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Measurements, Medications, And Symptoms Logging Using A Virtual Assistant, Aayush Kumar, Adriana Moisil, Yariv Adan, Andre Elisseeff, Matt Stokes, Sandro Montanari, Alexandru Grigoroi, Myroslava Dzikovska, Alexander Trewby, Joe Swainston

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This disclosure describes virtual assistant based techniques that, with user permission, log medications, symptoms, and measures of health. The techniques offer an easy mechanism for users to document their symptoms, vital signs, health data, etc. For example, a user simply speaks out their symptoms to their virtual assistant to create a log. Vital signs are automatically logged by the virtual assistant (with user permission) using, e.g., sensors and mobile/wearable devices. The techniques enable users to develop a personal health journal that frictionlessly logs activity, sleep, nutrition, heart rate, etc. When enabled, the virtual assistant reminds users of medications to be …

Automatic Calibration Of Wipers To Ensure That An Optimal Force Is Applied To The Printheads, Hp Inc

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The procedure herein disclosed allows the printer to automatically detect with high precision the

point where a non‐rigid moving element (for example, the wiper such as a rubber wipe or a web

wipe subsystem) starts interfering with the nozzle plate as to ensure that the force applied during

the wiping routines stays at the optimal value, avoiding disturbances coming from:

‐ The geometric tolerances of the machine and subsystems. These tolerances cause that the

machines have different distances between the wiper subsystems and the nozzle plate in

each particular machine and wiper.

‐ The geometric tolerances of the consumable. Bare …

Intuitive Mass Event Predictor, Anwin Kallumpurath, Devesh Srivastava, Naveen Nersu, Prakash Suthar

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Presented herein are techniques to learn mass event characteristics using time series data from existing mobile network functions/elements. The techniques presented herein also proactively identify overloaded cells at the underlying network traffic monitoring layer, during run time, based on the associated abnormal execution patterns.

Smart Usb-C Power Source Control, Hp Inc

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The power source can be battery, USB-C adapter and USB-C power bank on NB. User

may plug-in USB-C power bank and USB-C adapter together on host. In normal design,

host will choose the power source from USB-C adapter and charge the USB-C bank

and battery. But users may want to have capability to choose the power source. User

may want to choose power source from USB-C power bank because the output

capacity of power bank is higher. The system can have better performance with higher

capacity power source. We provide a Smart USB-C Power Source Control(SUPSC). It

will consider the …

Software Detection Of Thermally Hot Elements In An Electronic Device, Hp Inc

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A software technique determines hot elements of an electronic device and

controls their power consumption to reduce temperature, without the use of individual

thermal sensors for the elements.

Universal Accessible Closed Captioning And Sign Language, Daniel V. Klein, Joey Gutierrez

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Visual performances often include audio portions, including spoken words. The verbal content can be difficult to hear or otherwise understand for individuals that have hearing impairments or are not fluent in the language of the verbal content. This disclosure provides a solutions to make verbal content of visual performances accessible to audience members. The described assistive techniques utilize a smartphone to present to audience members, closed captions or American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters of the verbal content portion, simultaneously as the audience members view the performance. The translation can be presented as an overlay with a view of the performance …

System Identity With Intent To Mitigate Critical Part Replacement, Chirag Shroff

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Presented herein is hardware fingerprinting technology that provides the ability to detect tampered hardware using a trust anchor. During manufacturing of networking equipment (e.g., routers, switches, etc.), a manufacturer fingerprints the critical hardware elements of a platform/system, such as Central Processing Units (CPUs) and/or Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The fingerprint is stored in the tamper resistant trust anchor. This fingerprint is then examined at every power cycle (and possibly on-demand) to determine whether a critical component has been replaced.

Enhanced Quick-Preview To Show Additional Content Prior To Navigation, Kerstin Kuehne, Melinda Klayman, Jamie Keene

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This publication describes an enhanced quick-preview feature. Some computing devices (e.g., smartphones) offer a quick-preview feature enabling content to be quickly previewed within a popup window without requiring navigation away from a current window or screen of a graphical user interface (GUI). By so doing, these devices provide the user with an opportunity to preview the content before navigating to the content on a different GUI window or screen. The enhanced quick-preview feature described in this publication enables the user to preview additional content also before navigating away from the current GUI. For example, assume that a user selects to …

Floating Type-C Connector Integration With Notebook System Design, Hp Inc

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The USB Type‐C is widely being used in mobile electric product design today, such as in application of phone,

notebook computer as a data, imagine and power supplier I/O Port. Due to the heavily usage of plugin and

unplugging, the reliability is becoming a big concern, such as Wiggle, deformation and crack.

New Usb-C Connector Design For Wiggle Test, Hp Inc

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Customer's feedback: USB type C port has signal interrupt issue when USB-C plug side cable wiggling. We develop one new USB-C connector to solve USB-C signal interrupt issue.

Easy Service And Tamper Proof D Cover Design, Hp Inc

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This disclosure is to provide a solution for these benefits below

~ tamper proof D cover to prevent system components be stolen or hacked

~ Make D cover assembling/disassembling process much easier (save service cost)

As security becomes more and more important, we provide easy serviceable device may induce

customers encounter storage or device be stolen or hacked easily. (e.g. D cover easy to open,

modular device can be removed/replaced…)

Control Mechanism For Fast Role Swap, Hp Inc

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A hardware real-time monitor and control circuit shortens the latency of the

Fast Role Swap ("FRS") feature of USB power delivery so as to meet the 150us

requirement for tSrcFRSwap timing to support faster VBUS slew rates.

Method To Extend Volatile Uefi Variable Across Sx State, Hp Inc

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UEFI policies/variables are maintained across power cycles in faster,

persistent random-access memory of an embedded controller.

Monitor Power Button In Integrated Computing Device Or Platform, Hp Inc

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An additional monitor power button or key allows the monitor of an integrated

computing device or computing platform to be turned off immediately, and independently

of system power.

Voice Recognition Control For Notebooks With Intuitive Interaction By Light Ring, Hp Inc

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A voice recognition control mechanism for a portable computer uses a light

ring embedded around the touchpad in a manner similar to voice-controlled speakers to

provide intuitive operation.

Waterproof Portable Electronic Device, Hp Inc

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A portable electronic device is made completely waterproof by inserting one

portion of the device inside a cavity of another portion of the device, and providing a seal

at the entrance to the cavity.

Facilitating Antenna Switch Diversity For Dual-Connectivity Architectures, Vimalkaushik Natarajan, Eddie Burgess, John Daugherty

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This publication describes systems and techniques to enable antenna switch diversity in dual-connectivity (DC) architectures without employing two switches along a main antenna path. DC can involve using two different wireless technologies, such as a first technology and a second technology. DC architectures include, for example, those that adhere to the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) – New Radio (NR) — Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) protocol. With EN-DC, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connections under E-UTRA for a first technology are expected to abide by antenna switch diversity algorithms to provide access to each of the available antennas. Further, Fifth-Generation (5G) connections …

Phonetic Training Of Spelling Models, Sanjit Jhala, Pratibha Prajapati, Bing Liu, Grant Wang

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This disclosure describes techniques for phonetic training of spelling models for use for spell correction. Phonetic canonicalization is utilized during the training of the spelling model to generate rules that map similar sounding words and portions of words to each other. Phonetic normalization is utilized to reduce the space of phonetic representations. A combination of a textual edit distance and a phonetic edit distance is utilized to score corrected alternatives for a word. The minimum of the textual edit distance and the phonetic edit distance is used as the noisy channel edit distance. Phonetic canonicalization can also be utilized during …

Linking Search Sessions For Query Processing And Result Presentation In Joint Search Tasks, Victor Cărbune, Sandro Feuz

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There are several situations in which two or more users jointly search for online information. In such cases, typically the search sessions of the users are completely independent of each other even though the users are engaged in a joint search task. Such independent and disjoint operation of a task being performed simultaneously by multiple users fails to leverage the collaborative nature of the joint online information search to provide improved user experience (UX) and result quality. This disclosure describes mechanisms for improving the UX, search quality, and search effectiveness for such tasks. The search sessions of the users are …

Prevention Of Oled Display Damage Due To Charge Accumulation, Qi Qi, Yi Tao, Chang Ju Kang

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The disclosure describes techniques to protect an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display by discharging excess charge that gets accumulated on a display module. A conductive coating material is applied from the backside of a cover glass to a metal layer on the backside of the display. With the addition of the conductive coating material, excess charge is discharged through the system ground to avoid damage to the display panel.

Flow Control Using Bandwidth Allocation Strategy In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Lele Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Ling Wei, Xi Wu

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Presented herein are techniques for reduce the risk of transmitting collision in wireless networks. The techniques presented herein use a deterministic bandwidth allocation strategy for a central device (central node). As a result, each neighbor can leverage its own schedule to transmit packets with low risk of collision. The central device spreads schedules via DODAG Information Object (DIO) messages in its neighborhood, while dynamically adjusting distribution, per round, according to predicted traffic of its neighbors. The portion of downward and guest account is determined from the software-defined networking (SDN) controller. The SDN controller can design appropriated ratio for each central …

Providing Online Information Via A Virtual Assistant, Viraj Mahesh

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This disclosure describes techniques for a virtual assistant to provide a response to user queries when the requested information is not available directly via an application programming interface (API) but is available via a website. When a user issues a query for such information, a cloud platform accesses the website, e.g., using an automated web browser, with parameters determined based on the query. The cloud platform parses the resultant webpage to determine the answer to the query and provides the answer to the virtual assistant, e.g., which delivers the response via a voice interface.

Image-Based Slide Presentation Retrieval, Matthew Sharifi

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A technique is proposed for assisting a user with accessing a slide presentation document on a cloud based content platform. A presenter of the slide presentation document provides the slide presentation document to the content platform to be accessed by one or more users. A presentation component of the content platform renders each slide of the slide presentation document as an image and associates a node of an index structure with each rendered slide image. The index structure is referenced by the content platform to identify slide presentation documents. A user transmits a request for a slide presentation document where …

Embedded Proximity Sensor Underneath The Keycap Of Power Button Key In Keyboard For X360 Convertible Notebooks To Prevent Power Button Key False-Trigger In Tablet Mode, Hp Inc

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A mechanism is disclosed here to prevent x360 keyboard's power button key false‐trigger in tablet

mode.

Usb Type-C Port System Power On Security Key, Hp Inc

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As computing device technology advances, system security has become increasingly challenging in

protecting physical system hacking. With advent of new hardware equipment and software tools, even an

unskilled person can gain access the system and instrument a setup to tap in critical buses and capture

password for login one’s account to steal sensitive data. Systems at public place, shared workspace and

lost unit are particularly vulnerable as they could fall under wrong hand. Defending physical attacks in

firmware and software is very difficult as the data can be plucked directly from hardware signals on

system board of the computing device …

Antislip Low-Cost Arrangement To Safely Lift Large Format Printers, Hp Inc

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This document is organized as a “step‐by‐step”guide to reproduce the invention in a correct way.

Battery Cell Self-Discharge Rate Grouping To Enchance Battery Life (Bsgtebl), Hp Inc

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When battery is stored for a period (e.g. stored NB for a period), voltage of each cell in

battery pack will result deviation. Higher the deviation (Delta V = voltage difference)

higher inconsistency of voltage among each cell will be realized and finally leading to shorter battery life. This phenomenon is called “CIM (Cell imbalance)”.

• In order to decrease DeltaV (voltage difference), battery cells will be divided into several groups, then the consistency of each defined group with similar self-discharge rate.

• The general parameters used to group cells are open-circuit voltage (OCV), capacity, impedance.

Self-discharge rate can …

Auto Layout An External Monitor In Extend Mode, Hp Inc

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The technique describes how a program running on a laptop/All‐In‐One computer to use build‐in camera

to detect user facing direction and angle to automatically allocate relative position of external monitor to

primary monitor in extend mode.

Using Single Hotkey To Control Brightness On Notebook, Hp Inc

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Limited Hotkey function support due to there are no enough function keys between

F1 and F12 on keyboard.

 Platform designer can re-design keyboard layout to provide more hotkey space, but

it causes cost up.

 Embedded controller (EC) has capability to identify the behavior when brightness

hotkey is pressed or hold down within a debounce time.

 When brightness hotkey is pressed and then release within a debounce time, this

hotkey event is set as brightness up.

 When brightness hotkey is kept press within a debounce time, this hotkey event is

set as brightness down.

 Depend on …

A Good Method To Turn Off Backlight And Lock Windows By Touching Light Sensor, Hp Inc

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When we leave laptop or desktop, we need to use keyboard or touch panel to lock screen and

system will wait power option setting to turn off display backlight.

We propose good method to use finger to touch light sensor twice quickly to lock your PC and

turn off backlight to reduce system power and keep laptop with security before you leave

laptop.