Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (united States) Inc.

Other

Lenovo Global Technology (united States) Inc.

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

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

Bryan Lloyd Young

John Michael Petersen

John Mark Weber

Ajay Dholakia

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

Nagananda Chumbalkar

Jarrod B Johnson

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

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

Brian E Finley

Israel Silva Dias

Matthew A Steele

Mark McCool

Keith T Adams

Srihari V Angaluri

Thomas J Alandt

Zendre Necole Simmons

Gavin D Cudak

Caleb D Cudak

Tristian T Brown

Zhipeng Gao

Samuel Fanchiang

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

An edge device, method and computer program product may perform, include or cause performance of various operations. The operations include determining an amount of electrical energy that an edge device is expected to have available from a local renewable energy system during each of a plurality of time periods and determining an amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations during each of the plurality of time periods. The operations further include identifying a first one of the time periods for which the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to have available from the local renewable energy system is greater than the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations and causing a cooling system that cools the edge device to perform an overcooling operation during the identified first time period.

Overcooling an edge device that uses electrical energy from a local renewable energy system

Techniques for internet protocol (IP) messages via short message service (SMS) are described and may be implemented via a wireless device to enable messages originated via an IP technique (e.g., an IP application) to be converted to SMS messages when a condition occurs that prevents sending and/or receiving an IP message.

Internet protocol messages via short message service

A baseboard management controller in a multi-processor system may perform operations including: identifying a partitioning mode (partitioned state or unified state) to implement on the multi-processor system having first and second central processing units (CPUs) located on a single motherboard; accessing, in response to the partitioned state, a first partitioned node configuration (P1C) for a first partitioned node (P1) and a second partitioned node configuration (P2C) for a second partitioned node (P2), wherein P1C identifies a first firmware interface level (F1L) and a first operating system to be used by P1, and wherein P2C identifies a second firmware interface level (F2L) and a second operating system to be used by P2; and causing the first CPU to load a first firmware interface having the identified F1L identified in the P1C and causing the second CPU to load a second firmware interface having the F2L identified in the P2C.

Multiple firmware levels in a partitionable multi-processor system

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Wake Forest, NC, United States of America

Gary David Cudak