Patents by Inventor Kevin Elrod

Kevin Elrod 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: 20240048511
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a context-aware, conversational chat bot or agent in multi-party conversations where participants have different levels of security access to information and the bot operates in one or more modes depending on the business context of the multi-user collaboration virtual workspace. The methods include adding a bot, as a participant, to a virtual workspace that is a multi-user collaboration workspace, obtaining, at a bot application server, context of the virtual workspace, setting, by the bot application server, a skill set for the bot from among a plurality of skill sets. The skill set varies based on the context of the virtual workspace. The methods further include configuring, by the bot application server, the bot to perform at least one task in the virtual workspace based on the skill set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Chidambaram Arunachalam, Gonzalo Salgueiro, David deMilo, Kevin Elrod, Felipe De Mello, Carlos M. Pignataro
  • Patent number: 11888790
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a context-aware, conversational chat bot or agent in multi-party conversations where participants have different levels of security access to information and the bot operates in one or more modes depending on the business context of the multi-user collaboration virtual workspace. The methods include adding a bot, as a participant, to a virtual workspace that is a multi-user collaboration workspace, obtaining, at a bot application server, context of the virtual workspace, setting, by the bot application server, a skill set for the bot from among a plurality of skill sets. The skill set varies based on the context of the virtual workspace. The methods further include configuring, by the bot application server, the bot to perform at least one task in the virtual workspace based on the skill set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Chidambaram Arunachalam, Gonzalo Salgueiro, David deMilo, Kevin Elrod, Felipe De Mello, Carlos M. Pignataro
  • Publication number: 20210409352
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a context-aware, conversational chat bot or agent in multi-party conversations where participants have different levels of security access to information and the bot operates in one or more modes depending on the business context of the multi-user collaboration virtual workspace. The methods include adding a bot, as a participant, to a virtual workspace that is a multi-user collaboration workspace, obtaining, at a bot application server, context of the virtual workspace, setting, by the bot application server, a skill set for the bot from among a plurality of skill sets. The skill set varies based on the context of the virtual workspace. The methods further include configuring, by the bot application server, the bot to perform at least one task in the virtual workspace based on the skill set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Chidambaram Arunachalam, Gonzalo Salgueiro, David deMilo, Kevin Elrod, Felipe De Mello, Carlos M. Pignataro
  • Patent number: 7769931
    Abstract: The capacity of a data storage management system may be increased with disclosed methods and systems. One method may increase the capacity of a data storage management system that polls a plurality of monitored elements in a data storage environment. The method includes creating a flag for a poll request and associating a first value for the flag with a first subset of the plurality of monitored elements. The method further includes interpreting a first poll request that includes the first value for the flag as directed to the first subset and interpreting a second poll request that does not include the first value for the flag as not directed to the first subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Anthony Angelone, Eric Duen, Karunaker Chinthapatla, Norman Kevin Elrod, Daniel F. Ozone, Vinh Herring Phan, Ritesh Shukla