Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Pte. Ltd.

Jonathan Gaither Knox

Russell Speight VanBlon

Rod D Waltermann

Ryan Charles Knudson

Roderick Echols

Suzanne Marion Beaumont

Peter Hamilton Wetsel

Liang Chen

Nathan J Peterson

John Carl Mese

Yi Zhou

Arnold S Weksler

Timothy Winthrop Kingsbury

Ratan Ray

Hermann Franz Burgmeier

Scott Wentao Li

Robert James Kapinos

Axel Ramirez Flores

Bradley Park Strazisar

Jason M Grimme

Mark Evan Cohen

Jon Wayne Heim

Charles Douglas Ball

Charles Burnham Oxrieder

Liu ChunMei

Qiu Jun

Vishwani Sodhi

One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using a camera sensor of an information handling device, an image associated with a user; identifying, in a conferencing application, a background image for a video stream of the user; determining, based on comparing the background image to the image of the user, a contextual discrepancy for a superimposition of the image of the user over the background image; and adjusting, based on the determining, one or more aspects of the background image or one or more aspects of the image of the user to negate the contextual discrepancy. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Background image adjustment in virtual meeting

For login based command activation is disclosed, a processor detects a login interaction that includes a login time interval. The processor further detects a voice command concurrent with the login time interval. The processor activates the voice command based on the voice command being concurrent with the login time interval.

Login based command activation

A computer implemented method, device and computer program device are provided that are under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions. The method receives a user instruction to perform an action, identifies context awareness information concerning an environment where the action is to be performed. The environment includes a plurality of candidate electronic devices. At least one of the candidate electronic devices provides digital personal assistant (DPA) functionality. The method groups a collection of one or more responsive electronic devices, from the plurality of candidate electronic devices, based on the context awareness information. The method communicates the instruction to the collection of one or more responsive electronic devices to coordinate the action by the collection of one or more responsive electronic devices.

Grouping electronic devices to coordinate action based on context awareness

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a digital assistant of an information handling device, a query from a user comprising at least two response portions; determining responses for the at least two response portions, wherein the determining comprises separately processing each of the at least two response portions; and providing a response to the user comprising the responses. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Query having multiple response portions

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user input comprising a potential wake word; determining, using a processor, whether the potential wake word is associated with a stored wake word; and responsive to determining that the potential wake word is associated with the stored wake word, activating, based on the potential wake word, a digital assistant associated with the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Digital assistant activation based on wake word association

One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one sensor of an information handling device, environmental audio; receiving, at an audio capture device associated with the information handling device, a user query, wherein the user query comprises at least one deictic term; disambiguating, using a processor and by analyzing the captured environmental audio, the user query; and providing, based on the disambiguating, a response to the user query. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Query disambiguation using environmental audio

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, query input from a user; determining, using a processor, whether a qualitative modifier exists in the query input that modifies a subject of the query input; identifying, responsive to determining that a qualitative modifier exists in the query input and by accessing a user profile, at least one user preference associated with the subject of the query input and at least one governing criteria for the identified qualitative modifier; and providing, based on the identifying, query results. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Qualitative modifier in query input

An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an audio receiver of an information handling device, user voice input; identifying, using a processor, words included in the user voice input; determining, using the processor, one of the identified words renders ambiguous a command included in the user voice input; accessing, using the processor, context data; disambiguating, using the processor, the command based on the context data; and committing, using the processor, a predetermined action according to the command. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Using context to interpret natural language speech recognition commands

An aspect provides a method, including: receiving from a user, at an input device of an information handling device, user object search input including at least one search term; accessing, using a processor, tag information of a plurality of tags associated with stored user objects; determining, using a processor, at least one modification to the user object search input to change results produced by the user object search input based on the tag information; and providing search results according to the at least one modification. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Filtering search results using smart tags

An aspect provides a method, including: accessing, using a processor, a user profile based on user context information, wherein the user context information utilizes user device events; preparing, using the processor, a list of items based on the user profile related to a particular time period organized according to importance based on the user profile; and presenting, using the processor, the list of items related to the particular time period. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Determining trends for a user using contextual data

One non-limiting embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a user, user input comprising a trigger event; identifying, using at least one processor, active media content; and performing, based upon the trigger event, an action with respect to the active media content. This embodiment is intended to be non-limiting and other embodiments are contemplated, disclosed, and discussed.

Performing action on active media content

An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, via an audio receiver of an information handling device, user voice input; identifying a first word based on the user voice input; accessing a word association data store; selecting an equivalent based on an association with the first word within the word association data store; committing an action based on the equivalent; receiving feedback input from the user regarding the equivalent; and updating the selecting based on the feedback. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Adaptively learning vocabulary for completing speech recognition commands

One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, a system power consumption metric; determining, using a processor, a change in the system power consumption metric over time; obtaining, using a processor, system change data; associating, using a processor, the change in the system power consumption metric and the system change data; and indicating, using an output device, a system change associated with the change in the system power consumption metric. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Device power monitoring and optimization

One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, a system performance metric; determining, using a processor, a change in the system performance metric over time; obtaining, using a processor, system change data; associating, using a processor, the change in the system performance metric and the system change data; and indicating, using an output device, a system change associated with the change in the system performance metric. Other aspects are described and claimed.

System performance monitoring and optimization

For switching a communication mode based on the preference of the communication recipient, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. Here, the processor determines that a user is initiating communication with a recipient via a first communication channel and receives a communication channel preference of the recipient. Additionally, the processor prompts the user to switch to a second communication channel in response to the first communication channel not matching the communication channel preference.

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Jonathan Gaither Knox