Patents by Inventor Alan Rogers

Alan Rogers 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: 20260057910
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing a streamed presentation of a video proxy referencing a cloud-based location of a digital video. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request to edit a digital video stored in a cloud-based location of a content management system. In addition, the disclosed systems generate a video proxy that include a reference to the cloud-based location of the digital video and modifies the video proxy in response to an editing operation. Further, the disclosed systems provide for display a streamed presentation of the video proxy depicting modifications defined by the editing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Iris Lin, James Espejo
  • Patent number: 12462846
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing a streamed presentation of a video proxy referencing a cloud-based location of a digital video. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request to edit a digital video stored in a cloud-based location of a content management system. In addition, the disclosed systems generate a video proxy that include a reference to the cloud-based location of the digital video and modifies the video proxy in response to an editing operation. Further, the disclosed systems provide for display a streamed presentation of the video proxy depicting modifications defined by the editing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Iris Lin, James Espejo
  • Publication number: 20250292573
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for segmenting a digital video to segment a digital video by employing a chapterization approach to video transcripts based on contextual data from audio signals and video signals together. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can extract various types of audio signals and various types of video signals from a digital video. From the extracted signals, the disclosed systems can determine a set of break points to segment a video transcript. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can further recommend, via a notification on a client device, inserting corresponding breaks from the segmented transcript into the digital video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Thomas Berg, Tristan Inghelbrecht
  • Publication number: 20250273244
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing a streamed presentation of a video proxy referencing a cloud-based location of a digital video. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request to edit a digital video stored in a cloud-based location of a content management system. In addition, the disclosed systems generate a video proxy that include a reference to the cloud-based location of the digital video and modifies the video proxy in response to an editing operation. Further, the disclosed systems provide for display a streamed presentation of the video proxy depicting modifications defined by the editing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Iris Lin, James Espejo
  • Patent number: 12279006
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the playback of a video that is being viewed synchronously with at least one other device. The second client device can process the event so the video can reflect the received input. The second client device can also send a collaboration message to a synchronized video viewing service to inform other client devices of the command. Since the second client device is aware of its own event, the second client device can ignore processing any other collaboration messages until it receives the collaboration message it initiated echoed back to it. Thereafter it can resume processing received collaboration messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Siya Yang, Daniel Wagner, Dylan Nelson, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20240098121
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for allowing remote participation in collaborative video review based on joint state data, for a video collaboration session, maintained by a video collaboration service. A user at a participant client device may provide one or more annotations, such as a drawing annotation, for the video data via a client application. The client application transmits computer-readable instructions for re-creating the drawing annotation to the service, which distributes the drawing instructions to the other participant client devices. Using the drawing instructions, the client applications at the client devices are configured to re-create the drawing annotation on the associated video frame displayed at the client devices. The joint state data communicated to client devices for a given session may include co-presence data that efficiently increases communication among the participants in a session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Siya Yang, Alan Rogers, Daniel Wagner, Irene Ma, Jason Stakelon
  • Patent number: 11878083
    Abstract: Multi component fibres for the reduction of the damaging activity of wound exudate components such as protein degrading enzymes and inflammatory mediators in wounds, the fibres comprising: from 10% to 100% by weight of the fibres of pectin and a sacrificial proteinaceous material in a weight ratio of 100:0 to 10:90 pectin to sacrificial proteinaceous material and from 0% to 90% by weight of the fibres of another polysaccharide or a water soluble polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Lucy Louisa Ballamy, Sharon Lam Po Tang, Marion Herbe, Alan Rogers, Sean Kelly
  • Patent number: 11863600
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for allowing remote participation in collaborative video review based on joint state data, for a video collaboration session, maintained by a video collaboration service. A user at a participant client device may provide one or more annotations, such as a drawing annotation, for the video data via a client application. The client application transmits computer-readable instructions for re-creating the drawing annotation to the service, which distributes the drawing instructions to the other participant client devices. Using the drawing instructions, the client applications at the client devices are configured to re-create the drawing annotation on the associated video frame displayed at the client devices. The joint state data communicated to client devices for a given session may include co-presence data that efficiently increases communication among the participants in a session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Siya Yang, Alan Rogers, Daniel Wagner, Irene Ma, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20230421837
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the playback of a video that is being viewed synchronously with at least one other device. The second client device can process the event so the video can reflect the received input. The second client device can also send a collaboration message to a synchronized video viewing service to inform other client devices of the command. Since the second client device is aware of its own event, the second client device can ignore processing any other collaboration messages until it receives the collaboration message it initiated echoed back to it. Thereafter it can resume processing received collaboration messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Siya Yang, Daniel Wagner, Dylan Nelson, Jason Stakelon
  • Patent number: 11785279
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the playback of a video that is being viewed synchronously with at least one other device. The second client device can process the event so the video can reflect the received input. The second client device can also send a collaboration message to a synchronized video viewing service to inform other client devices of the command. Since the second client device is aware of its own event, the second client device can ignore processing any other collaboration messages until it receives the collaboration message it initiated echoed back to it. Thereafter it can resume processing received collaboration messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Siya Yang, Daniel Wagner, Dylan Nelson, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20230283831
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the playback of a video that is being viewed synchronously with at least one other device. The second client device can process the event so the video can reflect the received input. The second client device can also send a collaboration message to a synchronized video viewing service to inform other client devices of the command. Since the second client device is aware of its own event, the second client device can ignore processing any other collaboration messages until it receives the collaboration message it initiated echoed back to it. Thereafter it can resume processing received collaboration messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Siya Yang, Daniel Wagner, Dylan Nelson, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20230007064
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for allowing remote participation in collaborative video review based on joint state data, for a video collaboration session, maintained by a video collaboration service. A user at a participant client device may provide one or more annotations, such as a drawing annotation, for the video data via a client application. The client application transmits computer-readable instructions for re-creating the drawing annotation to the service, which distributes the drawing instructions to the other participant client devices. Using the drawing instructions, the client applications at the client devices are configured to re-create the drawing annotation on the associated video frame displayed at the client devices. The joint state data communicated to client devices for a given session may include co-presence data that efficiently increases communication among the participants in a session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Siya Yang, Alan Rogers, Daniel Wagner, Irene Ma, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20230006852
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for avoiding conflicting user actions while the users synchronously participate in collaborative video review based on joint state data for a video collaboration session. User actions may conflict, e.g., when a user submits a video playback instruction to change the current frame of the session while another user is performing a frame-specific action on the current frame. The video collaboration service freezes the current frame in joint state data based on detecting that a frame-specific action is being performed or is likely imminent. Detecting a freeze condition may be implicit or explicit. In order to unfreeze the current frame of the joint state data, no active freeze conditions may be in effect. Further, the freeze condition may be lifted implicitly or explicitly. A visual video freeze indication may be displayed by one or more client applications participating in the session while a freeze condition is active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Siya Yang, Alan Rogers, Daniel Wagner, Irene Ma, Jason Stakelon
  • Patent number: 11424945
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for avoiding conflicting user actions while the users synchronously participate in collaborative video review based on joint state data for a video collaboration session. User actions may conflict, e.g., when a user submits a video playback instruction to change the current frame of the session while another user is performing a frame-specific action on the current frame. The video collaboration service freezes the current frame in joint state data based on detecting that a frame-specific action is being performed or is likely imminent. Detecting a freeze condition may be implicit or explicit. In order to unfreeze the current frame of the joint state data, no active freeze conditions may be in effect. Further, the freeze condition may be lifted implicitly or explicitly. A visual video freeze indication may be displayed by one or more client applications participating in the session while a freeze condition is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Siya Yang, Alan Rogers, Daniel Wagner, Irene Ma, Jason Stakelon
  • Publication number: 20220096704
    Abstract: Multi component fibres for the reduction of the damaging activity of wound exudate components such as protein degrading enzymes and inflammatory mediators in wounds, the fibres comprising: from 10% to 100% by weight of the fibres of pectin and a sacrificial proteinaceous material in a weight ratio of 100:0 to 10:90 pectin to sacrificial proteinaceous material and from 0% to 90% by weight of the fibres of another polysaccharide or a water soluble polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Lucy Louisa Ballamy, Sharon Lam Po Tang, Marion Herbe, Alan Rogers, Sean Kelly
  • Patent number: 11112948
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a details pane that is displayed in coordination with a file explorer interface. The details pane can display details including activities, comments, and previews for content items displayed in the details pane. In some embodiments the content items displayed in the file explorer interface can be stored in and accessed from different services, and the details in the details pane can also be populated from diverse sources. In some embodiments, edits or navigations can be performed within a preview of the content item. In some embodiments, comments can be shown along with previews that show the comment located within the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Parker Wilf, Robert Mason, Tomaz Nedeljko, Evan Tana
  • Publication number: 20190332231
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a details pane that is displayed in coordination with a file explorer interface. The details pane can display details including activities, comments, and previews for content items displayed in the details pane. In some embodiments the content items displayed in the file explorer interface can be stored in and accessed from different services, and the details in the details pane can also be populated from diverse sources. In some embodiments, edits or navigations can be performed within a preview of the content item. In some embodiments, comments can be shown along with previews that show the comment located within the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Parker Wilf, Robert Mason, Tomaz Nedeljko, Evan Tana
  • Publication number: 20160121013
    Abstract: Multi component fibres for the reduction of the damaging activity of wound exudate components such as protein degrading enzymes and inflammatory mediators in wounds, the fibres comprising: from 10% to 100% by weight of the fibres of pectin and a sacrificial proteinaceous material in a weight ratio of 100:0 to 10:90 pectin to sacrificial proteinaceous material and from 0% to 90% by weight of the fibres of another polysaccharide or a water soluble polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Lucy Louisa Ballamy, Sharon Lam Po Tang, Marion Herbe, Alan Rogers, Sean Kelly
  • Publication number: 20080068606
    Abstract: A pressure sensing apparatus has a light source for transmitting pulses of light along a monomode optical fibre. The polarisation of light backscattered from the light pulses in the optical fibre is detected by a polarisation processing unit (PPU) and a photo detector. The optical fibre is adapted to deform asymmetrically under the influence of applied external isotropic pressure, e.g. from a fluid. The deformation causes the birefringence of the optical fibre to change proportionally to the applied pressure. The change in birefringence can be determined from the detected polarisation of the backscattered light, allowing detection of pressure distribution in the fluid. Importantly, the construction of the optical fibre is such that the birefringence beat length of the optical fibre at the wavelength of light propagated by the fibre remains more than twice the spatial length of the light pulses transmitted along the optical fibre.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Alan Rogers, Sotiris Kanellopoulos, Sergey Shatalin
  • Patent number: 5675298
    Abstract: A low-loss, low-inductance metal interconnect for an electrical signal in a microcircuit comprises a plurality of spaced-apart generally parallel metal interconnect lines disposed in a plane over an insulating layer. The metal interconnect lines are interleaved with and electrically insulated from a plurality of spaced-apart generally parallel metal lines disposed in the plane. The metal interconnect lines together comprise a signal interconnect path, and the metal lines are coupled to a fixed voltage potential, such as ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghunand Bhagwan, Alan Rogers, John MacDonald