Patents by Inventor Stephen Cronan
Stephen Cronan 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: 11782884Abstract: A metadata-driven file system prioritizes the distribution of files across different storage devices based on arbitrary file metadata matching to different file usage scenarios defined within one or more workflows or taxonomies. The file metadata may be tagged with different key-value pairs from the defined workflows or taxonomies. Upon receiving a file or file access request, the metadata-driven file system matches the file metadata to a key-value pair combination of the taxonomy, and stores the file to a storage device that is selected using a storage rule that is defined for the matching key-value pair combination. The taxonomy may be defined with other programmatic file operations that the metadata-driven file system may perform against files with matching metadata.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Publication number: 20220377279Abstract: Disclosed is a collaboration system that synchronizes what is seen and heard by all participants to a conference such that participant input provided during the conference are seen and heard with respect to the same state of a presented asset. Additionally, the collaboration system may monitor the conference, may extract a first participant contribution prior to presentation of a first asset in the conference and a second participant contribution that is made during a particular interval of the conference when the first asset is presented. The collaboration system may link the second participant contribution to the first asset, may receive a request for the first asset after the conference has concluded, and may provide the first asset with the second participant contribution in response to the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 11496711Abstract: Disclosed is a collaboration system that synchronizes what is seen and heard by all participants to a conference such that participant input provided during the conference are seen and heard with respect to the same state of a presented asset. Additionally, the collaboration system may monitor the conference, may extract a first participant contribution prior to presentation of a first asset in the conference and a second participant contribution that is made during a particular interval of the conference when the first asset is presented. The collaboration system may link the second participant contribution to the first asset, may receive a request for the first asset after the conference has concluded, and may provide the first asset with the second participant contribution in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 11343470Abstract: Disclosed is a collaboration system that synchronizes what is seen and heard by all participants to a conference such that participant input provided during the conference are seen and heard with respect to the same state of a presented asset. Additionally, the collaboration system may monitor the conference, may extract a first participant contribution prior to presentation of a first asset in the conference and a second participant contribution that is made during a particular interval of the conference when the first asset is presented. The collaboration system may link the second participant contribution to the first asset, may receive a request for the first asset after the conference has concluded, and may provide the first asset with the second participant contribution in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Publication number: 20210382855Abstract: A metadata-driven file system prioritizes the distribution of files across different storage devices based on arbitrary file metadata matching to different file usage scenarios defined within one or more workflows or taxonomies. The file metadata may be tagged with different key-value pairs from the defined workflows or taxonomies. Upon receiving a file or file access request, the metadata-driven file system matches the file metadata to a key-value pair combination of the taxonomy, and stores the file to a storage device that is selected using a storage rule that is defined for the matching key-value pair combination. The taxonomy may be defined with other programmatic file operations that the metadata-driven file system may perform against files with matching metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 11106637Abstract: A metadata-driven file system prioritizes the distribution of files across different storage devices based on arbitrary file metadata matching to different file usage scenarios defined within one or more workflows or taxonomies. The file metadata may be tagged with different key-value pairs from the defined workflows or taxonomies. Upon receiving a file or file access request, the metadata-driven file system matches the file metadata to a key-value pair combination of the taxonomy, and stores the file to a storage device that is selected using a storage rule that is defined for the matching key-value pair combination. The taxonomy may be defined with other programmatic file operations that the metadata-driven file system may perform against files with matching metadata.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 10956868Abstract: A collaboration system may produce dynamic collaborative experiences with different tools at different times based on pending workflow tasks and users that are collaborating to complete those tasks. The system may obtain a workflow, and may provide, based on first metadata from the workflow, a first set of users with a first experience that includes a first set of tools for collaborative access to a first set of files. The system may change the first metadata to second metadata in response to output resulting from user interactions with the first set of tools or changes to the first set of files resulting from the first set of users using the first set of tools. The system may provide, based on the second, a second set of users with a second experience that includes a second set of tools for collaborative access to a second set of files.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: 5th Kind LLCInventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 10949385Abstract: A hybrid file system provides access to files based on metadata-defined paths, user-defined paths, and/or hybrid metadata-defined paths. A metadata-defined path may be defined based on file metadata, and may provide access to files that are tagged with the same metadata that is used to specify the metadata-defined path. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using user-defined paths that provide access to the directories where the files are stored. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using a hybrid metadata-user-defined path that appends a directory structure to the metadata-defined path in order to provide direct access to a subset of files from the metadata-defined path that are placed into the metadata-user-defined path without accessing other files from the metadata-defined path.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: 5th Kind LLCInventor: Stephen Cronan
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Publication number: 20210004354Abstract: A hybrid file system provides access to files based on metadata-defined paths, user-defined paths, and/or hybrid metadata-defined paths. A metadata-defined path may be defined based on file metadata, and may provide access to files that are tagged with the same metadata that is used to specify the metadata-defined path. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using user-defined paths that provide access to the directories where the files are stored. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using a hybrid metadata-user-defined path that appends a directory structure to the metadata-defined path in order to provide direct access to a subset of files from the metadata-defined path that are placed into the metadata-user-defined path without accessing other files from the metadata-defined path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: 5th Kind LLCInventor: Stephen Cronan
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Publication number: 20200372002Abstract: A metadata-driven file system prioritizes the distribution of files across different storage devices based on arbitrary file metadata matching to different file usage scenarios defined within one or more workflows or taxonomies. The file metadata may be tagged with different key-value pairs from the defined workflows or taxonomies. Upon receiving a file or file access request, the metadata-driven file system matches the file metadata to a key-value pair combination of the taxonomy, and stores the file to a storage device that is selected using a storage rule that is defined for the matching key-value pair combination. The taxonomy may be defined with other programmatic file operations that the metadata-driven file system may perform against files with matching metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: 5th Kind LLCInventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 10691639Abstract: A hybrid file system provides access to files based on metadata-defined paths, user-defined paths, and/or hybrid metadata-defined paths. A metadata-defined path may be defined based on file metadata, and may provide access to files that are tagged with the same metadata that is used to specify the metadata-defined path. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using user-defined paths that provide access to the directories where the files are stored. Some of the same files may be alternatively accessed using a hybrid metadata-user-defined path that appends a directory structure to the metadata-defined path in order to provide direct access to a subset of files from the metadata-defined path that are placed into the metadata-user-defined path without accessing other files from the metadata-defined path.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: 5th Kind LLCInventor: Stephen Cronan