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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Aaron M. Stewart, Raleigh, NC (US);

Adam M. Smith, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Jeffrey E. Skinner, Raleigh, NC (US);

Thomas J. Sluchak, Apex, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0489 (2013.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0219 (2013.01); G06F 3/0238 (2013.01); G06F 3/04895 (2013.01);
Abstract

Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a first configuration for one or more areas of a touchable control area of an information handling device, said first configuration comprising a designation of one or more areas of said touchable control area, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed; ascertaining a power state; updating said first configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area associated with the ascertained power state.


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