Patents by Inventor Roland Schemers

Roland Schemers 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).

  • Publication number: 20240028644
    Abstract: A group-based communication platform is configured to ascertain the relatedness of various work objects shared among users of the group-based communication platform. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may further receive and process work objects originating from non-users of the group-based communication platform, thereby further expanding the utility of the determined relatedness between work objects. These work objects (or encrypted representations of these work objects) may be indexed and stored in association with the group-based communication platform, thereby enabling users to search for and retrieve work objects originating from a plurality of work object sources simultaneously, and based on various characteristics of those work objects and the determined interrelatedness between various work objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Wahl, Hubert Florin, Roland Schemers, Brian Elliott, Lydia Han, James McPhail
  • Publication number: 20230370296
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for programmatically determining a user status avatar that is configured for transmitting as renderable within a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han, San Oo
  • Patent number: 11809491
    Abstract: A group-based communication platform is configured to ascertain the relatedness of various work objects shared among users of the group-based communication platform. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may further receive and process work objects originating from non-users of the group-based communication platform, thereby further expanding the utility of the determined relatedness between work objects. These work objects (or encrypted representations of these work objects) may be indexed and stored in association with the group-based communication platform, thereby enabling users to search for and retrieve work objects originating from a plurality of work object sources simultaneously, and based on various characteristics of those work objects and the determined interrelatedness between various work objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Wahl, Hubert Florin, Roland Schemers, Brian Elliott, Lydia Han, James McPhail
  • Publication number: 20230344879
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for seamless communication resource transition are described herein. A user may wish to share an external communication resource within a group-based communication system. Settings may be provided allowing the user to more effectively share the external communication resource. The user may select the appropriate settings such that the external communication resource can be transmitted to the group-based communication system for display in accordance with the selected settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Matthew Wahl
  • Patent number: 11797948
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for facilitating event creation and modification in a group-based communication platform are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han
  • Publication number: 20230315245
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a member calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Publication number: 20230297968
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a channel calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein. The apparatus is configured to at least generate a channel calendar identifier associated with a group-based communication channel in the group-based communication system, receive a calendar sharing request associated with the channel calendar identifier from a client device, retrieve the calendar object and calendar object metadata set based on the channel calendar identifier, and cause rendering of the calendar object for display via a user interface of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Patent number: 11757670
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for programmatically determining a user status avatar that is configured for transmitting as renderable within a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han, San Oo
  • Patent number: 11734651
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses configured to programmatically generate and provide calendar digests of relevant group-based communication content to a client device associated with one or more event occurrence data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SlackTechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han
  • Patent number: 11729226
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for seamless communication resource transition are described herein. A user may wish to share an external communication resource within a group-based communication system. Settings may be provided allowing the user to more effectively share the external communication resource. The user may select the appropriate settings such that the external communication resource can be transmitted to the group-based communication system for display in accordance with the selected settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Matthew Wahl
  • Patent number: 11714517
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a member calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Patent number: 11699133
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a channel calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein. The apparatus is configured to at least generate a channel calendar identifier associated with a group-based communication channel in the group-based communication system, receive a calendar sharing request associated with the channel calendar identifier from a client device, retrieve the calendar object and calendar object metadata set based on the channel calendar identifier, and cause rendering of the calendar object for display via a user interface of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Publication number: 20230030552
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for facilitating event creation and modification in a group-based communication platform are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han
  • Publication number: 20230024460
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a member calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Publication number: 20230023160
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses configured to programmatically generate and provide calendar digests of relevant group-based communication content to a client device associated with one or more event occurrence data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han
  • Publication number: 20230027998
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an event occurrence feedback report after receipt of an event occurrence completion indicator, the event occurrence completion indicator associated with an event occurrence identifier and received from a third party event scheduling resource, and to present the event occurrence feedback report to a client device associated with an event occurrence creator identifier are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Lydia Han
  • Publication number: 20230012993
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for seamless communication resource transition are described herein. A user may wish to share an external communication resource within a group-based communication system. Settings may be provided allowing the user to more effectively share the external communication resource. The user may select the appropriate settings such that the external communication resource can be transmitted to the group-based communication system for display in accordance with the selected settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Matthew Wahl
  • Publication number: 20230020457
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to verifying a third-party resource by automatically validating multi-factor message codes associated with the third-party resource to enable access to functionality associated with the third-party resource via a multi-app communication system. An example embodiment includes a multi-app communication system including at least one processor and at least one memory. The embodiment multi-app communication system is configured to receive a sign-in request from a multi-app communication system application executed on a client device, and cause transmission of a multi-factor confirmation message to a verified third-party multi-factor authentication resource. The embodiment multi-app communication system is further configured query the verified third-party multi-factor authentication resource to identify the multi-factor confirmation message, and enable access to the third-party resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Pike, Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Matthew Wahl
  • Patent number: 11539653
    Abstract: Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for programmatically managing limited engagement by an external email resource entity with a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Roland Schemers, James McPhail, Matthew Wahl, Britton Jamison, San Oo
  • Publication number: 20220365968
    Abstract: A group-based communication platform is configured to ascertain the relatedness of various work objects shared among users of the group-based communication platform. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may further receive and process work objects originating from non-users of the group-based communication platform, thereby further expanding the utility of the determined relatedness between work objects. These work objects (or encrypted representations of these work objects) may be indexed and stored in association with the group-based communication platform, thereby enabling users to search for and retrieve work objects originating from a plurality of work object sources simultaneously, and based on various characteristics of those work objects and the determined interrelatedness between various work objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew Wahl, Hubert Florin, Roland Schemers, Brian Elliott, Lydia Han, James McPhail