Patents by Inventor Teresa Hoffman

Teresa Hoffman 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: 10425239
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are presented. An exemplary embodiment of a method includes a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants via a communication network; providing a conference user interface to the plurality of participants; in response to a first participant speaking during the audio conference, a second participant indicating via the conference user interface that the first participant has low-quality audio; the conferencing system polling one or more additional participants to specify via the conference user interface audio quality feedback associated with the first participant; determining from the feedback the first participant has low-quality audio; attempting to correct the audio connection with the first participant, if unable to correct the audio connection, notifying the first participant of the low-quality audio with suggested actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: American Teleconferencing Services, Ltd.
    Inventors: Monica Chitre, J Douglas Martin, Rishi Kaneria, Patrick Harper, Teresa Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20190068389
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing crowd-sourced audio quality feedback in a conferencing system. An exemplary embodiment of a method comprises: a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants via a communication network; providing a conference user interface to the plurality of participants; in response to a first participant speaking during the audio conference, a second participant indicating via the conference user interface that the first participant has low quality audio; and the conferencing system polling one or more additional participants to specify via the conference user interface audio quality feedback associated with the first participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Monica Chitre, J Douglas Martin, Rishi Kaneria, Patrick Harper, Teresa Hoffman
  • Patent number: D350254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Inventors: Susan C. Alvarez, Hope M. Ramirez, Teresa Hoffman, Ismael Alvarez