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Using Build-In Mic To Detect Airplane Mode By Hearing Background Noise, Hp Inc

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A mobile device such as notebook need to modify its operation in airplane, at least turning off wireless

transmitter. Other operational changes include reduce significantly battery charging rate if AC is

available. That is due to airplane’s limited power capability while airborne.

The current airplane mode is handled manually. The write‐up described to use build‐in mic‐phone for

airplane mode detection. By listening to unique background character inside airplane cabin during

airborne, the notebook device with its build‐in mic can detect airline mode, then adjust device operation

automatically.

Insult Detection And Filtering, Christina Abboud, Jyrki Alakuijala

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Website publishers, search engines, social media service providers, and other online entities need to comply with regulation that requires removal of content that is deemed to be insulting to an individual. This disclosure describes techniques to match and remove text that is similar to insult strings that mandated for removal. One-way hashes of insult strings are used to enable removal of insulting content without exposing the name of the subject of the insult string. Name canonicalization is performed and a semantic fingerprint is obtained using a one-way function.

Browser With Smart Search In Page Button, Benjamin Azose, Kathleen Brennan, Phd

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Web browsers offer find in page functionality to search for a phrase within the content of a webpage. However, this requires the user to access the menu option and type the phrase which is a cumbersome process on smartphones or other devices with small screens and/or limited input capabilities. Per techniques of this disclosure, a readily accessible option, e.g., a displayed button, corresponding to a likely search phrase is provided as part of the browser user interface, thus simplifying the search process. When the user permits, the likely search phrase is determined based on prior searches by the user.

Prefabricated Dome Building With Large Panoramic Windows. Dome Structure Made Of Prefabricated Reinforced Polyurethane Segments. Large Panoramic Windows Made Of Acrylic., Paul Terras

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Prefabricated dome building with large panoramic windows.

Dome structure made of prefabricated reinforced polyurethane segments.

Large panoramic windows made of acrylic.

1. Dome house constructed of prefabricated reinforced polyurethane segments.

10, 12 or 14 prefabricated reinforced polyurethane segments are used to build a compleat dome house. Segments are reinforced with either steel, or composite bars. Reinforcement extensions are designed to be used for segments interconnection, and mounting the segments to the foundation or base. Interconnected rebars are forming stable structure.

Male-female joints are used to connect the segments. Segments are glued together and sealed. One or several segments can be …

Optimized Simultaneous Authentication Of Equals (Sae) Identity Pre-Shared Key (Ipsk), Abhishek Dhammawat, Shreshta Besagarahalli Manu, Namsoo Kim, Mansi Jain

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Presented here are techniques for the residential deployment of common Wi-Fi® services with an optimized Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) Identity Pre-Shared Key (iPSK) flow. The techniques presented herein avoid the use of an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server for clients whose entries are absent through the upfront use of bloom filter information provided by an AAA server. The techniques presented herein can also be used for Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) iPSK optimization or SAE (Wi-Fi® Protected Access 3 (WPA3) personal), which has more latency sensitive call flow due to SAE auth commit timeouts consideration.

Machine Learning Assisted Quick Eyescan (Mlaqe) For Signal Integrity Check, Jim Xu, Sreenivasa Rao Bandlamudi, Ankit Sood, Vinit Bansal, Ravi Eda, Arun Singh

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Presented herein is a quick scan method for signal integrity checks through sampling of four points under certain thermal condition. The techniques presented herein use a machine learning trained model to ensure signal integrity check fidelity.

Directing Users To An Available Parking Spot At An Optimal Location Near The Destination, Adalberto Foresti

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High demand for parking generated by the large numbers of people simultaneously looking for parking within the same area often makes it tedious and difficult to find a parking spot, leading to delays and frustration. Individual drivers typically attempt to find a parking spot closest to an event venue. Finding a parking spot via such an approach requires luck and timing. Many drivers tend to overestimate their luck, thus adding to congestion and wasting more time in the process of finding a parking space. To address these issues, this disclosure describes techniques that use real-time information on available parking spaces …

Segment Routing Policies With Built-In Resiliency, Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Swadesh Agrawal, Francois Clad, Jose Liste, Jiri Chaloupka

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Techniques are described herein to establish hierarchical Segment Routing (SR) policies with built-in resiliency. These techniques increase the scalability of the SR Path Computation Element (PCE) and SR network. Specifically, once such policies are installed by the SR PCE, the SR PCE does not have to take any action in the event of failure. This is an improvement over current approaches, which employ the SR head-end node as a single point of failure.

Smart Dispensers To Optimize Restocking Process, Kenneth M. Schow

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Many businesses need to efficiently restock paper towels in company bathroom facilities. This disclosure describes a smart paper towel dispenser which includes a built-in scale to detect the weight of the paper towel roll and a WiFi/GPS enabled microcontroller. The rate at which paper towels are dispensed and the device location is obtained to assess the number of towels remaining, the number of towels dispensed, and to determine when the paper towel stock is low and needs to be replaced. An alert is provided to the responsible personnel to replace the paper towels. The data can also be used to …

Motion Activated Wireless Reconnection, Jonathan D. Hurwitz

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The time taken from the removal of a laptop or other device from a bag by a user to the establishment of connection to a wireless network can be significant, e.g., ten seconds or more. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce this delay to nearly zero. Per the techniques, upon detection of motion by on-board motion sensors of a device, the device wakes from a sleep state and automatically scans for and connects to a WiFi network.

Bridge Devices For Wireless Projection Of Vehicle Operating Systems, Sriram Viswanathan, Eugene Koh, Haris Ramic, Mickey Kataria, Zhen Yu Song

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Vehicles may provide an infotainment experience that is hosted by a head unit or other computing device. The head unit may execute a native operating system that provides an execution environment in which an operating system client may execute to support execution of a different operating system hosted by another computing device (e.g., a smartphone, laptop computer, tablet computer, etc.). The head unit may require that the computing device physically interconnect with the head unit as the head unit may not support wireless connections (or only support limited wireless connections in the form of bandwidth limited connection – e.g., personal …

Modeling Statistically Significant Propensity Controls, Brian Mulford, Yueheng Du, Colby Ranger

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A mechanism for modeling statistically significant propensity controls in survey lift studies is disclosed. The proposed mechanism establishes a statistically significant control model for organic viewers in order to measure attitudinal shifts and lift from the viewing population. On a high level, audience overlap is measured to find channels that are similar to the channels in an organic video campaign. Active subscribers of the identified similar channels are then used as the non-exposed group, after filtering out those who watched the organic videos. The resulting channels that share viewer audiences are filtered by channel topicality (e.g., electronics reviews, beauty tips, …

System For Automotive Data Management, Carsten Isert, Tobias Haamel, Ram Bulantnikov, John Patterson

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Vehicles may include computing devices, referred to as head units, capable of communicating with mobile computing devices carried by users. A mobile computing device may store or otherwise have access to data. For instance, a mobile computing device may store an address. While it may be desirable for a head unit to have access to data, it may be inconvenient for the user to provide data to the head unit or the user may be reluctant to provide data to the head unit. In accordance with the techniques of this disclosure, a mobile computing device may share at least a …

Intelligent Sim Switching In A Multi-Sim Computing Device, Shivank Nayak, Sooraj Sasindran, Jayachandran Chinnakkannu

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A system is described that enables a computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, etc.) to intelligently determine whether to move a data connection from a default data subscriber identity module (DDS) to a non-default data subscriber identity module (non-DDS) when initiating a voice call or during an on-going voice call on the non-DDS in a multiple subscriber identity module (multi-SIM) computing device based on a current state of the computing device. The current state of the computing device may be determined based on various contextual signals, including data usage for each application on the …

Peeking User Interface For Foldable Devices, Yameng Lee Thorp, Hideaki Matsui

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This disclosure describes techniques to utilize an exposed portion of the display screen of a foldable device in a folded state to display a peeking user interface. Per techniques of this disclosure, a user interface displays selected content on the exposed portion of a display screen when a device is in the folded state. The selected content can include important notifications such as incoming calls, received text messages, contextual information, items that need user attention, etc. The exposed portion of the display screen in the folded state can be utilized to display icons associated with applications that are of likely …

Heightened Security Measures For Marked Applications, Rachel Hausmann, Collin Irwin

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A system is described that enables a computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, a camera, a tablet computer, etc.) to associate an application with a security level (e.g., a high-sensitive level, a middle-sensitive level, a low-sensitive level, etc.), and provide additional security mechanisms (e.g., auto-lock, biometric authentication, password authentication, etc.) to the application based on the security level. A user may set a security level for an application, and the computing device may provide additional security mechanisms to the application based on the selected security level. For example, a user may associate a banking application with a high-sensitive security level, …

Inserting Multimedia Content Captured By One Device Into A Document On Another Device, Thomas Deselaers, Victor Carbune

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Many applications include capabilities that allow users to capture and insert multimedia content into a document by capturing it with the device camera. However, document creation and editing tasks are often performed on traditional desktop or laptop computers on which the camera is typically positioned in a fixed location above the screen. Capturing multimedia content that includes matter other than that located directly in front of the computer screen is awkward and often infeasible. On the other hand, integrating multimedia content captured by another device into a document being edited on the separate device requires a cumbersome and inefficient multi-step …

Suggesting Titles For Audio Recordings, Itay Inbar, Amit Pitaru, Isaac Blankensmith, Dror Ayalon, Tiago Camolesi, Guilherme Santos, James Lemieux, Sherry Lin, Jason Cho

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Techniques of this disclosure may enable a computing device to suggest one or more titles based on the content of audio being recorded or audio that was previously recorded, and other data such as time and location. Rather than applying a general default title or audio file name, the computing device may request authorization from a user to analyze the contents of a recorded audio file and, after receiving explicit authorization from the user, analyze the audio, including speech, and automatically suggest titles that are indicative of the content of the audio and/or other data. The computing device may convert …

Efficient Wireless Network Scans For Computing Devices, Kai Shi, Kumar Anand

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Computing devices increasingly provide wireless network connections rather than wired network connections. In order to support the wireless network connections, the computing devices scan for wireless access points (WAPs) in a number of different ways that may avoid needless consumption of power. For example, the computing devices may support periodic preferred network offload (PNO) scans that enable low-power wireless network scans for so-called “preferred networks” while the primary processor is in a low power (or, in other words, stand-by state). The computing devices may also separately enable roaming scans for switching between WAPs associated with the same wireless network (e.g., …

Gesture Based Activation Of Private Mode, Nabil Shahid

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Applications executing at a computing device may operate in a variety of modes, including a regular mode and a private mode. When operating in the private mode, the application may refrain from storing activity information. For instance, when operating in the private mode, a web browser application may refrain from storing browsing history, cookies and site data, and/or information entered in forms. Similarly, when operating in the regular mode, the web browser application may store, after receiving user authorization, browsing history, cookies and site data, and/or information entered in forms. A user may cause an application to operate in the …

A Method To Provide Print Control Over Heterogeneous 3d Print Buckets, Hp Inc

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How could a company make sure that their intellectual property is being used correctly and according to the

agreements set with Print-Service-Providers (PSP) So far the copyright laws did not catch up to this new 3D print

world and one of the challenges is to enable Content Providers to track the agreements set with PSPs, and allowing

management of thousands of different PSPs printing a variety of models per bucket (3D bed filled with objects to be

printed). Some of these models can have copyright and some not, creating a heterogeneous print bucket. The models

in the bucket may have …

Semi-Auto Reel To Reel Install Of New Web Wipe For 3d Printer And Wide Format Printers, Hp Inc

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To handle the high volume of prints typical to 3D Printing or large format printing, Web

Wipes are at a high frequency installed manually by heavily trained operators. Installing

a Web Wipe is a challenging task that involves the user reaching into the machine from

the front and the top simultaneously. This is very cumbersome and time-consuming,

especially for smaller individuals, and can be very messy getting agent/ink on the user

and the machine. In a production environment the downtime of this task contributes

significantly to the overall operating expense of the equipment.

Identify Print Quality Or Sub-System Degradation Issues For 3d Printers Using Layer Time Analysis, Hp Inc

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One of the core concepts in additive manufacturing is to have accurate powder deposition on bed

with uniform duration throughout the print job. The inaccuracy in job layer duration arising when

some layers take more or lesser than the recommended value, often results in bad part quality issue

or indicate issues with print hardware components.

This disclosure describes a method for improving Print Quality (PQ) and reduce unplanned

downtime (due to sub-system failure) by looking at layer time for the print cycles and figuring if

they are running off the prescribed limits for the material used. Based on this information …

Constant Pressure Valve To Compensate Extraction System Pressure Variations, Hp Inc

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Some 3D Printing technology heavily depends on the internal printing conditions in the

Printing Chamber. One of the most important variables are temperature and pressure.

The first permits to have temperature in a narrow range in order to have powder surface

at constant conditions for printing process. Pressure and pressure distribution inside the

chamber permits defined airflows within this cabinet.

Energy sources may include Fusing Lamps and Top Lamps. As the powder itself has a

particular reflectance, not all the energy is absorbed, but reflected inside the printing

chamber. Additionally, there are other heat sources in order to keep the …

Automatic Arch Recovery For 3d Powder Loading Systems, Hp Inc

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Disclosure to explain an automated system which detects powder low flowability and executes an arch

recovery increasing the powder flow and allowing successful powder loading for 3D systems.

Powder flowability is affected by multiple factors (powder type, recycled powder condition, humidity,

temperature) which alters the loading time and successful loading finish rate. In some cases, and specially

with some powder types such as PA11, it has been observed that the powder gets stuck to the walls of its

container decreasing the flow and increasing the loading times.

To avoid this effect, an arch recovery can be executed once the powder …

A Job Tree Structure To Track Auto Generated Build Envelope Status And Consumption, Hp Inc

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When a 3D printer user wants to print a job and do an external cooling, he needs to indicate this prior

to sending the job to the printer, so the system can behave accordingly to ensure the best part quality

possible. One of the actions of the system consists in generating a build envelope to physically protect

the build content when it is transferred to the external cooling unit. The user always wants to have some

information about all the printed parts, including the autogenerated ones. Thus, we need to provide a

mechanism to be able to track what happens …

Improving 3d Printed Part Quality Using Artifical Neural Networks Of The Generative Adversarial Type, Hp Inc

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The challenges for digital manufacturing today are vast. Challenges like reproducibility and

mechanical properties preservation are crucial. Currently, 3D printed parts are affected by each

build setup. The thermal diffusion occurring in the process affects the final product once it has

cooled down.

Dynamic System To Raise The Build Unit Platform During Uncaking, Hp Inc

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Disclosure to explain a new system that automatically raise the build unit platform during the uncake

operation in a powder Processing Station.

The current system requires the operator to push an up or down button to move the platform during the

uncake when the recycled powder is being vacuum. When the operator pushes the up button, the

platform is being raised to the top position in order to continue the process.

With the system proposed here, during an unpack operation, a laser sensor reads the distance, so it can

calculate when the powder has been removed and the platform could …

Automatic Generation Of 3d Camouflage And Other Patterns, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of 3D printing. We use the colors, patterns, and textures of a terrain

to generate 3D surfaces and objects that are camouflaged in that environment. We can automatically

scan the visual information using cameras, depth cameras, and other visual sensors, or we can work

from photos, videos, or even descriptions. We then generate a 3D model of a surface from this visual

information. This means that a 3D printer deployed in a region can generate on‐the‐fly objects

camouflaged for that region.

External Heating Device To Facilitate Unpacking Process In Powder Processing Station, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of 3D Printing with Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) material. The

process to print parts using this material has very strict timing constraints.

An accessory is disclosed that provides the user more flexibility by preventing the loss of temperature

during the unpack process, leading to enhanced part quality. The system described can be assembled on

the processing station and used during the unpack of TPU parts.