Patents by Inventor Geraldine Maclear

Geraldine Maclear 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).

  • METHOD & APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE STATE OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100226487
    Abstract: A networked conferencing device includes at least one speaker, a display and a plurality of environmental sensors such as cameras, microphones, light level sensors, thermal sensors and motion sensors. The conferencing device receives environmental information from the sensors and processes this information to identify qualified events. The identified qualified events are then used to determine a next powered state for the conferencing device. If the next powered state is different than a current powered state, then the conferencing system transitions to the next powered state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Polycom, Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Harder, Ara Bedrossian, Geraldine Maclear, Vladimir Mikulaj, Yu Xin, Ted Becker, Eric David Elias, Jeffrey C. Rodman