LINK MARGIN IMPROVEMENTS USING A VARIABLE PHYSICAL LAYER SYMBOL RATE
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240155711
Various arrangements are presented for increasing a link margin of a wireless audio link. A short-range wireless communication link having a first physical layer (PHY) symbol rate is established between an audio source device and an audio output device. An audio stream is transmitted using the communication link, which includes a connected isochronous stream (CIS) link. A number of packet retransmissions are detected on the CIS. Based on the detected number of packet retransmissions on…
NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240154930
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a packet from a client, the packet having header information including a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, a destination port, a source IP address, and a source port, and wherein the source IP address and source port are associated with the client; selecting a destination virtual machine based on the destination port; modifying the packet by replacing the destination…
Multi-Adaptive Phase-Changing Device Communications
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240154646
In aspects, a base station establishes a wireless connection with a user equipment, UE. The base station determines to include at least a first adaptive phase-changing device, APD, and a second APD in a wireless communication path with the UE. In response to determining to include multiple APDs in the communication path, the base station determines a first surface configuration for a first surface of the first APD and a second surface configuration for a second surface of the second APD.…
Systems and Methods for Monitoring High Charge Levels in Rechargeable Batteries
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240154435
An indexed sequence of bits in a buffer is allocated for tracking a battery charging state. The indexed sequence of bits has a first number of bits. A battery voltage of a rechargeable battery is sampled at a sampling rate. For each sampled battery voltage, the battery voltage is compared with a voltage threshold. A next bit position in the indexed sequence of bits is identified. In accordance with a determination that a comparison result is true, a predefined first value is added to the…
EXPORTING MODULAR ENCODER FEATURES FOR STREAMING AND DELIBERATION ASR
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240144917
A method includes obtaining a base encoder from a pre-trained model, and receiving training data comprising a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing an utterance paired with a ground-truth transcription of the utterance. At each of a plurality of output steps, the method includes: generating, by the base encoder, a first encoded representation for a corresponding acoustic frame; generating, by an exporter network configured to receive a continuous sequence of first encoded…
Camera Assembly with Concave-Shaped Front Face
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240147035
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image…
METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PRESENTING NOTIFICATIONS INDICATING RECOMMENDED CONTENT
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240146985
Methods, systems, and media for presenting notifications indicating recommended content are provided. A notification of recommended content can be provided. An indication that a user device has initiated a casting session with a display device can be received. A request for recommended content to be presented on the display device can be received. A media content item can be identified based on at least one media content item that has been previously selected by a user account associated…
Event Based Recording
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240146866
An electronic device comprises an image sensor, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions for receiving an event recording profile based on configuration data of the electronic device, the configuration data including a location type or a power type; receiving a plurality of images of a scene captured by the image sensor; detecting a trigger event based on one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; in response to detecting the trigger event, identifying an object…
FIREWALL INSIGHTS PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240146695
A computer-implemented method causes data processing hardware to perform operations for training a firewall utilization model. The operations include receiving firewall utilization data for firewall connection requests during a utilization period. The firewall utilization data includes hit counts for each sub-rule associated with at least one firewall rule. The operations also include generating training data based on the firewall utilization data. The training data includes unused…
END-TO-END SPEECH DIARIZATION VIA ITERATIVE SPEAKER EMBEDDING
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240144957
A method includes receiving an input audio signal corresponding to utterances spoken by multiple speakers. The method also includes encoding the input audio signal into a sequence of T temporal embeddings. During each of a plurality of iterations each corresponding to a respective speaker of the multiple speakers, the method includes selecting a respective speaker embedding for the respective speaker by determining a probability that the corresponding temporal embedding includes a…
Rejecting Biased Data Using A Machine Learning Model
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240144095
A method for rejecting biased data using a machine learning model includes receiving a cluster training data set including a known unbiased population of data and training a clustering model to segment the received cluster training data set into clusters based on data characteristics of the known unbiased population of data. Each cluster of the cluster training data set includes a cluster weight. The method also includes receiving a training data set for a machine learning model and…
Interpretable Tabular Data Learning Using Sequential Sparse Attention
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240144005
A method of interpreting tabular data includes receiving, at a deep tabular data learning network (TabNet) executing on data processing hardware, a set of features. For each of multiple sequential processing steps, the method also includes: selecting, using a sparse mask of the TabNet, a subset of relevant features of the set of features; processing using a feature transformer of the TabNet, the subset of relevant features to generate a decision step output and information for a next…
SCALABLE EXACTLY-ONCE DATA PROCESSING USING TRANSACTIONAL STREAMING WRITES
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240143469
A method for processing data exactly once using transactional stream writes includes receiving, from a client, a batch of data blocks for storage on memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The batch of data blocks is associated with a corresponding sequence number and represents a number of rows of a table stored on the memory hardware. The method also includes partitioning the batch of data blocks into a plurality of sub-batches of data blocks. For each…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESSLY PROVIDING AN AUDIO STREAM
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240143272
Features described herein pertain to systems and methods for wirelessly providing an audio stream. When audio that is to be output to an audio output device is associated with an application a set of parameters for modifying an established Connected Isochronous Stream (CIS) of a wireless link between an audio source and the audio output device can be determined and the CIS of the wireless link can be modified based on the set of parameters. The audio that is associated with the…
CONFIDENCE-BASED APPLICATION-SPECIFIC USER INTERACTIONS
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134462
This application is directed to a method for controlling user experience (UX) operations on an electronic device that executes an application. A touchless UX operation associated with the application has an initiation condition including at least detection of a presence and a gesture in a required proximity range with a required confidence level. The electronic device then determines from a first sensor signal the proximity of the presence with respect to the electronic device. In…
RESIDUAL ADAPTERS FOR FEW-SHOT TEXT-TO-SPEECH SPEAKER ADAPTATION
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135915
A method for residual adapters for few-shot text-to-speech speaker adaptation includes obtaining a text-to-speech (TTS) model configured to convert text into representations of synthetic speech, the TTS model pre-trained on an initial training data set. The method further includes augmenting the TTS model with a stack of residual adapters. The method includes receiving an adaption training data set including one or more spoken utterances spoken by a target speaker, each spoken utterance…
CONVERSATION-AWARE PROACTIVE NOTIFICATIONS FOR A VOICE INTERFACE DEVICE
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135914
A method for proactive notifications in a voice interface device includes: receiving a first user voice request for an action with an future performance time; assigning the first user voice request to a voice assistant service for performance; subsequent to the receiving, receiving a second user voice request and in response to the second user voice request initiating a conversation with the user; and during the conversation: receiving a notification from the voice assistant service of…
METHOD FOR SPEECH-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135117
The present disclosure relates to a streaming speech-to-speech conversion model, where an encoder runs in real time while a user is speaking, then after the speaking stops, a decoder generates output audio in real time. A streaming-based approach produces an acceptable delay with minimal loss in conversion quality when compared to other non-streaming server-based models. A hybrid model approach for combines look-ahead in the encoder and a non-causal stacker with non-causal…
Using Memory Protection Data
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135042
The present disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses that are directed to using memory protection data within a computing device. Techniques include allocating regions of a memory for storing application data and protection data. Techniques also include creating a bitmap having bit values corresponding to memory blocks within the allocated regions. The one or more bit values can be indicative of whether application data and/or protection data are present in a memory block. The…
IDENTIFY MALICIOUS SOFTWARE
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134980
A method for identifying malicious software includes receiving and executing a software application, identifying a plurality of uniform resource identifiers the software application interacts with during execution of the software application, and generating a vector representation for the software application using a feed-forward neural network configured to receive the plurality of uniform resource identifiers as feature inputs. The method also includes determining similarity scores for…
