US 12,112,086 B2Granted

Dynamically configuring external display devices

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsDaniel L. Hamlin, Malathi R, Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel, Parminder Singh Sethi

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Abstract

External display devices can be dynamically configured. An adaptive display engine may be configured to receive requests from agents executing an users' client computing devices when the users connect their client computing devices to external display devices. Such a request may indicate that one or more external display devices have been connected to a client computing device and may identify the display configuration for the one or more external display devices and an internal display device. The adaptive display engine can dynamically determine recommended settings based on the specified display configuration and return the recommended settings to the agent. The agent can then automatically apply the recommended settings on the client computing device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for configuring an external display device comprising:

receiving, at an adaptive display engine, a request for recommended settings for an external display device that has been connected to a client computing device, the request identifying a display configuration, the display configuration including one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more current settings or characteristics of an internal display device of the client computing device, the request also including device information for the client computing device;
providing the display configuration to a predictor of the adaptive display engine;
using, by the predictor, the device information to locate a plurality of entries in a settings prediction data structure that are associated with the device information, each of the plurality of entries defining a different set of relationships between one or more possible settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more possible settings or characteristics of the internal display device;
determining that a set of relationships between the one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and the one or more current settings or characteristics of the internal display device matches the set of relationships defined in a first entry of the plurality of entries;
in response to the determination, selecting settings defined in the first entry as recommended settings for the external display device;
and
providing the recommend settings to the client computing device to thereby enable the client computing device to automatically apply the recommended settings to configure the external display device.

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One or more computer storage media storing computer executable instructions which when executed by one or more processors implement a method for configuring an external display device comprising:

detecting, by an agent executing on a client computing device, that an external display has been connected to the client computing device;
obtaining, by the agent, a display configuration in response to detecting that the external display device has been connected to the client computing device, the display configuration including one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more current settings or characteristics of an internal display device of the client computing device;
sending, by the agent and to an adaptive display engine, a request for recommended settings for the external display device, the request including the display configuration and device information for the client computing device;
providing the display configuration to a predictor of the adaptive display engine;
using, by the predictor, the device information to locate a plurality of entries in a settings prediction data structure that are associated with the device information, each of the plurality of entries defining a different set of relationships between one or more possible settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more possible settings or characteristics of the internal display device;
determining that a set of relationships between the one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and the one or more current settings or characteristics of the internal display device matches the set of relationships defined in a first entry of the plurality of entries;
in response to the determination, selecting settings defined in the first entry as recommended settings for the external display device;
and
receiving, by the agent and from the adaptive display engine, the recommended settings for the external display device;
and
applying, by the agent, the recommended settings to configure the external display device.

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A system comprising:

an adaptive display engine;
and
a plurality of client computing devices, each of the plurality of client computing devices including an agent;
wherein the adaptive display engine and each agent are configured to implement a method for dynamically configuring external display devices that are connected to the plurality of client computing devices, the method comprising:
detecting, by the agent, that an external display has been connected to the respective client computing device;
obtaining, by the agent, a display configuration in response to detecting that the external display device has been connected to the respective client computing device, the display configuration including one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more current settings or characteristics of an internal display device of the client computing device;
sending, by the agent and to the adaptive display engine, a request for recommended settings for the external display device, the request including the display configuration device information for the client computing device;
providing the display configuration to a predictor of the adaptive display engine;
using, by the predictor, the device information to locate a plurality of entries in a settings prediction data structure that are associated with the device information, each of the plurality of entries defining a different set of relationships between one or more possible settings or characteristics of the external display device and one or more possible settings or characteristics of the internal display device;
determining that a set of relationships between the one or more current settings or characteristics of the external display device and the one or more current settings or characteristics of the internal display device matches the set of relationships defined in a first entry of the plurality of entries;
in response to the determination, selecting settings defined in the first entry as recommended settings for the external display device;
and
receiving, by the agent and from the adaptive display engine, the recommended settings for the external display device;
and
applying, by the agent, the recommended settings to configure the external display device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/734,628Filed 2 May 2022
Published: US 2023/0350622 A12 Nov 2023
Granted: 8 Oct 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 3/14
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
G06T 3/4092
Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting: image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
G06T 3/40
Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image: scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
G09G 2320/08
Control of display operating conditions: arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the…

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