Himanshu Sawhney

Title: Himanshu Sawhney: Inventor of Tools for Contextualizing Online Meetings

Introduction

Himanshu Sawhney is an inventor associated with Noida, India, and Adobe, Inc. His work includes inventions designed to add context to online meetings and help users assess participant engagement. He is credited with 2 patents.

Latest Patents

“Contextualizing Interactions in Web Meeting Sessions” describes a system for associating participants’ annotations with details such as the meeting, the participant, and the time an annotation was submitted. These records can help users locate relevant portions of a meeting recording and understand annotations in context.

“Method and Apparatus for Providing a Contextual Timeline of an Online Interaction for Use in Assessing Effectiveness” concerns a contextual timeline for online interactions, such as web conferences. It presents changes in participant engagement, attentiveness, attendance, or other measures alongside images representing content shown during the interaction. Users can select points on the timeline to view corresponding images.

Career Highlights

Sawhney’s listed inventions focus on making online interactions easier to review and evaluate. One connects annotations to meeting records and recordings, while the other presents participant activity and meeting content along a timeline.

Collaborations

Sawhney is associated with Adobe, Inc. His listed coworkers include Bhaskar Priya and Swapnil Sahai.

Conclusion

Himanshu Sawhney’s two listed patents address complementary aspects of online meetings: preserving the context of participant annotations and helping users assess interactions through a contextual timeline.