Hewlett-Packard Patent Grants

Security level-based and trust-based recommendations for software components

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966475
A method includes accessing an input representing a software component list for a software product. The software component list contains information for a given software component. The method includes accessing a knowledge base to determine security level parameters and trust parameters for the given software component based on the information. A security level of the given software component is determined based on an evaluation of the security level parameters. A trust of a source of…

Policy management system to provide authorization information via distributed data store

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968238
A distributed policy management (PM) system (e.g., system for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) activities on a network) is provided. Nodes of the PM system may share information of the PM system using a distributed data store (e.g., a multi-master cache). Each node of the distributed PM system may further share information from the distributed data store with other nodes of a corporate infrastructure network by augmenting information in a remote authentication dial-in…

Method and system for facilitating lossy dropping and ECN marking

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968116
Methods and systems are provided for performing lossy dropping and ECN marking in a flow-based network. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow are acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the acknowledgement packets are sent back to the ingress point of…

Systems and methods for identifying correlations of certain scenarios to performance of network communications

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968109
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a set of feature vectors. Each feature vector in the set may comprise feature values for a plurality of features associated with network communications. A first score for a first subset of the feature vectors that have at least one common feature value for a first feature of the plurality of features may be determined. A second score for a second subset of the feature vectors may be determined. The second subset may comprise the first subset…

Configuration of an access point including an internet-of-things (IoT) radio

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968083
Examples described herein relate to configuration of access points including Internet-of-Things (IoT) radio. An access point identifier list is received from a network administration node in a network. Each access point identifier in the access point identifier list is uniquely associated with an access point, which includes an IoT radio. A first rules list is received from the network administration node. Each rule in the first rules list indicates a constraint and access point…

Control of wireless chargers with power lines

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967852
An example device includes a power regulator to provide electrical power to a wireless charger over a power line and a controller connected to the power regulator. The controller is to generate a signal that encodes an allowable power draw of the wireless charger and communicate the signal to the power regulator. The power regulator communicates the signal with the electrical power transmitted over the power line to the wireless charger.

Determination of noise presence in recorded sounds

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967337
In some examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to cause a playback device to produce a sound using an audio file; cause a recording device to record the sound; compare the audio file to the recorded sound; determine, based on the comparison, whether the recorded sound comprises a noise not present in the audio file; and cause, based on the determination, a second recording device to…

Object deformation determination

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967037
Examples of methods for object deformation determination are described herein. In some examples, a method includes aligning a first bounding box of a three-dimensional (3D) object model with a second bounding box of a scan. In some examples, the method includes determining a deformation between the 3D object model and the scan based on the alignment.

System and method for self-healing in decentralized model building for machine learning using blockchain

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966818
Decentralized machine learning to build models is performed at nodes where local training datasets are generated. A blockchain platform may be used to coordinate decentralized machine learning (ML) over a series of iterations. For each iteration, a distributed ledger may be used to coordinate the nodes communicating via a blockchain network. A node can include self-healing features to recover from a fault condition within the blockchain network in manner that does not negatively impact…

Adjust print settings using machine learning

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966640
A method for controlling a printer includes receiving a set of first variables for the printer, determining, using a machine-learning program, one or more second variables based on the set of first variables, and controlling a printer to perform a print job based on the set of first variables and the one or more second variables. The first and second variables may correspond to different types of printer settings. The machine-learning program may determine the second variables using a…

Interrupt latency and interval tracking

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966471
Secure circuitry detects a latency between when an interrupt occurred and when the interrupt was released in correspondence with handling of the interrupt. The secure circuitry detects an interval between consecutive occurrences of the interrupt. In response to either or both of the latency exceeding a latency limit and the interval exceeding an interval limit, the secure circuitry performs an action.

Saturation of multiple PCIe slots in a server by multiple ports in a single test card

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966309
One aspect provides a method and system for saturation of multiple I/O slots by multiple testing ports and verification of link health in between. During operation, the system detects a testing card with a plurality of test ports which are coupled to a plurality of input/output (I/O) slots of a computing device. The system communicates with the plurality of test ports via the plurality of I/O slots. The system generates, by the computing device, a script for each test port, wherein the…

Integrated circuit

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: D1022931

Power allocation to heat a processing chip of a network device

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11960268
Examples discussed herein relate to managing power allocation for devices, such as network devices, with processing chip. In some examples, based on determining that a first temperature measurement of the processing chip does not satisfy an operating temperature threshold, the network device allocates power from a power source to a first heating element of the network device to heat the processing chip & allocates power from the power source to a second heating element of the network…

Liquid electrophotographic ink composition

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11960241
A liquid electrophotographic ink composition is disclosed herein. One example of the liquid electrophotographic ink composition includes a resin, a liquid carrier, a pigment chosen from titanium oxide, and a spacer chosen from barium sulfate, calcium carbonate, clay, magnesium silicate and mixtures thereof, in an amount from 5 to 15 wt. % of the total solids of the composition. A method for making a liquid electrophotographic ink composition is also disclosed herein.

Three-dimensional printing

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958982
A materials kit for three-dimensional (3D) printing can include a powder bed material including electroactive polymer particles including electroactive polymer having a melting temperature from about 100° C. to about 250° C. and a fusing agent including a radiation absorber to selectively apply to the powder bed material.

Selective application of primers

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958306
In an example of the disclosure, a priming lane and a non-priming lane are identified within an image frame to be printed by a printer. A line of molten wax is applied to the roller. The molten wax when cooled is to form a wax ridge upon the roller. The roller having the formed wax ridge is wetted with the primer. The wetted roller is rotated against the substrate to apply the primer. A first width of the wetted roller that does not include the wax ridge forms the priming lane upon the…

Nozzle arrangements

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958293
In some examples, a fluid ejection die includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a plurality of nozzle columns, the plurality of nozzle columns distributed across a width of the fluid ejection die in a staggered manner, wherein nozzles of each respective nozzle column of the plurality of nozzle columns are spaced apart along a length of the fluid ejection die, wherein the plurality of nozzle columns includes a first pair of neighboring nozzle columns that are spaced by a first distance…

Three-dimensional printing

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958110
In an example of a method for three-dimensional printing, a first amount of a binding agent is selectively applied, based on a 3D object model, to individual build material layers of a particulate build material including metal particles to forming an intermediate structure. The binding agent and/or a void-formation agent is selectively applied, based on the 3D object model, to at least one interior layer of the individual build material layers so that a total amount of the binding…

Three-dimensional printing

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958109
An example three-dimensional (3D) printing kit includes a particulate build material, which includes from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % metal particles based on a total weight of the particulate build material. In some examples, the kit also includes a binder fluid, which includes water and a curable polyurethane adhesion promoter in an amount ranging from about 0.5 wt % to about 15 wt % based on a total weight of the binder fluid. The curable polyurethane adhesion promoter is formed from a…