Patents by Inventor Steven Nelson
Steven Nelson 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: 11120342Abstract: Techniques related to electronic meeting intelligence are disclosed. An apparatus receives audio/video data including first meeting content data for an electronic meeting that includes multiple participants. The apparatus extracts the first meeting content data from the audio/video data. The apparatus generates meeting content metadata based on analyzing the first meeting content data. The apparatus includes the meeting content metadata in a report of the electronic meeting. If the apparatus determines that the audio/video data includes a cue for the apparatus to intervene in the electronic meeting, the apparatus generates intervention data including second meeting content data that is different from the first meeting content data. During the electronic meeting, the apparatus sends the intervention data to one or more nodes associated with at least one participant of the multiple participants.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kitada, Steven A. Nelson, Lana Wong, Charchit Arora
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Publication number: 20210272071Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings. Embodiments include improved approaches for translation and transcription using multiple translation/transcription services. Embodiments also include using sensors in conjunction with interactive whiteboard appliances to perform person detection, person identification, attendance tracking, and improved meeting start.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 11080466Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 11062271Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings. Embodiments include improved approaches for translation and transcription using multiple translation/transcription services. Embodiments also include using sensors in conjunction with interactive whiteboard appliances to perform person detection, person identification, attendance tracking, and improved meeting start.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 11030585Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings. Embodiments include improved approaches for translation and transcription using multiple translation/transcription services. Embodiments also include using sensors in conjunction with interactive whiteboard appliances to perform person detection, person identification, attendance tracking, and improved meeting start.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 11010542Abstract: An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to instantiate and manage multiple windows on the interactive whiteboard appliance in a manner that allows information in multiple windows to be viewed concurrently by dynamically selecting and changing the opacity of one or more portions of a topmost window in response to one or more conditions. The one or more conditions may include one or more user actions made with respect to the topmost window or the one or more conditions may be related to a window other than the topmost window, such as detection of an audio signal in a non-topmost window. Opacity may be selectively changed on a region-by-region basis and graphical user interface controls may be provided to allow users to specify different opacity levels.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Steven A. Nelson
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Publication number: 20210112221Abstract: An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to integrate and manage, in a user-friendly manner, interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions between the interactive whiteboard appliance and one or more client devices. An application manager executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance manages an interactive whiteboard application and a collaboration client executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance to maintain a videoconferencing session window on top of an interactive whiteboard session window during videoconferencing sessions. The application manager also provides graphical user interface controls displayed on the interactive whiteboard appliance that allow users to initiate and manage interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions, including switching between interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Lana Wong, Hiroshi Kitada
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Patent number: 10959384Abstract: Provided herein are methodology and composition for use of any nut (such as almond, walnut, or pistachio) or legume (peanut) shell and/or husk material in a growing substrate, with or without other components such as peat, perlite, or coir; for plant growth, whether it be used in its whole form or some reduced form such as, having been chipped or ground, and whether composted or not.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: VERITAS SUBSTRATES, LLCInventors: Steven Douglas Nelson, Michael Dean Nelson, Daniel Steven Nelson, David Johnston, Scott Charles Nelson
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Patent number: 10956875Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings. Embodiments include improved approaches for translation and transcription using multiple translation/transcription services. Embodiments also include using sensors in conjunction with interactive whiteboard appliances to perform person detection, person identification, attendance tracking, and improved meeting start.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 10925380Abstract: A beverage holder includes a cup having a support base, a bracket portion capable of providing a cantilevered support of the holder to a support structure, and a peg capable of insertion into a bore hole for support of the holder to a support structure. The holder is particularly suited for support on a piece of exercise equipment.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Inventor: Steven A. Nelson
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Patent number: 10901719Abstract: A cognitive agent system provides a centralized capability for users to configure and deploy cognitive agents across multiple heterogeneous vendor platforms. The cognitive agent system provides a design environment that allows users to define skills, as well as a new conversation construct that supports more complex interactions with users. The cognitive agent system also includes a deployment environment that allows users to register users and cognitive agents, deploy skills and conversations, and monitor the activity of cognitive agents across multiple vendor platforms. These users may use the cognitive agent system to define skills and conversations once and then deploy the skills and conversations to multiple service endpoints across different vendor platforms. In addition, the cognitive agent system allows user to directly manage cognitive agents that are not specific to any particular vendor.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: 10904487Abstract: An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to integrate and manage, in a user-friendly manner, interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions between the interactive whiteboard appliance and one or more client devices. An application manager executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance manages an interactive whiteboard application and a collaboration client executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance to maintain a videoconferencing session window on top of an interactive whiteboard session window during videoconferencing sessions. The application manager also provides graphical user interface controls displayed on the interactive whiteboard appliance that allow users to initiate and manage interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions, including switching between interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven Nelson, Lana Wong, Hiroshi Kitada
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Patent number: 10860985Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The tasks may include a wide variety of tasks, such as agenda creation, participant selection, real-time meeting management, meeting content supplementation, and post-meeting processing. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293607Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293605Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293608Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293604Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293606Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Publication number: 20200293616Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
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Patent number: D929815Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Inventor: Steven A. Nelson