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Recipe Recommendation_Id-06004, Paolo Markovina

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The invention relates to a method and a system for generating a recipe suggestion to a user comprising the steps of

a) generating an image of available ingredients with the help of an image generating device,

b) analyzing the image with the help of a computing unit,

c) determining the ingredients,

d) generating at least on recipe suggestion based on the determined ingredients and presenting it to the user.

Proactive Prevention And Mitigation Of Saltwater Damage For Portable Devices, Kavinaath Murugan, Yun Sun Lee, Michael E. Bentz Ii, Luke Manuel Brantingham, Aaditya Kandibanda

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This disclosure describes techniques to mitigate the effects of fluid submersion on electronic devices such as mobile phones. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission and express consent, user context data is utilized to determine a likelihood of a user device being proximate to a saltwater body. Mitigating actions such as disabling the charging port of the device are automatically performed. If fluid submersion is detected, the duration of submersion is determined and a duration of time before the device undergoes damage is determined. Additional information, such as information about repair shops, may be provided to the user based …

A Method And System For Secure Document Search, Nicholas Kersting, Joydeep Mitra, Aman Mohanty, Miaomiao Liu

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The present disclosure discloses a method for secure document search. The objective of the present disclosure focuses on avoiding the need to decrypt the whole database while retrieving the necessary data. The method discloses a method for encrypting and searching documents using a combination of vectorization, hashing, and set intersection. The method includes defining a dictionary to map tokens to unique vectors, forming n-token combinations of the document, and hashing each combination using a nonlinear irreversible function such as a deep neural network. The output of the present disclosure is a set of D-dimensional vectors that represent the document.

Device Identification And Authentication With Radar And Uwb Ranging, Xiating Zou, Cheng-Jung (Cj) Lee

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Devices such as tablets and smart displays can be automatically unlocked when a user carrying a compatible wearable device approaches. With user permission, the event of the user being in close proximity is detected, and the user is authenticated by communicating with the wearable device using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio. However, UWB ranging can suffer from front-back ambiguity such that the detection of the presence of a user that is behind the device can unlock the device, which can lead to security and/or privacy risk. This disclosure discloses a two-pronged approach to user identification, user authentication, and front-back disambiguation during automatic …

Precisely Co-Located Cameras With High Geometric And Thermo-Mechanical Stability, Guillermo F. Diaz Lankenau, Antonio Yamil Layón Halun, Andrew Huibers

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Hyper-realistic telepresence is achieved by mounting an array of carefully calibrated cameras on a monitor. High-quality, three-dimensional (3D) telepresence is predicated on highly stable camera positions, e.g., cameras calibrated to a fraction of a millimeter, which, during operation, stay in position to within a fraction of a millimeter. The typical, bezel-mounted camera array in a monitor experiences thermally induced post-calibration positional drift large enough to make hyper-realistic telepresence infeasible. This disclosure describes cameras that are mounted in a manner that leverages the thermal stability and isolation of the cover glass of the monitor to achieve extremely stable camera positioning that …

Detecting And Reporting Stack Splits In A Stackable Switch, Zach Cherian, Julie Quan, Lalitha Devi Appasani, Manish Jhanji

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Stack splits are a commonly encountered failure for stackable systems within enterprise networks, where there is a possibility of multiple active stacks forming from the breakdown of a single stackable system. Proposed herein are techniques involving a management station-driven approach that provides for the ability to identify/enumerate stack splits and alert network administrators that appropriate actions to resolve failures can be taken. Further, techniques proposed herein may facilitate performing preventative actions by a network independently or/and in concert with a network adminstrator, in order to avoid network outages, chaos, and further network failures.

Collaborative Media Processing For Video Conferencing, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of media processing in a video conferencing setting. A method is disclosed that enables an entity or device to process data after receiving the media stream. This enables better utilization of the available local resource and thus enhances the overall video conferencing experience.

Wearable Tilt-To-Action Improvement Using Camera, Sumukh Ashok Shevde

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Computing devices (e.g., a smartphone, a smart watch, smartglasses, smart headphones, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a vehicle head unit, etc.) may use a specific movement, such as a tilting of the computing device to trigger an action. For example, tilting a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch) may trigger a display of the wearable device to turn on (tilt-to-wake), brighten (tilt-to-bright), or perform a particular action (tilt-to-act). For example, the computing device may use one or more sensors (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometers, or other motion or non-motion sensors) to determine whether a user of the computing device has …

Video Ai Experience As A Service, Hp Inc

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This invention proposes Video AI experiences as a service framework. The framework facilitates provisioning of AI-driven television production rules as a services framework instead of natively deploying on each device. Such a framework allows for creation of newer business models, newer ways of offering video AI and television production rules as a service for devices that are not AI enabled and provides a framework for catering such experiences to large number of consumers.

Computer Vision-Based Approach For Rejecting Portraits And Mannequins, Hp Inc

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In this innovation, we propose to detect Human faces that are stationary, and that way make sure that statues, mannequins, portraits containing people, and face false positives appearing on other static objects can be removed from the further processing through framing and tracking experiences. Training halls, seminar and board rooms, conference rooms, office huddle and personal workspaces often have statues, mannequins, or other human face like 3- dimensional physical figures or people in the portraits or personal photo collection that is coming in the field of view of camera. An ability to detect and remove from further processing of such …

A Process For Purification Of Rilpivirine

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The present publication provides a process for the purification of 4-[[4-[[4-[(E)-2-cyanoethenyl]-2,6-dimethylphenyl]amino]-2-pyrimidinyl]amino]benzonitrile represented by the following structural formula-1. 4-[[4-[[4-[(E)-2-cyanoethenyl]-2,6-dimethylphenyl]amino]-2-pyrimidinyl]amino]benzonitrile commonly known as Rilpivirine.

Unknown Server Name Indication (Sni) Processing, Bill Cox, Mike Lugo

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Current methods of server name indication (SNI) detection rely on manual traffic analysis to determine which SNIs should be added to a list of SNIs in Application Detection and Control (ADC) peer-to-peer (P2P) modules, which may lead to errors when determining which traffic should be shaped for optimization. Techniques described herein provide for a robust and quantifiable method of determining which SNI traffic flows should be shaped or optimized in a Service Provider’s mobile packet core. Techniques discussed herein reduce the time to identify flows requiring actions and make the process of identifying the flows more quantifiable with live unknown …

Fulfilling User Queries Via Local Devices With Generative Ai Capabilities, Gaurav Arora

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are currently limited to remote servers or to devices that have a machine learning processor or other hardware that can support generative models. This disclosure describes the use of a local device within a smart home local area network (LAN) with generative AI capabilities to fulfill user queries via models executing on-device. Users can utilize such on-device capabilities to obtain generated content or to modify existing content using generative techniques. A server device in the smart home provides an application programming interface (API) to enable client devices to access the generative AI capabilities. The server …

Quantifying Screen Crease And Waviness In Foldable Displays, Joseph Lo, Adrian Manea

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Display crease at the folding area and display waviness are common problems affecting foldable OLED displays. This disclosure leverages the concept of mean curvature to quantify the crease/waviness of a display using data obtained from a surface profile scanner. In contrast to conventional measures of crease and waviness, the described techniques are insensitive to the angle of tilt of the sample under measurement. The concave, convex, and flat geometries of the surface can be clearly identified and visualized, with local details undiluted by high measured values. The average cross-sectional mean curvature as defined herein can show the bending status of …

Noise Reduction In Metric, Event, Log, And Trace (Melt) Data Using Distributed Machine Learning, Srinivasan Srinivasan, Linda Zhou, Manikandan Mari Vera Kumara

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In the Observability domain, metric, event, log and trace (MELT) are basic data types generated by the infrastructure and applications. These datasets are not only ingested at high volume and high frequency but also related. Currently, available solutions are for individual data types, i.e., metric monitoring, log analytics, trace flow analysis, etc. These solutions do not provide a holistic view of the entire environment with MELT correlation. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support a scalable, flexible, dynamic, and adaptive noise reduction system. While the system is running as expected, data is collected at a …

Recipe Recommendations Based On Visual Input Of Available Ingredients, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Russell Goldenbroit, Elisabeth Jeremko

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It is difficult to choose recipes that can be prepared using ingredients available at home. Manually identifying available ingredients and performing searches for feasible recipes is cumbersome and error prone. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to obtain recipe recommendations by capturing available ingredients visually as images and/or videos. With user permission, the visual input is analyzed using computer vision and natural language processing techniques to identify the type and quantity of available ingredients. Matching recipes are determined using a search engine and ranked based on the user’s preferences. The user can filter the list based on various criteria …

Per Prefix Flexible Metric For Intent Based Routing And Traffic Engineering Using Eigrp, Rohit Saluja, Pranay Anand, Baalajee S, Aditya Dogra, Abin Mathew Abraham

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Routing protocols are typically designed to use a single-cost formula for all of a protocol's routes. In some instances, a network administrator can adjust the cost formula of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), but the protocol applies the formula uniformly to all prefixes, which can cause all applications to suffer from lower performance. In order to address such issues, techniques are presented herein through which a flexible metric can be applied that is isolated to prefixes. for example, the techniques presented herein provide for the reduced use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) routing & forwarding (VRF) instances on …

Automatic Police Traffic Stop Feature, Anonymous

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No abstract provided.

Method To Actively Drain Ev Battery Due To Impending Flood Condition, Anonymous

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No abstract provided.

Plug & Activate – An Alternative Dc Fast Charging Authentication Method, Anonymous

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Enabling Inline Correction Of Speech Transcript Via Audio Cues, Gaetano Ling, Amelia Schladow, Michael Colville, Matthew Sibigtroth, George Joseph Rickerby, Benjamin Guy Alexander Pawle

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While voice input has become a popular way of interacting with devices, user frustration due to incorrect transcription is common. Speech-to-text (STT) conversion errors can require users to provide the spoken input again, manually issue a correction command, or use a non-voice modality to make corrections. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically play audio cues to indicate when the confidence in the accuracy of speech transcription is low. The cues enable timely, inline correction of the transcript as the user speaks, in a manner akin to human conversation. The cues can include a discernible tone/ beep or spoken phrases that …

Systems And Methods For Securely Connecting Heterogeneous L3 Network With Sdwan, Satyajit Das, Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, Arul Murugan Manickam, Surya Mohapatra

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At present, there are different methods and systems for connecting L3 heterogenous data networks. Current software-defined wide area network (SDWAN) solutions provide a secure way of interconnecting branches or data centers with various deployment models. However, existing solutions do not allow for connecting Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-only networks to Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)-only networks. Presented herein are techniques for providing an efficient and secure way of connecting IPv4-only branches with IPv6-only branches and vice versa. In one instance, techniques presented herein provide for connecting an IPv4-only branch with an IPv6-only branch when the controller is located in the …

Dynamic Function Updates For Hybrid Controllers, Jerome Henry, Robert Barton, Indermeet Gandhi

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This submission presents a technique to synchronize data displayed in a Cloud network management unit and an on-premise network management unit for an enterprise deployment. In many cases, the available bandwidth for the Cloud network management unit forbids the near-real-time display of data available at an on-premise network management unit. However, by measuring which page may be accessed and the type of data is to be displayed via the page, the technique of this proposal provides for the ability to stream only the amount of data needed for a Cloud administrator to experience real time management, without consuming a large …

A Spillage Control Attachment For Pressure Cooker, Versuni Holding B.V.

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A pressure cooker is generally provided with a pressure regulating valve (PRV) to release the pressure inside the vessel in order cook the food safely. During cooking, the food particles, water, and condensed steam tends to overflow through the pressure regulating valve which drips over the lid into the stove. This creates a pain point of cleaning the stove every time.

In this paper, a detachable spillage control attachment to absorb or to prevent the water from spilling over the stove, by retaining the condensate in the lid is discussed.

Techniques To Facilitate Lead Prioritization For Online Lead Generation Systems, Chris Shatara, Aseem Banshidhar Asthana, Rui Brettes, Anbarasi Chinnaiah

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Lead generation is a very important aspect of business development and revenue generation for any company. For a higher number of deals to be closed, a lot of leads need to be generated. With a high volume of leads, it is impossible for a sales team to review each lead. Teams using a best-guess or first-come/first-served basis might not identify the best leads available. Similarly, using prior experience has the potential to cause important leads to be ignored. The number of features that can result in a favorable outcome for a given lead is large, complicated, and not deterministic, which, …

Safer Audio Consumption While Driving, Ramprasad Sedouram, Daniel Victor Klein

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may monitor audio streams and adjust non-navigational audio streams based on a detected real-life context. The computing device may evaluate the real-life context and identify situations requiring reduced distractions. The computing device may determine, based on the evaluation of the audio streams, whether a user may be focused on an activity and should not be distracted from potential hazards. The computing device may additionally evaluate the audio streams and identify navigational and non-navigational streams. Based on the identified real-world context and audio streams, the computing …

Sheet Metal Component With Defined Clearance For Integration, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Method For The Enrichment Of Sensor-Detected Driving Events, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Drive State Feedback Mechanism For Electric Vehicles (Dsfm For Ev), Axel Unger

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A Method And Payment System For Managing Expenses By Using A Payment Card, Sangeetha Venkatesh

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The present disclosure relates to a method and payment system for making payments from a specific account. The method includes receiving a transaction request from a user for making a payment of at least one of, travel expense or miscellaneous expense. Followed by determining a payment account by detecting a transaction domain based on predefined keywords associated with the transaction request. The payment account is associated with at least one of, travel expense or miscellaneous expense. Thereafter, redirecting the transaction request to the identified payment account and performing a verification to check whether balance associated with the identified payment account …