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User Configurable Advertisements Within Video Content, Vahagn Marutyan

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Video content is often interrupted by advertisements. The advertisement is often skipped by users leading to poor ad conversion for ad publishers. This disclosure describes techniques in which a muted small movable ad video frame is displayed concurrently with main video content. The user can move the advertisement window within the video content while the advertisement is being displayed. Further, the video hosting platform can automatically place the ad frame such that it does not obstruct the view of the main content, e.g., by placing the ad frame in top or bottom black bands of the video. If the user …

Multi-Layered Power Module For Vertical Power Delivery Applications, N/A

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Voltage regulators (VR), the source of power to printed circuit boards (PCB) and their components, are typically placed laterally with respect to their loads. A VR is typically connected to its load via a power delivery path that comprises metal planes, vias, decoupling capacitors, etc. Powerful ASICs are energy-intensive, consuming hundreds of amperes. This high power consumption leads to unacceptably high power loss on the lateral power delivery path, leading to other undesirable effects such as high operating temperatures and reduced reliability.

This disclosure describes a PCB design that places the VR directly below its load. A vertical power delivery …

Automatic Adjustment Of Device Volume Based On Context, Supraja Meedinti, Neil Dhillon

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The output volume of a device is usually controlled as a fixed value between zero to a maximum. Unless manually adjusted by a user, the volume of the device output does not vary. In the case of speech output, such constant-volume responses can sound unnatural because human speech typically involves nuanced variations in volume that serve as subtle communicative signals. This disclosure describes techniques to dynamically and automatically adjust the volume of devices such as smartphones, smart speakers, smart appliances, etc. The adjustment is achieved by determining the appropriate level for output volume such that a fixed signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio …

On-Device Assistant To Provide Access To Device Functionality Without Physical Access, Victor Cărbune, Sandro Feuz

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This disclosure describes techniques to access functionality available only on a mobile device such as a smartphone or wearable device via alternate channels when the mobile device is not in close proximity to the user. The on-device assistant is enabled to access mobile specific functionality when the user and their mobile device are in different locations. Comparison of physical locations of the mobile device and user is performed when the user logs into their work terminal or accesses a work device, indicating the user is no longer in the vicinity of the mobile device. For example, the on-device assistant forwards …

Automatic Selection Of Audio Compression For Spoken Commands, Jordan Werthman, Glen Shires

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Voice commands are commonly used for interaction with virtual assistant applications provided via user devices such as smart speakers, appliances, smartphones, etc. When a user provides permission, some voice-enabled applications upload the user’s speech data to a server using lossless compression to enable server-based recognition of the user command. The lossless nature of the transmission can take up significant network resources and receiving a response from the server can take a significant amount of time when the user has a slow network connection. This disclosure provides techniques that enable faster transmission for server-side processing of user speech data while retaining …

Live Head Avatar Using A Single Camera, Per Niklas Enbom, Dillon Cower, Guangyu Zhou, Tarek Hefny

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This disclosure describes generation of a photo-realistic, three-dimensional video of the head of a user using a single mobile device camera. The three-dimensional head video, referred to as an avatar, is live. The video closely resembles the user’s skin texture, and mimics the user’s facial gestures and expressions in real time. The live head avatar is generated and utilized with the user’s permission.

Optimized Pairwise Master Key Identifier Based Roaming For Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 Simultaneous Authentication Of Equals With Wireless Local Area Network Controller Or Access Point, Swapnil Shah, Umesha G M, Sayan Das, Bibek Sahu

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Techniques are described herein for Wi-Fi® Protected Access 3 (WPA3) Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) client authentication and roaming. The validity of a session may be checked before attempting network association with a target Access Point (AP). This solution may avoid a delay in network connectivity when the previous session is invalid, thereby improving network connectivity for SAE based authentication when clients roam across APs.

Text Scanner And Touch Reader For Visually-Impaired Users, Zhenping Cui

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This publication describes a text scanner and touch reader application software for visually-impaired users (e.g., blind or partially blind) that may help them gain a higher degree of independence and privacy. As the visually-impaired user moves a user equipment (UE) around a scene with text, the application software records the scene with text. To aid the visually-impaired user record the whole text of interest, the application software verbally instructs the visually-impaired user on how to move the UE. Once the application software collects an adequate input, it instructs the visually-impaired user to stop recording. The application software uses machine learning …

Network Programming For Performance And Liveness Monitoring In Segment Routing Networks, Clarence Filsfils, Rakesh Gandhi

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Techniques are described herein to define network programming functions for performance and liveness monitoring in Segment Routing (SR) and SRv6 networks. The network programming functions enable probe messages to run at significantly faster rates as punting probe messages to the control plane (slow path processing) and re-injecting them are not required. This enables hardware offloading for Performance Measurement (PM) sessions as well with liveness and PM probes combined. Network programming labels may be allocated from the global SR Global Block (SRGB) for SR Multiprotocol Label Switching (SR-MPLS) by a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller. END functions are defined for SRv6 …

Improving Low-Light Imaging By Using Infrared And Software Interpolation, Kavinaath Murugan, Aaditya Kandibanda

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Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are found in many imaging systems, such as cameras, and can be tuned to receive various ranges of wavelengths of light. In low-visible-light conditions, a camera with a CMOS sensor tuned to visible light, as is common in many portable electronic devices, may struggle to produce clear or detailed images. Likewise, even though a camera with an infrared-tuned CMOS sensor may detect additional information unavailable to the visible-light CMOS sensor in low-visible-light conditions, the resulting infrared-only image would lack an accurate color representation of the scene. Nevertheless, an imaging system featuring a machine-learning computer-aided vision system …

Novel Approach To Store And Use The Rotated Passwords For Authentication For A Privileged Sso In A Distributed Unsynchronized Environment, Saikrushna Samal, Gulshan Vaswani, Srivathsa Rao

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There is a feature developed which would rotate the passwords of privileged accounts. Based on an organization’s compliance policy, the password rotation can be scheduled in an interval of time e.g. every 90 days or can be rotated immediately based on admin actions. As part of password rotation process, the new password is updated in the target system as well as its own primary and backup Credential Vault database. The primary credential vault synchronizes the updated password(s) to backup credential vault(s). While initiating a privileged session for an end user the invention uses the password stored in credential vault and …

Encoding Auxiliary Data Into Raster Images, Sascha Brawer

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In distributed Geographic Information Systems such as web maps, it is common to split large images into raster image tiles. Traditionally, clients request auxiliary data for an image region (such as a pixel position on which the user has clicked, tapped or hovered) by issuing a separate network request for additional information. However, such network round-trips slow down the user experience, particularly on slow or unreliable connections such as mobile networks. What is disclosed is a system and method for encoding auxiliary data into raster images so that remote clients can retrieve small amounts of encoded data without issuing separate …

Cross Personal Area Network Communication By Connected Grid Mesh Network In Lighting Area, Yinfang Wang, Li Zhao, Lele Zhang, Yajun Xia

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Techniques are described herein for broadcast and unicast mechanisms to perform cross Personal Area Network (PAN) communication in a Connected Grid Mesh (CG-Mesh). Neighboring PAN information (e.g., security, PAN, etc.) is stored in a cross-PAN node. A lighting group Identifier (ID) allocation may be used for the broadcast mechanism, and route table creation may be used for the unicast mechanism. This allows a system to meet any lighting timing requirements.

Generating Qr Code Or Bar Code Labels Based On Information From Online Marketplaces For Use On Physical Music Releases To Keep Online And Offline Inventory Synchronized, Armijn Hemel

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A significant part of the global trade in physical music releases, such as vinyl records, CDs, and so on has moved from physical stores to online market places such as Discogs. Many brick and mortar stores also sell their inventory online. Keeping inventory in the physical store and online store synchronized is a challenge, but can be made easier using labels with QR codes or bar codes.

Collaboration Application Proximity Based Guest Wireless Access Provisioning, Adam Schaeffer, Jason Beltrame, Christopher Bogdon

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Techniques are described herein to consolidate existing technologies to allow end and guest users to rapidly self-provision wireless network access via a collaboration application. The users may obtain their own guest wireless credentials before starting to work. The process automatically learns a valid email address for the user through the collaboration application and a wireless connection. The users selects a “provision” option (e.g., button) on a video endpoint, which pushes identity information to the collaboration application to ultimately configure the user. The user obtains the credential details in the collaboration application only seconds later. Through backend configuration, content and network …

Heat-To-Electric Energy Conversion System Using A Heat Pump For Charging E-Vehicles, Verena Schwaiger

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Maintenance System For Changing High-Voltage Charging Cables For Persons Without Special High-Voltage Training, Verena Schwaiger

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Artificial Intelligence Model To Run Dynamic Regressions Based On Git Check-In Summaries To Optimize Product Delivery Time, Vinay Rao, Manjunadh Sridharan, Debaprasad Das

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Techniques are described herein for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based model to drive intelligent and dynamic regressions. The AI model may be based on Git commit messages to reduce end-to-end product delivery time.

Duration Of Image Display In A Slide Show Based On Image Content, Baron Arnold

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This disclosure describes techniques to automatically display images in a slide show for varying durations. With user permission, objects are automatically detected in images that are included in a slide show. The duration of the display of each image during the slide show is determined based on a number of detected objects in the image. For example, the objects can be faces, such that an image that includes a higher number of faces is automatically displayed for a longer time period than an image that includes a lower number of faces. Such dynamic display duration allows images having greater amounts …

Screw Less D Cover And Alignment, Hp Inc

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As premium products target at high end customer and become more popular, the cosmetic gap

between D‐Cover and C‐Cover is drawing more attention. This patent is to Utilize the magnet

array to well‐control the gap in 4 sides. The magnets could also play as the lock mechanism

between LCD and system.

A Method To Correct And Reprint An Image At The Print Device Using A List Of Commonly Made Print Customer Errors, Hp Inc

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Many times a customer walks to their shared printer to retrieve their printed document only to find they

made a common mistake in the print set up. This mistake might include simple things like; image

rotation, image scale, simplex images, number of copies, address orientation on an envelope,

color/monochrome or many others. This mistake would require a customer to return to their desk,

make the necessary corrections, resend the job and then walk to retrieve the job again. This innovation

would allow the customer to quickly identify and fix the issue right at the printer, saving valuable time

and frustration.

Sharing Stored Jobs Between Printers, Hp Inc

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Printers nowadays are going beyond printing only on paper and changing rapidly day by day. Printers are

well integrated in households, enterprise spaces and other areas of businesses. Printer is a useful

product where different branches of engineering comes together and produces a superior technical

product. But like any other technical product, printers too have few limitations or issues to deal with.

When all the components work well, printing is quite a satisfying experience, however reverse is also

true, when some things do not work out as expected and then it can be an equally frustrating experience.

This paper discusses …

Device Location Identification: Software Notifying Nearby User, Via Device Display And Audible Notification, To Contact Admin Or Input Device Location At Display, Hp Inc

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This invention relates to the field of enterprise device support and servicing.

A method is disclosed to allow a service personnel to trigger a device to audibly notify bystanders of a

request for support, in additional to enabling the device to request specific actions from the bystander

(such as “Please, immediately call #555-555-5555 to provide information about the location of this

device.”, or "Please enter the device location, including building, floor, and location on the floor). This

invention requires firmware changes on the device, software changes in the enterprise-device

administrative solution (such as WebJet Admin), potential application/software changes to the …

Artificial Intelligence Model To Run Dynamic Regressions Based On Git Check-In Summaries To Optimize Product Delivery Time, Vinay Rao, Manjunadh Sridharan, Debaprasad Das

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Techniques are described herein for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based model to drive intelligent and dynamic regressions. The AI model may be based on Git commit messages to reduce end-to-end product delivery time.

Rapid Cable Bundle Size Inspection Of Power Over Ethernet Based Communications Cabling, Joel Goergen, Jason Potterf, Chad Jones, George Zimmerman

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Techniques are described herein to allow a user (e.g., installer, electrician, inspector, etc.) to use a tie for a particular gauge wire system to tie the bundle together. A set of markers on the tie may indicate the number of wires that are in the bundle. If the viewing window exceeds the marked bundle size, then the bundle grouping is too large and the wire count must be reduced.

Method For Automatic File Naming Of Scanned Documents, Hp Inc

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When scanning a document, the goal in most cases is to obtain another printed copy. However,

there are many situations in which the user would like to keep a digital copy of the document (e. g., in a

cloud storage service or in the user’s own local device). To this end, the user usually needs to choose and

type a meaningful file name, which makes it easier to find that document again in the future. The task of

choosing and typing a filename is usually tedious and, depending on the number of documents that are to

be scanned, impractical. The …

Advertisement Driven Augmented Reality Navigation In Shopping Malls, Lachlan (Locke) Dunn, Daniel Citron

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Malls and shopping centers employ advertising placed throughout their physical facilities. However, such advertisements often lack any information on the location of the corresponding store within the facility and, consequently, provide no cues regarding how to navigate to the store from the location at which the advertisement is displayed. The techniques described in this disclosure enable an individual to navigate to an establishment upon encountering an advertisement for the establishment within a physical environment. With user permission, an augmented reality (AR) capable device is used to scan the advertisement and locate the advertiser’s store that is closest to the user. …

Adaptive Rendering Of News Feeds Based On Device Statistics, Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes a client-server system for adaptively rendering news feeds on a social networking platform. The rendering is based on (a) server ranked content feed and (b) device metrics. Core services of a client device read the device metrics (radio signal strength, device temperature, CPU usage, available battery percentage, etc.,) and forward them to a feed render priority selector. The feed render priority selector computes a device ranked priority of different format of news feeds and returns the computed value to a feed render engine. Meanwhile, a front end of the client device sends a query to a …

Artificial Intelligence Model To Run Dynamic Regressions Based On Git Check-In Summaries To Optimize Product Delivery Time, Vinay Rao, Manjunadh Sridharan, Debaprasad Das

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Techniques are described herein for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based model to drive intelligent and dynamic regressions. The AI model may be based on Git commit messages to reduce end-to-end product delivery time.

Energy Savings Using Virtual Assistants And Smart Home Appliances, Yuzhao Ni

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This disclosure describes techniques to monitor and control smart home devices through virtual assistants. Use of the techniques can result in substantial energy savings.