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Integrated Design Of Experiments Jobs, Hp Inc

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Production factories have the requirement to properly monitor and control the production process.

Such process control in many cases requires printing several times a set of parts changing certain

process knobs for each set of layers. Then, the parts are somehow measured, and based on the

measurements some process knobs can be properly adjusted. There are other scenarios in which is

required to define different experiments, either because it is required to adjust the process for a new

material or printing profile, or because the process needs to be adjusted for a new hardware. To

provide a solution for these …

Mechanism To Query Usage From User Plane In Optimised And Reliable Manner, Mukesh Yadav, Ravi Shankar Mantha, Sandeep Dasgupta, Milind Nadkarni, Sanjeev Panem Jaya

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Within a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) fifth generation (5G) telecommunications environment, various Usage Reporting exchanges may entail different inefficiencies. To address such inefficiencies, techniques are presented herein that optimize Usage Reporting exchanges. In particular, aspects of the presented techniques support the introduction of a new custom information element (IE) on the Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) interface. The custom IE enables a user plane (UP) to selectively report multiple Usage Reporting Rules (URRs) that satisfy a category of URR as specified in the IE. Aspects of the presented techniques provide a mechanism involving an optimized PFCP modification request packet …

Process For The Preparation Of Methyl (4,6-Diamino-2-(1-(2-Fluorobenzyl)-1h-Pyrazolo[3,4-B]Pyridin-3-Yl)Pyrimidin-5-Yl)Carbamate, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; M Venkatesh; Ramakrishna Bommidi; Balakrishna Gunupuru

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The present invention provides process for the preparation of methyl (4,6-diamino-2-(1-(2-fluorobenzyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b] pyridin-3-yl)pyrimidin-5-yl)carbamate compound of formula-1, represented by the following structural formula:

Formula-1

Predicted Binders For Protein Target Wdr12 From Machine Learning Applied To Affinity Screening Data, Anonymous

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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. The following lists of compounds were predicted by the ML model to be binders for the protein targets: WRD12.

Combined Head Gestures For Improved User Interaction, Lei Shi, Aobo Zhou

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Fine-grained gestures such as eye gaze, facial expressions, etc., can be useful as input mechanisms for smart devices. However, single gesture inputs such as eye gaze are inefficient, and it is difficult to perform complex operations with such inputs. This disclosure describes techniques to fuse multiple head gestures, e.g., head, eye, mouth, or eyebrow movement, to provide superior user interaction. Head gestures are classified as analog (e.g., eye movements, which provide continuous input) or binary (e.g., frowns, which indicate one-time operation). An analog gesture is fused with multiple binary gestures to improve efficiency. For example, to move an object, the …

Alert Generation For Cyclically Varying Metrics, Joseph Turner

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This disclosure describes techniques for monitoring computer system metrics that exhibit cyclical (periodic) behavior. Per techniques of this disclosure, function-based thresholds are utilized for metric monitoring and generation of system alerts. The function-based thresholds are time-varying and are aligned with the troughs and peaks of the underlying metric being monitored. Metric measurements are obtained for a particular period of time. A function such as a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is fitted to the obtained metric data. A threshold is set for the metric based on the fitted function at a fixed offset from the function derived value. Function-based thresholding can …

Using A Bot To Interact With Phone Menus To Reach A Human Customer Service Agent, Andrew Cheng

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Phone menus that automate customer service operations are commonplace. Reaching a human customer service agent by interacting with such menus can be a convoluted and lengthy process that often results in the caller being stuck in circular links within the options. When a caller is successful in invoking the option to speak to a human agent, they may be put on hold and made to wait for a long time before a human agent answers. This disclosure describes a bot that, with user permission, automatically interacts with phone menus on behalf of a user and helps the user reach a …

Dual Post Code Design, Hp Inc

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Modern PC will disable any debug IO interface when production to avoid hacker

attacks. The existing way used for BIOS debugging is using two-byte non-volatile memory

to record POST (Power On Self-Test) code for identifying high level BIOS driver error.

However, this debug method can’t help first triage the issue when bringing up from

customer side.

For helping to shorten the debugging period and save the service cost, we introduce the

dual post code design idea.

Reliable Wireless Solution For Time-Critical Communications In Smart Utility Environments, Pascal Thubert, Huimin She, Li Zhao, Patrick Wetterwald

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The Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) protocol is a communication model that is defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 standard which supports the sharing of time-critical information between Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) within a substation. Due to strict requirements, GOOSE demands a fast, reliable, and deterministic network, which today is based on Ethernet networking technologies. Customers desire an alternative solution that is based on wireless radio technologies such as, for example, mesh-based networks. However, for a variety of reasons, it can be challenging to implement GOOSE over a wireless medium. Techniques are presented herein that support a …

Power Saving Architecture For Wireless Charger, Hp Inc

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Wireless Charging become popular overtime to the mobile products, All in One (AIO) PC usually

embedded Wireless Charger inside the stand and Wireless Charger is required to standby at

S4/S5 PC OFF Mode.

Standby power consumption of Wireless Charger is high (around 150mW) which cause PC not

able to meet ERP‐LOT3 S5 regulatory requirement. (S5 Power < 1W)

Exist strategy on AIO PC is simply disable Wireless Charger at S4/S5 which negatively impact user

experience, the invention is to propose a new power architecture helping AIO PC enable

wireless charger at S4/S5 without risk failing ERP‐LOT3 S5 regulatory.

Image And/Or Video Transformation Using Interpretable Transformation Parameters, Igor Ramos, Daniel Klein

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A computing system and method that can be used for performing transformations of images using machine-learned model(s) and interpretable user-specified parameters that control the transformations. More specifically, the machine-learned model can be used to perform transformation(s) on an image based on different parameter(s) of a user-specified conditioning vector. The systems and methods of the present disclosure allow for a user to specify desired values for defined characteristics of a transformation (e.g., area of transformation, degree of transformation, etc.) for one or more transformations of the defined characteristic(s) (e.g., transforming lack of facial displacement distortion to presence of a facial displacement …

Quickly Ccd/Fpr Module, Hp Inc

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A CCD Module that is hidden in the system body for quick insertion and removal and

is attached to the corners of the screen for use while maintaining confidential fingerprint

protection. It’s not same as traditional design on the LCD side.

A CCD Module has design slide structure and Pogo pin to contact with system then

easy and quickly to use CCD function or change others side of Fingerprint function follow

on User quickly swap and for need.

The confidentiality mechanism can usually be used after fingerprint recognition to

start the lens unlocking when you release module before.

Evidence-Based Customer Reviews, Andy Lavery, Alexander Ventura

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Online reviews can suffer from certain reliability problems due to reasons such as reviewer bias, lack of reviewer objectivity, insufficient number of reviews, etc. This disclosure describes techniques for generating reviews using evidence gathered from hard data sources rather than from subjective user opinion. Example data sources that can be used to generate evidence-based reviews include IoT sensors internal to the reviewed entity; publicly available information external to the reviewed entity; and data from related reviews applicable to the currently reviewed entity. The evidence-based reviews described herein enable a reader to look beneath the reviews to see the data that …

Reliable Normalized Customer Reviews, Alexander Ventura, Andy Lavery

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Online reviews suffer from certain reliability problems such as lack of reviewer objectivity, reviewer bias, lack of domain familiarity on the part of the reviewer, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to improve the reliability of review scores obtained from online review facilities. A set of meta-parameters, referred to as review reliability parameters (RRP), is defined and associated with the underlying numerical rating of a review. RRPs are inputs to a machine learning model that derives a weighted review. The review of a reviewer with good RRPs is weighted more than the review of a reviewer with poor RRPs. RRPs can …

Using Xau Tokens To Count Unique Active Users Per Epoch Without Cookies, Adrian Isles

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User engagement and adoption is typically measured in terms of the number of users active during a given period, generally termed as xAU where x stands for the measurement time interval. Without third-party cookies, it is difficult to obtain xAU measures, especially when content is embedded within other applications and services.

This disclosure describes cookieless techniques to determine a lower bound for various xAU measures. Upon receiving a request for content, a xAU token for the user agent is generated and cryptographically signed on the server and relayed to the user agent for local caching. Each xAU token can be …

Filesystem Api Based On Log Structured Merge (Lsm) Trees, Chris Suter, James Sullivan

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This disclosure describes the application of LSM trees as a primitive data structure to provide a file-like Application Programming Interface (API). The LSM tree data structure is used to implement an object store. Namespace features, such as support for directories, can be layered on top of objects to form a hierarchy of object stores, with a root object store connected to an arbitrary number of child object stores that store user directories and files. Since the tree stores deltas on objects, it can contain multiple entries per object ID. However, within a given layer of the tree, there can be …

The Accelerated State, Hp Inc

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These are unprecedented times. The pandemic and the accompanying set of economic issues, including

the recession (now officially over), has resulted in a dramatic increase in the remote work models for

client computing. It is anticipated that there will be an increase in remote work in a hybrid model in the

post‐pandemic era.

This new scaling of remote access and working from home (and learning from home) has resulted in a

set of new issues to be addressed and has further exacerbated many problems that were already known

but without an approach or solution.

Reclosable Fastening Flange For Proximity Switch, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Premagnetisation Of An Electric Drive With Decoupling, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Flame Interruption On Gas Burners To Reduce Co2 Formation - Id-05652, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a gas burner and a hob system thereof for lowering the formation of CO and CO2. The proposed gas burner comprises a bowl, a crown, and a cap. The hob system comprises the proposed gas burner and pan supports. The pan supports are arranged around the proposed gas burner on the cooking plane of the hob system. The bowl, the crown, and the cap are assembled, from bottom to top, in a vertically stacked manner to form the proposed gas burner. The crown is made of aluminum and includes castles, which are arranged on its top …

Leveraging Rich Call Data To Enhance Customer Experience, Kaustubh Inamdar, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Sreekanth Narayanan

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Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) is an effort currently being utilized to provide cryptographic assurance of caller Identity in an effort to combat robocalls and impersonation attacks. The STIR framework can be used to transport additional claims during the course of a call. These additional claims, known as Rich Call Data (RCD), may be leveraged to embed useful, context-driven information. In particular, techniques presented herein provide an overarching framework through which companies that have a technical support division can advertise a set of RCD keys that would allow callers to avoid having to navigate interactive voice response (IVR) menus, specify …

Exploded Sharing To Facilitate Annotation, Yasi Xi, Bhargav Pandya, King Jin, Morgan Fang

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When individuals are collaborating in an online meeting, it is quite common for the presenter to share their application or desktop so that all of the meeting participants may collectively annotate on the presenter's share. However, sometimes such a collective annotation may be difficult. To address such difficulties, techniques are presented herein that support an innovative method for facilitating online meeting annotation. Aspects of the presented techniques support exploding a meeting presenter's share into editable elements. By applying aspects of the presented techniques, a share is no longer a bulk of a single static image but a collection of fine-grained …

Naturalistic Routing Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Renaud Hartert, Matt Barnes, Matthew Abueg

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This disclosure describes techniques, referred to as naturalistic routing (NR), that improve the quality of routes found by map applications by learning from users’ real-world navigation actions, accessed with user permission. The techniques leverage the principle that users, in the aggregate, tend to travel on optimal routes to reach their destinations. A machine learning model is trained using inverse reinforcement learning and provides routes that are optimal by the users’ definition of optimality, as determined from a dataset of navigation actions.

Acoustics Project Report, Hp Inc

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This project focuses on diagnosis of problems in a printer from captured acoustic

signals. Previous researchers already successfully designed a feature generator to

encode the acoustic signals into 6 dimensional features. And they also trained

classifiers on artificial data to predict if a printer is in a good or bad status. The

final target is to make a diagnosis based on the acoustic data, such as pre-alert.

This will help engineers to fix the problems of the printers before customers

making service calls.

Reinforced Line Infill Structure, Jiri Konvicny

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This publication relates to a new infill structure that works on the principle of interlocked lines infill structure, but adds reinforcements at the line crossings. The reinforcements can be created by changing of the filament flow or keeping the filament flow equal and changing the print speed.

Server Rack Location Verification Based On Seismic Events, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques for location verification of server racks. Acceleration signals obtained from hard disks (or other components) within a server rack are utilized to detect earthquake waves. Timestamps for the peak acceleration of the waves are obtained to determine a time of arrival of the waves at the server racks. The detected earthquake wave data is matched with publicly available scientific seismic measurements. The location of the server rack relative to an earthquake epicenter is estimated based on a measured time delay of detection of an earthquake wave. Triangulation of estimated distances from multiple seismic events is utilized …

Dependent Request Inference And Execution In Integration Tests, Patrick Blesi

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The test setup phase of an automated software test for an application programming interface (API) typically requires the creation of many dependent objects. Current techniques for test setup typically require a test writer to explicitly define dependencies between resources, which entails substantial manual effort to build the setup necessary to test an API request. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically assemble a dependency graph and build the setup and cleanup necessary to test an API request. An API service definition is analyzed to enumerate all remote procedure calls (RPCs) and infer the fields and RPCs required to successfully execute a …

Expediting Fingerprint Authentication By Compensating For Display Luminance Latency, Sangmoo Choi, John Kaehler

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed at expediting fingerprint authentication by compensating for display luminance latency. In aspects, a computing device having a display and an under-display fingerprint sensor (UDFPS), includes a local high brightness mode (LHBM) manager configured to selectively adjust luminance settings in a high-luminance region of the display for predetermined intervals. In so doing, user input can be well-illuminated during an initial stage of UDFPS image capturing, facilitating UDFPS sensing and expediting fingerprint authentication.

Key-Value Store Using A Network Packet Filter Situated In The Os Kernel, Andrew C. Jackson

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When thousands of machines coordinate a small piece of information, a network key-value store can struggle to keep up with the query load. An underlying cause of the capacity bottleneck is that the key-value store is usually held in user space, not kernel space. This disclosure leverages the run-in-kernel capabilities of a network packet filter to deliver very fast responses to key-value (hash map) requests. The network packet filter is capable of communicating with hash-map type memory accesses and can rewrite and redirect packets. When assembled this way, a packet with the query key can be returned to the requester …

Scalable, Highly Performant, Reader/Writer Lock Using Restartable Sequences, N/A

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Traditional shared locks for synchronizing mostly read-only data are expensive and scale poorly with the number of threads or processor cores. This disclosure describes a scalable, low-cost, low-contention, shared lock (a mutex implementation) that behaves well under cases of reasonable contention and under temporarily write-dominated scenarios. The described shared lock, also known as counting mutex, is based on restartable sequences and fast fences.