Patents by Inventor John S. Pruitt

John S. Pruitt 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: 11327636
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, for display, a GUI on a display device; detecting biometric measurements associated with a user that is perceiving the current GUI; processing the biometric measurements to quantify a current cognitive load associated with the user, the current cognitive load responsive to the current GUI; comparing the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI to a threshold cognitive load; determining that the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI is greater than the threshold cognitive load; scaling down a complexity of the current GUI based on the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI to generate an updated GUI; and providing, for display, the updated GUI on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Eric Summa
  • Patent number: 11324093
    Abstract: Adjusting underlighting of a keyboard input device, including identifying execution of a computer-implemented application on an IHS, and in response: accessing a database storing lighting profiles for the keyboard input device: determining whether a personalized lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database; determining that the personalized lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is not stored by the database, and in response, determining whether an application-specific lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database; determining that the application-specific lighting profile for the computer-implemented application is stored by the database, and in response, applying the application-specific lighting profile to the keyboard input device, including: adjusting a power state of a first subset of lights of the keyboard input device to an off power state while retaining an on-power state of a second subset of lights of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Erik Summa, Tyler Ryan Cox
  • Patent number: 11086503
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, for display, an image on a GUI; partitioning the GUI into two or more cells, each cell of the GUI corresponding to a portion of the image; determining, for each cell of the two or more cells of the GUI, a predominant color of the cell of the GUI based on the portion of the image that corresponds to the cell of the GUI; partitioning an array of lights of a keyboard input device that corresponds to the display device into two or more cells, each cell of the array of lights corresponding to a particular cell of the cells of the GUI; adjusting, for each cell of the array of lights, a color output of the lights of the cell of the array of lights based on the predominant color of the corresponding cell of the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Eric Summa
  • Publication number: 20210064223
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, for display, an image on a GUI; partitioning the GUI into two or more cells, each cell of the GUI corresponding to a portion of the image; determining, for each cell of the two or more cells of the GUI, a predominant color of the cell of the GUI based on the portion of the image that corresponds to the cell of the GUI; partitioning an array of lights of a keyboard input device that corresponds to the display device into two or more cells, each cell of the array of lights corresponding to a particular cell of the cells of the GUI; adjusting, for each cell of the array of lights, a color output of the lights of the cell of the array of lights based on the predominant color of the corresponding cell of the GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Eric Summa
  • Patent number: 10937425
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to allow an information handling system user to selectively activate and interact with a speech recognition service for system control during application runtime on the same system, and without interrupting the separate application on the same information handling system. The activated speech recognition service may respond to verbal commands to control one or more operating characteristics of the information handling system while the separate application (e.g., such as a computer game) is simultaneously executing without interruption on the same system. A user may be allowed to activate the speech recognition service using one or more different activation modes, e.g., using eye tracking, call word recognition, and/or hardware input/output actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Erik P. Summa, John S. Pruitt, Gregory J. Baluch, Simon W. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20210055841
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, for display, a GUI on a display device; detecting biometric measurements associated with a user that is perceiving the current GUI; processing the biometric measurements to quantify a current cognitive load associated with the user, the current cognitive load responsive to the current GUI; comparing the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI to a threshold cognitive load; determining that the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI is greater than the threshold cognitive load; scaling down a complexity of the current GUI based on the current cognitive load that is responsive to the current GUI to generate an updated GUI; and providing, for display, the updated GUI on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: John S. Pruitt, Eric Summa
  • Patent number: 10769832
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may display, via a graphical user interface, a graphic; and for each time value in ordered multiple time values: may determine, based at least on the time value of the ordered multiple time values, first multiple light intensity values of respective first multiple pseudo light sources at respective first multiple positions with respect to the graphical user interface and associated with a first clipping path of the graphic; for each pixel of first multiple within the first clipping path of the graphic, may determine a lightness value for the pixel of the first multiple pixels based at least on non-linear relationships of distances between the pixel of the first multiple pixels and each of the first multiple positions; and may display, via the graphical user interface, the first multiple pixels within the first clipping path of the graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Greg J. Baluch, Erik Peter Summa, John S. Pruitt, Jonathan Lance Rea
  • Publication number: 20200227034
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to allow an information handling system user to selectively activate and interact with a speech recognition service for system control during application runtime on the same system, and without interrupting the separate application on the same information handling system. The activated speech recognition service may respond to verbal commands to control one or more operating characteristics of the information handling system while the separate application (e.g., such as a computer game) is simultaneously executing without interruption on the same system. A user may be allowed to activate the speech recognition service using one or more different activation modes, e.g., using eye tracking, call word recognition, and/or hardware input/output actuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Erik P. Summa, John S. Pruitt, Gregory J. Baluch, Simon W. Jackson
  • Patent number: 8856672
    Abstract: A web application dialog user interface is provided for presenting users with controls for viewing, editing, and otherwise managing content through the web application. Consistency in style and order of control elements in the user interface with control elements of a standard application user interface, launching of the dialog without a page refresh, and maintenance of task continuity provide users a seamless experience in managing their documents through the web application without loss of context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Dunn, John S. Pruitt, Shawn Lipstein, Cindy Liao, Jonathan Fred Kern
  • Publication number: 20110283215
    Abstract: A web application dialog user interface is provided for presenting users with controls for viewing, editing, and otherwise managing content through the web application. Consistency in style and order of control elements in the user interface with control elements of a standard application user interface, launching of the dialog without a page refresh, and maintenance of task continuity provide users a seamless experience in managing their documents through the web application without loss of context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Dunn, John S. Pruitt, Shawn Lipstein, Cindy Liao, Jonathan Fred Kern