Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr

Arnold S Weksler

Russell Speight VanBlon

John Carl Mese

Antonio Bumarch, Iii

Nathan J Peterson

Jeffrey Mark Estroff

Jose Rodolfo Ruiz

Howard J Locker

Robert James Norton, Jr

Justin Tyler Dubs

James Anthony Hunt

Joshua Neil Novak

Sandy Scott Collins

Michaelle L Fuccella-Walcutt

Rod D W Waltermann

Rod D Waltermann

Justin Michael Ringuette

Michael Thano Matthews

Jason M Grimme

Scott Edward Kelso

Adam Miles Smith

Jason Pratt Parrish

Bruce Douglas Gress

Paul Plaskonos

Russell Stuart Gantman

Jerry Thomas Paradise

Debra Kay Kobs-Fortner

Lisa Louise Carter

Joshua N Nokav

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device positioned within a vehicle, a command from a vehicle occupant to initiate a function; transmitting, responsive to the receiving and prior to initiation of the function, an authorization request to a secondary device designated as an authorization authority; determining, using a processor, whether confirmation of the authorization request is received from the secondary device; and initiating, responsive to determining that confirmation of the authorization request is received from the secondary device, the function. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Vehicle device authorization via secondary device

One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting an area of a display device of an information handling device of a user, designated as a share window; identifying, when the share window is in an active share state, a position of a first window on the display device with respect to the share window; and sharing, based upon the position of the first window on the display being within at least a portion of the share window, content data contained within the first window to a display device of at least one other user in communication with the information handling device of the user. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Designated share window for sharing content data

One embodiment provides a method including: receiving, on a display device, a request to display data; detecting, using a processor, a factor indicating a need for privacy; activating, based on the detecting, a privacy filter of the display device; and displaying, on the display device, the data. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Activating an electronic privacy screen during display of sensitve information

A method can include receiving at least one sensor-based measurement that characterizes a transportable medium loaded in a printer system; determining that a match does not exist between a print job to be printed on a transportable medium and the characterized transportable medium loaded in the printer system; and responsive to the determining that the match does not exist, issuing a signal.

Printer system

An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a processor, an indication of an input including a word; providing, on a touch screen, an enlarged view of the input indicated, wherein the enlarged view is off set from an input entry field on the touch screen; and accepting, using a processor, editing input that modifies the word. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Simplified text correction on a touch screen

An apparatus for performing a disruptive task based on a user state is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to identify a disruptive task to be performed at the apparatus. The processor obtains biometric data from a user of the apparatus. The processor performs the disruptive task in response to the biometric data indicating a predetermined user state. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus.

Performing disruptive tasks based on user state

An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, on a first display, an application view; providing an area of the first display that is associated with a second display; receiving, from a user, an input associating the application view with the area of the first display; and repositioning, using a processor, the application view from the first display to a second display after receiving the input. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Virtual multi-display

An aspect provides a method, including: playing, on a display device, video content; providing, using at least one speaker, audio content associated with the video content; obtaining, from an external source, data relating to playback context; determining, using a processor, that the data relating to playback context is associated with a reduced audibility context; and providing, on the display device, textual data associated with dialog of the video content. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Intelligent closed captioning

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for indicating a connection to a printer. A signal reception module receives a signal at a printer of a plurality of printers from an information handling device. The signal requests an indication that the information handling device is connected to the printer. An indication type module determines a type of indication to provide based on the received signal. An indicator provider module provides an indication of the determined type from the printer that indicates the information handling device is connected to the printer.

Indicating a connection to a printer

For automatically adjusting a vehicle light level based on a viewing location of an occupant, a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes an image sensor, an occupant viewing location module that determines an illuminable region corresponding to a viewing location of a vehicle occupant based on data from the image sensor, a light level module that determines a light level for the illuminable region, and an illumination control module that adjusts an illumination setting of at least one light associated with the illuminable region based on the determined light level. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an occupant recognition module that identifies the vehicle occupant, wherein the light level module determines the light level based on the identity of the vehicle occupant.

Self-adjusting lighting based on viewing location

For preventing messages from being sent to an unintended recipient, an apparatus for indicating a message recipient is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, including code that identifies an active messaging interface from among a plurality of messaging interfaces, identifies a correspondent associated with the active messaging interface, and temporarily provides a message recipient cue based on the identified correspondent in response to a user writing to the active messaging interface. The apparatus may remove the message recipient cue in response to expiration of a predetermined interval. The apparatus may further retrieve the visual indicator from a local database, a server, and/or the identified recipient. Additionally, the apparatus may identify the active messaging interface based on a viewing location and/or on a cursor location. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus.

Message recipient indicator

An approach is disclosed that identifies a location of mobile device associated with a target person, such as a spouse, child, or employee. The approach then identifies other mobile devices that have current locations that are near, or proximate to, the identified location. The requestor is then provided with contact data corresponding to one or more users of the other mobile devices.

Providing contact data of second mobile devices proximate to a target person of a first mobile device

In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and a memory accessible to the at least one processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to detect first eye input to a first location on a user interface (UI) presented on the display, identify at least two selector elements as at least being presented on the display proximate to the first location, and present a magnification interface on the UI. The magnification interface comprises a larger rendition of the at least two selector elements relative to presentation of the at least two selector elements on the UI prior to the detection of the first eye input.

Magnification based on eye input

According to one disclosed embodiment, an approach is provided in which a multi-workspace request is received at a machine while the machine is operating in a single workspace mode and while the machine is displaying a first single workspace on a display screen accessible by the machine. The machine includes a number of single workspaces and each of the single workspaces has spaces to display a number of tiles that each correspond to an application. A multi-workspace mode is displayed on the display screen, with the displaying of the multi-workspace mode including displaying a set of the single workspaces on the display screen. Each of the set of single workspaces is displayed in a reduced size in comparison to the single workspace mode.

Moving a tile across multiple workspaces

An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an input device, user input having a string of characters; determining, using a processor, one or more potential errors in the string of characters; identifying, using a processor, a character location of a highest ranked error of the one or more potential errors within the string of characters; and positioning, on a display, a visual indication associated with the location of the highest ranked error within the string of characters. Other aspects are described and claimed.

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr