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Automatic Selection Of Suitable Device For Call Origination, Anonymous

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Many users have multiple devices with calling capability available, e.g., smartphone, smartwatch, or other mobile devices. In scenarios where multiple devices are available, a user may attempt to initiate a call on one device, while another device may actually instantiate and service the call. Techniques are described herein that provide robust call origination through intelligent analysis of the current operating condition of multiple available devices to select an appropriate device to place the call. Per the techniques, various mobile client devices connected to one another are analyzed to determine the thermal status, radio conditions, and ongoing activities of each device. …

Image Capture For Bill Self-Submission And Automatic Cross Validation, Paras Mamgain

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Automated bill payments work so long as a bill has been generated and shared with the customer; such is the case for services such as broadband, mortgage payments, etc. However, for utility services (gas, electricity, water, etc.) to customers with legacy (e.g., not internet-enabled) meters, the service provider lacks the information required to generate the bill until a person tasked with reading meters visits the customer location and reports the meter reading. This disclosure describes techniques to enable a customer to self-generate a utility (or other service) bill by uploading a photo of the current meter reading via a payment …

Gesture Detection Using Doppler Sonar, D Shin

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While some computing devices include specialized hardware for gesture detection that enables hands-free operation, many commodity devices such as laptops do not include such hardware. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to automatically detect gestures performed in proximity of commodity devices at no additional cost by employing the on-device speakers and microphone as a Doppler sonar (sound navigation and ranging). The on-device speaker(s) generate an ultrasonic ping signal inaudible to the human ear and the device microphone(s) capture reflections from the user’s body parts. The type of Doppler shift in the reflected signal can indicate the direction of …

Detecting The Direction Of A Uwb Anchor Or Tag Using Secondary Radiation, Kiavash Faraji

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An ultra-wideband (UWB) tag is a device that can be attached to objects to locate them or for other operations such as unlocking a device based on proximity to another device. Common implementations utilize at least three antennas on the device that detects a precise location of a UWB tag. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage secondary radiation caused by the metal case of a laptop (or other devices) to accurately locate a UWB tag while utilizing just two antennas, simplifying hardware design and reducing cost.

Camera Focus Adjustment Using Depth Estimated Via Ultra-Wideband (Uwb) Handshake, D Shin

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Many video conferencing applications support portrait mode where the participant is in focus and their surroundings are blurred. Portrait mode based on computer vision techniques can sometimes be unsatisfactory due to difficulties in separating the user and the background. This disclosure describes techniques that use existing ultra-wideband (UWB) hardware on commodity devices to perform crisp and more accurate segmentation. A UWB handshake protocol is utilized to estimate the distance and angle between the camera and another device that the conference participant is wearing. The estimate is used to automatically adjust camera focal length to focus on the conference participant while …

Personalized Shopping Via Conversational User Interface, Abhishek Yadav, Amit Handa

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Online and offline shopping activity often requires shoppers to spend substantial amounts of time researching, finding, and refining their product search to identify the right product that meets their requirements. Some of this time may be spent in searching and filtering results on general-purpose search engines or merchant websites, neither of which are optimized for shopping related research. This disclosure describes techniques that enable shopping via a rich, multimedia conversational interface. The techniques provide an online shopping experience that is simple, uncluttered, and does not overwhelm the user. The user is provided guidance throughout their shopping journey.

Measuring Audio Smoothness, Richard Zhang, Colin Downs-Razouk

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may determine audio smoothness (e.g., an aspect of audio quality) of an application session based on an audio smoothness metric that measures the number of bytes of an audio sample that arrive at audio output device (e.g., a headset, an earpiece, a speaker, etc.) on time. For example, the computing device may determine the audio smoothness metric based on the number of buffer overruns (e.g., an anomaly that occurs when a program writes data to a buffer at a faster speed than the data is …

Behavior Of A Multi-Planetary Search Engine, Ashish Duggal

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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for providing search results to users located in remote areas utilizing local hardware and locally cached data to return search results at little or no cost and providing a greater search breadth tier that utilizes remote hardware and data with an associated cost. User profiles associated with the users located in the remote areas may drive an aggregate, anonymized and frequency adjust model to determine subjects of interest to the plurality of users.

Automating Network Device Configuration Template Discovery, Derek Engi, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Ravi Garg, Bradley Wise

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Establishing network device "golden" configuration templates typically relies on largely manual efforts and a dialogue between network consulting engineers and customers. Techniques are presented herein that streamline the process of discovering and baselining network standards by examining underlying themes and relationships between micro-templates in customer environments. Aspects of the presented techniques employ a Masked-Language Model (MLM), in a way that an MLM was not necessarily intended, to detect locally significant attributes in network device configurations for the express purpose of identifying structures that are common across a set of devices. Under further aspects of the presented techniques, the creation of …

Predictive Ev Mode Drop In Phev To Prevent Mileage Collapse, Axel Unger

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Standard Combination Of Charging Columns With Washing Water Filling Stations, Axel Unger

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Horizontal Storage Module With Bow And Arrow Ejection Principle Mechanism

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Method To Simplify Detailed Testing In Distributed Microservice Architectures, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes a mechanism in which a user action(s) can be executed, and the internals of the system recorded when the actions are manually run, so that the system behaviour through to completion of the action(s) can be captured, analyzed, modified, shared, and compared against in subsequent iterations.

Method For Minimizing Over Booking Of Resources In Rhp Enabled Control Plane Networks, Anonymous

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The present disclosure proposes a mechanism to improve network efficiency and resource utilization in Retain Home Path (RHP) enabled control plane networks. With optimized resource allocation, networks will be allowed to accommodate a larger number of services without losing RHP capability of existing services. The disclosure provides a way to work with overbooking of RHP efficiently by selecting protect paths which lead to the lowest spectrum utilization in the network for RHP enabled services. Current RHP solutions do not consider spectrum usage. This can lead to usage of extra spectrum, which could have otherwise been saved.

Battery Swelling Defender By Pogo Pins Detection To Discharge The Swelling Gas, Hp Inc

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This innovation method is integrated electrical circuitry with pogo pins placement to sense battery swelling area and then mitigate it by an automatic control flow. For control methodology, the battery defender design in system background and monitor the battery swelling status. Once pogo pins trigger a battery swelling alert then start to calculate the affected area to further turn on the mesh shutter until mitigating the battery swelling circumstance. One step further, this solution can detect battery swelling earlier and analyze long term user charging usage in the data lake then properly adjust charging behavior on tagged system for preventing …

Automatic Detection Of A Non-Effective Prime, Hp Inc

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Some printheads require some servicing routines during the normal operation in order to keep the printheads in good conditions. Typically, the servicing routines consist of a combination of spitting, where the resistors are activated to spit ink, and blow primes, that consist of applying air pressure on the printhead vent to open the printhead regulator and eject some ink. Typically, the result of performing a non‐effective prime is a defect on the Image Quality, since during the servicing routines, the amount of ink ejected during a prime is lower than the required. This situation could occur if there is an …

Simply Constructed, Robust, Novel Combined (Flooded And Sprayed) Cooling System Of An E-Machine, Axel Unger

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ˮAicsˮ Audi Intelligent Car Smell, Axel Unger

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Blazed And Slanted Grating Mastering Using Crystallography-Based Silicon Etching, Lu Tian, Joe Lowney, Tom Mercier, Wei Jin

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This disclosure describes crystallographic etching techniques to manufacture blazed or slanted silicon gratings such that their characteristic angles are defined by the facet angles of the silicon crystal substrate. The techniques enable the manufacture of precisely formed and uniform gratings with smooth surfaces over large areas. The grating pattern is achieved by using anisotropic, potassium hydroxide based, crystallographic etching of a silicon wafer along selected crystal planes. The grating structures manufactured by the described techniques can be used as master molds for replicated fabrication of nano-imprint optical devices such as waveguides.

Widening The Spectrum For Monochrome Led Displays With Occasional Voltage Spikes, Ian Rickard Muldoon

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Monochrome LED displays, such as those used for augmented reality (AR) applications, can be unpleasant to view because of the single color used, which is often quite saturated. Approaches to address the issue with the use of phosphors or of LEDs of multiple colors are ineffective or impractical. This disclosure describes techniques to widen the spectrum of colors displayed via monochrome LED displays by occasionally spiking the voltage driving the LED to a higher level. The result is a display appearance that is less saturated and softer.

Global Fraud Detect, Simon Hopley

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for aggregating card transactions to detect fraud globally, wherein transactions that take place when the issuer’s accounts are known to be in a sleep state condition or comparable condition. The present disclosure suggests collecting data from an issuer, where there is a failure to detect system-wide fraud. Thereafter, the issuers are enabled to share fraud findings that may include more than simply one card network’s cards. Also, the present disclosure enables cross-card program frauds to be detected and stopped considerably more quickly, consequently reducing the size of a fraud and …

Predicted Binders For Mnk2 But Not Mnk1 Protein Targets From Machine Learning, Pratik Worah, Wen Torng, Jw Feng

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We used datasets from affinity screening to train machine learning models. The models were then used to rank compounds from commercially available compound collections to generate the following lists of predicted binders for MNK2 but non-binders for MNK1.

Machine Learning Techniques To Facilitate Wi-Fi Network Selection And Path Management, Indermeet Gandhi, Jerome Henry, Robert Barton, Pascal Thubert

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Wi-Fi® 8 envisions machine learning (ML) -based techniques (among others) to provide better predictability to the Wi-Fi experience. Presented herein are techniques that can be utilized to compute and display such W-Fi experience prediction, which can enable users to know which spot in a given location (e.g., a bar, restaurant, food court, airport, etc.) may provide the best Wi-Fi coverage for their application needs.

Process For The Preparation Of 3-Cyano-4-Isobutoxybenzothiamide, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Muppa Kishore Kumar, Mummadi Venkatesh And Anugu Praneeth Kumar; R&D Center, Msn Laboratories Private Limited; Hyderabad, India.

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The present invention provides an improved process for the preparation of 3-cyano-4-isobutoxybenzothiamide which is used as the key starting material of Febuxostat and the compound is represented by the following structural formula-1.

Formula-1.

Process For The Preparation Of Tenofovir Alafenamide Monofumarate, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sajja Eswaraiah; Rajeshwar Reddy Sagyam; Parameshwarappa Gangajji; Praveen Velishala

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The present disclosure provides an improved process for the preparation of Tenofovir alafenamide monofumarate with reproducibly in good purity and yield.

Multicast Operations, Administration, And Management (Oam) Techniques Utilizing Protocol Independent Multicast (Pim) Flooding Mechanisms, Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram, Stig Venaas, Abhiram Srinivasan

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Multicast networks are often complex and to provide a visualization of traffic flows within a multicast network often involves the full knowledge of a distribution tree for the network. Further, isolating problems within a multicast network can involve tracing of multiple nodes across the distribution tree. Techniques presented provide efficient multicast tree discovery through Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) flooding mechanisms, which can be further used to facilitate network visualizations and fault isolation within a network.

Digital Currency Policy And Accountability Technical Framework, William Drewry

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Computer-implemented systems and methods for digital currency transaction guarantors and double spending protection are described herein. A verified observer may be defined for a given transaction depending on certain criteria required by the verified observer such that any liability incurred for failure of the given transaction or an abuse of a system in the given transaction is the sole responsibility of the verified observer. When a coin is deposited to a digital currency storage device, a gadget may be bound to the coin by a verified authority or the digital currency storage device such that when the coin is used …

Real-Time Insights-Guided Beforehand Call Status And Quality Prediction Alerts For To-Be-Called Number, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain, Rajarathinam Chidambaram

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Based on a number of factors (including the available bandwidth, network issues, or service provider issues), when a call is made that call may or not be successful. Additionally, the quality of a call may also experience a setback due to those factors. Currently, there is no “beforehand” guidance system in place within a call control ecosystem which can alert a user to the probable relevant issues before a call is made. Techniques are presented herein that address that deficiency. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass a Real-time Intelligent Insights Engine as part of a real-time calling solution (within, for …

Systems And Methods For Contextually Relevant Search Results, Ramprasad Sedouram, Saachi Grover, Dharma Teja

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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for generating image search results pertaining to both the objects within an image as well as state of the objects. A user may provide an image to an image search system. The image search system may determine an imperfect object within the image and generate search results tailored toward the object being damaged or malformed. Search results may include, but are not limited to, replacement parts, third party repair services, how-to repair videos, or similar.

Automatic Generation Of Document Formatting Parameters Based On Device Capabilities, D Shin

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Users may view and/or edit documents on a variety of devices, with different screen orientations (portrait/landscape), size, resolution, etc. If a document formatted for viewing on a particular type of device is displayed on a different type of device without taking into account device capabilities, the resulting user experience may require the user to perform cumbersome zoom, pan, or scroll operations. This is because the formatting and visual choices made for the document on the original device may not necessarily be optimal for viewing on the other device. This disclosure describes the use of a trained machine learning model to …