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Condition Monitoring Of The Powertrain, Verena Blunder

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Additional Bottle Holder In A Door Panel In The Continuation Of The Armrest, Verena Blunder

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Use Of Shape Memory Polymer As Cw Blindcover, Verena Blunder

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State-Based Battery Peak Power Management For Space Constrained Systems, Anonymous

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Battery powered systems such as AR/VR/MR devices are space constrained due to which power monitoring of individual subsystems of such devices is not possible. Peak load management without such monitoring is a difficult task. This disclosure describes peak load power management techniques that utilize a power estimate for the battery in current operating conditions and a lookup table of different power states in various subsystems. The overall power requirement for the system in the current power state is compared with the power estimate. Brownouts are avoided by performing suitable state transitions for each subsystem such that the total power required …

Formed Metal Products And Methods Of Making The Same, Peter Redmond, Joerg Hoehne, Eva Wang, Rahul Kulkarni, Michael Li, Yudie Yuan, John Hunter, David Wright, Thomas Wuttke, Alp Manavbasi, Thomas J. Beck

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Provided herein are methods of forming a metal product, including applying a water soluble formability film to the metal blank and/or applying a network polymer preprime (e.g., a hybrid organic-inorganic preprime, or a heat-resistant hybrid preprime) to the metal blank, forming the metal blank into a formed metal product, and optionally removing the formability film. A removable formability film and/or a preprime can improve the formability of an aluminum alloy and replace lubricants that used for forming processes by reducing the coefficient of friction of the metal product surface. Further, employing a water soluble polymer film eliminates lubricant removal for …

Bandwidth-Efficient Video Conferencing, N/A

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Video conferencing (VC) typically requires a high bandwidth connection, which may not be available to users in certain situations or locations. There is also sometimes an expectation, not always met, that all participants in a VC switch on their video feed so as to participate equally. This disclosure describes the use of machine-learning techniques to reduce video-conferencing bandwidth by enabling participants to display synthesized videos of themselves to other participants. Since the bulk of the task of generating a participant's video is performed on the remote device, the videoconference can be carried out with bandwidth utilization comparable to that required …

Browser-Native Static Virtual Card For Online Transaction Security, Aneesh Ali Nainamvalappil Cheriyakath, Ling Lin

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Online transactions using credit cards are susceptible to fraud. This disclosure describes techniques to provide a browser-native implementation to dynamically bind a static virtual card (SVC) with a merchant server for an authorized period. When a user provides SVC credentials to an e-commerce merchant for completing a transaction, the SVC is authenticated at the merchant server by obtaining an authorization ID from the card issuer. The authorization ID has an associated expiration date. The browser native implementation allows accurate determination of the merchant domain and establishing binding between the SVC, the merchant ID, and the merchant domain for a specific …

Efficient Printing With Ilp Powered Digital Press, Hp Inc

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Consecutive printing of different print jobs which require alternating substrate thickness on an In-

Line-Primer (ILP) powered Digital Printing Press requires insertion of multiple non-productive

(null) cycles. This is required to allow ILP to adjust its hardware (gravure rollers, gaps, etc.) such

that priming of the substrate will be optimal prior to printing. The method proposed, allows

printing of such jobs seamlessly, minimizing the number of non-productive cycles to a minimum of

(1-2) vs. ( >10) prior to the old method.

Automatically Generating Notifications Of Emergency Medical Events, N/A

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This disclosure describes techniques that enable rapid response to medical events or emergencies by automatically notifying, with user and recipient permission, those nearby with medical knowledge (e.g., family members, neighbors, etc.) of a medical emergency. Nearby medical professionals can immediately initiate assistance procedures, or otherwise alleviate the medical condition, until emergency personnel can arrive. With user permission, the techniques can also leverage nearby devices, e.g., neighboring devices, devices not on the user’s person, etc., to detect medical events (e.g., a fall), via passive detection. The techniques make advantageous and coordinated use of the array of sensors available via wearable devices, …

Recommending Food For Immediate Consumption Based On User Preferences And Context, Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari

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Search results for food are often unsuitable to satisfy a user’s need for selecting food to consume in the immediate future. Moreover, the food suggestions presented in search results are based on collective recommendations rather than individual and contextual factors that are specific to the user. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to provide food options geared toward immediate consumption. The suggested food choices can be determined by taking into account user preferences and relevant contextual and local information.

Folders In Group Chat, Mous Anony

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While communicating in a group chat, whether on a computer, smartphone, or any other digital device, it is sometimes hard to find data, such as images, links, files, etc., that was sent a long time ago in the conversation thread by one of the participants of the group chat. In such a case, it is usually necessary to scroll back through the conversation thread and analyze all the data appearing in the thread so as to find the required information. This approach can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and often ineffective. As an alternative, a user can try to remember key words …

Improving Object Recognition Using Post-Recognition Actions, Jared M. Zimmerman, Mai Tran

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This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, utilize user actions as implicit feedback for image recognition. With user permission and express consent, post-recognition user actions are utilized to adjust image recognition model(s). An image recognition request and one or more image(s) are received. Image recognition techniques are applied to the received image(s) and results are provided to the user. Based on actions performed by the user post-recognition, various factors are inferred and utilized to train image recognition model(s) to improve the performance of the model for future searches. With permission, user affinity model(s) are trained that can provide customization …

Automatically Pausing Caller Video When The Caller’S Face Is Out-Of-Frame, Garrett Frederick Berg, Zac Livingston

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Many video communication applications offer a picture-in-picture mode that shows the caller’s video feed that usually includes the caller’s face in addition to that of others that participate in the call. The impulse to check one’s own image as provided in the user interface can distract callers from focusing on the other participants. Further, if the caller moves, the camera may capture and provide a video feed that includes unexpected content, e.g., the room background. This disclosure describes the use of face detection at the caller end of a video call that ensures that the caller’s camera feed includes a …

Automatically Augmenting Video Conference With Related Content Overlays, Peter Lewis, Stephen Lewis, Andrew Lewis

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During a video conference (VC), users often want to share information with other participants in the VC. For example, a user may refer verbally to concepts or show objects to the other participants. For example, a teacher in a video conference may hold up a book and request students to turn to a particular page. Currently, such actions interrupt the flow of presentation, since the presenting user is required to provide information such as URLs for the students to access. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically share within a video conference (VC) expanded information about concepts or objects referenced by …

Method To Solve Mt Call Failures In 5g Network Due To User Plane State Mismatch, Jis Abraham

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Presented herein is a solution that solves the mobile terminal call failure due to user plane state mismatch in a framework provided by N4 and N2 3GPP protocols.

Optimized Upload Of Telemetry Data, Robert Bruce Bahnsen, Yan Mayster

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Modern telemetry entails the gathering of data (per location or time interval) in such large quantities that the data often exceeds the capacity of the communication channels to a server (or cloud). An example of such telemetry is the gathering of street-level imagery and video where, even when the data-collecting vehicle has a wireless 4G connection, a very large amount of data is gathered so quickly that it is written on storage media such as solid state, optical, magnetic storage, etc. and physically mailed to a processing center. Besides the delay attributable to physical mailing, manual processing of the storage …

Smf Assisted Faster And Efficient Upf Redundancy Model, Filipe Rodrigues, Rajaneesh Shetty, Om Prakash Suthar, Raghavendra Suryanarayanarao

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A solution is presented for a cost-effective way of providing redundancy for a user equipment (UE) session while utilizing resources of an active and a standby user plane function (UPF). UPFs are used efficiently by creating redundancy for each other with support from a session management function (SMF). The solution further enhances N:M redundancy. This model is fully applicable for edge UPF deployments where resources are limited. The solution can be used for providing ultra-reliable low latency communication services, enterprise services based applications supported using 5G core in which there is higher service level agreement (SLA) bearing and transport path …

Link Capacity Estimation For Devices In Idle State, Sooraj Sasindran, Jibing Wang, Shivank Nayak, Jayachandran Chinnakkannu

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In order to estimate throughput between a user device and a radio access network (RAN), a modem of the user device may estimate the link capacity of the link between the user device and the RAN. When the user device is in a connected state, the modem can determine link capacity estimation (LCE) values directly, based on signal strength parameter values measured by the modem from signals received by the user device from a given RAN. In order to estimate the link capacity for a user device that is in an idle mode, the modem of the user device may …

Emergency-Only And Voice-Only Modes For Thermal Mitigation Of Mobile Devices, Mahesh Telang, Qin Zhang, Siddharth Ray, Shivank Nayak, Blake Kragten, Xiantao Sun, Sooraj Sasindran

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A mobile device experiencing excessive temperatures can be placed in an emergency-only mode in which on-going calls are ended, new incoming calls are rejected, and new outgoing calls are ended by the device as thermal mitigation measures to prevent additional heat generation by the device. Optionally, when the device is being used in hands-free mode, a user is provided with the choice to override the emergency mode to make and receive calls. Alternatively, less restrictive thermal mitigation measures may be taken to prevent damage to the mobile device, such as restricting the device to certain voice-only services and restricting data …

Optimized Data Switching For Opportunistic Data Dsds Devices, Shivank Nayak, Sooraj Sadindran, Jayachandran Chinnakkannu

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Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) wireless devices are configured with a primary subscriber identity module (SIM) card providing both voice and data connections on a primary network and a secondary SIM card for providing data-only access on a secondary network. The utilization of wireless network resources by a DSDS wireless device can be enhanced by accounting for congestion on each of the associated networks and data usage of the device to determine whether a switch between networks would be beneficial for device performance.

Methods And Systems For Controlling And Determining Size And Quality Of Weld Nuggets, Joerg Simon, Zeqin Liang, Viktor Hibert, Mathilde Guerin

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Described herein are systems and techniques for joining two or more aluminum alloy products by spot welding and for non-destructively determining the size and quality of a weld nugget created during joining of two or more aluminum alloy products. The systems and techniques described herein may evaluate and/or monitor the welding discharge, which may correspond to a flow of electricity (i.e., electric current) between electrodes and the products to be joined, to determine and/or control a total amount of energy applied for generation of a spot welded joint. For example, the amount of current applied and the voltage at which …

System And Method For Providing Preference Based Payment Transaction Between Buyer And Supplier, David Henstock, Archie Payne, Anne Marie Louie, Spencer Wilson

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A method comprising receiving supplier data from an issuer server and comparing supplier data to primary merchants that accept a first payment type. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining qualifying suppliers matching primary merchants and non-qualifying suppliers without a match of primary merchants. The method includes comparing the non-qualifying suppliers with secondary merchants accepting a second payment type from a payment service provider that accepts the first payment type. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining BPSP recipients matching secondary merchants.

Optimized And Converged Packet Core Gateway Selection For 5g User In E-Utran Coverage, Vivek Agarwal, Om Prakash Suthar, Raghavendra Suryanarayanarao, Rajaneesh Shetty, Arun Gunasekaran

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Mobile service providers are deploying 5G technology with network slicing to enable different business use cases. Presented herein are techniques to implement network slicing. In a first technique, a 1:1 mapping is made between the s-Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) subscribed by the User Equipment (UE) in the 5G network to the UE usage type (UUT) in the Home Subscriber Server (HSS), along with the subscribed priority of the slices per UE. This is sent to the Mobility Management Entity (MME). In a second technique, an N:1 mapping between is made between the s-NSSAI's subscribed by the UE in …

Dynamic Telemetry With Latency Aware Network Optimization, Thomas Vegas, Anirban Karmakar, Giacomo Trifilo

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A Sender uses a continuous feedback loop to estimate remote processing latency. With that estimated value, the Sender continuously adapts its sending behavior to optimally send updates and reduce network consumption. Implementing this dynamic telemetry, the overall system latency is untouched and only the necessary updates are sent.

Improved Fixation Filter For Eye Tracking On Small Devices, Anonymous

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When standard eye tracking techniques developed in the context of large-screen devices are applied to applications on mobile devices, the results are often erroneous. For example, when the true percentage of viewers (as identified manually) that look at a profile picture is 100%, standard eye techniques typically underestimate the eye fixation behavior, returning a much smaller value. Many mobile applications utilize a feed interface that involves moving targets as the user scrolls the feed. This disclosure describes techniques that use appropriate temporal, spatial, and velocity-based parameters to define fixation by area of interest (AOI) size for mobile-feed applications. The techniques …

Device Control Via Encoded Wake Word Sequences, Anonymous

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Utilization of patterns of wake words to perform device actions for voice activated electronic devices are described. Device actions, e.g., device reset, are encoded by utilizing a sequence of wake words with a specified timing gap between successive occurrences of the wake word. The sequence is processed at the device and decoded based on a match with predetermined sequence(s) of timings of the gaps. Based on the pattern of wake words detected at the device, actions are automatically performed. The encoded message can optionally include a device identifier. The sequence of wake words can be provided as input using a …

Optimize Cbrs Geofence Switching By Merging Nearby Cbsd Cells, Jack Nudelman, Sooraj Sasindran

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To reduce the processing, memory, and data transfer overhead for a user equipment (UE) related to maintaining, monitoring, and receiving updates for a record of a large number of Citizens Broadband Radio Systems (CBRS) geofences (i.e., a CBRS geofence record) corresponding to individual Citizens Broadband Service Device (CBSD) coverage areas, a system redefines the coverage area of multiple nearby CBSDs into a single cluster and then updates the CBRS geofence record stored at a UE based on the coverage areas of such CBSD clusters rather than individual CBSD coverage areas. Each time the system receives an update to a carrier’s …

Simplified Pandemic Face Mask, Edward Bullister

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A simple, unobtrusive mask system effecively blocks pathogen transmission in the coronavirus pandemic

Method Of Providing Dry Additives For A Gypsum Board Manufacturing Process, Tracy Jones, National Gypsum Company

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In general, the present publication is directed to a dry additive regulation and transmission system. In particular, the present system is an improved method of dispersing, mixing, and conveying dry additives to a wall board manufacturing process.

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Recommending A Set Of Items To A User, Maryam Moosaei, Hao Yang, Yusan Lin

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Systems, methods, and computer program products obtain training data and train a neural network based on the training data by concatenating a user identifier to each item of a first set of multiple items in a first set of fused embeddings, concatenating the user identifier to each item of a second set of multiple items in a second set of fused embeddings, determining a first score associated with the first set of multiple items based on the first set of fused embeddings, determining a second score associated with the second set of multiple items based on the second set of …