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Printer For Condition-Optimizing Food Supplements In Vehicles, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Resolution Of Parking Space Deadlocks, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Schedule Optimization Through Dynamic Priority Rules In A Modular Assembly Systemcle Scenting Units, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Technical Possibility To Reuse Scent Cartridges For Vehicle Scenting Units, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Film Ejector With Sma Drive, Axel Unger

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Multifunctional Element With Horizontally Arranged Spring, Axel Unger

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Technical Possibility Of The Visualization Of Ionization Processes In A Vehicle, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Linearlegions: A Linear Size Cardinality Estimator, N/A

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Counting the number of unique items in a data set is of interest in many applications. For example, the owner of a web property, e.g., a video sharing website, a social media website, a search engine, etc., benefits from knowing the number of unique visitors to their site, the number of unique people that a certain advertisement was shown to, etc. This disclosure describes a practical cardinality estimator that uses O(m + log log N) space and has a conjectured O(1/sqrt(m)) relative error, where m is an accuracy parameter and N is the maximum cardinality that …

Automated Handling Of Faults In A Modular Assembly System, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Virtual Classroom Assistant For Question Answering In An Online Instructional Session, Robert Benea, Christian Plagemann, Irina Blok

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During an instruction session in a physical classroom, teachers often ask questions to the students in class. Since students in an online classroom are not co-present in the same location at the same time, online teachers do not face the constraint of needing to select individual students to answer a question. This disclosure describes virtual classroom assistant functionality that enables teachers who deliver online instructional content to pose questions to the set of students participating in an instructional session. The functionality can include delivery of questions to the students, collection and processing of their answers, and generation grades and feedback …

Active Cupholder With Increased Safety, Axel Unger

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Automated Storage Rack Decommissioning And Commissioning In A Datacenter, N/A

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This disclosure describes automation of commissioning/decommissioning of data storage racks and HDDs in data centers. During commissioning, a multi-robot workcell is utilized to populate a data storage rack with HDD storage devices from a HDD storage container. During decommissioning, the operation is performed in reverse, and the multi-robot workcell is utilized to remove HDD devices from the data storage rack and store them in a HDD storage container. The robots can be equipped with one or more high speed robotic arms, machine vision capabilities, and a human-machine interface for control and access. Identifiers such as bar codes associated with each …

Generating A Map Of Wireless Signal Quality Using Autonomous Vehicles, N/A

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Radio-frequency noise generated by equipment in the server halls of data centers can degrade WiFi access within the data center, thereby hampering the ability of personnel to complete their tasks. An up-to-date, detailed, and accurate heatmap of WiFi signal quality enables planners to plan WiFi coverage within server halls. This disclosure describes techniques to generate a heatmap of WiFi signals and electromagnetic noise in closed spaces such as warehouses, server halls of data centers, etc. using autonomous vehicles. The techniques enable the continuous and accurate automated collection of data pertaining to the evolving WiFi environment within the server hall.

Preventing Memory Exploits Using Programmable Row Swizzling, N/A

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Row hammering is a type of memory exploit where a malicious application repeatedly causes transistors in a row of cells within a memory to rapidly turn on and off in particular patterns. If a row is hammered enough times, it is possible to change data stored in the adjacent rows, leading to malfunctions, shutdowns, or security breaches. This disclosure describes techniques that make it much harder for an attacker to find row-hammer patterns that can compromise a DRAM. Per the techniques, each DRAM has dedicated, programmable row-address swizzling (logical-to-physical address mapping) which changes when the machine reboots. The per-DRAM swizzling …

Measuring Loss, Latency And Jitter Based On Application Types To Improve Application Routing Decisions, Sireesha Yeruva, Satyajit Das, Nirmal Govindan, Sai Swarna Latha Vempaty, Priyanka Chidambar Patil

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Current Software Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN) solutions typically utilize a Service Level Agreement (SLA) definition in conjunction with policy to match and classify traffic types in order to direct traffic over SDWAN tunnels. An SLA definition can include values of loss, latency, and jitter, which are measured via a Bi-directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) channel that exists between two Transport Locators (TLOCs). These values collectively represent the liveliness of a network including the status of the BFD link. In current implementations, BFD control messages are sent with a high priority Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) marking, such as '48'. SLA …

Reliably Making Monolithic Ingots Of Difficult To Cast Aluminum Alloys Using Direct Chill Casting, Samuel Robert Wagstaff, Robert Bruce Wagstaff, Todd F. Bischoff, Phillip Ryan Wilson

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Described are monolithic aluminum alloy ingots and methods of making monolithic aluminum alloy ingots, such as monolithic aluminum alloy ingots comprising brittle aluminum alloys formed by direct chill co-casting the brittle aluminum alloy as a core with a clad layer of another more ductile aluminum alloy as a composite ingot followed by scalping the resultant composite ingot to remove the clad layer.

Adjustable Stand Feet For Different User Scenarios, Hp Inc

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Traditionally, for LCD monitor of AiO product, tilt feature is most common feature compared to swivel

and rotate features. In term of only tilt feature, it is not easy to move the system due to the friction

between stand feet and table. The stand feet are designed for not only Industrial Design concept but

also Safety stability test requirement. Per Safety requirements, the system needs to keep stable on a

sloped table (usually 10 or 15 degree depends on system weight) without tipping over. Therefore, the

friction is a must and can be a poor user experience when users want …

Automatic Adaptive Colorant Selection For Blanket Cleaning, Hp Inc

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In a liquid based ink printing process, the low ink consumption, such as in continuous low coverage

printing or complete inactivity of the ink, is limiting fresh ink flow to the ink tank. As a result, the

same ink solution from the tank is used multiple times and stays in the tank for a long time. That

may cause to damage of the ink particles and contamination accumulation in the ink tank, which

leads to Print Quality (PQ) deterioration such as optical density drops, white spots, etc.

Described technic provides an automatic and adaptive method to increase the refreshment of …

Eco-Friendly Ozone Sterilization On Rotatable Oled, Hp Inc

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This invention is to apply a corona‐discharged ozone sterilization process on flexible OLED touch

display by rotating dual flexible OLED touch screens to prevent and avoid the infection in

contact with the virus or bacteria on OLED screen to cause the diseases, which is highly suitable

to apply in meeting room or public areas such as banks and libraries.

Memory Foam On A Mouse, Hp Inc

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Customers using a mouse today usually have no thumb rest or some version of a rest for the thumb

trying to accommodate and fulfill an ergonomic need. The mouse thumb rest solutions in the market

have solutions that have areas which provides some ergonomic designs with grip and resting positions

for the thumb in either right, left or an ambidextrous design but not using memory foam. The memory

foam solution implemented in the right areas of a thumb rest of a mouse would further the ergonomic

requirements for a mouse user.

Thermal Sensitive Material Applied On Light Guide To Reduce Visibility When Led's Are Not In Use, Hp Inc

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Customers using an electronic with a light guide today usually see the light guide is recessed in order to

hide it with other structural designs. Since the light guides are typically white in appearance the color

choice is limited for light transmissivity, visibility of light guide structure is not ideal for ID design. This

proposed solution would apply a thermal sensitive material that would change with the low emitted

heat from LED lights to become transparent. In this way, when lighting is switched off the light guide

would blend into the industrial design allowing for more flexibility of the product …

A Mechanism To Enable Creation Of Per-Student Worksheet Copies Through Interoperation Between Learning Management System And Cloud-Based Content Software Tools, Akshat Sharma, Kara Levy, Chris Leon, George Reis

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A method for enabling creation of per-student worksheet copies through interoperation between learning management systems (LMS) and cloud-based content software tools is disclosed. The LMS may receive, from an educator, a request to create copies of a specific third-party cloud-based content software tool worksheet for a class. The LMS may send the request to the third-party software tool along with a class roster, which may create a unique digital copy of the worksheet for each student in the class. The LMS may then send, to each student, a unique resource link to the worksheet. The LMS may, alternatively, create a …

Monitor Color Matching, Hp Inc

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Color matching between two or more monitors is achieved without the use of a

host computer by a main monitor retrieving, at power-up, color information from daisychained

monitors, comparing the retrieved data to its own color data, determining needed

color adjustments, and commanding the main and/or daisy-chained monitors to perform

the applicable color adjustments.

Using Superposition Interference To Reduce/Block Harmful Blue Light, Hp Inc

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An external lighting accessory for a display generates a narrow range of blue

light and aims it at the display to subtract the blue waves emanating from the display

itself, improving eye health.

Showing Device Disinfection Status Using Sensors And Visual/Audible Indicators, Hp Inc

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The cleaning or disinfection status of an electronic device can be detected

using sensor(s) on the device which detect the presence of cleaning or disinfecting

solutions.

Display Location Relative To Other Devices To Enable Automatic Screen Sharing And Display Extensions, Hp Inc

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A wireless technology such as Bluetooth is utilized to allow automatic flow of

screens or sharing among displays and accessories without the need for the user to set up

the configuration.

Calibration Of Time Stamp Counter Value In Stall Function Of Pre-Os Environment, Hp Inc

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An incorrect time stamp value upon return from execution of the Stall

function, due to an unexpectedly long handling time of an interrupt that occurs during the

function, is corrected using a wrapper for the Stall function.

Service Category System In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Caijun Jiang, Xiao Xu, Xiaopu Zhang, Dapeng Zhu

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Presented herein are novel techniques to resolve cache capacity issues in Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) by utilizing border router edge computing. Following deployment of a network, such as an information-centric networking (ICN) network, a border router will generate a bitmap for all support services through negotiations with a cloud service (CS) and low-power devices. The border router will then cache data that satisfies specific service criteria for low-power devices that have registered for such data. The border router will further publish the service bitmap to a sleep proxy. A given low-power device can periodically examine the service bitmap via …

Camera Sensor Exposure Control During Camera Launch, Jinglun Gao, Jean Hsu, Navinprashath Rameswari Rajagopal, Ruben Velarde, Shannon Chiang, Bob Hung

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed at fusing spectral-sensor data to drive the exposure control during the boot-up of a camera sensor on an electronic device. Fusing this data into the calibration of the camera during boot-up may significantly improve the execution time of the exposure control algorithm that ensures exposure readiness. In addition, since the exposure is critical to the focus-finding algorithm, these techniques may improve overall capture readiness times. By shortening the camera boot-up time, the camera is ready sooner to capture images, making a user less likely to miss capturing desired moments due to the camera …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Automatically Generating A Recommended Order, Prasun Ghosh Mr

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A method for automatically generating a recommended order is disclosed. The method may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of transactions of a user. The transaction data may include line-item data associated with at least one item for each transaction of the plurality of transactions. Merchant inventory data associated with at least one merchant may be received. A recommended order for the user may be generated based on the transaction data and the merchant inventory data. The recommended order may include a plurality of items from the at least one merchant. The recommended order may be communicated to …