Granted Patent B1

US 11,327,521 · App. 17/151,411 · Granted May 10, 2022

Inventors: Guo Lei (Anchorvale Link, SG); Bee June Tye (Choa Chu Kang, SG)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

G06F1/03G06F13/102G06F3/0482G06F13/20

Abstract

Claims (49)

1. A method comprising:

mapping, by a processor, a monitor setting to a shortcut key associated with a human interface device;

translating the monitor setting of a first monitor into binary data based on a lookup table;

generating a human interface device report;

embedding the binary data in the human interface device report;

storing the human interface device report with the binary data in the human interface device;

subsequent to the storing the binary data, detecting invocation of the shortcut key using the human interface device;

subsequent to the detecting the shortcut key, matching an identifier in the human interface device report associated with the shortcut key;

retrieving the binary data based on the identifier;

subsequent to the retrieving the binary data, transmitting the binary data to a second monitor;

determining the monitor setting from the binary data based on the lookup table; and

applying the monitor setting of the first monitor to the second monitor.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the shortcut key includes a programmable button of the human interface device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the shortcut key further includes a programmable scroll wheel of the human interface device.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising mapping another shortcut key to a set of monitor settings.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mapping the monitor setting to the shortcut key is performed using an on-screen display control software.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the binary data is transmitted to a microcontroller unit of the second monitor.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the monitor setting mapped to the binary data is performed by a scaler of the second monitor.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the binary data is used as an index in determining the monitor setting mapped to the binary data.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the binary data has a length of k-bits, wherein k is a natural number.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the length of k-bits is based on a mapping category between the monitor setting and the shortcut key.

11. An information handling system, comprising:

a monitor scaler configured to:

translate a monitor setting of a first monitor into binary data based on a lookup table;

subsequent to receipt of the binary data from a monitor controller unit:

determine the monitor setting from the binary data based on the lookup table; and

apply the monitor setting of the first monitor to a second monitor, wherein the first monitor and the second monitor are associated with the information handling system; and

the monitor controller unit configured to:

map the monitor setting to a shortcut key associated with a human interface device;

generate a human interface device report;

embed the binary data in the human interface device report;

store the human interface device report in a non-volatile memory of the human interface device;

subsequent to detection the shortcut key, match an identifier in the human interface device report associated with the shortcut key;

retrieve the binary data in the human interface device report that was stored in the non-volatile memory based on the identifier; and

transmit the binary data to the second monitor.

12. The information handling system of claim 11 , wherein the binary data is used as an index in determining the monitor setting mapped to the binary data.

13. The information handling system of claim 11 , wherein the binary data has a length of k-bits, wherein k is a natural number.

14. The information handling system of claim 13 , wherein the length of k-bits is based on a mapping category between the monitor setting and the shortcut key.

15. The information handling system of claim 11 , wherein the shortcut key includes a programmable button of the human interface device.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium including code that when executed performs a method, the method comprising:

detecting an invocation of a shortcut key using a human interface device, wherein the shortcut key was mapped to a monitor setting;

subsequent to the detecting the shortcut key, matching an identifier in a human interface device report associated with the shortcut key;

retrieving binary data based on the identifier, wherein the binary data was translated from the monitor setting of a first monitor based on a lookup table, and wherein the binary data was embedded in the human interface device report prior to storing in the human interface device;

subsequent to retrieving the binary data, transmitting the binary data to a second monitor; and

determining the monitor setting from the binary data based on the lookup table.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the binary data is used as an index in determining the monitor setting mapped to the binary data.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the binary data has a length of k-bits, wherein k is a natural number.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the length of k-bits is based on a mapping category of between the monitor setting and the shortcut key.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the shortcut key includes a programmable button of the human interface device.

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