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Techniques For Detecting And Classifying User Behavior Through The Fusion Of Ultrasonic Proximity Data And Doppler-Shift Velocity Data, Sachin Nadig

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This publication describes techniques relating to the detection and classification of user behavior through the fusion of ultrasonic proximity data and Doppler-shift velocity data on a computing device. Through the use of an ultrasonic proximity sensor and, in aspects, a radar sensor, user position and velocity can be combined and analyzed by the computing device to provide accurate user behavior predictions. These user behavior predictions may be used by the computing device to identify unique user behavior features and perform actions based on user behavior identification.

Continuous Use Of Biometric Sensor For Multiple Actions, Justin Eltoft, Albert Chen

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This disclosure describes techniques to continuously sense the presence of an authenticated finger on a fingerprint sensor (or other biometric, such as a verified face in the field of view of a camera) of a device to enable multiple secure device actions. A user’s finger and fingerprint are sensed by the device sensor and authentication is performed for the user. The user remains authenticated while the finger maintains contact on the sensor, allowing the user to perform different secure actions without having to re-authenticate for each secure action that is performed while contact between the authenticated finger and the sensor …

A New Latch Design For Network Equipment, Johnny Chen

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Many mechanical parts or modules used in networking equipment need to move or be removable. For example, in a rack server, it is often necessary for the top cover of the server to be removable in order to allow for maintenance, upgrades, and/or the like. A latch is often used to facilitate opening the cover. Existing latching mechanisms for networking equipment are typically off-the-shelf products. Such existing latching mechanisms may have different limitations, such as being able to move in only one direction. Presented herein is a new, innovative latch design that encompasses a new mechanical structure that offers enhanced …

Externally Powering Wireless Real-Time Locating System Tags, Amit Balar, Ning Zhang

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This publication describes techniques and apparatuses relating to powering wireless real‑time locating system tags (e.g., RTLS tags) through an external power source (e.g., an additional DC battery, connection to an AC power source). The external power source may be in addition to power supplied by the internal battery of the RTLS tag or in substitution of internal battery power. The techniques and apparatuses may include accessories utilized to externally power an RTLS tag through an external power source. One example accessory is utilized with a RTLS tag that includes a housing that can be opened by a consumer to replace …

3d Adversarial Face Targets, Visa

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The present disclosure relates to adversarial face targets that may be used to test performance of a face recognition system. As such, a plurality of images are received by a system. The plurality of images are processed to detect faces and a set of 3D target faces are synthesized. Further, a set of 2D viewpoint configurations corresponding to each 3D target face of the set of 3D target faces are captured based on a projection function. Adversarial perturbations are generated in relation to each 2D viewpoint configuration of the set of 2D viewpoint configurations. Thereafter, a set of 3D digital …

Providing Enhanced Augmented Reality Experiences Using Relationship And Contextual Data, Ram Mohan R, Faisal Siyavudeen, Rajarshee Dhar

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Techniques are provided herein for using relationship intelligence of the participants in the meeting to provide a customized Augmented Reality (AR) experiences for each participant of that meeting whose meeting client is AR-ready. These techniques may allow developers to provide their own relationship information and integrate that information with the meeting platform by proposing a set of Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) Software Development Kit (SDK) enhancements described herein.

Use Of Anonymity And Random Selection Within A Group Chat To Facilitate Group Discussions, Don Allen

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Corporations often seek honest feedback from their employees for different issues, such as changes to benefits, policies, strategies, product designs, etc. However, there are a number of factors that typically prevent employees from providing such feedback—fear of consequences. Many times, processes that are marketed as anonymous may not be totally anonymous such that when employees provide purported "anonymous" feedback, such feedback may not be completely anonymous and can cause employees to lose face with management or senior technical leaders, which can harm their careers. Open group dialog has demonstrated superior results to problems compared to individual inputs. Presented herein is …

Improved Process For Preparation Of Sodium 8-[(2-Hydroxybenzoyl)Amino]Caprylate, Anonymous

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This report is related to an improved process for Sodium 8-[(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino] caprylate feasible for commercial manufacture.

Haptic Touchscreen, Scott Scharfenberg

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Screen readers assist the visually impaired by describing the contents of a screen. However, dynamic content and non-standardized layouts are difficult to describe. This disclosure leverages haptic technology and tactile simulation to enable users to feel the content of a screen with their fingers. Window borders, tabs, scroll bars, banner ads, clickable user interface elements, text, images, etc. become accessible to the user not only visually but also via touch. The haptic touchscreen creates an immersive experience for both visually impaired users and users with normal vision. Code and content development for both classes of users is streamlined. In terms …

An Improved Process For Preparing N-[[2-[[[4- (Aminoiminomethyl)Phenyl]Amino]Methyl]-1-Methyl-1h-Benzimidazol-5-Yl]Carbonyl]- N-2-Pyridinyl-Β-Alanine, Anonymous

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An improved process for preparing N-[[2-[[[4-(aminoiminomethyl)phenyl]amino]methyl] -1-methyl-1H-benzimidazol-5-yl]carbonyl]-N-2- pyridinyl-β-alanine and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts

Intelligent Auto-Activation Of Closed Captions During Online Meetings And Calls For Productive Discussion, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain, Rajarathinam Chidambaram

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During a meeting or a call via a collaboration service (which brings together different capabilities such as video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, Web conferencing, and calling), a closed captions feature enables engaging and productive conversations for hard of hearing users and users with different levels of language proficiency. However, such a feature is by default turned off in collaboration meeting and calling services. Additionally, not all of the participants will be aware of such a feature. Techniques are presented herein that offer a unique cognitive algorithm for the intelligent automatic activation of a live captions feature for struggling …

Customized Stage View Generator, Qiujun Zhao

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Customers of online communication and collaboration services (which bring together different capabilities such as video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, Web conferencing, and calling) have been asking for more control over the appearance and the layout of their meetings. In particular, those customers wish to create a custom layout governing how video and shared content will be displayed in a meeting window. Current collaboration services lack such a capability. To address that lack, techniques are presented herein that support the generation of a stage view. Importantly, the generation of such a view requires minimal or no user interaction. Aspects …

Optics Line Quality Prediction Through A Long-Term Trend Inflection, Randy Zhang, Stefano Binetti

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Techniques are provided herein for using a long-term trend inflection for optics parameters (such as optics error count) to make event predictions. Different methods (e.g., machine learning) may be used to model the inflection. Short-term or instantaneous optics measurements, such as pre-FEC error count, are often a reflection of instantaneous bursts or drifts and are thus not a reliable indicator for pervasive and inherent connection quality issues. A longer term and continuous trend analysis can better predict connection degradation and failure.

Time-Based Anti-Replay Check, Wanli Wu

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Techniques are provided herein for a time-based anti-replay check. These techniques may address the 64-bit sequence number recovery issue and the replay check issue in multi-sender security engine and multi-receiver security engine applications.

Adaptive Service Testing For Observability, John Monaghan

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Described herein are techniques for optimizing network and application tests based on a prioritization scheme. These techniques may minimize costs and network overhead while reducing complexity for operations teams.

User Interface Mitigation Of Display Artifacts During Transitions Between Display Clock Speeds, Jyothi Karri, Chien-Hui Wen

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This publication describes techniques for user interface (UI) mitigation of a display artifact that occurs when a display transitions between a high speed (HS) mode and a normal speed (NS) mode. The display may be implemented in a mobile device that supports multiple refresh rates. To conserve power, the mobile device may alter a refresh rate and clock speed of the display from a first refresh rate and clock speed in the HS mode to a second refresh rate and clock speed in the NS mode. Using the techniques described herein, the transition between the HS and NS modes coincides …

Hydrogen Engine, Multi Fuel Engine, Continuous Rotation Engine., Peter Branton

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This engine design was developed specifically to be very easy to manufacture, it is highly efficient and reliable. A variety of fuels can be used including gasoline, butane, propane, and hydrogen, a twin fuel line can be used one for liquid fuel the other for a gas fuel to change from liquid to gas use a simple gas or liquid tap on each line. When changing to a different fuel turn the particular fuel tap to open, there is no further adjustment needed.

When using hydrogen it is advisable to use the single ball wheel design. This will give …

Meeting Agenda Templates For Automatically Inserting Agendas In Documents, Hakan Uysal

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This disclosure describes techniques to provide a meeting agenda template that can be used to create meeting agendas. A user can create a customizable meeting agenda template that includes particular fields for meeting attributes and items typically discussed in meetings. For a particular meeting, the user can input a simple command in a document to cause a meeting agenda derived from the template to be added to the document. Information such as attributes and meeting notes related to the meeting can be input by the user to the agenda fields. Described techniques can reduce the time spent in preparing a …

Securing Device Mechanism For Objects In A Vehicle, Anonymous

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Packet Tracing In Distributed Network Architectures, Gaganjeet Reen, Naveen Gujje, Maneesh Soni, Kaarthik Sivakumar

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In a distributed network architecture, tracking the network function node instances through which a network packet traverses, the time that a packet spends in each of the network functions, and the operations that the functions perform on each packet are extremely important when troubleshooting packet processing issues. However, such distributed architectures often include legacy services which cannot be readily extended (either because of the architecture or because of the programming language used) to include solutions to facilitate the above-described tracing. Techniques are presented herein that support a novel OpenTelemetry-based packet tracing approach that facilitates data plane debugging in a distributed …

Automatic Network Test Scheduling And Execution Based On Application Detection, Josh Anderson, Indermeet Gandhi, Hans Ashlock

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Techniques are described herein that provide a network and its management system with a deeper level of intelligence regarding the applications running on the network. This enables Information Technology (IT) administrators to understand which applications are on their networks and how those applications are performing.

Timer Function On User Interface Operated With Slider Instead Of +/- - Id-06041, Christian Mohr

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The present invention, solving the problem of a enabling a user to set a timer function, provides a control method and device of a user interface (UI) having a slider control to adjust and/or set a timer for a kitchen appliance, such as a hob system. The present invention also provides a hob system using the control method. The hob system comprises a touch display unit (e.g., a TFT) and a processor communicating with each other. The UI presented on the display unit allows the user to control the hob system. The UI includes a slider bar, a clock icon, …

Pixel-Based Conversion Gain Selection For Quad-Cell Cmos Image Sensors With Image Calibration And Extended Dynamic Range, Farhad Abbassi Gholmansaraei

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A Quad Bayer pixel structure is the current driving technology in developing high resolution image sensors with smaller pixel pitch. However, by reducing the pixel size the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the dynamic range (DR) of an image sensor will be compromised. One of the means to improve the SNR and DR for a quad-cell image sensor or other type of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor with tiny pixels is to use a dual conversion gain (DCG) approach in a pixel structure where the conversion gain (CG) selection is adaptive with scene illumination and enhances the SNR and DR. …

Voicemail Information Encoding For Better Call Direction, Igor Dos Santos Ramos, Ramprasad Sedouram, Daniel V. Klein

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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for encoding information to outbound voicemail prompts with a computer-readable signature allowing for more efficient voicemail usage and enhanced voicemail privacy. In one embodiment, a computer readable signature is provided at the beginning of an outbound voicemail prompt to signify to a calling computing system it has reached the voicemail, and a computer readable signature is provided at the end of the outbound voicemail prompt to signify to the calling computing system that the outbound voicemail prompt has ended and the voicemail is recording.

Credit Points Exchange, Parayus Mittal, Pravesh Tamrakar, Deepak Kumar Patel

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for establishing a credit exchange platform that allows users to effectively utilize the unused credit points. In an embodiment, the present disclosure discloses aggregating the credit points accumulated on multiple credit cards using the credit exchange platform. Further, the disclosure suggests allowing the users to redeem the aggregated credit points or sell them to a different user, resulting in effective and best use of the credit points.

Rotating Valve, Fuel Transfer Valve., Peter Branton

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This is a gas tight valve to transfer a liquid or gas onto a moving part. For example to transfer fuel from a fuel tank onto a moving part for use. It is capable of high speed application.

An Improved Process For Preparing (3r)-3-[(1,1-Dimethylethoxycarbonyl)Amino]-4-(2,4,5-Trifluorophenyl)Butanoic Acid, Anonymous

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This report is related to an improved process for preparing (3R)-3-[(1,1-dimethylethoxycarbonyl)amino]-4-(2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)butanoic acid.

Sharing The Majority Of A Screen Based On Object Detection, Yifei Liu, Soya Li, Han Hu, Xueying Xin, Qiaoqian Chen, Xiaowei Chen, Jiaming Ying

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Users typically do not hesitate to click on a screen sharing button. However, their personal information (such as website bookmarks, notifications, and desktop files) may be revealed unwillingly through such a share. Accordingly, techniques are presented herein that protect a users' private information when they share their entire desktop or separate windows. Aspects of the presented techniques adopt a state of the art (SOTA) object detection model and achieve real-time inference. Further, the incorporated algorithm is lightweight but useful in that it will not impact performance, but it will provide a positive user experience.

Automated Smart Printing Of Print Data, Hp Inc

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Cloud print platform enables users with web-enabled devices to print documents, photos by rendering any document entering the system into a printable format and then sends to the corresponding printer for printing. PCL (Printer Command Language) format supported printers accept PCL commands to process a print job. Documents are converted into a printable format in the print path, the most common format being PCL (Printer Command Language). Rendering features are hard to check as it consumes more time to ensure that all print features are as per designed. Manual verification is required to check if printed output is correct by …

Contextualization Transcription Of Non-Verbal Communication, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to contextualization transcription of non-verbal communication. All transcription applications today take inputs from audio capturing endpoints like microphones and apply voice/speech recognition algorithms and then speech-to-text transformations to transcribe the user’s speech. This transcription can further be enhanced by adding non-verbal inputs (inferred through video AI) to the transcription which can add contextual value to the transcription. This disclosure proposes methods to combine both video and audio inputs and transcribe it to solve this issue. With the use camera AI to add non-verbal context to transcription. This would complement audio transcription. Camera AI would look for common …