Patents by Inventor James Stephen Rutledge
James Stephen Rutledge 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).
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Patent number: 10097614Abstract: A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Lenovo PC InternationalInventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10025915Abstract: A method including receiving sensed information corresponding to a contact signature of a user holding a device, generating a contact signature from the sensed information, comparing the contact signature to a library of contact signatures, and authenticating the user based on the comparison to provide access to functions on the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Lance Warren Cassidy, James Stephen Rutledge
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Patent number: 9569164Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a central display with private secondary displays. The apparatus includes a central information handling device and a secondary generation module. The central information handling device generates a central image for a central display. The central display is in communication with a plurality of secondary devices communicating with a plurality of secondary displays. Each secondary device communicates with a distinct secondary display. The secondary generation module generates a secondary image for two or more of the secondary displays of the secondary devices. The central display is viewable concurrently by users of each secondary display.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Howard J. Locker, James Stephen Rutledge, Aaron Michael Stewart, John David Swansey
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Patent number: 9323756Abstract: An electronic device receives a stop position tag that indicates a stop position within first electronic content which is a first sensory type. The electronic device identifies a start position within second electronic content using the stop position tag. The second electronic content is a second sensory type that is different than the first sensory type. In turn, the electronic device executes the second electronic content at the identified start position. In one embodiment, the first sensory type is an auditory sensory type and the second sensory type is an image sensory type.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard Locker, William Fred Keown, Jr., James Stephen Rutledge, Kenneth Scott Seethaler, Randall Scott Springfield
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Patent number: 9285969Abstract: An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, James Stephen Rutledge, Song Wang, John Miles Hunt
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Patent number: 9195276Abstract: Embodiments provisioning various electronic devices with optical user input devices having one or more optical sensors are described. Embodiments broadly contemplate expanding the functionality of current user input devices through use of a variety of optical sensors in a variety of configurations, as described further herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Harriss Christopher Neil Ganey, Yang Jinping, Jay Wesley Johnson, Julie Anne Morris, James Stephen Rutledge, Bradley Park Strazisar
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Patent number: 9094532Abstract: A method includes sensing a local environmental condition, receiving an electronic communication message, sensing a local microphone signal level associated with the communication message, and issuing a notification if the local microphone signal level exceeds a threshold associated with the local environmental condition. In such a method, an electronic communication may be a telephone call, a video call, a text message, a message communicated via a short message service, a message communicated via a multimedia message service or other type of message. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Axel Ramirez Flores, Bradley Park Strazisar, Howard J. Locker, James Stephen Rutledge, Julie Anne Morris, Matthew Price Roper, Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin, Yi Zhou
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Publication number: 20150161368Abstract: A method including receiving sensed information corresponding to a contact signature of a user holding a device, generating a contact signature from the sensed information, comparing the contact signature to a library of contact signatures, and authenticating the user based on the comparison to provide access to functions on the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Lance Warren Cassidy, James Stephen Rutledge
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Patent number: 8855687Abstract: A device and method include detecting signal strength received at a mobile cellular communication device. A dropped call is detected between the device and another device as a function of detected signal strength. The dropped call is reconnected when detected signal strength reaches a selected first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard J. Locker, Axel Ramirez Flores, Bradley Park Strazisar, James Stephen Rutledge, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin, Yi Zhou
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Patent number: 8816989Abstract: An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, James Stephen Rutledge, Song Wang, John Miles Hunt
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Publication number: 20140237407Abstract: An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, James Stephen Rutledge, Song Wang, John Miles Hunt
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Patent number: 8686958Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for dynamically zoning a touch screen environment. The apparatus includes an identification module detecting a number of users around a perimeter of a display, a zoning module generating, via a processor, a plurality of user zones in response to the number of users detected, and a positioning module orienting a gesture zone, within each of the plurality of user zones, in relation to a corresponding user. The method includes detecting a number of users around a perimeter of a display, generating, via a processor, a plurality of user zones in response to the number of users detected, and orienting a gesture zone, within each of the plurality of user zones, in relation to a corresponding user.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: James Stephen Rutledge, Howard Locker, Kenneth Scott Seethaler, Randall Scott Springfield
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Publication number: 20140002374Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: accepting touch input exceeding a touch detection threshold at a touch sensitive surface of a device; displaying content on a touch screen display of the device; and selecting text of the content displayed on the touch screen display while detecting a pressure input which exceeds a pressure threshold greater than the touch detection threshold. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Miles Hunt, John Weldon Nicholson, James Stephen Rutledge, Song Wang
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Publication number: 20130314364Abstract: An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, James Stephen Rutledge, Song Wang, John Miles Hunt
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Publication number: 20130295895Abstract: A device and method include detecting signal strength received at a mobile cellular communication device. A dropped call is detected between the device and another device as a function of detected signal strength. The dropped call is reconnected when detected signal strength reaches a selected first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Howard J. Locker, Axel Ramirez Flores, Bradley Park Strazisar, James Stephen Rutledge, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin, Yi Zhou
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Publication number: 20130262629Abstract: A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 8509852Abstract: A device and method include detecting signal strength received at a mobile cellular communication device. A dropped call is detected between the device and another device as a function of detected signal strength. The dropped call is reconnected when detected signal strength reaches a selected first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard J. Locker, Axel Ramirez Flores, Bradley Park Strazisar, James Stephen Rutledge, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin, Yi Zhou
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Patent number: 8452877Abstract: A method includes receiving an IP address via a non-IP protocol communication interface, the IP address associated with an operating system environment established on a computing device; storing the received IP address in memory; responsive to a cessation of communication via the non-IP protocol communication interface, accessing the IP address stored in memory and transmitting the accessed IP address via an IP protocol network interface; and receiving information via the IP protocol network interface, the information issued by the operating system environment established on the computing device associated with the IP address. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 8398246Abstract: An exemplary method includes defining an environment, formulating an anti-keystoning algorithm based at least in part on the defined environment, projecting a laser image from a source to a surface of the defined environment, determining at least one vector parameter with respect to the source and the surface and correcting the laser image based on the anti-keystoning algorithm and the at least one vector parameter. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: James Stephen Rutledge, Andreas Schupp, QianYing Wang, Fang Xu
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Publication number: 20120235922Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a central display with private secondary displays. The apparatus includes a central information handling device and a secondary generation module. The central information handling device generates a central image for a central display. The central display is in communication with a plurality of secondary devices communicating with a plurality of secondary displays. Each secondary device communicates with a distinct secondary display. The secondary generation module generates a secondary image for two or more of the secondary displays of the secondary devices. The central display is viewable concurrently by users of each secondary display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.Inventors: Howard J. Locker, James Stephen Rutledge, Aaron Michael Stewart, John David Swansey