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Dynamic Drying To Avoid White Ink Marks, Hp Inc

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One of the most desired (premium) applications in the printing world is print with white ink. Obtain white ink

that looks very white and does not turn yellow is difficult to achieve. White ink contains a pigment that

precipitate easily and that means that the ink has to be constantly recirculating through the printer's ink

tubes to avoid the precipitation.

In some white print modes, the white ink is printed first as an opacity layer, and then the colored ink is printed on top. If the white ink has not dried properly, when you print the color ink, it is …

Electrical Conductive Undercarriage Protection And Wiper Blade, Hp Inc

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This idea describes how making conductive parts that touch and surround printhead nozzle plate can help on improving image quality of prints.

Simple And Reliable Lid Open/Close Detection, Hp Inc

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The existing lid open/close detect solution has complexity in assembling and

required a bigger space on the product.

Remaining Media Length Estimation And Filtering Algorithm, Hp Inc

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The proposed algorithm allows the printer to estimate the remaining media and thus, the printer, could

inform of it allowing the customer to check if their job fits on the loaded roll or calculate how many copies

they can do among other things.

The presented disclosure’s algorithm to estimate the remaining media length in the loaded roll without

adding any new sensor more than the currently present in our printers. This allows to deploy the solution

via firmware update to all our printers.

The solution estimates the remaining length of the loaded media roll without the need if tracking it …

Fully Extensible Ci/Cd Pipelines, Hp Inc

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Current CI/CD pipeline technologies present limited capacity for extension. Representative of the

state-of-the-art are ${{…}} expressions, which cannot satisfy all users' arbitrary and unexpected

requirements for extensibility. The idea disclosed here allows for fully extensible CI/CD pipelines,

in a technology-agnostic way. We discuss and exemplify using ADO Pipelines only for the sake

of conciseness. Our proposal fits any "pipeline-as-code"-based technology.

Intuitive Modeling Of Voxel-Based 3d Objects, Luis Quesada Torres

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Voxels (volumetric pixels) are virtual cubes that can be used to construct, model, or analyze virtual three-dimensional objects. Voxels find extensive use in video game design, animation, three-dimensional printing, etc. Software modeling of voxel objects is difficult for a designer working on a two-dimensional computer screen because voxel placement in the third dimension (perpendicular to the computer screen) can be ambiguous or obscured.

This disclosure describes a simple, low-cost, and expandable hardware interface and accompanying software to intuitively model or define voxel-based 3D objects. The base has a matrix of connectors. A number of cubic pieces or physical voxels of …

User Experience Improvement After Oobe, Hp Inc

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The system is busy after the Out-of-box experience (OOBE). For example, windows

update, mail download, search Index create, antivirus and so on. The fan noise and skin

temperature will be high easily because the system is busy above activities in a few

days (we define this period after the OOBE, as AOOBE period). Some activities are

background processes. User may not aware the system is busy by these processes.

The user experience is bad for the fan noise, skin temperature and system performance

during AOOBE period. We provide a method to improve user experience during the

AOOBE period. We can …

Air Pressure System Assisted Prime From Ink Pump, Hp Inc

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The purge process of the Ink Delivery System (IDS) of a printer is a critical process

from several points of view.

It is one of the process of the Out of the Box Experience, it is the first contact of the

customer with the printer that has just been bought. And the first time the printer starts

moving ink. So, any problem related to the purge has a huge impact on customer

experience.

Error Proofing Design For Printer Internal Tank Access, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of Printers with internal ink tanks, compared to the

traditional inkjet printers which provide ink suppliers with cartridges, bringing value to

customers with lower printing cost and lesser intervention for ink supply replacement. A

printer ink tank system allows users to top up ink from ink bottles into the tanks based on

ink level statuses in the tanks.

Smart Glasses With Wireless Charging, Kai Xu, John Stephanou, Kevin Orr

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This disclosure describes an inductive wireless charging system for smart glasses that places a charging coil on smart glasses and utilizes the carrying case of the smart glasses for wireless charging. Per techniques of this disclosure, the carrying case includes ferrite sheets provided on its walls. A receiver winding is provided along the rim of the smart glasses. The winding can include Litz wires or flexible printed circuits (FPC) embedded into the rim. Ferrite sheets of the carrying case are utilized as both RX and TX ferrite sheets. A larger ferrite sheet additionally provides better magnetic performance and enables greater …

Computing-Device Clipboards Accessible Via Audible Input, Dana Dahlstrom

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This publication describes methods and techniques, implemented on computing devices, directed at enhancing a user experience associated with copying and pasting items, including text, images, and other media. In aspects, a computing device includes a multi-item clipboard and a Clipboard Manager configured to utilize a machine-learned algorithm (“Sound Recognition Module”) to translate sound data to a categorical key (e.g., a value used to identify a certain component within a data-structure). While a user performs actions directed at copying an item (e.g., keystroking a keyboard combination), the Clipboard Manager can accept audible input from a user (e.g., a voice command). Once …

On-Device Ranking For Displaying Suggestions, Ankur Aggarwal, Bálint Tillman, Sriram Natarajan

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An important capability of mobile device operating systems and/or virtual assistants is to provide contextually appropriate suggestions that enable users to perform quick actions such as obtain navigation guidance, start media playback, listen and respond to messages, etc. Devices such as vehicle infotainment consoles include additional contextual information, e.g., fuel gauge level, driving stage, etc. that can be important when determining suggestions that are provided via such consoles. This disclosure describes on-device ranking of candidate suggestions to deliver the top ranking suggestions via the vehicle infotainment console. With user permission, the ranking can be based on relevant contextual factors, e.g., …

Collaboration Service To Facilitate Dynamic Captioning In Real-Time, Kaouther Abrougui, Sandhya Kerehalli, Jeff Apcar, Geetha Anandakrishnan

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Network issues can affect the quality of audio and video for online collaboration sessions, which can result in participants missing important parts of speech. Current collaboration tools often provide closed captioning (CC) options, however, captioning is typically not automatically started on bandwidth issues and, further, captioning is often generated in the cloud with no guarantee that the original stream is received intact by meeting participants. Presented herein are techniques to address these issues by providing a collaboration service that facilitates real-time Dynamic Captioning. In the event of network issues during an online meeting, at either the speaker end or the …

Front Frame Welded On Modular Cavity For Ovens_Id-05158, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a cooking oven, which can accommodate food. The oven can be a microwave oven or a conventional heating oven with a microwave oven feature. The cavity of the oven into which the food is pushed has a flange at an edge facing the oven flap, which delimits the opening of the cavity. A front frame is attached to the flange, which is arranged between the oven flap and the flange when the oven flap is closed. It is proposed to weld the front frame to the flange so that there is no gap between the flange …

Techniques To Identify A Focus Area Across Screens And To Provide Dynamic Rendering For Collaboration Tools, Ajith Chandran, Lakshmi Thanvantri, Rajeev Malhotra, Faisal Siyavudeen

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Meeting sharing involving video collaboration tools typically occurs over multiple devices, which often have different screen sizes. When attending a meeting on a small screened device, it is sometimes difficult for a user to determine the focus area (or a Region of Interest) of a screen that is being shared. For example, while sharing a picture of a scenery and while describing an object, a user attending a meeting that is using a smaller screen (e.g., from a mobile device) may need to scroll and zoom to a particular area. Additionally, this issue may occur for instances involving sharing from …

Method And Payment Processing System For Facilitating Interoperability Between Heterogenous Payment Methods, Krithika Shree Subramaniam

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a payment processing system for facilitating interoperability between heterogenous payment methods. Here, the payment processing system maintains an issuer authentication endpoint directory, which comprises one or more URLs associated with various payment methods issued by an issuer server; continuously polls status of the endpoints to verify whether the URLs are up and running. Instead of declining the authentication and transaction due to unavailability of endpoint for a payment method, the payment processing system routes authentication request and transaction from a first endpoint to a second endpoint for the same issuer server based …

Intent-Based Networking From The Iot Edge To The Application Server, Tim Szigeti, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Dave Zacks

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The dynamic management of traffic within an operational technology (OT) network raises a number of challenges. To address those types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that enable end-to-end intent-based networking to control access between the OT domain and on-premise or cloud-based data center (DC) domains. Aspects of the presented techniques employ deep packet inspection (DPI) of industrial protocols within the OT domain (e.g. by sensors) and map Internet of Things (IoT) devices and traffic flows to abstract tags (through, e.g. a robust security facility), export such tags to a common policy server that bridges both domains, assign the IoT …

Kitchen Assistance Robot And Robot-Assisted Kitchen Environment (P-62476/Ep), Christian Mohr

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A kitchen assistance robot (31) operates in a kitchen environment and relieves a person working in the kitchen of kitchen work. The kitchen assistance robot (31) comprises a robot body (33) and at least one robot arm (35) having a gripper device (37) or a hand device at one of its ends. The kitchen assistance robot (31) is adapted to operate a kitchen appliance (11, 19, 25) and/or a kitchen equipment (15), and/or the gripper device (37) or hand device includes or is adapted to grasp a tool (41) for performing kitchen work. The kitchen assistance robot (31) comprises a …

Automated Generation Of Datasets Of Framed Video Content, Filip Pavetić, Bakhodir Ashirmatov, Mayank Kandpal

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An important objective of video hosting and sharing platforms is to ensure that content is uploaded by the true owner or with due permission of the true owner. To ensure that unauthorized content is not uploaded, such platforms match uploaded videos against a database of original videos. A frequently encountered type of match-avoiding transform, known as framed video (or content), shrinks the original and valuable content into a small area of the video and covers the remaining portions of the video with unrelated or irrelevant patterns. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically generate large, labeled volumes of training data for …

Determining Product Complementarity By Analyzing Search Query Streams, Luis Benavides, Timothy Shur, Anshul Sawant, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Nishith Parikh, Akshay Gupta, Leon Xu

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Determining complementarity between products when viewing products online, e.g., via a shopping website or a search engine, is not straightforward. The information required to determine product complementarity is unstructured and/or spread across multiple sources. While co-purchase data can be used to infer complementarity, this requires large volumes of purchase data that is often unavailable. This disclosure describes techniques to identify relationships between products based on analysis of web search queries, subsequent clicks or other user actions, obtained with user permission. The techniques rely on the observation that query streams often include searches for related products, e.g., in the form of …

Compact, Alignment-Compliant Object Placement In Memory, Hyojun Kim

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Complying with byte-alignment constraints often entails the padding of bytes between entries of an object and between objects, leading to wasted memory. This disclosure describes techniques to substantially reduce or eliminate intra-object and inter-object padding. Entries within an object are arranged in an ascending-then-descending order, such that they can be placed adjacent to each other with no padding between them. Alignment constraints are satisfied by introducing a padding at the start of the object. Inter-object padding is reduced by arranging the elements of an object adjacent to one another and towards one end of the object.

Optimizing Data Throughput Performance In 5g Non-Standalone Networks Using Deep Learning, Gordon Kuo

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A user equipment (UE) in a non-standalone (NSA) 5G network uses a deep learning model to predict whether a better downlink (DL) throughput can be obtained by enabling 5G new radio (NR) capability to optimize its DL data throughput performance. 4G/5G measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) are recorded by the UE as training features during daily usage. The UE also records the perceived DL throughput for both the LTE-only mode and the 5G NR dual connectivity mode as labels. The deep learning model is trained based on the recorded features and labels using, for example, supervised learning. The UE implements …

Two-Handed Typing Method On An Arbitrary Surface, Shumin Zhai, Mingrui Zhang

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A computing device may detect user input, such as finger movements resembling typing on an invisible virtual keyboard in the air or on any surface, to enable typing. The computing device may use sensors (e.g., accelerometers, cameras, piezoelectric sensors, etc.) to detect the user’s finger movements, such as the user’s fingers moving through the air and/or contacting a surface. The computing device may then decode (or, in other words, convert, interpret, analyze, etc.) the detected finger movements to identify corresponding inputs representative of characters (e.g., alphanumeric characters, national characters, special characters, etc.). To reduce input errors, the computing device may …

Real-Time Secure Sharing Of Live Meeting Content Through Voice Commands Or User Clicks, Rajarshee Dhar, Deepesh Arora, Ram Mohan R

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With the dramatic increase in working from home due to the COVID-19 situation, the reliance on online collaborative sessions has increased manifold and there is a significant need to have an enhanced immersive sharing and collaborative experience in live meetings. Existing sharing and collaboration mechanisms (including the sharing of meeting presentations ahead of time, etc.) all suffer from different weaknesses. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support a means whereby, among other things, an authorized participant in an online meeting may request (through, for example, clicking on a shared meeting screen, using a voice input, …

Techniques To Facilitate Selection Of Next Hop Nrf In A Hierarchical Network Repository Function (Nrf) Deployment In 5g Networks, Ravi Shekhar, Satyabrata Seth, Shantanu Bhate, Ameo Ghosh

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When a Fifth Generation (5G) Network Repository Function (NRF) deployed in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) hierarchical model architecture receives a Network Function (NF) Discovery or Subscription or Access Token request, the NRF may not have the required information to serve the request on account of the information being divided among multiple NRF instances in the network. In such cases, the NRF instance that receives the request from a consumer NF may choose to forward or redirect the request to another NRF instance in the hierarchy. The conditions and policies to decide when to redirect or forward the request …

Tagged Hierarchical Navigation For Files And Directories, Nam T Nguyen

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Filesystems for computer storage enable users to organize files in a hierarchy of directories and to label files with descriptive tags separate from the filename. Search and navigation of the filesystem via the hierarchical organization or the tags can be useful to find a collection of related files. However, in current systems, users can use only one of the two approaches at a time which makes it difficult to perform tasks that require a combination of the two approaches. This disclosure describes an augmented filesystem that enables users to perform operations using a combination of depth based drilldown of the …

Cascade Multiple Mosfet In Current-Mode Logic Buffer To Reduce Common Mode Noise Of Serdes, Jianquan Lou, Alpesh Bhobe, Hailong Zhang, Xiao Li

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Addressing the common-mode (CM) noise issue in a Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) raises a variety of challenges. To address those types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support cascading multiple metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in a current-mode logic (CML) output buffer to reduce the CM noise in a SerDes with nearly no impact on, among other things, cost, thermal performance, chip real estate, and power consumption.

New Tip Topography And Process For Aluminum Resistance Spot Welding, Feng Wu

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Described herein is a new tip topography for aluminum resistance spot welding (RSW), which results in at least 10 times the improvement for aluminum resistance spot welding. The new tip topography is achieved by re-stamping the tip to result in a re-stamped tip.

Finding Match Avoidance Attempts At Scale With Video Expansion, Roman Vorushin, Philipp Neubeck, Hanna Maria Pasula, Filip Pavetić, Conrad Burchert

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An important objective of user-generated content platforms such as audio/video hosting or streaming platforms is to ensure that content that is available via their platforms is authorized for use, e.g., is provided by the true owner or with due permission of the true owner. To ensure that unauthorized content is not made available, such platforms match uploaded videos against a repository of reference (original) videos. To avoid video content being matched, content uploaders utilize constantly evolving new content transformation strategies when uploading unauthorized content. This disclosure describes automated techniques that help speed up and scale the collection of training examples …

Api For Apps To Indicate The User Can Be Actively Interrupted, Alex Faaborg, Munaf Assaf

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An operating system on a computing device may include an application programming interface (API) having one or more functions that can be used by software applications executing at the computing device to control the outputting of notifications, alerts, alarms, warnings, reminders, and the like, by the computing device while the software application is being used by a user. A software application may call or invoke one or more functions of the API to indicate whether notifications can be outputted by the computing device, such as whether the computing device may display a notification banner at a display device. For example, …