Patents Assigned to Haworth, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230306366
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. FOLEY, Adam PEARSON, Demian ENTREKIN
  • Publication number: 20230305795
    Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Satish SANTHAKUMAR, Demian ENTREKIN
  • Patent number: 11755176
    Abstract: A node of a collaboration system is provided to establish communication with other nodes, store data identifying graphical targets having locations in a virtual workspace and including locations in the virtual workspace of the identified graphical targets, and compute a mapping of a local client viewport to a local client screen space. The node is configured to render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the local client viewport, provide a user interface to display a list of viewport markers representing viewports, where each viewport defines an area in the workspace, and respond to an input indicating a selected viewport marker from the list of viewport markers, update the local client viewport to match the location and dimensions of the viewport represented by the selected viewport marker, and render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the updated local client viewport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Jakobovits, Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11757267
    Abstract: A modesty panel includes a back cover adjacent the underside of the worksurface, a power strip or power bar having at least one electrical outlet, a cord system electrically connected to the power bar and an electrical power supply, the cord system including at least one cable. A cable management track is positioned adjacent the back cover. The track has a track sidewall that defines a cable entrance portion including a cable entrance opening, a cable storage portion extending from the cable entrance portion and including a cable exit opening, and a cable guide. The cord system extends through the entrance opening and the exit opening in the track, such that a length of the cord system is positioned within the cable management track, and wherein as the height adjustable table is moved to a lower position, the length of cord system within the track increases, with a portion of the cord system engaging the cable guide to route the cord system into the cable storage portion of the cable management track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph E. Reddig, Kirk Hines, Kristopher A. Gillhespy, EuGene A. Crevier, Jr., Shane R. Kuipers
  • Publication number: 20230281561
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. FOLEY, Adam PEARSON, Demian ENTREKIN
  • Patent number: 11750672
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for a digital collaborative workspace system. The system includes a server network node having a processor and a database accessible thereto. The server network node can include logic to register a first display identification code (DIC) with a first network node, a second DIC with a second network node and a third DIC with a third network node. The server network node can detect an input from a second user identifying the shared workspace and the registered phone number or other identifier of the first user. The server network node can transmit this data to the third network node and in dependence upon receiving a selection of one or more of the first DIC, the second DIC, and the third DIC from the third network node, start a collaboration by sending the shared digital workspace to the network nodes registered with the selected DICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Rupen Chanda
  • Patent number: 11740915
    Abstract: The DIGITAL WORKSPACE ERGONOMICS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DWE”) transform user multi-element touchscreen gestures via DWE components into updated digital collaboration whiteboard objects. In one embodiment, the DWE obtains user whiteboard input from a client device participating in a digital collaborative whiteboarding session. The DWE parses the user whiteboard input to determine user instructions, and modifies a tile object included in the digital collaborative whiteboarding session according to the determined user instructions. The DWE generates updated client viewport content for the client device. Also, the DWE determines that client viewport content of a second client device should be modified because of modifying the tile object included in the digital whiteboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jon Reuschel, Steve Mason, Clarkson Sheppard Thorp, Ammon Haggerty
  • Publication number: 20230254351
    Abstract: System and method for collaboration are disclosed. The method includes, obtaining, by a client device, an image including a code, of at least a portion of a physical whiteboard. The method includes, converting, by at least one of the client device and a server device, at least a portion of the image to an editable representation. The method includes, identifying, by the server device, a virtual workspace, linked to the code. The method includes adding, by the server device, the editable representation of the portion of image to the to the virtual workspace to be provided to one or more client devices participating in the collaboration. The method includes, allowing, by the server device, an edit to the editable representation of the portion of the image, as located in the virtual workspace, the edit being performed by a particular participant using a particular client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Rupen CHANDA
  • Publication number: 20230254352
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating a network node to implement a collaborative breakout session in a video conference or in a content collaboration session between other network nodes hosted in part by a collaboration system. The system includes logic to initiate a collaboration server of the collaboration system to provide a first group of network nodes access to a first canvas of a virtual workspace to commence collaboration on the first canvas of the virtual workspace by the first group of network nodes. The system includes logic to initiate the collaboration server of the collaboration system to provide the first group of network nodes access to the entire virtual workspace to commence collaboration on the virtual workspace upon conclusion of the collaborative breakout session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Rupen CHANDA
  • Publication number: 20230221858
    Abstract: A method for facilitating invocation of a procedure by a first network node in a system comprising the first and second network node. The method includes storing, in the second network node, a data set comprising digital assets represented by graphical objects having locations in a virtual workspace, providing information associated with the graphical objects to the first network node, detecting a gesture or a user interaction event contacting a plurality of locations on a screen space of the first network node, obtaining an identification of a workflow procedure in dependence upon an interpretation of the gesture or user interaction event, wherein at least one of the locations corresponds to a location of the graphical object and wherein the workflow procedure has an input parameter associated with one or more properties of the graphical object, and facilitating invocation of the identified workflow procedure according to the input parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Rupen CHANDA, Demian ENTREKIN
  • Publication number: 20230111762
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID M. FOLEY, ADAM PEARSON, DEMIAN ENTREKIN
  • Patent number: 11602225
    Abstract: A seat back for an office chair includes a knit material for extending over a structural frame. The knit material can be formed in a single knitting operation to include cushioning characteristics that vary across different regions of the knit material. The knit material may be a weft knit material having a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer, wherein the third layer is inlayed between the first and second layers and the inlay material is different from at least the first and second layers and provides a degree of cushioning between the first and second layers. The first and second layers are knit according to a predetermined pattern, the predetermined pattern determining crossing lines where the first and second layers cross one another and fix the third layer in position with respect to the first and second layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexis M. Putman
  • Patent number: 11573694
    Abstract: A method for invoking a procedure by a first network node in a computer system comprising the first network node and a second network node is provided. The method includes detecting a gesture or a user interaction event contacting a plurality of locations on a screen space of the first network node, obtaining an identification of a workflow procedure in dependence upon an interpretation of the gesture, the workflow procedure having an input parameter, mapping locations, included in the plurality of locations contacted by the gesture, to the location of the graphical object on the screen space, to obtain, from a data set, an identification of corresponding information associated with the graphical object, obtaining an identification of the input parameter of the identified workflow procedure in dependence upon the identified corresponding information, and invoking the identified workflow procedure according to the identified input parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Rupen Chanda, Demian Entrekin
  • Publication number: 20230033682
    Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: SATISH SANTHAKUMAR, DEMIAN ENTREKIN
  • Publication number: 20230011287
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing a collaboration system for hosting collaboration sessions between client-side network nodes. The system includes logic to receive an identification of a virtual workspace from at least a first client-side network. The system includes logic to receive an updated digital asset and an identifier of the digital asset from a digital asset management system. The system includes logic to query the virtual workspace for a version of a particular digital asset within the virtual workspace having an identifier that matches the identifier of the updated digital asset. The system includes logic to save the updated digital asset as a subsequent version of the particular digital asset. The system includes logic to automatically place the subsequent version of the particular digital asset in a swim lane, for the version of the particular digital asset, within the virtual workspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Rupen CHANDA, Kevin KOECHLEY
  • Publication number: 20230010127
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for collaborative session including co-browsing in a virtual workspace. The system includes a server-side network node including logic to access a web application using a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web application. The server-side network node includes logic to generate a first model of the web application corresponding to the current state of the web application. The server-side network node includes logic to provide a spatial event map identifying events in the virtual workspace, the events identified by the spatial event map are related to the first model of the web application. The system includes logic to create a second model of the web application as a result of updates to the current state of the web application. The system includes logic to generate an update patch using a difference between the second model and the first model of the web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert ELSNER, Krzysztof Palacz, Yingtao JIANG, Oleg SIDORKIN, Rupen CHANDA
  • Patent number: 11481730
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11471345
    Abstract: An office-type chair includes a base, a height-adjustable pedestal extending upward from the base, a seat assembly including a rear seat part and a front seat part, and a linkage system connecting the pedestal to the seat assembly. The linkage system is adapted to pivot the seat assembly between a lowered position to serve as a task chair and an elevated position to serve as an elevated sitting support. A backrest arrangement may extend from the seat assembly. In the lowered position, the front and rear seat parts are both generally horizontally oriented. In the elevated position, the rear seat part may have a slight forward tilt and be positioned higher than in the lowered position, and the front seat part may extend at a downward angle relative to the rear seat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Beyer, Kyle R. Fleet, Teresa A. Bellingar
  • Publication number: 20220318755
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing adaptive curation of digital assets displayed on a virtual workspace in a collaborative session between network nodes hosted in part by a collaboration system. The system includes logic to retrieve, from a server-side network node, a spatial event map identifying events in the virtual workspace. The virtual workspace comprises locations having virtual coordinates. The events identified by the spatial event map are related to digital assets within the virtual workspace. The system includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace. The system includes logic to render, in the display space on the display, a curated set of digital assets of the plurality of digital assets. The digital assets of the curated set include only digital assets identified as first priority digital assets and exclude other digital assets not identified as being first priority digital assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Rupen Chanda
  • Patent number: 11395543
    Abstract: A reconfigurable work station includes a work surface supported atop a pedestal and base. A linkage arm is affixed to the base or pedestal at a first end and pivotally connected to a fixed member at a second end. The work station can pivot, with the linkage arm, about the fixed member to be selectively positioned in multiple positions. The pedestal may be height adjustable and the work surface may be rotatable atop the pedestal. Alternatively, the work station can include two pedestals and the linkage arm can be rotatably connected to one of the pedestals to rotate the work station, as well as to pivot the work station about the fixed member. A work space includes the work station and at least one wall panel, and a work space system includes multiple work spaces. Work stations within respective work spaces can be selectively positioned in focused or collaborative configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph E. Reddig, Jeffrey J. Reuschel, Ross S. Johnson, Shawn Yu, Bryan Gingrich