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Thermal Management Of Rack Batteries, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques for thermal management of batteries in data center racks. Superior battery thermal management is realized by separation of the battery thermal cooling path and the flame propagation path. Thermal energy is conducted away from the regions where the heat is generated, e.g., the core cell pack, which is cooled using a combination of different external surfaces and/or airflow. In some implementations, a metal plate is provided at an upper surface of the batteries such that it is in contact with the battery cell holders and can conduct heat away from the battery cells. The metal plate …

Deepsorting: Customer-Centric Sequence-To-Sequence Notification Prioritization, Pengfei Sun, Qihong Shao, Derek W. Engi

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Network operators may control many thousands of devices and, as a consequence, they may be bombarded with notifications (e.g., posture assessments and exceptions for devices that do not comply with standards or which require remediation actions to circumvent security issues) and can be discouraged by unimportant or irrelevant information. To address the challenge that was described above, techniques are presented herein that support a process for intelligently filtering and prioritizing notifications to reduce noise and deliver recommendations that will provide the greatest impact to an environment. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass a smart recommendation notification system that prioritizes network …

Using Federated Social Networks For Efficiently Distributing Cve Information, Armijn Hemel

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This document describes an open method for distributing information related to CVEs using social networks (in particular the open standard ActivityPub), which would allow users to get updates for specific CVE reports or specific events, and also potentially capture feedback from users around these updates.

The CVE reporting system is the main vehicle for openly distributing information related to security vulnerabilities in software or configurations of software. CVE reports are useful but it has proven to be difficult to easily inform users about updates to CVE reports. In response a whole industry has sprung up around CVE and aggregation and …

Using Multiple Cameras In The Passenger Compartment To Create Immersive Content For Social Media, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Spatially Realistic Audio In A Video Conference Based On User Head Orientation, D Shin, Jian Guo

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In current video conferencing applications, the audio of the speech of a participant is captured without any indication of the spatial positioning or body orientation of the speaker in relation to a device camera used to capture the corresponding video. Therefore, the audio experience in video conferencing lacks spatial and directional richness. This disclosure describes techniques to enhance the spatial richness of the audio in a video conference based on a user’s head orientation. With user permission, head orientation is estimated using measurements from device sensors of earbuds or another device used by a video conference participant. Head orientation measurements …

Method And Control For Intelligent Encrypted Messaging And Addressing To A Motor Vehicle Based On Finfis And Domain Data, Axel Unger

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Automatic Video Conference Session Transfer Based On Presence Detection And Wearable Device Identification, D Shin

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When a video conference participant using a desktop or other fixed device temporarily leaves their location, they lose access to the full conferencing experience, unless they take manual action to join the video conference via a mobile or wearable device. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, automatically detect when a user leaves a physical location from where they have joined a video conference. The techniques further detect mobile and/or wearable devices available to the user and automatically configure such devices for video conferencing. A link to join the video conference via such a device is provided to the …

Continuous Authentication Using Accessibility Settings And Usage Analysis, Rakesh Ramamurthy, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Avi Bomb, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Madhusmita Mohapatra

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The present invention discloses a method and system for continuous authentication using accessibility settings and usage analysis which can be used during mobile application login. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based system, continuously captures and analyses a specially abled user’s behaviour and accessibility settings. The AI would then come up with a risk based score. This risk score will then be used to decide whether or not to skip Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

Dynamically Moving Device For Energy, Axel Unger

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Automatically Identifying Regression Detection Conditions For System Performance Metrics, Shubham Sharma, Varun Puri

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System performance in various computing systems is measured using various benchmarks. A benchmark allows users to observe a set of performance metrics of the system as a function of time and workload, and to determine if a performance metric has deviated or regressed. However, different regression analyzers are suitable for different metrics and finding accurate analyzers often requires substantial manual effort that needs to be repeated whenever a variable that impacts a performance metric changes. This disclosure describes techniques that obtain historical data (sourced from stable workloads) about the pattern of a performance metric and use the data to train …

Fulfilling User Queries Via The User’S Social And Professional Networks, Matt Sharifi, Victor Carbune

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The queries virtual assistants can respond to are limited by the information sources available to the virtual assistant. As a result, when a user query cannot be satisfactorily answered from such sources, the user receives a suboptimal answer or is told that an answer cannot be provided. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, leverage a user’s personal and professional networks to respond to user queries to a virtual assistant. A classifier is used to determine if a particular query is best handled by a person in the user’s networks. In such cases, the virtual assistant facilitates correspondence with …

Video Preview Image Selection Based On Prior User Interactions, D Shin

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Many websites and applications that enable users to view videos include a feature that lets a user watching a video hover on the timestamp bar to see preview images of the content at or near that timestamp. However, selection of preview images that is unaware of the video content can cause the thumbnails to be non-representative and unappealing to the user. This disclosure describes the use of crowdsourced information on video pause actions performed by various users to select preview images for different parts of a video. An engagement prior model is built on the crowdsourced information. A temporal histogram …

Integrating Ui Elements Into Custom Sql Code, Joseph Albert F. S. Pingenot

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Database queries in the structured query language (SQL) comprise text characters. While professional programmers are comfortable with text-based programming, database users (who may not be proficient programmers) are generally more comfortable with graphical query interfaces that reduce or eliminate the need for coding with textual characters. This disclosure describes SQL syntax and corresponding parser and backend infrastructure that enables database users to effectively use graphical elements in SQL queries by automatically providing the location to inject a value from a user interface control (such as the text selected, or the number in the slider or combo box) and by causing …

Lateral Collision Detection For Mobile Robots, Hp Inc

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A system for accurately detecting lateral collisions with an obstacle is introduced. When a mobile robot rotates, it might collide with a wall or pillar it had not seen before. With this system, the collision can be detected, and a recovery manoeuvre performed, minimizing physical damage to the robot and downtime, without user intervention. Otherwise, the robot would get stuck trying to move to the next target, requiring manual intervention. Finally, when a collision is detected, the obstacle position and orientation can be estimated, and this information can be saved for future use (such as mapping).

Ai Based Force Sensing Touch Screen, Hp Inc

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This publication describes a method for capacitive touch screen to detect finger press action with certain force to trigger specific operation system (OS) or application (App) response on consumer electronic devices. The new finger force press detection mechanism is software base solution with AI machine learning algorithm, which can save enormous hardware cost on force sensing technique on capacitive touch screen.

Scheduling And Managing Online Meetings Using Message Threads, Qiujun Zhao

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Presented herein are techniques that provide for the ability to schedule and manage an online meeting utilizing message threads. Participants online meetings that have been scheduled via message threads can be grouped based on the message threads. In some instances, breakout sessions can be initiated by a participant in such a group.

Enhanced User Plane Selection Functionalities In 5g Deployments, Sudeep Pandey, Sujin Anagani, Sachin Vasanthkumar, Ravikant Singh, Rohit Jain

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Within a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth generation (5G) environment, a number of user plane challenges may arise. For example, in order to achieve minimum latency in a 5G environment, it is critical to have the same User Plane Function (UPF) for both a Serving Gateway (SGW) control plane (SGW-C) function and a packet data network (PDN) Gateway (PGW) control plane (PGW-C) function call leg. Additionally, in order to handle the scale of user plane traffic in a 5G environment, the user planes must be as efficient and as optimized as possible regarding data packet processing while at the …

Vertical Support With Cut-Outs For Snapping Mechanism _Id-06256, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to the simplified and quick installation of the kitchen hood at the ceiling above an island (or wall) positioned the cooking hob at a certain height, without the need to measure the height of the kitchen hood at the same time, by the assembling of the functional unit of the kitchen hood (venting part-chimney) with a support structure of the kitchen hood, already positioned, oriented and fixed.

To support the concept of simplified installation of the hood, the vertical section of the hood support is done in the form of the vertical “U-profile” channel that has more …

A Method And System For Providing Non-Visual Interaction Based Authentication, Rakesh Ramamurthy, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Madhusmita Mohapatra, Avi Bomb, Santosh Kumar Kvs

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing non-visual interaction based authentication. Such non-visual interaction based authentication may be provided in any user equipment of a user. Moreover, such non-visual interaction based authentication may be especially provided for specially abled users which utilise accessibility features. The method includes combining non-visual interaction modalities for entering authentication pin discreetly, using buttons or other modalities available on the user equipment.

Intelligent Cluster Provisioning, Shivram Salem Arunachalam, Raji Vinayagam, 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 …

Federated And Decentralized Metadata System, Philippe Ombredanne

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A federated and decentralized metadata system and its application to open source software package origin, license and vulnerabilities metadata sharing and curation.

This publication describes a new system and approach that supports decentralized and federated metadata aggregation and sharing to remove data silos, distribute control, improve availability and enable distributed and social review over this metadata.

Such a system is designed to effectively allow large scale sharing and exchange of metadata using open systems and to support the efficient curation, and peer review of the metadata through self-organizing networks of reputable or trusted peers based on social networking.

This system …

Stiff Brim, Arjen Dirks, Tom Heijmans

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This publication relates to the field of additive manufacturing. It more specifically relates to a method of printing a stiff brim on a flexible build plate without influencing the quality of the 3D printed part.

Squared-Set Analyzer For Inventory Management, Tapan Parekh, Satjeet Singh

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The actual demand for products can vary significantly from the forecasted demand in terms of time, quantity, mix, etc., leading to un-squared sets of inventory, inventory-holding costs, obsolescence risks, etc. Existing supply-chain tools can check if a certain demand for a set product mix can be met with existing inventory but offer no view into potential mixes of product configurations that can be built from existing inventory. This disclosure describes a squared-set analyzer (SSA), a decision-support tool that aids users in deciding products (and product use-cases and configurations) that can be built from existing and expected inventory. Accounting for competing …

Data Structure For Supporting In-Memory Storage With Multiple Keys, Theodore Obbard, Jonathan Katzman

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The Object data structure in JavaScript is simply a set of key-value pairs in which the values for each key must be one of the primitive data types. Developers can add multiple value fields for a given key within a JavaScript Object by using an array as the value. Developers can also use an array as a key and retrieve any value via the array. However, developers must query Objects with whole matching key values which prevents execution of queries with partial or multi-key matching. Overcoming these limitations by storing data in a client-side database on the local disk of …

Root Cause Analysis Using Graph Representation Of Constraints, Ming-Ho Stewart Siu

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When several quantitative variables are related through constraints and objectives, it can be difficult to understand why a certain quantity changes in magnitude after certain changes, or why a certain number seems larger or smaller than expected (as compared to a reference value). Large organizations which seek to optimize very large numbers of parameters to achieve constraints such as supply-demand matching face such problems, where the relationships between variables are controlled by a mixture of human processes and software algorithms. This disclosure describes scalable, flexible frameworks and searching techniques that improve transparency, e.g., enable root-cause analysis, for large families of …

System For Anomaly Detection In Prices In A Goods Purchasing System To Support Controlling, Axel Unger

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System And Method For Building Container Cluster, Panneer Perumal, Balasaheb Raosaheb Dengale, Charan Ramireddy, Dilshad T, Manjunath Y, Aditya Saxena

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The present disclosure provides a method and container management system for building container cluster. The container management system based on user requirement may automate hardening of operating system and configure network and storage for adding new container. The container management system obtains and configures load balancer VIP without any manual intervention. Thereafter, the container management system performs end-to-end validation by deploying test application and validating the test application. Thus, the present disclosure reduces time consumption for building container clusters based on the user requirement.

Image Upscaling For High Resolution Screencasting, Lijun Li

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This disclosure describes techniques for power efficient screencasting of high resolution content. Per techniques of this disclosure, a mobile device is coupled to a high-resolution display to which the mobile device screencasts content. The mobile device performs low resolution rendering of content. The content is upscaled at the mobile device prior to transmission to the high-resolution display or can be upscaled at the high-resolution display. The upscaling can be performed by a machine learning-based image upscaler that is suitable for real-time processing. Operations such as ray tracing and variable rate shading are performed by the mobile device at a lower …

Audio-Video Synchronization With Arbitrary, Non-Periodic Video Sources, Hao-Wei Lee, Jason Chihhao Lee, Hung-Jen Yu, Hung Ren Liang, James Chen Chao Huang, Jabez Hsu Chung, Eric Huang, Yi-Chin Shih

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The latency between audio and video streams of a device is usually measured using stock test videos. Although the use of stock test videos eases analysis, the test video differs materially from real-world videos, which tend to be far more diverse in content and encoding schemes, resulting in laborious experimental setup and inaccurate synchronization. This disclosure describes techniques to measure the latency between the audio and video streams of a given device using arbitrary, real-world, audio-visual footage (test video). Characteristic video and audio frames and their differences in timestamps (characteristic durations) are identified within the test video. The test video …

Adjusting Power Off Waiting Time Based On User's Wakeup Frequency, Hp Inc

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Fast wakeup from low-power standby mode of electronic devices while minimizing stress on components subject to wear is achieved by adjusting the power-off waiting time of the components based on the wakeup frequency experienced by the device.