Patents by Inventor Cynthia A. Williams

Cynthia A. Williams 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: 20240137328
    Abstract: Reservations of resources within a dynamic workspace are made and facilitated including by pushing configurations specific to a worker for whom a reservation is made to the resource for a limited time period for the reservation. When the worker arrives for the reservation and checks in, configurations associated with the worker are obtained and pushed to the resource to configure the resource for use by the worker for a time period of the reservation. In some cases, an identity of the worker may be verified to complete the check in process for the reservation. In response to an end time of the reservation being determined, such as based on a scheduled end time for the reservation or based on a determination that the resource has gone unused for some amount of time, the configurations are removed from the resource to prepare the resource for use by a next worker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Harold David Moseley, Jeffrey William Smith
  • Publication number: 20240089405
    Abstract: A best available video stream is determined for each of multiple conference participants within a conference room including multiple cameras based on scores determined for video streams obtained from the cameras. The scores are determined based on representations of the conference participants within the video streams, for example, based on percentages of conference participant faces visible within the video streams, directions of conference participant faces relative to the cameras, directions of eye gaze of the conference participants relative to the cameras, and/or degrees to which conference participant faces are obscured within the video streams. The best available video streams are output for rendering within separate user interface tiles of conferencing software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Anna Deng, Yanjia Duan, Juntao Feng, Tianming Gu, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Bo Ling, Chong Lv, Jeffrey William Smith, Menglin Wang, Huixi Zhao, Xingguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 11922347
    Abstract: The future presence of a worker in a dynamic workspace which includes resources for temporary use may be signaled to other workers. In response a first worker making a reservation of a resource, a second worker to indicate the future presence of that first worker to is determined based on communication records associated with the first worker and the second worker. An indication of the reservation of the resource for the first worker, and thus the future presence of that first worker in an office which includes that reserved resource, is accordingly signaled to the second worker. A suggested resource for the second worker may then be determined based on the reservation of the resource for the first worker. In response to the second worker making a reservation of the suggested resource, a reservation record indicating the reservation of the suggested resource for the second worker may then be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Harold David Moseley, Jeffrey William Smith
  • Patent number: 5236901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treatment of functional bowel disease in mammals. More specifically, this invention contemplates prophylaxis and treatment of functional bowel disease in mammals by the administration of antagonists of corticotropin releasing factor. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions of these antagonists useful in the treatment of functional bowel disease in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Burks, Cynthia A. Williams