Patents by Inventor BENJAMIN CHUN

BENJAMIN CHUN 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).

  • System and method for scalable, interactive virtual conferencing
    Patent number: 10541824
    Abstract: A scalable virtual conferencing system which implements a hub and spoke architecture. For example, one embodiment of a scalable virtual conferencing system comprises: a participant management module to logically group each participant in the virtual conferencing system into a hub or one of a plurality of spokes; and a data flow management module to control communication of information between participants in the spokes and participants in the hub, the data flow management module to limit intercommunication from the spokes to the hub in accordance with the manual user input and/or participant management policy; wherein at least one participant in a first spoke is designated as a spoke leader for the first spoke, the spoke leader logically grouped into both the hub and the first spoke, the data flow management module to allow information generated within the first spoke to be propagated into the hub based on input from the spoke leader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: MINERVA PROJECT, INC.
    Inventors: Ari Bader-Natal, Jonathan Scott Katzman, Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Vicki Chandler, Joshua Fost, Benjamin Chun, Brian Fields, Matthew Michael Regan
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE, INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL CONFERENCING
    Publication number: 20180375676
    Abstract: A scalable virtual conferencing system which implements a hub and spoke architecture. For example, one embodiment of a scalable virtual conferencing system comprises: a participant management module to logically group each participant in the virtual conferencing system into a hub or one of a plurality of spokes; and a data flow management module to control communication of information between participants in the spokes and participants in the hub, the data flow management module to limit intercommunication from the spokes to the hub in accordance with the manual user input and/or participant management policy; wherein at least one participant in a first spoke is designated as a spoke leader for the first spoke, the spoke leader logically grouped into both the hub and the first spoke, the data flow management module to allow information generated within the first spoke to be propagated into the hub based on input from the spoke leader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: ARI BADER-NATAL, JONATHAN KATZMAN, STEPHEN KOSSLYN, VICKI CHANDLER, JOSHUA FOST, BENJAMIN CHUN, BRIAN FIELDS, MATTHEW REGAN