Patents by Inventor Jason A. Shepherd
Jason A. Shepherd 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: 20150179186Abstract: Systems and methods for providing visual audio quality cues and context awareness in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a plurality of audio signals, each audio signal captured from one of a plurality of a participants of a virtual collaboration session; determining, for each of the plurality of participants, a voice quality of the participant's audio signal; and providing a visual cue of the voice quality of each participant's audio signal to at least one of the plurality of participants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Todd Swierk, Michael S. Gatson, Jason A. Shepherd, Clifton J. Barker, Yuan-Chang Lo
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Publication number: 20150169069Abstract: Systems and methods for a presentation interface in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, from a gesture capture system, an indication of a body movement performed by a participant of a virtual collaboration session; receiving, from a drawing control system, an indication of a drawing characteristic associated with the participant of the virtual collaboration session, and identifying an intent of the participant based upon a combination of the indications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Yuan-Chang Lo, Michael S. Gatson, Todd Swierk, Clifton J. Barker, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20150154291Abstract: Systems and methods for managing behavior in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive engagement metrics from a participant of a virtual collaboration session, wherein the engagement metrics are indicative of the participant's level of engagement in the virtual collaboration session; calculate a score based upon the engagement metrics; and provide the score to the participant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Jason A. Shepherd, Michael S. Gatson, Todd Swierk, Clifton J. Barker, Yuan-Chang Lo
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Publication number: 20150149540Abstract: Systems and methods for manipulating audio and/or speech in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, a method may include capturing speech originated by a given one of a plurality of participants during a virtual collaboration session, and capturing a discrete collaboration event originated by the given participant during the virtual collaboration session. The method may also include synchronizing the speech with the event and storing the synchronized speech and event.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Clifton J. Barker, Michael S. Gatson, Todd Swierk, Jason A. Shepherd, Yuan-Chang Lo
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Publication number: 20150149929Abstract: Systems and methods for managing information and content sharing in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, a method may include creating a virtual collaboration workspace for a plurality of participants, where each of the participants operates a device configured to access the workspace, the workspace including a public portion and a plurality of private portions, the public portion accessible to each of the participants and each of the plurality of private portions accessible to a corresponding participant to the exclusion of at least another participant. The method may also include providing, to a given one of the participants, a representation of the public portion and a representation of the given participant's corresponding private portion, where the representation of the public portion and the representation of the given participant's corresponding private portion are renderable concurrently in a single window of a graphical user interface displayable by the given participant's device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Jason A. Shepherd, Michael S. Gatson, Todd Swierk, Clifton J. Barker, Yuan-Chang Lo
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Patent number: 8963693Abstract: A method of controlling a plurality of meeting room resources. The method includes initiating, via a host information handling system, an application, creating, via the application, a plurality of preferences, and establishing, by the host information handling system, a connection with a configuration device via a first close range communication path. The method also includes transferring at least one of the plurality of preferences, via the first close range communication path to the configuration device. The configuration device transmits, via a second close range communication path, a control message based on at least one of the plurality of preferences, to control at least one of the plurality of meeting room resources.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Yuan-Chang Lo, Jason A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 8879250Abstract: A tablet support system includes a chassis housing a plurality of components that provide a critical mechanical stack of the system. The plurality of components include a display that faces a first direction. The chassis includes a second surface facing a second direction that is opposite the first direction. A support member channel extends into the second surface. A subset of the plurality of components are positioned in the chassis such that they are not located between the support member channel and the display screen. A support member is moveably coupled to the chassis and operable to move into a stored position in which the support member is positioned in the support member channel. The subset of the plurality of components are positioned to allow the support member to be flush with the second surface when in the stored position without adding to a maximum thickness of the system.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason Franz, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip Seibert
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Patent number: 8880884Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory, which causes the processor to at least: send identification information to a second information handling system in response to an identification request broadcast from the second information handling system via a short-range communication; receive first authentication information for a local application and a remote service from the second information handling system; receive a copy of the local application; authenticate a user for the copy of the local application and for the remote service prior to the user logging on to the information handling system; receive second authentication information from the user to access the information handling system; authenticate the user to the information handling system; and automatically initiate a secure session between the copy of the local application and the remote service when the user is authenticated to the information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Philip M. Seibert, Abu Sanaullah, Charles D. Robison, Jr., Claude L. Cox, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20140317364Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an intermediary information handling system for communicatively may be configured to couple an information handling system communicatively coupled to the intermediary information handling system to information handling resources attached to or integral to the intermediary information handling system. The intermediary information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor, and a backup agent comprising one or more instructions embodied in computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor. The instructions may cause causing the processor to, when read and executed by the processor: (i) retrieve data from the information handling system; (ii) store the data to the memory; and (iii) upload the data to a remote storage server coupled to the intermediary information handling system via the network interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason A. Shepherd, Sean P. O'Neal
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Publication number: 20140240098Abstract: A method of controlling a plurality of meeting room resources. The method includes initiating, via a host information handling system, an application, creating, via the application, a plurality of preferences, and establishing, by the host information handling system, a connection with a configuration device via a first close range communication path. The method also includes transferring at least one of the plurality of preferences, via the first close range communication path to the configuration device. The configuration device transmits, via a second close range communication path, a control message based on at least one of the plurality of preferences, to control at least one of the plurality of meeting room resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Yuan-Chang Lo, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20140242947Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a geo-fencing environment for the information handling system. The method further includes monitoring a stream of context information. In addition, the method includes determining whether the geo-fencing environment should be dynamically modified responsive to new context information in the stream. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically modifying the geo-fencing environment responsive to the determining so indicating.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Raziuddin Ali, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip M. Seibert, Yuan-Chang Lo, Douglas Miles Anson
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Publication number: 20140215039Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network entity, acquiring dynamic context information for a proposed P2P information exchange. The method further includes performing, by the P2P network entity, a rules-engine check to determine an allowability of the proposed P2P information exchange given the dynamic context information. The rules-engine check yields at least one specified action relative to the proposed P2P information exchange. The method also includes taking, by the P2P network entity, the at least one specified action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Raziuddin Ali, Claude Lano Cox, Philip M. Seibert, Jason A. Shepherd, Yuan-Chang Lo, Michael S. Gatson
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Publication number: 20140215052Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a recordable transfer event on a source device. The recordable transfer event comprises a transfer of data between the source device and one or more destination devices in a peer-to-peer network. The method further includes generating, on the source device, a log of the recordable transfer event. In addition, the method includes, responsive to a determination that the source device lacks an infrastructure network connection, transmitting the log to at least one destination device so that the at least one destination device can report the log to a reporting node.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Philip M. Seibert, Yuan-Chang Lo, Jason A. Shepherd, Raziuddin Ali, Claude Lano Cox
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Publication number: 20140171048Abstract: A method for establishing a connection to a sequence-accessible call includes gathering connection data for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call including a phone number dialed to access the sequence-accessible call. The method may also include storing the connection data in a database, determining a presence of a proximity link, and transmitting the connection data to an information handling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LPInventors: Abu Shaher Sanaullah, Claude Lano Cox, Charles D. Robison, Philip M. Seibert, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20130305350Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory, which causes the processor to at least: send identification information to a second information handling system in response to an identification request broadcast from the second information handling system via a short-range communication; receive first authentication information for a local application and a remote service from the second information handling system; receive a copy of the local application; authenticate a user for the copy of the local application and for the remote service prior to the user logging on to the information handling system; receive second authentication information from the user to access the information handling system; authenticate the user to the information handling system; and automatically initiate a secure session between the copy of the local application and the remote service when the user is authenticated to the information handling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Philip M. Seibert, Abu Sanaullah, Charles D. Robison, JR., Claude L. Cox, Jason A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 8527763Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory, which causes the processor to at least: send identification information to a second information handling system in response to an identification request broadcast from the second information handling system via a short-range communication; receive first authentication information for a local application and a remote service from the second information handling system; receive a copy of the local application; authenticate a user for the copy of the local application and for the remote service prior to the user logging on to the information handling system; receive second authentication information from the user to access the information handling system; authenticate the user to the information handling system; and automatically initiate a secure session between the copy of the local application and the remote service when the user is authenticated to the information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Philip M. Seibert, Abu Sanaullah, Charles D. Robison, Jr., Claude L. Cox, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20130185558Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory, which causes the processor to at least: send identification information to a second information handling system in response to an identification request broadcast from the second information handling system via a short-range communication; receive first authentication information for a local application and a remote service from the second information handling system; receive a copy of the local application; authenticate a user for the copy of the local application and for the remote service prior to the user logging on to the information handling system; receive second authentication information from the user to access the information handling system; authenticate the user to the information handling system; and automatically initiate a secure session between the copy of the local application and the remote service when the user is authenticated to the information handling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LPInventors: Philip M. Seibert, Abu Sanaullah, Charles D. Robison, JR., Claude L. Cox, Jason A. Shepherd
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Publication number: 20120320514Abstract: A tablet support system includes a chassis housing a plurality of components that provide a critical mechanical stack of the system. The plurality of components include a display that faces a first direction. The chassis includes a second surface facing a second direction that is opposite the first direction. A support member channel extends into the second surface. A subset of the plurality of components are positioned in the chassis such that they are not located between the support member channel and the display screen. A support member is moveably coupled to the chassis and operable to move into a stored position in which the support member is positioned in the support member channel. The subset of the plurality of components are positioned to allow the support member to be flush with the second surface when in the stored position without adding to a maximum thickness of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason Franz, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip Seibert
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Patent number: 8274784Abstract: A display support system includes a chassis housing an electronic display and defining a support member channel. A support member is moveably coupled to the chassis. The support member is operable to move between a stored position in which the support member is positioned in the support member channel and a support position in which the support member extends from the chassis. An adjustment member is moveably coupled to the support member. With the chassis engaging a support surface, the adjustment member is operable to engage the support surface and move relative to the support member such that an angle between the electronic display and the support surface may be adjusted. The system allows the electronic display to be supported in either a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation, while allowing the angle between the support surface and the electronic display to be adjusted in either orientation.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason Franz, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip Seibert
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Publication number: 20110286171Abstract: A display support system includes a chassis housing an electronic display and defining a support member channel. A support member is moveably coupled to the chassis. The support member is operable to move between a stored position in which the support member is positioned in the support member channel and a support position in which the support member extends from the chassis. An adjustment member is moveably coupled to the support member. With the chassis engaging a support surface, the adjustment member is operable to engage the support surface and move relative to the support member such that an angle between the electronic display and the support surface may be adjusted. The system allows the electronic display to be supported in either a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation, while allowing the angle between the support surface and the electronic display to be adjusted in either orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Jason Franz, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip Seibert