Patents by Inventor Scott Edwards Kelso
Scott Edwards Kelso 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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Patent number: 11558848Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Carl Mese, Scott Edwards Kelso, Aaron Michael Stewart, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler
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Patent number: 11500535Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface of an electronic device, ink strokes; determining, using a processor of the electronic device, that the ink strokes include a selection indicator pair; associating, using a processor of the electronic device, the selection indicator pair with content; and selecting, using a processor of the electronic device, the content associated with the selection indicator pair. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 11373033Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, ink input; determining, using a processor, typeset for the ink input; providing, on a display, a combined display of the ink input and the typeset; where the combined display visually associates the ink input and the typeset. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Bradley Park Strazisar
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Patent number: 11296538Abstract: A device and method of transferring energy between peer devices includes determining a predefined limit on energy transfer to a consumer device, initiating transfer of the energy via an energy transfer connection, and terminating the energy transfer when the predefined limit is reached.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Alfredo Zugasti Hays, Axel Ramirez Flores, Larry Glenn Estes, Kenneth Scott Seethaler, Scott Wentao Li, Russell Speight VanBlon, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Alan Ladd Painter, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 11288030Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying content on a display screen of a first device; determining a position of a second device relative to the display screen of the first device; selecting a portion of the display screen of the first device based on a determined position of the second device; and transferring the portion of the display screen selected to one or more devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard Locker, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10817124Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that an input device is within a proximity to the touch-enabled display, and in response to the determination and without supplemental input from a person, present on the touch-enabled display a user interface (UI) for providing input to the first device at least in part based on manipulation of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin, Jian Li
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Patent number: 10782799Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: communicating data from a smart pen to a device using a pen input data channel having a first bandwidth; said data including short range wireless connection data; establishing, using said data, a short range wireless connection between the smart pen and the device; and communicating, in a connected condition, higher bandwidth data between the smart pen and the device using the short range wireless connection. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin
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Patent number: 10721639Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting an event; determining, using a processor of a wireless node, one or more other wireless nodes within wireless range; generating, after the event, a packet of data including identifications of the one or more wireless nodes and positional data associated therewith; and transmitting, over a network connection, the packet of data to at least one of the one or more wireless nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, James Anthony Hunt, Rod D. Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler
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Patent number: 10698597Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, in an input overlay application, handwriting ink strokes; determining handwriting units for the handwriting ink strokes; accepting editing input of the handwriting ink strokes; and reflowing handwriting ink strokes based on the editing input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Bradley Park Strazisar, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 10614300Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, in an input and display device, handwriting ink strokes; providing, using a handwriting recognition engine, one or more machine words for the one or more ink strokes; determining a characteristic of the one or more handwriting ink strokes; changing, based on the characteristic of the handwriting ink strokes, input formatting for the one or more machine words; and inputting the one or more machine words according to the input formatting. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Bradley Park Strazisar, Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, Sarah Jane E Cox, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 10616325Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: allocating, at a node within a local network, availability to a broader network into one or more units; associating, using a processor, one or more tokens with the one or more units; distributing, over a network, the one or more tokens to a requesting node; receiving, over a network, the one or more tokens from the requesting node, where the one or more tokens have been associated with network payload; confirming, using the processor, that the one or more tokens are valid; and in response to the confirming, sending the network payload onto the broader network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Rod D. Waltermann, Douglas Warren Robinson
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Patent number: 10531279Abstract: An embodiment provides a method including: operating a plurality of receivers of a mobile computer to obtain information from two or more different types of wireless transmitting devices in a vicinity of the mobile computer; where the information comprises data relating to an access point and data relating to at least one other wireless transmitting device; where at least two of the two or more wireless transmitting devices transmit data using different communication modalities; transmitting the information from the mobile computer to a remote device; and thereafter obtaining a location of the mobile computer based on the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Scott Edwards Kelso, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler
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Patent number: 10452037Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for controlling appliances. One apparatus includes a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect a usage history of multiple types of appliances in a building. The code is executable by the processor to determine changes to operation of the multiple types of appliances based on the usage history. The code is executable by the processor to control the multiple types of appliances based on the determined changes to the operation of the multiple types of appliances.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: James Anthony Hunt, Scott Edwards Kelso, John Carl Mese, Rod D. Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler
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Presentation of representations of input with contours having a width based on the size of the input
Patent number: 10403238Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled display and present a representation of the input on the touch-enabled display. The representation is presented with the width of one or more contours of the representation being correlated to the size of at least a portion of the input to the touch-enabled display.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin -
Patent number: 10372396Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, from a wireless display device, one or more beacons using a receiver of an information handling device; using, at the information handling device, the one or more beacons to determine one or more wireless display device characteristics; initiating, at the information handling device, one of a plurality of wireless connection protocols determined based on the one or more wireless display device characteristics; establishing, using a communication module of the information handling device, a wireless connection with the wireless display device; and transmitting, with the communication module of the information handling device, data for display to the wireless display device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Lenovo ( Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steve Richard Perrin, Scott Edwards Kelso, Matthew Price Roper, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, Song Wang, Bradley Park Strazisar
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Patent number: 10345927Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including detecting, using a processor, pen input to a surface of an electronic device; accessing, using a processor, one or more other inputs associated in time with the pen input; and adjusting, using a processor, a location of a display output representing the pen input using both of the detected pen input and the one or more other inputs. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Xin Feng
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Patent number: 10289200Abstract: For force identification of a boundary, code detects an attention area on a display intersecting a boundary of the display. In addition the code provides a force indication through a feedback device in response to detecting the attention area intersecting the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Sinapogre) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Ming Qian, Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin
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Publication number: 20190012186Abstract: An apparatus for executing a command associated with a startup condition includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to determine a startup condition of a mobile electronic device in a dormant state. The startup condition affects an initial active state of the mobile electronic device upon transition from the dormant state to an active state. The code executable by the processor includes code to select a command associated with the startup condition. The startup condition differs from a default startup condition of the mobile electronic device upon a transition from the dormant state to a default active state. The code executable by the processor includes code to execute the command during a transition of the mobile electronic device to an active state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: GRIGORI ZAITSEV, AXEL RAMIREZ FLORES, SCOTT EDWARDS KELSO, JOHN WELDON NICHOLSON
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Patent number: 10097614Abstract: A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Lenovo PC InternationalInventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10079500Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for powering a device using a universal serial bus (“USB”) connection. One apparatus includes a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to: detect a USB connection between a first device and a second device; determine to provide power between the first device and the second device via the USB connection based on information transmitted between the first device and the second device; select a direction to provide power between the first device and the second device based on the information transmitted between the first device and the second device; and control power to be provided between the first device and the second device after determining to provide power and selecting the direction to provide power.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Jason A. Matteson