Patents by Inventor Ian Heritage

Ian Heritage 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: 7549120
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a presentation structure and content including providing a presentation markup, receiving one or more logical attributes for the presentation key point, assigning a time value and an importance weight to a presentation key point utilizing the one or more logical attributes, generating a summary of the presentation, detecting a logical attribute during the presentation and marking the local attribute as located, detecting a presenter behavior pattern detecting a presenter speech pattern; providing a real-time notification of at least one of the presenter behavior pattern or the presenter speech pattern via an external device having a display viewable to the presenter but not to an audience; recording voice input of the presentation; providing an analysis of the presentation generated by analyzing at least one key point in the presentation; and providing an edited playback of the presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tim Griffith, Bernard Z. Kufluk, Samuel J. Smith, Philip R. Taunton, Robert J. Breeds, Ian Heritage