IP Library Granted Patent US 11,108,709
Granted Patent B2
US 11,108,709 · App. 15/605,201 · Granted Aug 31, 2021

Provide status message associated with work status

Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, NC); Robert James Kapinos (Durham, NC); Timothy Winthrop Kingsbury (Cary, NC); Scott Wentao Li (Cary, NC)
Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
H04L51/02G06Q10/10H04L51/14H04L67/24H04L67/02
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Patent No.
US 11,108,709
App. No.
15/605,201
Granted
Aug 31, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an incoming communication; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with a user, wherein the context data corresponds to at least one active application; determining, using the context data, a work status of the user; and providing, responsive to the incoming communication, a status message associated with the determined work status. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims (23)

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at an information handling device, an incoming communication;

identifying, using a processor a user's position within an active document, wherein the active document is identified using at least one sensor selected from at least one of a camera and a microphone;

determining, based upon the user's position within the active document and upon inputs received by the at least one sensor, a work status of the user, wherein the determining comprises:

identifying that the work status is a not busy work status responsive to identifying that the user's position is at the beginning of the active document; and

providing a response to the incoming communication, wherein the response includes a description of the work status comprising an indication of the position within the active document.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising updating the response based upon a change in the determined work status.

3. An information handling device, comprising:

at least one camera;

a processor;

a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to:

receive an incoming communication;

identify, using the processor the at least one camera, a user's position within an active document, wherein the active document is identified using at least one sensor selected from at least one of a camera and a microphone;

determine, based upon the user's position within the active document and upon inputs received by the at least one sensor, a work status of the user, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to determine comprise instructions executable by the processor to:

identify that the work status is a not busy work status responsive to identifying that the user's position is at the beginning of the active document; and

provide a response to the incoming communication, wherein the response includes a description of the work status and comprises an indication of the position within the active document.

4. A product, comprising:

a storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising:

code that receives an incoming communication;

code that identifies a user's position within an active document, wherein the active document is identified using at least one sensor selected from at least one of a camera and a microphone;

code that determines, based upon the user's position within the active document and upon inputs received by the at least one sensor, a work status of the user, wherein the code that determines comprises code that:

identifies that the work status is a not busy work status responsive to identifying that the position is at the beginning of the active document; and

code that provides a response to the incoming communication, wherein the response includes a description of the work status comprising an indication of the position within the active document.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2025
From: LENOVO PC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
To: LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Reel/Frame 069870/0670 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2022
From: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
To: LENOVO PC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Reel/Frame 060638/0044 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2017
From: VANBLON, RUSSELL SPEIGHT; KAPINOS, ROBERT JAMES; KINGSBURY, TIMOTHY WINTHROP; LI, SCOTT WENTAO
To: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
Reel/Frame 042508/0233 →
Continuity (1)
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