Patents Assigned to Lenovo
  • Publication number: 20240172118
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to methods and apparatuses for power saving for a sidelink user equipment (UE). In an embodiment, a method may include: performing candidate sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) detection to select or reselect a synchronization reference source for a sidelink communication with another UE based on at least one of a time period-based condition and a trigger condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jie Hu, Jing Han, Haiming Wang, Min Xu
  • Patent number: 11991690
    Abstract: The present application relates to method and apparatus for flexible uplink transmission on unlicensed spectrum. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives an uplink grant for scheduling uplink transmission; a processor that: determines, based on the uplink grant, at least one candidate starting position in a scheduled time slot for the uplink transmission, wherein a candidate starting position, among the at least one candidate starting position, is determined based on a location of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) symbol; and determines a starting position for the uplink transmission from the at least one candidate starting position based on a result of performing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on the scheduled time slot; and a transmitter that starts the uplink transmission in the scheduled time slot from the determined starting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11991846
    Abstract: A system can include a display assembly that includes a display, a display side, a back side, a frame and a serial bus socket; and a cable clip, removably attachable to the back side of the display assembly, that receives a portion of a cable that includes a serial bus connector receivable by the serial bus socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian William Wallace
  • Patent number: 11991507
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one camera sensor coupled to an information handling device, an image of a location; identifying, based upon analysis of the captured image, at least one user position in the location; determining, using a processor, whether a beamforming setting for a microphone array is optimized for the at least one user position; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the beamforming setting for the microphone array is not optimized for the at least one user position, the beamforming setting to an optimized beamforming setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J Jakes, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler, David Douglas
  • Patent number: 11989567
    Abstract: A method for automatic systems devices rediscovery includes creating a hardware map of hardware components of a computing system at a time when each of the hardware components of the computing system is discoverable. The method includes determining discoverability of each hardware component in the hardware map at a point in time after creation of the hardware map, and in response to determining that a hardware component listed in the hardware map is not discoverable, initiating a reset of the hardware component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: John Scott Harsany, Fred Allison Bower, III, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 11989336
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, on an information handling device, a security level associated with an application window displayed on a display screen of the information handling device; capturing, using a sensor associated with the information handling device, an image of an area in front of the display screen; identifying, based upon analysis of the image, that an individual is present in the image; determining, using a processor, whether the individual is authorized to view the application window based upon the security level; and activating, responsive to determining that the individual is not authorized to view the application window, a privacy filter that obscures content in the application window from the individual. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11989562
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine a device state such as a device error. The instructions may also be executable to, responsive to the determination, load data related to the device state onto a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip or other RFID element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Norton, Robert J. Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
  • Patent number: 11991697
    Abstract: The present application relates to method and apparatus for subband based channel access on unlicensed spectrum. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method comprising: receiving a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling transmission of data on a set of bandwidth portions of a carrier, wherein the carrier comprises a plurality of bandwidth portions; performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) test on the set of bandwidth portions; and transmitting the data on one or more bandwidth portions of the set of bandwidth portions based on a result of the LBT test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu, Bingchao Liu
  • Patent number: 11988832
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to execute a first application (app) to generate a first virtual display for rendering in a first canvas as part of a three-dimensional (3D) simulation. The instructions are also executable to execute a second app to generate a second virtual display for rendering in a second canvas as part of the 3D simulation. The instructions are then executable to concurrently render the first and second canvases at a headset as part of the 3D simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuldeep Singh, Raju Kandaswamy, Andrew Hansen, Mayan Shay May-Raz, Cole Heiner
  • Patent number: 11991008
    Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a remote unit comprising: a receiver that receives, from a base unit, one or multiple downlink transmissions within a channel occupancy time initiated by the base unit; a processor that determines a downlink association set for a HARQ-ACK codebook, excludes one or more downlink slots from the downlink association set based on a predefined rule, and generates the HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the downlink association set, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information bits for the one or multiple downlink transmissions; and a transmitter that transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limted
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11989372
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section; a touch sensor section which is arranged on a screen of the display section and detects touching of a manipulation medium on the screen; a denoising filter part which acquires first detected position data on the manipulation medium on the screen detected at predetermined detection intervals in response to touching of the manipulation medium on the screen, denoises the first detected position data on the basis of the first detected position data and thereby generates second detected position data; and an input processing part which acquires the second detected position data that the denoising filter part generates and makes the display section display a movement locus of the manipulation medium that the manipulation medium is moved on the screen in a state of touching on the screen on the basis of the second detected position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Qiang Yao
  • Patent number: 11990964
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for channel state information report calculation. One method (700) includes receiving (702) configuration information for multiple channel state information reference signal resources. The method (700) includes determining (704) two channel state information reference signal resources of the multiple channel state information reference signal resources to be used for calculating a channel state information report. The two channel state information reference signal resources are received from different transmission reception points, different panels, or a combination thereof. In certain embodiments, the method (700) includes transmitting (706) the channel state information report calculated based on the two channel state information reference signal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling
  • Patent number: 11991103
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method comprises: transmitting coherent information of a communication device; and receiving configuration information for the communication device, wherein the configuration information indicates a plurality of phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) ports assigned to the communication device and is based at least on the coherent information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Hongmei Liu
  • Patent number: 11991648
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a power headroom report. One method includes determining a power headroom report for transmission on a physical uplink shared channel resource corresponding to a configured grant. The method includes transmitting the power headroom report on the physical uplink shared channel resource, wherein: determining the power headroom report comprises determining whether the power headroom report is based on a real transmission or a reference format based on signaling for configured grants and downlink control information received up until a predetermined time before a first uplink symbol of the physical uplink shared channel resource; and the predetermined time is computed based on: a first parameter set to zero; and a subcarrier spacing of an active downlink bandwidth part of a scheduling cell for the configured grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11991647
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: receiving a message that configures a set of resources that each includes a downlink resource or an uplink sounding resource and is associated with an uplink transmission beam pattern; receiving scheduling information for an uplink transmission that is associated with a resource of the set of resources; determining an uplink transmission beam pattern associated with the resource; determining a configured maximum output power for the uplink transmission beam pattern that is based on an antenna array property associated with the uplink transmission beam pattern; determining a transmit power for the uplink transmission based on the configured maximum output power; and performing the uplink transmission using the uplink transmission beam pattern based on the transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Robert T. Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Hossein Bagheri
  • Publication number: 20240160740
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a server that assigns a signature of a server manager to a capsule file encapsulating a program of an extended function of a BIOS and provides the capsule file to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a BIOS storage and a BIOS processor that extracts the program from the capsule file to store the program in the BIOS storage in a case in which validity of the capsule file acquired from the server is confirmed based on the signature, permits execution of the program in a case in which validity of the program is confirmed based on a signature certificate of a user and a signature of the user, and prohibits execution of the program in a case in which the validity of the program is not confirmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Morishige, Ken Sasaki, Kazuya Shibayama, Naoyuki Araki
  • Publication number: 20240163903
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a resource conflict indicator transmission in a sidelink wireless communication system in 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G networks. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: receiving two or more control signals from two or more UEs, wherein one control signal received from each UE within the two or more UEs indicates one or more reserved resources for the each UE; detecting whether there is a resource conflict among reserved resources for the two or more UEs; upon detecting the resource conflict, selecting a transmission resource from a set of resources, wherein each resource within the set of resources is used for a resource conflict indictor transmission; and transmitting, to at least one UE within the two or more UEs, a resource conflict indictor on the selected transmission resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Zhennian Sun, Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Xin Guo
  • Publication number: 20240163963
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for sidelink (SL) communication. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method may include: obtaining, by a remote device, a plurality of SL DRX configurations for SL communication; determining, by the remote device, one or more SL DRX configurations from the plurality of SL DRX configurations for a medium access control (MAC) layer of the remote device; and in the case that there is SL data associated with DRX in the remote device, transmitting the SL data from the remote device based on active time derived in each of the one or more SL DRX configurations. Embodiments of the present application determine three kinds of granularity for SL DRX configuration for broadcast and groupcast communication and propose how to determine SL DRX configuration for three kinds of granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jing Han, Congchi Zhang, Ran Yue, Mingzeng Dai, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20240163027
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback multiplexing. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: receiving, from a BS, a plurality of PDSCHs, wherein each PDSCH is associated with a corresponding PUCCH resource for the UE transmitting NACK-based HARQ-ACK feedback; determining a PUCCH resource for transmitting a NACK for the plurality of PDSCHs in response to at least one PDSCH of the plurality of PDSCHs being incorrectly decoded; and transmitting, to the BS, the NACK on the PUCCH resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Haipeng Lei
  • Patent number: D1027958
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Mori, Moriyuki Tsuchihashi, Nana Kudo, Limin Xiao