Patents by Inventor Suzanne Marion Beaumont

Suzanne Marion Beaumont 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).

  • Patent number: 11176141
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, at an input component of an information handling device, user input comprising one or more words; identifying, using a processor of the information handling device, an emotion associated with the one or more words; creating, using the processor, an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; storing the emotion tag in a memory; analyzing one or more emotion tags; and modifying an operation of an application based on the analyzing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 11138971
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an audio receiver of an information handling device, user voice input; identifying, using a processor, words included in the user voice input; determining, using the processor, one of the identified words renders ambiguous a command included in the user voice input; accessing, using the processor, context data; disambiguating, using the processor, the command based on the context data; and committing, using the processor, a predetermined action according to the command. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Hamilton Wetsel, Jonathan Gaither Knox, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 11048736
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving from a user, at an input device of an information handling device, user object search input including at least one search term; accessing, using a processor, tag information of a plurality of tags associated with stored user objects; determining, using a processor, at least one modification to the user object search input to change results produced by the user object search input based on the tag information; and providing search results according to the at least one modification. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Russell Speight VanBlon, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Jonathan Gaither Knox, Peter Hamilton Wetsel
  • Patent number: 10997183
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: accessing, using a processor, a user profile based on user context information, wherein the user context information utilizes user device events; preparing, using the processor, a list of items based on the user profile related to a particular time period organized according to importance based on the user profile; and presenting, using the processor, the list of items related to the particular time period. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Hermann Franz Burgmeier, Jonathan Gaither Knox, Peter Hamilton Wetsel, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10928924
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: operating a sensor of an information handling device to capture location information of a user; determining, using a processor to analyze the location information, a position of a finger of a user relative to a keyboard location; determining, using the processor, a difference between an expected location for the finger and the position of the finger of the user relative to the keyboard location; and offering, using the processor, feedback regarding the difference determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Axel Ramirez Flores, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, James Anthony Hunt, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10770060
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, via an audio receiver of an information handling device, user voice input; identifying a first word based on the user voice input; accessing a word association data store; selecting an equivalent based on an association with the first word within the word association data store; committing an action based on the equivalent; receiving feedback input from the user regarding the equivalent; and updating the selecting based on the feedback. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jon Wayne Heim, Jonathan Gaither Knox, Peter Hamilton Wetsel, Suzanne Marion Beaumont
  • Patent number: 10741182
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an audio receiver of an information handling device, voice input of a user; interpreting, using a processor, the voice input; identifying, using a processor, at least one ambiguity in interpreting the voice input; thereafter accessing stored non-audible input associated in time with the at least one ambiguity; and adjusting an interpretation of the voice input using non-audible input. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann, Suzanne Marion Beaumont
  • Patent number: 10726197
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including receiving, at a key input device, an electronic text input; obtaining, using a processor, an additional input comprising audio and relating to the electronic text input; modifying, using a processor, the electronic text input based upon the additional input; and providing, on a display device, electronic text which has been modified. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10620807
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a camera accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to receive data from the camera, establish a three-dimensional (3D) model of at least a portion of a location based at least in part on the data from the camera, identify at least one object at the location from the data from the camera, and associate the at least one object with time-related metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, David Alexander Schwarz, Axel Ramirez Flores, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Ming Qian
  • Patent number: 10616409
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product are disclosed for determining an availability status associated with an information handling device, generating a message comprising information regarding the availability status, the message being one or more of a voice message and a textual message, and sending the message to one or more contacts associated with the information handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Suzanne Marion Beaumont
  • Patent number: 10338938
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to make a first determination that a device is being or has been transitioned between a laptop configuration and a tablet configuration. The instructions are also executable by the processor to, at least in part based on the first determination, make a second determination pertaining to at least one change in presentation of an element presented on the touch-enabled display from a first presentation to a second presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon, Paul Plaskonos, Jon Wayne Heim, Greyson Craig Davis, Mark David Krynock
  • Patent number: 10339342
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to identify a first data transfer command based on input from an input device, receive identifying information associated with the input device, and execute the first data transfer command responsive at least in part to authentication of the input device based at least in part on the identifying information. The first data transfer command pertains to the transfer of first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Axel Ramirez Flores, James Anthony Hunt, Robert James Kapinos, Rod David Waltermann, Suzanne Marion Beaumont
  • Patent number: 10276154
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a device, user input; identifying, using a processor, elements included in the user input; determining, using a processor, that at least one of the identified elements renders the user input ambiguous; identifying, using a processor, a source of context data; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the user input from the source of context data; disambiguating, using a processor, the user input based on the context data associated with the user input; and forming, using a processor, an altered input based on the disambiguating. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon, Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Patent number: 10269377
    Abstract: A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Rod David Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10254936
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive user input into the apparatus implicating an output in response, and present the response on a device separate and apart from the apparatus instead of presenting the response on the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10241988
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: accessing, using a processor, a store of historical user object event information; building, using the processor, a tagging profile based on the store of historical user object event information; determining, using the processor, a new user object event; and determining, using the processor, a priority for tag generation for the new object event using the tagging profile. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hermann Franz Burgmeier, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Jonathan Gaither Knox, Peter Hamilton Wetsel
  • Publication number: 20180374501
    Abstract: A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Rod David Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10163455
    Abstract: A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Rod David Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10055976
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: in a first end user electronic device, running an application that uses device collected data; collecting, using the first end user electronic device, device data for the application; accessing, using a processor of the first end user electronic device, device data collected by another end user electronic device proximate to the first end user electronic device; and using, in the running of the application, one or more of the accessed device data and the collected device data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gaither Knox, Peter Hamilton Wetsel, Rod D. Waltermann, Suzanne Marion Beaumont
  • Patent number: 10012508
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a position receiver, and storage bearing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to receive from the position receiver data indicating a location of the device. The instructions are also executable to receive a map of a facility, present on the device at least a portion of the map, receive a selection of a destination indicated on the map, and at least in part based on the selection and the data indicating the location of the device, present on the device directions to the destination in the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Rod David Waltermann