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Two-In-One Collapsible Mouse And Touchpad, Donny Reynolds

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On some foldable laptops, it is possible for the user to detach the touchpad and use it on the side in tabletop mode. However, some users prefer the curved, ergonomic feel of a conventional mouse. Currently, a laptop user who wants the mouse experience needs to utilize a mouse that is separate from the laptop. This disclosure describes a bendable, rectangular surface that, when flat, serves as a touchpad, and, when arched, serves as a mouse. For example, the surface can be utilized for a laptop or other device as a detachable trackpad that provides the curvature of a physical …

Augmented Reality Hmd With A Transparent Video Display And A Wave Guided Video Display, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This paper describes a method to combine a waveguided video display with a transparent video display into providing an effectively larger field of view. The waveguided display which has a smaller field of view is positioned in the centre of the viewing device. This wave guided display will occupy the central region of the field of view. The transparent display which is positioned after the waveguided display will provide the surrounding peripheral regions of the field of view. In addition to these two types of fields of view regions, two transparent video displays that are positioned from the two sides …

Smooth Mode Switching Without Downtime In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Harbor Dong, Lele Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Li Zhao

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Vendor Field Area Networks (FANs) have deployed millions of Connected Grid Mesh (which, for convenience, may be referred to herein as ‘CG-Mesh’) devices. Now, customers strongly desire to upgrade all of their CG-Mesh devices to a Wireless Smart Utility Network (Wi-SUN) mode. However, those customers want to accomplish such an upgrade without downtime. To address such a challenge, techniques are presented herein that support a novel method for smooth mode-switching for existing nodes in a large-scale deployment based on an improved depth-first traversal approach. By employing aspects of the presented techniques, a customer may easily and safely switch the working …

Predicted Binders For Various Protein Targets From Machine Learning Applied To Affinity Screening Data

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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: ATG16L1, Covid 3CLPro, Covid Ace2, Covid Nu- cleocapsid, Covid PLPro, Covid Spike, DDB1, LC3B, MID2, RACK1, AAMP, CDC20, DCAF1, DNMT3A, KLHL3, PRPF4, RBBP4, WDR12, WDR5, setDB1, SMU1, TRIM2, TRIM9

Pairing Bluetooth Devices Via Qr Code, Martin Brabham, Myles Watson

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The out-of-band pairing of Bluetooth devices utilizing a quick response code provides a novel method for pairing Bluetooth devices. Pairing two devices over Bluetooth can be challenging for a user and presents security issues. The utilization of out-of-band Bluetooth pairing via a quick response code overcomes security problems presented by in-band pairing and does not require internet connectivity or an established server infrastructure to accomplish the Bluetooth pairing, providing a user-friendly experience over traditional pairing techniques.

Frame Tap Feature In Closed-Screen State, Hp Inc

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Nowadays, the notebook computer is considered as a great powerful tool that many people do things

either in works or home always needed in daily. It makes people a convenient life whenever before, now and

future.

However, some common features are limited in closed‐ notebook without any input devices support.

(e.g., Keyboard mouse to mute the notebook without open screen) For this situation, an innovative idea is

considered. We try to use Frame Tap back of the screen, so that some common features would be feasible in

closed state. Also, the customization design in UI for user to adjust which …

Establishing An Unknown Class For Classification Algorithms Based On A Local Or Global Confidence Level Threshold, Hp Inc

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A machine learning model is given for classifying images according to different aspects.

Even though this model had a good accuracy on the test set, when it was deployed into

production, we (the model developers) started to face many cases with failures due to input

images that were not covered in our training or test sets. We’ve identified that these failures

commonly have smaller confidence levels, and hence applying a threshold value to exclude low

confidence predictions could work as a solution to avoid failures. In order to establish this

threshold value, we explored different threshold values with the confidence …

Dynamic Size 3d Packing Based On Factory Inter-Departure Time, Hp Inc

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One of the most important concerns in 3D printing when it scales to a factory environment is the capacity of controlling

the throughput frequency to be able to achieve an optimal production of parts at the right timing in order to maximize

the profit.

In an automated factory with a fleet of 3D printers, the orders received are orchestrated in a linear sequence with several

stages including the packing of the parts inside the printable volume of a build and the build scheduling, which is queued

to be printed in a device of the fleet. As the process of printing …

Prefabricated Dome House, Paul Terras

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Prefabricated dome house consists of 6, 8, 10 or 12 segments.

The main design of a house with D=8m (R=8) consists of 12 segments.

The structure of the wall of the segment is: Gel-coat and FRP both sides with PU core for insulation and additional strength.

There are several ways to produce the house.

Technology depends on initial investment as well as on expected manufacturing capacity of a production. For any of the approaches tooling i.e. moulds are needed.

Data Quality Coverage, W. Max Lees, Yang Liu, Steven Lee, Mingyang Li, Keyu He, Eric Wu, Emmett Cunningham, David Rissato Cruz, Chioma Ezete

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The quality of data is typically measured on a subset of all available data. It is of interest to know if such a measurement, performed on a subset of data, is representative of the entire corpus of data. This disclosure describes techniques that use historical data and metadata of a given time series to determine the set of useful data quality checks that can exist. The set of useful data quality checks is compared to the actual set of data quality checks to provide a percentage of data quality coverage that a given data set has.

Make-Space Gesture For Touchscreen Input, Thomas Buckley, Robert Mickle, Abraham Murray, Tayeb Al Karim, Hiu Ying Chan, Maria Cirimele

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When taking notes using a stylus, users often want to quickly make space to insert additional content in their note. In current applications, the procedure to move content to create space is tedious. While some tools provide an explicit make-space button, it requires switching context, which takes the user out of the flow of their writing or drawing. This disclosure describes a make-space gesture for use with stylus or finger input on touchscreens that obviates context switching and smoothly aligns with the user’s workflow. The user draws an arbitrary line (which can be straight, curved, or jagged) across the page …

Multi-Modal Gesture Triggering For Touchscreen Input, Thomas Buckley, Robert Mickle, Abraham Murray, Tayeb Al Karim, Hiu Ying Chan, Maria Cirimele

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Stylus apps support handwritten gestures for common actions by providing a menu to distinguish strokes from gestures. However, switching between the menu and the canvas can create context-switching friction. Moreover, attempting to reduce friction by eliminating the context-switch can lead to gestures being triggered unintentionally, unreliably, or unpredictably. This disclosure describes a multimodal gesture interface with a touchscreen that, with user permission, interprets spoken input provided by the user to confirm a gesture and its intended behavior. For example, after drawing a circle the user can say “select” to trigger the select gesture for strokes that the circle bounds. The …

Content Selection Based On Gesture Speed, Thomas Buckley, Robert Mickle, Abraham Murray, Tayeb Al Karim, Hiu Ying Chan, Maria Cirimele

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Many touchscreen apps that support stylus or finger input provide a lasso tool, which is a free-hand selection tool. The lasso tool enables users to select strokes by drawing a closed path around a set of strokes to select them. However, selection using the lasso tool can be imperfect (not matching the user intent) and requires subsequent manual refinement. This disclosure describes a lasso tool for stylus apps that determines selection tolerance based on the speed with which the stylus is moved at different points of the selection path. A relatively slow stylus speed is taken as an indication that …

Gesture-Triggered Eraser Tool, Thomas Buckley, Robert Mickle, Abraham Murray, Tayeb Al Karim, Hiu Ying Chan, Maria Cirimele

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Touchscreen apps that support stylus input attempt to enable users to quickly delete content using a scratch-out gesture. However, these gestures require precision to make sure they cover all of the content that the user intends to delete. This often causes failure such as incomplete deletion and leads to the user having to retry the gesture. The deletion action thus takes longer than the user’s expectations, thus reducing trust in the gesture. This disclosure describes techniques that enable the user to tap or to use the scribble-out gesture to trigger a deletion. Further, dragging the scribble-out gesture surfaces an eraser …

Implicit Gesture Confirmation For Touchscreen Input, Thomas Buckley, Robert Mickle, Abraham Murray, Tayeb Al Karim, Hiu Ying Chan, Maria Cirimele

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Stylus apps support handwritten gestures for common actions by providing a mode to distinguish strokes from gestures. However, mode switching can create friction. Moreover, attempting to reduce friction by eliminating the mode switch can lead to gestures being triggered unintentionally, unreliably, or unpredictably. This disclosure describes techniques that reliably disambiguate strokes from gestures in stylus apps without mode switching and without the use of complex patterns to represent gestures. Per the techniques, a trace drawn on the touchscreen is initialized to a state in between a stroke and a gesture. The next action of the user determines the final state …

Anti Flashback-Wall Id-05174, Christian Mohr

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The invention provides a top-breathing gas burner comprising a bowl, a crown, a cap, a fuel injector, and a spark plug. The crown further comprises an anti-flashback wall that restricts any flame from entering an intermediate passage formed in terms of the geometrical structure of the stacked assembly of components. The wall is a protruding element that functions as an obstruction by restricting any misguided gas combustion from further developing within the inner sections of the burner components.

The invention provides a gas burner that effectively protects the injector and inner components from internal combustion by blocking any misguided flame …

Automatic Detection Of On-Screen Addresses In Video Endpoints Used As Computer Monitors, Rob Hanton

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When someone is making a video or audio call, manually typing in the address or the telephone number is both slow and error-prone. This is particularly true when the person is using a dedicated video endpoint with a contextual touchscreen keyboard. The situation is further exacerbated when video endpoints are employed as monitors in which the user interface (UI) of an endpoint when making calls frequently obscures or completely occludes the desktop screen. To address these challenges, techniques are presented herein that support, for situations in which a video endpoint is being used as a monitor, the video endpoint capturing …

Authentic Timestamp Provider, Gokul Anand Manimaran

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The present disclosure relates to providing authenticity for a document with respect to timestamp. In an embodiment, if a document is created at particular time, Hash(X) can be stored in a centralized place maintained by a trusted third party. But it transfers control over to Third party, to prove the authenticity with respect to the time at which document was created, which means, if that third party is compromised, the document loses its authenticity. For every second t, a public and private key pair is generated by a third party (T). When Hash(X) is given to T at time t, …

Transport Layer Security Path Tracer, David Mcgrew, Soumya Kalahasti, Vineeth Joseph

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Today, most of the traffic that traverses the Internet is encrypted. Users (e.g., clients) and servers are able to exchange data securely using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. However, there will likely be one or more proxies in the path between a client and a server and those proxies are able to change some of the security parameters based on, for example, a network security policy. As a result, a client may not know exactly what is happening in the middle. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support an extension to the handshake protocol …

Quality-Perceived Multiple Label-Switched Paths For Achieving Ultra-Reliable Wi-Fi For Industrial Iot Deployments, Xiaopu Zhang, Alessandro Erta, Luca Bisti, Caijun Jiang

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Operating within an environment that incorporates technologies based on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) to provide an ultra-reliable wireless backhaul service supporting large Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments (comprising, for example, many hundreds of radio devices), techniques are presented herein that support a mechanism to implement quality-perceived multiple label-switched paths (LSP)s that can perform replication according to path quality. Aspects of the presented techniques leverage a replication strategy, that is defined on both a client and a Network Appliance that defines how replication should be performed with preconditions, replication should be …

Software Input Pattern And Test Coverage Using Computational Linguistics On Structured Data, Yifan Gao

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This disclosure describes computational linguistics techniques for software input patterns and test coverage. Structured input data which can have arbitrary and evolving schema, obtained from production software and from testbeds, are tokenized using tree traversal to generate vocabulary, unigram statistics, and bags of words (BoW). BoWs are subjected to statistical analysis to programmatically and intelligently discover software usage patterns in production, to identify test coverage, and to flag gaps in testing.

Out-Of-Order Media Checks & Preparation For Roll Media, Hp Inc

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In 2013, entry level printers, based on a brand-new Entry Level print-engine platform, were launched that is >33% smaller and more cost effective than the immediate predecessor. This was followed by higher price points, in certain models.

8 years later, one clear mandate was to push the absolute limits of performance for the successors. In the area of productivity throughput to match the far more expensive and more capable platforms from other vendors in the same price points. In short: minimally crossing the 100A1 pages / hour mark (the Century barrier).

Enhancing Web Conferencing Privacy Protection, Karthik Babu Harichandra Babu, Akaash Dev Sc, Amit Kumar

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With the prevalence of remote work, it is possible that a significant amount of highly confidential or restricted data may be shared and discussed over virtual meeting applications. The most vulnerable point during a highly confidential (or casual, off-the-record) meeting is each individual's client, which could allow a user to record the screen or take a series of screenshots. Presently, solutions exist that either allow complete recording of the screen, including the meeting windows, or no recording at all. However, there is no solution that enables the complete functionality of other windows or applications while blocking the meeting content alone. …

Method For Installing A Hanger, Bernd Lienau

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The disclosure relates to a hanger running tool for installation of a hanger in a well. The hanger running tool comprises a central bore and a hanger engagement arrangement configurable between an engaged position in which the engagement arrangement is coupled to a hanger, and a disengaged position in which the engagement arrangement is decoupled from a hanger. The tool also comprises a pressure-controlled anchoring actuator for actuating an anchoring arrangement, and comprising an actuation surface. The hanger engagement arrangement is configurable to the engaged position in response to an increase in pressure at a first pressure source, and is …

Hanger Running Tool, Bernd Lienau

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The disclosure relates to a hanger running tool for installation of a hanger in a well. The hanger running tool comprises a central bore and a hanger engagement arrangement configurable between an engaged position in which the engagement arrangement is coupled to a hanger, and a disengaged position in which the engagement arrangement is decoupled from a hanger. The tool also comprises a pressure-controlled anchoring actuator for actuating an anchoring arrangement, and comprising an actuation surface. The hanger engagement arrangement is configurable to the engaged position in response to an increase in pressure at a first pressure source, and is …

Manufacturer Usadge Description (Mud) Layer 2 (L2) Support For Enhanced Security And Functionality For Multiple Network Interfaces, David Hanes, Sebastian Jeuk, Gonzalo Salgueiro

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The growth of Internet of things (IoT) devices is increasing dramatically. IoT devices often have multiple interfaces and connectivity options, but these may not be communicated to a network in an automated fashion. Techniques are presented herein that extend the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) artifact so that it may be used to effectively communicate information about an IoT device’s multiple connectivity options to a network in an automated manner and to notify the network of possible interface vulnerabilities so that any number of different actions (e.g., alerts, configuration checks, etc.) may be performed.

Automated Software Rollouts Based On Confidence Intervals, Joe Turner, Leila Al-Muhtasib

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Canarying is a technique for software rollout that attempts to ensure that performance metrics do not regress below a threshold due to the rollout. The updated software version is rolled out to a fixed percentage of users or data centers, and metrics are checked to ensure that deviations in performance are below the fixed threshold. While the current mechanisms can eliminate major regressions, they are not flexible enough to prevent medium-sized regressions from occurring. This disclosure describes techniques for creating smarter canaries for software rollouts using confidence intervals and feedback loops. The techniques described herein enable dynamic rollouts and ensure …

Extended Screens For An Online Meeting By Grouping Neighbors, Yasi Xi, Bhargav Pandya, Grant Pan, King Jin

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An online meeting typically includes some number of participants or users. Techniques are presented herein that significantly enhance the user experience of users who join an online meeting from the same physical location and sit next to each other. Aspects of the presented techniques take the best advantage of neighboring screens in an extended screen manner, which can significantly improve user experience. For example, all of the duplicated local and remote video grids may be removed and all of the remote video grids may be shown in as large a fashion as possible. Broadly, aspects of the techniques presented herein …

Drone Adapted To Human Carriage, Colin Hilton

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Quadcopters or drones evolved in two principal formats, being an ‘X’ configuration and an an ‘H’ configuration, whose forward direction is perpendicular to the appearance of the letter. With racing drones the two are combined at times to form an elongated centre-body that supports cantilevered arms which are canted fore and aft so as to approximate the ‘X’ shape. Nonetheless neither of these is necessarily the ideal configuration once the structures are scaled up in support of human carriage.

System For Rule-Based Definition Of Cloud And/Or Edge Functions Within A Print Workflow, Hp Inc

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A software systems implementation is disclosed which enables the definition and enforcement of

edge and/or cloud-based functions within a print workflow and/or print service provider networks.