Patents by Inventor William D.T. Nix

William D.T. Nix 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: 11276396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for handling responses from voice services. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: transmit an audio instruction to a voice services engine, receive a response to the audio instruction, and output a notification associated with the response using an output setting selected based upon a context of the IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Randall Hammons, Todd Erick Swierk, Tyler Ryan Cox, William D. T. Nix
  • Publication number: 20190341033
    Abstract: Systems and methods for handling responses from voice services. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: transmit an audio instruction to a voice services engine, receive a response to the audio instruction, and output a notification associated with the response using an output setting selected based upon a context of the IHS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Randall Hammons, Todd Erick Swierk, Tyler Ryan Cox, William D.T. Nix
  • Patent number: 9749374
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system for deployment of a streaming application to a streaming application environment comprising the information handling system and one or more target systems may include computer-readable media for storing a library of one or more sequenced applications and entitlement data associated with the one or more sequenced applications and a processor communicatively coupled to the computer-readable media. The processor may be configured to communicate a query for an entitlement to the sequenced application to a digital assets entitlement system server, responsive to a determination that an entitlement exists for the streaming application environment to the sequenced application, receive the sequenced application from the digital assets entitlement system server, and deploy and provision the sequenced application to the one or more target systems via application streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Clint H. O'Connor, Michael Thomas Haze, William D. T. Nix, Sunil Jason Kumar
  • Patent number: 9646607
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing wake-on-voice buffer quality based on system boot profiling. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include at least one logic circuit and at least one memory circuit coupled to the at least one logic circuit, the at least one memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the at least one logic circuit, cause the IHS to: determine an expected time duration of a future wake event; receive a verbal command from a user, the verbal command configured to trigger the future wake event; capture the verbal command as an audio signal; adjust at least one of: a quality of the audio signal or a duration of the audio signal, where the adjustment is based, at least in part, upon the expected time duration; and store the adjusted audio signal in a fixed-size buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.
    Inventors: William D. T. Nix, Rocco Ancona, Richard William Schuckle
  • Publication number: 20140330934
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system for deployment of a streaming application to a streaming application environment comprising the information handling system and one or more target systems may include computer-readable media for storing a library of one or more sequenced applications and entitlement data associated with the one or more sequenced applications and a processor communicatively coupled to the computer-readable media. The processor may be configured to communicate a query for an entitlement to the sequenced application to a digital assets entitlement system server, responsive to a determination that an entitlement exists for the streaming application environment to the sequenced application, receive the sequenced application from the digital assets entitlement system server, and deploy and provision the sequenced application to the one or more target systems via application streaming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Clint H. O'Connor, Michael Thomas Haze, William D.T. Nix, Sunil Jason Kumar
  • Publication number: 20140317057
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system for deploying a target image to a particular target system may include a storage medium and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage medium. The process may be configured to receive one or more target images and store the one or more target images to the storage medium, receive unique system identifiers for each of one or more target systems and store the unique system identifiers to the storage medium, generate one or more entitlements binding each of the one or more target systems to a respective target image of the one or more target images based on the one or more target images and the unique system identifiers, and deploy a target image having an entitlement for the particular target system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Clint H. O'Connor, Michael Thomas Haze, William D.T. Nix