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Pass By Reference Substitution During Code Migration, Paneendra Ba, Abhay Garg, Alexandre Ginet, Arijit De

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This disclosure describes code conversion techniques for replacement of function calls that utilize pass by reference in program code in a source language with equivalent constructs in a target language that does not support pass by reference. When a pass by reference is encountered in the source program code, a wrapper object is created by wrapping a native object with a pre-defined key. In the translated code, the value of the object for the specified key is updated instead of being accessed as a normal variable. Upon return of program control from the called function, the value assigned to the …

Vehicle Route Suggestions In Snow Conditions, Sergey Babkin

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This disclosure describes techniques for a navigation system to present suggested driving routes for a vehicle that may include roads subject to snow conditions. Under weather conditions that include snow, road conditions such as presence of snow on the road, road steepness, and road width are checked to determine the safety of a road and whether the road is preferable under the weather conditions. Described features inform and guide a user in determining a safe and quick route for a vehicle in potentially unsafe travel conditions.

Identity And Reputation Verification Via Social Vouching, N/A

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Businesses, governments, and other entities verify the identity of customers in order to assess their trustworthiness and to avoid potential losses. Identity is often determined by confirming the ownership of an identifier, e.g., phone number. However, successfully determining an individual’s ownership of an identifier is insufficient to assess the reputation or trustworthiness of the individual. This disclosure describes the use of social graphs to robustly determine the identity and trustworthiness of an individual via their associations with other individuals or entities. Data from individuals associated with a potential customer are utilized, with permission from respective users, for the purpose of …

Low Cost Wave And Wake Feature For Printers, Hp Inc

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Low cost wave and wake feature for printers is a method to introduce a new contactless

wave/approach and wake feature at almost no cost, through the use of a spare pin of existing

Control Panel(CP) Programmable system-on-chip(PSoC) and a simple wire loop.

Motorless Rear Photo Tray For C Path Printer, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of rear photo tray design for C path inkjet printers which has

a main tray at bottom of product.

A design is disclosed that a rear photo tray is tapping its transmission from turn roller

movement which moves forward direction only. The transmission can be engaged/disengaged

by service station movement which currently drives printhead capping and wiping system as

well as pick arm up/down movement.

Method To Automatically Extract Humans From Portrait Images, Hp Inc

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Image segmentation is extensively used in most industries. It may be used for object

tracking in automobile assembly lines, highlighting internal organs separately in medical

images, segmenting people for tracking in surveillance camera footage, among others.

One application that stands out is the ability to remove background from portrait images

for various purposes, i.e. id document portrait photographs. The solution proposed in this

invention focuses in providing a standalone process of fully automatic human

segmentation that takes input RGB portrait image and generates an output image with

human separated from the background.

Enabling Critical Apls To Share Resource Pools Across Service Bulkheads, Hp Inc

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It is common for services to bulkhead sets of APIs so that they are ensured a certain number of

resources. This is done to support availability and performance service level agreements for the APIs.

When bulkheading is performed, the resources available to the service are segregated between the

sets of APIs. While this division addresses the availability and performance needs, it restricts critical

APIs to a subset of the total resources available to the service when those resources are not in use

by the other APIs.

What is desired is the bulkheading of resources between critical and non‐critical APIs so …

Laptop Desk, Hp Inc

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Many times, users put laptops on their lags, which can affect posture, cause physical

discomfort, and may cause thermal issues for the laptop. Also, it’s hard to bring a standalone

laptop desk all the time. Therefore, the idea is to make a combination laptop with an integrated

desk.

A Simplified (Budgeted) Method For Measuring The Status Of A Road's Surface In Real Time Using Compute And 3d Scanning Technology, Hp Inc

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The method described here uses a three‐dimensional (3D) scanning

system in combination with software and a vehicle attachment to

analyze road surfaces.

Display And Voice-Free Gesture-Based Sleep Timer Control, Alexander Frömmgen, Felix Weissenberger, Miłosz Kmieciak, Bogdan Prisacari

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Interaction with a computing device often causes the device to emit light, e.g., when the interaction causes a turned-off device screen to turn on, or audio, e.g., when the interaction causes an audible beep or other output from the device. Such light or audio emissions are undesirable in certain situations, e.g., when extending a sleep timer. This disclosure provides a voice-free gesture-based sleep timer control that enables extending a sleep timer without light or sound emissions from a device that is performing audio playback. The described techniques can also be used to detect user gestures that are mapped to specific …

Interstitial Glue-Sealing Element To Enable Larger Internal Components In Wearables, Yao Xue, Clement Kondru

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Wearable devices, e.g., smartwatches, earbuds, etc., trend towards miniaturization for the purposes of aesthetics and ergonomics. However, certain components are better made of larger volume, e.g., larger batteries enable longer times between recharges. There is thus a dichotomy of requirements: miniaturization for user comfort versus larger volume for longer battery life. The shell of an earbud is typically constructed of two distinct sections, such that electronics can be inserted inside the shell before the sections are hermetically sealed together.

This disclosure describes a shell, a hermetic sealing interface, and an assembly technique for wearable devices such as earbuds. The techniques …

Glare Removal From Visual Codes Using Multi-Frame Voting, Brett Barros, Alexander James Faaborg

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A system and method for overcoming glare in the scanning of visual codes treats each bit of a two-dimensional array defining a pattern of the visual code as discrete. As the visual code is scanned and image frames are sequentially captured, this allows the image frames to be combined to form a composite image of the visual code, and the eventual completion and resolution of the visual code.

Broker Protocol For Automated Event Scheduling By Virtual Assistant, Martin Bäuml, Herbert Jordan, Konrad Jan Miller

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When planning an event, people often need to coordinate and negotiate with other parties to determine a time slot that is suitable for all parties. Figuring out and confirming the most suitable arrangements can involve substantial communication overhead, thus making the process slow and tedious, especially when several parties are involved. Further, such an approach can be invasive because it can require visibility into the calendars of all parties involved. This disclosure describes techniques that enable automated communication and coordination among virtual assistants to schedule an appointment involving multiple parties. User-permitted information such as the user’s calendar, routines and preferences, …

Automatic Generation Of Push Notification Alerts Of Approaching Emergency Vehicles, Dheeraj Agrawal, Piyush Itankar

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In congested cities, it can be difficult for an ambulance or other emergency vehicle to reach a location from which the vehicle is requested. Delay in the arrival of such vehicles is a waste of crucial time due to the emergency nature of the task for such vehicles. This disclosure describes techniques to address the above deficiencies through an alert notification system in a navigation or maps application (app). Vehicles along the route of the emergency vehicle are identified automatically, e.g., based on location information shared from such vehicles via their navigation app. Appropriate notifications are generated and sent to …

Real-Time Ip Detection To Dynamically Apply Concurrency Constraints On Streaming, Stephen Lau, Janani Krishnaswamy

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Streaming content providers offer a variety of subscription plans that differ on the number of users that can be created within an account and the number of devices that can concurrently receive streaming content at the same time. Some content providers offer family plans that allow users to stream unlimited concurrent streams within their physical household. It is important to accurately define a household for the family for the successful implementation of such plans. This disclosure describes the use of real-time IP address detection to dynamically define a household for a subscription account. The techniques do not store any information …

Replacement Of Goto Statements During Code Migration, Paneendra Ba, Paul Mcreynolds, Abhay Garg, Arijit De, Alex Ginet

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This disclosure describes code conversion techniques for replacement of Goto statements in program code in a source language with equivalent constructs in a target language. Different types of equivalent code constructs are utilized to replace Goto statements in the source language, depending on the use of the Goto statement in the original code that is to be converted. Another option is to introduce a method-like syntax in the language. Backward jumps and forward jumps are handled by the addition of new do-while loops that start from or end at a label associated with the Goto statement. In some cases, code …

Edge Intelligence-Based Self-Healing Network For Large-Scale Low Power And Lossy Network Devices With Ioc, Lele Zhang, Li Zhao, Akram Sheriff, Chuanwei Li, Arvind Tiwari

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Techniques are presented herein that support the derivation, leveraging machine learning (ML) algorithms, of a cross correlation index of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – specific to wireless technologies such as, for example, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6Lo), Wi-Fi, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) technical standard 802.15.4 variants – across multiple tenants within a cloud native multi-tenanted environment to proactively optimize routing performance and identify performance optimizations so that the network may be automatically self-healed. Aspects of the presented techniques provide intelligent fault management capabilities for a customer (having, for example, outdoor …

Real-Time Updates For Earthquake Events Based On User Queries, Avi Rosenschein, Mor Schlesinger, Arbel Zinger, Dor Graidy, Itai Tzur

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This disclosure describes techniques for generation of timely earthquake alerts based on crowdsourced user search queries that are posed in near real-time to an earthquake event. With user permission, user intent about a search query is determined based on search query keywords entered by a user. If it is determined that the user likely felt an earthquake, the user is served with a yes/no question asking whether they felt shaking. User responses from multiple users and/or other indicators such as analysis of device IMU data, social media posts, etc. are aggregated and analyzed to determine whether an earthquake event has …

Utilizing A Light Source To Encode And Transmit Information, D Shin

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Electronic devices that include screens can provide different QR codes corresponding to different actions or applications. However, devices that lack a screen are limited to a single QR code that is printed on the device (or device package). This disclosure describes the use of LED transmission to optically encode and send information that can be received and decoded by a camera, to enable a device without a screen information similar to a QR code. The information is encoded, e.g., using a Bernoulli fingerprint method to make the signal robust and to address noise in optical transmissions that can result from …

Providing Dynamic App Parameter Values Via A Remote Configuration Service, Erik Eldridge, Venkatram Jaltar, Lucas Png, Jon Mensing, Hamid Mousavi

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This disclosure describes dynamic management of parameter values for remote configuration of software applications. Per techniques of this disclosure, in addition to serving conventional static values encoded in a template, developers are enabled to define dynamic values in the template that are obtained from a designated service and served at runtime. Declarations are utilized to define a value and/or specify condition syntax in a template to enable local retrieval of static values and retrieval of dynamic values from the designated service. The designated service can be specified by the app developer. The origin of the parameter value is thus made …

Picking Best Suited Smart Device To Provide Response To A Query, Michael Schäer, Agoston Weisz, Vitaly Gatsko

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Users can issue commands, e.g., spoken commands, to virtual assistants available on various smart devices that have different capabilities. Responses to different types of queries may be best served on specific device types. This disclosure describes techniques to provide responses to a user query, e.g., a spoken query to a virtual assistant, via an automatically selected device from available user devices. Such selection can be based on explicit user preferences or can be based on user-permitted data, as well as be based on the type of query. Implementation of the described techniques can provide an enhanced user experience of interaction …

Heuristic Approach To Detect Software Application Crashes, Joseph Turner, Christopher Burns, Bob Liu, Ashwin Bellur

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It is valuable for a provider of a software library to gain insight into crashes of an application that may be caused by or otherwise related to the software library. Since the provider does not have access to the application codebase, it is not possible for the provider to obtain direct signals that an application crash occurred, or whether a crash was related to a library from the provider. This disclosure describes the use of a temporary dirty file to detect crashes that may be related to the use of an embedded library in an application. The dirty file is …

Passive Sleep Detection, Kathy Chen, Tajinder Gadh, Marc Stogaitis

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A system is described that enables a computing system (e.g., a mobile phone, a smartwatch, a tablet computer, etc.) to passively detect a user’s sleep duration. That is, without a user configuring the computing system into a sleep mode or otherwise inputting a sleep duration, the computing system may, after receiving explicit permission from the user, monitor various contextual signals to automatically determine the user’s sleep duration. The computing system may passively capture various data using sensors (e.g., accelerometers, ambient light sensors, microphones, etc.) in the computing system and analyze the captured data to estimate a user’s sleep duration. For …

Method And System For Facilitating Payment Transactions In Offline Mode, Mohankumar Ramachandran

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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for facilitating payment transactions in offline mode. The system comprises a mobile device associated with user, a POS terminal, and a server. At first, the user provides details of mobile number at the POS terminal which is forwarded to the server as a message. The server creates a unique ID based on the mobile number and provides the unique ID to the POS terminal. At the POS terminal, the user provides password which is set during registration of user with the server using which another unique ID is generated by …

Solid State Form Of Azilsartan Kamedoxomil And Process For Its Preparation, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; R&D Center, Msn Laboratories Private Limited; Hyderabad

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Provided herein is a solid state form of Azilsartan kamedoxomil and process for its preparation.

Ultrasonic Room Thermometry Using A Smart Speaker, D Shin, Wei Li, Jian Guo

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Heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) systems regulate ambient temperature in a room based on temperature values detected by dedicated temperature sensors. Such sensors are expensive. This disclosure describes obtaining temperature values in a room based on emitting ultrasonic pulses from a speaker and detecting back-reflected ultrasonic signals from the room to obtain the ultrasonic impulse response of the room. Changes in the ultrasonic impulse response are detected and corresponding temperature values are predicted using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) or other suitable technique. The described techniques can enable any device capable of transmitting and detecting ultrasound to act as a …

Contextually Performing Query Processing On-Device Or On A Remote Server, Vinod Das Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal

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When a user issues a query, e.g., a spoken query to a user device such as a smartphone, smart speaker, in-car device, etc., the query may be processed locally on-device and additionally, remotely on a server (if permitted by the user). The determination of whether a query is processed locally or on a remote device is typically based on whether the device has a network connection. Local processing of queries can consume device resources. When the device is simultaneously in use for other critical tasks, such resource demand can have a negative impact on such tasks. This disclosure describes the …

Optical Accessory To Add Touch Capability To A Non-Touchscreen Device, D Shin, Shirley Xue

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Certain laptops and other devices do not include built-in touchscreen capability. This disclosure describes an optical accessory that enables such devices to recognize touch inputs. The accessory includes a fisheye lens attached to a holder, and a tilt plane mirror placed within the accessory that reflects incident light towards the camera of the device to which the accessory is attached. A one-time calibration is performed at a setup time of setup and at runtime, camera images that capture the user’s finger position relative to the screen are received. A neural finger pose is estimated by detecting fingers and utilizing a …

Game Controller Power Optimization Based On Hold Detection, Shantanu Goel

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This disclosure describes a game controller that can transition to suitable power states based on detection of whether it is being held by a user. Per techniques of this disclosure, the game controller includes touch sensors that can detect user touch and can transition to a suitable power mode based on the detected state. Upon detection that the user has let go of the game controller (both arms of the controller), the controller is automatically placed into low power mode, and is woken up upon detection of the controller being held. Optionally, an intermediate power state can be utilized such …

Call Manager For An Incoming Phone Call, Tyler Gunn, Brad Ebinger

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This publication describes methods and techniques directed at enabling a user of a mobile device to receive an incoming phone call on the device, trigger functionality implemented on the mobile device to temporarily place the call in a hold state, and utilize the functionality to bring the call out of the hold state to speak with the caller, for example, once the user moves to an appropriate location to take the call. The functionality may be implemented in a software application installed on the device or as a feature of the operating system of the device.