Patents by Inventor Benjamin A.C. Forsyth

Benjamin A.C. Forsyth 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).

  • Collaboration environments that support offline edits of shared documents
    Patent number: 11455345
    Abstract: Document collaboration methods and systems that allow multiple users to create and edit a document are described. Such methods and systems can support devices that receive and process edits to one or more documents while the devices are off-line relative to a document collaboration service. These methods and systems can use a network based storage system (e.g., a “cloud storage platform”) to store a document (e.g., “cloud storage document”) that represents a recent collaboration state of the document based upon edits received from users who are (or have been) using the document collaboration service while one or more other users are off-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Underwood, Marcelo Boff, Kwok Fai Lai, Jesse Chapman, Darryl Fuller, Douglas M. Whitmore, Paul D. Zirkle, Benjamin A. C. Forsyth, Chi Yung Tse
  • COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENTS THAT SUPPORT OFFLINE EDITS OF SHARED DOCUMENTS
    Publication number: 20210133253
    Abstract: Document collaboration methods and systems that allow multiple users to create and edit a document are described. Such methods and systems can support devices that receive and process edits to one or more documents while the devices are off-line relative to a document collaboration service. These methods and systems can use a network based storage system (e.g., a “cloud storage platform”) to store a document (e.g., “cloud storage document”) that represents a recent collaboration state of the document based upon edits received from users who are (or have been) using the document collaboration service while one or more other users are off-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: David A. Underwood, Marcelo Boff, Kwok Fai Lai, Jesse Chapman, Darryl Fuller, Douglas M. Whitmore, Paul D. Zirkle, Benjamin A.C. Forsyth, Chi Yung Tse