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Component Conscious Thermal Imaging System, Min Zhu, Junnan Lin

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Hardware components can experience failures, such as component shorts, during different manufacturing stages as well as in the field once such products are deployed. Presented herein is a new component conscious thermal imaging system that can increase hardware debug effectiveness for determining component failures related to thermal events. In one instance, the system can be used during manufacturing in order to setup a component thermal database that can be used to identify thermal related quality events in the early stages of component manufacturing. In another instance, the system can be used in the field to debug component failures for deployed …

Onboarding And Provisioning Automation For Mesh Access Points, Vincent Cuissard, Samuel Pasquier, Alessandro Erta, Luca Bisti, Amine Choukir, Domenico Ficara

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Mesh networks can be implemented in many different scenarios in which direct cabling of access points may not be practical or may not make financial sense. For example, in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, access points may be located far from each other with very limited physical access. Presented herein are techniques to leverage hardware and software features available on mesh access points to avoid manual configuration in the field.

Stateful Centralized Unit Redundancy Without Impacting Distributed Unit Or Radio Operations In Vran Architectures, Indermeet Gandhi, Shailender Potharaju, Shail Talati, Arun Khanna

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Failure scenarios in a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) environment raise a number of challenges. For example, enterprise customers with their mission-critical and factory automation use-cases are demanding redundancy at every possible element in a vRAN since every millisecond of delay caused by, for example, a Centralized Unit (CU) failure may result in a factory floor coming to a standstill. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support CU redundancy in a vRAN architecture (through, among other things, the addition of a standby CU) without negatively impacting radio operations or user equipment (UE) connections or triggering …

High Quality Multi-Participant Conference Recordings Using Distributed Intelligent Local Buffers, Aachala Singhan, Alex Taipale, Ana Lucia De Faria, Kyla Hayes, Hazim Dahir, Paul Giralt, Kaouther Abrougui, Sandhya Kerehalli, Jeff Apcar, Geetha Anandakrishnan

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Online meeting audio and video recordings are typically performed in the cloud. As a result, conference call recordings may contain call quality imperfections that are caused by, for example, network impairments that may have arisen during the meeting. A recording may also be limited by, for example, any bandwidth constraints that were present between the meeting participants and the cloud. To address these types of challenges, various solutions are presented herein through several techniques. In particular, the techniques may include the distributed local recording of a meeting to allow for, among other things, high quality cloud-constructed playback of a meeting …

Nozzle Assembly With Single Inlet And Dual Outlets For Roll Cooling Spray Headers, Tudor Piroteala, Mitchell G. Roux, Louis M. Nazro, Frank Su, Luiz Porto, David A. Gaensbauer

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Hinge Assembly For A Domestic Appliance And Domestic Appliance Having A Hinge Assembly_Id-05315, Christian Mohr

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There is described a hinge assembly (6, 6’, 6’’) for a domestic appliance (1), in particular an oven, for the treatment of food products. The hinge assembly (6, 6’, 6’’) comprises a first coupling body (15) configured to be coupled to a main body (2) of the domestic appliance (1), a connection unit (16) removably connected to the first coupling body (15), a second coupling body (17) configured to be coupled to a door (4) of the domestic appliance (1) and being pivoted to the connection unit (16) and is configured to angularly move around a first pivot axis (B) …

New Function Key On C-Deck Design, Hp Inc

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Function key will always occupy keyboard area, especially we have special key function or layout in

different platform. if we can remove it, keyboard can have more space to design more function or

keyboard layout for user to be more friendly. Also, we can reduce Keyboard complexity and can be

easier to design water protect. The idea is we add extra/ special function on C‐deck. When user

doesn’t want to use key function, user won’t see icon on C‐deck. When user touch function position,

icon will be lighting and sensor user touch position. Then user can feel haptic force feedback …

Smart Website For Driver And Firmware Download, Hp Inc

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The multiple sources of chipset on the same product is a trend due to chipset shortage.

But the multiple sources will cause bad user experience when user downloads the

drivers and firmware from website. Users see the multiple drivers and firmware for the

same type of device because multiple sources of chipset. For example, we use the

Conexant audio chipset or Realtek audio chipset on the same notebook. It can prevent

the notebook stop shipping if Conexant audio chipset is shortage. But user will see the

two audio drivers for his unit and user doesn’t know which audio chipset on …

Firmware Configuration Integrity Identify, Hp Inc

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In system firmware (BIOS) develop phase, system firmware (BIOS) source code includes various

peripheral devices firmware and configuration INF file.

 A binary raw data file that includes BIOS and various peripheral device firmware name, version,

& vendor will be generate during BIOS build process.

 The binary raw data will be integrated into system firmware. Like, BIOS Logo file.

 A new SMBIOS type provides individual FW name, version, and vendor information.

 A warning message which firmware information doesn’t match firmware BKC will display in preboot

environment when system firmware is not protection.

 An error log that …

Training A Ranking Model, Donald Arthur Metzler Jr, Xuanhui Wang, Marc Alexander Najork, Michael Bendersky

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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a ranking machine learning model. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving training data for a ranking machine learning model, the training data including training examples, and each training example including data identifying: a search query, result documents from a result list for the search query, and a result document that was selected by a user from the result list, receiving position data for each training example in the training data, the position data identifying a respective position of the selected result …

Networkless Mobile Payments With Minimal Changes In Trusted Execution Environments, Arun Samudrala, Dilip Padmanabhan, Abhijith Bera, Pankaj Gupta, Hemanth Sambrani, Will Drewry

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Peer-to-peer mobile digital payments can be made in the absence of a network as follows: the receiver of funds verifies the availability of on-device balance by examining the prior, authenticated, transaction records of the sender. A new transaction record including the transaction amount is created, made immutable and secure using cryptographic techniques, and is stored at both sender and receiver. When either sender or receiver regains network connectivity, the transaction is settled with the original provider of the on-device balance, e.g., a financial institution. The integrity of the records of offline transactions, e.g., made in the absence of a mobile …

Pilot Operated Check Valve For Charging And Flowing Gas For Arc Process Equipment

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Techniques are presented for a pilot operated check valve for charging and flowing gas for arc process equipment. A solenoid is used to divert process gas (e.g., the gas utilized during an arc process) into a flow of pilot gas that generates a cracking pressure to open the pilot operated check valve and allow the process gas to flow to a torch for an arc process. This arrangement achieves a high valve flow coefficient (Cv) value (e.g., a Cv value greater than 1), and thus, can decrease pressure drops across the valve.

Method And System For Accessible Data Visualization On A Web Platform, Frank Elavsky

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for accessible data visualization on a web platform. At present keyboard limitations exist in a browser that do not permit full access to a data visualization. Therefore, in the present disclosure when the user is focusing a node, all of the previously mentioned interactivity rules apply to it, based on the kind of chart element it represents. When the user takes a keyboard action on that node, it is simulated as though that action took place in the chart space. So, the controller of the present disclosure renders what is necessary …

Frame Recovery By Dynamic Learning And Prediction In A Video Decoder, Anonymous

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Th is innovation is to use Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), a typical machine learning model such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) to predict video frames. The RNN model can be trained offline and refined in an online and dynamic fashion. The hidden states in the model can be defined as coding parameters such as frame or macroblock coding model, motion vectors, etc. If a higher frame rate is needed for a smooth video playback, this model can predict and insert frames. If one or more frames are missing due to various reasons, this model can place the predicted frames …

Frequency Hopping Network Connections, Ian Wells, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery

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Opening a port on the internet typically involves signaling a request for consent to consider whether a random incoming connection is good enough to continue. Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks can exploit this process by spamming connection attempts. However, in order to be a service the host and port are to be advertised to the network that is to be connected and (at least in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)) sweeping all open ports in a likely range is a perfectly feasible option. Presented herein are techniques that utilize a novel frequency-hopping approach to listening ports in order …

Corrosion-Resistant Shield For Circuit Board Applications, Justin Babauta, Andrew Lambert, Janani Velchamy, Brian Qiu, Elizabeth Kochuparambil

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Networking equipment can be deployed in environments involving polluted airspaces and other non-optimal environments involving humidity, high temperature, high pollution content, etc. Additionally, a significant factor that can be corrosive to electronic devices is the presence of sulfur-dioxide, which can be found in many forms of air pollution. Although it is often recommended to control such environmental conditions/factors, some locations and/or circumstances may limit the ability to control environmental conditions/factors. To improve the operability of electronic devices in caustic/corrosive environments, a corrosion-resistant shield is presented herein that provides a new approach to facilitate corrosion protection for electronic devices instead of …

Process For The Preparation Of Crystalline Form Of 4-(4-{3-[4-Chloro-3-(Trifluoromethyl)Phenyl]Ureido}Phenoxy)N2-Methylpyridine-2-Carboxamide, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center

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A process for the preparation of crystalline form of 4-(4-{3-[4-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ureido}phenoxy)N²-methylpyridine-2-carboxamide

Filtering Social Media Posts Based On Content, Defensive Publication

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Filtering social media posts based on the content of the post as compared to a “whitelist” (allowed content), and a “blacklist” (disallowed content).

Filtering Social Media Posts From An Enthusiastic Member (Friend), Defensive Publication

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A means for filtering or throttling down the extent of posts that a social media user sees from specific individuals on a content/news feed on their timeline.

Application Launching During Application Installation On A Mobile Device, Vitor Baccetti, Matthew Patterson, Lee Gao, Phillip Oertel, Marcel Folaron, Jamal Eason, Yurii Zubrytskyi, Oleksiy Buynytskyy, Parul Soi, Todd Kennedy

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This publication describes techniques to allow an application to launch on a mobile device, for example, a smartphone, once the device downloads a portion of a package file associated with the application. The package file includes the initial data necessary to launch the application. The initial data can be referred to as the “idle nugget” and can include executables, objects, images, audio, and/or geometry files. The mobile device is not required to download the remaining package file data before a user can initially launch the application. As a result, the idle nugget can be prioritized by an application distribution service …

The System To Effectively Provide Content To Multiple Users, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to efficiently distribute content over multiple users in a computer network. The system consists of a search engine, a server cluster to store data temporary and a database cluster to store data permanently. Users who use this system have to first register with the search engine and download a special web browser. The search engine first gets to know all the web pages the users’ need. Then it will copy them from the database cluster which stores data permanently and to the server cluster which stores data temporary. The search engine will then provide the …

Efficient Labeled Sequence Generation From Symbolic Directed Graphs, Lihao Liang

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This publication describes systems and techniques for more efficiently generating, from a binary file such as an executable or shared library, an application-programming-interface-call (API-call) graph, also referred to as a system call (syscall) graph, and to generate n-grams from the API-call graph. Generally, an API-call graph is generated via static analysis of the wholeprogram control-flow graph of a binary file, and the API-call graph may include symbolic transitions representing internal function calls. Specifically, this publication describes techniques for computing n-grams from an API-call graph that avoids copying of subgraphs of functions represented by symbolic transitions. Avoiding copying of subgraphs of …

A Method To Collect A Collection Of Ip Addresses To Crawl And Index, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to collect a collection of IP addresses to crawl and index. A server facility maintains a website with a simple web layout. On the homepage of the website, there will be an empty bar to type in the IP address and an enter button to click. When the users type their IP addresses into the empty bar and press the enter button those IP addresses gets stored on a database. These IP addresses can be used for web crawling and indexing by a search engine. The users who want their websites on their webservers to …

Thermal Mitigation At User Equipment Based On Ambient Temperature, Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata, Shivank Nayak, Siddharth Ray

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User equipment (UE) or other user devices employ thermal mitigation schemes that are responsive to the ambient temperature of the device. Such schemes can employ different levels or modes of thermal mitigation techniques based on ambient temperature, the thresholds that trigger the switch between levels or modes may be scaled based on ambient temperature, or a combination thereof.

Predictive Modeling Techniques For Adaptive Face Retouching, Wei Hong, Shengyi Lin, Li Wei

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This publication describes predictive modeling techniques for adaptive face retouching according to a predictive model on a computing device. The adaptive face retouching enables preservation of important features that may depict diversity, persona, and uniqueness in images where retouching is applied by a computer. In the techniques, an algorithm may be implemented to balance image attributes from a variety of sources and categories. The algorithm may further reduce unnecessary, redundant processing on the computing device by storing computed attributes within a facial attribute database. As such, diverse facial features may be maintained while allowing adequate face retouching without requiring overuse …

Exercise Mode For Mobile Devices, Michael Depasquale

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This publication describes methods and techniques for placing a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet) in an Exercise Mode. The Exercise Mode is an On-Off device setting enabling users to focus on their exercises by temporarily suppressing incoming notifications (e.g., declining incoming phone calls, silencing text messages, ignoring alerts) when activated. In aspects, the Exercise Mode is activated either manually by a user or automatically by an Exercise Manager. The Exercise Manager is an algorithm (e.g., machine-learned algorithm) configured to analyze a plurality of signals generated by sensors (e.g., inertial sensors, location sensors, heart rate monitors) from one or …

Random Value Generation Through A Collected Sample Of Ip Addresses, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to collect a random value set from a set of IP addresses collected by a search engine. A search engine collects all the IP addresses that reach it during search requests during a pre-configured duration of time. The search engine then converts all the IP addresses into numerical values. After the conversion process, the set of numerical values are partitioned into byte streams of pre-configured size. The search engine will eliminate any redundant byte stream partitions. The resulting set of byte partitions are used as random value partitions.

Steering Wheel Having Electrodes For Detecting Steering Wheel Contact

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A steering wheel includes a steering wheel rim. A first electrode is connected to the steering wheel rim. A second electrode is connected to the steering wheel rim adjacent the first electrode. In one configuration, the first and second electrodes are interdigitated. At least one evaluation and control device (“EVCD”) is connected to the first and second electrodes. The at least one EVCD is switchable between a self-capacitance sensing mode and a mutual capacitance sensing mode. The at least one EVCD drives a current into the first electrode and senses a change in capacitance at the first electrode with respect …

Nautic Inspiere X, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Integration Of Non-Driving Activities Into Piloted Time Windows, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.