Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (united States) Inc.

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Other

Lenovo Global Technology (united States) Inc.

Globalfoundries Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Gary David Cudak

Christopher J Hardee

Adam Roberts

Shareef Fathi Alshinnawi

Nathan J Peterson

Lydia Mai Do

Edward Stanely Suffern

J Mark Weber

Jennifer Lee-Baron

John Scott Crowe

Amy L Rose

Randall C Humes

John Michael Petersen

Bryan Lloyd Young

Ajay Dholakia

John Mark Weber

Adrian Xavier Rodriguez

Joseph Francis Herman

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Srihari Venkata Angaluri

Pravin S Patel

Mehul M Shah

James Joseph Parsonese

Jeffrey Scott Holland

Bryan M Reese

Luis J Flores

Heather Castelli Miller

Paul Theodore Artman

Jarrod B Johnson

Nagananda Chumbalkar

Xiaoli Shi

Jason Aaron Matteson

Andrew Hamilton Wray

Bryan Loyd Young

Alexander V Verrigni

Ronald F Ridgeway, Jr

Pradeep Ramineni

David G Dean

Scott Edwards Kelso

Luke David Remis

David W Cosby

Jennifer Lynn Burlingham

James Ray Lee

William E Lohmeyer, Jr

John P Nuzzo

Matthew A Trzyna

Christine Marie Stamm-Nettleship

Junjiro Sumikawa

James Gordon McLean

Vinod Kamath

Bouziane Yebka

William Gavin Holland

Scott Edward Schneider

Gregory Brian Pruett

Chulho Kim

Jian Li

Michael DeCesaris

John T Lloyd

Igor Stolbikov

Christopher Landon Wood

Brian Christopher Totten

William Mark Megarity

Bejoy J Kochuparambil

CheKim Chhuor

Aparna Vallury

Laura Ann Weaver

William James Sommerville

LaLecha J Watkins

Kathy L Brown-Fitzpatrick

Mehul Shah

Srihari V Angaluri

Heather Leah Cudak

Ruthie D Lyle

Rod D Waltermann

Sumeet Kochar

Mark Edward Steinke

Robert William Stegner

Caihong Zhang

Ming Lei

Mark G Atkins

Philip Louis Weinstein

David Daniel Chudy

Cristian Medina

James Steven Worley

Michael M Skeen

Jerry Don Ackaret

Matthew Scott Henry

Menlo Wuu

Israel Silva Dias

Brian E Finley

Matthew A Steele

Mark McCool

Keith T Adams

Thomas J Alandt

Zendre Necole Simmons

Gavin D Cudak

Caleb D Cudak

Tristian T Brown

Zhipeng Gao

A baseboard management controller in a partitionable multi-processor system may perform operations including receiving a plurality of event notifications from the partitionable multi-processor system including one or more event notifications from a first partitioned node including a first subset of hardware devices of the multi-processor system and one or more event notifications from a second partitioned node including a second subset of the hardware devices of the multi-processor system, wherein each event notification identifies an event and a specific one of the hardware devices that experienced the event. The operations may further include receiving a request for an event log for the first partitioned node and providing the requested event log for the first partitioned node including only those event notifications that identify a hardware device that is included in the first partitioned node.

Generating partition-dependent log output

In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage with instructions executable to identify a first frequency range of sound associated with an environment and to determine whether the first frequency range matches a second frequency range at least to within a threshold. The second frequency range is associated with a voice of a digital assistant. Responsive to the first frequency range matching the second frequency rage at least to within the threshold, the instructions are executable to change a setting for the digital assistant so that the voice of the digital assistant outputs audio in a third frequency range that does not match the first frequency range at least to within the threshold.

Change of digital assistant voice frequency based on matching frequency from environment

A method includes identifying hardware resource requirements of a candidate workload instance, wherein the hardware resource requirements of the workload instance include a required capacity for each of a plurality of hardware resource types. The method further includes identifying, for each of the plurality of hardware resource types required by the candidate workload instance, a capacity of a hardware resource of the hardware resource type that is currently available on a server without causing a power efficiency of the hardware resource to decline below a setpoint power efficiency; and determining, for each of the plurality of hardware resource types required by the candidate workload instance, whether the identified capacity of the hardware resource on the server is greater than or equal to the required capacity for the hardware resource type. The determination may support a decision to place the workload instance on the server or another server.

Efficiency-adjusted hardware resource capacity to support a workload placement decision

For augmented functions, a method determines a support relationship between a first device and a second device in a physical environment, wherein at least the first device is an electronic device. The method determines an augmented function for the first device, wherein the augmented function provides the support relationship. The method executes the augmented function on the first device.

Augmented functions for cooperative enhancement

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamic baseboard management controller memory use. A method includes determining, by use of a processor, presence of main memory of a computing device, in response to determining that the main memory is not present in the computing device, preparing at least a portion of a memory device of a baseboard management controller for use by the processor, and making the at least a portion of the memory device of the BMC available to the processor.

Dynamic baseboard management controller memory use

A method can include sensing condition of power cells in a configured multiple power cell pack via a pack management unit; based in part on the sensing, identifying a number of the power cells as a number of target cells via the pack management unit; disabling sensing condition of the number of target cells via the pack management unit; and reconfiguring the multiple power cell pack via the pack management unit to provide a reconfigured multiple power cell pack that provides power without the number of target cells.

Reconfigurable battery pack

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: identifying, using a disturbance minimization system, a device as a primary device; identifying, using the disturbance minimization system, a context of the primary device; determining, using the disturbance minimization system and based upon the context of the primary device, that sound disturbances need reduced in an audible environment of the primary device; and reducing, using the disturbance minimization system and responsive to determining the sound disturbances need reduced, at least one sound disturbance produced by at least one device other than the primary device.

Device disturbance reduction

A computer implemented method includes receiving a request for a boot into a system factory reset mode, accessing a virtual boot indication in an operating system memory area, identifying an address of a virtual boot user space memory area as a function of the virtual boot indication, and booting the system into the factory reset mode using the virtual boot user space memory without overriding user settings in the user space memory.

Reversible virtual factory reset

A multi-processor system includes first and second central processing units (CPUs) connected by a processor interconnect, a single baseboard management controller for managing operation of the first and second CPUs, wherein the first and second CPUs are operable as a single unified node, and a single keyboard, video and mouse connection, wherein the single keyboard, video and mouse connection includes a video controller and a USB controller. The multi-processor system may further comprise a multiplexer connected to the video controller and the USB controller, wherein the multiplexer has a selectable PCIe connection to either the first central processing unit or the second central processing unit. Program instructions may be executable by the baseboard management controller to send a selection signal to the multiplexer.

Multiplexer for selectively connecting a single KVM connection to multiple central processing units

Methods, apparatus, and computer program products that can automatically search for topics related to discovered devices are disclosed herein. One method includes a processor discovering a device and automatically searching a set of data resources on a network for a set of topics related to the discovered device. Apparatus and computer program products that include hardware and/or software that can perform the methods for automatically searching for topics related to a discovered device are also disclosed herein.

Automatically searching for topics related to discovered devices

An electronic device is provided that has an input device including an input sensor configured to detect synaptic signals from a user. An electronic device sensor is also provided that detects environmental signals or user signals. The electronic device also includes a memory to store executable instructions, and one or more processors. When implementing the executable instructions, the one or more processors determine an environmental characteristic based on the environmental signals or a user characteristic based on the user signals, and determine when to grant access to the electronic device based on the synaptic signals based on the environmental characteristic or the user characteristic.

Device and method for accessing electronic device

A method for automatically switching input/output ('I/O') between partitioned systems based on power usage includes monitoring power usage for each of two or more systems, selecting a system of the two or more systems in response to power usage of the of the system reaching a power usage threshold, and switching an input of an I/O switch to send data for display of one or more elements of the selected system to an electronic display.

Auto switching video by power usage

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, using a notification extension system, an incoming communication request on an information handling device; identifying, using the notification extension system, an environmental context of a user with respect to the information handling device; determining, using the notification extension system and based upon the environmental context of the user, the user is unable to answer the incoming communication request within a default communication request notification length; and extending, using the notification extension system, based upon the environmental context of the user, and responsive to determining the user is unable to answer the incoming communication request, a length of the communication request notification.

Communication request notification extension

A method for automatically switching input/output ('I/O') between partitioned systems based on system events includes monitoring a system state for each of two or more systems sharing an electronic display, where each of the two or more systems includes a processor executing an instance of an operating system, selecting a system of the two or more systems sharing the electronic display in response to determining that a change has occurred in the system state of the of the selected system, and switching an input of an I/O switch to send data for display of one or more elements of the selected system to the electronic display.

System and method for auto switching video by system events

A partitionable multi-processor system includes a first plurality of components of the multi-processor system forming a first partitioned node that is operable as a first independent node, a second plurality of components of the multi-processor system forming a second partitioned node that is operable as a second independent node and a system controller that is configured to selectively and independently control separate power, clock, and/or reset signals to the first plurality of components forming the first partitioned node and the second plurality of components forming the second partitioned node in response to receiving a first partitioning mode instruction from a baseboard management controller (BMC) that identifies a partitioned state and configured to selectively control the separate power, clock, and/or reset signals to the first and second pluralities of components in a unified manner in response to receiving a second partitioning mode instruction from the BMC that identifies a unified state.

Independent control of power, clock, and/or reset signals to a partitioned node

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Gary David Cudak