Patents by Inventor Kenneth Seethaler
Kenneth Seethaler 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: 12093211Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Philip J Jakes, Adam Cavenaugh, Tin-Lup Wong, Koji Kawakita, David Douglas, Kazuo Fujii
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Patent number: 11991507Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one camera sensor coupled to an information handling device, an image of a location; identifying, based upon analysis of the captured image, at least one user position in the location; determining, using a processor, whether a beamforming setting for a microphone array is optimized for the at least one user position; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the beamforming setting for the microphone array is not optimized for the at least one user position, the beamforming setting to an optimized beamforming setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J Jakes, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler, David Douglas
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Publication number: 20230413143Abstract: A system and a method for automatically switching between a WLAN primary data connection mode and a WWAN primary data connection mode within a mobile device include a switching control unit in communication with a WLAN communication device and a WWAN communication device. The switching control unit is configured to selectively and automatically switch the mobile device between the WLAN primary data connection mode and the WWAN primary data connection mode based on one or both of motion of the mobile device or a time period of the motion of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Philip J. Jakes, Kenneth Seethaler, Tin-Lup Wong, David Douglas, Koji Kawakita, Kazuo Fujii
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DYNAMIC FAST CHARGE FOR BATTERY BASED ON LENGTH OF TIME DEVICE WILL BE WITHOUT EXTERNAL POWER SOURCE
Publication number: 20230318312Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to determine a current state of charge of a battery and to determine a minimum length of time that a device will be powered by the battery to perform one or more tasks without an intervening connection to an external power source. The instructions may then be executable to dynamically determine, based on the current state of charge and the length of time, a first charge rate at which to charge the battery. The instructions may then be executable to charge the battery at the first charge rate prior to a beginning of the length of time. In various examples, the first charge rate may be faster or slower than a normal charge rate for the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J. Jakes, Kenneth Seethaler -
Publication number: 20230199383Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one camera sensor coupled to an information handling device, an image of a location; identifying, based upon analysis of the captured image, at least one user position in the location; determining, using a processor, whether a beamforming setting for a microphone array is optimized for the at least one user position; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the beamforming setting for the microphone array is not optimized for the at least one user position, the beamforming setting to an optimized beamforming setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J Jakes, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler, David Douglas
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Publication number: 20230195687Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Philip J. Jakes, Adam Cavenaugh, Tin-Lup Wong, Koji Kawakita, David Douglas, Kazuo Fujii
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Patent number: 11665425Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for operating a camera sense mode. One apparatus includes a processor, a camera, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to determine, by use of the processor, whether the camera is set to a camera sense mode. The camera sense mode is a mode of the camera configured to use the camera as a sensor. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to the camera being set to the camera sense mode: analyze images captured by the camera, using a sensing application, to determine information related to the images; and inhibit applications separate from the sensing application from accessing images captured by the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Brian Lee, Joseph M. Pennisi
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Patent number: 11544169Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for determining usage of an information handling device. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to monitor, by use of the at least one processor, a plurality of parameters indicative of a usage of an information handling device. The plurality of parameters is for a plurality of components of the information handling device. The code is executable by the processor to store data corresponding to the plurality of parameters. The code is executable by the processor to compute the usage of the information handling device based on the stored data.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Philip Jakes, Jeremy R. Carlson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Joseph David Plunkett, Kenneth Seethaler
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Patent number: 11521292Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products for preventing data snipping are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to partition an electronic image into a plurality of graphics frames for display on a display device, wherein each separate graphics frame in the plurality of graphics frames includes a different portion of the electronic image, and transmit each separate graphics frame of the plurality of graphics frames to the display device, wherein each separate graphics frame in the plurality of graphics frames is separately transmitted to the display device for display thereon within each display cycle. Methods and computer program products that perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: David W. Douglas, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kenneth Seethaler
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Publication number: 20220309607Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products for preventing data snipping are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to partition an electronic image into a plurality of graphics frames for display on a display device, wherein each separate graphics frame in the plurality of graphics frames includes a different portion of the electronic image, and transmit each separate graphics frame of the plurality of graphics frames to the display device, wherein each separate graphics frame in the plurality of graphics frames is separately transmitted to the display device for display thereon within each display cycle. Methods and computer program products that perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: David W. Douglas, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kenneth Seethaler
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Publication number: 20220214955Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for determining usage of an information handling device. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to monitor, by use of the at least one processor, a plurality of parameters indicative of a usage of an information handling device. The plurality of parameters is for a plurality of components of the information handling device. The code is executable by the processor to store data corresponding to the plurality of parameters. The code is executable by the processor to compute the usage of the information handling device based on the stored data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Philip Jakes, Jeremy R. Carlson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Joseph David Plunkett, Kenneth Seethaler
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Publication number: 20220182544Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for operating a camera sense mode. One apparatus includes a processor, a camera, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to determine, by use of the processor, whether the camera is set to a camera sense mode. The camera sense mode is a mode of the camera configured to use the camera as a sensor. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to the camera being set to the camera sense mode: analyze images captured by the camera, using a sensing application, to determine information related to the images; and inhibit applications separate from the sensing application from accessing images captured by the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Brian Lee, Joseph M. Pennisi
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Patent number: 11234123Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for obscuring application windows based on user security permissions. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to identify a user who is within a field of view of the camera relative to the display, determine one or more security permissions for the user in response to identifying the user, and obscure one or more application windows that are visible on the display that are not compliant with the user's one or more security permissions.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Robert J. Kapinos, Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh
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Patent number: 11194411Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive, from a stylus, at least one transmission indicating movement of the stylus. The instructions may also be executable to take, based on the at least one transmission, at least one action at the device. The stylus itself may include one or more motion sensors to sense the movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: David W. Douglas, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kenneth Seethaler, Koji Kawakita
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Patent number: 11182619Abstract: For point-of-interest determination and display, a processor detects an image event during a videoconference. The processor determines a point-of-interest for the video image of the videoconference based on the image event. The video image is at least a 180-degree image and the point-of-interest is a portion of the video image. The processor displays the point-of-interest from the video image on a display.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, David W. Douglas, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler
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Patent number: 11184560Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to facilitate, at a first device, a video conference. The instructions may also be executable to determine, at the first device and based on input from at least one sensor, a first video feed for the video conference to provide. The instructions may then be executable to, based on the determination, provide the first video feed as part of the video conference.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Carl Mese, John Weldon Nicholson, Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh
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Publication number: 20210266734Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for obscuring application windows based on user security permissions. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to identify a user who is within a field of view of the camera relative to the display, determine one or more security permissions for the user in response to identifying the user, and obscure one or more application windows that are visible on the display that are not compliant with the user's one or more security permissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Robert J. Kapinos, Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh
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Publication number: 20210216779Abstract: For point-of-interest determination and display, a processor detects an image event during a videoconference. The processor determines a point-of-interest for the video image of the videoconference based on the image event. The video image is at least a 180-degree image and the point-of-interest is a portion of the video image. The processor displays the point-of-interest from the video image on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, David W. Douglas, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler
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Publication number: 20210201935Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions that may be executable by the at least one processor to receive input from a camera in communication with the at least one processor and to determine, based on the input from the camera, whether a user is currently speaking. The instructions may also be executable to present a notification regarding whether to unmute at least one microphone accessible to the at least one processor responsive to a determination that the user is currently speaking.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kazuo Fujii, Koji Kawakita
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Patent number: 11049511Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions that may be executable by the at least one processor to receive input from a camera in communication with the at least one processor and to determine, based on the input from the camera, whether a user is currently speaking. The instructions may also be executable to present a notification regarding whether to unmute at least one microphone accessible to the at least one processor responsive to a determination that the user is currently speaking.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kazuo Fujii, Koji Kawakita