Patents by Inventor Jason Peter Sallinger

Jason Peter Sallinger 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).

  • Identifying and modifying specific user input
    Patent number: 10896287
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, on a touch input device, user input; indentifying, using a processor, syntax in the user input; modifying, based on the identified syntax, the user input; and inserting, using a processor, the modified user input into a data field. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jason Peter Sallinger, Joshua Neil Novak
  • Directing input of handwriting strokes
    Patent number: 10037137
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: presenting, on an input and display device, one or more input fields for an underlying application; detecting, using the input and display device, one or more handwriting input strokes provided to an input field overlay application; determining, using a processor, an input field targeting characteristic based on the one or more handwriting input strokes; selecting one of the one or more input fields as a target input field based on the input field targeting characteristic; and inserting a converted form of the one or more handwriting input strokes into the target input field. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Jon Wayne Heim, Russell Speight VanBlon, Grigori Zaitsev, Jason Peter Sallinger, John Weldon Nicholson
  • Preventing the automatic display of an onscreen keyboard
    Patent number: 9996185
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor, an input method editor application is running on a device; detecting, using a processor, a data entry field is active; and responsive to detecting the input method editor application is running and the data entry field is active, suppressing, using a processor, an on screen keyboard from being displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang, Jason Peter Sallinger
  • IDENTIFYING AND MODIFYING SPECIFIC USER INPUT
    Publication number: 20170083499
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, on a touch input device, user input; indentifying, using a processor, syntax in the user input; modifying, based on the identified syntax, the user input; and inserting, using a processor, the modified user input into a data field. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jason Peter Sallinger, Joshua Neil Novak
  • PREVENTING THE AUTOMATIC DISPLAY OF AN ONSCREEN KEYBOARD
    Publication number: 20170031494
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor, an input method editor application is running on a device; detecting, using a processor, a data entry field is active; and responsive to detecting the input method editor application is running and the data entry field is active, suppressing, using a processor, an on screen keyboard from being displayed on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang, Jason Peter Sallinger
  • DIRECTING INPUT OF HANDWRITING STROKES
    Publication number: 20160179777
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: presenting, on an input and display device, one or more input fields for an underlying application; detecting, using the input and display device, one or more handwriting input strokes provided to an input field overlay application; determining, using a processor, an input field targeting characteristic based on the one or more handwriting input strokes; selecting one of the one or more input fields as a target input field based on the input field targeting characteristic; and inserting a converted form of the one or more handwriting input strokes into the target input field. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Jon Wayne Heim, Russell Speight VanBlon, Grigori Zaitsev, Jason Peter Sallinger, John Weldon Nicholson