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Customer Calibration Of A Plumbing Fixture, Anonymous

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Disclosed is a method for calibrating a faucet which includes a metered plumbing fixture capable of dispensing a predetermined amount of fluid from the fixture and requesting a user to determine if the fixture dispensed the correct amount.

Enabling User Control Over Advertisement Delivery, Anonymous

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Content such as television, online video/audio, podcasts, etc. includes commercial breaks during which advertisements are delivered to the viewer. Measuring viewer response to the advertisement can be affected by the time at which the advertisement is delivered and the level of user interest in the content at that time. This disclosure describes a mechanism to enable users to postpone advertisement delivery. The postponed advertisements are queued and delivered at a later time of the viewer’s choice. Optionally, the viewer can also select the mode of delivery of the advertisement. Enabling such user control over the delivery of advertisements can provide …

Interactive Videos With Embedded High-Resolution Images, Anonymous

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Currently, videos generally cannot be zoomed in or panned across. Videos capture motion but not detail; still images do not capture motion, but can be very detailed. The techniques described herein unite the motion-capturing features of videos with the detail-capturing features of still images to enable a user to zoom in, pan across, listen to narrations, and generally interact with frames in a video. In this manner, videos are provided that are interactive and engaging.

Interaction Quality Determination Using Device Camera, Herbert Jordan, Konrad Jan Miller, Agoston Weisz

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Software such as virtual assistants provide information to users, e.g., as ambient information, e.g., displayed on a device home screen, or in response to user queries. In such contexts, it is difficult to determine whether the user is satisfied with the displayed information or response to the query. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, utilize on-device analysis of images or video obtained from a device camera, to determine user satisfaction.

Multipart, Multipath Entropy Query Based On Egress Link Combination, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Sagar Soni

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Dynamic entropy ranges are runtime operational state pre-use cached results of entropy calculations based on an actual state of links. These results may include proactive entropy calculations based on the up- and down-states of links. A non-binary state for links that describes their load can also be included. This information enables network optimization and traffic engineering by introducing the capability of querying additional details in the multipart-multipath entropy query. Querying can be accomplished using Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping or any other Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) extensions, such as Yet Another Next Generation (YANG). Upon receiving such a query, …

Easy Unplug, Hp Inc

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A connector design on wired cable head that make user easer to unplug

cable from system.

Method Of Printing On 3d Printed Parts Without Interfering The Design By Using The So Called "Shadowing" Effect, Hp Inc

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Customization is a very powerful advantage on 3D printing. Adding a text, a name,

a logo or a pattern over a 3d printed part is cheaper and easier with some 3D

printing technologies, such as fusing agent and powder‐based systems, than with

traditional technologies such as injection molding, where tools (molds, inserts…

need to be designed and fabricated for each customization.

However, sometimes the 3D models of the parts cannot be modified easily,

especially if they are shared in specific formats or if their geometry is too thin or

too delicate.

With this disclosure we propose a method to “ye”certain …

Automated Build Unit Safety And Debris Cover, Hp Inc

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A Mechanism for automatically applying a flexible safety and debris shield to a build unit in a 3D printing

system when the build unit is actuated autonomously.

Hexagonal Fast Response Heaters For Manufacturing A Modular Black Body Equipment, Hp Inc

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3D printing technology is used to print 3D models with very different geometries. For being able to print parts within

parts quality metrics, it is necessary to use an accurate & repeatable thermo‐camera sensor. To calibrate and

characterize this sensor is used an equipment named Blackbody, which represents an ideal reference source, with

uniform temperature at many defined setpoints and known emissivity coefficient. This equipment is expensive and

has limitations which makes impossible to integrate them in the printer.

Industrial Asset Inventory And Vulnerability Detection In Operation Technology Networks, Mariusz Kaźmierski

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The techniques presented herein provide efficient, scalable, and comprehensive industrial asset inventory and vulnerability detection in operation technology (OT) networks. The techniques achieve this by adaptively and dynamically chaining traffic-monitoring methods through an OT network. Additionally, the techniques automatically and efficiently deploy sensors in an OT network to support the traffic-monitoring chaining and efficiently utilize resources in the OT network. These techniques may resolve vulnerability detection issues and inventory tracking and classification issues that are commonly encountered in OT networks, which that often utilize network elements without traffic sensing features.

Automatic Style Matching For External Content Inserted In Documents, N/A

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Insertion of external content such as equations, graphs, images, etc. that have a different style from that of a document can result in documents with an inconsistent appearance. Users often spend significant time adjusting such content to ensure visual consistency. The described techniques automatically improve the style consistency of a document even when the document includes content inserted from other applications such as equation editors, image editors, etc. having styles different from those in the target document. Automatic style adjustments are applied to the inserted content which reduces the user burden of ensuring style consistency. Automatic style adjustments, with user …

Process For The Preparation Of Clofarabine, Anonymous

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The present invention provides a process for the preparation of Clofarabine.

Vcsel Chip With Dedicated Damage Monitoring Channel, Anonymous

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Virtual reality glasses use a projector that includes a VCSEL chip in combination with other optical components. Monitoring the back reflected light is useful to monitor any damage to the projector components. This disclosure provides VCSEL chip designs with a dedicated, low current channel for damage monitoring. The proposed chip provides a dedicated channel for damage monitoring, and enables performing damage monitoring operation with a narrow pulse with a lower current supply.

End-To-End Optimization Of Multistage Recommender Systems, Anonymous

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Complex multistage recommender systems that utilize multiple stages of ranking models and non-model parameters at different stages are used to identify a set of items as output, e.g., advertisements to be delivered by an advertising network. This disclosure describes a framework to optimize the non-model parameters to improve recall, defined based on items delivered as output in comparison to groundtruth items. The optimization can be performed offline, using a simulation that takes as input candidate items and labels of items that are known positives. The optimization can improve the quality of recommendations and can reduce computational cost.

Using Fresh Web Content To Generate Subscribable Search Notifications, Yew Jin Lim, James Kunz, Jon Dreyfus, Mauricio Monico, Tao Feng, Maya Palem

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Content subscriptions are a useful way for a search engine to maintain user engagement. However, generating and providing content updates regarding topics of interest based on knowledge repositories can be expensive. Further, updates generated in this manner can be too infrequent, providing an unsatisfactory user experience. This disclosure describes the automated analysis and use of fresh web content related to topics of interest to generate and deliver updates to subscribers. Fresh web content is analyzed, e.g., using a natural language classifier, to determine the topic and type of content. Updates are generated based on specific content types known to be …

Energy Efficient In-Line Encryption With Selective Round Masking, Anonymous

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Side channel protection imposes substantial area, performance, and/or energy overhead, rendering such hardware unsuitable for devices that have space or battery constraints, e.g., head-mounted display (HMD) devices. To safeguard user data in such devices, energy efficient encryption techniques are necessary. This disclosure describes an in-line encryption engine that uses selective masking. The first and last rounds of encryption are accorded maximum protection by incorporating all masking features, while intermediate rounds are only partially masked at steps that are determined as likely vulnerable, or are left unmasked. Selective round masking in this manner provides data protection with low cost, and is …

Mounting System For Truck Bed Racks, Mark Yerdon, Mikhail Soyfertis

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Bed racks are commonly attached to pickup trucks for additional storage and transport options. This disclosure describes a mounting system that enables attachment of a rack to inward rolled sheet metal rails, outward rolled sheet metal rails, and T-slot rails without modifications to the truck body. An additional bracket is provided to attach a rack crossbar to an outward bed rail. The additional bracket is attached to the crossbar bracket which creates a vertical face against an outside edge of the bed rail. Studs are provided in the additional bracket that, when combined with slots in the crossbar bracket, enable …

Synesthetic Soundtrack, Elly Nattinger, Meltem Oktem, Isabel Lee

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This disclosure describes techniques to generate an audio experience or soundscape corresponding to the visual field of a user. With user permission, objects within the feed of a head-mounted camera are semantically identified using computer vision techniques. Based on the detected objects, a unique audio experience, shaped by the world around a user and by the physical items they engage with, is generated.

Scalable And Efficient Real-Time Clock Maintenance In A Distributed Network, Venkat Reddy Ennu

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Techniques are described herein for maintaining real-time software clocks in a distributed network. Generally, the techniques may approximate a synchronized timestamp for a delay request sent by a slave node based on a timestamp of a sync request received at the slave node. Then, a time stamping unit associated with the slave node may update the correction factor of the timestamp to adjust the synchronized timestamp appropriately. Notably, this avoids the need to read timestamps from first in, first out buffers of time stamping units and/or from field programmable gate arrays (FGPAs) and, thus, may significantly improve the scale of …

Routing Protocol For Low Power And Lossy Networks, Li Zhao, Pascal Thubert, Chuanwei Li

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The techniques presented herein provide Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL) that enhances the incorporation of RPL Unaware Leaves (RULs) into a network while also improving the flexibility of the network deployment. Specifically, the techniques presented herein create one or more proxies for RULs that can reduce the number of messages a RUL needs to receive. Thus, a RUL can wake less and preserve its battery. The one or more proxies proxy IPv6 protocol, such as DHCPv6, for the RUL and maintain the keep alive state for RUL.

Process For The Preparation Of Anti-Neoplastic Agent

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The present invention provides a process for the preparation of (2α,5β,7β,10β,13α)-4-acetoxy-13-({(2R,3S)-3-[(tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino]-2-hydroxy-3-phenylpropanoyl}oxy)-1-hydroxy-7,10-dimethoxy-9-oxo-5,20-epoxytax-11-en-2-yl benzoate and intermediates thereof.

Process For The Preparation Of Anti-Neoplastic Agent, Anonymous

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The present invention provides a process for the preparation of (2α,5β,7β,10β,13α)-4-acetoxy-13-({(2R,3S)-3-[(tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino]-2-hydroxy-3-phenylpropanoyl}oxy)-1-hydroxy-7,10-dimethoxy-9-oxo-5,20-epoxytax-11-en-2-yl benzoate and intermediates thereof.

Process For The Preparation Of Anti-Neoplastic Agent

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The present invention provides a process for the preparation of (2α,5β,7β,10β,13α)-4-acetoxy-13-({(2R,3S)-3-[(tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino]-2-hydroxy-3-phenylpropanoyl}oxy)-1-hydroxy-7,10-dimethoxy-9-oxo-5,20-epoxytax-11-en-2-yl benzoate and intermediates thereof.

Process For The Preparation Of Clofarabine

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The present invention provides an improved process for the preparation of Clofarabine and its intermediate compounds. The said process is simple, safe, eco-friendly, economical, involves lower reaction time cycle and suitable for the production of Clofarabine and its intermediate compounds on commercial scale.

Order Independent Tiebreaker For Motion Search, Anonymous

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A motion search integrated circuit (IC) is configured to determine the motion of objects in a video. In motion search, multiple candidate motion vectors may often have the same cost, such that the multiple candidates are each optimal and equally acceptable. The multiplicity of candidates leads to difficulties in verifying the IC design, e.g., in comparing the output of the IC to a reference (golden) model implemented in software. This disclosure describes tiebreaking techniques that enable the IC, as designed in a hardware description language, and the reference model in software to identify the same optimal motion vector for a …

Generating Condensed Videos, Victor Carbune, Alexandru Damian

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Disclosed herein is an improved mechanism for generating condensed videos. The mechanism can identify a video for which a condensed video is to be generated. The mechanism can generate a summary transcript of the video. The mechanism can identify frames of the video that are deemed most relevant to portions of the generated summary transcript. Based on the identified frames of the video that are deemed most relevant to portions of the generated summary transcript, the mechanism can generate additional frames of video content that are used to connect the identified relevant frames of the video. The mechanism can then …

Intelligent Security - Method And Control Device For Danger Defence By Means Of Engine-Like Acoustics And Vibration On An Electric Vehicle By An Acoustic Sou, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Film Back Injection With Softtouch Effect, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Live Production Stream For Customer, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence End-To-End Error Analysis, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.