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Using Persistent Memory To Reduce Cloud Servers Costs, Jue Wang

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By virtue of its very high speed, DDR memory is an important component of cloud servers. Such memory is expensive and forms a substantial portion of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of cloud servers. This disclosure describes techniques to selectively use persistent memory (PMEM) as a cheaper alternative to DDR to reduce cost. A hypervisor is modified to include components that perform smart management of virtualization in a cloud environment to achieve significant memory savings by managing the data placement policy, e.g., demoting cold data to PMEM and promoting hot data to DDR RAM. Such operation is achieved with …

Reservation Of Critical Cloud Computing Resources, Samrat Saha

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This disclosure describes enterprise computing resource protection, e.g., virtual machines or other resources distributed over multiple cloud data centers in different locations. Resource protection is enabled based on user selection of resource protection via a user interface. Users can provide input to select a particular project and a corresponding time period when the compute resources are to be protected (reserved). The selected project is traversed to identify the compute resources utilized and a clone of the user compute environment is created as a backup environment, with resources in the backup environment being reserved for a time period specified by the …

Withholding Content And Recommendation Delivery To Avoid Spoilers, Alexander James Faaborg, Brett Barros

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Online news portals, personalized feeds, etc. can include content spoilers that can ruin a user’s online experience by revealing details of the plot of content such as television shows, movies, etc. This disclosure describes techniques to avoid spoilers by delaying the presentation of material pertaining to various types of content until a user has consumed the content. With user permission, a user’s content consumption history is accessed and utilized to identify news articles and other media that can be a content spoiler. Analysis of articles and other media can be performed using machine learning models or other suitable techniques to …

Automatic Removal Of Artifacts In 360° Videos, Eric Cosky

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Many 360° videos captured using a camera rig and tripod setup have artifacts related to the tripod that the rig is attached to. This disclosure describes automatic removal of such artifacts by use of machine learning techniques. Portions of the video that include artifacts are detected and removed automatically using trained machine learning model(s). The ML models are trained to recognize production equipment based on videos captured in neutral environments or based on markers on the production equipment. The detected artifacts are automatically replaced based on the context and ensuring that the resultant video is stable.

Power Swirl Burner - P-61897/Wo (=Id-03922), Christian Mohr

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A burner is disclosed having a base and a defined central opening. An inner wall stands on the base and defines an inner air gas channel with an outer perimeter of the burner. The inner wall includes a number of inner ports for directing gas from the inner air gas channel into the central opening. A central portion is included within the central opening, the central porting being smaller than the central opening. A central wall is arranged on the central portion and defines a central air gas channel and includes a number of central ports for directing gas from …

Temporal Navigation Of Video Conferences, Simon Dyke, Pete Rai, James Walker, Trevor Smith, Patricia Patitucci

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Video conference users frequently end up with a large and diverse set of meetings for which they have previously attended, are currently attending, or plan to attend. This meeting set can be difficult to navigate as, typically, future meetings live in a different space than past meetings. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support the presentation of all of a user’s video conferences on a single temporal axis. From the temporal axis, a user may navigate back and forth to view details and complete actions. Among other things, previously attended and upcoming meetings are presented …

Enhanced Central Web Authentication, Sachin D. Wakudkar, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Taha Hajar

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Central web authentication (CWA) is widely deployed for guest user authentication in environments that include a Remote Authentication Dial-In User (RADIUS) server. The various CWA flows work well with existing security policy management platforms without any security concerns, but potentially there could be security issues while working with third-party RADIUS servers. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support, among other things, enhanced CWA flows to work with untrusted RADIUS servers and selectively extending Layer 3 (L3) authentication timeouts for high-profile customers.

Frictionless Onboarding For End-To-End Encrypted Collaborative Systems, Uday Srinath, Nikhil Kapre, Qingwen Cheng, Nick Wooler

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Many current systems require a user account to access system features or allow a guest mode to skip account creation. In collaboration software that includes a guest mode, there are two features that are currently supported: (1) Joining a meeting via a guest mode, and (2) Guest mode for an entire application using an anonymous token, which is a token for a particular session only and needs another guest session on re-entry; the guest session is not persisted on retry. As a result, it is critical to solve the problem of onboarding allowing users to enter the system easily in …

Global Contact Enhancements For Collaboration Tools, Mervyn Mcmurray

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Typically, a collaboration tool, such as a video teleconferencing/messaging tool, facilitates intra-company communications through directory services that can be provided for the tool. As different companies can be included within the overall ecosystem of collaboration tool, inter-company communications may be desirable. However, the current contact paradigm for sharing contacts within a company may be insufficient when multiple users having a same name or identity may exist across multiple different companies. Presented herein is a technique to address such challenges by enhancing contact information to include additional identifiers that can be used to distinguish users among different companies.

Geolocation Driven Reinforcment Learning-Powered In Transit Headset Noise Cancellation Mechanism, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain

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When one is in transit, different kinds of non-stationary noises may arise. Moreover, in different countries non-stationary noise intensity levels may vary significantly from location to location. For example, in a market in India the intensity of noise will be much higher than that found in a market in the United States. Currently, however, artificial intelligence (AI) -driven headsets are trained on a generic noise-related dataset that is used to filter out noise. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support an AI-based, state of the art, intelligent, and interactive algorithm that will detect current headset …

Adaptive Dram Page Policy To Optimize For Temporal Access Locality, N/A

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When a memory access for a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is completed, the accessed page is closed, which consumes energy and time. In the presence of workloads with temporal access locality, such operation is expensive and introduces latency. Traditional CPUs include caches that ensure that such memory behavior does not negatively impact memory accesses with temporal locality. However, for hardware accelerators such as machine learning accelerators that do not include caches, workloads that have temporal access locality can suffer. This disclosure describes techniques to efficiently service memory accesses for workloads that exhibit temporal locality while ensuring that the performance …

Instruction Set For Dense Data, N/A

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Multi-core computing speeds up computation by parallelizing tasks amongst several simultaneously-running compute cores. With multiple cores, data should be near-simultaneously and rapidly accessible by each core; this puts excessive stresses on the CPU-memory bus. Data formats are typically uncompressed, e.g., they assign a fixed number of bits to a data type, no matter how small the actual values are, and without regard to the distribution of those values. Data in uncompressed form consumes substantial memory, cache capacity, and memory bandwidth. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a compute core to fetch data in units of bits, rather than bytes. The …

Dynamic Content Insertion Within An App Content Stream Via Context Aggregation, Yan Mayster, Robert Bruce Bahnsen, Brian Shucker

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Apps that stream content often interleave the personalized content broadcast with other information, such as advertisements, announcements, etc. Personalized and contextually optimal selection of such additional content is currently constrained by the information available to the specific app provider. This disclosure describes a context aggregator service that app makers can query to enhance the selection of inserted content by querying a broad variety of relevant contextual information, obtained with user permission. The context aggregator service can utilize individual and/or aggregated information to provide query responses, e.g., topics or advertisements that a user is likely to be interested in. If the …

Contextually-Relevant Vehicle Advertising, Robert Bruce Bahnsen, Yan Mayster

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Existing approaches to adapt advertising messages on vehicle-mounted displays based on location rely on static demographic information about the area. Such approaches do not take into account changes in relevant contextual factors connected to the current location of the vehicle at a given time. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically select and display contextually relevant messages, such as advertisements, on vehicles. The messages are dynamically updated based on relevant changes in the vehicle’s context, such as location, time of day, day of the week, people in the vicinity, local events, current advertising needs of businesses, etc. If the route of …

Triggering Applications From A Distance Using Patterns Displayed On A Wearable Device, N/A

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Currently, voice interaction between users and smart devices does not use spatial context, e.g., the position of the user relative to the smart device, in responding to user queries which limits the possibilities of interaction and the precision of the answers provided by the smart device. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to trigger an application on a smart device such as a smart display or smart speaker by flashing a predefined pattern on a wearable device such as a smartwatch worn by the user. The predefined pattern is detected and utilized to determine the distance to the …

Limiting Spoken Navigation Guidance For Familiar Routes, Matthew Sharifi

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People typically follow the same route for often-repeated trips, such as commuting to work. In such cases, the need for navigation guidance arises only if the usually-followed route needs any deviations. This disclosure describes a quiet navigation mode for a digital map/navigation application, implemented with user permission. In the quiet navigation mode, spoken navigation guidance is limited to those steps along the route that correspond to deviations from the user’s routinely traversed route between the given origin and destination. By reducing spoken notifications and alerting the user only when necessary, the quiet navigation mode can improve the user experience of …

Routing Of Network Traffic On A Per-Application Basis, James Mattis, Ryan Weekes, Tomasz Wasilczyk, Guru Nagarajan, Sanjay Lal, Kevin Meier, Jean Chalard, Chris Weir

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Wireless applications in certain domains, e.g., automotive, Internet-of-Things (IoT), etc., consume substantial amounts of bandwidth. A user accustomed to data consumption on a mobile device may be surprised to find the substantially larger amounts of data consumed via telemetry by wireless devices and sensors on their automobile. Reciprocally, a car manufacturer may not want a customer to pay for telemetry. This disclosure describes techniques to route network traffic to specific network interfaces on a per-application basis. The techniques can be implemented in a device operating system, and provide mechanisms for users and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to separate data costs …

A New Haptic Method To Notify Message In Laptop Computer, Hp Inc

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This is a new haptic method which includes a vibrate motor, and leverages existing operation system

of laptop computer, to generate notification to user with different vibration patterns.

Device For The Prevention Of Foot Injury In The Event Of A, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Fruit Wood Applications For The Interior Of A Vehicle, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Slider Stop, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Structural Damper, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Use Of Drones For Vehicles Involved In Accidents, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Variable Pedal Characteristics, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

T-Sensor Based Assisted Cooking On A Gas Hob-Id-04730, Christian Mohr

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The invention proposes the use of T-sensor (temperature sensor) with a gas hob to give protection against unmonitored/uncontrolled heating. The T-sensor functions to sense dry heating, rice cooking, water boiling condition, deep frying, simmer control or a controlled flame generation and remote status monitoring.

Vacuum Nozzle For Metal Powder Retrieval, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the process of recovering the non-solidified powder in additive manufacturing

systems using binder jetting and powder bed fusion technologies. Typically, the powder recovery from

the build platforms is a manual operation that consists of aspirating the powder particles through a

nozzle. The powder is transported to a tank using a vacuum system.

With the current set of nozzles, aspirating the powder is slow and labor-intensive. The material

transport pipes are often clogged, and the nozzles are stuck against the build platforms surfaces. The

processing time is highly variable and dependent on the operator's ability, which is …

Oozing Control By Means Of Predictive Planning Of Filament Retractions, Jiri Konvicny

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This publication concerns the optimization of the retraction settings using a retraction model which is then used to eliminate oozing by smart planning of filament retractions via slicing software (such as Ultimaker Cura®).

Improving Image Search By Augmenting Image Queries, Conrad Burchert, Philipp Neubeck, Hanna Maria Pasula, Filip Pavetić

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Matching image or video content to other content is an important requirement for content hosting platforms. A common mechanism is to construct an index of known content, e.g., that include multi-dimensional embeddings generated from the content, and match new content against the index. The precision and recall of such techniques require a high quality fingerprint, and tradeoffs between recall performance and the cost of filtering out false positives. This disclosure describes improvements to content matching techniques that generate multiple transformations of the input content, look up each transformation in the index, and limit detection of false positives or other downstream …

Using A Semantic Model To Build And Execute Dynamic Sql Queries, Leigha Jarett

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Having a semantic layer to define structured query language (SQL) based metrics, allows end-users of business intelligence (BI) products to compose SQL queries on the fly, using a graphical user interface (GUI). This disclosure describes the use of a semantic layer to define SQL-based metrics which allows end-users of business intelligence (BI) products to compose SQL queries on the fly, using a graphical user interface (UI), with support for utilizing the results of an initial query to automatically compose a new query. The use of a modeling layer to enable query composition on the fly makes such operation simple, performant, …

Test Coverage Analysis By Diffing Production Logs Against Integration Test Logs, Yifan Gao, Ben Rafferty, Tylor Sampson, Joseph Kubik

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This disclosure describes tools and techniques to analyze input and configuration coverage of software by performing large scale analysis of production and integration test data in a privacy-compliant manner. Test coverage analysis is made possible for highly complex input schema or for input schema that evolve with time. The techniques uncover the input-subspace that has been thus far integration-tested and the input-subspace that remains untested (known as test-gaps). When gathering data on how a specific software input/configuration is used in production, the techniques determine not only if they are used, but also how often they are used. Such data can …