Patents by Inventor Eric Seth Pelz

Eric Seth Pelz 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: 20260080327
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate efficiency metrics for workflows of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment including work unit records progressing through workflows; generate workflow efficiency information including efficiency metrics of the workflows; generate notifications conveying the efficiency metrics; effectuate communication of information defining the workflow efficiency notifications to one or more client computing platforms; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Inventors: John Wesley Graham, John Joseph Welsh, Eric Seth Pelz, Lili Jiang Rachowin
  • Publication number: 20260024050
    Abstract: Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including attribution information and automation records for automated actions to carry out in response to trigger events; detect occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate automated actions corresponding to detected occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate presentation of attribution labels for the effectuated ones of the automated actions; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Adrian Van Yen, John Wesley Graham, Anna Marie Clifton, Lili Jiang Rachowin
  • Patent number: 12499416
    Abstract: Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including attribution information and automation records for automated actions to carry out in response to trigger events; detect occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate automated actions corresponding to detected occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate presentation of attribution labels for the effectuated ones of the automated actions; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Adrian Van Yen, John Wesley Graham, Anna Marie Clifton, Lili Jiang Rachowin
  • Publication number: 20250252402
    Abstract: Systems and methods to characterize work unit records of a collaboration environment based on stages within a workflow are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment including work unit records; manage workflow information characterizing workflows comprising stages; responsive to work unit records being at individual stages, select the rules that apply at the individual stages; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Lili Jiang Rachowin, Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, John Joseph Welsh, Michael Shengyang Chen, Ariel Janover, Louis Benjamin Lafair, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Shirley Yang
  • Patent number: 12346881
    Abstract: Systems and methods to characterize work unit records of a collaboration environment based on stages within a workflow are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment including work unit records; manage workflow information characterizing workflows comprising stages; responsive to work unit records being at individual stages, select the rules that apply at the individual stages; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Jiang Rachowin, Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, John Joseph Welsh, Michael Shengyang Chen, Ariel Janover, Louis Benjamin Lafair, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Shirley Yang
  • Publication number: 20250190946
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Anna Marie Clifton, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Sean Sun, Sarah Lee Shader, John Wesley Graham, Eric Seth Pelz, Lili Jiang Rachowin, Adam Butler
  • Publication number: 20250165706
    Abstract: A data model for managing custom fields for tasks in projects. The custom fields can be defined and shared across an organization, and are always unique. Each type of custom field is an object that is subclass of a generic object. Other objects define attributes of the custom fields and assign values to the attributes. The data model allows the custom fields to be preserved and managed across multiple projects and users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Gregory Heath Slovacek, Rosario John Aquino, Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Nicholas William Fassler
  • Patent number: 12282898
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Marie Clifton, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Sean Sun, Sarah Lee Shader, John Wesley Graham, Eric Seth Pelz, Lili Jiang Rachowin, Adam Butler
  • Publication number: 20250094696
    Abstract: A data model for managing custom fields for tasks in projects. The custom fields can be defined and shared across an organization, and are always unique. Each type of custom field is an object that is subclass of a generic object. Other objects define attributes of the custom fields and assign values to the attributes. The data model allows the custom fields to be preserved and managed across multiple projects and users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Gregory Heath Slovacek, Rosario John Aquino, Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Nicholas William Fassler
  • Publication number: 20250061398
    Abstract: Systems and methods for effectuating sets of automated actions within a collaboration environment based on trigger events are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including values of environment parameters; generate automation information based on user entry and/or selection of the automation information into a user interface, the automation information specifying sets of automated actions to carry out in the collaboration environment in response to occurrence of trigger events; detect occurrence of the trigger events based on changes in the values of the environment parameters; responsive to the detection of the occurrence of individual trigger events, effectuate individual sets of automated actions within the collaboration environment; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Adrian Van Yen, John Wesley Graham, Anna Marie Clifton, Lili Jiang Rachowin, Sika Gasinu
  • Patent number: 12197851
    Abstract: A data model for managing custom fields for tasks in projects. The custom fields can be defined and shared across an organization, and are always unique. Each type of custom field is an object that is subclass of a generic object. Other objects define attributes of the custom fields and assign values to the attributes. The data model allows the custom fields to be preserved and managed across multiple projects and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Gregory Heath Slovacek, Rosario John Aquino, Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Nicholas William Fassler
  • Patent number: 12073363
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain a first set of units of work where a first user is associated with first units of work within the first set but not assigned to the first units of work; and/or effectuate presentation of a dashboard displaying work information for the first units of work within the first set and indicating titles for the first units of work within the first set, statuses of the first units of work within the first set, and user information for the one or more other users assigned to the first units of work within the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Jiang, Eric Seth Pelz, Adam Butler, Johanna Pajak
  • Publication number: 20240273469
    Abstract: Systems and methods to characterize work unit records of a collaboration environment based on stages within a workflow are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment including work unit records; manage workflow information characterizing workflows comprising stages; responsive to work unit records being at individual stages, select the rules that apply at the individual stages; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Lili Jiang Rachowin, Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, John Joseph Welsh, Michael Shengyang Chen, Ariel Janover, Louis Benjamin Lafair, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Shirley Yang
  • Patent number: 12051045
    Abstract: Systems and methods to characterize work unit records of a collaboration environment based on stages within a workflow are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment including work unit records; manage workflow information characterizing workflows comprising stages; responsive to work unit records being at individual stages, select the rules that apply at the individual stages; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Jiang Rachowin, Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, John Joseph Welsh, Shirley Yang, Michael Shengyang Chen, Ariel Janover, Louis Benjamin Lafair, Alexander Thomas Ryan
  • Publication number: 20240220930
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Anna Marie Clifton, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Sean Sun, Sarah Lee Shader, John Wesley Graham, Eric Seth Pelz, Lili Jiang Rachowin, Adam Butler
  • Patent number: 11995611
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Marie Clifton, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Sean Sun, Sarah Lee Shader, John Wesley Graham, Eric Seth Pelz, Lili Jiang Rachowin, Adam Butler
  • Publication number: 20240046213
    Abstract: Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including attribution information and automation records for automated actions to carry out in response to trigger events; detect occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate automated actions corresponding to detected occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate presentation of attribution labels for the effectuated ones of the automated actions; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir I. Cankov, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Adrian Van Yen, John Wesley Graham, Anna Marie Clifton, Lili Jiang Rachowin
  • Publication number: 20240013153
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain a first set of units of work where a first user is associated with first units of work within the first set but not assigned to the first units of work; and/or effectuate presentation of a dashboard displaying work information for the first units of work within the first set and indicating titles for the first units of work within the first set, statuses of the first units of work within the first set, and user information for the one or more other users assigned to the first units of work within the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lili Jiang, Eric Seth Pelz, Adam Butler, Johanna Pajak
  • Publication number: 20230409818
    Abstract: A data model for managing custom fields for tasks in projects. The custom fields can be defined and shared across an organization, and are always unique. Each type of custom field is an object that is subclass of a generic object. Other objects define attributes of the custom fields and assign values to the attributes. The data model allows the custom fields to be preserved and managed across multiple projects and users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Gregory Heath Slovacek, Rosario John Aquino, Jacqueline Frances Bavaro, Nicholas William Fassler
  • Patent number: 11847613
    Abstract: Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including attribution information and automation records for automated actions to carry out in response to trigger events; detect occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate automated actions corresponding to detected occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate presentation of attribution labels for the effectuated ones of the automated actions; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Seth Pelz, Micah Hanan Fenner, Abigail Lorean Kelly, Cvetomir L. Cankov, Alexander Thomas Ryan, Adrian Van Yen, John Wesley Graham, Anna Marie Clifton, Lili Jiang Rachowin