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Estimating Wait Times And Determining Optimal Routes At Retail Outlets, N/A

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Making a purchase at a grocery store or waiting for a table at a restaurant often entails waiting in a line. While stores are overcrowded at certain times or on certain days, at other times, stores can be relatively empty. This situation is worsened under pandemic conditions: for example, the outbreak of the Covid-19 disease has necessitated the closure of many businesses and enforcement of a six-feet social distance between customers of those businesses that are open. Longer wait times are inconvenient and put people at greater risk of exposure.

This disclosure describes techniques that enable customers to estimate wait …

Find My Archived Job, Hp Inc

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In Label & Packing industry ~80% of the jobs are repeated jobs. In commercial industry there are also

repeated jobs but with lower percentage. The customer prints the job. Archived it (digital) and after

a while (few days/weeks/months) he is loading the job again to the DFE and prints more copies of it.

During the time the amount of archived jobs increases. Customers have tens thousands or even

hundreds of thousands of archived jobs. They usually also keep at least one good hardcopy of the

printed sheet of the job in order to be able to match the job’s color, …

Threat Immune Infographic Label Of A Device, Hp Inc

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A connecting device in a public environment looks for a trusted target device that maintains high

security posture. Other devices on the network may learn intent/purpose and might further

generate interest of an adversary already performing enticement to lure connecting devices. A visual

labels of threat immune in an infographic map provides a subtle information of the trusted target

device where a roaming/mobile user need to engage while on the go.

Ac-Adapter Type Antenna To Enhance Wireless Performance, Hp Inc

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In this invention, a “antenna” is integrated into the barrel plug of an AC adapter and called

AC‐adapter type antenna. The device such a laptop can benefit better antenna performance

(transmission range and throughput) when users plug this antenna‐integrated AC adapter to

charging the laptop.

Cardinality Estimation Using A Bloom Filter, Anonymous

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In certain applications, e.g., online advertising where user data may be utilized, it is a requirement to estimate the cardinality of data values. This disclosure presents a lightweight mechanism to determine data cardinality. A Bloom filter is updated for each key by setting bits that are identified based on hashing the key. To determine whether there are multiple keys in a set, the count of bits in the Bloom filter that are set is obtained and is compared with a threshold value. If the threshold value is met, it is determined that the data set has at least the corresponding …

Custom Print Settings Using Annotations, Hp Inc

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Print settings for documents often are set using the print dialog and print preferences UI of the

printer selected. These settings will be applied at document or page level only. Here, we

propose a novel solution where user can customize print settings using annotations in the

document at content level.

Auto Volume Your Laptop, Hp Inc

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Every user uses their laptop in a different place, some users work at the office, some users work at a coffee shop and

maybe others use it at home. What is the difference between these places? The answer is environmental sound is

different.

When the users listen to the music or in a call with the headphone, they usually adjust the volume manually. If the

environment is noisy, such as coffee shops or stuck in traffic, the users need to volume up in order to hear clearly. And if

the users use the laptop at home or in a quiet …

Hand Input Gesture Recognition Using Ml-Based Pose Estimation And Optical Flow Processing, Anonymous

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Current techniques for detection of hand pose have high computational cost, and have accuracy and speed limitations which make them less than satisfactory for use in some high precision and time-sensitive applications. This disclosure describes the use of a combination of machine learning based pose estimation and optical flow processing techniques for hand gesture recognition, e.g., in AR and VR applications. Machine learning (ML) based pose estimation is utilized to identify hand pose and identify areas of interest that are processed further using optical flow processing. The use of optical flow processing enables higher precision in the detection of small …

Measuring Sensitivity Of User Churn To Network Experience Or Performance, Anonymous

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Mobile network operators (MNOs) have an interest in maintaining customer loyalty, or equivalently, reducing user churn. The sensitivity of user churn to a given network experience/performance parameter, e.g., the download speed that a user experiences, video playback quality that a user experiences, etc. is not generally known with certainty to an MNO. An MNO may not have the measurements of the network experience/performance parameters that an end user actually experiences, e.g., in different mobile applications, and hence is not able to accurately measure the sensitivity of the churn to network experience/performance that an end user receives. This disclosure leverages the …

Control Plane Shared Risk (Cpsr) Factor In A Converged Packet-Optical Network, Praveen Kumar, Navdeep Sood

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Presented herein is a "control plane type" along with numbers in the calculation of diverse paths for Label Switch Path (LSP) diversity. The control plane type is published along with the Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) value at the termination endpoint. This helps in determining the source control plane of the SRLG value. The control plane type publication is local to the node/endpoint and does not need any additional signaling.

Activating Digital Voice Assistant Without Activation Keyword, Krzysztof Slowik

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A digital voice assistant that understands and responds to natural language voice commands. To activate such a voice assistant, the user is required to utter an activation keyword. Such explicit activation requires the user to interrupt the natural flow of conversation, e.g., with others in the household. Many households are multilingual, e.g., where members of the household speak with each other in a particular language, but are capable of speaking other languages. This disclosure enables automatic activation of a digital voice assistant upon detection of a specific spoken language. For example, if the household members speak to each other in …

Electrolytic Corrosion Resistant Plating For Connector Pins, Xingyong Liu, Xiangying Ji, Dexiang Zhu

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This disclosure describes an electroplating configuration that is resistant to electrolytic corrosion. The configuration is a stack-up of different layers that include copper (Cu) layer surrounding the substrate, a nickel (Ni) layer, and a nickel-tungsten (NiW) layer. The configuration additionally includes a gold (Au) layer utilized as an interface layer between the NiW layer and an outer rhodium-ruthenium (RhRu) layer. To impart electrolytic corrosion resistance, a rhodium-ruthenium (RhRu) layer is electroplated as an outer layer. The electroplating stack-up described in this disclosure has significantly improved anti-electrochemical corrosion capability than prior techniques.

System For Identifying Optimal Transition Points Between Charge Tiers Of A Battery Pack, Alex Pelosi

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This publication describes systems and techniques for identifying transition points between charge tiers of a battery pack in a portable electronic device. Portable electronic devices, including smartphones, are often powered by rechargeable lithium-ion or lithium-ion polymer battery packs. Electronic devices charge a battery pack using a series of constant-current stages and constant-voltage stages. It is generally desirable to remain in a constant-current stage as long as possible, but identifying the optimal transition point from constant-current charging to constant-voltage charging usually requires specialized hardware components that increase the cost of the electronic device. This publication discloses charging systems and techniques to …

Printer Operating Characteristics Chart, Hp Inc

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Raw device telemetry data is converted into intelligible failure signatures of

individual parts via a graphical representation of telemetry sequences in order to generate

actionable failure prediction and diagnosis.

Automatically Tag Whiteboard Authors, Vesselin Kirilov Perfanov, Svein Gunnar Pettersen, Maren Skyrudsmoen, Laura Isabel Menendez

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Techniques are provided for identifying and tagging authors of whiteboard content. A neural network is used to detect the most likely person or persons currently drawing on the whiteboard. The neural network works together with face recognition or other methods to tag and save the authors of each stroke in the whiteboard metadata.

Dynamic, Perceptually-Constant Beamformer, Anonymous

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Acoustic beamformers enhance a signal of interest located at a discrete point in space using microphone array processing. Pre-measured array transfer functions (ATFs) recorded on a user or on the head of a dummy result in beampatterns that are maximally directive and perform well across different room types. However, such beampatterns do not suppress noise uniformly in each individual direction. When the beam is steered dynamically, there is a perceptually degrading and distracting change in noise level.

This disclosure describes techniques to jointly optimize a beampattern to enhance the sound coming from a given direction while maintaining a constant suppression …

Dynamic Audio Level Adjustment In Wearable Audio Devices, Jonathan D. Hurwitz

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Ambient sound levels in environments where wearable audio devices are utilized can vary substantially. Such variation can cause responses provided via such devices to be inaudible or too loud in certain situations. This disclosure describes techniques for dynamic adjustment of wearable device audio output levels based on measured ambient sounds levels. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission, sound pressure levels (dB SPL) of a user’s ambient environment are measured and stored in a buffer. The audio output level for the user device is set such that audio output from the wearable device exceeds an average measured dB SPL …

Av Equipment Shelving, Sony Corporation

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This invention pulls back equipment, to take up less space, while orienting the equipment upward to make it easier for the remote control to “see”. This invention is meant to reduce how far the AV equipment protrudes into the floor space. By tilting the equipment upward, the horizontal distance into the room is reduced. This invention can be used with flush mounted "in wall systems" to keep the AV equipment (DVD player, cable box, games console or streaming device) from sticking out into the room and maintaining the "flush to the wall" appearance

Flush Mounted Tv And Speakers, Sony Corporation

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This invention provides custom installers and custom home builders with a simple and consistent solution to having a television panel installed so the front of the TV is flush (in line with) the surface of the wall. This installation also allows the associated speakers to be mounted within the wall as well. Power is provided to the TV and speakers. A swing out hinge on the TV allows it to be brought out so that the connectors behind it can be accessed and other mounting options are possible. In-wall cabinetry can be placed below the television to allow devices such …

Content Policy Violation Detection Based On Semantic And Syntactic Image Matching, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes a two-stage adversarial defense framework for the detection of policy violating content in online content platforms. Deep learned semantic features as well as pixel-level features of an input image are utilized to detect policy violating images. A two-stage template-matching based approach is utilized to detect policy violating images. In a first stage, semantic matching is utilized to search for a set of k-nearest neighbors of an input (new) query image from a previously labeled image database. Policy violating (positive) neighbors are identified from the set of the k-nearest neighbors. In a second stage, instance matching between the …

Automatic Transcription Of Voice Notes Sent Via Messaging Applications, Anonymous

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Sending a voice note over a messaging app is a convenient mechanism for the sender. However, the recipient of a voice note may perceive the voice note to be inconvenient and imposing on their time. This occurs since speaking is faster than typing and is more convenient for the sender, but listening is usually slower than reading and is less convenient for the recipient. This disclosure describes a messaging application that automatically converts a sender’s voice note to text and provides an option for the sender to send the transcribed text as an attachment with the voice note. The techniques …

A Five-Metal Layered High-Speed Silicon Interposer With Low Insertion Loss And Cross-Coupling, N/A

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A silicon interposer is a widely used communications channel, or interconnect, between dies of integrated circuits. When used to connect high-speed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and high-bandwidth memories (HBM), the traditional three-metal layered silicon interposer suffers from excessive insertion loss, cross-talk, and inter-symbol interference. Communications at the requisite speed, e.g., 3 Gbps or more, is unfeasible.

This disclosure describes techniques of optimal dimensioning and placement of traces within a five-metal layered silicon interposer to achieve a robust interposer communications channel with low insertion loss, cross-talk, and inter-symbol interference. ASIC-HBM communications speed of up to 3.6 Gbps is supported with use …

Vergence And Gaze Based 3d Mapping Of Local Environment, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing a user’s natural perception of their environment to obtain information about the local environment. With user permission, eye positions and eye movements of a user as they interact with their environment are utilized to substitute for and/or augment machine-based perception of the environment. Eye movement information such as vergence, fixation/gaze points, saccade patterns, etc. are obtained from eye tracking sensors. A 3D volumetric map of the environment is created based on the eye movement information. Based on identified user fixations, an interest map of the room is generated. 3D spatial information can be obtained …

Scented Multi-Layered Finishes For Metal Substrates, Joerg Hoehne

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Described herein are coating systems for preparing scented multi-layered finishes, scented multi-layered finish-coated substrates, and methods of applying scented multi-layered finishes to metal substrates. A coating system for preparing scented multi-layered finishes includes a base coating component and a clear coating component comprising at least one fragrance. An additional coating system for preparing scented multi-layered finishes includes a base coating component, a printed coating component, and a clear coating component comprising at least one fragrance.

Systems And Methods For Forming A Can End Shell, Sebastijan Jurendic

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A can end shell forming system includes a die that defines a forming pocket having a shaping surface. The forming pocket is configured to receive a portion of a sheet during can end shell forming. The can end shell forming system also includes an inductor within the forming pocket that is adapted to selectively propel the portion of the sheet against the shaping surface to form a can end shell. A method of forming a can end shell includes positioning a portion of a sheet within a forming pocket of a can end shell forming tool. The method also includes …

Systems And Methods For Finishing A Bottle, Sebastijan Jurendic

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Provided herein are systems and methods for finishing a metal consumer product container. Finishing a metal consumer product container can require a plurality of forming steps. Provided herein are systems and methods to significantly reduce forming steps to finish a metal container. In some examples, methods and systems are provided for finishing a bottle neck using electromagnetic coils.

Evpn Multi-Homing Extension To Avoid Duplicate Traffic On Lan, Mankamana Mishra, Ali Sajassi, Lukas Krattiger, Luc De Ghein, Nitin Kumar

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Mechanisms are provided to ensure the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Assert mechanism works in the presence of Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) multi-homing in a network. A mechanism synchronizes PIM Assert information across multi-home peers, processes the PIM assert received via EVPN routes, and generates a PIM Assert based on the PIM assert received over EVPN. In addition, a mechanism is provided for deterministic PIM Designated Router (DR) election between multi-homed and non-multi-homed peers in a local area network (LAN). PIM Hellos are synchronized to have the same list of neighbors across multi-home peers. A procedure is provided to have …

Authenticated Access Into Secure Meetings For Video Conferencing Systems, Selim Baygin, Ivan Varghis, Aaron Belcher, Kevin Collins

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A mechanism is provided to positively identify audio and video endpoints as belonging to a customer's organization. The mechanism configures a meeting to admit Organization Authenticated endpoints without further checks, to require User Authentication, or to require User Verification. The mechanism ensures the endpoint belongs to a person who is also an authorized user in the same organization for secure and expedited access into meetings. An additional mechanism is provided to notify meeting hosts for users trying to enter the meeting where they do not meet the security policies. Further, the mechanism allows a host to determine whether to accept …

Method And System For Dynamically Issuing A Payment Account, Sumit Amar, Philip Tucker, Anup Tripathi, Thomas Purves, Laura Brodsky

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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for dynamically issuing a payment account. The method for account issuance includes receiving a template request for a card template including one or more card parameters. In response to the request, further, the method may include generating the card template based on the one or more card parameters. Furthermore, the method may include storing the card template under a card template identification. Thereafter, receiving a card request for a new card object including the card template identification. Based on the determination that the card template identification matches the received card template …

Detection Of Counterfeit Components By A Ki, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.