Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Matthew Price Roper

Scott Edwards Kelso

Steven Richard Perrin

John Weldon Nicholson

Mark Charles Davis

Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki

Howard J Locker

Jian Li

James Stephen Rutledge

Jianbang Zhang

Bradley Park Strazisar

Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch

Robert Bowser

Yi Zhou

Wang Sheng

Li Bin

Song Wang

Aaron Michael Stewart

Seiichi Kawano

Sheng Wang

Mitsuhiro Yamazaki

Axel Ramirez Flores

Karen Ruth Kluttz

David Alexander Schwarz

Julie Anne Morris

John Miles Hunt

Michael Thano Matthews

Toby John Bowen

Rong Yang

Geoffrey Simon Bula

Steve Richard Perrin

Wang Zhe Peng

Wang Kai

Wang Wen

An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, from a wireless display device, one or more beacons using a receiver of an information handling device; using, at the information handling device, the one or more beacons to determine one or more wireless display device characteristics; initiating, at the information handling device, one of a plurality of wireless connection protocols determined based on the one or more wireless display device characteristics; establishing, using a communication module of the information handling device, a wireless connection with the wireless display device; and transmitting, with the communication module of the information handling device, data for display to the wireless display device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Discovery and connection to wireless displays

A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Establishing a remote desktop

Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for detecting input gestures. In one method, an input is detected by use of a processor. Moreover, the method may include determining a centric position of the input. A vertical axis and a horizontal axis of a virtual coordinate plane may extend through the centric position of the input such that an origin of the virtual coordinate plane is positioned within the centric position of the input. The method may also include determining that the input includes a circular gesture if the input intersects at least a positive point on a first axis extending through the origin, a negative point on the first axis, a positive point on a second axis extending through the origin, and a negative point on the second axis.

Apparatus, method, and program product for detecting input gestures

For integrating multiple different touch based inputs, a method is disclosed that includes detecting a pressure at a screen pressure module, enabling a first touch module based on the pressure exceeding a pressure threshold value, and integrating input from a second touch module and the first touch module, the input from the first touch module and the second touch module being concurrently received.

Integrating multiple different touch based inputs

Systems and methods described herein provide for a process for managing continuity of experience between operation of a hybrid computer system in the connected state and the slate component independently in the disconnected state. Embodiments further provide for the continuity of experience for devices operating under multiple processors or multiple platforms. According to embodiments, one or more states and conditions of the connected hybrid computer system may be synchronized with the slate component when the slate component is disconnected from the hybrid computer system. Alternatively, embodiments provide for the synchronization of one or more states and conditions of the independent slate component with the hybrid computer system responsive to connecting the slate component to the hybrid computer system. Non-limiting examples of states and conditions according to embodiments are web pages, applications, documents, lists of recently opened files and web pages, and web browser active tabs.

Systems and methods for achieving continuation of experience between components in a hybrid environment

For integrating multiple different touch based inputs, a method is disclosed that includes displaying a graphical object on a touch screen device, receiving an input of a user touch of the graphical object on the touch screen, and altering an indicated portion of the touch screen responsive to a characteristic of the touch.

Touchscreen selection of graphical objects

A device includes a transceiver, a microphone, a sensor, and a controller coupled to receive signals from the sensor and to place the device into a mute mode when the signals from the sensor are indicative of a user action to reduce transmission of the user's voice.

Intelligent muting of a mobile device

An embodiment includes a system having: a display device having a first operating platform; a base device having a second operating platform and being configured to connect with the display device through a hardware connection; the hardware connection including a communication link between the first and second operating platforms; and a server module and a client module; the server module configured to, responsive to selecting an active operating platform, communicate settings of a previously active operating platform via the hardware connection to the client module to maintain continuity of settings after switching active operating platforms. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Systems and methods for communicating and switching between components in a hybrid computing environment

Systems, methods and products directed toward coordinating power states in a hybrid information handling device are described herein. One aspect includes a method including: providing a primary operating environment and a secondary operating environment in an information handling device; ascertaining a trigger event for switching between the primary operating environment and the secondary operating environment; providing power state transitioning responsive to the trigger event; and placing one of the primary operating environment and the secondary operating environment in a working state while one of the primary operating environment and the secondary operating environment is in a sleeping state. Other embodiments are described herein.

Coordinating power states in a hybrid information handling device

For managing multiple touch sources with palm rejection, a method is disclosed that includes detecting an instrument touch on a touch screen of a computing device, the instrument touch performed by a handheld instrument, disabling user touch for a portion of the touch screen, the disabled portion selected in accordance with a usage pattern, and accepting a user touch of the touch screen outside of the disabled portion.

Managing multiple touch sources with palm rejection

For identifying words for a context, a monitor module monitors first communications at a digital processing system and determines usage frequencies of a plurality of words in one or more contexts. An identity module identifies a first word in response to a usage frequency for the first word exceeding a use threshold.

Identifying words for a context

A method includes capturing stylus input via a background task running on a mobile device, wherein the stylus input is from user interactions with the stylus separate from the mobile device, suppressing display of stylus input on a display screen of the mobile device while capturing stylus input via the background task, and storing the stylus input on a computer readable storage device accessible by the mobile device.

Off-screen input capture for mobile device

For predicting web pages, a calculation module predicts a web page from a current context and displays the predicted web page.

Predicting web page

A method includes sensing a local environmental condition, receiving an electronic communication message, sensing a local microphone signal level associated with the communication message, and issuing a notification if the local microphone signal level exceeds a threshold associated with the local environmental condition. In such a method, an electronic communication may be a telephone call, a video call, a text message, a message communicated via a short message service, a message communicated via a multimedia message service or other type of message. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Manners reminder

An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, at a low power wireless communication subsystem of an information handling device, a beacon from a wirelessly connectable device; determining, with the low power wireless communication subsystem, if the received beacon warrants executing a communication protocol; in response to determining the received beacon warrants executing a communication protocol, powering on a main system component and a higher power wireless communication subsystem; and establishing a wireless connection between the higher power wireless communication subsystem and the wirelessly connectable device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Matthew Price Roper