Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090167838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING A TELEMEDICINE STATION - Apparatus and method for cleaning a telemedicine booth include identifying a custodian in the booth, providing visual and/or audio prompting or instructions on cleaning the booth, receiving input from the custodian regarding the status of the cleaning performed on the booth, and transmitting information regarding the cleaning of the booth to a remote computer system. The method and apparatus further include providing an ultra-violet light source in the booth and activating the light source to reduce the growth of harmful bacteria, or kill bacteria. An alert/notification may be sent to a custodian that the booth needs or could use cleaning. | 07-02-2009 |
20120159160 | HIGH SECURITY DISPLAY OF PRIVATE DATA - A device, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes an inbound port to receive information from an information retrieval peripheral. The device also includes an outbound port to send information to a local computing device. The device includes masking logic to cause the local computing device to recognize the portable security device as at least one of a plurality of endpoint devices. The device also includes data obfuscation logic that is capable of obfuscating simple data format data, received from the information retrieval peripheral, obfuscating that data into a non-simple data format, and sending the obfuscated data to the local computing device. The non-simple data format includes at least one frame of video. | 06-21-2012 |
20120272090 | SYSTEM RECOVERY USING EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for computer system recovery is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a connection, via an interface, to a computer system to support the system recovery of the computer system. The method includes executing an emulation application as a recovery agent. The method includes retrieving, based on identifiers associated with the computer system, remote data via another interface. The method further includes performing the system recovery by using at least a part of the remote data. | 10-25-2012 |
20130002722 | ADAPTIVE TEXT FONT AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS IN SMART HANDHELD DEVICES FOR IMPROVED USABILITY - Systems and methods of operating a system may involve obtaining an image from a front-facing camera of the system, and conducting a facial distance analysis on the image. In addition, a visualization characteristic of display content associated with the system may be modified based at least in part on the facial distance analysis. | 01-03-2013 |
20140176572 | Offloading Touch Processing To A Graphics Processor - In an embodiment, a processor includes a graphics domain including a graphics engines each having at least one execution unit. The graphics domain is to schedule a touch application offloaded from a core domain to at least one of the plurality of graphics engines. The touch application is to execute responsive to an update to a doorbell location in a system memory coupled to the processor, where the doorbell location is written responsive to a user input to the touch input device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176573 | Offloading Touch Processing To A Graphics Processor - In an embodiment, a processor includes a graphics domain including a graphics engines each having at least one execution unit. The graphics domain is to schedule a touch application offloaded from a core domain to at least one of the plurality of graphics engines. The touch application is to execute responsive to an update to a doorbell location in a system memory coupled to the processor, where the doorbell location is written responsive to a user input to the touch input device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHIP SELF DEACTIVATION - In some embodiments, provided is a processor chip including self deactivation logic to deactivate the processor chip after a threshold of qualified events have been monitored. | 07-03-2014 |
20140355476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESH NETWORK DEPLOYMENT - Systems and methods to deploy a mesh network comprising one or more access point (AP) modules and at least one deployment server to a deployment region. The AP module may be configured to determine location and/or status information based on global navigation satellite signals and/or sensor signals and communicate the location and/or status signals to the deployment servers. The deployment servers may be configured to initiate deployment of additional AP modules to the deployment region based at least in part on the received location and/or status information. | 12-04-2014 |
20150082890 | BIOMETRIC SENSORS FOR PERSONAL DEVICES - Methods and systems may provide for a system having a flexible substrate, an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to the flexible substrate and a processor coupled to the ultrasonic transducer array. The processor may identify a fingerprint based on a signal from the ultrasonic transducer array. The system may also include an external component having a curved profile, wherein the ultrasonic transducer array is embedded in the external component and includes a read surface that conforms to the curved profile. In one example, the external component includes a button having a function that is separate from identification of the fingerprint. | 03-26-2015 |