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Improving Location Accuracy Using Multiple Gps-Capable Devices Carried By A User, D Shin

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Location determination using the global positioning system (GPS) can suffer from signal quality issues caused by multipath effects or signal fading, as well as device-specific GPS-signal integration techniques. Accurate location determination is important for many user tasks. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to automatically obtain accurate location based on the most accurate location measure among all available devices by using the device(s) with the least noisy GPS signal. Unsupervised clustering of data from device motion sensors can be employed to determine the available devices. Impulse characterization can be used to measure the quality of the location signal by …

Lifecycle Management And Security Of On-Device Machine Learning Models, Hari Bhaskar S

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Endpoint management solutions cannot be utilized to manage on-device machine learning models. This disclosure describes techniques to integrate the best-in-class capabilities of cloud ML model management and endpoint management to enable lifecycle management and security of on-device ML model deployments. Endpoint management solutions as described herein include the capability to manage on-device models, e.g., to perform tasks such as model tracking, upgrade, and wipe out compliance. The described techniques, which can be implemented as part of an endpoint management solution, use a model catalog to track device deployments for a given machine learning model. When a model upgrade is available, …

Moving/Rotating Antennas For Wireless Access Points, Alessandro Erta, Pascal Thubert, Domenico Ficara, Carmine Benedetto, Luca Bisti, Arun G Khanna, Sudhir K Jain, Kasi R Nalamalapu, Stefano Ferrari, Salvatore Valenza, Vincent Cuissard, Loris Gazzarrini

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Conventionally, the position and orientation of antennas for wireless access points depends on the position in which a wireless access point is oriented during installation and typically does not change unless the positioning of the wireless access point is changed. Thus, wireless antenna position/orientation typically remains static once an access point is installed. Techniques proposed herein introduce a sensor fusion approach for controlling the direction/orientation of wireless access point antennas in order to improve wireless communications for wireless networks.

Determining Wait Time For Return Of Missed Call, Ray Fallon, Keith Griffin

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Techniques are presented herein that help a calling party understand how long they should expect to wait, following a missed telephone call to a called party, to receive a return call from the called party. In support of that functionality, the presented techniques may learn about a called party’s behaviors (through, for example, entries in their electronic calendar, entries in a to-do list, etc. and their calling patterns) and create (e.g., reminder) entries in a called party’s calendar. A first aspect of the presented techniques encompasses determining an amount of time that should be allowed for a call between a …

Techniques To Incorporate Network Failure Events In Impact Analysis And Criticality Assessment Modelling, Priyanka Bansal, Madhuri C, Sakshi Puri, Neha Nigam

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Criticality assessment is a process that typically involves assigning assets with a criticality rating based on the effects of asset failure on a system and/or operation of the system as a whole. Presented herein are techniques that provide for the ability to incorporate network failure events in impact analysis and criticality assessment processes utilizing a five-dimensional formula, referred to herein as an Aggregated Risk Priority Number (ARPN), which can be derived using various parameters representing the severity of a network failure, the probability of occurrence of the network failure, the probability of detection of the network failure, the time of …

Zone Selection Depending On Pot Detection On 1 Slider/+- Hui_Id-06248, Paolo Markovina

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The invention discloses a method for the induction cooktop heating zone automatic preselection step for the cooking function (heating), based on the cookware placement detection on the defined cooking zone.

Based on the induction cooktop cooking zones configuration forms, the solution comprises the application of one low power induction sensory pulse system, could detect the cookware replacement time on the determinate cooking zone and cookware presence over the each cooking zone area, enabling by this the cooking zone automatic preselection for the cooking process, after while the same zone become available for the heating power level setting by HUI interface …

Low Latency And Energy-Efficient Hotword Detection Based On Mouth Movement, D Shin

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Devices that provide virtual assistants that respond to spoken queries monitor the user’s speech to detect a hotword to trigger the virtual assistant application. However, hotword detection requires some components of the device to be always on which make such devices power hungry. Always-on microphones are a problem especially for small devices such as hearables that have a small battery. This disclosure describes techniques that gate hotword detection with a lightweight neural network that estimates mouth motion signatures using signals from a low-power, always-on inertial measurement unit (IMU). Because the IMU has lower bandwidth than microphones, signals generated by the …

Use Of Data From Physiological Sensors For Automatic Labeling Of User Sentiment, N/A

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Mobile devices and wearable computers can detect a variety of events to automatically trigger actions. However, it is hard to determine the level of user satisfaction with such automatically triggered actions. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to determine a user’s reaction to automatically triggered actions. Upon the execution of an automatically triggered action, sensors on a wearable device are utilized to measure physiological parameters such as changes in heart rate, blood oxygen concentration, blood pressure, etc., and/or mechanical movements. Physiological and movement data are used to automatically generate ground-truth labels for a triggered action based on the …

On Device Security Agent To Mitigate Inference Attacks On Machine Learning Models, Hari Bhaskar S

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The advent of on-device machine learning allows developers to deploy models on end-user devices. A trained machine learning model can be a representation of the dataset used to train the model and may carry knowledge of decision making based on training. Malicious actors can perform inference attacks to exploit open-ended, unprotected on-device machine learning models, e.g., by taking the device offline to block information from being sent to the cloud and sending several inference requests to extract the patterns of data and/or training of the machine-learning model. This disclosure describes an on-device security agent that monitors the patterns of inference …

A Temporary Card Lending System And A Method Thereof, Reshu Pratap Ms

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Present disclosure discloses a temporary card lending system (104) and a method thereof. The temporary card lending system may receive a request for issuing the temporary card and thereafter, the temporary card lending system may send an evaluation request for evaluating user details to bank A (106). Bank A (106) may evaluate the user details based on one or more parameters using one or more evaluation techniques and may send an evaluation report which includes an evaluation score to the temporary card lending system. Thereafter the temporary card lending system may send a card issuance request and the evaluation report …

Personalized Spatial Advertising In Augmented Reality (Ar), Kathleen Bryan, Shiblee Hasan

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Augmented reality technologies can augment physical artifacts with interactive digital capabilities, accessible via various user devices. This disclosure describes techniques that enable personalized advertising based on interactive AR experiences. With user permission, a spatial element is added to personalized advertising by connecting it with the physical spaces or products involved in AR interactions. The content of the advertisement can be personalized to relevant aspects of the user’s characteristics and context, determined based on user-permitted data. Personalization can be achieved by associating physical objects and users with spatial anchors that capture relevant parameters of AR interactions. The personalized AR experience of …

A Virtual World For Troubleshooting Distributed Systems, Sundarrajan Raman

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An observerse is proposed, to provide users of cloud-based distributed systems with tools for streamlined debugging and root cause analysis. The observerse serves as an observability platform, incorporating aspects of virtual reality technology to help users efficiently navigate the system to resolve operational issues.

Slider Switch With Superior Liquid Ingress Protection, Emeka Ugwu, Eric Bokides

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This disclosure describes an effective slider switch mechanism that enables devices, e.g., smart glasses, to meet stringent liquid ingress requirements. The slider switch as described herein includes a mechanism that translates the linear motion of an external slider knob into rotational motion of a switch provided on an internal side of the device. A rotational seal such as a sealing O-ring is utilized to seal off the internals and provide liquid ingress protection. The described slider switch mechanism can provide unambiguous feedback to the user while providing liquid ingress protection.

Using Code Review Repositories And Changelists To Train Large Language Models For Code Generation, Joseph Johnson Jr, Shiblee Hasan, Emmanouil Koukoumidis

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While large language models (LLMs) can generate code, training of such models has not made use of data generated during the collaborative code review process that is a standard part of software development. This disclosure describes techniques that utilize historical code review data (including reviewer comments and corresponding code edits) available within organization internal code repositories to train LLMs to generate code. The historical code review data can be used for model tuning, to train an LLM via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and/or via prompt engineering. The trained model can be utilized to generate code starting from code …

Head-Mounted Displays With Integrated Cameras To Capture 360-Degree Video, Ajit Narayanan

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Capturing videos in 360 degrees currently requires use of a standalone 360-degree camera. Playback of such videos in 360 degrees requires a separate head-mounted device (HMD). In many 360-degree videos, the person controlling the camera is unintentionally visible, distracting the viewer. This disclosure describes techniques to overcome these barriers by equipping HMDs with the capability to capture 360-degree video cameras via multiple cameras positioned on the front, sides, and back of the HMD. Multiple, aligned videos are obtained by capturing images from the various cameras in the form of a video stream and aligned to provide a 360-degree video. Unintentionally …

Splitting And Authorising Card Payments Across Multiple Users Online Via A Single Payment Token, Samuel Oliver

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The present disclosure relates to a method for splitting and authorizing payments online using tokens. The present disclosure demonstrates how a token based on card or payment account reference of a cardholder can be used to trigger payments from multiple accounts to split the total transaction cost based on a set of pre-determined rules. The method allows users to link multiple payment accounts to a single lead token, which in turn can be used to make payments from said accounts according to a set of rules. Generating a single lead token, allows this payment splitting method to be used at …

Stirrer With Wireless Communication - Id-05920, Paolo Markovina

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The invention disclosure the application of a multisensory solution, for the food temperature and stirring speed active monitoring and communication with induction heating cooktop appliance, by the wireless manner, in order to adjust the food heating power and stirring speed, according to the preloaded values, enabling the concept of the assisted cooking process.

Glass Ceramic Replacement With Htr Polymer - Id-06124, Paolo Markovina

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The invention relates to a replacement of glass-ceramic plate of induction cooking hob with a high temperature resistance polymer plate. By this solution, integration of more different sensors could be enabled and by this the assisted cooking process would be possible to apply at the induction heating cooking hob. Moreover, the glass ceramic substitution by the HTR polymer plate would eliminate of glass ceramic braking process during the hob appliance transport, installation and use phases.

Reading Comprehension Assessment Using Llm-Based Chatbot, Alan Wong, Vincent Lacey, Chaitanya Gharpure, Rebecca Hao, Priya Venkatraman, Gal Elidan, Roee Engelberg, Lidan Hackmon, Roni Rabin, Michael Fink, Paxon Yu, Tiffany Yang, Vitaliy Dikker, Adva Levin

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Users who are learning to read or learning about a topic by viewing content on a device can benefit from conversational activities, such as question-answer turns for the viewed content. This disclosure describes techniques to perform natural language assessments of content that is being consumed on a user device. A chatbot is implemented using suitable technology, such as a large language model. With user permission, the model is used to generate questions that evaluate the user’s understanding of the content viewed. User provided answers are evaluated and suitable responses are provided to the user. The techniques enable automated assessment and …

Application-Aware Delivery Of Multicast Traffic, Mankamana Prasad Mishra, Nitin Kumar, Rajiv Asati, Cullen Jennings, Giles Douglas Yorke Heron

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Techniques are presented herein that support application layer replication to optimally deliver multicast traffic over either the public Internet or a service provider network. The presented techniques encompass extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-based signaling mechanisms that may be employed to notify network devices (such as endpoints) of the presence of an application-aware multicast capability. The presented techniques further encompass a replicator component that a controller may dynamically launch and program. Multicast traffic, that would normally travel along a conventional delivery path, may then take a unicast path to such a replicator at which point replication may be performed more …

High Power Balanced Amplifier Combiner, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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This paper proposes changing the Lange from a 50ohm impedance to a 25 ohm impedance. Changing the Lange from 50 ohms to 25ohms and adding a 25ohm to 50 ohm Trifilar transformer on the output will allow for much higher power balanced amplifiers on thin substates like 50um GaN. The topology could also be used on other substrate materials like Alumina to make the trace widths larger so that you can work at higher frequency and power levels.

Partially Transparent Armrest Or Center Console With Coupling Box For A Cell Phone, Axel Unger

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Run-In Geometry Of Brushes For Slip Ring Transfer Systems, Axel Unger

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Safety System For Adjusting Windscreen Wiper Functionality In Case Of Icing Risk Due To Wiper Water, Axel Unger

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Technical Possibility Of Switch-On Delay Of An Electrostatic Precipitator In The Air Conditioning System Of A Vehicle, Axel Unger

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Multi-Material Reinforcement Bars On Display Backplates To Improve Stability, Guillermo Díaz Lankenau, Antonio Layón

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Existing computer monitors do not provide sufficient thermo-mechanical and geometric stability required for hyper-realistic telepresence. This disclosure describes techniques to achieve nearly zero deformation through the thermal cycle of a display by adding reinforcements to the interior of the display backplate. The reinforcements are made of a material such as carbon fiber that has a coefficient of thermal expansion much lower than that of the metal backplate. To reduce stored elastic energy induced by thermal stress, reinforcements are attached to the display backplate at their ends. The reinforcements span areas of symmetric distortion on the display, such that sections of …

Managing Devices In A Device Ecosystem By Detecting Eye Gaze, Gestures, And User Medical Diagnostics, Ramprasad Sedouram

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A network of interconnected user devices and peripherals is used together in such a way that eye tracking, gestures, and medical diagnostics detected by one or more devices in the device ecosystem are used to control, manage, and interact with other devices in the ecosystem.

Telemetry To Securely Track The Extended Life Of A Personal Computer System By Measuring Csme Health And Psr Data Integrity Counters Records, Hp Inc

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Current chipsets of notebooks and laptops do not have the capability to track refurbishment or remanufacturing status of the notebook under the operating system, i.e., at the silicon chip layer. PC manufacturers can design a notebook PC to be refurbished and/or remanufactured to extend the life the PC and/or resell the PC as a second life device (or with follow-on refurbishment services, as a 3^rd, 4^th, etc. life device) with specific tracking information to determine if and when the PC had been refurbished, if any incidents have occurred to the PC, and to track if any …

Modular Data Center With Rack Elements That Provide Structural Support, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques for time-efficient and cost-effective construction of data center buildings. Per techniques of this disclosure, the server hall rack infrastructure that houses data center equipment is additionally utilized as structural support for the data center building itself. Columns of hot aisle containment (HAC) rows extend from the building foundation to the ceiling. The HAC rows house the data center equipment while columns of the HAC rows provide structural support to the data center building roof. Optionally, the lower rackstop can be extended and an upper rackstop provided for additional functionality. Air handling units (AHUs) can be attached …

A Method And A Device For Performing A Transaction Using Digital Payement Card Linked With A Sim Card, Alok Roy

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The present disclosure relates to a method and device for linking digital payment card with a SIM card. Initially, a user 101 may request an issuer bank for issuing a payment card. Further, the user may receive a digital payment card from the issuer bank 103. The issuer bank 103 may transmit the digital payment card to the user only upon successful authorization of the user. Thereafter, the user may register the digital payment card with the existing SIM card 105 of the user’s mobile device 109 using an application installed within the user device associated with the user 101. …