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Micro-Loop Free Delivery On The Post-Convergence Path After A Link Change In The Topology, Anonymous

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This disclosure provides robust and generalized algorithms that allow prevention of micro-loops directly on the post-convergence path following a link failure (Link down) or upon re-convergence following a newly inserted link in the topology (Link up). Through this solution, if a remote link fails, traffic can leverage emulated local loop-free backup calculations on behalf of the PLR nodes without explicitly redirecting traffic to the PLR and instead directly tunnel traffic to reach the destination directly on the post convergence path (after the link churn) through a loop-free intermediary node (in a loop-free manner) during convergence, thus resulting in minimal to …

Variable Emc Filter Board - Id-05919, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a variable electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filter board for a kitchen appliance. The EMC filter board provides a circuit configuration with multiple connection options for forming variable filtering circuits. The variable filtering circuits, e.g., LC and RLC circuits, which can be formed by connecting multiple connection points. The variable EMC filter board can be assembled into the interior regions of a kitchen appliance and provides one of the variable filtering circuits via the selected multiple connection points for properly protecting electronic components of the kitchen appliance from unwanted electromagnetic noise. The proposed variable EMC filter board provides …

Distributed Shader Cache, Doug Horn

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The compile time for shaders for certain graphics APIs can sometimes be unacceptably long. Compilation of shaders during gameplay can, depending on CPU/GPU load, cause awkward rendering pauses (janks) or artifacts in games. This disclosure describes a shader service wherein shaders are pre-compiled for multiple target GPUs and are cached on servers. A game device can download the appropriate pre-compiled, binary shaders from the servers based on various factors such as the version of the game, the model of the user’s GPU, the driver version for that GPU, etc. The described techniques can speed up gameplay by avoiding shader compilation …

Transport Of 800ge Traffic Over Two 400ge Frames, Gilberto Loprieno, Emanuele Giacometti, Luca Della Chiesa, Jim Duda

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The 800 gigabit per second (Gb/s) Ethernet (GE) technology is a new protocol that has been standardized by the Ethernet Technology Consortium. Techniques are presented herein that split an 800GE stream into two 400GE frames (e.g., 400GE-A and 400GE-B) without requiring any mapping. Under aspects of the presented techniques the 32 virtual lanes of the 800GE stream may be grouped into two groups of 16 virtual lanes; both the 400GE-A and 400GE-B links are protected by the Forward Error Correction (FEC) of the 800GE stream; alignment markers (AMs) are inserted according to the 800GE standard; the AM field CM2 is …

Personalized Health Reminders In The Voice Of A Trusted Caregiver, Twinkle Gupta, Naga Sreenivas Meruva

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Some health management applications and devices include functionality to help remind users to take their pills. However, such reminders often lack relevant detail, such as name and dosage of the specific medication. Further, no mechanisms exist for caregivers to access health-related information of consenting users, e.g., for children to access information of elderly parents, or to remind them of health-related tasks. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to receive health-related reminders based on photos of their medication. The notifications can use the voice of their preferred caregivers, such as their adult children. Suitable computer vision and machine learning …

Novel Crystalline Polymorph Of Baloxavir Marboxil And Process For Preparation Thereof, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Sajja Eswaraiah, Vijayavitthal T. Mathad, Saladi Venkata Narasayya, Kammari Bal Raju, Mandad Pratap Reddy

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The present invention relates to novel crystalline polymorph of Baloxavir marboxil comprising Baloxavir marboxil compound of formula-1 and Methylparaben compound of formula-2 and process for preparation thereof.

New Wake Up Scenario: Wake On Pick Up, Hp Inc

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Nowadays there’re more and more intelligent and convenient ways to wake laptops up from

sleep/hibernate mode, such as remote wake up via Internet, wake on voice detection, Human Presence

detection…etc. Here we’d like to present another approach – Wake on Pick up detection, which allows users

to wake up their laptops while they’re working at home and moving their laptops to their workspace. This

feature would benefit some scenarios that users pick up their laptops to another place to work, the laptops

will be powered on while the laptop is picked up so that when users arrived their workspace start …

Surfacing Resources For Emotional Support Based On The User’S Inferred State Of Mind, N/A

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Users may issue queries to a virtual assistant, search engine, or other technological interface to seek help when experiencing acute emotional distress. Current approaches surface relevant information, such as the number for a local helpline, that can help connect the users to resources to deal with the matter. Currently, such information is surfaced if a spoken query to a voice-based virtual assistant contains specific trigger words related to mental health and emotional well-being. Such a simplistic approach lacks a nuanced understanding of the user’s context and state of mind when issuing the query. This disclosure describes techniques to infer the …

Offering Empathetic Coping Mechanisms In Response To Queries On Emotional Well-Being, N/A

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Users may issue queries to a virtual assistant, search engine, or other technological interface to seek help when experiencing acute emotional distress. Current approaches of surfacing relevant information are unsuitable due to lack of trustworthy local resources that provide support, lack of supportive information content in the user’s language, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to present users with professionally vetted information on coping mechanism(s) and/or empathetic response(s) that support their emotional needs. When users issue queries related to emotional well-being, appropriate answers chosen from a pool of supportive responses collected from mental-health professionals can be presented with permission. The presentation …

Hybrid Fingerprint Technique For Iot Asset Classification And Management, Ajith Chandran

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In connection with the classification of different Internet of things (IoT) assets, techniques are presented herein that enhance the classification process through a hybrid approach which utilizes both active monitoring techniques (where different packets are sent to a target and the response from same is compared with a database) and passive monitoring techniques (where a sniffing tool is used to non-intrusively identify a unique signature of a device). Aspects of the presented techniques employ active monitoring during a preliminary stage (to create an initial fingerprint of the network) and later employ passive monitoring (for gathering and calculating observed fingerprints). Such …

Adaptive First Radio Access Technology Selection For Public Land Mobile Network Search, Poying Chuang, Jecy Lai

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A user equipment (UE) device in a wireless communication network adaptively selects a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) to initially perform a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) search for a given Mobile Network Operator (MNO). The adaptive RAT selection performed by the UE device is based on one or more sets of RAT selection criteria, such as frequency band readiness, UE device location, RAT deployment time frames, network configurations, and so on. In addition, the UE device implements adaptive RAT preference lists associated with the different RAT selection criteria. Each of the adaptive RAT preference lists indicates a RAT selection …

Automatic Diagnosis Rf Shielding Can Assembly, Hp Inc

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As there are several shielding can on the mother board, as shielding can is hard to be installed on the

mother boards. Also shielding can is hard to be assembled by auto mechanical tool, but a bad assemble

will cause more noise leakage from SSD, DDR memory, which will impact system antenna performance

due to bad shielding can assembly, especially the common shielding can in the notebook design is not

SMT, but manual assembled due to the shielded components (SSD/DDR modules) can be swapped and

easy to be repaired.

Vran Capacity Enhancement Solution By Radio Unit Self-Discovery And Self-Management, Fred Anderson, Shailender Potharaju

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In a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth-generation (5G) virtualized radio access network (vRAN) architecture, a shared cell consists of one distributed unit (DU) instance and a group of radio units (RUs) sharing the same radio frequency (RF) parameters. Such a group of RUs act as a single cell, covering a large contiguous area in a way that is not possible with a single RU thus significantly improving the signal strength and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the users that are in the overlapped coverage regions of the multiple RUs. While a shared cell approach addresses coverage problems with limited …

Method For The Effective Utilisation Of The Tunnel Between Sdwan Router And Secure Internet Gateway, Niranjan M M, Vijay Kothamasu, Nagaraj Kenchaiah

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With the integration of SD-WAN and third-party SIG, all the traffic from the enterprise client's is forwarded to the SIG over the tunnel. The SD-WAN router at branch office is connected to the SIG over WAN link. Hence there are always bandwidth (aka throughput capacity) limitations for the traffic being routed over the tunnel. For the same reason, service providers would enforce limitations on throughput capacity per tunnel basis. In view of this fact, the effective usage of the link between SD-WAN router and SIG is essential. Also, SD-WAN has enabled customers to prioritize cloud applications and deliver better application …

Transaction Processing Hold Management, Kobus Meyer Mr, Jonathan Woodword Mr, Jessica Deaton Ms, Sharon Vialpando Ms, Anil Chandupattla Mr, Aruna Srinivasulu Ms

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The present invention relates to a transaction hold management service. The present invention comprises an intermediary computer (101) to monitor the events relating to a transaction and derive the hold instructions. The intermediary computer (101) receives an authorization message relating to a transaction and processes the authorization message to identify the transaction and derive a hold instructions to modify a hold amount at an authorizing entity computer (103) , where the hold instructions performs increasing or decreasing the hold amount based on the final transaction amount; and transmitting an authorization request message to the authorizing entity computer (103) , where …

Trust-Based Emergency Message Relay, Poying Chuang, Tim Chen

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Under some circumstances, a user equipment (UE) can fail to receive a warning notification from a warning system, such as the Public Warning System (PWS), while other UE associated with the same user receive the warning notification. To ensure that a user does not miss the warning notification in these circumstances, one or more of the UEs can support emergency message relay, wherein the one or more UEs cast, or relay, any received warning notifications to other trusted UEs, such as to other UEs on the same Wi-Fi network.

Preventive Leakage Test Using Low Voltage Outputs From Any Ic Like Microcontroller Or Fpga, Hp Inc

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The following document describes a novel invention that uses Digital and analog outputs from

microcontrollers and FPGAs (where it is easy to have a huge number of pins) to perform leakage

tests on the Power rails to find shorts before powering on the rails and enable high power through

the rail.

Secured And Integrated Mobile App For Government Communications, Johan Vercruysse

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A system for communication between government and citizens has been conceived based upon a mobile app integrated high quality identification system, strong authentication, integration with government applications, integrated with services such as secured mail box or digital wallets, encryption and advanced pseudonymization.

Early Determination Of Emergency Call Retry On Roaming Network, Edison Chen, Gary Tsao

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To enhance reliability for emergency calls, if a user dials an emergency call center (ECC) and there is no available ECC service in the user equipment (UE), many UEs will scan and rescan available cell service frequencies for ECC request support. However, much of this rescanning is redundant or unprioritized. By eliminating aspects of redundant scanning based on prior scan results, and/or prioritizing certain known frequencies for additional scans based on prior scan results, both ECC request reliability and UE power consumption is improved.

A Green Transaction Tagging And A Method Of Assigning Green Score For Cards, Nuri Vinod Purswani Ramchandani, Namita Shah, Jinyeop Kim, Ajit Vilasrao Patil, Peiwen Wang, Praveen Kumar Arackal Thankappa Panicker, Anubhav Narang

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for developing a green merchant scorecard and calculating a green score for cards based on expenditure data. The present disclosure uses server data, uniquely combined with external emissions data, to quantify how green businesses are eventually consumed by the consumers. Thereafter the emission data may be used for underwriting and cross-selling of green bonds/green loans by targeting the right consumers. The present disclosure provides a solution for identifying green brands and is used directly to compute carbon reduction in a purchase.

Sustainable/Eco-Friendly Packaging Ready For Automation - Id-05680, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a packaging system for a kitchen appliance. The packaging system comprises a sheet of semi-rigid material, e.g., corrugated cardboard, that is inwardly folded into a cushioning structure shaped in correspondence to a hob appliance profile. The cushioning structure is configured to support the hob appliance and to provide protection during transportation. In a preferred embodiment, the packaging system includes a primary packaging and a secondary packaging, wherein the primary packaging comprises molded cushion inserts and the secondary packaging comprises a cardboard sleeve/cover with folded squared sections as cushioning elements. Accordingly, the invention provides a packaging system …

Method To Address Security Vulnerabilities With Respect To Offline And Online Dictionary Attacks On Wpa2-Psk, Niranjan M M, Vijay Kothamasu, Nagaraj Kenchaiah

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The techniques presented herein is to enhance the security of the WPA2-PSK methods to combat both Offline and Online Dictionary Attacks by generating independent random keying parameters on both Supplicant and Authenticator, which are not exchanged explicitly or in any form between them. These parameters are used in conjunction with "Password Key Element" which is generated from PSK using known transformation. This would overcome the offline dictionary attacks faced by current WPA2-PSK method. Also, using "Cookie Loop", where-in Cookie would be initially generated by Authentication Server (AAA Server) and later passed in encrypted form in all the transactions (M1-M4) between …

Qos Policies For Services On The Secure Internet Gateway In The Sdwan Deployments, Niranjan M M

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SD-WAN deployments in enterprise would consists of group of branch routers, which are software-defined branch (SD-Branch) routers. SD-Branch is a branch router that supports SD-WAN routing, security and other LAN access features that can be managed centrally. A thick branch is a high-end device that can incorporate all these features and provide required scale and performance for large enterprises. However, on a lean branch, not all security features can be switched on. These branch routers can integrate with third party Secure Internet Gateways (SIG) for securing the enterprise traffic. With the integration of SD-WAN and third-party SIG, all the traffic …

Modular Voltage Regulator, N/A

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A large, monolithic voltage regulator module placed under an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), e.g., on the bottom side of its printed circuit board (PCB) in a vertical power delivery configuration, can be subject to mechanical stress, creating long-term reliability problems and making socketed ASICs infeasible. This disclosure describes a modular voltage regulator, which is such that constituent modules of the voltage regulator can be placed at convenient locations below a PCB, enabling power delivery to the precise locations needed by the ASIC. The modular voltage regulator enables flexibility in design choices, reduces mechanical stress, supports multiple power rails, can …

Recovery Of Server Identifiers In Response To Network Failure, Poying Chuang, Rayson Chou

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A user equipment (UE) can experience a server-identifier failure, wherein a network fails to provide the UE with one or more server addresses required by the UE to access network services. To reduce the impact of such a server-identifier failure, the UE can maintain a local database of previously received server identifiers. In response to a server-identifier failure, the UE uses the database to identify and communicate with the corresponding server via the network. The UE is thereby able to access network services, such as DNS services or SMS services, in the event of a server-identifier failure, thereby improving the …

A Method Of Book Scanning Via Flatbed Image Scanners, Hp Inc

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Books when digitized into the electronic form as images make them efficient to store and can be made accessible to people all over the world via the internet. Scanning book images is one of the most popular way of book digitization. However, scanning introduces several distortions to the book image like shading distortion, border noise, and geometric distortion. These distortions hamper the performance of OCR processing (character recognition/ identification). Therefore, it is important to improve the quality of book scans.

System And Method Of Locking And Ranking The Resource For Utilization In A Distributed Scheduling System, Srijan Mukherjee, Nishant Kumar, Dhanuesh R C, Arunkumar P

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The present disclosure relates to a system and a method of locking and ranking the resource for utilization in a distributed scheduling system. The method comprises prioritizing the jobs from the job pool based on the job properties and allocating the jobs to the scheduler. Before allocating the jobs to the scheduler, if the jobs are consumed, then a lock is added to the jobs based on state management. The jobs may be assigned a lock state based on the time of their access by the schedulers. The scheduler is configured to pick up the jobs which are not in …

Certified Icc Profiles Using Non-Fungible Tokens (Nft), Hp Inc

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ICC profiles are a widely used technology in graphic industry and allow to print consistent color contents

connecting several devices like scanner, displays and printers. The solution described below enables ICC

profile creators to distinguish and trade their work thru the Non‐Fungible Tokens (NFT) technology.

Proxy Mode For Accessing Input/Output Pins In Multi-Dice Silicon Modules, N/A

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Multi-dice modules can be assembled on a package substrate with high precision and small dimensions, e.g., in micrometers. The package substrate may be a traditional organic substrate, or an advanced substrate such as a silicon interposer, silicon bridge, or 3D silicon stack. Once a multi-die module is assembled, certain edges of an individual die become difficult to access due to their close proximity to other dice. This disclosure describes techniques to address input/output (IO) port access in multi-die modules by utilizing other dice in the module as proxy IOs for a die with limited pin access. Input test patterns and …

Mitigation Of Voids During Direct Soldering Of Cooling Components To Silicon, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques for the mitigation of voids during a direct soldering process whereby a cooling component is soldered to a chip or processor (silicon). Per techniques of this disclosure, mechanical vibration or non-contact vibration is applied to the cooling component-silicon assembly during the soldering process to help disperse solder and eliminate voids or open areas. In some implementations, direct mechanical vibration is applied to the assembly during the soldering process by utilizing a vibrating tray during the direct soldering process. Alternatively, or in addition, non-contact vibration is applied, e.g., by utilizing an ultrasonic or laser that excites the …