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Supporting Dynamic Network Slicing And Policy Creation For End Devices In Private 5g Networks, Rajesh I. V, Ram Mohan R, Prashanth Patil, Prathap B, Palanivel Murugan M

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Described herein are techniques for handling dynamic slicing requirements of User Equipment (UE) by performing remote activation (e.g., Over-the-Air Provisioning (OTAP)) of the logical profiles captured in the embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) which are created for the different slicing needs in private 5G networks. Also described are techniques for installing policies based on the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a private 5G network and efficiently retaining it during a 5G outage.

Generating A Digest Memorable Highlights From Unstructured Messaging Conversation, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.

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Many social media and photo collection applications offer features to generate a personalized digest of photos or structured text. A digest typically includes highlights of content from a larger collection. Such digest generation and viewing capabilities are not currently available for freeform unstructured conversational interactions, such as those that take place via messaging or chat applications. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically generate a digest of such interactions with permission from the conversing parties. The conversational interactions may contain a mixture of text, images, audio, and video. A user can review and save the digest offline for later personal use, …

Dynamic Adjustment Of Audio Playback Speed, Jonathan Heinberg

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Many applications used for listening to audio provide mechanisms to adjust the speed of audio playback. Due to variation in speaking speeds of speakers in the audio, users often need to keep adjusting the playback speed during playback to achieve a desired speed or have to tolerate listening to the audio at a speed different from their preferred listening speed. Both situations result in a suboptimal user experience. This disclosure describes techniques to standardize the rate of speech in audio to improve a user’s audio listening experience. The standardization of speech can be performed to achieve audio playback based on …

Optimal Block Size Determination For Application Of A Transform For File Compression, Hui Su

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File compression often involves the use of a transform. Prior to applying a transform, the information in the file is converted to the frequency domain to make it easier to compress via the transform. Application of the chosen transform can be performed at different sizes of input data blocks. The rate-distortion (RD) cost, and correspondingly, the speed of the compression process depends on the block size chosen for application of the transform. The techniques described in this disclosure use a trained machine learning model to predict optimal block size for the application of a given transform used to compress a …

Using Unlock Codes Associated With A User Profile To Access Applications, Saptarshi Bhattacharya, Shree Madhavapeddi

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to using unlock codes associated with a user profile to access applications that are available to a user device. As part of the systems and techniques, a profile manager application manages a user profile that governs access to the applications and associates an unlock code to the user profile. The user profile may be associated with a group of users or an individual user and may be configured through an interface of the user device, pre-determined based on a class of user, or retrieved from an existing account with a service provider that …

Predicting Future Glance Behavior From Gaze Pattern History, Michael Keller

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A computing system predicts where a gaze of a vehicle operator (“driver”) will be in the near future to infer driver attention rather than inferring driver attention based on currently detected gaze data, which may be stale by the time the computing system processes the data and infers attention. The gaze may be predicted based on data from a camera that captures an image of the driver’s eyes, head, posture, or other aspects. In some examples, the computing system uses a machine-learned model (ML model), such as a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to predict future glance behavior. The machine-learned …

Vehicle-To-Everything Threat Protection Using Security Intelligence Engine And Multi-Access Edge Computing, Amitesh Shukla, Manish Jhanji, Satish Kumar Mandavilly, Rakesh Mishra

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Techniques are described herein for a threat protection mechanism for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication channels. This includes shared intelligence at the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) function, Security Intelligence Engine (SIE), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, application providers, and external device vendors. It is capable of securing Vehicle User Entities (V-UEs) simultaneously in real time.

Advertising Based On Usage Characterization Of Household Appliances, Ashish Duggal

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This disclosure describes usage characterization of an appliance (or service) within a household and identification of key decision makers associated with the appliance. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission and express consent, use of appliances and services within a household is linked to respective users from within the household. Use of an appliance is identified with the use of voice recognition techniques to analyze voice commands issued via a virtual assistant to respective appliances by different users in the household. An edge connects an appliance to one or more users and indicates usage of the appliance that meets …

Economy Based Backup Mode Trigger, Hp Inc

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In additive manufacturing, the different heat sources used can have limited

lifetimes. When the lifetime of such element is relatively short, it incurs high

losses in the form of wasted builds and reduced yield. In order to reduce these

losses, there may be contingency plans, or “backup printmodes”, that enter into

effect when such a heat source is lost (e.g. a heating lamp burns out).

Printmodes used as backup will typically incur extra costs per layer due to

tradeoffs by design, therefore one should minimize their use as possible, based on

cost optimization. This document describes a method to determine …

Removable Auger For 3d Printing To Allow A Deep Clean For Changing The Printing Material, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of 3D printing machines using plastic or metallic powder to build parts,

like powder bed fusion or binder jetting processes. The automation of these processes requires moving

the powder from the supplies to the printable area. One of the most reliable ways to convey or lift powder

is using an Archimedes screw that is located inside a tube. A problem occurs when the Archimedes screw

should be cleaned, for example, for changing the printing material. The Archimedes screw is usually long

and should be removed through one of the sides of the tube. On …

Multi-Level Hexagonal Patterns As An Optimal Marking Techniques For Additive Manufacturing, Hp Inc

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Today, when we need to mark 3D printed pieces to measure their properties, we typically groove them

with numbers that allow easy human part identification and tracking. While this strategy is very

useful for manual processing, is much less susceptible to be automated as indo-arabic figures were not

designed for automated detection.

There is also another difficulty in the process: the available space is short and we typically use just 2

or 3 figures that do not allow a full part identification.

Method And Tool For Self-Assessment On Material Quality, Hp Inc

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This method is designed to allow anyone perform a measurement of powder quality based on its color in

an easy way. Using a small box for sampling collection and a lid with a specific hole on its surface, the

method provides a solution for a fast analysis of powder quality on‐site. It can be used by any person (no

special skills needed) and it has been proven to be robust and reliable.

The hole is intended to fit with a standard commercial colorimeter. The system creates a flat horizontal

surface that can be read by the colorimeter, a dark chamber …

Archimedes Auto Cleaning System, Hp Inc

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In the 3D system, before printing, powder must be lifted from the powder supply located inside

the Build Unit up to the powder feeding area. To perform this lifting function, a system of two

Archimedes screws enclosed in aluminum extruded tubes rotates to transport the powder up to the

feeding area.

With the introduction of new materials and the option of switching from one to another, it is

important to guarantee that the system is clean from the previous material before loading the new

one to ensure quality and that the printed parts will have the expected mechanical properties.

The …

Print Mode Swap Due To Electrical Feeding Conditions, Hp Inc

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In 3D printing systems, different print modes can be selected with different layer time, and

depending on this print mode selected, the parts could have different properties because depending

a specific print modes, a high amount of energy is needed to fulfill print modes requirements, and

sometimes, electrical feeding system is not enough depending on external conditions.

In this article, we want to explain a system that can swap on the fly between different print modes

depending on electrical grid adopting the best solution for the user.

Automatic Powder Discharge System To Avoid Powder Agglomerations While Loading, Hp Inc

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Powder base technologies and systems which integrate powder as main material to work with,

are more common nowadays. In the following article a system to discharge powder

agglomerations in the discharge hose from a processing station or loading device will be

explained.

Due to some powder accumulations during the loading process where some amount of powder

could remain in the flexible hose, some loading and cleaning processes issues could happen. If

powder accumulates to the hose inlet at the beginning of the component, a severe error could

appear.

Bearing Coating To Improve Fatigue And Lateral Freting Of A Lineal Guided System, Reduce Hertz Preasures And Friction, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of linear guided systems used in 3D printing machines.

Linear guides with bearings can be designed in several forms. Some common linear guides with

bearings use a flat surface with a bearing rolling on top of it, but also can use a linear rod or any

other shape.

For this linear guide with bearings, hertz pressures are critical for fatigue and lateral freating.

Finding a method to reduce this hertz pressures will provide a way to improve performance of the

machine.

This disclosure provides a method an apparatus to reduce that hertz pressures increasing …

Handling Overheating In A Wireless-Communication Device, Chih-Hsiang Wu

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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to handling overheating in a wireless-communication device. A wireless-communication device, e.g., user equipment (UE), includes an overheating manager application. Under certain circumstances in a dual connectivity environment, where the UE is connected to a master node (MN) providing access to master cell group (MCG) and also connected to a secondary node (SN) providing access to a secondary cell group (SCG), a processor of the UE executing the overheating manager application directs the UE to perform operations to mitigate overheating local to the UE. Such operations may include the UE detecting the overheating condition …

Synchronization Of A Slide Presentation And Presentation Video Recording, Ludovic Pierre, Kannan Javaprakasam, David Fan

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A technique is proposed for assisting a user with presenting and recording a slide based presentation on a cloud-content based platform. A document application provided by the cloud-content based platform receives a request to record a video of a slide presentation. During the slide presentation, the document application generates a set of timestamp bookmarks, where each timestamp bookmark corresponds with a slide of the slide presentation document. At the end of the presentation, the video recording terminates and the slide presentation and the recorded presentation video is made available for consumption by one or more viewers. During consumption, the viewer …

Improving Device Servicing Process Via Standardized Codes, Bharat Avasarala Ph.D

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When a device breaks or malfunctions, users typically attempt to get it repaired or replaced by going to a walk-in service shop or shipping it to a servicing facility. Many servicing facilities operate independent of the device manufacturer and employ their own service technicians with varying skill sets. Servicing facilities often employ their own methods and processes to diagnose device problems and subsequently, to repair the device. As a result, the device servicing can vary across facilities or even across technicians within the same facility. This has a negative effect on consistency, quality, and costs of the device servicing experience. …

Crowdsourced Categorization Of Environmental Noise Data By Wireless-Communication Devices, Tajinder Gadh, Marc Stogaitis, Praveen Chandran

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Exposure to noise pollution has been shown to contribute to cardiovascular effects in humans, can cause permanent hearing loss, and can interfere with the enjoyment of indoor and outdoor activities. As a result, there is a great need to aggregate and categorize environmental noise data to help the world both understand noise pollution as well as how to alleviate it.

This publication describes techniques for wireless-communication devices, such as smartphones, to categorize measured environmental noise data to generate location noise level information. For example, a wireless-communication device can categorize measured environmental noise data into a number of different categories utilizing …

Auto-Rotate Videos Only, Haroon Baig

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A computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, camera, tablet computer, etc.) may include an integrated display device (e.g., a presence-sensitive screen) at which a user interface is presented. The computing device may automatically rotate the presentation of the user interface based on an orientation of the display device (e.g., as detected by one or more motion or orientation sensors). For instance, when the display device is orientated lengthwise, the computing device may present the user interface in landscape. Similarly, when the display device is oriented widthwise, the computing device may present the user interface in portrait. In some cases, it …

Detecting Attributes Of User Inputs Utilizing Motion Sensor Data And Machine Learning, Philip Quinn, Michael Xuelin Huang, Shumin Zhai

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A computing device is described that uses motion data from motion sensors to detect user inputs, such as out-of-screen user inputs for mobile devices. In other words, the computing device detects user touch inputs at locations of the device that do not include a touch screen, such as anywhere on the surface of the housing or case of the device. The techniques described enable a computing device to utilize a standard, existing motion sensor (e.g., an inertial measurement unit, (IMU), accelerometer, gyroscope, etc.) to detect the user input and determine attributes of the user input. Motion data generated by the …

Vehicle-To-Everything Threat Protection Using Security Intelligence Engine And Multi-Access Edge Computing, Amitesh Shukla, Manish Jhanji, Satish Mandavilly, Rakesh Mishra

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Techniques are described herein for a threat protection mechanism for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication channels. This includes shared intelligence at the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) function, Security Intelligence Engine (SIE), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, application providers, and external device vendors. It is capable of securing Vehicle User Entities (V-UEs) simultaneously in real time.

Using Sensors To Improve User Interaction With Application Notifications, Victor Carbune, Sandro Feuz

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This publication describes techniques and methods for improving user interaction (e.g., dismissal, expansion) with application notifications on computing devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or smart glasses. The techniques incorporate the utilization of multiple on-device sensors (e.g., a camera sensor, an accelerometer) that can measure various means of user input. The methods as described herein afford users convenient and quick notification interaction options. Machine-learned (ML) models that employ gaze detection, custom gestures (e.g., hand movement, eye clipping), and/or user actions (e.g., shaking or rotating the device) can provide users the ability to expand, individually …

Rebooking Meeting Room When Meeting Room Becomes Unavailable, Marin Georgiev, Stella Schieffer, Philipp Reichart, Holger Flier, Martin Tritschler, Mohamed Hassan, Markus Vill, Stephan Burkhardt, André Meyer

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In organizations with multiple meeting rooms or conference rooms, meeting rooms can become unavailable after a meeting has already been scheduled in that room. The described system can respond to an indication that the meeting room is unavailable by finding another meeting room for the meeting that meets the requirements for the meeting. The system can notify the participants or attendees of the meeting of the new meeting room.

Enhancing Slice Awareness Of 5g Radio Access Network Using Self-Organizing Network, Sushanth C. K, Krishna Prasad Rao, Vivek Sivadas

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Techniques are described herein for enhancing the slice awareness of a Radio Access Network (RAN) using a Self-Organizing Network (SON). This may solve the problem of slice allocation to a gNodeB (gNB), monitor the slice resources of the gNB and the handover of devices which are registered to a slice, and reduce handover time. In addition, the SON may push slicing policies for the gNB such as hardware based slicing, scheduler based slicing, geography based slicing, etc.

Automatic Reservation System For Smart Cars, Kathan Shukla

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A virtual, intelligent, or computational assistant (e.g., also referred to simply as an “assistant”) is described that automatically generates a reservation request at a business or for an event, for one or more identified persons. The assistant accesses a video stream from an electronic device and performs image recognition analysis to identify a number of people within a proximity of the electronic device. The assistant further, based on the image recognition analysis, may determine whether there are any people in the car who may require special accommodations (e.g., handicap accessibility, booster seats, highchairs, etc.). The assistant may, upon a user …

Voice Ui For Multiple Ai Agents, Hp Inc

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We are standardizing UI for multiple voice agents on a PC device with a lightweight Voice App which will

run as a background service on all consumer and commercial PC devices.

A Websocket Independent Real Time Visualization Of High Frequency Telemetry Data, Hp Inc

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With the magnitude of telemetry data constantly increasing, effective data analytics requires efficient,

scalable and multiple representation of data and its dependencies. Telemetry data from printers can be

used in several different ways to enable meaningful analytics.

Profiling Tool For Textile Medias, Hp Inc

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Dye Sublimation printing is a two‐step process, where the ink is firstly applied on a transfer substrate, or

directly onto a fabric, and then passed through a heat‐based fixation system to adhere to the fibers.

During this process the color of the sample is changed by both the sublimation process and the

properties of the target substrate.

In‐printer profiling for such applications is currently impossible due to the difficult nature of loading a

heat processed material back into the printer.

In this paper we propose a tool that allows for the loading of pieces of sublimated fabric in the printer, …