Patents by Inventor Tiffany Kristine Pham

Tiffany Kristine Pham 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: 20230275939
    Abstract: Improved virtual collaboration environments allow participants in a primary collaboration session to initiate side conversations with fellow participants based on virtual locations of each participant within a virtual collaboration layout. The virtual collaboration layout defines virtual locations of each participant in the collaboration session. If a virtual distance between two participants a below a threshold, the participants are able to engage in a side conversation. Management information is provided to a collaboration session host. The management information indicates, for example, a volume or frequency of communication occurring on each side conversation, or an elapsed time since the side conversation was initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Brian C. Powell, Amit Barave, Carl Nathan Buckles, Vaishnavi Rao, Tiffany Kristine Pham, Sofia Karygianni, David C. White, JR.
  • Patent number: 11706264
    Abstract: Improved virtual collaboration environments allow participants in a primary collaboration session to initiate side conversations with fellow participants based on virtual locations of each participant within a virtual collaboration layout. The virtual collaboration layout defines virtual locations of each participant in the collaboration session. If a virtual distance between two participants a below a threshold, the participants are able to engage in a side conversation. Management information is provided to a collaboration session host. The management information indicates, for example, a volume or frequency of communication occurring on each side conversation, or an elapsed time since the side conversation was initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian C. Powell, Amit Barave, Carl Nathan Buckles, Vaishnavi Rao, Tiffany Kristine Pham, Sofia Karygianni, David C. White, Jr
  • Publication number: 20230028265
    Abstract: Improved virtual collaboration environments allow participants in a primary collaboration session to initiate side conversations with fellow participants based on virtual locations of each participant within a virtual collaboration layout. The virtual collaboration layout defines virtual locations of each participant in the collaboration session. If a virtual distance between two participants a below a threshold, the participants are able to engage in a side conversation. Management information is provided to a collaboration session host. The management information indicates, for example, a volume or frequency of communication occurring on each side conversation, or an elapsed time since the side conversation was initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Brian C. Powell, Amit Barave, Carl Nathan Buckles, Vaishnavi Rao, Tiffany Kristine Pham, Sofia Karygianni, David C. White, JR.