Patents by Inventor Daryl Cromer

Daryl Cromer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Merging external NVRAM with full disk encryption
    Patent number: 9323956
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for managing a flash drive, hard disk, or connection between the two, in a manner to ensure that sensitive data is not decrypted at any time when it would be vulnerable. Accordingly, in a first implementation, the data may preferably be encrypted as it first goes into a flash drive and decrypted when it comes out of the flash drive. In another implementation, the flash drive may be logically bound to the hard disk, so that they would both use the same encryption key. In yet another implementation, if a hard disk is moved to another system, then the flash drive may also preferably be simultaneously moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David C. Challener, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker, Randall S. Springfield
  • Gesture control
    Patent number: 9304591
    Abstract: An apparatus includes sensor circuitry configured to sense spatial phenomena; application circuitry configured to respond to sensation of a spatial phenomenon by the sensor circuitry where a pre-existing relationship exists between the spatial phenomenon and the response of the application circuitry; and regulation circuitry configured to regulate the response of the application circuitry to the spatial phenomenon based at least in part on sensation of a different spatial phenomenon by the sensor circuitry. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Daryl Cromer, Axel Ramirez Flores, Harriss Christopher Neil Ganey, Jay Wesley Johnson, Howard Locker, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Secure tap to transfer objects
    Patent number: 9271108
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting two devices are proximate to one another utilizing a device component; comparing received device motion information to a predetermined motion; and after matching the received device motion information to a predetermined motion, transferring an object between the two devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Richard Wayne Cheston, Randall Scott Springfield
  • APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR TOUCH INPUT
    Publication number: 20150331498
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for touch input. An apparatus for touch input includes a display and a touchpad that does not overlap the display. The touchpad has an absolute input mode and a relative input mode such that a location of a cursor within the display is controlled by input received while the touchpad is in an absolute and/or relative input mode. The apparatus also includes a sensor module and a display module. The sensor module detects an input object within a sensing range of the touchpad. The display module presents the cursor at a location within the display based on the input object. The location of the cursor within the display is determined according to the input mode of the touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Steven Richard Perrin
  • TASK SCHEDULING IN BIG AND LITTLE CORES
    Publication number: 20150261579
    Abstract: One aspect provides a method including: identifying a task to be scheduled for execution on an information handling device having a big core and a little core; in a state where the big core is available, scheduling the task for execution on the little core using a core signature for the task; directing the task to the little core for execution based on the scheduling; and executing the task on the little core. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • Combination power and data connector
    Patent number: 9093798
    Abstract: An aspect provides a combination power and data connector, including: a dedicated power connector element; and a combination data connector element separate from the dedicated power connector element, the combination data connector element providing a combination of pins for two data transmission protocols. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Joseph Michael Pennisi, Richard Wayne Cheston, David William Higgins, Thomas Kenneth Tobul, Jr., Jon Wayne Heim, Qihua Xiao, DeHong Meng, Zhigang Na, Zhang Jianhui
  • SWITCHING AN INTERFACE MODE USING AN INPUT GESTURE
    Publication number: 20150169218
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product are disclosed for presenting an interactive interface on an electronic display of an information handling device, the interactive interface comprising a plurality of modes, receiving an input gesture from a user, the input gesture detected along a surface of the information handling device by a gesture detector, and changing a mode of the interactive interface in response to the received input gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • INTELLIGENT MESH OBJECT LIST BUILDUP
    Publication number: 20150117419
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: establishing a connection between a first device and a second device, the first device thereby joining a mesh network to which the second device is connected; obtaining, at the first device, identifying information for a plurality of devices of the mesh network; accessing information accessible to the first device to determine a device ranking among the plurality of devices of the mesh network; after determining a ranking, obtaining information from a ranked device regarding objects available from the ranked device; and creating, using a processor, a list of available objects on the mesh network; wherein the list of available objects is ordered taking into account the objects available from the ranked devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Richard Wayne Cheston, Randall Scott Springfield
  • SECURE TAP TO TRANSFER OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20150118966
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting two devices are proximate to one another utilizing a device component; comparing received device motion information to a predetermined motion; and after matching the received device motion information to a predetermined motion, transferring an object between the two devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Richard Wayne Cheston, Randall Scott Springfield
  • Setting a rate of data transmission in a peer-to-peer mode
    Patent number: 9021121
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are presented for a maximum speed criterion for a velocity gesture. The apparatus includes a processor, a memory, a determination module and a transmission module. The determination module determines, through a wireless communication infrastructure mode, an amount of wireless network activity. The transmission module sets a rate of data transmission in a peer to peer mode based on the amount of wireless network activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Philip John Jakes
  • SYSTEM-WIDE HANDWRITTEN NOTES
    Publication number: 20150049009
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: ascertaining user input to a display screen forming a predetermined shape associated with system-wide note taking; determining, using one or more processors, user input note data associated with the predetermined shape; and providing, in a predetermined location, a note including the user input note data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Karen Ruth Kluttz, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker, Aaron Michael Stewart, Michaela Rose Case
  • INFORMATION HANDLING DEVICE HANDWRITING CLEAN-UP
    Publication number: 20150022462
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, handwriting input; identifying, using one or more processors, one or more characters included in the handwriting input; modifying one or more of the one or more characters included in the handwriting input to match penmanship; and rendering, on a display device, the handwriting input including one or more modified characters. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Aaron Michael Stewart, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Michaela Rose Case
  • SMART TAGS FOR CONTENT RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20140372455
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: storing an object; obtaining data associated with the object; analyzing, using one or more processors, the data associated with the object to identify one or more key words in the data associated with the object to create one or more tags; and storing the one or more tags in a searchable format. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Rod D. Waltermann, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • CONTEXTUAL SMART TAGS FOR CONTENT RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20140372467
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, at an information handling device, user input search data; accessing contextual data; refining, using one or more processors, the user input search data based on the contextual data; searching, using one or more processors, a repository of stored tag data with refined user input search data to identify one or more stored tags matching one or more stored objects; and returning, using one or more processors, one or more results of the searching, the one or more results indicating one or more stored objects associated with stored tag data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Rod D. Waltermann, Daryl Cromer, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Diskless client using a hypervisor
    Patent number: 8898355
    Abstract: An arrangement for facilitating remote booting in diskless client systems as just described. To this end, there is broadly contemplated herein the employment of a hypervisor that can freely accommodate a variety of booting arrangements for a given OS. This then ensures that few if any modifications, especially costly ones, would need to be made to the OS to ensure greater versatility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Randall S. Springfield, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Variable power systems for computers
    Patent number: 8892911
    Abstract: Arrangements which provide a degree of flexible power allocation among multiple power rails in computer systems, in a manner to permit the sharing and exchange of power across multiple rails. The rails involved in such sharing could be of similar or dissimilar voltage. By way of an advantageous refinement, a “shopping cart” approach for system configuration is permitted, based on subsystem or component power capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Albert V. Makley, Marc R. Pamley, William F. Martin-Otto, Daryl Cromer
  • INTUITIVE TOUCH GESTURE-BASED DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN DEVICES
    Publication number: 20140292669
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a network device, data from a source device and a user identification derived from a user device; storing, at the network device, the data from the source device; detecting, at the network device, a request from a destination device, the request from the destination device comprising a request for data derived from gesture input and associated with the user identification derived from the user device; and transferring, from the network device to the destination device, the data from source device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, John Weldon Nicholson
  • Optimizing communications throughput in a wireless networking environment that supports a plurality of communications channel topologies
    Patent number: 8811293
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for optimizing communications throughput in a wireless networking environment that supports a plurality of communications channel topologies that include identifying a plurality of clients having wireless network adapters supporting disparate channel bandwidths in the wireless networking environment, and periodically switching from one communications channel topology to another communications channel topology in dependence upon the supported channel bandwidths of the adapters of the identified clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Octaviano, II, Daryl Cromer, Philip J. Jakes, Howard J. Locker
  • COMBINATION POWER AND DATA CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20140194008
    Abstract: An aspect provides a combination power and data connector, including: a dedicated power connector element; and a combination data connector element separate from the dedicated power connector element, the combination data connector element providing a combination of pins for two data transmission protocols. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Joseph Michael Pennisi, Richard Wayne Cheston, David William Higgins, Thomas Kenneth Tobul, JR., Jon Wayne Heim, Qihua Xiao, DeHong Meng, Zhigang Na, Zhang Jianhui
  • Transformer case for notebook slate computer with wireless keyboard
    Patent number: 8730669
    Abstract: An approach is provided that uses a foldable transformable display case that includes two panels. The two panels are attached using a hinge. Two components are attachable to at least one of the panels. One of the two components is an integrated display screen. Another component is a keyboard unit. At least one of the components can be removed from the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Liu Jun Feng, Qian Ying Wang