Patents by Inventor Robert A. Bowser

Robert A. Bowser 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: 10075427
    Abstract: For resetting authentication tokens based on implicit credentials, a method is disclosed that includes receiving, by use of a processor, an authentication request, the request requiring an authentication token, the request not including the authentication token, verifying an implicit credential, and resetting the authentication token in response to the implicit credential matching a predefined credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bowser, Richard Wayne Cheston, Howard Locker, Goran Hans Wibran, Randall Scott Springfield
  • Publication number: 20170237848
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes an accelerometer, a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive first data from a biometric sensor which communicates with the device, and receive second data from the accelerometer. The first data pertains to a biometric of a user and the second data pertains to acceleration of the device. The memory also bears instructions executable by the processor to determine one or more emotions of the user based at least partially on the first data and the second data, and determine whether to execute a function at the device at least partially based on the emotion and based on third data associated with a use context of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Richard Wayne Cheston, Howard Jeffrey Locker, Robert A. Bowser, Goran Hans Wibran
  • Patent number: 9607137
    Abstract: For verbal command processing, a phoneme module selects recognition phonemes from a phoneme input stream. A user recognition module selects a user profile for a user recognized based on the recognition phonemes. The command module processes a command concurrently identified from the phoneme input stream based on the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Robert A. Bowser, Atsushi Kumaki
  • Patent number: 9485635
    Abstract: For displaying information associated with correspondence, a memory stores code executable by a processor. The code identifies a communication context for a communication. The communication context includes a correspondent. The code further displays information associated with the communication context. The information includes a prior communication with the correspondent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bowser, John Weldon Nicholson, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 9423891
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a flat panel, a flat panel display, an electromagnetic digitizer panel disposed at least partially between the flat panel and the flat panel display and circuitry to digitize input signals from a flat panel side of the electromagnetic digitizer panel and to digitize input signals from a flat panel display side of the electromagnetic digitizer panel. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Robert A. Bowser
  • Patent number: 9323739
    Abstract: For identifying words for a context, a monitor module monitors first communications at a digital processing system and determines usage frequencies of a plurality of words in one or more contexts. An identity module identifies a first word in response to a usage frequency for the first word exceeding a use threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Robert A. Bowser, John Miles Hunt, Jian Li, Matthew Price Roper, Jianbang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9230513
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cooperatively presenting multiple media signals via multiple presentation devices. Disclosed are apparatuses, systems and methods that integrate portions of multiple media signals and cooperatively present the portions via multiple media output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, Robert A. Bowser, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 9197760
    Abstract: A mobile networked device includes a processor, a control program stored on a computer readable medium, a sensor to detect whether the networked device is being held by a user, and wherein the control program receives signals from the sensor and places the device into an in-hand mode when the received signals are representative of the user holding the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Elif Karakaya, Robert A. Bowser, Scott Edwards Kelso, Jian Li, Bradley Park Strazisar, Song Erin Wang, Jianbang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150281218
    Abstract: For resetting authentication tokens based on implicit credentials, a method is disclosed that includes receiving, by use of a processor, an authentication request, the request requiring an authentication token, the request not including the authentication token, verifying an implicit credential, and resetting the authentication token in response to the implicit credential matching a predefined credential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Robert A. Bowser, Richard Wayne Cheston, Howard Locker, Goran Hans Wibran, Randall Scott Springfield
  • Publication number: 20150264539
    Abstract: For displaying information associated with correspondence, a memory stores code executable by a processor. The code identifies a communication context for a communication. The communication context includes a correspondent. The code further displays information associated with the communication context. The information includes a prior communication with the correspondent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bowser, John Weldon Nicholson, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 9122992
    Abstract: For predicting web pages, a calculation module predicts a web page from a current context and displays the predicted web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Robert A. Bowser, Jian Li, John Weldon Nicholson, Matthew Price Roper
  • Publication number: 20150169832
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes an accelerometer, a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive first data from a biometric sensor which communicates with the device, and receive second data from the accelerometer. The first data pertains to a biometric of a user and the second data pertains to acceleration of the device. The memory also bears instructions executable by the processor to determine one or more emotions of the user based at least partially on the first data and the second data, and determine whether to execute a function at the device at least partially based on the emotion and based on third data associated with a use context of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Richard Wayne Cheston, Howard Jeffrey Locker, Robert A. Bowser, Goran Hans Wibran
  • Publication number: 20150170643
    Abstract: For verbal command processing, a phoneme module selects recognition phonemes from a phoneme input stream. A user recognition module selects a user profile for a user recognized based on the recognition phonemes. The command module processes a command concurrently identified from the phoneme input stream based on the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Robert A. Bowser, Atsushi Kumaki
  • Patent number: 9042827
    Abstract: For modifying a function based on user proximity, a proximity module determines a distance between an electronic device and a transported device in wireless communication with the electronic device. The proximity module further modifies a function of the electronic device if the distance is within the specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Price Roper, Robert A. Bowser, Scott Edwards Kelso, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson
  • Publication number: 20150022458
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a flat panel, a flat panel display, an electromagnetic digitizer panel disposed at least partially between the flat panel and the flat panel display and circuitry to digitize input signals from a flat panel side of the electromagnetic digitizer panel and to digitize input signals from a flat panel display side of the electromagnetic digitizer panel. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Robert A. Bowser
  • Publication number: 20150022463
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: providing an indication of display screen refresh timing derived from a display system; associating, using the indication of the display screen refresh timing, a set of input data derived from an input surface with a display screen refresh interval; and synchronizing, using one or more processors, the set of input data derived from the input surface with a refresh of a display screen. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Toby John Bowen, Robert A. Bowser, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch
  • Publication number: 20140267908
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cooperatively presenting multiple media signals via multiple presentation devices. Disclosed are apparatuses, systems and methods that integrate portions of multiple media signals and cooperatively present the portions via multiple media output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, Robert A. Bowser, Howard Locker
  • Publication number: 20140244239
    Abstract: For identifying words for a context, a monitor module monitors first communications at a digital processing system and determines usage frequencies of a plurality of words in one or more contexts. An identity module identifies a first word in response to a usage frequency for the first word exceeding a use threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Robert A. Bowser, John Miles Hunt, Jian Li, Matthew Price Roper, Jianbang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140194159
    Abstract: A mobile networked device includes a processor, a control program stored on a computer readable medium, a sensor to detect whether the networked device is being held by a user, and wherein the control program receives signals from the sensor and places the device into an in-hand mode when the received signals are representative of the user holding the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Elif Karakaya, Robert A. Bowser, Scott Edwards Kelso, Jian Li, Bradley Park Strazisar, Song Erin Wang, Jianban Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140164307
    Abstract: For predicting web pages, a calculation module predicts a web page from a current context and displays the predicted web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Robert A. Bowser, Jian Li, John Weldon Nicholson, Matthew Price Roper