Hewlett-Packard Patent Grants

Pull-print servers

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026406
A pull-print server may include a receiver to receive a print job from a client device. The print job includes a first page and a second page. Further, the pull-print server may include a transmitter to transmit the print job to a printer via a network in response to a reception of a first pull-print request from the printer. The pull-print server may include a controller to receive page count information from the printer upon completion of printing of the first page. The page count…

Chassis cooling resource

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12029016
Example implementations relate to a chassis cooling resource. In some examples, a chassis cooling resource includes a controller, comprising instructions to detect a failure corresponding to a first cooling system of a first chassis coupled to a server rack, and alter settings of a second cooling system of a second chassis coupled the server rack to provide additional cooling resources to the first cooling system in response to the detected failure.

Passive analog bypass for USB peripheral audio devices

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12028671
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) audio device kit includes a USB peripheral audio device and a passive USB-to-analog audio adapter. The USB peripheral audio device includes a USB interface configured to communicatively interface the USB audio peripheral device with a USB host device. The passive USB-to-analog audio adapter is configured to electrically interface the USB peripheral audio device with analog audio equipment via the USB interface.

Hot-swappable no cable touch switch enclosure

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12028662
A system for hot swapping a network switch without disconnecting the network switch connectors is provided. The system disaggregates the switch faceplate network cable connectors from the internal components of the network switch so that the internal switch components may be removed from the switch without disconnecting the switch network cables.

Board to board connectors

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12027791
A board to board connector includes a first male connector and a second male connector. The first male connector includes a first number of pins. The second male connector is aligned with the first male connector and includes a second number of pins. The first male connector is configured to be removably electrically coupled to a first female connector including a third number of pins equal to the first number and the second male connector is configured to be removably electrically…

Setting adjustments based on radar

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12027100
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an output device, a radar, a memory, and a processor in communication with the output device, the radar, and the memory. The radar is to collect position data of a user relative to the apparatus. The memory is to store a threshold. The processor is to determine if the position data of the user exceeds the threshold and to adjust a setting of the output device in response to the position data of the user…

Assigning outlier-related classifications to traffic flows across multiple time windows

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12027044
Systems and methods are provided for combining a multiple sub-time window sampling architecture with machine learning to detect outlier traffic flow behavior which may indicate malicious/problematic network activity. For example, a network device may obtain a sample of traffic flow data during a defined time window. The sample of traffic flow data may comprise information associated with a sampled subset of traffic flows transferred by a network device in the defined time window. The…

Object model encodings

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026923
Examples of methods are described herein. In some examples, a method includes determining a quantity of inner voxels in a canonical direction from each surface voxel of a set of surface voxels of a three-dimensional (3D) object model. In some examples, the method includes generating an encoded representation of the 3D object model, the encoded representation indicating a location of each surface voxel and the quantity of inner voxels for each surface voxel.

Device identifier classification

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026597
An example method can include tracking, by a network device, a plurality of attributes associated with a plurality of unique client device identifiers stored in a tracking table; deriving, by the network device, a training data set based on the plurality of attributes; and generating, by the network device, a plurality of clusters by inputting the derived training data set to an unsupervised machine learning mechanism. The example method can include receiving, by the network device, a…

Predicting service issues

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026475
Examples are described herein for facilitating responses to computing device service requests. In various examples, natural language processing may be performed on a plurality of incoming computing device service requests associated with a plurality of computing devices. A plurality of embeddings corresponding to the plurality of computing device service requests may be generated based on the natural language processing. Based on distances between each of a particular subset of the…

Orthogonal memory lane-based memory management

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026091
A technique includes allocating, by a memory manager, a first region of a memory. The allocation includes selecting a logically contiguous first lane of the memory. The first lane is associated with a first identifier. The allocation further includes selecting a logically contiguous second lane of the memory. The second lane is a child of the first lane, and the second lane is orthogonal to the first lane. The second lane is associated with a second identifier. The technique includes,…

Backing up data for a namespace assigned to a tenant

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026066
Examples described herein are generally directed to backing up and restoring of container clusters. According to an example, the conventional tight coupling between namespaces and tenants is eliminated by providing within a container platform a tenant abstraction for each tenant of the container platform that shares resources of a container cluster. The tenant abstraction for a given tenant includes information indicative of a subset of namespaces of the container cluster assigned to the…

Head-mounted displays

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12025803
In an example implementation, a head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a display, a variable lens receptacle to receive an interchangeable lens, a sensor to retrieve lens information from the lens, and a controller to obtain images that are predistorted according to the lens information, wherein the controller is to display the predistorted images on the display.

Cell analyzers

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12025549
A system includes a microchannel analysis region, a first fluid actuation device, a second fluid actuation device, a sensor, and a controller. The first fluid actuation device is at a first end of the microchannel analysis region. The second fluid actuation device is at a second end of the microchannel analysis region opposite to the first end. The sensor is within the microchannel analysis region between the first fluid actuation device and the second fluid actuation device. The sensor…

Noise cancellation based on airflow generator operational speed

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12025338
In some examples, an electronic device includes an audio output device, an airflow generator to generate an airflow, and a system controller to control an operational speed of the airflow generator. The electronic device further includes an audio controller to generate a noise cancellation audio output based on an indicator of the operational speed of the airflow generator provided from the system controller to the audio controller, and send the noise cancellation audio output to the…

Output tray

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12024386
An output tray for a printer, a printer comprising the output tray, and a kit of parts including the output tray. The output tray comprises a spool, a guide member, and a sheet attached between to the spool and the guide member. The guide member is movable between a stowed and one or more deployed positions. The sheet is deployed from a stored configuration to one or more in-use positions upon movement of the guide member.

Image formation device including a liquid removal belt

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12023942
An image formation device includes a support to support movement of a substrate along a travel path, a fluid ejection device, and a belt. The fluid ejection device is located along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate. The belt is a flexible belt located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device and includes a contact portion to arcuately conform relative…

Virtual precision time protocol clock devices for virtual nodes

Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number: 12019466
A supervisor provides a plurality of virtual nodes. A storage medium stores a plurality of information elements. A controller, which is separate from the supervisor, provides a plurality of virtual precision time protocol (PTP) clock devices. Each virtual PTP clock device corresponds to an information element. The controller uses the information element corresponding to a given virtual precision time protocol clock device to provide a precision time protocol-based time for the given…

Security dominion of computing device

Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number: 12019752
Examples disclosed herein relate to security dominion of a computing device. A management controller of the computing device can access a physical owner token pertaining to a physical owner of the computing device. The management controller can access a security dominion owner token pertaining to a security dominion owner of the computing device. The security dominion owner token tracks accountability for a security feature of the computing device. A security dominion owner associated…

Journal groups for metadata housekeeping operation

Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number: 12019620
Example implementations relate to metadata operations in a storage system. An example includes detecting, by a storage controller of a deduplication storage system, a housekeeping operation to perform updates to data of a set of container indexes of stored deduplicated data; in response to a detection of the housekeeping operation, the storage controller identifying, among the set of container indexes, a plurality of container indexes associated with a particular journal group, the…