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Intent-Aware Human Motion Interpretation, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The central challenge of camera-based gesture input in video meetings is distinguishing deliberate interaction gestures from the natural hand motion that accompanies speech. This paper describes a system that meets that challenge through an intent classification engine evaluating kinematic, temporal, postural, spatial, and speech-aligned features over sliding temporal windows. Qualified gestures pass to a gesture-to-structure transformation pipeline that produces clean, labelled diagram elements—not freeform ink—and renders them as first-class shared content within the conferencing platform, visible to all participants in real time, without requiring specialised hardware.

Interaction Claim Standard, Brian Harber

Defensive Publications Series

Independently implemented systems increasingly produce, exchange, and interpret claims about AI interactions: what participated, which interaction the supporting evidence concerns, and how far an assertion reaches. Where no shared requirements govern these claims, agreement on their meaning across implementations remains incidental rather than normative—each implementation may interpret the same assertion differently.   This document defines the Interaction Claim Standard, a standard for expressing and interpreting claims about AI interactions across independently implemented systems. It standardizes four normative objects: claim semantics, interaction-specific evidentiary binding, claim boundaries, and normative interpretation requirements. Together, these establish cross-implementation agreement on the meaning of claims, their evidentiary …

Integrated Clamp Interface For Joining Mjf Additively Manufactured Components To Non‑Mjf Structural Members, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an integrated fastening architecture that enables direct attachment of Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) additively manufactured components to structural elements manufactured from other materials. The solution uses a clamp geometry incorporated into the MJF component, a guided fastening mechanism, and controlled mating faces. The design enables rapid assembly, repeatable retention performance, and non-permanent attachment while minimizing additional hardware. Unlike adhesive bonding, interference fits, or external clamps, the approach separates assembly torque requirements from retention-force generation, improving manufacturing robustness and reducing sensitivity to torque variation. Figure 1a, Figure 1b, and Figure 2 illustrate representative fastening concepts and the screw-held …

Rubber Foot Speaker, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure proposed on repositioning the speaker from internal (inside the chassis) to the external surface. The design incorporates the use of rubber foot with speaker into a single component.  The intention of this idea is to reduce the impact of vibration from the speakers and eliminating the rattling issue when installed internally. The idea also promotes sound quality, flexibility and cost reduction.

Server Tray Guide Tool With Anti-Tilt And Winged-Edge Features For Rack Installation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract

A guide tool assists with the installation of server trays into data center racks. Constructed from, for example, stainless steel, peek polymer, alumina, and ceramic, the tool is inserted into a rack slot before the server tray to spread the rack’s internal separators. This action creates an unobstructed path, enabling the tray to be seated smoothly and with reduced force. The tool’s design includes winged edges that function as both an insertion stop and a handle for removal. A stepped feature on one end of the tool prevents it from tilting during installation in slim shelf racks. The design …

Expand Iserialnumber In Usb Device Descriptor To Include Configuration Information, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents a modification to the iSerialNumber field in the USB Device Descriptor to include additional configuration information that manufacturing can use. Printer configuration frequently requires devices to be fully booted up for the manufacturing software to query the configuration.  This approach improves the manufacturing process by providing the needed device configuration at USB device enumeration time.  The manufacturing software can then take the appropriate actions without the need to wait for fully boot up.

Intent-Driven Orchestration For Enterprise Cyber-Physical Systems: Bridging Probabilistic Planning And Deterministic Actuation, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an intent-driven orchestration architecture for enterprise cyber-physical systems that bridges generative, probabilistic, or agentic planning and deterministic device actuation. A non-executing, domain-aware planner converts high-level intent into a candidate graph of typed, idempotent Atomic Tool calls, but does not invoke tools or control devices. A deterministic orchestrator executes only graphs that pass four deterministic validation gates covering schema, governance, semantic correctness, and Device Twin-based simulation. Device Twins provide cached state for deterministic simulation, guard evaluation, binding resolution, and observability, but are not consumed by the Planner and are not authoritative for write-path success. Atomic Tools perform semantic …

Domain N Plus X Redundancy And Dynamic Thermal Management For High-Density Compute Domains, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a system architecture for managing high-density compute domains to address thermal and power constraints while facilitating continuous maintenance operations. The system utilizes an N plus x redundancy model for compute units and network switches, where supplemental units are managed as spares in varying low-power states. A central management controller orchestrates power steering and workload migration, aiming to adhere to designated power budgets while avoiding thermal hardware damage. This approach allows for ongoing service availability during hardware repairs and software updates without performance degradation.

Keywords: high-density compute domains, dynamic thermal management, workload migration, power steering, system redundancy, …

Dynamic Exponent-Mantissa Repurposing For Adaptive Microscaling (Demr-Am) Architecture, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

This publication details a hardware architecture and data processing methodology for dynamic exponent and mantissa repurposing, tailored to facilitate adaptive microscaling within machine learning accelerators. The described methodology addresses the quantization errors and memory bandwidth constraints that frequently emerge during the deployment of large-scale artificial intelligence models. By dynamically repurposing redundant exponent bits into additional mantissa bits specifically for outlier values within a given tensor block, the system dramatically enhances numerical precision without expanding the core memory footprint of the data block. A dedicated hardware decoder can be positioned immediately prior to a dot-product engine to re-route electrical signals and …

Agentic Knowledge Graph Engine With Continuous Evolution And Hybrid Semantic-Structural Embeddings For Intelligent Data Extraction, Knowledge Creation, And Retrieval, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

An Agentic Knowledge Graph Engine (AKGE) is disclosed that provides a complete, continuously evolving knowledge lifecycle managed by a multi-agent autonomous architecture. The system comprises a data extraction layer receiving heterogeneous input sources, a schema-enforced knowledge graph storage layer with native temporal versioning and audit lineage, a hybrid embedding module fusing semantic, structural, contextual, and schema-constrained representations into dynamically updated entity embeddings, a continuous evolution engine responding to event triggers including query failure, embedding drift, conflict detection, and new data arrival, and a hybrid retrieval engine combining multi-hop graph traversal with approximate nearest-neighbor vector search. A specialized multi-agent ensemble — …

System And Method For Structured Queue Folder Management Of Print Jobs, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents a system and method for managing print queues as a persistent, hierarchical structure of folders, subfolders, and job records within production printing environments. Unlike conventional flat-list queue models, the disclosed approach preserves semantic relationships among related print jobs throughout the entire execution lifecycle, enabling group-level operations—such as print, pause, resume, cancel, and prioritize—to be applied coherently to collections of jobs without requiring individual job manipulation.

A central queue manager maintains a hierarchical model composed of folder nodes, subfolder nodes, and job nodes, each carrying metadata such as priority, state, sequencing policy, media requirements, and device constraints. A …

Hybrid Proactive And Reactive Voltage Set-Point Adjustment For Processor Power Maximization, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The disclosure is directed to a hybrid control system that adjusts a processor’s voltage set-point by combining proactive workload analysis with reactive hardware feedback. A power performance policy uses feedback from an analog droop detector to reactively adjust the operating voltage, increasing it for stability or gradually decreasing it during stable operation to reduce power use. Concurrently, workload recognition software establishes a minimum voltage floor based on the predicted demands of upcoming tasks, setting the floor higher for high dynamic range workloads and lower for sustained workloads. A hardware-level mechanism also directly throttles the compute element to prevent timing violations …

Hardware-Level Protocol Proxying For Dynamic-Capacity Memory Systems, Vadlamudi Venkata Girish

Defensive Publications Series

Hardware-level protocol proxying (HLPP) resolves latency conflicts between a host’s transaction timers and the analog wake-up of power-gated, dynamic-capacity memory in compute express link (CXL) systems. The architecture decouples the host’s error-containment domain from the memory’s physical wake-up domain using one of three distinct hardware mechanisms. One approach involves a CXL switch performing dynamic topological hot-swapping, which routes initial memory requests through an isolated, high-latency virtual path and atomically swaps to a low-latency production path after the memory awakens. In another method, a CXL memory controller performs protocol spoofing by sending synthetic shadow completion packets to the host to repeatedly …

Cultivating Civility: A Multicomponent Approach To Reducing Workplace Incivility In An Assisted Living Facility, Sanam Bral, Kaylyn Chang, Catherine Dinh, Sanjil Kumar, Truc Mai Moon

Master's Projects and Capstones

Workplace incivility remains a common challenge in healthcare, negatively affecting communication, staff well-being, and the quality and safety of resident care. Baseline survey findings from a faith-based assisted living facility in Southern California identified concerns related to workplace incivility, psychological safety, and gaps in staff knowledge of available reporting resources. This project aimed to reduce workplace incivility by improving staff knowledge and recognition of uncivil behaviors, with a target of at least 90% staff training attendance among nursing, assistive nursing, and medical technicians, and 80% attendee-reported high confidence level (agree or strongly agree) in recognizing incivility and understanding reporting options. …

Fireready Oc: Developing A Public Health Protocol For Wildland-Urban Interface (Wui) Fire Events In Orange County, Christian Andre O. Gequillo, Allyson Hayakawa, Selin Erdogan, Natalie Albarran

Master's Projects and Capstones

Objective/Problem: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires expose communities to a greater number of hazardous pollutants than traditional wildfires and can pose significant health risks; however, Orange County does not have a standardized public health protocol to address WUI fires. A review of the literature identified the need for standardized WUI fire guidance that is focused on improved preparedness and response. Aim: The FireReady OC quality improvement project aimed to develop an evidence-based public health protocol to improve Orange County’s public health preparedness and response for WUI fire events from 0% to 10% during the 12-week period from May 27, 2026, to …

Improving Nursing Adherence To Chg Bathing And Pivc Maintenance Practices To Reduce Hospital-Onset Bacteremia In An Adult Medical-Surgical Unit, Mohabat Barikzai, Dinazar Altamirano, Edward Rivas, Sarah Trilles

Master's Projects and Capstones

Preventing hospital-onset bacteremia (HOB) is a healthcare priority given its association with increased morbidity, mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and healthcare costs. Literature identifies inconsistent adherence to evidence-based practices for chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing and peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) maintenance as a modifiable risk factor for HOB. This quality improvement (QI) project evaluated whether implementing standardized nurse education, routine compliance audits, and performance feedback would improve adherence to evidence-based CHG bathing and PIVC maintenance practices. The project aimed to achieve at least 90% nursing compliance with HOB prevention practices over an intended 8-week implementation period. A pre-post quality improvement design was implemented …

Food For Thought: Building Confidence In Healthy Food Choices Among Seniors In A Residential Facility Through Nutrition Education, Amy Rodríguez

Master's Projects and Capstones

This quality improvement project evaluated the effectiveness of a 10-week nutrition education program designed to improve nutrition knowledge and confidence among independently living older adults residing in a low-income senior housing community. Aim By August 10, 2026, this project aimed to increase average nutrition knowledge and confidence scores related to selecting nutritious foods and preparing healthy meals by 20% among senior housing facility residents. Methods A microsystem assessment, literature review, SWOT analysis, fishbone diagram, and GANTT chart were completed to guide project development and implementation. Weekly nutrition education workshops were conducted over a 10-week period and included presentations, group discussions, …

In The Loop: Delivering Consistent, Compassionate Communication At Every Step Of The Ed Journey, Karina Basilio

Master's Projects and Capstones

Objective: Nearly 70% of patients in the emergency department (ED) at Hospital X are never roomed and instead wait in the main waiting area for evaluation, results, or disposition. Frequently, without structured updates on their plan of care, expected wait time, or next steps. This communication gap leaves patients feeling forgotten and disengaged from their own care. It is associated nationally with lower satisfaction, increased anxiety, and higher rates of patients leaving without being seen. Context: Hospital X is a mid-sized, community-based acute-care hospital in the Bay Area, California, serving a diverse patient population, with an ED that …

Breaking The Silence: Standardizing Routine Intimate Partner Violence Screening At A Community Clinic Serving The Latinx Community, Victoria M. Hall

Master's Projects and Capstones

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the Latinx population disproportionately due to socioeconomic status, cultural stigma, and language barriers. However, routine screening remains inconsistent and unstandardized at a local community clinic in San Francisco’s Mission District, despite evidence-based practices recommending it. The gap in IPV screenings across the Adult, Teens, and Women’s clinics resulted in only 1.6% of patients being screened in July 2025 and 4.1% in June 2026. This quality improvement project aimed to address low screening rates by standardizing IPV screening through a printed bilingual screener, a 60-minute staff in-service on IPV and the new screening protocol, and by …

Beyond The Tremor: Building Interdisciplinary Confidence In Parkinson's Disease Management Through Structured Education, Roya Oreo

Master's Projects and Capstones

Abstract

Objective: Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is commonly seen in skilled nursing facilities (SNF). Gaps in knowledge among clinical staff regarding PD-specific care have resulted in negative outcomes such as delayed medication administration, unmet activities of daily living (ADL) needs, restricted mobility, and dissatisfaction with care from residents and family members. At a 55-bed SNF in Northern California, clinical staff self-reported 60% confidence in their ability to care for and manage residents with PD. This reflects a need for structured, evidence-based education, specific to Parkinson’s Disease. Aim: This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to increase the …

Nourishing Confidence: Empowering Seniors To Make Healthy Food Choices, Ina Patricia Bangawan

Master's Projects and Capstones

Objective This quality improvement (QI) project evaluated the effectiveness of a 10-week nutrition education program designed to improve nutrition knowledge and confidence in making healthy nutritional choices among independent older adults living in a low-income senior housing community. Aim By August 10, 2026 the goal of this project was to increase average nutrition knowledge and confidence scores related to selecting nutritious foods and preparing healthier meals by 20% among senior housing facility residents. Methods A microsystem assessment and gap analysis, literature review, SWOT analysis, fishbone diagram, and GANTT chart were completed to guide the project development and implementation. Weekly nutrition …

Steady Steps: Building Confidence In Parkinson’S Disease Care, Jerlyn T. Nicdao

Master's Projects and Capstones

Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder that greatly impacts one’s quality of life due to its worsening progression and impact on cognitive and physical functions. Objective: The purpose of this quality improvement project is to strengthen staff confidence and competence in caring for residents with Parkinson’s disease (PD) living in a skilled nursing facility. Aim: Clinical nurse leader (CNL) students aim to increase staff confidence and competence in PD care from 60% to 75% over a six-week period, from June 18, 2026, to July 30, 2026. Method: A total of thirteen interdisciplinary staff members (e.g. registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, …

Standardizing Gestational Diabetes Group Education In An Outpatient Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project, Nina Prieto

Master's Projects and Capstones

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) requires timely and consistent education to support effective self-management and reduce maternal and fetal complications. Baseline assessment of an outpatient maternal-fetal medicine clinic identified variation in educational materials, teaching approaches, referral processes, scheduling, and workflows across English- and Spanish-language GDM group visits. This quality improvement project aimed to standardize the group visit process and increase staff compliance with standardized materials and workflows from 0% to 50% over a 12-week period. Data were collected through direct observation of group and individual education sessions, stakeholder feedback, review of existing materials, referral and attendance patterns, and workflow analysis. These …

Improving Sleep Assessment Compliance On A Medical-Surgical Unit, Cassandra Nguyen

Master's Projects and Capstones

Poor sleep in the hospital is linked to more pain, more opioid use, delirium, slower healing, and longer hospital stays. A required Enhanced Recovery Medicine (ERM) sleep assessment is meant to help, but it is not always documented. On a 25-bed medical-surgical unit in a large integrated health system in northern California, only 75.8% of eligible days had this assessment documented before noon at baseline (March 30 to April 28, 2026). The plan has three parts: bedside sleep champions on the day and night shift, staff education during shift huddles supported by an education flyer, and weekly audits through the …

“Now Serving… Not Quite Yet”: Improving Waiting Room Experience Through Consistent Communication In The Emergency Department, Juan Carlos Serrato

Master's Projects and Capstones

Context: The quality improvement project was implemented in the front-end microsystem of a 36-bed emergency department (ED) in a non-profit, Magnet-designated California hospital. Problem: Communication with non-roomed patients at Hospital X was inconsistent, contributing to dissatisfaction. In June 2026, Press Ganey reported that 61.4% of patients felt they were informed about delays. Baseline observation identified gaps in staff explanations of estimated wait times, next steps in care, and opportunities to ask questions. Intervention: A 30-day pilot provided staff education on the AIDET communication framework through formal in-service education and daily huddles. Patient-facing materials explained the ED process …

The Co-Parent Trap, Daniel F. Bousquet

Brooklyn Law Review

At the same time, a more dynamic method for identifying and protecting unenumerated rights has lacked a normative foundation. That gap has left rights such as same-sex marriage, sexual privacy, and abortion open to the charge that the Court protected them based only on individual justices’ morality. This charge is false. Doctrinally, dynamic due process is constrained by equal protection principles and triggers only rigorous rational basis review. This modest standard leaves majorities free to pursue nearly any interest besides morality standing alone or what courts have called animus.

Sffa’S Slippery Slope: Doctrinal Creep And The Erosion Of Dei, Madeleine Goedicke

Brooklyn Law Review

The Court suddenly departed from forty years of affirmative action case law in SFFA, appearing to hold that race can no longer be used as a factor in higher education admissions policies. This Note analyzes the SFFA opinion and the case law it relies on to illustrate the sudden departure from precedent case law while pointing out important exceptions within the opinion that would permit consideration of race in admissions. Regrettably, the SFFA decision has been invokved by litigants seeking to improperly expand the scope of its holding, encompassing the removal of DEI programs from K–12 and higher education institutions. …

Family Matters: Granting Legal Status To Non-Abusive Parents Under Sijs, Ava Hansen

Brooklyn Law Review

Immigration and family are central to American society, with family reunification long recognized as a core principle of United States immigration policy. Family-based preference visas reflect this priority. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) provides a pathway to lawful permanent resident status for immigrant children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned by one or both parents. However, individuals who obtain legal status through SIJS are permanently barred from petitioning on behalf of their natural or prior adoptive parent. This restriction applies to children’s non-abusive custodial parents and leaves children who have obtained SIJS vulnerable to having that parent deported due …

A Democratic Defense Of Dynamic Due Process, Miranda Mcgowan

Brooklyn Law Review

The Supreme Court has purported to vindicate democracy when it has deferred to majorities and refused to protect new unenumerated rights and liberties. Nothing could be further from the truth. An originalist or traditionalist method for identifying protected rights and liberties chains us to a discriminatory past. It bakes in a history of discrimination and political exclusion, skewing the set of individual rights that check majority power today. Originalism and traditionalism, in short, confound democratic legitimacy.

Tax Equity In The Era Of Paid College Athletes, Kathryn Kisska-Schulze, Adam Epstein

Brooklyn Law Review

This Article examines the growing use of narrowly tailored state income tax exemptions as a tool to attract elite collegiate athletic talent, focusing on Arkansas’s amended Student-Athlete Publicity Rights Act. Situating this development within the constitutional frameworks of the federal Equal Protection Clause and state uniformity provisions, it analyzes both the economic motivations and legislative intent underlying such policies. As name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights and emerging revenue-sharing models continue to reshape college athlete compensation, states are increasingly pursuing innovative strategies to maintain the competitiveness of their public institutions. Arkansas has emerged as a first mover in this space, …