Patents by Inventor Marc Gingras

Marc Gingras 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: 20220300911
    Abstract: A method and system for managing occupancy of a workplace location in time is provided. The method comprising receiving a reservation request comprising an expected location identifier of the expected location and a time slot indication of the time slot; generating and transmitting a refusal of the reservation request to the client device if a location counter is equal to a full capacity of the location; displaying a calendar user interface with expected location badges of the expected locations for the plurality of users for each day using personal thumbnails, the personal thumbnails being located in the calendar user interface based on the reservation request received from each client device; generating and displaying a spatial-relationship visual indicator which maps a selection of the personal thumbnails related to users having all selected one specific location from the received expected locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Marc GINGRAS, Jean-Philippe LESPINASSE, Rian Boyd ROBERTSON, Chadwick Russell CARLSON
  • Patent number: 8712820
    Abstract: The embodiments discussed herein describe an application device and method for calendar sharing and scheduling over a communication network. When a meeting is to be scheduled between two or more participants, the organizing participant enters an identification of the participants and requests a time suggestion. In response to the request, information relating to the availability and/or preferences of each participant is gathered from one or more databases and processed centrally in a remote server to determine a block of time during which all the participants are commonly free. The block of time is pushed to a user interface for display. If the organizing user selects the block of time, a meeting request may be sent to the participants to confirm the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Marc Gingras, Fang Yang, Jacou Sarrazin
  • Publication number: 20110071878
    Abstract: The embodiments discussed herein describe an application device and method for calendar sharing and scheduling over a communication network. When a meeting is to be scheduled between two or more participants, the organizing participant enters an identification of the participants and requests a time suggestion. In response to the request, information relating to the availability and/or preferences of each participant is gathered from one or more databases and processed centrally in a remote server to determine a block of time during which all the participants are commonly free. The block of time is pushed to a user interface for display. If the organizing user selects the block of time, a meeting request may be sent to the participants to confirm the meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Tungle Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Gingras, Fang Yang, Jacou Sarrazin
  • Publication number: 20100180212
    Abstract: A system for sharing calendar information. The system may comprise a graphical user interface implemented on a computer for sharing calendar information with a third party residing at a remote site, the graphical user interface comprises a selection tool operable by a user on the computer for selecting a time range from a calendar program executed by the computer, the calendar program maintaining a schedule of events for the user over a certain time period. The time range is a subset of the certain time period, the time range being characterized by one or more free time slots within the time range, whereby the user is available for taking part in an activity. The time range is further characterized by one or more busy time slots within the time range, whereby the user is unavailable to take part in an activity. The selection tool causes the time range to be exposed to the third party residing at a remote site such that the third party can determine the free and busy timeslots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Tungle Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Gingras, Jennifer Lanne Bell, Fang Yang, Alexander Kress
  • Publication number: 20080020043
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drug-dendrimer conjugate comprising a central core, two or more linear hydrophilic molecules bonded thereto, a secondary core molecule bonded to at least a majority, if not all, of said first linear hydrophilic molecules, a drug or other biologically-active molecule bonded to the remainder of said first linear hydrophilic molecules or bonded to a segment comprising a second secondary core molecule which is bonded to said first secondary core molecule by a linear hydrophilic molecule, and wherein at least some of the bonds between said drug or other biologically active molecule and said first and/or second secondary core molecules are hydrolysable by an endogenous esterase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Marc Gingras, Jean-Manuel Raimundo, Yoann M. Chabre, Michele Boix, Marina Do, Christian Sarrazin, Laurent Delahaye
  • Patent number: 6815607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for electrically grounding and supporting poles or posts which are used in electrical and/or telecommunication networks. The system includes a conductive base support affixed at or near the base of the pole and to which the ground wire is attached. The base support not only provides resistance to lateral forces, thereby anchoring the bottom of the pole, but also presents a relatively large surface area for electrical bonding with the soil/earth at the bottom of the pole which facilities grounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Marc Gingras