Patents by Inventor Benjamin Markwardt

Benjamin Markwardt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Contextual presence
    Patent number: 11558713
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Meissner, Alexander Say Go, Chinmay Milind Dani, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Benjamin Markwardt, Tejas Patel
  • Contextual presence
    Patent number: 10846745
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Meissner, Alexander Say Go, Chinmay Milind Dani, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Benjamin Markwardt, Tejas Patel
  • Contextual presence
    Patent number: 10455362
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Meissner, Alexander Say Go, Chinmay Milind Dani, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Benjamin Markwardt, Tejas Patel