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Tiltable Antenna Design For Enhancing Wireless Radio Transmit Power Limited By Sar, Hp Inc

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Most people may have experiences that they may encounter the lower battery condition during having an important conference call outside and couldn’t find the socket. Or another scenario is about power consumption validation of system idle mode during development and still see abnormal symptom that power consumption is over our specification. It is observed that transmitter output power of Wi-Fi module always adopts the maximum TX power value to communicate with AP (access point) no matter long or short distance. From this point of view, we have a thought that is to lower output power and gain additional power consumption …

Automated Initiative Compliance Platform, Eliav Kahan, Mike Lee, Helen Chou Mccabe

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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically detecting non-compliant initiatives by monitoring the system and displaying non-compliant initiatives in a dashboard that shows a user the approvals that are needed for the initiative to be compliant or alerting a user that the initiative is non-compliant. A non-compliant initiative may then be automatically paused to prevent the non-compliant initiative from launching.

Long-Pressing An Image To Trigger A Visual Search, Gustavo Moura

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For images with multiple objects, users don't have an easy way to specify the object within the image that interests them. This makes it difficult for users to express image-search intent. This disclosure describes techniques to enable users to specify the object or part of an image that they want to visually search on by long-pressing the relevant object or part. The coordinates of the long-press are used to identify the closest object and to automatically generate visual search results for it.

Suggesting And Executing Automation Scripts In Response To User Actions, Cliff Kuang, Mugurel-Ionut Andreica, Michael Oh, Adam Coimbra

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Users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices often perform multi-step tasks involving transfer of key pieces of information from one application to another. The tedium of such routine, information-seeking tasks can create friction. This disclosure describes techniques that automate the multiple steps typically required to retrieve a piece of information, unifying into a single user interaction, steps such as copying data from one app, determining a second relevant app to transition to, navigating to the second app, pasting the data into the second app, retrieving results, etc. The multiple, repetitive steps habitually performed by a user can be automated by …

An Improved Process For Purification Of Antipsychotic Drug And Its Salt, Anonymous

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This report is related to improved process for the preparation and purification of 1-(4- fluorophenyl)-4-[(6bR,10aS)-3-methyl-2,3,6b,9,10,10a-hexahydro-11H-pyrido[3′,4′:4,5] pyrrolo[1,2,3-de]quinoxalin-8(7H)-yl]butan-1-one (Formula 1) and its salts

System And Method For Providing Secure Bnpl For B2b, Shruti Dahiya, Ambareesh R

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The present disclosure provides a method and prediction system for providing secure BNPL for B2B using federated blockchain and AI. The prediction system provides shared digital ledger using federated blockchain i.e., by using shared digital ledger, participants can see history and transfer of assets and identify fraudulent transactions easily. Further, the prediction system provides secure BNPL using Deep Learning. The prediction system performs data pre-processing and feature engineering. Further, the prediction system analyses business using machine learning models. Thereafter, the prediction system performs BNPL amount prediction using neural networks and regression. Thus, the present disclosure prevents frauds and provides loaning …

Enabling Point-To-Point Sidebar Voice Conversations Within A Virtual Meeting Space, D Shin

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Many video conferencing applications support massive collaborative virtual meetings of tens or even hundreds of people. In these applications, each participant in the conference who is in the same virtual meeting room can hear when any of the other participants in the virtual room speak. Such a setup can be limiting since it does not support scenarios in which users desire decentralized, point-to-point voice communication among a chosen subset of meeting participants within a virtual video conferencing space. This disclosure describes techniques to enable participants in a video conference to engage in point-to-point voice conversations with other users, akin to …

Simple Cargo Holder Aid System, Anonymous

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M2m Communication Security Enhancement Using Additional Short-Lived Certificate, Igor Gariev

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Device certificates enable machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Device certificates can have long lives, e.g., as long as thirty years. The long life of a device certificate can leave a device open to security breaches, e.g., when a future, sophisticated attack makes the device itself vulnerable, rooted, or otherwise insecure. This disclosure describes techniques that enable devices with long-lived certificates to enjoy secure M2M communication for purposes such as digital unlocking of and access to high-value assets, through the use of additional (parallel), short-lived device certificates. The long-lived certificate, issued by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the device, attests to the …

Preemptively Initiating Nfc Components Based On Ultra-Wideband (Uwb) Polling, D Shin

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Devices with near-field communication (NFC) capabilities enable users to make contactless payments at a point of purchase. The hardware NFC components within a device are booted up when the user indicates the intent to perform an NFC action with an explicit triggering action which adds to the overall time for completing the transaction. This disclosure describes techniques that employ ultra-wideband (UWB) communication channels to predict the intent to initiate an NFC transaction and preemptively boot NFC components to reduce latency. With user permission, the device trajectory is obtained based on UWB and is analyzed with a suitably trained classifier to …

A Conversational Ai Approach To Architecture Framework Reviews, Victor Dantas

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Architecture framework reviews (AFRs) are valuable tools offered by cloud infrastructure providers to enable customers to validate their implementation against a set of curated architectural best practices. AFRs are currently offered via self-service questionnaires, which tend to be inflexible, or via reviews by human experts, which, although guided, are less accessible and more expensive. This disclosure describes a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) interface (chatbot) that enables dialog-based architecture framework reviews and alignment assessment. The described automated self-service tool has natural language capabilities that enable dialog-based interactions and guidance, and draws from a pool of static questions to pose architectural framework …

Improved Time-Related Checking In Routing Solvers, Steven Gay

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To solve routing problems with given constraints, an initial routing solution is obtained in a construction phase and iteratively improved in a subsequent improvement phase. With O(1) time complexity to check for constraint satisfaction per change with p being the total length of all paths changed between a known solution and a new candidate solution, current approaches have O(p²) time and space complexity when replacing the current solution with a new one. This does not scale when routing problems involve paths that have hundreds of nodes. This disclosure describes techniques to perform efficient pre-computations to reduce the time and space …

Automatic Augmentation Of Online Surveys Using Conversational Ai, Pierre Petronin

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The data quality of open-ended answers gathered via online surveys can be low because of a large proportion of blank, short, or ambiguous responses. However, online surveys do not provide an opportunity to resolve ambiguities or seek elaboration by prompting respondents for additional information. While conversational surveys can overcome this limitation, they are generally not suitable for close-ended questions. This disclosure describes techniques to augment open-ended questions within traditional online surveys by embedding conversational capabilities enabled via an AI agent or chatbot that can be based on a large language model. The conversational AI agent can automatically generate follow-up questions …

Automatic Extraction And Application Of Offer Codes From Promotional Messages, Dhandapani Shanmugam

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Retailers often send customers offer codes for various promotions such as price discounts, free shipping, etc. Customers can avail of the promotional offer by providing the codes when purchasing the corresponding products or services from the retailer. It is not uncommon for customers to overlook the offer codes or forget to provide them during purchase. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to automatically detect promotional messages, extract and save offer codes, and present the offer codes during purchase. The techniques can be implemented within any suitable combination of messaging, web browsing, shopping, and payment applications, and on any …

Contextually Determined Time Interval For Nfc Payment Security, D Shin

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Near-field communication (NFC) capabilities of mobile devices to make contactless payments at the point of purchase by taking an explicit triggering action, such as double pressing the power button. Once a user triggers the NFC payment mode on the user device, the device enters a listening mode for a short time interval to establish a connection with a payment host. If the user accidentally triggers the NFC payment mode an unintended payment may result. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically make contextually appropriate adjustments to the NFC payment wait time interval with user permission. The device context is determined based …

Method To Search And Locate Board Components And Regions Of Interest Using Component Name, Hp Inc

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Printed Circuit Assembly (PCA) boards are heavily populated with various electronic components like resistors, capacitors, integrated circuits etc. A reference designator unambiguously identifies a component within an electrical schematic or on a printed circuit board. The reference designator usually consists of one or two letters followed by a number, e.g., R13, C10 (where R is a reference prefix for the resistors of an assembly and C for capacitors). These markings/identifiers are visible text etched onto the PCA board and the text identifying the component is close in proximity to the component itself. The invention described here helps us to search/check …

System To Automatically Detect Missing And Extra Components On A Printed Circuit Assembly, Hp Inc

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There is an emerging business model of Printed Circuit Assembly (PCA) board design and fabrication that favors extensive outsourcing and integration in the PCA board life cycle to lower manufacturing costs. With the increasing complexity of modern PCA boards and growing reliance on third-party entities make PCA board hardware attacks an increasing concern. Malicious actors may remove or add components, thus creating attack vectors against fabricated PCA boards that can either cause malfunction, leak secret information, cause a denial of service, install remote access trojans, and so on. The invention described here helps us to automatically detect missing and extra …

Method To Calibrate The Horizontal (Cross-Web) Position Of A Fiducial Mark Sensor, Hp Inc

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This disclosure describes a new method to calibrate the cross‐web position of a fiducial mark sensor relative to the content that is printed upstream of the sensor. The method involves printing a pattern of horizontal and diagonal lines, using the sensor to detect their positions, and calculating a cross‐web position correction value.

Tiltable Antenna Design For Enhancing Wireless Radio Transmit Power Limited By Sar, Hp Inc

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Some countries like the US and Canada have specific regulatory and certification with strict SAR certification criteria to ensure that end user can be safe without health risks while using wireless electrical communication devices due to radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field by specific wireless radio modules transmit power via it embedded antennas. In another word, the TX power of the wireless radio module inside the wireless communication device may need to be reduced more to meet SAR certification criteria when the gap between the human body and system embedded antenna becomes smaller, which normally results in wireless communication performance and …

Printers' Cutter-Carriage Engagement/Disengagement Status Detection System, Hp Inc

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The following document describes a system to detect printer’s cutter-carriage engagement / disengagement using Hall effect sensor output voltage to determine at any time the engagement/disengagement status. This system’s intention is to prevent failures in customer side due to firmware not knowing if the cutter engagement / disengagement status is the correct one. In some cases, for example, the cutter is not disengaged when it should, and when the firmware triggers a carriage movement towards the service station, the cutter gets broken when it hits the service station. On some other cases, the cutter is not engaged when it should …

Visualize And Correlate Changes To Network Device To Anomalies In Network, Software Patents, Krishna Mahadevan Ramakrishnan, Shiva Prakash S M, Prashant Nandagadi, Venkatesh Ramteke, Chandramouli Nanjundaswamy

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NOM products enable users to manage their network by enforcing controlled changes to configuration of network devices apart from monitoring performance, fault and compliance of all devices in their network. While monitoring a network, it is always been a challenge to deduce and represent correlation, among anomalies across thousands of devices, in a format that users can consume, validate and act on. This paper proposes a method to deduce and visualize, possibly related anomalies on connected devices in the network based on user’s selection of an anomaly on a device of interest. While this paper takes network domain as an …

Method For A Bidirectional Usb Type C Thunderbolt Port, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to a USB Type C Thunderbolt dual‐role data (DRD) I/O port that can act as both an upstream (UFP) facing port to a host and a downstream (DFP) facing port to a device.

Development Of Ml Models To Predict Pedestrian Apli Injury Responses, Anonymous

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Improved Process For The Preparation Of (±) 4-Amino-5-Hexenoic Acid, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; M. Kishore; M. Ramakrishna; Jillepalli Suresh

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Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of (±) 4-amino-5-hexenoic acid, represented by the following structural formula.

Formula-1

High Precision Programmable Delay In Networking Switches, N/A

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Fairness in computer networks used in application domains such as financial markets, prediction markets, etc., can be achieved by ensuring that all participants receive the same multicast information at the same time. However, in practice, due to factors such as differing processing delays at network nodes, differing optical fiber lengths, etc., some participants may receive data sooner than others. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce timing variance and unfairness in multicast networks. Since multicasting works by replicating information to destination nodes, the replication engine at a node of a given network layer is programmed to delay retransmission of information received …

Irewards, Mrudul Uchil, Shakti Nilesh

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The present disclosure relates to providing a single platform (107) to communicate offers/promotions to users (101). The platform receives payment cards details and associated issuer information from a user (101). The platform further receives information related to at least one merchant (105) and favorite brand of the user (101). The information related to the merchant or brand may be a name or an identity number. The platform (107) uses machine learning and/or data analytics and dynamically fetches current offers/promotions associated with the cards that can be availed at the at least one merchant (105) and favorite brand of the user …

Method And System For True Random Number Generation Using Brownian Motion., Gokul Anand Manimaran

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for generation of true random numbers using Brownian motion without any external inputs. The method creates true random numbers utilizing the random movement of colloidal particles in the colloidal solution. Rotor mechanism used in mechanical watches and heat from the system are used to introduce kinetic energy into this colloidal solution. The present disclosure generates sequence of true random numbers using either picture or video of the colloidal particles in the colloidal medium holder. Using the picture, the method counts the number of colloidal particles in area of any shape. Using …

Reducing Modem Power Consumption While In An Out-Of-Service Condition By Synchronizing Network Scanning And Sim Polling, Edison Chen

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A user equipment (UE) employs a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) suspend algorithm when the UE is in an out-of-service (OOS) condition. When a modem of the UE exits an OOS sleep mode and enters an active mode (sometimes referred to as “waking up”) for network signal scanning, the UE modem also sends a polling message (e.g., a status report) to one or more UICC Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) of the UE. In some cases, the UE modem also negotiates a polling interval with the one or more SIMs. By synchronizing the sending of the polling message with the exiting …

Intelligent Cluster Provisioning, Shivram Salem Arunachalam, Raji Vinayagam, Abhisek Talasu, Rahul Joshi, Roli Kumar, Sajeev Ramachandran

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Currently, cluster formation through a network management system (NMS) within a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a manual, multi-step process that is error-prone and time-consuming and which requires multiple interventions (along with validations) by a user at each and every intermediate step. Moreover, that process is extremely difficult to scale with the increased cluster sizes that are required in larger deployments. To address the types of challenges that were described above, techniques are presented herein that support an end-to-end automation of the above-described cluster provisioning process. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass the scanning of an inter-cluster network and …

Automatically Generating E-Book Bookmarks From User Engagement, D Shin

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E-book reading applications and devices include functionality for bookmarking a page within an e-book to mimic physical bookmarks used with printed books. However, current e-book bookmarking features require the user to provide explicit manual input to bookmark a particular page and to learn and remember to use the bookmarking feature. This disclosure describes techniques for automatically bookmarking pages of potential interest within an e-book. With appropriate permissions from the user, page locations for the automatic bookmarks can be identified based on user engagement with the book content determined by inferring the reader’s intent and attention when reading the e-book based …