Satellite communication with distributed ground stations using a multi-level queue
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218741
The disclosure herein describes using satellites and ground sinks and/or stations for routing IoT device data packets from IoT devices. A target ground sink in range of the satellite is identified and an expected reception (ER) score for the target ground sink is calculated based on ER parameter data and location data of the satellite. A data packet in a first level of a multi-level data structure of the satellite is sent to the target ground sink and, based on an ER threshold exceeding…
Systems and methods for immersion-cooled datacenters
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219736
A liquid-submersible thermal management system includes a cylindrical outer shell and an inner shell positioned in an interior volume of the outer shell. The cylindrical outer shell has a longitudinal axis oriented vertically relative to a direction of gravity, and the inner shell defines an immersion chamber. The liquid-submersible thermal management system a spine positioned inside the immersion chamber and oriented at least partially in a direction of the longitudinal axis with a…
Ultra dense processors with embedded microfluidic cooling
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219734
A processing unit includes a first die and a second die with a microfluidic volume between the first die and the second die. At least one heat transfer structure couples the first die to the second die and is located in the microfluid volume. An electrochemical fluid is positioned in the microfluidic volume to provide electrochemical energy to at least one of the first die and the second die and receive heat from the first die and the second die.
Hinged device having slot defined hinge trajectories
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219723
The description relates to hinged devices, such as hinged computing devices. One example can include a first portion having a first display and a second portion having a second display and a hinge assembly rotatably securing the first and second portions. The hinge assembly can define rotation of the first portion by a first pair of hinge guide pins riding in a first guide track and rotation of the second portion by a second pair of hinge guide pins riding in a second guide track.
Wireless parameter limits for predicted vRAN resource loads
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219395
A method for utilizing computing resources in a vRAN is described. A predicted resource load is determined for data traffic processing of wireless communication channels served by the vRAN using a trained neural network model. The data traffic processing comprises at least one of PHY data processing or MAC processing for a 5G RAN. Computing resources are allocated for the data traffic processing based on the predicted resource load. Wireless parameter limits are determined for the…
CDN optimization platform
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219189
Techniques are disclosed for distributing data in a content delivery network configured to provide edge services using a plurality of service providers. Data indicative of data usage and cost data for the plurality of service providers is accessed. Based on the accessed data, an effective unit cost, multiplex efficiency, and channel utilization are determined for a selected user. A Bayesian optimization algorithm is applied to at least a portion of the accessed data. The content delivery…
Intelligent near-field advertisement with optimization
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219021
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for intelligent advertising with optimization. A first device may determine a scenario for completion with a second device. The first device may receive device signals associated with the scenario. The first device may analyze the device signals based on the scenario with a rules engine. The first device may determine whether the second device is ready to participate in the scenario. In response to…
Playback aware video packaging
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218994
Embodiments of media player technologies include a downloadable URL generation system. An online hosting service receives a request including a media identifier (ID). In response to the request, media items associated with the media ID are retrieved. At least some of the retrieved media items are associated with different playback contexts. A playlist summary is generated based on the media ID and at least one of the different playback contexts. The playlist summary includes at least one…
Copilot for multi-user, multi-step collaborations
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218890
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for sharing with a plurality of users a chat session that uses large language models to provide responses for input messages received for the chat session. The methods and systems provide access to the chat session to the users and update the chat session in response to any changes made to the chat session by any of the users. The methods and systems allow the users to resume the chat session at a future time using the chat session…
System for verifying connectivity in a target computing environment prior to installation of user-specific elements
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218812
Techniques are described for verifying connectivity in a virtualized computing environment comprising networked computing devices having internal endpoints that are configured with operational connectivity to external endpoints. A connectivity test component is configured to execute as a virtual resource in the virtualized computing environment, execute protocol-aware connectivity tests that enable detection of connectivity errors between the internal endpoints and external endpoints,…
Linker structures with minimal scar for enzymatic synthesis
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215121
This disclosure provides electrochemically-cleavable linkers with cleavage potentials that are less than the redox potential of the solvent in which the linkers are used. In some applications, the solvent may be water or an aqueous buffer solution. The linkers may be used to link a nucleotide to a bound group. The linkers include a cleavable group which may be one of a methoxybenzyl alcohol, an ester, a propargyl thioether, or a trichloroethyl ether. The linkers may be cleaved in solvent…
Voltage regulator for computing device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218542
A computing device is provided, including a battery, a processor configured to receive electrical power from the battery via a voltage regulator, and one or more additional electronic components configured to receive electrical power from the battery. The computing device may further include a first current detector configured to detect a total battery discharge current. The voltage regulator may be configured to receive a first analog current signal from the first current detector,…
Using multiple modality input to feedback context for natural language understanding
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217750
Input context for a statistical dialog manager may be provided. Upon receiving a spoken query from a user, the query may be categorized according to at least one context clue. The spoken query may then be converted to text according to a statistical dialog manager associated with the category of the query and a response to the spoken query may be provided to the user.
Unified speech representation learning
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217745
A system obtains a first training data set comprising labeled speech data or both labeled and unlabeled data corresponding to a high-resource data set as well as latent speech representations based on the first training data set. The system trains a machine learning model on the first training data set to learn phonetically aware speech representations corresponding to the first training data set. The system applies the latent speech representations to a transformer context network to…
Notification handling in a user interface
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217725
Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device. Also disclosed in some examples are display…
Image alignment using corner and line features
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217383
Techniques for aligning image content are disclosed. The alignment occurs by concurrently identifying corner and line features and by aligning the images based on those features. As a result, relaxed constraints can be used during the alignment process as compared to constraints that are required when aligning images using only corner features. To achieve these benefits, first and second images are acquired. A first set of pixels that correspond to corner features are detected within the…
Intelligent selection and presentation of people highlights on a computing device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216722
Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on one or more user devices. The user device is monitored to determine a user interest in a person of interest. A set of possible people highlights, with respect to the person of interest is determined. A determination is made as to whether any of the possible people highlights should be suppressed and not presented to the user on the user device. Any people highlights…
Systems and methods for writing feedback using an artificial intelligence engine
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216674
A data processing system includes: a processor; a memory containing programming instructions for execution by the processor; and a network interface for communicating with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine. The programming instructions include an application for generating written content, the application having a function to generate and submit a structured query regarding the written content to the AI engine to generate feedback on an assessed quality of the written content, the…
Book style foldable tablet with stand
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216496
In some embodiments, an electronic device includes a first portion, a second portion, a spine, and a support. The second portion is portion movably connected to the first portion by a hinge. The hinge has a hinge axis, and the spine is connected to the hinge and oriented parallel to the hinge axis. The support is connected to the spine and has a deployed position and a stowed position. The stowed position is abutting the spine and the deployed position is spaced apart from the spine to…
Time to digital converter (TDC) circuit with self-adaptive time granularity and related methods
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216434
A time-to-digital converter (TDC) circuit generates a digital output indicating a time, known as a phase difference, from a phase of the generated signal to a corresponding phase of a reference signal. The digital output is used by the digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to correct for the phase/frequency difference to synchronize the generated signal with the reference signal. In an aspect, an adaptive TDC circuit generates a first digital indication in a coarse mode when the offset…
