Patents by Inventor Nathan J. Peterson

Nathan J. Peterson 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: 10789940
    Abstract: For dynamic wake word identification, a processor identifies a temporary wake word based on a first response. The processor further identifies one or more content tags from the first response. The processor identifies a second query in response to receiving the temporary wake word and a first content tag, without receiving a permanent wake word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Publication number: 20200294386
    Abstract: For automated security subsystem activation, a processor monitors occupant activity from a plurality of electronic devices. The processor further determines the occupant activity satisfies a quiescence model. The processor activates the security subsystem in response to satisfying the quiescence model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Mark Patrick Delaney
  • Patent number: 10776849
    Abstract: For visually indicating a product location, a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes an image sensor, a product image module that identifies at least one product within image data, a product matching module that compares the identified at least one product to a user-specified product, and a location module that indicates, to the user, a location of a product matching the user-specified product. In some embodiments, the apparatus may also include a product selection module that receives, from the user, a user-selected product and at least one product constraint, wherein the product matching module further compares the identified at least one product to the at least one product constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 10770028
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting a change in light level; receiving, from at least one other source, data associated with an ambient light level; determining, using a processor, whether the change in light level corresponds to a change in the ambient light level; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the change in light level corresponds to the change in the ambient light level, a brightness level of a display operatively coupled to an information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10771543
    Abstract: A first server includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that a server is present that has not had settings other than at most default settings applied to a basic input output system (BIOS) executable by the server to boot the server. The instructions are also executable by the processor to, based at least in part on a determination that the server is the same model of server as the apparatus, has the same BIOS version as the apparatus, and/or has the same baseboard management controller (BMC) version as the apparatus, facilitate over a peer to peer server network at least some settings in the apparatus to be provisioned to the server to establish the at least some settings in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, John Scott Crowe, Amy Leigh Rose, Jennifer Lee-Baron, James C. Loebach, Nagananda Chumbalkar
  • Patent number: 10768699
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive input regarding an object at which one person is looking and to present, to another person via the display, a graphical indication regarding the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Gary David Cudak, John Scott Crowe, Jennifer Lee-Baron
  • Publication number: 20200279030
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, using an information handling device, digital content; providing an indication of the digital content to at least one other device; and receiving, from the at least one other device, a digital signature for the digital content. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10764442
    Abstract: For muting an audio device participating in a conference call, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor identifies a plurality of physical locations participating in a conference call and identifies a plurality of devices participating in the conference call, wherein each device is located in one of the plurality of physical locations. The processor designates a primary device for each physical location, the primary device being a highest priority device at that physical location and mutes an audio device of each of the plurality of devices that is not designated a primary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese
  • Patent number: 10764511
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using a first camera of an information handling device, a first image of an area, wherein the first image is associated with a first capture orientation; capturing, using a second camera of the information handling device, a second image of the area, wherein the second image is associated with a second capture orientation; determining, using a processor, whether the first capture orientation or the second capture orientation corresponds to a viewing orientation of the information handling device; and displaying, responsive to the determining, one of the first image or the second image. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler, Mark Patrick Delaney
  • Publication number: 20200274842
    Abstract: For adaptive notification, a processor determines a message sentiment of a message. The processor further determines a sender relationship of a sender of the message to a recipient. The processor determines a notification urgency for the message to the recipient from a notification model based on the message sentiment and the sender relationship. The processor communicates a notification of the message to the recipient based on the notification urgency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10748535
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, voice data from a user; generating a transcription record comprising the voice data; transmitting the voice data to at least one other device; receiving, from the at least one other device, another transcription record, generated by the at least one other device, associated with the transmitted voice data; identifying, by comparing the transcription record and the another transcription record, at least one difference between the transcription record and the another transcription record; and providing, responsive to identifying a difference, a notification. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Publication number: 20200258001
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamically determining a user's availability for an activity. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The memory stores code executable by the processor to determine a context for a user. The context includes one or more characteristics that define the user's current activity state. The memory stores code executable by the processor to check predefined context criteria against the user's context to determine the user's availability status for one or more activities. The memory stores code executable by the processor to make the availability status accessible to one or more interested devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan J Peterson, Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10732719
    Abstract: An approach is disclosed that detects an input instrument hovering a distance away from an object displayed on an input surface and performing an action in response to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John C. Mese, Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell S. VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10733377
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an indication in an information handling device of an autocorrected word in a string of text, and providing an indication proximate the autocorrected word to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Arnold S. Weksler, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10712906
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a display accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to identify at least one context associated with a device and present, on the display and at least in part based on the at least one context, a first arrangement of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight Vanblon, Arnold S. Weksler, John Carl Mese
  • Patent number: 10715518
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a processor, a wireless transceiver accessible to the processor, at least one biometric sensor accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input from the at least one biometric sensor, identify a user based on input from the at least one biometric sensor, and determine a second device with which the first device is to communicate using the wireless transceiver based at least in part on identification of the user based on input from the at least one biometric sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (singapore) pte. ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10710607
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor to access data associated with at least one road and, based on the data, identify a first route to a destination as involving less manual driving by a human driver than a second route to the destination. The instructions are also executable by the processor to output directions for an autonomous vehicle to follow the first route to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese
  • Patent number: 10699014
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for preventing connections to a locked device. A method includes detecting, by a processor, that an information handling device is placed in a locked mode. The information handling device includes one or more communication interfaces that enable communication while the information handling device is placed in the locked mode. The method includes preventing connections to the one or more communication interfaces while the information handling device is in the locked mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Amy Leigh Rose, John Scott Crowe, Gary David Cudak, Jennifer Lee-Baron, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10701202
    Abstract: One method includes identifying driving conditions associated with a current location of a mobile communication device, receiving a notification to be output on the device, preventing the device from outputting the notification in response to identifying a first driving condition, and outputting the notification on the device in response to identifying a second driving condition. A second method includes identifying one or more driving conditions associated with a current location of a mobile communication device and calculating a driving hazard score as a function of the identified one or more driving conditions. The second method further includes receiving a notification to be output on the device, preventing the device from outputting the notification in response to the driving hazard score exceeding a first threshold value, and outputting the notification on the device in response to the driving hazard score being less than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John S. Crowe, Gary D. Cudak, Jennifer J. Lee-Baron, Nathan J. Peterson, Amy L. Rose, Bryan L. Young
  • Patent number: 10694242
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using a processor on a first device, content intended for playback; identifying, using a sensor of the first device, a casting ready target device; the identifying including obtaining data associating a user operating the first device with the cast ready target device; and directing content for casting on the cast ready target based on the data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Rod D. Waltermann, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler