Patents by Inventor Russell Speight VanBlon

Russell Speight VanBlon 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).

  • Publication number: 20230119247
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes establishing a wireless communication order session between a communication device associated with a vehicle and an establishment communication system in response to the vehicle being within an ordering area, receiving transaction information indicative of a transaction transmitted from the communication device associated with the vehicle, and associating the transaction with the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight Vanblon, Mark Patrick Delaney
  • Patent number: 11630805
    Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided that, under control of one or more processors, perform resource theme identification (RTI) automatically by; accessing an active resource that includes a path designator (PD) element that includes at least a portion of a path designator for a resource; analyzing the active resource to identify a text element, an audio element and/or an image element; analyzing the text/image element utilizing an RTI algorithm, that applies at least one of natural language understanding (NLU) or image recognition (IR), to identify the one or more themes; deriving proxy indicia based on the theme(s); substituting, into the active resource, the proxy indicia for the path designator to present the proxy indicia in place of the path designator, the proxy indicia linked to the path designator; and displaying the active resource including the proxy indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Publication number: 20230112784
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for managing power sharing in electronic devices are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to determine, in real-time, whether one or more first electronic devices that are compatible with a second electronic device that is low on power are within a predetermined geographic distance of the second electronic device and, in response to determining that one or more first electronic devices that are compatible with the second electronic device are within the predetermined geographic distance of the second electronic device, transmit a request to the one or more first electronic devices inquiring whether any of the one or more first electronic devices are willing to share power with the second electronic device. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations of the apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, Arnold Weksler, Mark Delaney, John C. Mese
  • Publication number: 20230116367
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for managing video filters 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 detect whether a video feed for a user participating in a video conference on a video conferencing platform includes a video filter and, in response to detecting that the video feed includes a video filter, determine whether the video filter is socially suitable for an environment of the video conference. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: John C. Mese, Arnold Weksler, Mark Delaney, Nathan Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Publication number: 20230112370
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor programmed with instructions to power on the device responsive to an electrical connection of two pins on a front panel header of a system board and, based on powering on the device responsive to the electrical connection of two pins on the front panel header of the system board, present a basic input/output system (BIOS) setup screen on a display. The BIOS setup screen may provide one or more options for a person to configure pinouts of the front panel header. The processor may also be programmed with instructions to save the person's configuration of the pinouts of the front panel header based on user input using the BIOS setup screen and, responsive to a subsequent startup of the device, apply the configuration of the pinouts of the front panel header for operation of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Robert J. Kapinos, Scott Li, Robert James Norton, JR., Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11621863
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, at an information handling device, a point within a virtual meeting requiring a user to wear a headset; determining, using a processor, whether the user is wearing the headset after a predetermined time period from identification of the point; and preventing, responsive to determining that the user is not wearing the headset after the predetermined time period, the user from continuing with the virtual meeting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert J Kapinos, Scott Li, Robert James Norton, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230102205
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device connected to a vehicle, an indication of a road sign in proximity to the vehicle; storing, subsequent to the capturing, information associated with the road sign in a data repository; identifying, by accessing a ruleset, a point at which to provide the information associated with the road sign to a user; and providing, responsive to the identifying and by accessing the data repository, the information to the user at the identified point. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Delaney, John C. Mese, Arnold Weksler, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan Peterson, Anna Preseren
  • Publication number: 20230095955
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a privacy system, an image comprising an object; determining, using a processor, whether an alteration rule for presentation of the object is applicable to the image; and transmitting, responsive to determining that the alteration rule is applicable to the image, an indication to at least one image-display destination of an alteration to the object based on the alteration rule. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Axel Ramirez, Russell Speight VanBlon, Rodrigo Almeida, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 11614504
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Norton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11606698
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamically sharing wireless signature data. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect a wireless signature emitted from an information handling device at a network-connected device and record wireless signature information for the information handling device based on the wireless signature. The code is executable by the processor to receive a request to share the wireless signature information with a requesting party. The code is executable by the processor to share the wireless signature information with the requesting party from the network-connected device in response to determining that the requesting party is an authorized party for receiving the wireless signature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20230077159
    Abstract: In one aspect, a 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 at least one override signal of at least a first autonomous driving feature of a vehicle, disable the first autonomous driving feature responsive to the override signal, and wirelessly transmit to at least a first computer server a signal indicating that the override signal was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Norton, Robert J. Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Scott Wentao Li
  • Publication number: 20230029471
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using an information handling device, signal data of a peripheral device associated with a user; identifying, based on the detecting, a position of the user with respect to the information handling device; determining, using a processor, whether content displayed on the information handling device is oriented toward the position of the user; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the content is not oriented toward the position of the user, an orientation of the content. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, Arnold Weksler, Mark Delaney, John C Mese
  • Publication number: 20230032296
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a camera sensor associated with an information handling device, image data from a plurality of imaging ports, wherein the plurality of imaging ports are positioned around the information handling device; determining, using a processor, a primary imaging port from the plurality of imaging ports, wherein image data captured at the primary imaging port shows a front view of a user; and broadcasting, responsive to the determining, the image data from the primary imaging port. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Arnold Weksler, John C. Mese, Nathan Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, Mark Delaney
  • Patent number: 11570140
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting MAC addresses includes a device port for connecting to a computing device with a colliding MAC address with potential to collide with MAC addresses of other computing devices within a computer network. The apparatus includes a network port for connecting to a network device connected to other computing devices. A reassignment module is configured to assign a non-colliding MAC address in place of the colliding MAC address of the computing device and a replacement module is configured to replace the colliding MAC address of a datagram received on the device port with the non-colliding MAC address and transmit the datagram with the non-colliding MAC address from the network port to the network device, and to replace the non-colliding MAC address of a datagram received on the network port with the colliding MAC address and transmit the datagram with the colliding MAC address to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J Kapinos, Scott Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11561692
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for sharing content with a detected device. An apparatus includes a touch-sensitive display, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The memory stores code executable by the processor to determine an application requesting touch input from a user. The memory stores code executable by the processor to detect one or more contact locations of a touch input on the touch-sensitive display. The memory stores code executable by the processor to position, dynamically, one or more interface controls for providing touch input to the application at the one or more contact locations detected on the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11556487
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and a communication interface accessible to the processor. The communication interface may be configured to communicate with a computing device. The apparatus may also include storage that is accessible to the processor and that includes instructions executable by the processor to monitor a circuit within the computing device to detect a break in the circuit. The circuit itself may be completed based on the apparatus being engaged with the computing device. Responsive to detecting a break in the circuit, the instructions may then be executable to write first data to at least one log stored on the apparatus. The instructions may also be executable to monitor the computing device to detect the computing device being powered on and, responsive to detecting the computing device being powered on, write second data to the at least one log stored on the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Norton, Jr., Scott Wentao Li, Robert J. Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11556694
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, on an information handling device, a communication between a first user and at least one other individual; determining, based upon an analysis of context data associated with the communication, that an indication exists to implement a visual change to an aspect of the communication; and; implementing, responsive to the determining, the visual change to the aspect. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Delaney, John C Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan Peterson, Arnold Weksler
  • Patent number: 11556233
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to display content at a first size on a display screen, wherein only a portion of the content is viewable at the first size on the display screen; detecting, at the information handling device, a resize gesture; and adjusting, responsive to the resize gesture, a size of the content from the first size to a second size, wherein more than the portion of the content is viewable at the second size on the display screen. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Ryan Charles Knudson, Roderick Echols
  • Patent number: 11558848
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an electronic device, an event has occurred; detecting, using a device sensor, that the electronic device is proximate to at least one other person; accessing, in a storage location, a rule set including a rule regarding the detecting that the electronic device is proximate to at least one other person; identifying, using a processor of the electronic device, a type of notification for the event based on the rule set; and providing, using an output device of the electronic device, a notification of the type identified. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Scott Edwards Kelso, Aaron Michael Stewart, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11552851
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a touch-enabled 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 detect a hover of a body part of a user or other physical object above the touch-enabled display, where the hover does not include the physical object physically touching the touch-enabled display. The instructions are also executable to identify a graphical object underneath the hover and to cache data associated with the graphical object prior to the graphical object being selected based on the physical object physically touching the touch-enabled display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua N. Novak