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Stone Fiber Reinforced Mg Alloy Composite Enclosure, Hp Inc

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Stone fiber bonded in thermoplastic/thermosetting resin or organic/inorganic hybrid resin exhibits superior strength compared by normal abrasive stones. This invention is to apply high modulus stone fiber frame and/or antenna window with thixomolding Mg alloy and develop stone fiber reinforced Mg alloy composite enclosure by obtaining high mechanical strength, lightweight, and thin composite enclosure for laptop, tablet and smart phone applications.

Flexible Data Transmission Mechanism For Non-Structured Data Between Iot Devices And Cloud Solutions, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of data transmission between printers (or devices in general) and a server stored in the cloud. A transmission mechanism is disclosed that allows transmission of data and metadata from the machines in the field to the cloud. This transmission mechanism is scalable, as it allows adding more fields without changing the protocol. It is also allows changing the configuration of the device and enables to control the amount of data that is transferred and were has to be transferred, remotely adapting devices with limited resources to the real need of data to be ingested …

System And Method To Manage Mosfet Electrical Stress, Hp Inc

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A discrete MOSFET is usually placed at the input of the electrical based system (notebook, desktop, All in One PC…) and the MOSFET is designed to control inrush current and protecting power source/load during fault occurs. As the MOSFET is used as a pass element and is under an extremely stressful condition (especially from OFF state to ON state) so the major challenge to designer is how to ensure MOSFET is always operate within SoA (Safe Operating Area) without risk to damage under all possible conditions.

The invention proposes a system and method to manage MOSFET electrical stress. It proposes …

Using Acs (Adaptive Color Sensor) And Imu (Motion Sensor) As Lid Sensor Replacement, Hp Inc

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We have been working with our supplier to work on a POC with sensor aggregated vision AI computing to replace Hall sensor for lid closure detection with existing ACS and IMU as a cost saving solution. The target platform will be all clamshell notebooks with Hall sensors. This can save ~$0.3 per unit for all HP bNB, ~$3M annual saving in total. In addition, removing the hall sensor can help reducing the system weight and part complexity. Using ACS only can detect brightness change during lid closure. However, in the low light scenario, ACS may not be sufficient to differentiate …

Assisting Users In An Emergency Situation Using Geolocation Data And Sos Button, Anonymous

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The disclosure describes techniques to automatically determine the presence of an emergency situation such as a natural disaster (e.g., an earthquake, cycle, or other event) or man-made crisis (e.g., an accident or other event) using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. When an emergency situation is determined to be present in a location, users of a social media platform or other online service within a crisis radius of the location are identified based on geolocation data from user devices. The users are provided with an alert regarding the emergency situation and a SOS button or other mechanism that can be …

Assisted Ink Pump Self-Prime Using The Secondary Ink Pump For Recirculable Ink Delivery System, Hp Inc

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In some printers, during the start-up the IDS (Ink Delivery System) is purged by using a gas purger (instead of a printhead), fluidically connected to the fluid interconnect on the carriage, which allows to evacuate air or any other gas that may be present in the IDS. Typically, the gas in the IDS is purged through the gas purger in response to a fluid being pumped into the IDS by activating an ink pump. On some occasions, the ink pump is not able to self-prime, and it is required to manually self-priming the ink pump by using, for instance, a …

Synthetized Homotopy Based Privacy For Device Analytics, N/A

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Data analytics on mobile devices is important for improving user experience and developing better products and services. Device analytics need to be performed in compliance with regulations. A privacy compliance utility needs to establish univalence before and after privacy compliance to generate reliable and accurate data for device analytics. This disclosure provides a specification for a privacy utility based on synthetized homotopy that can be utilized by services that perform device analytics. The techniques described in this disclosure can also be used to enable privacy compliant content sharing with nearby devices. The techniques described in this disclosure can be utilized …

Automatic Pc System Protection Mechanism From Theft, Hp Inc

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To discourage burglars from stealing a PC system, we propose an automatic mechanism so that depends on the level of severity of the PC system been compromised, PC system features will gradually be disabled. When PC system chassis been opened, this mechanism will eventually lead to the destruct of motherboard. This mechanism should be able to decrease the incentive for burglars to steal PC system, since they might end up with a damaged and useless PC system.

Automatic Generation Of Silicon Dft Checkers Using Formal Assertion And Fault Injection, N/A

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Silicon failures interrupt production flow and the execution of workloads. Silicon failures can substantially reduce productivity, cause material waste, and increase the total cost of operation (TCO) wherever they occur, in particular in data centers that run customer workloads. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically create high coverage, low cost, deterministic, fault-detection silicon circuits to detect and debug silicon failures that occur in data centers while production workloads are executed. The techniques facilitate rapid root cause analysis and resolution.

Biometric Authentication For Payment Transactions, Manas Sharma, Pranutha Deep Vellanki

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The present disclosure relates to system and method of authenticating online payment transactions. The method includes receiving a payment transaction request from a mobile device 110. Upon receiving the payment transaction request, a digital payment system 120 transmits a request for user’s biometric data for performing biometric authentication. Upon receiving the user’s biometric data from the mobile device 110, the digital payment system 120 compares the received biometric data with the user’s biometric data stored in a memory. If the biometric data matches, the digital payment system 120 approves the transaction and a notification is sent to the mobile device. …

Enabling Desktop Switching During Screen Sharing Based On Cursor Movement, Deepesh Arora, Rajarshee Dhar, Ram Mohan R

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Existing screen sharing-related solutions primarily focus on the sharing of a single screen or desktop. For example, to share a screen a user typically has to select the screens that they wish to share every time they move to a different screen. This can break a collaboration flow if a user has multiple screens or desktops, and they keep moving across them during a screen sharing event. Techniques are presented herein that fill this gap by allowing a presenter to share their desktops based on the current location of their mouse. As the mouse moves from one desktop to another, …

Passport Immigration Control For Digital Citizens Travelling Between Metaverses, Ishita Maheshkumar Thanki, Amanda L Holst, Ana Montenegro, David Hanes, Sudha Katgeri

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In a metaverse, the online digital manifestation of a user is commonly referred to as a digital citizen. Such a digital citizen is most often represented by an avatar and its associated metadata. Currently, a digital citizen is isolated to their own metaverse and a new avatar and/or metadata must be created when the digital citizen wishes to enter a new metaverse. Techniques are presented herein that support a checkpoint for digital citizens that are traveling from one metaverse to another and that serve as a verification system on a centralized or distributed server. The presented passport immigration control framework …

Machine Learning Platform To Automatically Perform Patching Of Servers, Hemanth Thota, Saurabh Chandra, Rishu Mehrotra, Vinay Keerthi

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The present disclosure provides a machine learning platform to automatically perform patching of servers at internet scale. The present disclosure discloses a patching automation engine for initiating, tracking, and recording patching activities. Users provide patching workflows and validation rules for performing the patching, which is executed by the patching automation engine. Since the patching automation engine performs logistic activities, the users can keep on adding behavior and rules. This simplifies the diversity in software patching across organizations and supporting different behaviors based on requirements of the users. The system or the patching automation engine uses user-based workflows in a streamlined …

A Process For The Preparation Of Trazodone And Its Hydrochloride, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Gade Srinivas Reddy; Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center

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The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of Trazodone of formula-1 or its salts.

Formula-1.

The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of [1,2,4] triazolo[4,3-a]pyridin-3(2H)-one or it's salt of formula 4 by an eco-friendly process. The compound of formula 4 or its salt is a key intermediate for the preparation of Trazadone or Trazadone hydrochloride.

Power Saving Method For Pluggable Optical Transceivers, Dewen Xu, Fausto Vaninetti, Wayne Wang, Kehong Zhou, Jayaprakash Nallapalingu

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Today, when optical transceivers are plugged into ports of network equipment and a user administratively shuts down a specific port, the network equipment does not remove the power from the optical transceivers and, instead, only the laser is shut down. When the user shuts the individual port with optical transceiver, the power consumption of the optical transceiver will be marginally reduced, however significant power is still consumed. Techniques described herein provide for switching products that are always ready, not always on. Techniques described herein provide for ports that are always ready to be powered up but are powered down when …

Safety Patrol: Utilizing Technology To Improve Response Times In Emergency Event Situations, Tracy Caivano, David C. White Jr., Paul B Giralt

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Mass shootings have, tragically, been on the rise in recent years and, heartbreakingly, those incidents can and do take place on school grounds. Techniques are presented herein that support a Safety Patrol facility that accelerates emergency services response times and equips first responders with the critical information that is required to act quickly in an emergency situation. According to the presented techniques, after an emergency event (such as a gunshot, a fire alarm, etc.) is detected, a network may react to the notification of that event by automatically creating a new Wi-Fi service set identifier (SSID) named FirstResponders and generating …

Mold And Mildew Cleaner, Anonymous

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Formulations useful for cleaning grass, mold, and mildew stains off hard surfaces without bleach.

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Automatically Scraping Categorical Data From A Plurality Of Websites, Patrick Ryan Flanagan, Piers William Butler Clough

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Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for automatically scraping categorical data from a plurality of websites. These include: determining a product category; identifying a first website including data associated with the product category; automatically scraping the first website to compile first product data associated with the product category; generating a plurality of web queries based on the compiled first product data; executing the plurality of web queries to identify a plurality of websites; automatically scraping at least a portion of the plurality of websites to compile supplier data associated with suppliers in the product category; and storing at …

Similar Topics Routing For Calls On Contact Center, Xinna Liu, Jasna Jayaraj, Vaibhav Jagannath Desai, Saurabh Jain

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One issue with contact or call centers is long wait times. Proposed herein is a solution that seeks to tackle or decrease customer wait times when calling a call center by implementing a routing system based on a graph algorithm. This advanced routing system can help to ensure that customers are directed to the most suitable available agent. Moreover, the system may facilitate cost optimization by offering a user-friendly platform for training the existing agents on new topics.

Edge Relay Cascading To Facilitate Real Time Communications, Mauro Sardara, Michele Papalini

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For networking scenarios in which real time traffic is exchanged between multiple participants for a given network session (e.g., a conference, a gaming session, etc.), such traffic often flows from one participant to another by passing through a server, such as a cloud server, which can be expensive and can introduce latency for the traffic. Presented herein are techniques through which mesh edge nodes can be utilized to facilitate real time communications in a manner that allows for the ability to save cloud costs.

Indications For Signalling The Presence Of A Private 5g Network, Roberta Maglione, Gioacchino Castorio, Suresh Krishnan, Josh Halley, Neha Pradeep

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Private 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth-generation (5G), or Private 5G (P5G), networks are local networks or local area networks (LANs) that are built using 3GPP 5G wireless technology to carry traffic within a specified area, such as within an organization, on a campus, or within an industrial space. A growing number of enterprise and public sector companies are considering building their own P5G networks to address their need for clean spectrum, high bandwidth, low latency, higher availability, and increased visibility. With the introduction of P5G networks, there may be scenarios where both Wi-Fi and P5G networks are present in …

Reliable Interests In Information-Centric Networking, Michele Papalini, Mauro Sardara, Giulio Grassi, Luca Muscariello

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In an information-centric networking (ICN) environment, an interest may be dropped by a network for any number of reasons. However, if an interest is lost then the corresponding data cannot be received, thereby reducing the performance of a network. Techniques are presented herein that make ICN interests more resilient to potential losses by adding certain state information into an interest payload. That state information may be used to keep track of the previous interests that have been sent by a forwarder face for a specific name. To encode the sequence numbers of the interests that have been previously sent, a …

Generic Transaction Card, Palakh Shangle

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The present disclosure relates to a generic transaction card authorization method for approving a second user credit card transaction. The present disclosure suggests receiving a request from a first user via a first user device to a bank server for issuing a credit card through a parental control system, wherein the parental control system is used for setting and enforcing the restrictions on the credit card. The bank server processes the request and issues the card to the first user. Thereafter, the present disclosure suggests using, by a second user, the issued credit card for financial transactions at a merchant …

Nested Multi-Level Context Resolver, Marcelo Yannuzzi, Chiara Troiani, Jean Diaconu, Hervé Muyal

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Team members working on a project need to constantly pull, read, process, merge, and create information across different tools and applications when collaborating on the project. Team members face complex and time-consuming challenges to stay up to date and focus on the context that matters to them. Techniques described herein provide for automated extraction of the context that matters to each worker involved in an upcoming event (e.g., prior to a customer meeting, a sprint review, a project milestone review, etc.) by using a nested multi-level context extraction and resolution technique.

Luma/Chroma Component Wise Weighted Pixel Inter Prediction, Lin Zheng, Jingning Han, Jianle Chen, Debargha Mukherjee, Yaowu Xu

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After obtaining a prediction for a current block using inter-prediction, block adaptive local weighted prediction (BAWP) can be used to adjust the prediction based on luminance (i.e., brightness) and/or chroma (i.e., color) differences between the current block and its reference block therewith improving the prediction quality and reducing the differences, which in turn can reduce the prediction residuals that are encoded.

Techniques that reduce the signaling costs associated with signaling BAWP for the luminance and chrominance components are described.

Techniques To Facilitate Usb Electromechanical Bonding And Mechanical Holding, Jonathan Michael Cyphert, Fred J. Anderson, Daniel N Johnson

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Proposed herein is a spring-tab mechanism that can be provided for Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors that can provide an improved electrical bond between USB connectors/housings for previously designed products that are already in-use/deployed in commercial environments. The electrical bond that can be created via the spring-tab connectors proposed herein may create a stronger hold than standard USB connectors that are typically used in products, which can help to prevent accidental and/or undesired removal of a USB device when it is in-use.

Device For The Technical Adaptation Of A Vehicle To A Property And Correspondingly Opposite With Regard To Health, Axel Unger

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Automated Cloud-Based Accident Reconstruction Based On The Vehicle Environment Model, Axel Unger

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Enhanced Engagement And Productivity In Online Meeting With Intelligent Real-Time Content-Based Question Auto-Generator, Doosan Jung, Claire Y Chour, Qihong Shao

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The host of an online meeting may frequently wonder if the meeting attendees understand the message that they are trying to deliver. Additionally, an attendee of an online meeting may be confused by the content of a meeting or a webinar and need clarification. Techniques are presented herein that support a real-time, intelligent, content-based automatic question generator that enhances meeting engagement and productivity. The presented techniques can perform all of the capabilities of the current question generator tools but, most importantly, they can also automatically generate and rank relevant questions during a meeting based on the content of that meeting. …

Optimization Of Card Reissue Process For Expiry Date Change, Alok Roy

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The present disclosure relates to a technique for providing optimization of payment card reissue process to update an expiry date of the payment card. The technique recites generating a payment card for each of the payment card holders by using personal details of the payment card holder and account details of the payment card holder, and information of network provider for the payment card transaction. The technique involves providing the payment card to the issuer, where the payment card includes a month and a year in multiple of n. The technique involves monitoring the expiry date of the payment card …