Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Stufflebeam

Kenneth W. Stufflebeam 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: 10521074
    Abstract: A system and method for a back stack in a multi-application environment, wherein the method comprises adding an entry to a last-in-first-out (LIFO) data structure, the entry comprising application state information descriptive of an application state of a software application and display state information descriptive of a display state of a display surface of a touch screen device, adjusting a LIFO data structure pointer to reflect a revised LIFO data structure state resulting from the adding the entry, receiving a back button actuation indication, in response to receiving the back button actuation indication, restoring the software application to the application state and restoring the display surface to the display state, and readjusting the LIFO data structure pointer to reflect an original LIFO data structure state that existing prior to the adding the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Knut Graf, Mark W. Welker, Abu S. Sanaullah, Jorge A. Abullarade, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 10497299
    Abstract: A display presents information with pixels driven at overdrive voltages set based upon a user configuration and sensed environmental conditions. Varied overdrive voltages provide adaptable display responses with proportional power consumption so that power consumption is reduced where visual images of a display content have reduced need for rapid display response. For example, reduced bandwidth availability that impacts display resolution allows reduced overdrive voltages that scale to visual content resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Chung-Jen Chen, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Publication number: 20190080639
    Abstract: A display presents information with pixels driven at overdrive voltages set based upon a user configuration and sensed environmental conditions. Varied overdrive voltages provide adaptable display responses with proportional power consumption so that power consumption is reduced where visual images of a display content have reduced need for rapid display response. For example, reduced bandwidth availability that impacts display resolution allows reduced overdrive voltages that scale to visual content resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Chung-Jen Chen, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Patent number: 10049614
    Abstract: An OLED degradation compensation system includes a display system having an OLED display device. A computing device is coupled to the display system and includes an OLED display device adjustment database storing an OLED table that is associated with a usage time of the OLED display device and that includes OLED compensation information that is based upon the usage time. An OLED display device use tracking engine in the computing system determines usage data for the OLED display device. An OLED display device adjustment engine in the computing system retrieves the usage data determined by the OLED display device use tracking engine, uses the usage data to select the OLED table in response to the usage data corresponding to the usage time associated with the OLED table, and causes at least one OLED in the OLED display device to be powered using the OLED compensation information in the OLED table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Jace Files, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10013228
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display device housing and a second integrated display device housing attached via a hinge and a processor to determine a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display device housing to the second integrated display device housing from a plurality of orientation sensors. The processor further determines a working software application context by detecting at least a first software application running on the information handling system wherein the working software application context further includes an operating state rank of the first software application relative to other software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Mark W. Welker, Abu S. Sanuallah, Claude L. Cox, Joseph Kozlowski, Jorge A. Abullarade, Knut Graf, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Patent number: 9881183
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Amy Christine Nelson, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9658969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and an encryption accelerator communicatively coupled to the processor. The encryption accelerator may be configured to encrypt and decrypt information in accordance with a plurality of cryptographic functions, receive a command from the processor to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation, and in response to receiving the command, encrypt or decrypt the data associated with the input/output operation based on a particular one of the plurality of cryptographic functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr., Michele Kopp
  • Publication number: 20170124943
    Abstract: An OLED degradation compensation system includes a display system having an OLED display device. A computing device is coupled to the display system and includes an OLED display device adjustment database storing an OLED table that is associated with a usage time of the OLED display device and that includes OLED compensation information that is based upon the usage time. An OLED display device use tracking engine in the computing system determines usage data for the OLED display device. An OLED display device adjustment engine in the computing system retrieves the usage data determined by the OLED display device use tracking engine, uses the usage data to select the OLED table in response to the usage data corresponding to the usage time associated with the OLED table, and causes at least one OLED in the OLED display device to be powered using the OLED compensation information in the OLED table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Jace Files, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170052751
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display device housing and a second integrated display device housing attached via a hinge and a processor to determine a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display device housing to the second integrated display device housing from a plurality of orientation sensors. The processor further determines a working software application context by detecting at least a first software application running on the information handling system wherein the working software application context further includes an operating state rank of the first software application relative to other software applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Mark W. Welker, Abu S. Sanuallah, Claude L. Cox, Joseph Kozlowski, Jorge A. Abullarade, Knut Graf, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Patent number: 9524139
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display device and a second integrated display device attached via a hinge and a processor. The processor determines a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display device to the second integrated display device from orientation sensors. The processor further determines a working software application context by detecting at least a first software application running on the information handling system wherein the working software application context further includes an operating state rank of the first software application relative to other software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Mark L. Welker, Abu S. Sanuallah, Claude L. Cox, Joseph Kozlowski, Jorge A. Abullarade, Knut Graf, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Publication number: 20160246738
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and an encryption accelerator communicatively coupled to the processor. The encryption accelerator may be configured to encrypt and decrypt information in accordance with a plurality of cryptographic functions, receive a command from the processor to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation, and in response to receiving the command, encrypt or decrypt the data associated with the input/output operation based on a particular one of the plurality of cryptographic functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, JR., Michele Kopp
  • Patent number: 9298938
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and an encryption accelerator communicatively coupled to the processor. The encryption accelerator may be configured to encrypt and decrypt information in accordance with a plurality of cryptographic functions, receive a command from the processor to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation, and in response to receiving the command, encrypt or decrypt the data associated with the input/output operation based on a particular one of the plurality of cryptographic functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr., Michele Kopp
  • Publication number: 20160034597
    Abstract: A system and method for a back stack in a multi-application environment, wherein the method comprises adding an entry to a last-in-first-out (LIFO) data structure, the entry comprising application state information descriptive of an application state of a software application and display state information descriptive of a display state of a display surface of a touch screen device, adjusting a LIFO data structure pointer to reflect a revised LIFO data structure state resulting from the adding the entry, receiving a back button actuation indication, in response to receiving the back button actuation indication, restoring the software application to the application state and restoring the display surface to the display state, and readjusting the LIFO data structure pointer to reflect an original LIFO data structure state that existing prior to the adding the entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Knut Graf, Mark W. Welker, Abu S. Sanaullah, Jorge A. Abullarade, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 9235708
    Abstract: A client hosted virtualization system includes a full volume encryption (FVE) storage device, a processor, and non-volatile memory with BIOS code and virtualization manager code. The virtualization manager initializes the client hosted virtualization system, authenticates a virtual machine image, launches the virtual machine based on the image, receives a transaction from the virtual machine targeted to the FVE storage device, sends the transaction to the FVE storage device, receives a response from the FVE storage device, and sends the first response to the first virtual machine. The client hosted virtualization system is configurable to execute the BIOS or the virtualization manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: David Konetski, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Shree Dandekar
  • Publication number: 20150324612
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable medium may have instructions stored thereon, the instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: (i) periodically store, during an encryption or decryption operation performed on the computer-readable medium, one or more variables indicative of an encryption status of a volume of the computer-readable medium; (ii) determine, based on the one or more variables, whether the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state; and (iii) in response to a determination that the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state, boot from the volume and continue the encryption or decryption operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Amy Christine Nelson, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, JR.
  • Patent number: 9135471
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. A method for encryption and decryption of data, may include encrypting or decrypting data associated with an input/output operation based on at least one of an encryption key and a cryptographic function, wherein at least one of the encryption key and the cryptographic function are selected based on one or more characteristics associated with the data to be encrypted or decrypted. Another method may include encrypting an item of data based on at least one of a first-layer encryption key and a first-layer cryptographic function to produce first-layer encrypted data and encrypting the first-layer encrypted data based on at least one of a second-layer encryption key and a second-layer cryptographic function to produce second-layer encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr., Amy Christine Nelson
  • Patent number: 9098727
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable medium may have instructions stored thereon, the instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: (i) periodically store, during an encryption or decryption operation performed on the computer-readable medium, one or more variables indicative of an encryption status of a volume of the computer-readable medium; (ii) determine, based on the one or more variables, whether the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state; and (iii) in response to a determination that the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state, boot from the volume and continue the encryption or decryption operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Amy Christine Nelson, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9092601
    Abstract: A method includes storing a credential object for a user to an encrypted silo on an information handling system. The credential object operates to authenticate the user to use an application. The method also includes copying the encrypted silo from the information handling system to a second information handling system, retrieving at the second information handling system the credential object from the copy of the encrypted silo, and authenticating the user to use the application on the second information handling system using the credential object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Daniel L. Hamlin, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Amy C. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20150116362
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display device and a second integrated display device attached via a hinge and a processor. The processor determines a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display device to the second integrated display device from orientation sensors. The processor further determines a working software application context by detecting at least a first software application running on the information handling system wherein the working software application context further includes an operating state rank of the first software application relative to other software applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Mark L. Welker, Abu S. Sanuallah, Claude L. Cox, Joseph Kozlowski, Jorge A. Abullarade, Knut Graf, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Publication number: 20150106633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and an encryption accelerator communicatively coupled to the processor. The encryption accelerator may be configured to encrypt and decrypt information in accordance with a plurality of cryptographic functions, receive a command from the processor to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation, and in response to receiving the command, encrypt or decrypt the data associated with the input/output operation based on a particular one of the plurality of cryptographic functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Stufflebeam,, JR., Michele Kopp