Patents by Inventor Joshua Neil Novak
Joshua Neil Novak 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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Patent number: 11009917Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard accessible to the processor and an extractable extension; and a display housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor and a keyboard housing recess, where, in a compact orientation, the keyboard housing seats in the keyboard housing recess and where, in an extended orientation, the keyboard housing and the extractable extension extend to form a base that supports the display housing at a viewing angle with respect to the base.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jason M. Grimme, Peter Hamilton Wetsel, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 11003259Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, pen input; determining, using a processor of an electronic device, a modifier key characteristic of the pen input; and executing, using the processor, a modifier key function associated with the pen input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Grigori Zaitsev, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang
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Patent number: 10896287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jason Peter Sallinger, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 10789077Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using a processor of an information handling device, a presence of at least one other device; requesting, from the at least one other device, configuration information; receiving, at the information handling device, the configuration information; and configuring, responsive to the receiving, one or more settings on the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Aaron Michael Stewart, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 10671795Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, in an overlay input application, one or more ink strokes provided to an input field overlay area; and providing, in the overlay input application, a preview area that displays a typeset preview for the one or more ink strokes; wherein the preview area is displayed in a location determined by an area associated with current ink stroke input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Sarah Jane E Cox, Geoffrey Simon Bula, Rajesh Krishna Daivajna
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Patent number: 10623199Abstract: For outputting audio based on a user's location, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for outputting audio based on a user's location includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor receives an audible command to output audio and associates the audible command with a particular user. Additionally, the processor monitors a location of the particular user and output audio, based on the command, from a device nearest a location of the particular user.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Brian Jules Jaeger, Joshua Neil Novak, Nicholas Richard Roberts
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Publication number: 20200057657Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using a processor of an information handling device, a presence of at least one other device; requesting, from the at least one other device, configuration information; receiving, at the information handling device, the configuration information; and configuring, responsive to the receiving, one or more settings on the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Aaron Michael Stewart, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 10296207Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: providing, on an input and display device, an input field overlay application occupying an initial area of the input and display device, the input field overlay application overlaying an input field of an underlying application; accepting, using the input and display device, one or more handwriting input strokes provided to the input field overlay application; and resizing, on the input and display device, the initial area. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, John Weldon Nicholson, Jianbang Zhang, Joshua Neil Novak, Jon Wayne Heim
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Publication number: 20190074991Abstract: For outputting audio based on a user's location, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for outputting audio based on a user's location includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor receives an audible command to output audio and associates the audible command with a particular user. Additionally, the processor monitors a location of the particular user and output audio, based on the command, from a device nearest a location of the particular user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Brian Jules Jaeger, Joshua Neil Novak, Nicholas Richard Roberts
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Patent number: 10133368Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input and display device, an ink stroke provided to an input overlay application; providing a display of the ink stroke on the input and display device; converting the ink stroke input into a converted input for an underlying application; providing the converted input to the underlying application; detecting a user input associated with the converted input; and reverting to the ink stroke on the input and display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Steven Richard Perrin, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Bradley Park Strazisar, Sarah Jane E Cox, John Weldon Nicholson, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron Michael Stewart
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Patent number: 10032071Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an overlay handwriting application, one or more handwriting strokes; processing the one or more handwriting strokes to obtain at least one candidate machine input word; generating, using a spell check application, at least one spell check word using the at least one candidate machine input word; and providing, on a display device, the at least one spell check word generated by the spell check application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang
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Patent number: 10001839Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, on a touch surface, ink stroke data; identifying, using a processor, that the ink stroke comprises a stroke change; determining, using the processor, if the stroke change is within a predetermined zone; interpreting, using the processor, the ink stroke as a gesture command if the stroke change is within the predetermined zone; and executing, based on the gesture command, at least one action. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Joshua Neil Novak, Yonggang Zhao
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Patent number: 9996185Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang, Jason Peter Sallinger
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Patent number: 9959187Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: in a system, determining a set of processes which run at system boot; monitoring the processes at system boot for system resource utilization; categorizing processes of the set of processes based on said monitoring; and changing a start time during boot of at least one process based on said categorizing. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Carl Mese, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 9939929Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for erasing with a stylus. By use of a processor, an orientation of a stylus relative to a display is determined. Whether a touch event of the display occurs is determined. An erase function is performed in response to the touch event occurring and the orientation of the stylus being is in a substantially inverted position.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Joshua Neil Novak, Russell Speight VanBlon, Jianbang Zhang
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Publication number: 20180090126Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to produce voice output; identifying, using a processor, a voice profile; generating, using a processor, the voice output, said voice output being tuned based on the voice profile; and providing, using a speaker, the voice output. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Joshua Neil Novak, Nicholas Richard Roberts, Brian Jules Jaeger
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Patent number: 9874950Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, involving: receiving, at a device, handwriting input from a user; detecting, using a processor, a location of at least a part of the handwriting input; and providing, on a display device, at least one adaptive line to guide the handwriting input; wherein the at least one adaptive line is positioned based on the location of at least a part of the handwriting input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Steven Richard Perrin, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak
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Patent number: 9672791Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, at least one lens accessible to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive synchronization information from another device, and based on the synchronization information, actuate the at least one lens to permit visible light to pass therethrough at times at which first frames of first content are presented and not at times that second frames different from the first frames for second content different from the first content are presented.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Joshua Neil Novak, Jason Grimme, Alfredo Zugasti Hays
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Publication number: 20170083499Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jason Peter Sallinger, Joshua Neil Novak
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Publication number: 20170031494Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang, Jason Peter Sallinger