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Metadata Driven User Interface Generator Based On Device Type, Jasvinder Bhasin, Ganesha Shankara Bhat

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Techniques are described herein that provide an innovation in which each device type within a system may receive its own metadata in order to draw (e.g., display) and populate user interface (UI) elements. Different device types and their corresponding UI elements (e.g., tabs, tables, columns, etc.) are visible from one devices' list page. This enables the system to scale in multiple device categories (e.g., routers, gateways, endpoints, etc.). The system can be extended to include other device categories that a current product may not be managing.

Testing Code Using Synthetic Data, Dietmar Dorr, Abhayjeet Singh

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Testing of software, e.g., regression testing, is often performed using test or mock accounts, rather than with production data. Use of data from real accounts can provide better testing compared with data from test or mock accounts. However, the use of production data is often not possible, e.g., due to risks of the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII). This disclosure describes techniques that enable software testing to be conducted with production data in a privacy-preserving manner.

Sharing Application States Between Computing Devices, Jeff Pierce

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This publication describes methods of sharing application states (tasks) between computing devices. The methods include steps for invoking options of sharing, determining if applications support sharing, acquiring tasks, presenting saved-task notifications, and synchronizing saved tasks across devices. Through the utilization of these methods, users may access applications at a saved state across multiple devices.

Project Status Tracking Via Integrated Interface, Aaron Zemach, Katherine Meizner, Elliott Malkin, Paul Covell, Kate Schutzengel

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A technique is proposed for assisting members of a project group in managing a project through a cloud-based content platform. A project synchronization service may detect an action associated with a project group has been performed using an applicable platform application. A status update reflecting the performed action may be generated. The status update may be published to a project feed, where the project feed is accessible to each user of the project group.

Detecting Spam Publishers By Serving Honeypot Ads, Walter Bogorad, Will Nelson, Daniel Summerhays

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Click fraud, wherein bots or other unauthorized users click on ads to falsely inflate click-through rates, is a major problem in the online ad industry. This disclosure describes a type of ad, known as a honeypot ad, that is not particularly attractive to humans, but for bots is indistinguishable from a genuine ad. Publishers who employ bots to fraudulently inflate click-through rates, or to misrepresent the popularity of their app or website, are detected when the number of clicks on such honeypot ads are substantially larger than the number of clicks on genuine ads.

Live Streaming Optimizer At Upf Using Intelligent Application And Flow Detection, Ananya Simlai, Rajaneesh Shetty

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With Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in 5G, the User Plane Function (UPF) has moved closer to the end user. This movement, however, has not eliminated the latency incurred to cover the hops to reach the Application Function (AF).

As a result, the internet protocol (IP) core design is of utmost consequence, so that content may be reached with minimal hops. This would imply that service providers would need to incur heavy costs redesigning networks from legacy technology to next generation 5G technology.

A path to this overhaul is needed. The solution presented herein may allow service providers to continue using …

Determining Local Depth From Structured Light Using A Regular Dot Grid, Hart Levy

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to determining local depth, or depth gradients, of a scene from structured light using a regular dot grid pattern and a single receiving camera. A patterned illuminator with a repeating nature provides a structured light that is used to generate depth information. Because any patch of dots can be expected to repeat at a known horizontal distance, an auto-correlation of the image with itself produces peaks along with these repetitions. By finding the disparity from such a peak to its expected location, we measure the local disparity between pairs of patches in the …

Border Gateway Protocol Network Layer Reachability Information Non-Key Data Exchange, Shyam Sethuram, Swadesh Agrawal, Clarence Filsfils, Krishna Muddenahally Ananthamurthy

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Techniques are described herein for encoding non-key data along with each Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) packed in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Update message. This may be useful to increase the NLRI packing efficiency of the Update message when the NLRIs have unique path information associated therewith, or when only a subset of NLRIs have some path information associated therewith. A number of use cases may be employed to take advantage of this mechanism.

Explorative Dialogs And Open-Ended Conversations On Virtual Assistants, Allen Ni, Peng Yang

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Virtual assistant responses are typically utilitarian in nature, e.g., answering a query, completing a pre-defined task, etc. However, a substantial amount of virtual assistant queries are exploratory in nature, e.g., they pertain to personality, knowledge, etc. An interactive dialog that enables extended conversation is suitable for such queries. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a virtual assistant to conduct an informational conversation or explore a knowledge domain with a user.

Intelligent Meeting Graph, Uday Srinath, Alan Gatzke, Kian Shahla, Murray Mar

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Presented herein is a calendaring/collaboration application that displays a meeting graph with pin representation used to represent meeting attendee and room availability in order to facilitate meeting scheduling when multiple locations and time-zones are involved. The application will also suggest best available timeslots based on attendee and room locations.

Monitoring And Reporting The Safety Performance Of Different Models And Versions Of Autonomous Vehicles, Jay Johnston, David White, Abdelmoniem Rezk, Magnus Mortensen

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Presented herein are techniques that enable an administrative authority (e.g., city, municipality, etc.) to determine when a vehicle is under autonomous control, as well as to specifically determine the vendor and software version of the autonomous control system controlling the vehicle. If the vehicle has problems navigating the environment, the details of that problem are reported directly to the administrative authority. Any trending problems detected after a software update to the control systems can be proactively detected and reported to the vehicle vendor and upstream aggregation systems.

User-Tailored Language Training, Marcos Calvo Lance, Joan Pastor

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Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for language training. Language training can be tailored to a user’s skill level in the language. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to learn a user’s skill level in a language based on user communications in the language. Additionally, the one or more machine-learned models can provide tailored exercises to a user based on one or more learning objectives associated with the user.

Automated Interactive Threat Analysis Of It Architectures, Tim Hemel

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Threat modeling or architectural risk analysis (ARA) is a process to find cybersecurity threats in an IT system by analyzing its architecture. Because of the large number of possible threats to consider in such an analysis, it helps to automate it. Automatic application of threat analysis rules gives more consistent results and reduces the dependency on expert knowledge in threat modeling, but asks the threat modeler to annotate the architecture with relevant information. The threat modeler will however still have to know what information to provide. In this disclosure we describe a system that interactively asks the threat modeler to …

Dynamic Onboarding And Management Of Sophisticated Edge Clusters For Industrial Internet Of Things (Iot) Applications, Suresh Sankaran, Umang Tandon

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Certain conventional compute solutions are restricted to resources present in the networking hardware (e.g., routers/switches). However, increasing numbers of edge compute workloads are demanding special requirements with Graphical processing unit (GPU)/tensor processing unit (TPU) support, various in-built Internet of Things (IoT) protocol requirements, high system resources, etc. The techniques presented herein address the market of those specialized edge compute workloads while also extending IoT container orchestration to off-the-shelf devices.

Estimation Of Network Link Capacity Using Particle Filtering, Sebastian Jansson

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In real-time communications (RTC) over the internet (WebRTC), an optimal trade-off is sought between the quality and the latency of transmission. For example, a high-resolution video call requires a large throughput, which can cause congestion at network nodes, in turn resulting in unacceptable call delay. Current RTC protocols use congestion control mechanisms to try to achieve an acceptable quality-versus-latency trade-off. Under certain circumstances, these protocols are sensitive to delay spikes, compensate inadequately for large data packets, lack robustness in situations where media encoders over-produce data, and use test probes that often return inaccurate estimates of network capacity.

The techniques of …

Cloud Document Snooze To Future Date, Damon Seeley

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A method for snoozing a cloud document to a later date and providing reminders to a user to take action on the document. The method allows a user to select an option to receive a reminder or notification to take action on a document at a later time. In addition, the user may select an option to be repeatedly reminded at intermittent intervals to take action on the document. The notifications may be provided with options for actions that the user can take, such as opening the document or deleting the document. The method may use a machine learning model …

Automatic Image Adjustment Based On User Edit History, Bailiang Zhou

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Users have extensive collections of digital photographs and videos available for display on their devices. This disclosure describes techniques to, with user permission, perform automatic modifications and provide automatic suggestions of modifications to digital images in a user’s collection based on previous modifications to images performed by the user. With user permission, the automatic modifications are made to images that have particular characteristics, such as types of image content, similar to images previously edited by the user.

Tutorial First Visit, Verena Blunder

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Automotive Stylist, Verena Blunder

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Reduction Of Clock Frequency To Increase The Service Life Of The Power Module, Verena Blunder

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Hardware-Integration Of The Power Unit External Excitation For Synchronous Machines On The Main Board And Cooler Of The Drive Inverter, Verena Blunder

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Travel Booking Tool With Integrated Event Information And Alerts, Molly Trainor Clancy

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This disclosure describes provision of information and alerts regarding concurrently scheduled events in a travel or activity planning tool. Event information is integrated with the planning tool and enables users to obtain information or receive alerts regarding events that are concurrent with user travel or activity dates. The planning tool utilizes databases that include information about special events, holidays, closures, etc. The planning tool can be accessed via a website, through a virtual assistant, as an application, etc. Alerts of related events are provided to the user at a time of searching for an activity, making a reservation, or at …

Partial Population Weighting For Improving Panel Measurement, Anonymous Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes a system for utilizing a weighting scheme for ensuring that market research panels adequately represent segments of a population on whom large-scale data is available on a social media website. The system also ensures that market-sensitive information about social media users available at the social media website is not revealed to panel partners. A large number of weighting variables, held by the social media website, that have the greatest impact on answers are selected. A principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm is utilized on a dataset associated with all of the weighting variables for the full population …

Transactional Billing Of 3d Printed Parts, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of 3D printing, and in particular, to the approach of paying for

the operation of a 3D printer. As with any industrial machine, 3D printers require a variety of

consumable supplies and parts for printing. The cost of purchasing these supplies can be large

and calculating the cost of final parts based on the usage of these supplies can be difficult.

Servo Motor Shutdown Prediction For 3dmjf, Hp Inc

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Goal for Predictive Maintenance for 3D printing system is to contribute to reduce unplanned

downtime and possible failures, helping the customers save money while building trust. Not all

failure modes can be captured in internal testing owing to variety of usage environments and

usage conditions. For instance, the threshold for specific sensor monitoring might not be

applicable with specific usage conditions for customer(s). In this paper, we describe a process

based on machine learning to predict the lifespan of servo motors (Z-Motor) in terms of number

of layers remaining and generate alarms.

Automatic Part Positioning For Precise Xy Rendering, Hp Inc

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During the process of converting a 3mf to ink drops several discretization/renderings are done. In each step some

information is lost. In the present disclosure an automatic way to orient parts inside jobs in order to minimize the

lost information in the one of the lasts rendering steps is described. Is in this step where the slice (a slice is the result

of discretize the part in the Z axis), that is a 2D image, is discretized to pens resolution.

Innovative Build Envelope Design To Improve Unpacking Prosess, Hp Inc

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Some 3D printing technology works by printing 2D layers of a given thickness one on top of another. For

every layer, a uniform layer of powder is placed in the whole printer’s build bed, and agents are placed

at the specific points which are willing to be melted to form the part. Once the job is finished, it requires

several hours to cool down (depending on the job’s height), so an external natural cooling unit may be used

to allow external cooling, releasing the build unit during the cooling hours. The workflow when using

the natural cooling unit consists in …

Autocalibration Of Cameras For 3d Printing Process Monitoring, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of camera calibration for additive manufacturing devices. Additive

manufacturing is a lengthy process spanning several hours even for small‐scale 3D printing devices. The

capability of a 3D printer to detect any defect in the printing process can save money in terms of materials,

agents and energy. In addition to monitorize the build process, in‐printer cameras can be used to augment

the information or detect build errors. To accurately use these functions, cameras must be calibrated.

A method is disclosed that allows to calibrate the camera installed in the build chamber of 3D printers that …

Structured Pmi Solution, Hp Inc

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A platform providing a growing library of shape descriptors and their associated geometric dimensions

and tolerances and other desired properties along with intended post processing action descriptors that

the digital manufacturing industry may use to facilitate communication between various parties.

Generate Augmented Training Of Physical Objects, Hp Inc

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This idea describes a method to generate training data of physical objects using simulated 3D

models to help generate more robust object classification machine learning models.