links with such colors are deprioritized, e.g., less preferred, than other links. However, the links remain feasible for packet transfer should there be no other available paths. Under various failure scenarios, the described techniques find paths equal to or better than purely exclusionary techniques. Furthermore, the techniques can be …

The Optical Configuration Which Enables To Augment Virtual Images Into The Field Of View Of The User At The Same Time Enabling The Surrounding People To Clearly See The User’S Eyes., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes an optical configuration which enables a user to experience virtual images in the field of view at the same time enabling the other people in the surroundings to clearly see the eyes of the user of the optical configuration. The optical configuration consists of a set of video displays, a set of convex lens parts which are oriented in the same direction as the set of video displays, a set of convex lens parts which are oriented in the perpendicular direction to the set of video displays, a set of convex lens parts which are oriented at …

Usage Of Nft As An Instrument Of Stored Value At A Product Level And As Payment Means, Edmar Soriano, David Nissly, Peter Rhee

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The present disclosure relates to (1) a system and a method of using NFTs as an instrument of stored value at a product level, (2) a system and a method of processing of payments by a POS from an NFT-enabled multichannel wallet, and (3) a system and a method of processing of payments by the POS in a processing order set by a consumer in an NFT-enabled multichannel wallet. The first method discloses a consumer purchasing product values from a merchant. Upon purchasing, the merchant sends the NFTs to the consumer. In response to receiving the NFTs from the merchant, …

Tunnel Weight Algorithm To Improve Virtual Private Network Performance, Altanai Bisht

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Techniques are presented herein that support a novel tunnel weight algorithm that not only unlocks the capabilities of a multi-uplink feature on a virtual private network (VPN) peer, enabling the simultaneous use of many active tunnels, but also provides an innovative way to dynamically balance data traffic across those tunnels to provide the best possible VPN performance to a user and minimize downtime caused by non-performing tunnels. The techniques leverage existing probe signals to develop a real-time performance assessment of available tunnels and produce an actionable value called a tunnel weight which may be employed to load balance data traffic …

Heterogeneous Gaze Tracking Sensor Systems, Methods, And Devices, Yatong An, Youmin Wang, Gaetano Aiello

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Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are provided for eye tracking and gaze pattern determinations using heterogeneous sensor systems. A first sensor system may track movement of a first eye, and a second sensor system may track movement of a second eye, wherein the second sensor system applies a different tracking method than the first sensor system. Tracking information received from the first sensor and the second sensor may be correlated to determine a gaze motion pattern, such as a three-dimensional motion pattern. The heterogeneous nature of the sensors enables realization of numerous advantages, including but not limited to …

Safety Glasses To Aid Attention Focus

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Methods, devices, and systems for aiding attention focus are described herein. In one aspect, a method can include receiving, from a sensor of a pair of eyeglasses, status information corresponding to a user of the pair of eyeglasses; determining, from the status information, the user is experiencing an unsafe condition; and transmitting an alert, via the pair of eyeglasses, to the user based on the determining.

Data Batching For Reduction Of Transmission Bursts, Siddharth Ray, Amit Shukla

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A method for reducing power consumption and thermals of a network interface card by batching network traffic is disclosed. An aspect of the subject technology may include receiving a first control signal, closing a gate corresponding to a buffer in response to the first control signal, receiving one or more data packets with the buffer, receiving a second control signal, opening the gate corresponding to the buffer in response to the second control signal, and transferring one or more data packets of the buffer for transmission in response to the gate opening.

Solid State Forms Of Apalutamide And Their Process For The Preparation Thereof, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center

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The present disclosure relates to an amorphous solid dispersion comprising Apalutamide of formula-1 and HPMC-E5 and process for the preparation thereof.

Computing Availability Metric For 5g As A Service Network, Nithin Chitta, Darin Andrew Kaufman, Somaraju Kaki

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In the traditional way of computing availability, the measures mean time between failure and mean time to restore service are employed as parameters. However, for a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth-generation (5G) as a service consumer network (that encompasses a cloud-based deployment which is operated by a vendor), any metric that is exposed to a service provider (SP) needs to be refined to indicate the availability of the different services without being improperly influenced by hardware and software failure times. Techniques are presented herein that support the development of an overall network availability metric. Aspects of the presented techniques …

Identifying Enterprise Risk Based On Business Context With Threat Intelligence, Randy Birdsall, John A. Foley, Chandra Mohan Babu Nadiminti, Girish Sivasubramanian, Dhruv H. Raithatha

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Presented herein are techniques that facilitate prioritizing risk mitigation efforts for business-critical services and transactions through the incorporation of a business context into threat intelligence scoring. Under aspects of the presented techniques, traditional threat intelligence tools may be employed to evaluate the risk that is associated with an enterprise asset; the results of such an evaluation may then be augmented with an enterprise-assigned business value for the asset to derive the asset’s business risk; and such a business risk may be leveraged to prioritize risk mitigation efforts, may be combined with other business risks, etc. The above-described process may be …

Consumer Initiated High-Value Payments, Deepa Nayak, Clive Wintle, Kevin Jacklin, Ashwuni Sapra, Rohini Suren, Sameer Chougule

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for facilitating a consumer to initiate a secure, high-value payment transfer. The present disclosure suggests sending, by a payment initiator, an inquiry about a payment receiver account along with the payment receiver’s details to a payment network via an originating financial institution. Thereafter, the payment network validates the payment receiver details and provides a validation code using the payment data to uniquely identify the transaction. Subsequently, the payment network confirms the validity of the payment receiver details to the payment initiator via the originating financial institution and requests confirmation from …

Auto Adjustable Stand For Lift And Tilt Function, Hp Inc

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The auto-adjustable stand with lift and tilt functionality is designed to support different sizes of all-in-one/display system heads. It enables the tilt and lift functions to be automatically adjusted during assembly, without requiring any tools. This makes it easy to assemble the stand with the system head and ensures that the lift and tilt functions work seamlessly together.

In-Pocket Tap On Paired Device As Input To Augmented Reality Glasses, Emily Mount, Bjorn Vlaskamp

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While augmented reality glasses can detect input provided via a handheld controller, via hand gestures, via voice, etc., such input can be infeasible in certain contexts due to physical limitations or social convention. Some AR glasses are paired to a second device that provides computing and/or other resources. This disclosure describes the use of connected electronic devices that are typically available to a user, e.g., a smartphone, an earbud case, or earbuds with tap sensitivity, to provide input to AR glasses. By utilizing input mechanisms on such devices, the user can perform operations such as rotation of body-locked AR content …

Aluminum Direct Chill Casting Mold Metal Shutoff Methods, John Robert Buster Mccallum, Jonathan Quisenberry, Aaron David Sinden, Cameron J. Koentopp, Matthew Walsh

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The systems and methods described herein may prevent mold damage, which would otherwise result in significant down time and costly repairs or replacement.

Transparent Tunable Optical Elements With Structurally-Modified Electroactive Polymer

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An optical element may include a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and a structurally-modified and transparent electroactive polymer disposed between and abutting the primary electrode and the secondary electrode. An optical device may include a tunable lens and an optical element disposed over at least one surface of the tunable lens. Various other articles, devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Inclined Metal Transition On Si Platform For High Bandwidth Wire Bonds, Anonymous

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The present disclosure relates to silicon photonics and specifically an inclined metal transition on a Si platform for high bandwidth wire bonds. This includes a combination of metal traces on inclined cavity walls with a chip dicing plane going through the cavity. Also, this includes layer(s) of dielectric material(s) below the metal lines on the cavity wall and bottom to improve radio frequency (RF) performances, ensuring the transmission lines sit on a material with a low dielectric constant and dissipation factor, thereby reducing conductor and dielectric loss to improve performance. Further, there is thin cavity floor thickness to minimize the …

Improved Federated Learning For Handling Long-Tail Words, Yuxin Ding, Yonghui Xiao, Rajiv Mathews, Mingqing Chen, Lillian Zhou

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) machine learning models are deployed on client devices that include speech interfaces. ASR models can benefit from continuous learning and adaptation to large-scale changes, e.g., as new words are added to the vocabulary. While federated learning can be utilized to enable continuous learning for ASR models in a privacy preserving manner, the trained model can perform poorly on rarely occurring, long-tail words if the distribution of data used to train the model is skewed and does not adequately represent long-tail words. This disclosure describes federated learning techniques to improve ASR model quality when interpreting long-tail words …

High-Accuracy Molding To Expose Wires For System-In-Packages Or Modules, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.

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In the field of semiconductor packaging, wire-shifting may occur during the molding process of manufacturing TMV (Through Mold Via) formed by wire bonding technology. The wire-shifting will cause deviations of the external electrical connection ends of the wires. This disclosure describes a high-accuracy molding method. More specifically, the method uses a restriction structure at the mold chase for the molding process, so as to control the wire-shifting. Further, the restriction structure also has a guiding effect on the wires, and therefore improving the success rate of the manufacturing because the wires are accommodated in the restriction structure.

Generic Client Data Query Framework

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Methods, systems, and storage media for performing generic client data queries are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive an informational query to a server; generate query instructions; parse the query instructions to generate a node structure comprising a plurality of nodes; generate a plurality of resolvers to acquire node data associated with each node of the plurality of nodes; send a request to a client device for the node data associated with the plurality of nodes; receive the node data from at least one client device; apply the node data to the plurality of resolvers; and based on applying the node …

Teacher Prompting For Federated Hotword Training, Liam Fowl, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Cheng-Chieh Peng, Justin Chen, Kurt Partridge, Neng Chen

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Federated hotword training enables developing high quality models on real-world user data that is kept entirely on-device. However, such training relies on existing teacher models which limits the quality of the synthetic labels provided to the student model during federated training. This disclosure describes techniques that use a feature-wise linear modulation method to incorporate utterance-level label prompt as an input for federated hotword training by modulating intermediate layer output. Such a model, when trained on central data, can be used as a teacher for federated training that takes place on user devices. The feature-wise modulation layer has the ability to …

Video Frame Fingerprint Matching For Precise Detection Of Show Start And End Times, Jason Kimball

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Information regarding the precise start and end of a television show is critical for supporting user journeys based on shows beginning or ending, such as tuning in precisely when a show begins, time-shifting the broadcast for later viewing, etc. However, the accuracy of broadcast TV schedules is limited. Scheduling metadata are neither consistently available nor accurate. This disclosure describes techniques to detect precise start and end times of a TV show by comparing fingerprints of video frames when it airs across different channels. Video chunks retrieved from a content directory are converted into a series of video frames and fingerprinted. …

Improved Process For The Preparation Of Everolimus, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Revu Satyanarayana, Siddireddygari Maheshwar Reddy

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Abstract:

Improved process for the preparation of Everolimus of formula-1, which is represented by the following structural formula:

Automated Smart Meeting Scheduling, Mohsin Alam, Sneha Singhi

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Scheduling meetings requires hosts to manually check invitee calendars to find available time slots. Further, it requires invitees to manually accept invites or reject/propose new times. Meeting scheduling currently does not take into account historical user behavior or user preferences that may not be explicitly indicated. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to automate and simplify meeting scheduling. The techniques are implemented with specific user permission to access the user’s calendar and other data. User data are accessed specifically for the purposes of meeting scheduling and in accordance with user preferences. Trained machine learning models can automatically …

Configuration-Driven Logging Deprecation Without Software Updates, Ashok Chandwaney, Branden Archer, Dan Hastings, Betty Liu

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Software that executes on client devices may generate log files that can be utilized for troubleshooting and debugging purposes. When generation of certain log data is no longer useful, logging is disabled. However, disabling logging requires the pushing of a binary update to client devices. In situations where some fraction of client devices does not receive updates, such unwanted logging continues, which is wasteful of device resources. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically disable logging on client devices without a binary update. The binary on a client device is configured to automatically stop logging after a certain date unless a …

Capture Shortcuts For Smart Glasses Using Electromyography, Meta, Inc.

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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 …

Rsw Hot Cracking Mitigation Process In The Joining Of Aluminum Sheets, Dechao Lin, Dewei Zhu

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In the existing technology, during RSW cooling, the plastic deformation zone will not return back to its original position, but the weld metal shrinkage requires more metals, therefore a tensile stress creates that could end up with a hot cracking. New in this idea: 1) An auxiliary heating ring around the electrode is added to provide assistance that the weld metal under electrode requires; 2) In the RSW heating, metal expansion at HAZ zone will generate a minimized or nonplastic deformation zone; and 3) In the metal cooling, metal under elastic deformation condition could return back to its original position …

Improved Process For The Preparation Of Everolimus, Pandu Pasupunuri

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Abstract:

Improved process for the preparation of Everolimus of formula-1, which is represented by the following structural formula:

Electrode Cap With Electrical Insulator And Related Methods, Patrick Lester, Dechao Lin, Louis Nazro, Zhuoru Wu, Dewei Zhu

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A resistance spot welding system includes an electrode with a cap that includes a tip having an outer surface that defines a pocket, and an electrical insulator positioned within the pocket. A method of manufacturing the electrode includes forming a pocket in the outer surface of the tip of the electrode cap, and positioning the electrical insulator within the pocket. A method of resistance spot welding includes positioning a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet between two electrodes where at least one of the two electrodes includes the cap with the electrical insulator. A weld nugget joining a …

Double Cavity Cooling By Single Fan - Id-06318, Paolo Markovina

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The invention disclosures the method for use of a single cooling fan to cool down the cavities of a double cavity oven assembly, where one cavity has electronic temperature control, and the other one has the electromechanical cavity temperature control. The cooling fan has a constant rotation speed characteristic and could operate in ON/OFF regime only.

Generating Optimal One-To-Many Employee-Proposal Matches For Rotational Onboarding, Kareem Halabi

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Rotational onboarding involves matching multiple employees looking to switch teams with multiple teams looking to add team members with specific skills and experience. Computational approaches that provide optimal one-to-one employee-team pairs cannot easily match each employee with several varied teams while load balancing the distribution across teams. This disclosure describes techniques to map a rotational onboarding pool of employees and team proposals as a network structure that enables the application of the Min Cost Network Flow algorithm to generate optimally varied one-to-many matches balanced across teams. When mapping the rotational onboarding task in the form of a network structure, the …