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Smart Utility Cart For Improving Wireless Communication In High-Noise Environments, N/A

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It is common practice in data centers and other industrial environments to place wireless client devices such as laptops on rolling utility carts for transport through the facility. Such wireless client devices are often in close proximity to equipment that generates substantial radio frequency (RF) noise and interferes with wireless connectivity of the client devices. This disclosure describes a smart utility cart with a telescopic mast that hosts a wireless device bridge, e.g., antenna, situated at a height above RF noise sources to improve the received signal (by being in line of sight with access points) and to decrease the …

Ceiling Plate Bracket - Id-06257, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a kitchen hood rapid fixing solution to the kitchen ceiling by applying of a universal hood installation module, which enables the simple installation of more types of kitchen hoods, with similar dimensions of the hood’s ventilation section, independently of hood air ventilation (air extraction or recirculation).

The hood installation module makes part of the hood structure and consists of two elements: the ceiling plate bracket and the vertical support channel.

The mounting of hood support module to the ceiling begins with the fixing of the ceiling plate bracket element, followed by the hood support channel assembling …

Tokenization Ticket Master, Christopher O'Kane, Patrick Hutchinson

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The present invention discloses a tokenization ticket master system where in which a consumer 101 enters sensitive data into an event checkout page which is displayed/presented on a user device 102. The event checkout page presented/displayed on the user device 102 posts the sensitive data to an event server 103. The sensitive data is then sent to a tokenization server 104, where the data is securely stored, and a token is created to represent the sensitive data. A token ID is returned to the event server 103 and the token ID is encoded as a QR code. The token may …

A Method And System For Selection Of Payment Cards For Transactions After Pre-Stipulated Time Periods, Aditi Rungta, Jozua Heng, Edwin Kai Cong Tay, Way Zheng Calven Lim, Lutong Zhao

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing selection of payment cards for transactions after pre-stipulated time periods. The method includes generating a universal token for a consumer, such that the universal token is mapped to the consumer’s payment cards. Thereafter, the universal token is utilised for a transaction. In order for the transaction to be authorised, the universal token is authorised by issuing agencies. At an end of the pre-stipulated time period, the consumer may pay for purchases by choosing a payment card from a plurality of payment cards for each transaction made using the universal …

Full Step Z-Resolution Printing, Sanne Marx

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This publication relates to an FFF 3D printer generating an interface layer between a raft and the print itself to increase dimensional accuracy, such that subsequent motion paths all conform to the full step resolution of the printers Z-axes.

Improving Livestreaming Latency Using Metadata, Andrew Lewis, Stephen Lewis, Peter Lewis

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In live media streaming, latency between media capture at a sender and playback at a receiver is optimized to improve user experience. However, media analysis and editing algorithms (like object/sound/speech recognition) that operate on the stream can introduce delays; thus, media may not be transmittable immediately after capture due to delays introduced by processing and potential modification. This disclosure describes techniques of variable latency streaming, where the playback latency relative to the live edge varies during the playback depending on instructions that are generated based on content analysis of the stream. The instructions can be multiplexed into the live stream …

Offline Payments Using Printed Qr Codes, Arunkumar Rajendran

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Mobile payment applications cannot be used to make payments if a person does not have a mobile device or if no data connectivity is available. This disclosure describes techniques to enable a user to make a payment even if the user does not have a mobile device or if their device does not have data connectivity. Per the techniques, a user can carry a printed QR code that includes information about the user’s payment account, e.g., a payment wallet, a bank account, etc. that serves as the source of payment. The code can be scanned by a merchant (or other …

Categorizing Software Regression Test Results, Varun Puri, Shubham Sharma

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Customer complaints in cloud computing can originate from components of the cloud infrastructure platform or from components of third-party software. Further, cloud infrastructure components causing issues can affect customers generally or only customers under certain computing environments or using certain third-party software. Pinpointing the origin of a given customer complaint using targeted testing of components in isolation is computationally infeasible. This disclosure describes techniques that correlate test signals across multiple sources to reliably categorize issues in cloud computing to identify the origin of bad rollouts in a timely and cost-efficient manner. An issue that affects a plurality of workloads can …

User Customizable Content Summarization Using Deep Learning, Joseph Johnson Jr., Shiblee Hasan, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, David Lee

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Users expend substantial time and mental effort in trying to distill the most important facts and/or insight from lengthy text content. While deep learning models can summarize long documents, such models typically operate on the backend. Model output is not customizable by end users via simple user interfaces. This disclosure describes mechanisms that provide users with the ability to obtain customized automatic summaries of documents. Users can specify the desired properties of the summaries based on their preferences and constraints such as available time, desired length or style for the summary, output language, complexity, etc. via convenient UI elements. Users …

Enhancement Of Attach Process For Roaming, Hp Inc

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When the user travels to another country, he/she turns on the device sometimes it may take a long time to get the mobile service. In this disclosure, we provide an algorithm to reduce the service acquisition time and improved user experience.

Remote Desktop Sharing With Multiple Users With High Quality Video And Audio Throughputs, Hp Inc

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A system that enables multiple remote users to simultaneously connect to a desktop is disclosed. The desktop can be hosted on a remote physical or virtual machine. Audio and video content from the remote desktop is securely transferred over the network to all connected users. The audio and video qualities are adjusted dynamically based on the network performance of all the connections.

Bifurcated Thunderbolt Host Pcle X16 Card With Discrete Gpu, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to Thunderbolt Type C I/O integration into a host computer architecture using the industry standard PCI Express x16 add‐in card with both a discrete graphics processor (GPU) and up to two discrete Thunderbolt host controllers.

Wireless Charging Hotspot Navigator, Hp Inc

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Wireless charging service has become popular as its convenience. Besides *local usage (coffee shop/bus/train/airport, etc.), mobile usage is much more welcome. *Mobile wireless charging devices has been launched for years like Power-Bank, Smart-Phone, and even Laptop. Focus on the Laptop scope, what competitor has done is to implement Wireless charging coil/chip into touch pad as integrated solution. Once the user wants to use wireless charging, simply hit certain combination key (like fn+F11 for Samsung) as the command of enabling wireless charging/disabling touch function (avoid false trigger the touch pad).

A Quick Authentication Mechanism By Using Uwb Technology, Hp Inc

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In general, platform users need to input ID and Password (authentication purpose) in the system to get the credentials before accessing any non-open resource- such as Wireless Network, secured printer. It’s bothering that end users might need to pass the authentication frequently to connect to different resources so we plan to improve this kind of user experience – users can connect to WiFi Network or secured printer easily with a simple, quick but secure method.

Coupling Concept For Switch Grounding System, Hp Inc

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Currently studied WLAN antenna combo camera in camera box for AIO product. The antenna dimension around 20 x 10 mm and with cable part and copper foil part to assembly. At pop out mode has good wireless performance to connect. The total camera box dimension length around 110 mm is too big, ME team want to small camera box. To move antenna location to outside of camera box by design coupling concept.

Thermal Solution - Expanded Heatsink, Hp Inc

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The concept is to give a heatsink fin that can transform geometry ability. The purpose is to enlarge the heatsink size to increase the heat dissipated area and increase the flow space to improve flow convention efficiency.  Thermal part o Fin: a flexible or adjustable fin structure that can increase the width of Air flow space from D to (D+½ d), which would help decrease the flow speed to reduce the noise. o Fan: Where fins transform, and the air gap between the desk and NB bottom surface (bottom air inlet) is also increased, the fan can suck air …

Modular Speaker & Webcam With On Off Solution In All In One, Hp Inc

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Current AIO webcam and speaker solution are integrate with system. For some special configuration can remove speaker driver or webcam daughter board from inside and keep the same appearance even without function. Also, there is no physical security switch can turn off both device and only control by software.

Acoustic Lp Filtering For High Frequency Spurious Harmonics Rejections, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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Eliminating Harmonic content generated in modern RF modules is very important for the overall system performance as well as the end User’s experience. Additional filtering is used in several stages of such Mid/High Band modules used for LTE/5G and other mobile applications. Most of those make use of traditional LC filtering offering rejection level in the order of 10-15dB at a targeted frequency range. Those increase the system losses and result in higher NF and current consumption. An alternative, utilizing BAW resonators forming a Low Pass (LP) can reduce the losses and cost, providing rejections better than 20dB across a …

Additively Manufactured Dual-Faced Structured Fabric For Shape-Adaptive Protection, Hp Inc

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Here we disclose a novel dual-faced structured fabric and its design method. The dual-faced structuredffabric consists of 3D re-entrant unit cells interlocked in a chain mail structure with different unit cell arrangements on its top and bottom surfaces. The combined design of the energy-absorbing re-entrant unit cells and their unique topological interlocking synergistically strengthens the structured fabric and makes it superior to a wide range of materials proposed for wearable applications. The flexible structured fabric fabricated from polyamide 12 (PA12) by the Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technique demonstrates high specific energy absorption and specific strength of up to 1530 J/kg …

Selective Printheads Servicing Based On Printmode And Drop Detection Analysis, Hp Inc

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Current disclosure will present a method to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of Drop Detection (DD) functionality and related servicing. This improvement is based on a predictive approach using as reference the printmode nozzle usage strategy. It is very common, in large format printers (middle and low volume) for the printheads (PHs) to have a fixed position in the carriage. Thus, depending on the printmode selected, the printer uses just a small part of the available nozzles of the printhead(s). It is also usual that before printing a plot, the printer performs a drop detection to record which nozzles …

Photos View In A Relative Timeline Based On Subject Age, Gabriel Diniz De Faria

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Many users have photo libraries that include photos taken over a long period of time, e.g., over several years. Photo library applications can index such photos and enable viewing a timeline of photos of particular persons or pets. However, there is no easy way to see a comparison, e.g., a side-by-side view of two different entities at the same age. This disclosure describes techniques to provide such a view. With user permission, age information for various individuals in their photo library is obtained, e.g., by seeking user input via a user interface. When a user requests a comparison view, such …

User-Controlled Selective Metadata Removal Prior To Content Sharing, Benjamin Azose, Molly Clancy

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Image and video files include embedded metadata with information such as date and time of capture, location, camera type and settings, etc. When sharing such content with other users, e.g., via messaging, social media, etc. users sometimes prefer to remove some or all of the metadata. Current mechanisms for metadata removal are cumbersome and coarse, e.g., do not provide fine control to remove certain metadata while retaining other metadata. This disclosure describes flexible and seamless mechanisms for users to share content with others, with selective inclusion of metadata. The techniques provide a user interface that enables the user to choose …

Reclaiming Storage Space By Removal Of Unnecessary Frames From Multi-Frame Photos, Benjamin Azose, Molly Clancy

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Smartphones and other digital cameras enable users to capture photos that include several frames, including some prior to the instant of the user selecting the capture button and some after. This allows motion within the scene to be captured as well as for post-capture selection of a suitable still image, e.g., an image where the subjects are in the correct pose and/or are looking at the camera. However, this is wasteful of storage space when the captured image is of a still object. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically detect such multi-frame photos and enable users to remove excess frames …

Generating Personalized Recommendations Via Large Language Models (Llms), Hakim Sidahmed, Sameer Ahuja, Manoj Kumar Tiwari

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Personalized recommendations used in many applications and websites are generated using techniques such as collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, reinforcement learning, etc. These are task-specific approaches. Large language models (LLMs) can generate predictions based on priming with specific input without the need for task-specific model tuning. However, LLMs have not been applied for making personalized recommendations because their maximum input size is smaller than the typical size of user histories used to personalize recommendations. This disclosure describes techniques to obtain personalized recommendations via LLMs by automatically augmenting a user command or query with relevant text phrases about the user. The set …

Validating Software Functionality Across Combinations Of Runtime Configurations, Matt Kenison, Justin Bagwell, Tylor Sampson, Mike Meade

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As the number of configurable attributes of software under test grows and the cardinality of those attributes increases, the efficiency of software verification rapidly declines. This disclosure describes techniques to determine test coverage gaps in multidimensional configuration spaces of substantial cardinality by enabling a software developer to define a set of rules associated with a feature and by forming a Boolean algebra over a coverage matrix that defines the required test coverage. Test coverage is tracked and presented on a dashboard. Release can be blocked automatically if the test coverage gap is beyond a threshold. Based on the coverage matrix, …

Water-Conservation Device And Method, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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Device and method to conserve water by controlling the flow of water depending on user input, water temperature, human presence and duration. The device consists of a MEMS chip with sensors to measure force, temperature and infrared energy and integrated CMOS control circuitry and a ball valve.

Ivdac, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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The invention is a circuit that combines a VDAC (Digital to Analog Converter Voltage source) and an IDAC (Digital to Analog Converter Current source) into one circuit. This is done by reusing the largest elements of the IDAC for the VDAC. The circuit is either in the mode of a VDAC or an IDAC. The two circuits have three main elements which are: Opamp, feedback and output stage. The elements which are shared between the two circuits are the Opamp and the output stage.

Multiple Notch Filter Using On-Die Baw Mim Cap, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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Antennaplexers and other multiplexers often use notch filters to create a wider passband than achievable with a standard bandpass filter. When using a notch filter in this way, it is often required to provide multiple reject bands to provide isolation to other ports. Previously this has been achieved by using multiple acoustic notch filters or by adding an external tank circuit using SMDs. While the tank inductor can be embedded within the module laminate, the capacitor typically cannot and requires an SMD. Implementing this capacitor on the BAW die as a MIM allows increased integration and enables multiple reject bands …

Enhanced Lna Control Methods And Circuit Techniques, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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A controller for but not limited to low noise amplifiers (LNAs) providing improved yield, lower area, lower power, improved performance and improved production test calibration by leveraging innovative architectures and methodologies.

Key areas of focus:
- Single or multi-transistor LNA core & bias improvements to more precisely control and match both operating current densities and terminal voltages
- Generating more precise LNA voltage bias control and matching
- Reduced area and power

Techniques, methods and circuits are broad and generally applicable

Amr Protection, Qorvo Us, Inc.

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The present disclosure relates to a detector for radio frequency (RF) swing and direct current (DC) voltage that is connected to Vcc1. Output of the detector is connected to the bias circuit. A high RF swing and/or collector DC voltage reduces the bias of Q2. The combination of high input drive detection and/or high collector voltage detection creates an effective protection of the module at the absolute maximum ratings (AMR) conditions. The output of the detector is fed to the bias circuit in the feedforward scheme in which Q2 bias current is reduced at high voltage and high module drive. …