User-equipment-coordination set for a wireless network
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136967
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a user equipment (UE)-coordination set for a wireless network. In aspects, a base station specifies a set of UEs to form a UE-coordination set for joint transmission and reception of data intended for a target UE within the UE-coordination set. The base station selects one of the UEs within the UE-coordination set to act as a coordinating UE for the UE-coordination set and transmits a request message that directs the coordinating UE…
Efficient messaging in a procedure for accessing a communication channel
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137478
Granting access to a communication channel for a user device by a base station includes receiving, from a user device, a request to access the communication channel, the request including a random access preamble and a payload, attempting to decode the payload, selecting a format of a response message in accordance with whether the payload was decoded successfully, and transmitting, to the user device, the response message, including providing an indication of the format of the response…
System and method for scheduling an uplink transmission assignment
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137477
A user device (UE) for scheduling an uplink transmission assignment with a base station that communicates with the user device via a shared carrier, receives, from the base station, a configuration that indicates (i) a first channel access procedure for the user device to perform prior to transmitting an uplink transmission and (ii) at least one occasion at which the user device is to transmit the uplink transmission (1602); receives, from the base station via the shared carrier, a…
Using auxiliary device case for translation
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137331
An auxiliary device charging case is used to facilitate translation features of a mobile computing device or auxiliary device. A first user, who may be a foreign language speaker, holds the charging case and speaks into the charging case. The charging case communicates the received speech to the mobile computing device, either directly or through the auxiliary device, which translates the received speech into a second language for a second user, who is the owner of the mobile computing…
Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137202
Method, apparatus and computer readable media for receiving a multiprogram program transport service that includes one or more compressed video services and one or more 3D-2D conversion options, generating an uncompressed video signal by performing a decoding portion of a transcoding operation for one of the one or more of the video services, determining from the 3D-2D conversion option whether a 3D-2D conversion is to be performed, performing a scale conversion on the uncompressed video…
Indirect transmission of session data
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137147
The systems and methods described herein can enable the indirect transmission of session data between different domains. The system can pass the session data through a hashing function so that the data from a given domain remains private and secure to the specific domain. The system can generate clusters of associated domains for a given client device that the system can use to maintain a session between the client device and the domain.
Methods, systems, and media for recommending content based on network conditions
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137132
In some embodiments, a method for recommending content based on network conditions comprises: receiving, from a first user device, a request to present media content recommendations on the first user device; in response to receiving the request, determining information indicating a user context associated with the first user device and network connectivity information associated with a connection status of the first user device over a communications network; identifying a group of media…
Workload security rings
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137101
A method for workload security rings that includes receiving a plurality of workloads, each associated with respective security criteria and scheduled for execution on a distributed computing system divided into a plurality of security rings each associated with a respective subset of computing devices of the distributed computing system that is physically isolated from the other security rings. For each respective workload, the method includes determining, using the respective security…
Email summary and completion check
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137073
The technology manages message threads. A computing system is configured to detect at least one question in a message thread and to determine if the message thread includes at least one answer responding to the at least one question. From this, the system generates a summary of the message thread based on the detection of the at least one question and the determination of the at least one answer, and outputs for display the summary of the message thread to a recipient of the message…
Real time virtual teleportation in a browser
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12137005
A method including opening a web-based video call in a browser on a first device (145), receiving a request to join the web-based video call from a second device (150), capturing (110), by the first device, a video including a frame (105), segmenting (115), by the first device, the frame, selecting, by the first device, at least one segment (120) of the segmented frame, and streaming (125), directly from the first device to the second device, the video including the at least one segment…
Training keyword spotters
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136412
A method of training a custom hotword model includes receiving a first set of training audio samples. The method also includes generating, using a speech embedding model configured to receive the first set of training audio samples as input, a corresponding hotword embedding representative of a custom hotword for each training audio sample of the first set of training audio samples. The speech embedding model is pre-trained on a different set of training audio samples with a greater…
Speaker embeddings for improved automatic speech recognition
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136410
A method includes receiving a reference audio signal corresponding to reference speech spoken by a target speaker with atypical speech, and generating, by a speaker embedding network configured to receive the reference audio signal as input, a speaker embedding for the target speaker. The speaker embedding conveys speaker characteristics of the target speaker. The method also includes receiving a speech conversion request that includes input audio data corresponding to an utterance…
Segmenting objects by refining shape priors
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136262
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing instance segmentation by detecting and segmenting individual objects in an image. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing an image to generate data identifying a region of the image that depicts a particular object; obtaining data defining a plurality of example object segmentations; generating a respective weight value for each of the example object segmentations; for…
Photo relighting using deep neural networks and confidence learning
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136203
Apparatus and methods related to applying lighting models to images of objects are provided. A neural network can be trained to apply a lighting model to an input image. The training of the neural network can utilize confidence learning that is based on light predictions and prediction confidence values associated with lighting of the input image. A computing device can receive an input image of an object and data about a particular lighting model to be applied to the input image. The…
Validation of modeling and simulation of virtual try-on of wearable device
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136178
Systems and methods for validation of modeling and simulation systems that provide for the virtual try-on of wearable devices, such as glasses, by a user, and for the virtual fitting of selected wearable devices for the user. Wearable fit measurements, display fit measurements, ophthalmic fit measurements and other such measurements associated with the fit and function of the wearable device may be detected from image data capturing the wearable device worn by the user. The detected…
Representing graph edges using neural networks
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136025
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a graph processing system. In one aspect, the graph processing system obtains data identifying a first node and a second node from a graph of nodes and edges. The system processes numeric embeddings of the first node and the second node using a manifold neural network to generate respective manifold coordinates of the first node and the second node. The system applies a learned edge…
Secondary grid plates for optical switching applications
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130475
An optical assembly includes a light source for providing a beam of light, a lens system configured to expand and collimate the beam of light, and a configurable beam injector, wherein the beam injector contains a first grid plate and a second grid plate to block individual beams of light. The first grid plate and the second grid plate may be configured such that each grid plate respectively corresponds to particular MEMS mirrors. The grid plates can be configured to have pathways that…
Systems and methods of debugging delivery of content items
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130719
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media can be used to debug content items. One example method includes presenting, by a mobile application executing on a mobile device, a first application interface. The example method further includes detecting, by the mobile device, a predetermined user action. The example method further includes, in response to detecting the predetermined user action, generating debugging information from content event logs, wherein the content event…
Operating quantum devices using a temporal metric
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130694
Systems and methods for operating one or more qubits in a quantum computing system are provided. In some examples, a method can include obtaining past time data associated with a temporal metric of an operating parameter of a qubit in a quantum device. The method can include selecting an operating parameter value based at least in part on the past time data associated with the temporal metric of the operating parameter to reduce likelihood of occurrence of a time dependent defect. The…
Adaptable workload system
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130693
A method includes determining a cluster reliability of a computing cluster including a maximum computing capacity and representative of a reliability of the computing cluster when utilizing an entirety of the maximum computing capacity. The operations include receiving a provisioning request of the computing cluster including a threshold reliability of the computing cluster. In response to the provisioning request, determining, using the cluster reliability, a reserved computing capacity…
