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Resource-Centric And Context Aware Enhanced Metric Collection For Enriched Application Performance Visibility, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Dave Zacks, Akram Sheriff, Rajesh I. V

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In many cloud computing environments, cloud-native applications can be decoupled from the underlying hardware that operates such applications. Presented herein are techniques through which capabilities and metrics collected from a virtual/physical compute resource can be used to identify the presence of different accelerators and their capabilities in real time. The metrics that can be collected from within an application can be extended to include execution context awareness, which may be used to suggest a resource profile for the application. Further, holistic visualization of various metrics can be provided in some instances based on the accelerator from where a service is …

Revisiting Localized 3d Photographs Using Augmented Reality, Kathleen Alexandra Bryan, Shiblee Hasan

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This disclosure describes techniques that couple panoptic reconstruction with image localization and tracking to enable users to revisit their photographs in three-dimensional augmented reality at any time after the photo is taken. A user that takes a two-dimensional photo of some scenery, e.g., a city skyline, and then, years later, revisits the spot where the photo was taken is offered a user interface, e.g., a virtual slider in the field-of-view to see a before and after comparison of how the scenery has changed since the user’s last visit. Based on location similarity, the current view is matched, and the user …

Personalizing Audio Content Played While On Hold During A Phone Call, Joseph Johnson Jr, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shiblee Hasan

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Calls made to a business by a customer, e.g., to request support, are often put into a queue waiting for a human agent to be available. During the hold time, canned music or other audio is played back to the caller. Such audio is low quality owing to the limited capacity of the telephony channel, is not personalized, and repeated multiple times till an agent becomes available, providing an unsatisfactory calling experience. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to detect canned audio and replace it with high fidelity music or other content. With user permission, the replacement …

Business Location Evaluation For Advertising Partnerships, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen

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Businesses benefit from being able to arrive at an accurate valuation for the locations they own/ operate for the purposes of advertising. Such valuation can be based on the amount and composition of the traffic passing through that location. This disclosure describes techniques to construct an index for a business location by using relevant customer, geographical, and shopping data to help businesses arrive at an accurate value for the location for advertising purposes. Businesses can offer advertising at their location and choose from available locations to locate their advertisements. A marketplace for physical advertising can also be established using the …

Quantify Peer-To-Peer (P2p) Payment Trust, Justin Marciano

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The present disclosure provides a method and system which enables P2P payment application interfaces to access data required to calculate a social accountability metric comprising a trust score indicative of good payment behavior or bad payment behavior of users using the P2P applications. Depending on the score calculated, the trust level will be assigned as “Very Low,” “Low,” “Medium,” “High,” or “Very High” for the P2P payment account of the users. This score incentivizes users to use the P2P apps more frequently and encourages good payment behavior while allowing people to make their own decisions.

Process For The Preparation Of Amorphous Form Of Risdiplam, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sajja Eswaraiah; Vijayavitthal T. Mathad; Saladi Venkata Narasayya; Kammari Balraju; Ismail; Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Hyderabad And India

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The present application relates to a process for the preparation of an amorphous of 7-(4,7-diazaspiro[2.5]octan-7-yl)-2-(2,8-dimethylimidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-6-yl)pyrido-4H-[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-one formula-1. Structure of formula-1 is shown as follows:

Formula-1.

Compressing Presentation-Dominated Video Files, Ankur Goel

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A technique is proposed for efficiently compressing presentation-dominated video files. Processing logic may receive, from a video conferencing platform, a video file including multiple frames and audio. The processing logic further may identify multiple presentation slides associated with the video file. In some instances, to identify the multiple presentation slides, the processing logic may receive the presentation slides from one of the video conferencing platform or a user of the video conferencing platform (e.g., via a client device). The processing logic may further generate a mapping of each of the multiple presentation slides to one or more of the multiple …

Using Epbf To Support Data Plane Observability With Traffic Mirroring, Xueqiang (Sherman) Ma, Kalyan K. Ghosh

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Techniques are presented herein that support a method for using the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) to perform data plane traffic mirroring at an eXpress Data Path (XDP) level to provide data plane traffic observability. The presented techniques, which may be referred to herein as XeS, encompass an XeS agent component at a user level as well as an XeS server (i.e., an eBPF bytecode program) at a kernel level. The components may communicate through shared S-Map and F-Map tables. The presented techniques process Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) source traffic efficiently at the XDP level immediately after packets arrive at …

Wlc/Ap Function Orchestrator, Jerome Henry, Robert Barton, Indermeet Gandhi

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Dynamically positioning orchestration functions, which operate at the scale of a few Access Points (APs), to a cluster of APs maintains efficiency of operations as the number of functions and clusters increases. Especially in contrast to a deployment model in which all functions either operate at an individual AP or operate on the Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) Controller (WLC), positioning functions in limited clusters of APs optimizes compute load/time and message travel time between participants. This distributed type of structure becomes more effective as a WLC is pushed toward a cloud network deployment, where travel delay and scale may …

Intelligent Intent-Recommender In Intent-Based Networking (Ibn) Using Unknown Traffic Identification, Claire Y. Chour, Doosan Jung, Qihong Shao, Dave Zacks

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An intent recommendation system for an Intent-Based Networking (IBN) system classifies unknown traffic in a network environment using machine learning. The intent recommendation system provides a network administrator with full visibility of their network traffic so they can properly define their intent for network traffic flows within a traditional IBN model. Based on the categorization of unknown network traffic the intent recommendation system provides recommendations for how the network administrator should define their intents for each unknown network flow. The network administrator may choose whether or not to follow the intent recommendation for each unknown network traffic flow. A feedback …

Preventing Data Leaks From Application Screen-Sharing, Dave Zacks, Tim Szigeti, Ted Hulick, Carlos M. Pignataro, Stefano Giorcelli

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According to a recent and comprehensive analysis of information security breaches, 23% of attacks are attributable to internal instances. Presented herein are techniques for protecting businesses against the sharing of confidential information within applications with unauthorized meeting participants. In particular, techniques presented herein restrict screen sharing of confidential information by preventing confidential content from being displayed on an unauthorized user’s endpoint device during a collaboration session.

Automated Techniques To Identify Most Relevant Duplicates For Bug Deduplication, Aman Singh, Vidhi Gupta, Richa Gupta, Vineet Jain, Subham Mishra, Babu Prasad Elumalai

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During bug deduplication, selecting top bugs based on scores from a binary classification model does not work well if the model tends to return lower scores. Further, the selected top candidate bugs are not ranked based on relevance, which means that there is no mechanism to mark a bug as a duplicate without verifying each candidate. This disclosure describes automated techniques to identify ancestor bugs for a newly reported bug, to retrieve the top candidates for duplicate bugs, and rank the candidates based on a scoring function. The techniques are robust to pairwise matches between a newly reported bug and …

Adaptive Personalized Navigation Guidance Based On Co-Presence Detection, Matthew Sharifi

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Navigation guidance provided via digital map applications and/or in-car infotainment systems includes turn-by-turn instructions. Personalization of such instructions, e.g., based on a user’s places visited or routes taken, can make navigation easier and more natural. However, if there is a co-passenger in the vehicle when personalized navigation guidance is provided, it may inadvertently reveal information about places that a user has visited. Per techniques described in this disclosure, co-presence information is detected based on various factors such as determining whether additional devices that do not belong to the user are present, based on ambient sound detection, based on in-vehicle sensors …

Naming Shared Links From Message Content, Liy Opor

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Sometimes users in chat services post links to documents or wiki pages. These links may direct to a source that members of the chat team are authorized to access, but that the chat service is not, itself, authorized to access. Therefore, the chat service may not be able to load the shared document or web page in order to obtain a readable title for displaying in place of a potentially cryptic link URL. As a result, many links posted to a chat team may be displayed as mere URLs, which are difficult to distinguishable from each other. Even worse, some …

Inserts With Soft Structures And Pur Flooding, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Intelligent Ground Clearance Information System, Axel Unger

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Packaging Concept For Alternating Combo Sizes - Id-06237, Paolo Markovina

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The invention relates to a packaging solution for a kitchen hob appliance. The packaging solution comprises a semi-rigid cavity configuration, done in EPS, which has a symmetric “negative” enclosure form of appliance configuration, touching the structure of the same by a suitable number of bumpers (ribs), characterized by a different rate of elastic contact with the appliance.

Secure And Private Access To Machine Learning Models Via Cloud-Based Execution Platform, Jérôme Glisse

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Machine learning (ML) models for various purposes may be made available via cloud-based execution platforms. The data owner, the model provider, and the execution platform where a model is deployed may be different entities. In this configuration, it is necessary to establish trust between the model provider, the execution platform, and the user to enable secure and private use of machine learning models. This disclosure describes an execution platform that can be verified and authenticated by a data owner as a model provider using techniques such as confidential computing and/or trusted execution environment. The execution platform enables the model provider …

Automatically Re-Enabling Eye Gaze Share, Alan Gatzke, Ty Thorsen

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In a remote collaboration session in which participants are not in the same room, participants may wear three dimensional (3D) headsets and share their eye gazes with other participants. Participants may briefly mute audio and stop sharing their eye gaze. Currently, when a participant wants to unmute audio and resume sharing their eye gaze, the participant must select two separate buttons – one to unmute audio and one to reshare their eye gaze. Techniques described herein provide for automatically re-enabling eye gaze sharing when unmuting the audio if eye gaze share had previously been selected.

Aided Remote Rendering In A 5g-As-A-Service Mobile Network Environment, Vimal Srivastava, Sri Gundavelli

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)-based mobile applications are becoming increasingly computation-intensive, memory-consuming, and power-consuming. In addition, end devices usually have stringent energy consumption, compute, and memory limitations for running a complete offline AI/ML inference on-board. Many AI/ML applications currently offload inference processing from mobile devices to internet data centers (IDC). Techniques presented herein provide for discovering the closest offload server so that UE can offload some of the rending work to the offload server.

Offload Server Selection Based On User Equipment Route Selection Policy, Sri Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli

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Many applications offload inference processing from the mobile devices running the applications to Internet datacenters. By using a side link to realize proximity-based work task offloading, the data rate on the Uu interface does not need to be increased while the original device’s computation load is offloaded. This leads to battery savings in the device. Techniques described herein outline efficient ways for a device to discover an offload server for offloading processing.

Optimizing Route Leak From Evpn To Ip-Vpn For Single Active Use Cases, Mankamana Mishra, Jiri Chaloupka, Sameer Gulrajani, Nitin Kumar

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Optimizing the process by which host routes are leaked to an Internet Protocol (IP) virtual private network (VPN) unicast is of singular importance in a large network environment. To address this type of challenge, techniques are presented herein that support a dynamic means for limiting the host advertisements in a network where hosts are announced only on an as-needed basis. In effect, aspects of the presented techniques optimize what is leaked and optimize the total number of routes in a spine.

Subscription-Based Routing To A Particular Core Network, Sri Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava

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Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards are currently studying use cases in which some network operators may use more than one Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) ID. In some instances, due to certain business and/or operational demands, for example, it might be necessary to route signaling traffic of a certain customer segment of one PLMN to another PLMN at which to handle subscriber traffic for the customer segment. Presented herein are techniques that can be utilized to facilitate redirecting a user to a partner network.

Techniques For Obtaining Indoor Location Map And Uniform Resource Identifier From An Access Network, Sri Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava, Tim Stammers

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Many times, when a user is in a building and not aware of layout of the building, it becomes very difficult for the user to know in which part of the building the user is currently standing. While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)/cellular systems offer various methods for determining the position of a wireless device of a user (often referred to as a user equipment (UE), the resulting positioning coordinates (e.g., Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates) are of not of much use to the user. Presented herein are techniques through which a UE can be provided a user-friendly visual indication …

Controller-Driven Event-Based Network Heat Map Visualisation, Praveen Kumar, Navdeep Sood

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Network controllers have available to them all manner of data from the different network elements and the various network links. Techniques are presented herein that leverage that data to support a new heat map concept. The presented techniques begin with the generation of node-level heat maps and services-level heat maps. Those artifacts may be employed to study the impact of a given failure on the nodes and the services that are present in a network. The presented techniques also support the development of a network-level heat map from those artifacts. The model that is supported by the presented techniques is …

A Kind Of Connection Method Used For A Food Sensor - Id-06222, Paolo Markovina

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The present invention relates to a method for reliable and quick connection and power supply of a cooking oven temperature probe cable in all heating and cooking thermal and humidity environmental conditions within the home appliance cooking oven cavity.

Place Diverter To Avoid Physical Damage During The Movement Of The Prs, Hp Inc

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Currently, the PageWide XL Pro family of printers feature a variable PRS architecture that allows adjusting the pen to paper distance with precision to meet image quality requirements. Such variable PRS is comprised by 4 motors that simultaneously operate to move the whole print zone up or down, as needed. In this disclosure, it is presented a safety mechanism that prevents users from accessing the print zone while the PRS is being adjusted, avoiding any potential physical damage that could be caused.

3d Printed Metal Structures For Thermoforming Molded Fiber Products, Hp Inc

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Using a 3D printed metal structure in the thermoforming process of molded fiber products makes the process more energy effective and less time-consuming. This disclosure relates to the field of thermoforming molded fiber products.

Quickpass For Tsa Security, Hp Inc

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Techniques for ensuring that a portable computer has not been tampered with can be adopted by TSA to improve screening point throughput for travelers who do not belong to a safe traveler program. This disclosure relates to the field of airline travel.

Slotted Side Guide For Cylinder Multi Positions, Hp Inc

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Using a simple mechanical slotted guide and side basic actuating element, enable us to produce more than 2 working positions from a standard cylinder. This patent intends to be implemented on the T1 nip mechanism, enable to get 3 working modes (open, close, intermediate) with the slotted side guide element.