Patents by Inventor Robert James Norton, JR.
Robert James Norton, JR. 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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Publication number: 20220180010Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, an electrical circuit that includes a screw forming part of the circuit, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine that the screw has been removed from the circuit and to take at least one action at the device to indicate device tampering based on the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Justin Michael Ringuette, Robert James Norton, JR., Sandy Scott Collins
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Publication number: 20220109575Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: connecting a USB device to a secure device; provisioning, at the secure device, the USB device, wherein the provisioning comprises encrypting, using a private key, a hash value associated with a device descriptor associated with the USB device into a product field of the device descriptor: introducing the provisioned peripheral device into a client device; determining, using a processor of the client device, that the USB device is an authorized USB device, wherein the determining comprises: decrypting, using a public key that corresponds to the private key, the hash value; producing, by running a hash function on the device descriptor minus the hash value, a new hash value; and identifying that the hash value is equivalent to the new hash value; and enabling the USB device to gain access to a system of the client device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 11281421Abstract: For enhancing multiple monitor arrangements, a method receives monitor data for a plurality of monitors. The monitor data for each monitor includes a physical dimension, a monitor resolution, a monitor position, and a scale factor. The method receives a transition preference specifying one of a physical parameter preference and a logical parameter preference for each monitor-to-monitor boundary of the plurality of monitors. The method calculates a display transition between adjacent monitors based on the monitor data and the transition preference.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Robert J. Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 11275825Abstract: For updating the password of a credential with a matching username, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One method includes storing a set of credentials, each credential in the set comprising a username and password. The method includes detecting an update to a first credential of the set of credentials, the first credential comprising a first username and a first stored password. Here, the update to the first credential indicates a new password to be associated with the first username. The method includes identifying a set of candidate credentials, each candidate credential having a username that matches the first username and a password that matches the stored password and updating the set of candidate credentials to comprise the new password.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
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Patent number: 11265509Abstract: A system can include a first housing that includes a display and an adjustable camera, where the display includes a normal vector and where the adjustable camera includes an optical axis; a second housing that includes a keyboard, a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the first housing and the second housing, where rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing actuates adjustment of the adjustable camera to adjust the optical axis with respect to the normal vector.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, Jr., Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li
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Publication number: 20220050149Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a sensor of an information handling device, a change in a magnetic field associated with the information handling device; determining, using a processor, whether the change in the magnetic field corresponds to a known command; and performing, responsive to determining that the change in the magnetic field corresponds to the known command, a function dictated by the known command. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, JR.
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Patent number: 11226715Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to display an element; identifying, using a processor, a universal size designation for the element; and displaying, on a display associated with the information handling device, the element at a size associated with the universal size designation and irrespective of a screen scaling factor associated with the display. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 11224131Abstract: A method and device are provided. The device includes a system component that has a circuit board that includes a cable connection portion. The cable connection portion is disposed on and extends along a mounting surface, and includes board pads disposed on the mounting surface within the cable connection portion. The board pads define corresponding board contact surfaces for electrical coupling with connector pads, and include a board adhesive material disposed on the corresponding board contact surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
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Publication number: 20210409644Abstract: A system can include a first housing that includes a display and an adjustable camera, where the display includes a normal vector and where the adjustable camera includes an optical axis; a second housing that includes a keyboard, a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the first housing and the second housing, where rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing actuates adjustment of the adjustable camera to adjust the optical axis with respect to the normal vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, JR., Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li
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Patent number: 11199879Abstract: A device can include a housing that defines an interior space and an exterior space and that includes air passages between the interior space and the exterior space; electronic components disposed in the interior space of the housing, where the electronic components include a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a material that, upon exposure to water, transitions from a first state to a second state that protects at least one of the electronic components from damage.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Robert James Norton, Jr., Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 11199881Abstract: A device can include a housing that includes a bottom shell, a top shell and at least one shell opening; a processor disposed in the housing; memory accessible to the processor and disposed in the housing; audio circuitry disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor; a human interface unit mounted to the housing, operatively coupled to the processor and accessible via the top shell of the housing; a speaker driver mounted to the housing and operatively coupled to the audio circuitry, where the speaker driver is in fluid communication with the at least one shell opening; and an internal acoustic cavity defined by at least one of the bottom shell and the top shell, where the internal acoustic cavity is in fluid communication with the speaker driver.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
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Patent number: 11156748Abstract: For omnidirectional structured light projection, a light source illuminates a conical mirror towards an apex along a central axis. A pattern mask corrects a deformation pattern of the conical mirror to form a plurality of points in a point cloud from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, Jr.
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Patent number: 11113383Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes 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 password input from a second device and to determine whether the password input indicates at least one predetermined character and at least one dynamic character that conforms to at least one preestablished parameter. The instructions are also executable to permit a login via the first device responsive to a determination that the password input indicates the at least one predetermined character and at least one dynamic character that conforms to the at least one preestablished parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Justin Michael Ringuette, Robert James Norton, Jr., Sandy Scott Collins
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Publication number: 20210264019Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an application on an information handling device, a password reset request from a user; accessing, subsequent to the receiving, a data store comprising a list of answers that are responsive to a list of security questions; constructing, using the data store, a temporary password, wherein the temporary password consists of at least one answer selected from the list of answers; and providing, to the user, a prompt containing an indication of the temporary password, wherein the prompt comprises at least one security question, from the list of security questions, that corresponds to the at least one answer. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, JR., Scott Wentao Li, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Publication number: 20210264006Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using one or more sensors of an information handling device, at least two biometric inputs provided by a user during an authentication process; authenticating the user responsive to determining that at least one biometric input of the at least two biometric inputs shares a threshold level of similarity with stored biometric information; determining, using a processor, that another biometric input of the at least two biometric inputs does not share the threshold level of similarity with the stored biometric information; and updating the stored biometric information with retained characteristics of the another biometric input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr.
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Patent number: 11086194Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using a camera device, an image, wherein the image comprises at least one portion of a camera accessory attached to the camera device; identifying, using a processor, the camera accessory; and removing, based on the identification of the camera accessory, the at least one portion of the camera accessory from the image. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, Jr.
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Publication number: 20210200272Abstract: A device can include a housing that defines an interior space and an exterior space and that includes air passages between the interior space and the exterior space; electronic components disposed in the interior space of the housing, where the electronic components include a processor and memory accessible to the processor; and a material that, upon exposure to water, transitions from a first state to a second state that protects at least one of the electronic components from damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Robert James Norton, JR., Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Publication number: 20210192069Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an audio capture device associated with an information handling device, command input from a user; providing, to the user and responsive to receiving the command input, a confirmation query, wherein the confirmation query is formed utilizing context data associated with an authorized user; determining, using a processor, whether a response to the confirmation query provided by the user matches a predetermined answer; and performing, responsive to determining that the response matches the predetermined answer, a function corresponding to the command input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Robert James Norton, Jr., Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
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Publication number: 20210149457Abstract: A device can include a housing that includes a bottom shell, a top shell and at least one shell opening; a processor disposed in the housing; memory accessible to the processor and disposed in the housing; audio circuitry disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor; a human interface unit mounted to the housing, operatively coupled to the processor and accessible via the top shell of the housing; a speaker driver mounted to the housing and operatively coupled to the audio circuitry, where the speaker driver is in fluid communication with the at least one shell opening; and an internal acoustic cavity defined by at least one of the bottom shell and the top shell, where the internal acoustic cavity is in fluid communication with the speaker driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, JR., Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
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Patent number: 10972605Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using an application of an information handling device, an incoming call from another device, the incoming call being associated with an identifying message signed with a user-specific signature; determining, using a processor, whether the user-specific signature is associated with a valid signature; and accepting, responsive to determining that the user-specific signature is associated with a valid signature, the call. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr.