Patents by Inventor Cynthia Zhang Taylor

Cynthia Zhang Taylor 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: 10747822
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. User devices associated with a user of a document management and collaboration system are identified. Documents associated with the user are downloaded to the user devices from the document management and collaboration system. A targeted denial of access to the downloaded documents is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin George Gillett, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Stefan Mathias Hutchison, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Subha Narayanamurthi, Scott Anthony Plant, Robert Andrew Alexander
  • Publication number: 20200226182
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying reviewers of documents is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, reviewers are identified for a set of documents. The reviewers are identified based at least in part on one or more attributes of the reviewers or one or more attributes of at least one document of the set of documents. An identity associated with a reviewer of the reviewers is made available to a user. After the reviewer is made available to the user, a selection of at least one reviewer is received from the user, and the set of documents are made available to the selected at least one reviewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Sharad Kala, Noah Anthony Eisner, Liangliang Wang, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Kevin Gillett, Himanshu Khurana, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Catherine Emily Harrell
  • Patent number: 10691877
    Abstract: Organizations maintain and generate large amounts of documentation and entities of these organizations often need to collaborate on generating and reviewing this information. There is a need to maintain and store this documentation remotely in such a way that the entities of these organizations may collaborate with each other. To ensure that entities of the organization can collaborate on documents, an overlay creation and storage system is described. The overlay may be usable by a computing device operated by the entities of the organization. Furthermore, information contained in the overlay may be injected into the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Noah Anthony Eisner, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Kevin Gillett, Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Catherine Emily Harrell
  • Patent number: 10567382
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to documents retained by a document management and collaboration system is disclosed. The document management and collaboration system may generate one or more suggested privileges associated with one or more users. An access control policy may specify whether system-generated user privileges may be enforced. If they are enforced, access to one or more document may be made subject to the generated privileges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Catherine Emily Harrell, Sharad Kala, Liangliang Wang, Kevin Gillett, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Noah Anthony Eisner, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Himanshu Khurana
  • Patent number: 10540404
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a collection of documents is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a plurality of documents are identified for inclusion in a document collection. The documents are identified based at least in part on one or more attributes of at least one document of the plurality of documents. A user is requested to confirm the document collection, and an instruction is received from the user indicating one or more documents of the plurality of documents may be included in the document collection. After the indication is received, the collection may be formed and made available to the user or one or more other users of a document management and collaboration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Catherine Emily Harrell, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Sharad Kala, Noah Anthony Eisner, Liangliang Wang, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Kevin Gillett, Himanshu Khurana
  • Patent number: 10430504
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving an input via a computing device indicative of a request to display a plurality of visual identifiers, each visual identifier corresponding to a different respective version of a document stored in at least one remote document management system. The method also includes receiving information from the document management system, determining a chronological sequence associated with displaying the plurality of visual identifiers; and generating a respective visual identifier representative of each version of the document. The method also includes displaying the visual identifiers on a display of the computing device according to the chronological sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subha Narayanamurthi, Preetam J. D'Souza, Brendan Donald Lee, Olivier Suritz, Kyu Simm, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Robert Norris Lance Krentler, Kevin George Gillett, Noah Eisner
  • Patent number: 10257196
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to documents retained by a document management and collaboration system is disclosed. The document management and collaboration system may generate one or more suggested privileges associated with one or more users. An access control policy may specify whether system-generated user privileges may be enforced. If they are enforced, access to one or more document may be made subject to the generated privileges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Catherine Emily Harrell, Sharad Kala, Liangliang Wang, Kevin Gillett, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Noah Anthony Eisner, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Himanshu Khurana
  • Publication number: 20180196803
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. User devices associated with a user of a document management and collaboration system are identified. Documents associated with the user are downloaded to the user devices from the document management and collaboration system. A targeted denial of access to the downloaded documents is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin George Gillett, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Stefan Mathias Hutchison, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Subha Narayanamurthi, Scott Anthony Plant, Robert Andrew Alexander
  • Patent number: 9934221
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. User devices associated with a user of a document management and collaboration system are identified. Documents associated with the user are downloaded to the user devices from the document management and collaboration system. A targeted denial of access to the downloaded documents is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin George Gillett, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Stefan Mathias Hutchison, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Subha Narayanamurthi, Scott Anthony Plant, Robert Andrew Alexander
  • Publication number: 20170012984
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to documents retained by a document management and collaboration system is disclosed. The document management and collaboration system may generate one or more suggested privileges associated with one or more users. An access control policy may specify whether system-generated user privileges may be enforced. If they are enforced, access to one or more document may be made subject to the generated privileges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Catherine Emily Harrell, Sharad Kala, Liangliang Wang, Kevin Gillett, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Noah Anthony Eisner, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Himanshu Khurana
  • Publication number: 20160315941
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to documents retained by a document management and collaboration system is disclosed. The document management and collaboration system may generate one or more suggested privileges associated with one or more users. An access control policy may specify whether system-generated user privileges may be enforced. If they are enforced, access to one or more document may be made subject to the generated privileges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Catherine Emily Harrell, Sharad Kala, Liangliang Wang, Kevin Gillett, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Noah Anthony Eisner, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Himanshu Khurana
  • Patent number: 9449182
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to documents retained by a document management and collaboration system is disclosed. The document management and collaboration system may generate one or more suggested privileges associated with one or more users. An access control policy may specify whether system-generated user privileges may be enforced. If they are enforced, access to one or more document may be made subject to the generated privileges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Lien Stephen Dang, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Catherine Emily Harrell, Sharad Kala, Liangliang Wang, Kevin Gillett, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Noah Anthony Eisner, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Himanshu Khurana
  • Publication number: 20160092442
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. User devices associated with a user of a document management and collaboration system are identified. Documents associated with the user are downloaded to the user devices from the document management and collaboration system. A targeted denial of access to the downloaded documents is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin George Gillett, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Stefan Mathias Hutchison, Cynthia Zhang Taylor, Subha Narayanamurthi, Scott Anthony Plant, Robert Andrew Alexander