Patents by Inventor Vincent Charles Conzola
Vincent Charles Conzola 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: 10516816Abstract: One embodiment provides a system, including: an information handling device comprising a camera; and a cover for the information handling device, comprising: a movable area obscuring and exposing the camera; at least one button controlling activation of the camera; and a communication mechanism facilitating communication between the cover and the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 10485056Abstract: A method includes sensing a hand position on a mobile device via sensors on the mobile device, providing information identifying the sensed hand position to a processor of the mobile device, identifying a position of a user interface on a touch screen display of the mobile device responsive to the information identifying the sensed hand position using the processor of the mobile device, and adjusting a user interface display position on the mobile device to the identified position using the processor of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne
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Patent number: 10296279Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, using a processor, data to be displayed across at least two hingedly coupled display devices; determining, using a processor, the display mode of the data, the display mode being selected from the group consisting of an occluded mode and a non-occluded mode; in the occluded mode, processing, using a processor, the data to occlude pixels of the data based upon the determined display mode, the pixels being occluded at a location where a physical separation exists between the at least two hingedly coupled display devices; and displaying, using the at least two hingedly coupled display devices, the data according to the display mode determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 10049059Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a housing, at least one system component housed by the housing, a connector coupled to the housing that engages with a second device for exchange, between the first device and the second device, of at least one of data and power, and a first magnet coupled to the housing. The first magnet is coupled to the housing so that a first pole of the first magnet faces away from the first device to repel a first pole of a second magnet coupled to the second device when the first device is juxtaposed next to the second device in a first orientation relative to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Peter Carlson Rane, Ali Kathryn Ent, Thomas Perelli, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 9829972Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving data relating to a focus of user gaze; associating, using a processor, the focus of user gaze with at least one predetermined area within a document displayed in a display device; and responsive to the associating, automatically updating a document status based on the focus of user gaze. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Vincent Charles Conzola, Daniel Jordan Schantz
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Patent number: 9703419Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a housing, a touch-enabled pad coupled to the housing, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled pad and to present an indication of the input on the touch-enabled pad.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20170179640Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a housing, at least one system component housed by the housing, a connector coupled to the housing that engages with a second device for exchange, between the first device and the second device, of at least one of data and power, and a first magnet coupled to the housing. The first magnet is coupled to the housing so that a first pole of the first magnet faces away from the first device to repel a first pole of a second magnet coupled to the second device when the first device is juxtaposed next to the second device in a first orientation relative to the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Peter Carlson Rane, Ali Kathryn Ent, Thomas Perelli, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 9625958Abstract: An apparatus with deflectable dividers separating peripheral components is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shroud housing coupleable to a circuit board of a computer. In an installed position, the shroud housing facilitates a proper electrical connection between peripheral components and the circuit board. The apparatus also includes at least one deflectable divider that is deflectably mounted to the shroud housing. In the installed position, the at least one deflectable divider is disposed between adjacent peripheral components. The at least one deflectable divider is operably displaced away from a selected peripheral component in a displacement motion by fingers of a user during a component swap operation to allow space for the fingers of the user to grasp the selected peripheral component.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Andrew Thomas Junkins, Paul Artman, Gerard Francis Muenkel, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20170103732Abstract: A method includes sensing a hand position on a mobile device via sensors on the mobile device, providing information identifying the sensed hand position to a processor of the mobile device, identifying a position of a user interface on a touch screen display of the mobile device responsive to the information identifying the sensed hand position using the processor of the mobile device, and adjusting a user interface display position on the mobile device to the identified position using the processor of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne
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Patent number: 9557911Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: activating, using a processor, a touch sensitive surface which comprises at least a bezel portion of a display; accepting, using a processor, user input to the bezel portion of the touch sensitive surface; and controlling, using a processor, an information handling device operatively coupled to the touch sensitive surface in response to touch input in the bezel portion of a display. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Brian William Wallace, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20160142594Abstract: One embodiment provides a system, including: an information handling device comprising a camera; and a cover for the information handling device, comprising: a movable area obscuring and exposing the camera; at least one button controlling activation of the camera; and a communication mechanism facilitating communication between the cover and the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20160124572Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a housing, a touch-enabled pad coupled to the housing, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled pad and to present an indication of the input on the touch-enabled pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 9310960Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a housing, a touch-enabled pad coupled to the housing, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled pad and to present an indication of the input on the touch-enabled pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 9256666Abstract: A first item and a second item that are displayed in a user interface are selected via a computational device. A determination is made as to whether a linkage between the first item and the second item is a valid linkage, wherein the valid linkage indicates that inferences that relate the first item to the second item may be drawn by interpreting properties of the first item and properties of the second item. In response to determining that the linkage between the first item and the second item is a valid linkage, the properties of the first item and the properties of the second item are interpreted to infer new properties that relate the properties of the first item to the properties of the second item.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Vincent Charles Conzola, Todd Michael Eischeid, Mark E. Molander
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Publication number: 20150382493Abstract: An apparatus with deflectable dividers separating peripheral components is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shroud housing coupleable to a circuit board of a computer. In an installed position, the shroud housing facilitates a proper electrical connection between peripheral components and the circuit board. The apparatus also includes at least one deflectable divider that is deflectably mounted to the shroud housing. In the installed position, the at least one deflectable divider is disposed between adjacent peripheral components. The at least one deflectable divider is operably displaced away from a selected peripheral component in a displacement motion by fingers of a user during a component swap operation to allow space for the fingers of the user to grasp the selected peripheral component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Andrew Thomas Junkins, Paul Artman, Gerard Francis Muenkel, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20150331654Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, using a processor, data to be displayed across at least two hingedly coupled display devices; determining, using a processor, the display mode of the data, the display mode being selected from the group consisting of an occluded mode and a non-occluded mode; in the occluded mode, processing, using a processor, the data to occlude pixels of the data based upon the determined display mode, the pixels being occluded at a location where a physical separation exists between the at least two hingedly coupled display devices; and displaying, using the at least two hingedly coupled display devices, the data according to the display mode determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20150261292Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving data relating to a focus of user gaze; associating, using a processor, the focus of user gaze with at least one predetermined area within a document displayed in a display device; and responsive to the associating, automatically updating a document status based on the focus of user gaze. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Vincent Charles Conzola, Daniel Jordan Schantz
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Publication number: 20150253956Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a housing, a touch-enabled pad coupled to the housing, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled pad and to present an indication of the input on the touch-enabled pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Publication number: 20150212639Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: activating, using a processor, a touch sensitive surface which comprises at least a bezel portion of a display; accepting, using a processor, user input to the bezel portion of the touch sensitive surface; and controlling, using a processor, an information handling device operatively coupled to the touch sensitive surface in response to touch input in the bezel portion of a display. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Brian William Wallace, Vincent Charles Conzola
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Patent number: 9092550Abstract: A method includes populating an auto suggestion field with objects of the same type based upon the type of object selected in the main area of the application. The auto suggestion field is set to have N levels. The method further includes placing a recently used object in a first position of the N levels of the auto suggestion field. Succeeding objects are placed in other positions of the N levels in the auto suggestion field, wherein the succeeding objects are ordered based upon recency and frequency of use and the populating is executed by at least one processor.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas Stanton Brugler, Vincent Charles Conzola, Randall Avery Craig, John Paul Franks, Mark E. Molander