Patents by Inventor Adam M. Smith
Adam M. Smith 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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Publication number: 20210271699Abstract: Document retrieval techniques include storing in an index for each archived document a vector of dimension N, based on a query portion of the document and a particular algorithm. An analogy query is received from a requester, indicating a query portion A, a query portion B and a query portion C, each of one or more documents, so that each retrieved document D has a query portion D that is related to C as B is related to A. Vectors A, B and C are determined each based on its query portion and the particular algorithm. A transform from vector A to vector B is determined. An enhanced vector Q is based on the vector C and the transform. Each retrieved document D is based on proximity of a vector of each in the index to the enhanced vector Q; and at least a reference is presented to the requester.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventor: Adam M. Smith
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Patent number: 10649540Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides an information handling device including one or more processors; a display device; and a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; wherein said touchable control area is disposed in place of at least a portion of a standard component of said information handling device, other than said display device, and provides functionality equivalent thereto in one or more configurations. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, James S. Rutledge, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jason P. Parrish
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Patent number: 10561932Abstract: A gaming console composites a camera video overlay on gameplay video for broadcasting such that the gameplay area that is rendered by the gaming console is not obscured, even when the camera video overlay is composited on the gameplay video for broadcasting. The gaming console or a companion device of the gaming console can also allow a user to specify placement of the camera video overlay on the gameplay video for broadcasting, permitting the user to choose the portion of the gameplay video for broadcasting that is obscured by the camera video overlay.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLCInventors: Steven P. Trombetta, Travis J. Muhlestein, Joanna Mason, Saswata Mandal, Corey E. Rogers, Ryan Y. Kim, Sudhakar V. Prabhu, Jesse D. Kaplan, Adam M. Smith
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Patent number: 10185403Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a first configuration for one or more areas of a touchable control area of an information handling device, said first configuration comprising a designation of one or more areas of said touchable control area, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed; ascertaining a power state; updating said first configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area associated with the ascertained power state.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
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Publication number: 20180093174Abstract: A gaming console composites a camera video overlay on gameplay video for broadcasting such that the gameplay area that is rendered by the gaming console is not obscured, even when the camera video overlay is composited on the gameplay video for broadcasting. The gaming console or a companion device of the gaming console can also allow a user to specify placement of the camera video overlay on the gameplay video for broadcasting, permitting the user to choose the portion of the gameplay video for broadcasting that is obscured by the camera video overlay.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steven P. TROMBETTA, Travis J. MUHLESTEIN, Joanna MASON, Saswata MANDAL, Corey E. ROGERS, Ryan Y. KIM, Sudhakar V. PRABHU, Jesse D. KAPLAN, Adam M. SMITH
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Patent number: 9904510Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a touchable control having one or more areas, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; displaying data on a display device of an information handling device which does not overlap the reflective display of said one or more areas; ascertaining touch-based input to said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and executing one or more functions responsive to said touch-based input. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
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Patent number: 9795871Abstract: A gaming console composites a camera video overlay on gameplay video for broadcasting such that the gameplay area that is rendered by the gaming console is not obscured, even when the camera video overlay is composited on the gameplay video for broadcasting. The gaming console or a companion device of the gaming console can also allow a user to specify placement of the camera video overlay on the gameplay video for broadcasting, permitting the user to choose the portion of the gameplay video for broadcasting that is obscured by the camera video overlay.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steven P. Trombetta, Travis J. Muhlestein, Joanna Mason, Saswata Mandal, Corey E. Rogers, Ryan Y. Kim, Sudhakar V. Prabhu, Jesse D. Kaplan, Adam M. Smith
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Patent number: 9224004Abstract: Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Joseph K. O'Sullivan, Siraj Khaliq, Adam M. Smith, Alexander MacGillivray, Joe Sriver
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Publication number: 20150290540Abstract: A gaming console composites a camera video overlay on gameplay video for broadcasting such that the gameplay area that is rendered by the gaming console is not obscured, even when the camera video overlay is composited on the gameplay video for broadcasting. The gaming console or a companion device of the gaming console can also allow a user to specify placement of the camera video overlay on the gameplay video for broadcasting, permitting the user to choose the portion of the gameplay video for broadcasting that is obscured by the camera video overlay.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Steven P. Trombetta, Travis J. Muhlestein, Joanna Mason, Saswata Mandal, Corey E. Rogers, Ryan Y. Kim, Sudhakar V. Prabhu, Jesse D. Kaplan, Adam M. Smith
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Publication number: 20150268927Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a touchable control having one or more areas, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; displaying data on a display device of an information handling device which does not overlap the reflective display of said one or more areas; ascertaining touch-based input to said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and executing one or more functions responsive to said touch-based input. Other embodiments are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
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Publication number: 20150220160Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides an information handling device including one or more processors; a display device; and a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; wherein said touchable control area is disposed in place of at least a portion of a standard component of said information handling device, other than said display device, and provides functionality equivalent thereto in one or more configurations. Other embodiments are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, James S. Rutledge, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jason P. Parrish
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Patent number: 9007297Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides an information handling device including one or more processors; a display device; and a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; wherein said touchable control area is disposed in place of at least a portion of a standard component of said information handling device, other than said display device, and provides functionality equivalent thereto in one or more configurations. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, James S. Rutledge, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jason P. Parrish
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Publication number: 20150091807Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a first configuration for one or more areas of a touchable control area of an information handling device, said first configuration comprising a designation of one or more areas of said touchable control area, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed; ascertaining a power state; updating said first configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area associated with the ascertained power state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
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Patent number: 8994641Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method comprising: providing a touchable control having one or more areas, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; displaying data on a display device of an information handling device which does not overlap the reflective display of said one or more areas; ascertaining touch-based input to said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and executing one or more functions responsive to said touch-based input. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jeffrey E. Skinner
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Patent number: 8922476Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including providing a configuration for one or more areas of a touchable control area of an information handling device, said configuration comprising a designation of one or more areas of said touchable control area, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; ascertaining an event for updating said configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and updating said configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area responsive to said event. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
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Publication number: 20140344308Abstract: Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Joseph K. O'Sullivan, Siraj Khaliq, Adam M. Smith, Alexander MacGillivray, Joe Sriver
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Patent number: 8832150Abstract: Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Joseph K. O'Sullivan, Siraj Khaliq, Adam M. Smith, Alexander MacGillivray, Joe Sriver
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Patent number: 8799107Abstract: A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Lauren Baptist, Scott Davies, Angshuman Guha, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan, Adam M. Smith
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Patent number: 8762225Abstract: A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Lauren Baptist, Scott Davies, Angshuman Guha, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan, Adam M. Smith
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Publication number: 20130124560Abstract: Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Joseph K. O'Sullivan, Siraj Khaliq, Adam M. Smith, Alexander MacGillivray, Joe Sriver