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A Method And System For Providing Contactless Upgrade For Loyalty Cards, Patrick Flanagan, Steve Kang

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing contactless upgrade for loyalty cards. The method includes creating a cryptographic paired relationship between a loyalty card associated with a user, a network device associated with a merchant and merchant store. In order to create the cryptographic pair, the method includes providing a Near Field Communication (NFC) stickers specific to each merchant. The NFC sticker may include login details to connect to a network of the merchant store. The user may download an application associated with the merchant in order to login to the network of merchant store. On …

Methods And Systems To Use Relational Data To Assess Group Credit Worthiness, Joseph York, Nicholas Kurlas, Samantha Chatkin, Anastasiya Zarko

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A computer-implemented method for aggregating and managing credit worthiness of a community including: selecting, with at least one processor, a group of individuals from the community; generating, with at least one processor, an individual risk score for each individual of the group based on individual data; generating, with at least one processor, a relational risk score for each individual of the group based at least partially on relational data; determining, with at least one processor, a weighted individual risk score and a weighted relational risk score based on a weighing parameter; generating, with at least one processor, a multi-party risk …

Method And System For Using Virtual Account, Minghua Xu

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The present disclosure provides a method and a system for using a virtual account. The method comprises receiving first account identifier data associated with a first account of a first party. A first token may be generated based on the first account identifier. Second account identifier data associated with a second account of a second party may be received. A second token may be generated based on the second account identifier. First request data associated with a request to establish a virtual account may be received. A virtual account may be generated and may be funded by the second account …

An Efficient Approach To Control Job Cancellation, Hp Inc

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This disclosure focuses on providing an enhanced job cancellation approach in printing devices.

A concept is disclosed here, wherein when a job is being processed/queued, the user is enabled to

cancel printing of specific pages or a range of pages. This option thus provides a more usercontrolled

cancellation of the ongoing job in printing devices.

Bluetooth Pen For Controlling Laptop Hinge Angle, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

By developing applications of Bluetooth Pen, one of the useful applications is to control NB’s hinge angle.

Built-In Diagnostic Part For Early Part Quality Assessment, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

By 3D-printing a thin, vertical diagnostic part along a side of a print volume,

printing problems that occur during parts fabrication can be identified, and their root

cause determined, prior to performing the usual cleaning and post-processing operations

of the 3D printing process.

Method And System For Anomaly Detection In Large-Scale Networks, Fang Chen, John Garrett, Dave Zacks, Vladimir Yashin

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Effectively spotting anomalies in network or application operations can be challenging in very large, complex networks, making it difficult to be alerted to their presence in order to take action to remediate such anomalies. Proper anomaly detection is impeded by too much data from too many disparate sources, which may manifest in too many different ways on various network devices ("the curse of dimensionality" familiar to many machine learning (ML) practitioners).

Proposed herein is a novel implementation of a Long Short-Term Memory based Variational Autoencoder (LSTM-VAE) to detect such anomalies, and an associated visualization technique to display them to the …

High-Performance Low-Overhead Stochastic Wear Leveling Of Flash Memory By Comparing Age Of A Block With Age Of A Randomly Selected Block, Chris Phoenix

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This publication describes systems and techniques to implement a stochastic-based wear leveling scheme for block erasures to extend the usable life of flash memory and other types of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM). Some existing approaches for wear leveling are resource intensive and may be merged with a file system that also attempts to distribute write operations, which impacts both the write distribution and the erasure wear leveling. In contrast, described systems and techniques can be implemented separately from file system routines, including at the hardware level. Initially, a block of a memory is identified for erasure. The erasure …

Secure Usb Printing, Hp Inc

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Users always seek convenience while doing a job and printing is no exception. Amongst the available

printing methods such as print through driver, pull printing, e‐print, stored job printing, USB printing,

USB printing has been developed as one of the most convenient and preferred way of printing by the

users. The reason for USB print gaining popularity is because user can carry the printable job in a USB

storage device, go to any printer, printer and select which document to print using the front panel and

print. One of the primary attributes that differ USB print to other printing mechanisms …

Autonomous Mobile Sanitization Robot, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes an autonomous mobile robot that can be utilized for sanitization of surfaces, e.g., in indoor environments such as offices, laboratories, lavatories, hallways, entrance gates, cafeteria, etc. Per techniques of this disclosure, payloads effective to sanitize surfaces and objects, e.g., ultraviolet-C (UV-C) emitting device(s), such as UV-C lamps, are mounted on an autonomous robot that can traverse the indoor environment. The robot can autonomously navigate the indoor environment and disinfect surfaces by emitting UV-C radiation via its payload. The robot is configured to dynamically learn routes, generate a map of a route traversed, etc. and to automatically detect …

A System And Method For Targeted Updating Of Software On Devices, K&S Partners

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The present disclosure relates to a method for updating target devices (104). The method comprises transmitting change message to the target devices (104). The change message comprises address data and condition change data associated with updating a condition of the target devices (104). Further, the method comprises receiving an update message from the target devices (104). The update message comprises update data associated with a status of updating the condition. Furthermore, the method comprises determining whether the condition of the target devices (104) is updated. Moreover, the method comprises transmitting a validation test message to the target devices (104). The …

Using Audio Processing To Determine Disease Spread, Ajit Narayanan

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During epidemics and at other times, it is important for public health officials, individuals, and other entities to make health-related decisions based on sound epidemiological statistics. Such statistics are today generated only when individuals voluntarily seek medical treatment. Diseases that are contagious but initially asymptomatic can spread rapidly through vulnerable populations with little warning. Due to the initial mildness of symptoms, individuals may not realize that they have a dangerous infection and may fail to approach medical professionals for treatment or diagnosis.

This disclosure describes techniques that can leverage sensors, networks, and consumer electronic devices to determine a fine-grained estimate …

Enhanced Carton Core For Direct Printing On Textiles, Hp Inc

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Our company heavily invests in R&D in order to have printers as versatile as possible and being

able to print on almost all the different kind of materials (Papers, Self-Adhesive vinyls, Films, PVC

Banners, Textiles…) in the case of the Latex printers and Transfer paper or Textiles in the case of

the dye sublimation printers. During the last few years, the market trends are changing the usage

of printing from PVC Banners to Textiles that is why the dye sublimation printers have been

developed.

Textiles provide soft hand, great color pop and considered more premium than vinyl or paper so …

Limited Authentication Credentials Through Cryptocurrency, Rob Smits, John Wood

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A certification authority can issue a certificate to a computing system in a peer network peer computing system. A number of cryptographic coins can be associated with the certificate. The number of cryptographic coins can be recorded by the certifying process (represented in the certificate itself) and stored in a ledger (or log) kept by each computing system in the network. Each cryptographic coin can be distinct such that it can be used (e.g., spent) in a single authentication process and cannot be reused. Thus, when a first computing system wants to communicate with a second computing system in the …

Hybrid Dimming Control For Both Pwm And Aux, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Both PWM and AUX dimming control techniques are implemented in a single

firmware set for an eDP (embedded display port) LCD panel to allow the panel to work

with graphics vendors using either dimming technique.

Reduced Power Consumption In Idle Mode Of Active Pen With Tilt Support, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The idle mode power consumption of an active pen with tilt support is reduced

by modifying the protocol of the two pen transmitters and eliminating the use of a gyro.

Secure, Tool-Free Latch/Release For Bottom Cover Access, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A slim, security-lockable, tool-free latch and release mechanism for a bottom

cover of an electronic device.

Precise Otp Point Setting Over A Wide Voltage Range, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

In order to meet skin temperature requirements for an electronic product, an

over temperature protection circuit is compensation to maintain the OTP trigger point

within a tight tolerance over a wide range of input voltages.

Eye Gaze Active Touchpad Mode In Mixed-Function Touchpad, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The eye gaze of the user relative to the main display screen of a portable

computer is used to automatically switch the operating mode of a mixed-function

touchpad that combines a touchpad and a touchscreen between touchpad mode and

touchscreen mode.

Dynamic Optimization Of Boot Connect Sequence, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The boot control sequence of a BIOS that supports multiple hardware

platforms selects a sub-boot control sequence associated with that platform at run-time to

boot the system more rapidly.

Power Backoff Mechanism For Intermodulation Distortion And Harmonic Distortion, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Fernando Selma, Hung Tsang, Aamir Akram

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This publication describes systems and techniques for power backoff to address intermodulation distortion and harmonic distortion. A wireless communication device, which engineers often refer to as user equipment (UE), includes power backoff logic and a transmit backoff table. In a dual-connectivity environment with operating conditions known to result in potential distortion, a processor of the UE looks up a power backoff level in the transmit backoff table and directs a transceiver to back off the transmit power to mitigate intermodulation distortion or harmonic distortion. The UE can use similar systems and techniques to address distortion issues in carrier aggregation or …

Digital Collage Platform With Reaction Stickers, Anonymous

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Users can share media such as images, videos, animations, etc. with each other via social media, content sharing and messaging services. Many such services allow other users to react to such media, e.g., by providing reactions via use of emoji, comments, tags, or other mechanisms. The reactions are typically for the entire content, not on specific portions of the content.

This disclosure describes a digital collage sharing platform that allows users to create and share digital collages that can include text, links, images, emoji, videos, animations, etc. Other users can react to such digital collages by providing their reactions in …

Method To Identify Change Based On Content-Based Embedding, Luca Chiarandini, Joe Hung

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A method for identifying change based on content-based embedding is disclosed. The proposed method computes content similarity of content items uploaded to a user’s personal channel. The method then computes a channel risk score, which identifies whether the type(s) of content uploaded to a user’s personal channel has changed after a specific point in time. A channel in which the type(s) of content has changed after a specific point in time, for example after the channel was reviewed for a monetization program, may indicate potential abuse of the monetization program. Based on the risk score, the method may flag potentially …

Techniques For Automatically Passing Presentation Control In An Online Meeting, Vinay Saini, Ankush Arora, Kaustubh Inamdar

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Techniques are presented for improving and streamlining an online meeting experience by predetermining the list of presenters and their corresponding presentation material, such that presentation control is dynamically passed based on the content currently being shared. Having a smooth transition between presenters and presentation materials improves the online meeting experience.

Efficient Content Navigation With A Single Dimension Of Input, Conrad Herbert Albrecht Buehler, Ian Douglas Barlow, Jon Nishida, David Notario, Rod Lopez

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In general, the present disclosure describes navigating user interfaces that accept one-dimensional input, such as a vehicle dashboard console, a smart watch display, and/or the like. For example, a user interface may include a scrollable menu where the user is limited to just scrolling up or down the menu without dedicated next, previous, or select buttons. Rather than requiring a user to scroll all the way to a fixed location in the list, e.g. the top of the list, to navigate a menu hierarchy in order to select a back, select, next, up, close, or other affordance button, the techniques …

Virtual Assistant With Tappable User Interface, Keun Soo Yim, Donghyun Cho, Christoffer Perry, Vilem Ries

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Virtual assistants that can respond to spoken queries are popular. However, in some situations, users may prefer to provide input via typing or other modalities, rather than voice. This disclosure describes a virtual assistant with a user interface that enables a user to provide spoken as well as typed input. A typeahead search is performed based on received partial input and tappable query suggestions are provided to the user. If the user selects a suggested query, the corresponding action is performed directly, without the user having to complete the query input.

Process For The Preparation Of (11Α,13e,15s)-11,15-Dihydroxy-9-Oxoprost-13-En-1-Oic Acid, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan

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The present application relates to a process for the preparation of (11α,13E,15S)-11,15-dihydroxy-9-oxoprost-13-en-1-oic acid.

Cell Age Balancing For Wireless Earbuds, Jonathan D. Hurwitz

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True wireless earbuds that include on-board batteries are popular. This disclosure describes techniques to balance cell aging of wireless earbuds and enable utilization of the full capacity of the battery cells of wireless earbuds. A fuel gauge value (available cell capacity) for each earbud is recorded. When the earbuds are charging, e.g., in a charging case, the fuel gauge value for each earbud is read. A cell age equalization mode is invoked if the difference between the available cell capacities meets a predetermined threshold. When the earbuds are placed in cell equalization mode, a code path may be configured to …

Gesture-Driven Virtual Reality Games, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes virtual reality (VR) games in which a player can grab a virtual object with their (real) hands and propel the object into a virtual landscape. A pair of virtual hands is provided that mirror the movements of the user’s real hands. The movement of the virtual object can be controlled, e.g., it can be accelerated, decelerated, turned, twirled, made to shoot other objects, etc., with hand gestures.

User Interface Controls For Contoured Three-Dimensional Virtual Displays, Anonymous

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Rendering user-interface controls on contoured virtual displays is computationally expensive. The usual solution is to render a whole second panel as an overlay and transform it to fit the contoured display. This disclosure describes computationally efficient techniques to render user interface controls for contoured three-dimensional virtual displays. Per the techniques, a user interface object is converted to a 3D-object defined by a collection of polygons and the polygons are attached to the contoured surface.