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Adaptive Rf Pigtail Probe Modeling For De-Embedding Of Rf Measurements, Yu-Kai Hung, Victor Chang, Hsin-Hung Wu, Ting-Yu Guu

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This disclosure describes techniques for accurate estimation and de-embedding of the effects of pigtail probes in circuits. An adaptive pigtail model is developed and described that can accurately de-embed the effects of pigtail probes in digital circuits. Example parameters are identified that include pigtail length, tip length, pigtail tilt degree, ground distance, and solder amount. A pigtail simulation model is developed to model the soldered pigtail probe. The dependency of circuit impedance on the identified parameters is determined by experimentation which indicates that circuit performance can be boosted by short ground distance lengths, low tilt angles, thick support wires, short …

Automatic Delivery Of Machine Learning Models To User Device To Enable App Features, Keun Soo Yim, Neha Pattan

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Many mobile apps, e.g., virtual assistants, navigation apps, video apps, etc., use various machine learning (ML) models. Different features of the app may have respective associated ML models which may often not be available locally on a user device and need explicit user action to download from a server. This disclosure describes techniques for automatic synchronization of machine learning models to a user device. With user permission, ML model(s) of an app that are not available locally or for which a new version is available are automatically downloaded when certain conditions such as are met. The conditions can include network …

Use Of Augmented Reality To Enable Comparisons Between Physical And Virtual Objects, Alexander James Faaborg, Brett Barros

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Augmented reality (AR) shopping is typically thought of as the filling up of an empty space with virtual objects to assess the fit of that object to that space. This formulation ignores the portion of shopping that involves the replacement of an item. While a user can take a photo of an item, without an AR model of the item, the user cannot determine the fit or suitability of the item to their spaces. Current AR tools cannot identify and describe the key differences between what a user has and what the user wants to purchase. This disclosure describes techniques …

Wake From Camera Shutter When Notebook Is In Tablet Mode, Hp Inc

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For some detachable notebook which supports notebook mode and tablet mode, sometimes power button is

designed in notebook C-cover (Keyboard side), to prevent user miss touch keyboard or any buttons/click pads

when user is using tablet mode, the C-cover functions is disabled or hided in tablet mode depends on system

design. When user enters sleep in tablet mode by OS timer setting or low battery, user cannot use click pad or

keyboard to wake up system and requires to transfer the notebook to notebook mode to wake up system which is very inconvenience.

Sure Usb-C Power Source Detection, Hp Inc

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The host uses USB-C power source from USB-C port on notebook or AIO now. The

USB-C power source detection fail happens sometimes. The power status is incorrect

and keep DC when the failure happens. The USB-C power source detection fail may

cause by communication problem between PD, EC, chipset and OS. The

communication problems are maybe related about the hardware, firmware, driver and

OS. It is a complex process for USB-C power source detection. We provide a Sure

USB-C Power Source Detection (SUPSD). When the USB-C power source plug-in,

SUPSD can detect the power status from OS. It can recover …

Procedurally Generating Artificial Photos Of Text Documents In Various Backgrounds, Hp Inc

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Text document photos remain a highly important resource in the development or training of

document segmentation and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications. This is due to the

quality assessment of algorithms for these tasks is performed using unknown images, which

guarantees their robustness, and that Machine Learning techniques need large datasets with a great

number of samples with high inter and intraclass diversity. This work presents a method to

procedurally generate simulations of photos of text documents with different backgrounds. Using

Digital Image Processing techniques, this process eliminates the need of creating a real dataset by

hand and increases the …

Federated Data Access, Hp Inc

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Data has become critical to drive decisions, manage devices, support engineering teams, support service

support teams, and many other uses on data driven organizations.

Data is coming from multiple sources, collected and stored in multiple systems and not easy to share

avoiding duplications and inefficiencies; assuring data quality and consistency.

Current approaches are creating data layers which internally are managing copies of the data for

operational purposes.

Due to the amount of data systems available it is also difficult to be aware of the existence of this data or

difficulties to share it so usually it ends with teams creating …

Reduced Attack Surface By Moving The Usb Port Disable During Pre Efi-Initialization (Pei) Phase, Hp Inc

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We are doing the solution how to reduce attack surface by moving the USB port disable

before the end of DXE or PEI Phase.

Improving Query Suggestions Based On Search Box Edits, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Lingyi Zhang

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Users often enter terms into a search box and then modify the query. Such modifications may be based on, e.g., the real-time query suggestions offered by the search engine, or the user thinking of a different phrasing for the query. Such changes to entered search terms prior to executing the search are not captured in the search history, and are not taken into account for tailoring post-search query suggestions or search results. This disclosure describes the use of a trained machine learning model to customize query suggestions and/or search results based on terms previously typed in the search box, obtained …

Personal Finance Goals Creation And Progress Tracking Using A Payment Application, Michael Hopkins, Sergio Alves, Diane Spengel, Bruno Martins

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A sizable fraction of the population does not have high-yield savings accounts, thereby missing out on the opportunity for earning interest. Savings accounts are liquid, making them a good vehicle for an emergency fund and for meeting short-term goals (vacation, wedding, etc.) while enabling the growth of money. This disclosure describes a savings account that can be signed up and accessed from a payment application on a mobile device. The described savings account, interfaced to the user via a familiar payment application, enables users to learn the benefits of, gain trust in, and readily access savings accounts, thereby enjoying a …

Automatic Detection Of Gaps In Availability Of Authoritative Online Content, Abraham Ittycheriah, Alyssa Lingad, Anne Merritt, Cong Yu, Jan Machowski, Kinton Cheung, Maki Sugimoto, Renato Da Costa, Sarah Montgomery-Taylor, Shaan Varia, Shekhar Sharad, Srayan Datta, Tetiana Kedzierska, You Wu

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This disclosure describes techniques to measure authority content gap (ACG), which represents the (lack of) authoritativeness in online content related to individual topics. The ACG metric is defined for various verticals, e.g., health, government services, legal, etc., and can be specific to region, country, language, or time period. The ACG is refreshed periodically, and it can be used in combination with other metrics relating to a content publisher. The ACG is a useful measure in various contexts, e.g., when an unpopular or obscure topic achieves sudden popularity, or when a new topic emerges. The ACG for a topic can indicate …

Audio Status Adjustment Based On Lip Movements And Gaze Direction, N/A

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Video conference (VC) user interfaces include a feature that provides users with the option to mute or unmute their audio status during a meeting. A user may forget to mute themselves when they are not speaking, causing background audio to be transmitted. A user may attempt to speak while unmuted, without realizing that they are muted. Such mode errors can interrupt the flow of the VC meeting. This disclosure utilizes one or more user-permitted factors, detected locally at a user device, to automatically adjust the user’s audio status within a video conference. If the user permits, data from the local …

Data Plane Signaled On-Demand Cloud Telemetry And Traffic Mirroring Configuration And Collection, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos Pignataro, Richard Furr

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Cloud-based deployments are continually growing in popularity. In support of such paradigms, techniques are presented herein that leverage data plane intent signaling for packet and telemetry data collection and introduce a number of novel elements. For example, a first element is a cloud agent (e.g., running as a separate entity or as part of a router) that, among other things, interprets the data plane intent signaling for packet and telemetry collection and, upon detecting the intent signaling, instructs a local control plane agent about the intent and other details (such as, for example, flow, collection intent, timing, etc.) so that …

Entity Suggestions In Custom Audiences, Jane Huang

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A data processing system can generate associations between user interests and target users based on advertiser features to allow for specific targeting of users with content such as media or advertisements. The target users can be associated with user behaviors such as, for example, client device capabilities, user browsing behavior and actions, or a combination thereof. The advertiser features can be, for example, campaign or ad groups, landing pages, websites, or a combination thereof. The user interests can be keywords, URLs, applications, and locations, or a combination thereof. The user interests, target users, and advertiser features can each be represented …

Seamlessly Embedding Relevant Related Video Content In A Video Playback Stream, Alexandru Damian, Victor Carbune

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Online video content often includes links to additional video content related to the main video. The links to the related videos can be included in one or more places within the user interface , such as inline within the main video, within the description of the main video, etc. Users must interact explicitly with the links in order to view the linked related videos. This disclosure describes techniques to insert relevant related video content with permission inline within a main video to generate a video stream that seamlessly shows the combined content.

Unsupervised Relation Mapping: Going From Text To Schema, Silviana-Ioana Cimpian, Mariano Rodríguez Muro, Martin Rezk, Hoki Tam, Edwin James Taylor Iv, Andi Vajda

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The schema of a database models the knowledge content of the database. However, database users often have natural language text documents, e.g., relatively unstructured data, with information related to the database. Understanding the semantics of the text documents entails the identification of entities in the document and the relations (as specified in the schema) that connect the entities. This disclosure describes techniques to find the correct relationship in the schema for a given input pair of entities. Per the techniques, two inputs are extracted from the documents - the pairs (knowledge graph entity, input string) and a set of target …

Automated Extraction Of Pivot Topics For Sideways Expansion Of Search Scope, Alankar Jain, William Mcmeans, William M Leszczuk, Sitaram Iyer, Seher Aylin Altiok, Mehrbod Sharifi, Jerome Miglino, James K. Barlow

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Users benefit from mechanisms that can help them refine their queries to facilitate searching for information connected to their underlying intent. Apart from refinements to narrow the scope of a query, users can benefit from suggestions that can help them pivot their information seeking by expanding their search sideways to related topics. This disclosure describes computational techniques for automated determination of suitable topics and/or queries for helping users expand the scope of their information search by pivoting to topics related to their query. The techniques involve selecting a meta-query, performing query expansion, identifying, aggregating, and deduplicating related entities. The identified …

Metadata Service To Enable Display Of Rich Artifacts In Machine Learning Pipelines, Ajay Alfred, Pavel Dournov, Jingxiao Wu, Hongye Sun, Apoorv Verma (Ap), Ajay Gopinathan, Hui Miao, Neoklis Polyzotis

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Cloud-based machine learning (ML) platforms enable ML practitioners to build, rebuild, and serve multiple machine learning models in production environments. Proper ML metadata tracking and management is important to enable large-scale experimentation and to provide traceability and verifiability for modern production ML. This disclosure describes a ML metadata service to manage the lifecycle of metadata consumed and produced by ML pipelines. The ML metadata service enables logging detailed metadata as artifacts, capturing metadata as typed artifacts, and capturing a ML pipeline in an intuitive workflow graph. The metadata service enables provision of a ML dashboard that displays visualizations of a …

Duty-Cycle And On-Time Measurement Using Power Supplies, Jay Lee, Liberty Lin, Rex Gu

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The duty cycle and the on-time of transmitters are typically measured using digital oscilloscopes or spectrum analyzers, which both require substantial effort and training to configure and operate. The use of this equipment is also subject to some human error, since their readings depend on the positions of markers set on their screens by a human operator. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage the ability of a power supply to sample a current supplied by it to a device under test (DUT) to determine the duty cycle and the on-time of the DUT. The techniques of this disclosure achieve, across …

Use Of Ad-Hoc Metrics To Identify Code Revision That Introduced Anomalies, Noah A. Brubaker

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Large-scale software codebases are updated frequently by a large number of developers, leading to a large number of code revisions. It is difficult to identify the exact code revision at which an undesirable behavior (bug or culprit) was introduced, since there may be numerous subsequent changes to the codebase prior to detection of the undesirable behavior. This disclosure describes a general-purpose culprit finder that streamlines and automates the detection of a behavioral change to software code. In particular, the described techniques enable quick determination of the exact code revision that introduced a bug. An ad-hoc signal is defined that numerically …

Scalable Near Realtime Loss And Duplicate Detection From Received Sequence Numbers, N/A

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In a system where a transmitter transmits packets to a number of receivers, a packet may be received one or more times over the set of receivers or may be lost (not received at any of the receivers). The problem is to determine, in a scalable and computationally feasible manner, packets that have been received over the set of receivers and packets that have been lost. For such single-transmitter-multiple-receiver scenarios, this disclosure describes scalable and computationally efficient techniques to detect missing or duplicate packets based on sequence numbers. Each receiver maintains an array of bits corresponding to packets it received. …

Secure Sharing Of Pre-Trained Machine Learning Models For Hands-On Training At Scale, Rui Costa, Casey Palowitch

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This disclosure describes a framework that allows learners to access pre-trained models provided via a public or private computing resource. A model sharing API is described that enables learner applications to make requests that include authentication information, API path, and parameters. The client request is authenticated and a hosted model is run to generate a response which is provided to the learner application via the model sharing API. In this manner, the framework supports providing access to hosted ML models without the learner application having direct access to the models or having control over the computing resources where the model …

Simultaneous Participation In Multiple Video Conferences, Brian Silverstein, Benjamin Azose

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This disclosure describes techniques to enable content from a second, additional online meeting to be included in a first meeting. To enable such content provision, the meeting platforms that host the two meetings (which may be the same or different) can establish a connection to allow content from the second meeting to be streamed to the user device via the first meeting platform. The received content from the second meeting can be displayed as a picture-in-picture or other suitable view. Audio from the second meeting can be muted automatically and closed-captions be provided, with user permission. The user can be …

Content Rating System For Network-Based Solutions, Cesar Lopez Zamarripa, Luis Roberto Hernández Martínez, Shankar Ramanathan, Richard Furr, Shashank Singh

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Constraints (such as, for example, data privacy limitations) may limit the ability to measure the effectiveness of a piece of content (such as, for example, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)) in solving a (e.g., network related) problem. Current analytics solutions focus on providing data on how many times a site is visited, but there is a lack of data that correlates a site’s visibility with its effectiveness at solving a problem. To address challenges of these types techniques are presented herein that support a method for developing and safely exposing resolution ratings of internal and external URLs – based on, …

Use Of Per-Cpu Counters To Protect Kernel-Mode Processes On A Multicore Processor, Joel Agnel Fernandes

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When user and kernel mode processes are scheduled to run simultaneously on the same physical processor core via simultaneous multithreading, processor vulnerabilities can result in sensitive data restricted to kernel-mode processes being leaked to user-mode processes. While disabling simultaneous multithreading or use of a scheduler that determines sequence of execution can prevent such leakage, these changes degrade processor performance. This disclosure describes the use of per-CPU counters to track when each physical core of a processor begins and ends the execution of a program thread running in the kernel mode. Upon detection of such a thread, the core is identified …

Mounting Device, Christian A. Mohr

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The present invention relates to a mounting device (9) for a hanging installation of a household appliance (1, 101), specifi5 cally for a lateral fixation of a household appliance (1), in particular for an extractor hood. The mounting device (9) comprises a first portion (13) and a second portion (11). The first portion (13) is connectable or connected with a frame surface or a housing wall of the household appliance (1). The second por10 tion (11) is attachable or attached to a wall, in particular to a kitchen furniture wall, and comprises an engagement opening or a suspension edge or …

Household Appliance, Christian A. Mohr

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The present invention is related to a household appliance (1) comprising an illumination means for providing information to a user of the household appliance (1). A lighting intensity of the 5 illumination means of the household appliance (1) is modifiable. According to the invention, the illumination means is positioned under or behind a blackened or dark glass plate (5) or window and invisible when switched off and visible through the glass 10 plate (5) or window when switched on. Further, a control unit is included, which is configured to gradually modify the lighting intensity upon recognition of a status change …

Cooking Method And Cooking System, Christian A. Mohr

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A method for boil detection in a cooking utensil is disclosed which comprises: (a) generating a low range vibration function that is representative for vibrations having a frequency that falls in a range of frequencies having an upper limit of from 75 to 120 Hz, and a lower limit of from 0 to 25 Hz ; (b) evaluating at least one characteristic of the low range vibration function; and (c) determining boiling in dependency of said at least one characteristic.

Improved Color Compression For People With Color Blindness, Collin Irwin, Rachel Hausmann

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Color blindness is estimated to affect around 9% of the population. Streaming media requires large bandwidth due to the size of the video which depends in part on the color information in the video. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage, with user permission, a user’s unique visual acuity to automatically adjust the parameters and the encoding of a video stream to incorporate suitably modified color information to reduce bandwidth and/or to improve quality of the video stream for the particular user.

Modular Touch Foil Combined With Leds And Micro Switches, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.