Xerox Corporation

Fritz F Ebner

Aaron Zachary Borden

Matthew David Levesque

Tse-Kee Chan

Francis Kapo Tse

Nagesh H Narendranath

Matthew Dylan Coene

Donald James Curry

David Birnbaum

Andrew J Aikens

Matthew Leigh Puccini

Raja Bala

Shen-Ge Wang

Doron Kletter

Michael Robert Furst

Tonya L Love

George Cunha Cardoso

James Bruce Campbell

Timothy M Hunter

Jason Slack

Michael Kerrigan Hawes

Scott A Bennett

Lee Roche

Stephen F Linder

Scott Charles Warner

David Russel Sponable

Shelly D Sulenski

Peter Charles Rapley

Abhisek Dey

Karthik Subramanian

Raviteja Gunda

David Rivshin

Lonnie A LaFave

Steve Beers

Robert P Loce

Reiner Eschbach

Ramesh Nagarajan

John C Handley

Douglas N Curry

Leon C Williams

Peter A Crean

Clara Cuciurean-Zapan

Robert Roy Buckley

Daniel Davies

Yeqing Zhang

Asghar Nafarieh

Bryan R Dolan

Yves Hoppenot

Michael Branciforte

Shu Chang

Zhenhuan Wen

John Albert Wright

Lina Fu

Daniel J Stark

M Kerrigan Hawes

Janine Marie Gates

Bradley W Smith

Ronald C Macera

Luong N Ta

Edward E Ewer

Marty S Maltz

Ronald F Chapuran

Sue Mikolanis

James D Richar

The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes determining whether the one or more interactions correspond to one or more authentication interactions related to the virtual authentication lock and granting, in response to the one or more interactions corresponding to the one or more authentication interactions, access to the secure service.

Multi-factor authentication via mixed reality

A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.

Wireless location tracking tag for monitoring real time location-tracking apparatus for an electronic device

A method of estimating indoor location of an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device will detect multiple Wi-Fi signals, each of which originates from a unique Wi-Fi access point in a building. For each of the signals, the system will determine an access point device identifier and a signal strength indicator, retrieve location coordinates for the access point; and various candidate constants to apply to a distance calculation for determining a distance from the electronic device to each of the access points. The system will repeat the distance calculation multiple times for each of the various constants and determine which constant minimizes a loss value. The system will identify a set of coordinates of the electronic device that are associated with the constant that minimizes the loss value, and then use the coordinates to estimate a location of the electronic device within the building.

Method of estimating indoor location of a device

The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes determining whether the one or more interactions correspond to one or more authentication interactions related to the virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes granting, in response to the one or more interactions corresponding to the one or more authentication interactions, access to the secure service.

A system of determining a distance between a mobile electronic device and an obstacle in an environment includes an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The computer-readable storage medium includes one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the electronic device to obtain from a camera of a mobile electronic device one or more images of one or more obstacles in a surrounding environment, and apply a convolution neural network to one or more of the obtained images to generate a one-dimensional array of depth perception estimates. The array includes one or more angle-distance pairs. an angle value of each angle-distance pair represents an angle of one or more of the obstacles relative to the camera. A distance value of each angle-distance pairs represents an estimated distance between the camera and one or more of the obstacles at the corresponding angle of the angle-distance pair.

Methods and systems for sensing obstacles in an indoor environment

A system of determining a location of a mobile electronic device in an indoor environment includes an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium having one or more programming instructions. The system determines an initial position of a mobile electronic device in an indoor environment and an initial heading of the mobile electronic device, initializes a set of particles, determines a relative location of the mobile electronic device, detects a move associated with the mobile electronic device, creates a subset of the set of particles based on the move, determines a distance between the relative location and a nearest obstacle that is encountered along a path. The system filters the particles in the subset, estimates an actual location of the mobile electronic device, and causes a visual indication of the actual location to be displayed to a user via a display of the mobile electronic device.

Indoor positioning system for a mobile electronic device

A system of identifying end-user processes in a print environment receives job data corresponding to jobs that have been processed by one or more print devices in a print environment over a time period, and identifies a plurality of processing operations initiated by a user during the time period. The system determines whether the plurality of processing operations comprise a scan processing operation that was performed after a print processing operation and within a second time period from performance of the print processing operation. In response to determining that the plurality of processing operations comprise a scan processing operation initiated by the user that was performed within the second time period from a print processing operation, the system generates a digital representation of an end user process that includes the first processing operation and the second processing operation, and presents a visual representation of the end user process for validation.

Methods and systems for automatically detecting and validating end-user print-related processing using print device information

A system, method and device for automated association of a device and a power meter. For example, the method includes determining a power profile for a power meter, determining device-specific power information for each of a plurality of devices, comparing the device-specific power information for each of the plurality of devices against the power profile for the power meter, determining, based upon the comparing, which of the plurality of devices is associated with the power meter, and recording the power meter and its associated device in a network management record. The techniques may be extended to include associating multiple multifunction print devices to one of a plurality of power meters based upon power log and job arrival information for the print devices as compared to power profile information from the power meters, thereby providing for automated associated of the devices and the power meters without unnecessary human interaction.

Method and system for automated association of devices with electricity meters

A system of tracking a location of a print device in an environment. For each of one or more users of a print device during a time period, the system identifies an event that is initiated at the print device over a network where the event is associated with the user and a print job, and determines whether the user is registered with the location tracking system. In response to determining that the user is registered with the location tracking system, the system determines a login location of the user, determines whether the login location is current, and in response to determining that the login location is current, stores the one or more location coordinates in a data store such that they are associated with the print device. The system estimates a location of the print device, and provides the location of the print device to an asset management system.

Location tracking system for networked print devices in an environment

A method and device for calibrating a power model for a multi-state device. The device includes a processor and a computer readable medium containing instructions to instruct the processor to perform the method. The method includes receiving a device state log comprising a time-based representation of multi-state device states for a first period of time and a power trace comprising a time-based representation of power consumed by the multi-state device for the first period of time; eroding the device state log to reduce potential noise present at state transitions within the device state log, thereby producing an eroded device state log; determining energy consumption for each state transition in the eroded power state log; creating an updated power model for the multi-state device based upon the eroded power state log; and storing the updated power model in a non-transitory computer readable medium operably connected to the multi-state device.

Method and device for calibrating and updating a power model

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Fritz F Ebner