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Systems And Methods For Two Ingot Rolling Operations In A Hot Reversing Mill, Roberto Armbrust De Freitas Quintal, Spencer Krass

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A method of rolling ingots includes rolling a first ingot with a hot reversing mill such that the first ingot is partially rolled. The method includes moving the partially rolled ingot downstream from the hot reversing mill and performing intermediate processing of the partially rolled first ingot. While performing intermediate processing of the partially rolled first ingot, the method includes rolling a second ingot with the hot reversing mill such that the second ingot is partially rolled. After performing intermediate processing of the partially rolled first ingot, the method includes storing the partially rolled second ingot, returning the partially rolled …

Untethered Features And Capabilities For Camping, Dhiraj Vijayrao Jadhav

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A first computing device, such as a computerized watch (e.g., a “smartwatch”), may use certain navigation and communication features without connecting (e.g., tethering) to a second computing device, such as a mobile phone (e.g., a “smartphone”). For example, the first computing device may use one or more communication components (e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) receiver) to determine a location of the first computing device (e.g., in real-time or substantially real-time) relative to a downloaded map. Additionally, the first computing device may use the communication components to perform two-way communication (e.g., transmit and receive signals). In some examples, the first …

Technique To Facilitate Adaptive Wide Area Network Configuration Based On Circuit Provider, Jay Prakash Tiwari, Senthil Kumar, Gururajan Sundar Rao, Praveen Poojary

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When a Wide Area Network (WAN) network is growing rapidly across multiple sites and remote locations, organizations often seek adoptive configurations for WAN routers. Presented herein is a technique that provides for the ability to automatically identify a private circuit provider's "Color" (and/or other identifier(s) for the WAN overlay of the circuit provider) and to generate adoptive configurations that can be pushed to WAN edge routers. The technique presented herein can enable organizations to avoid human error in identifying links, miss-calling or mis-labeling, and/or suboptimal path selections.

Techniques To Facilitate Observability-Aware And Self-Healing Traffic Engineering, Praveen Parthasarathy Iyengar, Maneesh Saxena, Pralhad Katti, Alhad Rajurwar

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Many new applications/services/microservices are hosted in some form of a cloud network, such as a private, public, or hybrid cloud. This means the network connecting applications/services/microservices to clients is critical infrastructure that is needed to facilitate a good user-experience. However, some cloud network environments that utilize datacenter fabrics may have limited visibility with regard to observability and/or awareness of different network events (e.g., failures, service faults, potential performance optimizations, etc.). Provided herein are techniques through which Service-Level Agreement (SLA) decisions that may be made by third-party tools can be consumed in order to drive flow steering in a datacenter fabric …

Custom Unified Data Management (Udm) Application Programming Interface (Api) To Reduce Network Latency And Udm Load, Vinod Kamalaraj

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In current Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile core networks, when the Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and/or the Session Management Function (SMF) interacts with the Unified Data Management (UDM)/Unified Data Repository (UDR), three steps are involved: performing a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET step to request subscription information for a user equipment (UE), performing subscription creation for subscription information changes, and performing registration creation to enable other network functions (NFs) to query the UDM to determine which AMF/SMF is currently serving the UE. Such steps, however, can introduce inefficiencies in the network. In order to address such potential …

Mechanism For Balancing Of Gpu Usage Between Ai Queue Depth And Graphical Fidelity, Chris Schneider, Nic Watson

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Concurrent application demands that exceed available GPU resources can degrade performance and worsen the user experience. However, there are no easy mechanisms for lay users to tailor application performance and control GPU resource allocation. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to specify preferences for prioritizing computational tasks performed via a GPU via conventional user interface mechanisms. Scheduling and switching workloads and batches of the requested computations on the GPU is performed according to user-specified preferences. Users can leverage the preference settings for managing performance tradeoffs between application functionality, balancing resource allocation when multitasking, troubleshooting potential GPU-related problems, etc. The …

Fast Identification Of Clique Patterns In A Data Network, N/A

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Clique identification includes the identification of node subsets within a larger graph that exhibit correlation or connectivity and has several applications. For example, a determination that N users are in close geographical proximity (or part of the same physical crowd) can be used for local, spatially targeted surfacing of advertisements. This disclosure describes techniques for fast clique identification within graphs that leverage the fact that identifying a spanning tree in a fully connected graph suffices to confirm a network clique. Nodes are indexed in the order they upload to a server (raster-scanning order). Pairwise correlations between nodes are computed on …

Script-Enabled Boot Time Memory Tests, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques to perform vendor specific memory tests in product ecosystems that include multiple memory and processor vendors. Custom scripts are utilized to define memory tests for each memory-processor pair. Test scripts are utilized to match a particular DRAM part number to a memory test optimized for that particular part. The script includes settings and tests that stress the part in order to uncover defects. Once the memory controller and DRAMs are configured, the script writes patterns to DRAMs and reads the patterns back, checking for errors. A parser is utilized to convert custom test scripts into embeddable …

Techniques To Provide A Recommendation Engine For Alert Configurations, Shubhankar Yash, Abhishek Dhar, Chakresh Tiwari, Shiva Sah, Sonali Hiranandani

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False alerts are a large problem in the observability space. Noisy alerts can be caused by a variety of factors but can be primarily caused due to incorrect alert configurations. Presented herein are techniques through which personalized recommendations can be provided for a particular enterprise regarding observability alert configurations that are based alerts of similarly situated enterprises. The recommendations may be applied only on explicit approval from the particular enterprise. Techniques presented herein may also enable enterprises to set up customized alerts and detect problems in their environments without a lot of configurations.

Skip Button For Uninteresting Irrelevant Content Segments, Ramprasad Sedouram

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Many audio and video playback applications include functionality to skip over parts of the content being played. However, such controls skip predetermined duration of content and can inadvertently lead users to skip over content portions of interest. This disclosure describes techniques that automatically determine locations and lengths of uninteresting or non-information segments in content based on user interests and context, obtained with permission. Users are provided with a suitable user interface (UI) mechanism to skip over to the next moment of interest within the content. If the user permits, data on the portions that were skipped can be aggregated and …

Copying Current Video Frame In Web Browser, Xiaohan Wang

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When watching video content via a web browser, it is difficult for users to save or share a specific frame within the video since there is no mechanism for directly copying a specific frame within a video to the clipboard. Using workarounds for indirectly capturing the current video frame precisely is cumbersome and inconvenient. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to copy the currently visible video frame in a browser or other video viewing application as an image to the clipboard via a single command provided via a suitable, commonly-known user interface (UI) mechanism. Any applications with access to …

Continuous Security Certificate Rotation On A Mutually Authenticated Network Connection, N/A

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Mutual authentication mechanisms that rely on certificates often have an expiry date attached to the certificates, which limits the usefulness of a certificate if it is exposed. The shorter the expiry, the better the protection; however, too short an expiry can cause service outages due to authentication failures if the certificate is not rotated in time. This disclosure describes techniques to re-authenticate an existing session upon demand by either party (client or server) of a mutual authentication scheme. If the new authentication fails (or if either certificate expires), the session is automatically broken. When re-authentication succeeds, it is transparent to …

Measuring Ssd Life And Optimizing Fleet Utilization, N/A

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While some solid-state devices (SSDs) fail near the vendor-specified end-of-life (EoL), many can work reliably for much beyond the vendor-specified EoL. While discarding devices at the vendor-specified EoL is conservative, it leads to poor utilization and high cost for device uses such as data centers. This disclosure describes techniques to utilize a solid-state storage device effectively until just before the point in time when the device is determined to have unacceptably degraded. The techniques determine the true age of a device using the actual hardware characteristics (voltage distributions corresponding to each state) of the memory cells of the device. A …

Smf Selection Based On N1 Parameters, Jis Abraham, Hymavathi Dadanu

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In current implementations of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile core networks, there is no way to select a Session Management Function (SMF) based on N1 session management message parameters. This can lead to complex configuration issues for a mobile network operator in some scenarios and may also cause call drops in some scenarios. Presented herein are various techniques that provide for the ability to manage this issue with minimal impacts to mobile core network functions (NFs).

Differential Charging On Non-Standalone 5g Networks, Naunidh Singh Chadha

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In non-standalone architecture (NSA), a migration path to 5G, there is no easy way for a billing module to differentiate 5G data from LTE data, since most messages and attributes are by design kept identical to LTE. This disclosure describes techniques to enable a serving/PDN-gateway (SPGW) node to simulate a change in radio access technology (RAT) based on the IP ranges of the radio nodes. Online, RAT-based charging for data subscribers in the 5G NSA network can thereby be supported by the SPGW. The techniques have minimal impact on the overall ecosystem. In particular, other core or radio nodes need …

Novel Polymorphs Of Voxelotor And Their Processes For Preparation Thereof, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sajja Eswaraiah; Vijayavitthal T. Mathad; Saladi Venkata Narasayya And Kammari Balraju.

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The present invention relates to novel polymorphs of Voxelotor of formula-1, which is represented by the following structural formula-1 and process for preparation thereof.

Formula-1.

Using Location Cues For Efficient Data Compression And Transmission To Remote Server, D Shin

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Data stored in the cloud can be simultaneously served to large swarms of nodes that stream bandwidth-intensive content. A direct transfer-and-store paradigm, as practiced today, can be inefficient in terms of bandwidth and memory. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage location proximity cues to selectively compress data that is transmitted over networks. Two nodes of a network processing similar video or audio divide and merge the compression stack such that reconstruction is performed with lower storage and bandwidth requirements, and at little to no loss of fidelity. For example, co-located cameras with partially overlapping fields-of-view encode their data to leverage …

Co-Op Marketplace Solutions, Monica Bannan, Arthur Gerigk

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The technology described in this paper relates to a cooperative marketplace (“co-op marketplace”) that leverages online and real-world consumer purchasing and shopping data to connect brands with retailers. The co-op marketplace may be an online marketplace where brands can advertise products available at retailers of the co-op marketplace. Brands may be provided with purchase-based audience segments that they may use to target advertisements for their products. The advertisements may be rotating advertisements that direct consumers that interact with the advertisements to different retailers. Each advertisement may be monitored for interactions and conversions, including in-store conversions, and this data may be …

System And Method For Sensitive Data Protection For Accessibility Users, Shreeharsha Rangarajan, Shashanka Arnady, Nithin Shakthidhar Bg

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Present disclosure discloses a method and a system for sensitive data protection for accessibility users. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a message from user device (102-1) from the accessibility user, and identifying if the message includes sensitive data by using a predefined technique. Thereafter, the method discloses detecting if an audio device (106) is plugged in or not plugged in to the user device (102-1). If the audio device (106) is not plugged in to the user device (102-1) , the method includes performing obfuscation of the sensitive data and reads out the sensitive data with obfuscation. However, …

App Personalization With Images Generated Using Artificial Intelligence, Nithyanand Kota, Jatin Chhugani, Ganesh Mallya, Maneesh Dewan, Phillip Campion, Tilman Sporkert, Timir Shah

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Personalized content such as app backgrounds, profile pictures, etc. help in creating a rich and interactive user experience for an app, potentially driving an increase in the active usage. Recent advancements in generative imagery can be used to generate images that are personalized to the user. However, current image generation techniques require a user to explicitly provide prompts to the generation model. This disclosure describes techniques that use generative artificial intelligence to automatically generate customized images for use as an app background or in other contexts. Prompts for image creation are generated based on user-permitted contextual information by using a …

Direct View Rendering With Head Tracking Feedback For 3d Video Calling, Anonymous

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When participants engage in a video call, discrepancies between the viewing direction from which a participant views other participants and the displayed view of the other participants can lead to a less than satisfactory experience. This disclosure describes techniques to select a subset of available cameras based on head and/or eye movements of participants in a video call to render a corresponding direct view. Cameras capture images of a viewing user that is viewing a display on which a 3D video of a second user (e.g., generated from images captured by a subset of a plurality of cameras) is displayed. …

Direct Regeneration Of Nmc Cathode Material By Using Non-Toxic Solvent, Ola Electric Technologies Private Limited

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The invention relates to the direct regeneration of NMC cathode active material from cathode scraps or spent lithium ion batteries using a non-toxic solvent. The usage of non-toxic solvent reduces the high temperature heating process and release of toxic gases during the removal of binders in the direct recycling process. Generally, PVDF binder is used for the manufacturing cathodes. During the direct recycling process after the delamination process, the binders are removed via heating or solution method. The major problem of heating the delaminated powders at higher temperatures is the release of HF gas during the decomposition of binders. Thus …

Build Plate Clamps Using Shape Memory Alloys, Jiri Konvicny

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This publication relates build plate clamps for use in 3D printing devices. This solution targets user friendliness of build plate handling in an additive manufacturing apparatus of any kind. The proposed build plate clamps are manufactured using shape memory alloys.

Automated Conversion Of Impaired Speech In Communication Applications, Gang Feng, Xia Zhang, Pedro Moreno Mengibar, Fadi Biadsy, Liyang Jiang, Oleg Rybakov, Yuexin Wu, Joseph Chen

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Voice communication can be difficult for those with impaired or accented speech. When such users communicate with others via applications on their devices, listeners often find it difficult to understand them. This disclosure describes techniques that dynamically process impaired or accented speech and convert it to synthesized canonical speech with permission. Generation of the synthesized speech is performed with low latency as a user speaks, enabling the parties to engage in smooth communication that is unaffected by the speaker’s speech impairment. The listeners receive clear, fluent speech automatically generated by suitably trained models. In addition, users can personalize the operation …

Determining An Optimal Display Module-Level White Point Target For A Display Module, Chi-Hsien Yang

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This publication describes techniques for determining an optimal display module‑level white point target for a display module considering a device‑level white point calibration brightness drop. In aspects, a distribution of display modules includes a distribution of module‑level white points that are centered around a module‑level white point target. A computing device manufacturer fits a two‑dimensional Gaussian function to the distribution and calculates an average brightness drop for the distribution once calibrated to a device‑level white point target. Using the Gaussian function, the manufacturer recalculates the average brightness drop for a shifted distribution. The manufacturer repeats this process until an optimal …

Vendor Experience Data Acquisition And Analytics (Veda2), Snezana Mitrovic, Sebastian Jeuk, Marisol Palmero Amador, Gonzalo Salgueiro

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Techniques are presented herein for a Vendor Experience Data Acquisition and Analytics (or VEDA²) function that collects, analyzes, and intelligently returns relevant information bridging an enterprise with network equipment vendors. A VEDA² function may operate as a value-added service that appears to an enterprise similar to a Business-to-Exchange (B2X) partner 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth generation (5G) Application Function (AF). Further, a VEDA² function may provide for a translation between user intent and a network data analytics function (NWDAF) that knows how to collect specific data. Additionally, the analytics that are developed may be further …

Real Time Pronunciation Feedback On Small Screen Devices, Cattalyya Nuengsigkapian

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This disclosure describes techniques for integrating the provision of real time pronunciation feedback into a user’s daily conversations. With user permission, real time speech is received and transcribed to text based on a semantic understanding of the conversation, the user’s history of mispronunciations, etc. A pronunciation score is calculated for different portions of the user’s speech, e.g., syllables, words, phrases, or sentences. Real time feedback (e.g., warnings) for mispronounced portions is provided using color, vibration, etc., in a manner that causes minimal distraction. The correct pronunciation can be indicated using audio, text, etc. The techniques can be implemented on any …

Smart Torque Wrench Control Using Machine Learning, N/A

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The technology described in this paper relates to a torque wrench and accompanying device for automatically guiding a user of the wrench to properly install joint connectors, flange connectors, bolts, and other mechanical components of a mechanical system, using a machine learning model (“ML”). The ML-enabled torque wrench can automatically set proper torque values for properly tightening mechanical components relative to some guideline, design specification, and/or user-specified threshold. A camera, for example on a computing device, can collect images of the target components to be manipulated by the wrench. A model trained to receive the images can automatically identify the …

Suggested Edits And Next Words For Voice Input Via Virtual Keyboard, Cristen Anderson Ho, Yohan Launay, Muhammed Rajeef M K, Melissa Mccoy, Garen Checkley

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Voice input is a convenient mode that enables users to overcome literacy and/or accessibility barriers because it is typically easier than typing and enables hands-free use of the device. On devices such as smartphones or tablets, a virtual keyboard with voice input capability is convenient and enables voice input to be provided to any application. However, virtual keyboard voice interfaces lack editing capabilities, often requiring users to start from scratch multiple times because of input mistakes, transcription errors, or automatic turning off of the microphone during pauses. This disclosure describes techniques that automatically provide users with suggestions for edits, deletions, …

Resistance Sensing Underride Protection Optimization Of Sensor Layout Or Wire Run, Axel Unger

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