Patents by Inventor Benjamin P. Hencke

Benjamin P. Hencke 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).

  • Patent number: 11803694
    Abstract: Electronic documents may be large and have numerous pages, sections and areas of information that are useful to some individuals and not others. It is common for large documents to include some information that is intended for only certain recipients and other information that is intended for other recipients. One example may provide receiving a document including a number of pages, identifying a number of extraction attributes corresponding to various users identified in the document, querying the document for the extraction attributes, and creating a number of new documents corresponding to the extraction attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gretel Baumgartner, Nathaniel Brogan, Nickolas Heckman, Joshua M. Heizman, Benjamin P. Hencke, Sean Michael Kelly, Ronald Park, Howard A. Wood
  • Patent number: 11273351
    Abstract: An interactive electronic table tennis game is provided that has a table having first and second table portions that are foldable. There are first and second table portions that are structurally the same, and the second table portion has a flat top that is made of a hard material that is clear, transparent, or translucent such that light can pass through the hard material. The flat top is mounted on a frame that defines a plurality of compartments and lights or light emitting diodes that are positioned in the compartments. The frame also supports electronics. The electronics have audio pickups, converter microcontrollers, and a table tennis game computer. When a ball hits the first and second table portions light is emitted by the LEDs in that compartment. This makes the interactive electronic table tennis game fun to play and fun to watch, because everyone can see where the ball impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Stringham, Benjamin P Hencke
  • Patent number: 10891323
    Abstract: Electronic documents may be large and have numerous pages, sections and areas of information that are useful to some individuals and not others. It is common for large documents to include some information that is intended for only certain recipients and other information that is intended for other recipients. One example may provide receiving a document that has a number of pages, identifying an extraction attribute, querying the document for the extraction attribute, applying a coordinate to information associated with the extraction attribute, extracting information based on the extraction attribute and a predefined area associated with the at least one coordinate, and creating a new document including the information extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Gretel Baumgartner, Nathaniel Brogan, Nickolas Heckman, Joshua M. Heizman, Benjamin P. Hencke, Sean Michael Kelly, Ronald Park, Howard A. Wood
  • Publication number: 20200353334
    Abstract: An interactive electronic table tennis game is provided that has a table having first and second table portions that are foldable. There are first and second table portions that are structurally the same, and the second table portion has a flat top that is made of a hard material that is clear, transparent, or translucent such that light can pass through the hard material. The flat top is mounted on a frame that defines a plurality of compartments and lights or light emitting diodes that are positioned in the compartments. The frame also supports electronics. The electronics have audio pickups, converter microcontrollers, and a table tennis game computer. When a ball hits the first and second table portions light is emitted by the LEDs in that compartment. This makes the interactive electronic table tennis game fun to play and fun to watch, because everyone can see where the ball impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Stringham, Benjamin P. Hencke
  • Patent number: 10204095
    Abstract: Electronic documents may be large and have numerous pages, sections and areas of information that are useful to some individuals and not others. It is common for large documents to include some information that is intended for only certain recipients and other information that is intended for other recipients. One example may provide receiving a document including a number of pages, identifying a number of extraction attributes corresponding to various users identified in the document, querying the document for the extraction attributes, and creating a number of new documents corresponding to the extraction attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Gretel Baumgartner, Nathaniel Brogan, Nickolas Heckman, Joshua M. Heizman, Benjamin P. Hencke, Sean Michael Kelly, Ronald Park, Howard A. Wood
  • Patent number: 8131269
    Abstract: A hosted system receives a request for the delivery of a voice message from a collective such as a school district. The hosted system determines whether the message should be sent over a telephone line at the hosted system or the school district. Instructions are sent to a delivery mechanism at the determined location indicating how to prepare the message and the number to be called. In one embodiment, the instructions are in XML script form to reduce the bandwidth required. Having the hosted system determine the allocation of messages allows for both the efficient use and lower calling cost of any available capacity on telephone lines at a school district or other collective organization, as well as the larger capacity access to telephone lines of a hosted service for quick delivery of numerous or urgent messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Reliance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard A. Wood, Benjamin P. Hencke, Nickolas R. Heckman, Gretel J. Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20110028127
    Abstract: A hosted system receives a request for the delivery of a voice message from a collective such as a school district. The hosted system determines whether the message should be sent over a telephone line at the hosted system or the school district. Instructions are sent to a delivery mechanism at the determined location indicating how to prepare the message and the number to be called. In one embodiment, the instructions are in XML script form to reduce the bandwidth required. Having the hosted system determine the allocation of messages allows for both the efficient use and lower calling cost of any available capacity on telephone lines at a school district or other collective organization, as well as the larger capacity access to telephone lines of a hosted service for quick delivery of numerous or urgent messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Howard A. Wood, Benjamin P. Hencke, Nickolas R. Heckman, Gretel J. Baumgartner