Patents Assigned to Viewpoint, Inc.
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Patent number: 11803791Abstract: An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: VIEWPOINT, INC.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Harris, Robert Wilson Humphreys, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe, Andrew Burden, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Ward, Laurence Skoropinski
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Patent number: 11263364Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 11200522Abstract: An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Harris, Robert Wilson Humphreys, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe, Andrew Burden, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Ward, Laurence Skoropinski
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Patent number: 10915671Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: VIEWPOINT, INC.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 10474765Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 10152564Abstract: A method for operating a BIM system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, generating a network accessible graphical user interface (GUI) simultaneously displaying a 3-dimensional rendering of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and a COBie spreadsheet being associatively linked.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd Pickering, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Burden
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Patent number: 9679089Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, in response to receiving a save tri-dimensional data command from a client computing device, associatively mapping identification data in each of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet and storing a representation of the associative mapping of the identification data for display in at least one of the BIM server and a client computing device in electronic communication with the server over a network.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Richard Stokoe, Laurence Skoropinski, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Burden, Lloyd Pickering
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Patent number: 4231067Abstract: Apparatus for supporting a television receiver housing and projecting an image from the face of the picture tube to a remote, reflective screen having dimensions significantly larger than the picture tube. The apparatus includes a base providing an inclined support surface for the TV housing with an adjustable stop member for engagement with the lower, rear edge of the housing to establish the fore and aft position thereof on the support surface. The apparatus further includes a hood defining an enclosed path between an opening at one end for encircling the face of the picture tube of a TV supported on the base, and an opening at the opposite end in which the lens barrel of the projection lens system is frictionally engaged for unitary focusing movement. The TV set and the lens remain physically unattached to any elements of the projection system. The invention is also directed to novel features of the hood, per se.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1978Date of Patent: October 28, 1980Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Henry J. Jewell, Richard L. Meyer