Digital Commons Network^™

Method And System For Processing Queries With Query Filters On A Server, Mohankumar Ramachandran

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for processing queries with query filter on a server. The method includes receiving a query to be executed. The method analyses the received query and query filter. The method includes performing a search across metadata of Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) associated with one or more files to identify whether the query filter is within a threshold of a given RDD. The method further identifies at least one RDD satisfying the query filter based on the search. Finally, the method includes executing the query to read the content from one or more …

Indicator Lights For Storage Space Available In An Airplane Overhead Compartment, A. Mittal

Defensive Publications Series

Searching for available storage space in overhead compartments on a plane often involves multiple iterations of opening, checking, and closing overhead storage compartments before a space suitable for storing the given piece of luggage is found. This manual process is inefficient and time consuming, and increases the time required for completing the flight boarding process. This disclosure describes the use of sensors in overhead compartments that detect availability of storage space. The available storage space in an overhead compartment is indicated to passengers via indicator lights and/or display screens of the in-flight entertainment system. Different colors can be used based …

A Method And User Equipment For Providing Vibration Based Communication Of Sensitive Information For Visually Impaired Users, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Madhusmita Mohapatra, Rakesh Ramamurthy, Avi Bomb, Amrendra Narayan Jha

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and user equipment (UE) (102) for providing vibration-based communication of sensitive information for visually impaired users (101). In the present disclosure, initially the UE (102) may receive a request from the visually impaired user (101) to access information present on a virtual card. The UE (102) detects whether the information requested corresponds to be sensitive information. Further, the UE (102) encodes the information into a vibration pattern on confirming it to be sensitive information. Finally, the UE (102) generates the encoded vibration patterns for the visually impaired users (101) to complete the transaction, …

Solar Smart Hat For Augmented Reality Wearables, Jian Guo, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Some augmented reality (AR) wearables such as glasses include powerful features such as live transcription. However, such features are constrained by the relatively low processing power and limited battery capacity of AR wearables. , necessitated by the small size and limited space availability. AR wearables need to be taken off for charging since there is no convenient way to charge the device during use. This disclosure describes a smart hat, a head-worn accessory that includes a solar panel and battery. The smart hat can be connected to an AR wearable via an interface and can charge the AR wearable. The …

System And Method For Role Automation For Data Virtualization, Sudeshna Biswas, Vinay Kumar Mishra

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and automation system for role automation for data virtualization. When user modifies/builds views, the automation system defines available security role master, row-level security rules, column-level security rules and view-specific security rules. The automation system then creates base view for master and obtains existing permission from metadata. The automation system compares results of base review and existing permission to find if there is any change in security rule. The automation system creates generic framework to generate security scripts in VQL to modify roles and store results into database as table. The automation system creates procedures …

Self-Correcting Policies Using Behavioral Analysis Of Network Security Nodes, Doron Levari, Vincent E. Parla, Tariq Ahmed Farhan, Siddhu Warrier, Jay Perry

Defensive Publications Series

For every organization, the requirements for network security and access are constantly evolving. The recent pandemic served to accelerate many of those requirements. Additionally, external threats evolve and multiply as well. An automatic system that offers policy-centric insights, anomaly identification, potential courses of action, and remediation recommendations is a key to enable the fast, agile, and accurate policy adjustments that are required to address the above-described security requirements at an increasing pace. Techniques are presented herein that solve the aforementioned problem by applying distributed behavioral anomaly detection that feeds into a centralized policy distribution system to provide a policy self-correction …

Two-Party Webauthn Token Activation, Richard Barnes, Adam Goodman, Carson Hoffman

Defensive Publications Series

In order to prevent attacks such as phishing, an enterprise needs their users to log in using a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Authentication (WebAuthn)-based authenticator. Current WebAuthn authenticator devices present a number of problems for an enterprise. For example, outsourcing authentication device distribution logistics to a device vendor brings great operational benefits to an enterprise, however this traditionally requires that a large amount of trust be placed in the vendor. Techniques are presented herein that split an authenticator's secret between the two parties (i.e., an enterprise and a vendor), requiring active collaboration by the parties to issue an …

Selecting Content Using Second Screen Devices, Jason Robertson, Siddhartha Gudipati

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed herein is an improved mechanism for selecting content using second screen devices. The system can pair a second screen mobile device with a media presentation device, where the system can begin presenting a first media content item on the media presentation device using a first media content service. The system can then present, on the second screen mobile device, a user interface that indicates a group of available media content services and corresponding available media content items. The system can receive, at the second screen mobile device, a selection of a second media content item associated with a second …

Infrared Fallback Mechanism For Remote Control Devices, Madhava Srinivasan, Sid Parmar, Matt Crowley, Sergej Salnikov

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed herein is an infrared fallback mechanism for remote control devices based on the HDMI-CEC capabilities of a target device. When HDMI-CEC is enabled on the target device, such as a display device or any other suitable HDMI sink device, and when a feature is an HDMI-CEC compatible feature, the remote control device can transmit instructions to the target device by transmitting a Bluetooth radio signal (e.g., a Bluetooth Low Energy signal) to a streaming media device, which, in turn, can transmit an instruction to the target device via an HDMI-CEC channel between the streaming media device and the target …

Dynamic Format Selection Of Media Content, Kevin Chen, Anil Vijendran, Jeremy Zhou, Rob Gaunt, Pawel Jurczyk, Chubing Zeng, Michael Smouha, Colin Whittaker

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed herein is an improved mechanism for dynamic format selection of media content. The mechanism can use a machine learning model to select a format (e.g., a playback resolution) for providing media content based on information available at the time when the request for providing the media content is received. Such information can include, for example, location information (e.g., the geographic location of a user device that is presenting the media content), account information (e.g., previously selected media content items, watch time statistical information, subscription information, etc.), and/or network condition information (e.g., current egress traffic from one or more servers …

Secure And Trustworthy System And Method Of Providing Charitable Contributions Using Cryptocurrencies, Ila Malde, Devina Arvind, Raj Patel, Akshat Agarwal, Manasa Balaji

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a secure and trustworthy system and method of providing charitable contributions using cryptocurrencies. Initially, a registration request may be received from a donor. The request may be received by a node in a private consortium blockchain. Also, a registration request from the recipient family may be received by a node in the private consortium blockchain. The registration request may include sensitive information of the recipient family which is verified by one or more members operating in the private consortium blockchain as being a legitimate recipient family of a charitable donation for a cause. Further, the node …

Unique Benchmarking Tool To Measure Relative Cardholder Carbon Footprint Compared To In-Market And Global Peers, Nuri Vinod Purswani Ramchandani, Shikhar Swarup, Manasa Sitaram, Richa Arora, Namita Shah

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for calculating Carbon (CO₂) emission scores from customer purchase data and creating a score-based numerical representation to represent the carbon footprint with respect to the cardholder’s green-score benchmark. The present disclosure suggests mapping the MCCs to purchased item-level information to obtain CO₂ intensity multipliers. Thereafter, the net carbon emission value is calculated based on the transaction data associated with the purchased items. Further, a visual representation of the numerical scale score is created to represent the user green score/carbon footprint.

Adjustable Power Supply With Smart Battery Interface, Paul Fagerburg, Jonathan S. Bruneau

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a programmable smart battery emulator that is usable to test laptops or other computing devices during a design phase. The smart battery emulator is operable from a user terminal that can be utilized to adjust various parameters associated with battery parameter emulation as well for emulation of communication protocols between a computing device under test (DUT) and a smart battery. The smart battery emulator includes a microcontroller that enables communication with the DUT and to regulate the output of the bench supply to a specified voltage. A software application transmits commands to the smart battery emulator. The …

Iterative Image Generation Via Voice Interaction With An Image Generation Model, Sarvjeet Singh, Bertrand Damiba

Defensive Publications Series

Image generation models enable users to generate images by providing instructions. However, such models cannot be invoked with voice commands and are also unable to update a prior image based on the user instruction. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to obtain and refine images by iteratively interacting with an image generation model in real time, e.g., via voice commands to a virtual assistant. Implementation of the techniques can enable users to use their voice and imagination for artistic visual expression. The techniques can be provided via a virtual assistant available via a smart speaker, smartphone, or other device. …

Named Entities In Conversation Fingerprinting For Knowledge Dissemination Detection, Sébastien Warichet, Emmanuel Helbert, Nadir Debbagh

Defensive Publications Series

The overall context is about how to evaluate the interactions between employees in an organization and their ability to disseminate the knowledge throughout the different departments and teams. This is highly relevant for Human Resources Department in order to identify the skills in the organization, the bottleneck in communication between teams and the optimization of resources in the case of the same skill or knowledge appear in different places in the organization.

Identification Of Faulty Software Binaries From End-To-End Tests, Shubham Sharma, Varun Puri, Babu Prasad Elumalai

Defensive Publications Series

Software products are built from a number of interacting binaries that are rolled out asynchronously, at differing schedules and paces. When there is a problem with a software product such as a failure or sub-par performance, identifying the binaries that are the source of a product failure or sub-par performance is difficult with end-to-end tests. Additionally, an apparently failing test can be a false positive that does require any code changes to fix, yet that demands human attention. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically determine, from end-to-end tests of a software product, code binaries that are at the root of …

Randomized Bed Probing, Tom Nagel, Sam Kent, Sanne Marx

Defensive Publications Series

This publication relates to a method of build plate probing for an FDM printer. The XY position of each probing point is randomized in order to reduce damage to the build plate and maintain accuracy over the build plate’s lifetime.

Real-Time Compression Of Software Traces, Clinton Grant

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are presented herein that support the compression of software-generated traces as a stream, in real time, with reduced central processing unit (CPU) overhead. Such an approach may reduce cloud hosting bandwidth charges and is relevant when moving troubleshooting information from a device into the cloud for analysis. Additionally, such an approach eliminates the bursty nature of file-based compression that is typically achieved using legacy compression utilities. As a result, the presented techniques are more amenable to small CPU footprints such as, for example, a cloud-based router having just a single CPU. Aspects of the presented techniques have a broad …

What You See Is What You Get (Wysiwyg) Stage Editor For Users Who Share Applications, Felix Yang, Summer Fang, Vagou Zhou

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are provided herein for a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) stage editor for the presenter in a meeting. These techniques no longer require more than two people (one as a presenter to share content and another to take on the producer role as stage editor). These techniques also resolve infinity effects caused by screen-sharing (one display only).

Self-Calibration Of 3d Sensors Installed In A Known Environment, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Device And Method For Accepting Central Bank Digital Currency(Cbdc) In Payment Networks, Pamela Ghosh, Vanesa Meyer, Wanyun Gu

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a device and method for accepting CBDC in payment networks. Initially an authorizing entity communicates with an interaction module to complete onboarding process. Further, the user also communicates with interaction module via the authorizing entity to perform the onboarding process. The interaction module transmits the onboard request to the blockchain network. Further the blockchain network provides a wallet identifier and the private key for the authorizing entity and the user. The interaction module stores the wallet identifier and the private key of the authoring entity and the user in a secure vault. Upon the onboarding, …

Bump To Initiate Authentication Based Token On A Moving Device, Wilson Thampi, Tony Kollamparambil

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention aims to employ the second device for propagating to the loyalty model to allow a user to access a temporary card token without disclosing primary account number (PAN) information. A first device (101) is pre-registered with the software development kit (SDK) of the user's payment network provider for authorization tokens without disclosing card information. In addition, if a token is bumped on the dashboard of the first device, a token of low value might be sent to the second device based on the consolidated loyalty score of the devices. A silent push message sent by the payment …

Leveraging Wi-Fi Infrastructure For Increased Power Savings In Iot Devices, Santosh Kulkarni, Vishal Desai, Pooya Monajemi

Defensive Publications Series

Mining is one of the oldest industries known to man, and it continues to remain essential for the prosperity of modern civilization. Compared to surface mining, a large number of disasters are likely to occur during underground mining. To ensure the safety and security of an underground working environment, it is critical for underground mining operations to employ a robust and efficient monitoring infrastructure. To address that need, techniques are presented herein that support an increase in power savings in Internet of things (IoT) devices by leveraging a Wi-Fi infrastructure to determine when, and how frequently, such devices should wake …

Improved Process For The Preparation Of 4-((4-Methylpiperazin-1-Yl)Methyl)-3-(Trifluoromethyl)Aniline, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Sajja Eswaraiah, Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy, Keshavareddy Navin Kumar Reddy, Maadhu Amarnath Reddy, Chityala Basker Reddy

Defensive Publications Series

IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 4-((4-METHYLPIPERAZIN-1-YL)METHYL)-3-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)ANILINE

The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of 4-((4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)aniline formula (1).

Formula (1)

4-((4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)aniline is used in the preparation of Ponatinib hydrochloride.

System And Method For Object Recognition Including Its Use In A Motor Vehicle, Axel Unger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Thumbnail Selection For Video Ads With Call-To-Action Buttons, Miquel Farré, Haotian (Chris) Fang

Defensive Publications Series

Current thumbnail selection techniques for video ads are based on content, e.g., saliency maps, faces, logos, etc., and quality, e.g., blurriness, presence of video-encoding artifacts, etc. While such techniques perform better than random selection or default selection of the first frame, these don’t generally account for user activity or preferences. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage statistics of prior user interactions with call-to-action (CTA) buttons within video advertisements to guide the selection of thumbnails for the video ads. Thumbnails are selected from segments of a video ad where prior viewer data indicates a tendency to click the CTA button within …

Interior Insulation For Electric Vehicles To Increase Efficiency, Axel Unger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Process For The Preparation Of Amorphous Form Of N-[5-(3,5-Difluorobenzyl)-1h-Indazol-3-Yl]-4-(4-Methyl-Piperazin-1-Yl)-2-(Tetrahydro-Pyran-4-Yl-Amino)-Benzamide

Defensive Publications Series

Process for the preparation of amorphous form of N-[5-(3,5-difluorobenzyl)-1H-indazol-3-yl]-4-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-yl)-2-(tetrahydro-pyran-4-yl-amino)-benzamide.

Adding New Racks And Recabling Without Network Disruption And Facilitating Mis-Cabling Detection, Chakradhar Kar, Avinash Reddy Yeddula, Vikas Balakrishna Dharwadkar, Sri Goli

Defensive Publications Series

As network fabric deployments continue to grow larger and more immense, there are challenges involving the management cabling arrangements and debugging mis-cabling issues for large-scale full mesh leaf-spine networks. Additionally, the need for the automatic discovery of every component of a large fabric, which can be expanded dynamically, becomes a challenging task. Accordingly, techniques are presented herein that aid in the automatic detection of mis-cabling issues, the automatic discovery of a rack’s location within a large-scale data center, and the automatic detection of the addition of a new rack to a data center, all without disrupting network traffic within a …

A Method And A Connecting Device For Associating Users And Philanthropic Entities, Malay Ghosh, Papak Mondal, Hui Min Chua, Kelvin Wong, Tan Su Yee, Imaan Rowter

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and a connecting device for associating users and philanthropic entities to help in community movement. In the present disclosure, initially a connecting device 103 may receive a request from an authorization entity to connect to a philanthropic entity 105. The authorization entity may send the request to the connecting device 103 when the user device 101 initiates a transaction with a merchant. The authorization entity may determine if the user device 101 is enrolled in the charity program. Further, the connecting device 103 may send a request to retrieve the event data …