Patents by Inventor Darrin Sculley

Darrin Sculley 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).

  • Patent number: 9921726
    Abstract: A method and system for anonymously associating a workstation user's station control preferences with a workstation, the method comprising the steps of correlating anonymous user IDs with user preference sets in a database, obtaining input from a user at a workstation, comparing the user input to the anonymous user IDs to distinguish one distinguished user from other users without determining the identity of the user, accessing the user preference set associated with the distinguished user and controlling workstation affordances per the accessed user preferences while the user is located within a present zone proximate the workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
  • Patent number: 9852388
    Abstract: An algorithm formulating system for use with a sensing ecosystem for identifying enterprise space states, the sensing ecosystem including a plurality of sensor devices mounted within an enterprise space wherein each sensor device is capable of sensing a plurality of parameters within the enterprise space, the system comprising a processor programmed to perform the steps of accessing a rule set that specifies a first parameter value set that corresponding to a perceived state within a first enterprise space, receiving sensor data from sensor devices within the first enterprise space, comparing the sensor data to the rule set to identify instances of the perceived state, examining sensor data to identify a second parameter value set that occurs at least a threshold percentage of time for the identified instances of the perceived state and using the second parameter value set as the basis for a new rule set to be associated with the perceived state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Steelcase, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy D Swieter, Robert Scheper, Darrin Sculley
  • Publication number: 20170293458
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees, each conferee using a distinct interface device that includes a distinct display screen, the interface devices including at least a first interface device including a first display screen used by a first conferee, the method comprising the steps of presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, and during a conference content sharing session while content is being shared among conferees in at least the first and second sharing windows, identifying other display screens that may be used to present shared content, presenting screen selection options for other display screens via the first session interface, receiving a selection via the first session interface of at least one of the presented screen selection options and in response to the received selection, associating the display screen that is associated with the selected screen s
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Poel, Darrin Sculley
  • Patent number: 9766079
    Abstract: A method and system of tracking and reporting locations of entity employees, the method for use with at least a first interface device including a display screen, the method comprising the steps of, providing a processor programmed to perform the steps of, storing schedules of entity employees where the schedules indicate scheduled locations of employees during time slots, receiving an indication from a first employee indicating at least a first future time slot, identifying locations of the entity employees during the future time slot, using the schedules of entity employees to generate a location representation indicating the locations of at least a subset of the entity employees during the at least a first future time slot and presenting the location representation via the first interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Poel, Darrin Sculley
  • Patent number: 9716861
    Abstract: A method and system of facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees including at least first and second conferees using first and second different interface devices that includes first and second display screens, respectively, the method comprising the steps of presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, the session interface including a session queue, a first sharing window and a first private window, the session queue including a list of documents uploaded to the session by at least one of the conferees and presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, the second session interface including the session document queue, a second sharing window and a second private window, wherein either of the first or second conferee can open any document in the session queue in their sharing window and any document in the session queue in their private window at any time during a conference and wherein, any change in the document opened in either of the firs
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Poel, Darrin Sculley