Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090024770 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATION INITIATED ASSOCIATION - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for acceleration initiated association. A peripheral knock module receives a first knock command from a first accelerometer of a peripheral device. The first knock command comprises a plurality of peripheral time stamps for a plurality of peripheral device accelerations. A peripheral identifier module creates a peripheral identifier comprising time interval values of time intervals between the peripheral time stamps. A broadcast module broadcasts a discovery signal with a signal identifier that comprises the peripheral identifier. | 01-22-2009 |
20090106542 | AUTONOMIC COMPUTER CONFIGURATION BASED ON LOCATION - A system and apparatus for noticing and creating relational settings, actions, profiles, and tasks by tying resources to a location based on user behavior. | 04-23-2009 |
20090170521 | SEAMLESS HAND-OFF OF BLUETOOTH PAIRINGS - Apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed for pairing a first wireless device with a second wireless device and establishing an identifier. The first wireless device transmits to the second wireless device from the first wireless device with the identifier. The first wireless device shares the identifier with a third wireless device. This allows the third device to transmit to the second wireless device appearing as the first wireless device. The first wireless device stops transmitting while the third wireless device transmits. Since the third wireless device used the identifier for the first wireless device, the second wireless device believes is communicating with the first wireless device. | 07-02-2009 |
20090207141 | TOUCH PAD FOR COMPUTER - A computer touch pad can be used for joystick-type navigation by allowing a user to touch her finger at a location on the pad that is distanced from a reference location of the pad, and the cursor is moved on screen the direction from the reference location to the touch down location at a speed that is proportional to the distance between the locations. | 08-20-2009 |
20090241032 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR SHARING - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for URL sharing. A link module links a plurality of user browsing sessions in a URL sharing session. A select module selects a user browsing session. A communication module communicates a URL for the selected user browsing session to each linked user browsing session. A display module displays the URL and corresponding web page of the selected user browsing session at each user browsing session. | 09-24-2009 |
20090241067 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ROTATIONAL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION - A display module displays a first face of a virtual multidimensional solid comprising a plurality of faces. Each face comprises graphical user interface controls for a unique function set. An input module receives a rotational command that rotates the multidimensional solid around at least one axis. A rotation module rotates the multidimensional solid to display a second face in response to the rotational command, displaying the rotation of the multidimensional solid. | 09-24-2009 |
20090241164 | System and Method for Protecting Assets Using Wide Area Network Connection - A system, method, and program product is provided that detects whether a network adapter has been removed from a computer system. If the network adapter, such as a wireless network adapter, has been removed from the computer system, then a tamper evident indicator (e.g., bit) is set in a nonvolatile memory area of the computer system. In addition, a hard drive password is set to a different password according to a hard drive password policy. The hard drive password controls access to files stored on the hard drive. In one embodiment, the power-on password is also changed to a new password so that the user has to enter the new power-on password when initializing the computer system in order to access the files stored on the computer system. | 09-24-2009 |
20090322789 | Repurposed Screen Real Estate for Enhanced Tablet Function - A system, method, and program product is provided that automatically allocates a display screen into two areas when the display screen is pivoted from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation. A hypervisor receives a pivot request (e.g., from a user) to pivot the display screen from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation. When the display screen is oriented in the landscape orientation, a primary operating system displays its data on the display screen. Upon reception of the pivot request, the hypervisor allocates the display screen into a primary display area and a secondary display area. The hypervisor then displays data originating from the primary operating system in the primary display area and displays data originating from a second operating system in the secondary display area. | 12-31-2009 |
20100058082 | MAINTAINING NETWORK LINK DURING SUSPEND STATE - A low power processor in a computer is kept energized in a suspend state in which a main processor of the computer is deenergized. The low power processor maintains a network connection by sending keepalive packets as required by the network communication protocol. | 03-04-2010 |
20100090963 | SLATE COMPUTER WITH TACTILE HOME KEYS - Fingertip-sized discrete areas are provided on a slate computer and have different tactile characteristics than the remainder of the surface on which they are disposed. The discrete areas are arranged to mimic home keys of a keyboard and each discrete area corresponds to a respective home key. In this way, a user is given tactile feedback of when fingers are properly placed in the home position, with home key finger placement triggering the presentation of a full keyboard on screen. Other embodiments do not use tactilely distinct keys, with simultaneous placement of two or more fingers on the computer triggering display of the virtual keyboard. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115144 | Wireless Switch State Using Controller Powered with System in Various Low-Powered States - A computer system detects a power state change and determines that the power state change puts the computer system in a low power state. In turn, the computer system informs an external slot device to enable an external wireless device included in the external slot device. | 05-06-2010 |
20100138546 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR REASSIGNING A NETWORK ADDRESS - A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for reassigning a network address. A detection module detects a routing table change for a host. The host is in communication with a least one network. A client is also in communication with the host over a network interface using a first address. A generation module generates a second address for the client. The second address does not compete with other addresses on the at least one network. An interface module disables the network interface to the client. The interface module then enables the network interface between the client and the host. A communication module receives a request for a new address from the client. The communication module assigns the second address to the client. | 06-03-2010 |
20100146133 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Data Synchronization in a Multi-Path Environment - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for synchronizing inbound and outbound data in an environment that offers multiple data pathways. When an attempt to send data by a host computer fails, the host computer notifies a secondary device with a separate network connection of the failure. The secondary device attempts to send the data over its separate network connection. If the secondary device fails to send the data, the host computer generates new attempts to send the data over its network connection. The secondary device does the same if the host computer continues to fail in its attempts to send the data. When either the host computer or the secondary device sends the outbound data, it notifies the other of the successful send. The devices then stop further attempts to transmit the data. For inbound data, the host computer and secondary device obtain unique identifiers for inbound data items, compare them, and request from the other those inbound data items that it has not received. | 06-10-2010 |
20100174790 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Wireless Presyncing of Data - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for wireless presyncing of data. A scan module scans a partial email stored on a mobile electronic device. The partial email comprises subject text, address data, and a specified quantity of message text. A complete version of the partial email resides on a server. The server is in communication with the mobile electronic device over a wireless network. A download module determines if the partial email satisfies a priority policy. In addition, the download module downloads the complete email to the mobile electronic device if the partial email satisfies the priority policy. | 07-08-2010 |
20100251105 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING SUBSTITUTION COSTS - A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for modifying substitution cost. A substitution cost module calculates a substitution cost between a first character of a first string and a second character of a second string. A spatial vector module calculates a spatial vector between the first character and the second character from a location of a first key representing the first character on a keyboard and a location of a second key representing the second character on the keyboard. The spatial vector module modifies the substitution cost if the spatial vector is less than a spatial threshold. An edit distance module calculates an edit distance between the first string and the second string using the modified substitution cost for the substitution cost of substituting the first character with the second character. | 09-30-2010 |
20110055627 | Seamless Application Session Reconstruction Between Devices - A first device captures session data for each application session that is executing on a first device, and provides the session data to a second device in order for the second device to reconstruct the application sessions. A first device identifies one or more application sessions currently executing on the first device. Each of the application sessions include a media object and session data, which includes a media object identifier that corresponds to the media object and a first device media session position. The first device captures the session data transmits the captured session data to one or more second devices. The second devices are adapted to reconstruct at least one of the application sessions using the received session data and positions the application sessions at a second device media session position that corresponds to the received first device media session position. | 03-03-2011 |
20110106815 | Method and Apparatus for Selectively Re-Indexing a File System - A method and apparatus are disclosed for re-indexing a file system is disclosed. A detection module detects a reconnection of a storage device to an electronic device. The storage device was previously connected to and then disconnected from the electronic device. The storage device comprises a file system and the electronic device stores first metadata indexing the file system. A determination module determines if the file system is changed since the previous connection. An access module accesses the file system using the first metadata in response to the file system not changing since the previous connection. A re-index module re-indexes the file system in response to the file system changing since the previous connection. | 05-05-2011 |
20110302436 | System Wakeup on Wireless Network Messages - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 12-08-2011 |
20120173902 | POWER MANAGEMENT OF BASE AND DETACHABLE DEVICE - An apparatus and method are disclosed for power management. A monitor module monitors a connection between a base and a detachable device from the base and from the detachable device. The detachable device provides a display for the base if the detachable device and base are connected. A detection module detects a connection event selected from the group consisting of a detachable device connection to the base and a detachable device disconnection from the base. | 07-05-2012 |
20120206397 | INK CONTROL ON TABLET DEVICES - A method includes sensing two successive positional inputs input via a sensor display; determining a time difference between the two successive positional inputs; and rendering, to the sensor display, a graphic between the two successive positional inputs if the time difference does not exceed a time difference threshold. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 08-16-2012 |
20120272191 | ROTATIONAL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION - For rotational graphical user interface navigation, a display module displays a first face of a uniform prism rotatable only about a central horizontal axis. The uniform prism includes a plurality of faces. Each face has Graphical User Interface (GUI) controls for a unique function set. Only one face of the uniform prism is visible at a time. Each face is displayed with a geometric shape conforming to a face geometry of the multidimensional solid when the multidimensional solid is being rotated, and a face is displayed as filling a screen when the multidimensional solid is not being rotated. An input module receives a rotational command. The rotational command rotates the uniform prism around the central horizontal axis. The rotation module rotates the uniform prism to display a second face in response to the rotational command, displaying the rotation of the uniform prism. | 10-25-2012 |
20130021290 | SELECTING A SENSOR FOR USER INPUT - An apparatus and method are presented for selecting a surface for user input. The apparatus includes an information handling device having at least two surfaces and at least two sensors, as least one of the sensors being associated with one or more of the surfaces, a determination module, and a selection module. The determination module determines a current surface that is likely facing a user. The selection module selects one or more sensors associated with the current surface for user input. | 01-24-2013 |
20130258930 | SYSTEM WAKEUP ON WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGES - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 10-03-2013 |
20140056202 | SYSTEM WAKEUP ON WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGES - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 02-27-2014 |
20140307607 | SYSTEM WAKEUP ON WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGES - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310551 | SYSTEM WAKEUP ON WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGES - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 10-16-2014 |
20140337492 | AUTONOMIC COMPUTER CONFIGURATION BASED ON LOCATION - A system and apparatus for noticing and creating relational settings, actions, profiles, and tasks by tying resources to a location based on user behavior. | 11-13-2014 |