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Lightweight Companion Application For Onboarding And Verification Of New Users For Receiving Digital Payments, Dillon Amadeo, Yohan Launay, Kiat Chuan Tan, Nizam Anuar

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Digital money transfers via payment platforms require that the sender and recipient of the money transfer both be users of the same platform. However, to access payment platform features, users need to install and configure an application on a user device, which some users may be unable or unwilling to do. This disclosure describes a lightweight solution for recipients not yet registered on a payment platform that provides a quick way to get onboarded and verified on the platform, link financial accounts, and receive incoming money transfers. Users who are onboarded via the lightweight solution can at a later time …

Automated Checks To Detect And Remove Locally Inappropriate Products From Marketplace Listing, Paras Mamgain

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Online marketplace platforms enable any interested seller to list, advertise, and sell their products to a broad audience of buyers. Detecting product listings that violate local laws or norms is difficult. The effectiveness of manual evaluation of product is slow, limited in scale and scope and constrained by the knowledge and experience of the individuals tasked with evaluating appropriateness. This disclosure describes techniques to automate the detection of online marketplace listings for products that can potentially violate regionality specific regulations or norms. A set of automated checks are performed to validate product information that third-party sellers provide to the marketplace …

Dynamically Responsive Search Result Weblinks, Diego Baron, Judy Mou, Andrew Silverman, Pavan Kuppili

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When a general purpose search engine is used to search dynamic databases, outlinks in the search results page simply point to the relevant databases, without specifying the filtering parameters entered as part of the search query. When the user clicks on a search result and is redirected to the target webpage, the user is forced to re-enter filtering parameters that were already provided as part of the search query. This disclosure describes dynamic search result outlinks where user-provided search parameters are used, with user permission, to automatically fill information in the web page pointed to by the outlink. This ensures …

Personalized Photographs And Signatures On 3d Printed Radiation Therapy Immobilizer, Hp Inc

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Radiation therapy immobilization devices are personalized medical devices used to accurately position a patient on a table while receiving treatments. Traditional thermoplastic masks are hand-shaped onto the patient's face by skilled technicians. The result is a cold, sterile tool reminiscent of a hockey mask from a horror movie—not exactly a source of calm during a traumatic procedure. 3D printers enable detailed color textures to be applied to the surfaces of custom-made RTIs. This idea proposes using 3D printing to imbue masks with positive personal effects. Family photos and hand-written messages can be digitally submitted from friends and relatives around the …

Techniques To Reduce The Risk Of Malicious Operations Being Performed During Remote Control Of Network Devices, Yi Ding, Humphrey Hanfeng Cai, Roman Volkov, Samantha Wang

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Remote logins to network devices, such as during remote support sessions, can potentially introduce the risk of harm to network devices through human errors that could be triggered by technical support personnel during such remote logins/support sessions. Presented herein are techniques that can be implemented to fundamentally reduce the risk of human error that may occur during remote control of network equipment.

Techniques To Reduce The Risk Of Malicious Operations Being Performed During Remote Control Of Network Devices, Yi Ding, Humphrey Hanfeng Cai, Geetu, Roman Volkov, Samantha Wang

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Remote logins to network devices, such as during remote support sessions, can potentially introduce the risk of harm to network devices through human errors that could be triggered by technical support personnel during such remote logins/support sessions. Presented herein are techniques that can be implemented to fundamentally reduce the risk of human error that may occur during remote control of network equipment.

Ensuring Billing Accuracy For Offline Charging In 5g Networks, Sanjeev Panem Jaya, Sachin Powar, Gaurav Saxena

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Ensuring Accounting accuracy is paramount in any mobile network. With the advent of Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specifications, beginning in 4G network implementations and extending to 5G network implementations, the erstwhile monolithic gateway has been split into two independent nodes, a control plane network function referred to as the Session Management (SMF) and a user plane network function referred to as the User Plane Function (UPF). This separation renders the UPF unaware of some of the events that have occurred at the SMF, which can result in billing inaccuracies. Proposed herein are …

Identifying Best Customers Using Linear Fitting, Hp Inc

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Linear fitting of customer-related metrics enables a business to determine who its best customers are. This disclosure relates to the field of sales and support data analysis.

Producing A Selective Priming Area In Lep Printing, Hp Inc

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A rubber band fixed on a foamed application roller of a press produces a primer-free lane at low cost. This disclosure relates to the field of printers.

Computer Vision Triggered By Voice - Id-05992, Paolo Markovina

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A kitchen appliance is described, which is configured for voice control and/or voice feedback. Further, a method for monitoring and/or controlling a cooking process via voice control and/or voice feedback is described. Also, a computer program is described.

Virtual Food Probe - Id-06008, Paolo Markovina

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The invention relates to an oven system and a method for operating the oven system. An oven system comprises a heating unit, a camera unit, a detection unit, and a control unit.

Method To Improve Triple/Multi Light Source-Single Receiver Scanner Resolution, Spectral Response, Speed & Versatility, Hp Inc

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One of the methods to implement color scanning yet using single receiver/sensor is to illuminate the sensor by red (R) light source, then by green (G) one, then by blue (B) one. Using this method effect longitudinal scanning resolution: it reduced by factor of 3.

This is not the case for monochrome scan: in this case single receiver/sensor illuminated by single light source (white or red or green or blue - or other color) - so there is no effect of resolution reduction.

However, in some cases color scanning is required, but still there are some areas where color scanning …

Floating Doctor Blade, Hp Inc

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A floating doctor blade holder supports multiple blades with improved air and fluid flow in a compact assembly. This disclosure relates to the field of printers. A technique is disclosed that enables multi blade configuration in a compact assembly that enables fluids to flow both over and under the blades.

Setting Open Regulator Position In Fsr Pen For Shipping With Sealed Nozzle Plate, Hp Inc

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Ink is expelled from the nozzles of an FSR pen with the FI pins plugged during the manufacturing process to prevent ink squirting after shipment when the FI plug is removed. This disclosure relates to the field of inkjet printheads.

Quick Take-Off Ar Device Headstrap, Hp Inc

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A two-part head strap for an AR device allows the user to conveniently put on and remove the device. This disclosure relates to the field of augmented reality.

Configuring And Auditing Vpc Network Traffic Using A Private Hyperledger Blockchain, Kishore Jagannath

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Organizations with cloud computing operations set up connectivity between their networks to facilitate secure, low cost communication. Such inter-organization connectivity opens up network boundaries to applications running in networks that belong to cross-border business units or organizations. Participating organizations require secure, tamper-proof audit trails of communications across network boundaries without relying on the cloud provider. This disclosure describes blockchain-based techniques to provide trust, immutability, and independent verifiability of audit logs of network traffic between organizations. A permission-based blockchain built using hyperledger fabric is provided to enable efficient audit of network communication between networks belonging to different parties or entities. A …

A Method For Mitigating Underfitting Issue In Time Series Model Using Regressors, Pengfei Li, Pei Yang, Shuo Wang, Zhuoyi Wang, Dan Wang

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The present disclosure focuses on mitigating underfitting issue in time series model using regressors. The present disclosure replaces the large parameter with a new structure. The new structure may include a few layers of smaller models. Specifically, the “smaller” model may be defined as the number of parameters for the model may be smaller but can handle all the features. Thus, each smaller model is trained with all the data points. The smaller models may generate intermediate predictions which may be fed as the input to the next smaller model present in the next layer. As a result, the DPP …

Dynamic Telemetry Profile Enforcement In A Controller Network, Rajesh I V, Vinay Saini, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Ram Mohan R

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Because telemetry processing can involve high resource usage, such processing is typically provided via a cloud infrastructure. However, there are drawbacks to current implementations involving such cloud infrastructure processing. For example, such processing typically follows standard processing patterns. Yet, with the increasing complexity of different network use cases, there are scenarios that would benefit from dynamic telemetry processing. Presented herein are techniques through which multiple device telemetry profiles can allow a cloud controller to dynamically match a telemetry profile to specific conditions for a tenant network. Each telemetry profile may include selections for data processing through priority and secured queues. …

Dynamic Resource Profile-Based Container And Serverless Construct For Composable Observability Tracing, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Akram Sheriff, Rajesh I V, Carlos Pignataro, Dave Zacks

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As a result of recent industry attention towards full-stack observability, there are various application performance monitoring (AMP) tools, runtime application self-protection (RASP) tools, and distributed tracing modules (such as OpenTelemetry (OTel), the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), etc.) available for different programming languages which may be injected as instrumentation code into an actual application to support a very detailed trace or log collection for subsequent analysis. Using a no- or low-code construct, the observability instrumentation code and the application code may be dynamically bundled together to create the function that is required to execute the relevant transactions. Techniques are presented herein …

Domain Performance Indexes (Dpis) For Improving Predictive Networking And Network Correlation, Navdeep Sood, Praveen Kumar

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The concept of a domain is fundamentally relevant to segment routing (SR) Flexible Algorithm (Flex-Algo) technology and to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) backbone networks. Additionally, all Internet service providers (ISPs) employ the concept of a domain to distinguish network segments for manageability and traffic control. The existing metrics are, however, confined to nodes and links. To address this limitation, techniques are presented herein that support a number of new metrics which apply to a domain and which help an operator to improve predictive networking, network correlation, and traffic engineering at a domain level. Such metrics provide a measure of, among …

Single Parameter Driven Tunable Resource Allocation For Machine Learning Tasks, Peter Danenberg

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Machine learning tasks, such as natural language processing evaluations, are assigned to server resources by dividing the tasks into a number of queues. In such an environment, different tasks may have different priorities, e.g., production tasks may be higher priority than research tasks. Task scheduling mechanisms such as weighted round-robin or batch scheduling are approximate, non-deterministic, and cannot be tuned based on the real time availability of resources. This disclosure describes the use of a single resource optimization parameter, determined based on real time resource availability to establish quantiles based on the exponential distribution for the single parameter. Task queues …

Direct Current Power Supply Unit Input Feed Adapter, Rohit Dev Gupta, Paolo Sironi, Lorenzo Ghioni, Arjun Guzar Jayaprakash, Joel Richard Goergen

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Different users of networking and computing equipment have their own Direct Current (DC) power termination preferences. Some PSUs are designed with dual-hole input types in order to cater to different needs/preferences, however, such dual-hole input types can make PSU design more complex, add to development costs, requires life cycle management of multiple product units, and can consume more space, which can restrict the cooling effectiveness of a PSU. Presented herein is a DC PSU input feed adapter that can be used to configure any DC PSU for multiple feed termination options (e.g., for both pig-tail and dual-hole connections), which can …

Sustainable And Sla-Satisfying Traffic Engineering, Praveen Parthasarathy Iyengar, Alhad Rajuwar, Maneesh Saxena, Pralhad Katti

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A network controller allows clients of the data center to make decisions on how to incorporate green services into their data center usage. A green-aware Service Level Agreement (SLA) map provides insight into the sustainability factors for each node that is used to perform a service for the client. The green-aware SLA map is determined according to an Environment Conscious (EC) metric that quantifies the environmental and sustainability impacts of performing a service at a data center.

Magnetic Media To Improve Ph Alignment, Hp Inc

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3D printers are powerful tools for companies involved in prototyping since they can iterate designs much faster than other technologies. The main difference between MultiJet Fusion 3D and their competitors is the usage of agents to, accurately, generate and form the desired part’s exact shape. To ensure that these agents land accurately to the powder, to precisely melt the requested shape, an alignment procedure is performed on the printer recurrently. This alignment process is printed on a paper above a specific alignment plate. This cannot be printed directly on the final surface as the dot detection accuracy on the powder …

Selectively Managing Objects In The Field Of View During A Conference Call, Hp Inc

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A user can selectively manage objects in the field of view so as to eliminate distractions and focus the viewer's attention during a conference call. This disclosure relates to the field of videoconferencing.

Generic System And Method For Json Data Parsing, Vishesh Kain

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The present disclosure provides a method and system that is generic for automatic JSON data parsing. The system obtains the JSON data of various structures as input for parsing. During the parsing, if the JSON data is not valid or corrupt then the system filters out that JSON data and stores at a different location. Thereafter, the system parses the JSON data from top to bottom after analysing each key and stores the values of each key. During the parsing, a schema of the JSON data is created by the system. The system derives unique names of column after analysing …

Differential Anomaly Detection For Analysis Of High Cardinality Time-Series Data, Sarah Thompson

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Analysis of high cardinality time-series data is necessary in several contexts, such as root cause analysis based on logs, when outages occur in large computing infrastructure. Driving down mean time to mitigation (MTTM) depends on timely alerting, rapid root cause analysis, and effective mitigation. This disclosure describes differential anomaly detection to analyze system logs and automatically identify evidence of the likely root cause of a system outage in a way that is understandable to a human. The techniques described in this disclosure overcome the cardinality limitation and can find the most relevant information that is usable by engineers to take …

Automatic Triggering Of Contextual Suggestions For Web Pages, Keun Soo Yim

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This disclosure describes techniques for automatic triggering of contextual suggestions based on web page content via a web browser. With user permission, the webpage content, including the uniform resource locator (URL) and page content are analyzed to determine whether to trigger contextual suggestions. For example, a simple web page may be analyzed using a client-side script. A user interface element with a suggestion is displayed if the analysis indicates that a suggestion is appropriate. For example, a suggestion to add ingredients to the user’s shopping cart may be triggered when a user views a recipe web page. The suggestion may …

Network Function Registration To Two Different Network Respository Functions And Providing Capabilities To Handle Discovery Of Other Network Functions And Incoming Sessions, Uday Kiran Bokam

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In a 5G mobile network, the network functions (NFs) register to a specific network repository function (NRF) in order to facilitate NF discovery functionality. In a large-scale network, NFs can be segregated by different parameters, such as region, location, market, etc., which can be based on required and estimated network capacity. For instances such as disaster management in a large scale network which has multiple regions / markets involving any one NF in a given region, it is desirable to divert traffic for the NF to a neighbor market/region in which NFs are being handled by different NRFs. However, NRFs …

Asset Quality Management, Pik Koon Oon, Siqing Liu, Plamena Petrova

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for asset quality management by a financial entity. The system includes a pre-delinquency module and a sloppy payer detection module for efficient management of assets. The pre-delinquency module detects a number of 0 DPD accounts at a point of observation that may roll forward to 30+ DPD accounts in performance window using a validated ML model. The sloppy payer detection module detects a number of 1-29 DPD accounts at the point of observation that may be cured to 0 DPD accounts in performance window. Further, the pre-delinquency module evaluates an “At …