Patents by Inventor Mike Derocher
Mike Derocher 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).
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Patent number: 8390663Abstract: A method including creating a local view for a local endpoint, where the local view is created from a local topology for the local endpoint, where the local topology is created from a central topology, scanning for a request to change the local view for the local endpoint, and updating the local view for the local endpoint when the request to change the local view will not violate the local topology for the local endpoint and will not violate the central topology.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Mark E Gorzynski
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Patent number: 8363088Abstract: Telepresence display configuration useful for video conferencing. The telepresence display configurations include a video display and a mat. The mat is spaced apart from the video display and has an opening having an inner perimeter configured to frame a viewing surface of a video display.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Mark E Gorzynski, Mark Prommel, Wilfrido Loor Canizares
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Patent number: 8272335Abstract: A cable manager for a tabletop includes raceway and a holder. The tabletop includes a support surface and an edge surface. The raceway is for a cable having an end with a plug. The raceway is configured to be positioned lengthwise along at least a portion of a length of the edge surface. The raceway provides a slot along and through which the cable can, with respect to the support surface, be moved laterally and extended and retracted. The holder is configured to be positioned on the support surface and to retain the plug in a stationary position at a first location adjacent to the support surface. The plug is removable from the holder to be repositioned to a desired one of a plurality of second locations adjacent to the support surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Stephen DeSaulles, Amos Marchant, Paul Harris
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Patent number: 8223186Abstract: A method is described for initiating and controlling a video conference between multiple video conference studios. A virtual meeting space is defined within a user interface comprising icons representing selected remote studios in geometric positions that mimic the locations of separate live video images coming from the selected remote studios, enabling participants in the local studio to naturally associate the live video images with the icons representing the remote studios.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Ted Beers, Thomas Kleist, Thomas Moltoni
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Patent number: 7990889Abstract: Systems and methods for managing virtual collaboration systems are disclosed herein. A virtual collaboration system includes a distributor communicatively coupled to a first network and a second network having different network characteristics from the first network, the distributor configured to receive first media streams from at least one first network node, and to transmit the first media streams to at least one second network node; and a management subsystem adapted to dynamically configure a topology of a virtual collaborative event, wherein configuration of the topology includes a determination of media stream connections among the distributor and the at least one first network node based, at least in part, on at least one policy, and wherein the media stream connections establish and maintain virtual relationships among the at least one first network node and the at least one second network node.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ted Beers, Mike Derocher, Brad Allen, Jon A Brewster, Mark E Gorzynski, Scott Grasley
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Publication number: 20100188477Abstract: A method including creating a local view for a local endpoint, where the local view is created from a local topology for the local endpoint, where the local topology is created from a central topology, scanning for a request to change the local view for the local endpoint, and updating the local view for the local endpoint when the request to change the local view will not violate the local topology for the local endpoint and will not violate the central topology.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Mike Derocher, Mark E. Gorzynski
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Publication number: 20090323552Abstract: Systems and methods for managing virtual collaboration systems are disclosed herein. A virtual collaboration system includes a distributor communicatively coupled to a first network and a second network having different network characteristics from the first network, the distributor configured to receive first media streams from at least one first network node, and to transmit the first media streams to at least one second network node; and a management subsystem adapted to dynamically configure a topology of a virtual collaborative event, wherein configuration of the topology includes a determination of media stream connections among the distributor and the at least one first network node based, at least in part, on at least one policy, and wherein the media stream connections establish and maintain virtual relationships among the at least one first network node and the at least one second network node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Ted Beers, Mike Derocher, Brad Allen, Jon A. Brewster, Mark E. Gorzynski, Scott Grasley
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Publication number: 20090231412Abstract: Telepresence display configuration useful for video conferencing. The telepresence display configurations include a video display and a mat. The mat is spaced apart from the video display and has an opening having an inner perimeter configured to frame a viewing surface of a video display.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Mike Derocher, Mark E Gorzynski, Mark Prommel, Wilfrido Loor Canizares
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Publication number: 20090178844Abstract: A cable manager for a tabletop includes raceway and a holder. The tabletop includes a support surface and an edge surface. The raceway is for a cable having an end with a plug. The raceway is configured to be positioned lengthwise along at least a portion of a length of the edge surface. The raceway provides a slot along and through which the cable can, with respect to the support surface, be moved laterally and extended and retracted. The holder is configured to be positioned on the support surface and to retain the plug in a stationary position at a first location adjacent to the support surface. The plug is removable from the holder to be repositioned to a desired one of a plurality of second locations adjacent to the support surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: Mike Derocher, Stephen DeSaulles, Amos Marchant, Paul Harris
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Publication number: 20070279484Abstract: A method is described for initiating and controlling a video conference between multiple video conference studios. A virtual meeting space is defined within a user interface comprising icons representing selected remote studios in geometric positions that mimic the locations of separate live video images coming from the selected remote studios, enabling participants in the local studio to naturally associate the live video images with the icons representing the remote studios.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Mike Derocher, Ted Beers, Thomas Kleist, Thomas Moltoni
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Patent number: D583781Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Brad Allen, Mark E Gorzynski, Wilfrido Loor Canizares, Mark Prommel
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Patent number: D590644Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Brad Allen, Mark E Gorzynski, Wilfrido Loor Canizares, Mark Prommel
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Patent number: D593977Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Brad Allen, Mark E Gorzynski, Wilfrido Loor Canizares, Mark Prommel
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Patent number: D762133Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mike Derocher, Matthew C. Still, Dennis R. Esterberg