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Limiting Application Access To Sensitive Data And Resources Through Use Of A Sensitive Data Sandbox, Russell Quong

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes techniques and apparatuses to limit access by a software application to sensitive user data (e.g., contacts, location, biometric data, photos). When a user installs or initially uses an application, the application may request permission to access user data, along with system resources (e.g., global positioning satellite (GPS) data) and particular hardware (e.g., microphones, cameras). Depending on the permission request, the user and the operating system (OS) may be unclear whether the data, resources, and/or hardware is needed by the application most of the time, some of the time, not needed at all, or whether the request is …

Spring-Loaded Self-Aligning Lightpipe, Ben Coder, Vic Chia, George Curtis, Ed Kliewer

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Presented herein is a low-cost, assembly-order-versatile, self-aligned lightpipe that is designed for constrained environments.

Implementing Gmp-Sec Using Stuffing Bytes To Provide Security Over 400zr And Other Optical Standards, Gilberto Loprieno, Davide Codella, Emanuele Giacometti

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Presented herein are techniques for providing security to networks operating in accordance with the 400ZR standard. Currently, there is no specification relating to how traffic should be encrypted and authenticate by this standard. In addition, the techniques presented herein support the possibility of encrypting and authenticating every single 100GBASE-R or 200GBASE-R stream when they are mapped inside 400ZR. GMP-Sec can be used in any application which relies on the Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP), with the only recommendation that client rates must be lower than 0.21% of container frequency. Moreover, the techniques presented herein can be applied to the Optical Transport …

Safeguarding Against Improper Configurations For Lorawan Gateways, Su Xia, Christine Hwang, Bob Lo, Xiaochen Cao, Simarpreet Kaur

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Presented herein are safeguard features for Long Range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) deployments on a LoRa gateway. The techniques presented herein provide a solution to prevent end users from wrongly or accidentally deploying LoRa gateways in unlawful Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) radio bands. The techniques presented herein require little computational and storage resources to be integrated into any LoRa gateway embedded system, operate automatically based on the standard LNS protocol, and are sufficiently flexible to suit different use cases.

Method And System For Detecting A Process Or Activity Using Recurrent And Convolutional 1d Neural Networks, Andrey Kvasyuk, Hazim Dahir, Omar Santos

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Presented herein are techniques that use multiple neural networks and segmentation of the traffic to detect the presence of applications or business processes within a noisy mixture of network traffic. In addition, the techniques presented herein provide a novel way to detect unusual, bad intentioned, and/or malicious activity, which is also a “process”, using recurrent and convolutional neural networks. The learning outcome can potentially identify compromised network infrastructure devices and/or telemetry collectors.

Hypervisor-Agnostic System And Method For Modification Of Snapshot Files For Recovery, Mayuresh Vartak, Geetha Srikantan, Vishwas Srinivasan, Harpreet Gandhi, Swapnil Daingade

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This proposal provides a general-purpose technique to reconfigure the execution environment for virtual machines to facilitate a file patch service for modifying snapshot files during virtual machine recovery. The technique is hypervisor-agnostic and may be implemented within many different types of environments.

Active Local Dimming On Display By Magnet Optical Shutter, Hp Inc

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This invention is to produce true blacks by selectively turning off areas of the backlight behind

black areas in scenes by enhancing the aspect of LED LCD performance via local dimming on the

display screen that should be dark and keep bright the parts of the screen to be bright through

active magnet optical shutter, which can obtain high contrast ratio.

Transfer Your Security File With Security Mouse Between Your Devices, Hp Inc

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In the modern world today, people use several devices at office and home at the same time. While try to copy files

from one device to another device, it will need to have additional USB storage key to copy and save the files then

attach the USB storage key to another device to transfer the files. However, the files in the USB storage key might

be security data or personal information, this is risk for the USB key may lost or steal by someone.

Therefore, we are thinking a more security way to transfer the file without additional plug in/out …

Usb-C Alt-Mode Auto-Disabled With Cpu Gto, Hp Inc

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Provide a mechanism to disabled USB-C 3.1 Alt-mode of Flex Port module if a CPU GT0 without physical

display output ability is detected in the system. A CPU GT0 could be detected by BIOS, and USB-C 3.1 Altmode

of Flex Port module could be disabled through USB Type-C PD controller.

Display Monitor Identifier, Hp Inc

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Computer has more complexity display ports connectivity. The user would be easily confused

and don’t know which cable needs to be disconnected while moving or removing the devices

from system.

Here providing a mechanism, to easily indicate which display monitor is connecting the port on

system that the user would like to adjust.

Sending Information Displayed On A Screen Saver According To User Input For Getting Out Of The Screen Saver Mode, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Product supports to play movie clip on control panel. This is very useful functionality and it gives

many solutions as well. We can give more information to user when we play movie clip during sleep

time. For example, we can guide how to use printer for students and how to solve problem such as

jam and toner empty in library and administrator can share notice to employees on control panel in

company.

This Screen Saver Handler can play not only movie but also image and external streaming service.

To Implement Mini-Fan On Mice For Adhering Onto The Tilt Surface, Hp Inc

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In general, mice able to work on any surface including tilt surface but what cannot be done is to

leave the mice on the surface with tilt angle as it will slip.

The concept here is to have mice that able to adhere to the tilt surface while not operating it for

a short while or power is still on and not placing it on horizontal surface.

To achieve this concept, angle detection sensor and fan must be implemented as a control loop

in order for the fan to rotate base on the defined angle range for creating vacuum force …

Rotatable Shielding Can Design, Hp Inc

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Develop a flexible mechanical linkage feature to resolve the risk which a shielding can

damages electronic components on mother board. This provides assembling and

dismantling solution effortlessly so as to enhance the productivity in consistent quality.

M.2 Nsff Connector For Double Side, Hp Inc

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The disclosure solves the issue on M.2 Connector not supported Double‐Side SSD for which

the height limitation between a motherboard and SSD. The challenge we faced is the room

not large enough. Components or chipsets are required to do layout beneath the SSD

module. These components have occupied the area so SSD is forced to be determined the

single‐side SSD type. The disclosure is allowed to use double‐side SSD flexibility as long as

the extended connector is implemented.

Notoebook Edge-Sensing Feature For User Experience Enhanced, Hp Inc

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Idea Thinking:

 To enhance the experience of NB user interface & product value adding.

 Lower cost but increase the operating experience a lot.

 Add a capacitance sensor on the right side edge with easy finger swipe and operate gestures: Fig. 1

o Scroll up/down

o Zoom in/out

o Next/Previous …etc

A Tbt Egfx Monitor Topology, Which Able To Support Optional Egfx Card Be And Support Basic Display Function With Same Usb Type-C Connector When Connecting Non-Tbt Host, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Enterprise customer requires to join a lot of meeting and take the notebook back to home to continuous some light

loaded working, but some of customer requires drawing/reviewing CAD which requires external graphic card to

support working smoothly. Intel TBT technology allows TBT NB connects external Graphic Card in TBT docking, so

to be an TBT eGFX monitor can make user to have better graphic performance for CAD usage even use light

notebooks.

Two Way Headset Audio Usage In Vr, Hp Inc

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An audio system can allow user switch HMD build-in headset into 2 different usage; most of the host which

connect with VR without build-in speaker. So, this concept can base on user`s intention to choose share

game sound in loud speaker mode or use headset mode to play VR game privately.

Integration Of Display With Camera Cable, Hp Inc

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This invention discloses a display that integrates the camera cable, and the overall hinge up design

for such integrated system. The display has pre‐made metal lines for camera. The camera is

connected to these metal lines. And these metal lines eventually merge with panel eDP as one cable

that go through the hinge. This inherent metal lines have overlap area to the display metal lines. In

the overlap area there is addition insulator pad and metal pad.

Gesture And Voice Through Wireless Microphone Device, Hp Inc

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This invention is to develop gesture and voice control via wireless microphone device by using IR camera

to detect predefined motions and SW voice algorithm that recognize voice commands through

Bluetooth to deliver the commands to laptops, monitor, and projectors.

System Approach To Compensate The Brightness Non-Uniformity Of Local Dimming Display, Hp Inc

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This invention discloses a new system approach to compensate the brightness non‐uniformity of

local dimming display. An accumulator is in between GPU and display panel to keep accumulating

the loading of each zone. When the compensation is triggered, the accumulated loading is feedback

to GPU, and then stress the zones with lower accumulated loading to the same level of zones with

higher accumulated loading. In the end all the zones have the same accumulated loading.

Enhanced System Errors For Improving Field Service Support And Customer Issues Reporting, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of error reporting in a device’s user interface. In this disclosure it is

proposed to embed dynamically generated information to the System Error reported in the User Interface

(UI). This dynamically generated information will provide certain configurable parameters like the Part

Number and Serial Number of the device, the ID (identifier) of the session logs which will contain the issue,

timestamp of the occurrence, telemetry session when the issue occurred and any other sub‐system

specific information depending on the concrete system error. Then, a mechanism should be provided to

the user to capture this …

Dual Cap Hinge Design On Common Tank, Hp Inc

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Described here is an ink tank design that enables two different capping orientations on a

common ink tank body. The capping orientation is determined during assembly instead of

having two independent parts with different capping orientations. This allows for less parts,

molds, and testing.

Robust Decision Forest Inference Algorithm In Presence Of Missing Feature Values, Jan Brabec, Cenek Skarda

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Presented herein is a novel algorithm for inference on decision forest models that increases the robustness of the decisions in the presence of missing features in the data. The proposed algorithm ensures that tree decisions are supported by a minimal amount of non-missing features. Experiments have demonstrated that the proposed algorithm not only increases the robustness of the model, but also increase the model’s predictive performance.

Offline Mobile Payments Using Public Key Cryptography, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers

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This disclosure describes techniques for the user of a mobile device to electronically pay another user using a payments app even in the absence of internet connectivity. At the payer’s end, a payment message that includes the payee’s identity, the amount, and other details is generated. The message is encrypted using the payer’s private key and provided to the payee’s device via a suitable mechanism such as peer-to-peer transfer, e.g., via Bluetooth. In another mechanism, the payer’s device generates an encoded image, e.g., a QR code, from the encrypted message. The message and/or the code is transferred to the payee’s …

Conversational News Interaction Using Indexing And Linking, Gozde Oznur, T.V Raman

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This disclosure describes techniques that enable conversational news interaction. Per the techniques, a virtual assistant application that is configured to access the latest news, provides summaries of news items to a user on demand in a hands-free or screen-free manner. The user can skim through the recited summaries, and if a news item of interest is found, access greater detail by engaging in a conversation with the virtual assistant, e.g., by asking questions.

Graduation Hat Microphone For Waterproof Top Port Microphones, Yuyan Hua, Carl Philip Taussig, Shu-Yu Chou, Doug Kenneth Hogue

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Small form factor consumer electronic (CE) devices such Echo Buds and Echo Loop with microphone functions are often required to be waterproof. Integrating waterproof feature at the microphone component level enables consistent audio performance and simplified product design. However, integrating the membrane on the small footprint of the microphone while maintaining the desired audio and water resistance performance has been a big challenge. This paper describes a “Graduation Hat” microphone lid technology to integrate a reactive waterproof acoustic membrane with less than 4dB additional acoustic attenuation compared to the same microphone without the membrane while providing 5atm waterproofing. Thereby enabling …

Stratified Haipin Conductors For Reduction Of Eddy Currents, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Cooling Stamp, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Tripode Joint Key, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.

Double Fork Guide For Heavy-Duty Operating Parts, Verena Blunder

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No abstract provided.