Patents by Inventor Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath

Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath 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).

  • Patent number: 11049061
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for intelligent adjustment of shipping data based on past cubing tendencies. A user may access a service provider to request generation of shipping labels for one or more future packages to be shipped. The user may provide shipping data required to generate the labels, including a value for each label that is used to purchase shipping services using the label when the label is affixed or associated with a package. The provider may review past shipping data for the user and/or similar packages, and may determine whether the entered shipping data accurately estimates the user's shipping needs. If the past shipping data indicates that the user may require different shipping needs, such as additional value, the provider may adjust the value. Any over or under charge may then be refunded to the user on actual shipping of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Patent number: 10296966
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating WiFi transactions are provided. A consumer device logs in to a merchant's WiFi network and a tab for the consumer is opened up with the merchant. The merchant adds items ordered by the consumer to the tab until the consumer decides to close the tab. The consumer can close the tab by logging off the merchant's WiFi network, pressing a button on a mobile device indicating that he or she wants to settle the tab, or specifying that the tab should be closed after a certain amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Publication number: 20190108565
    Abstract: A system and method for a service level application are described. The service level application receives authentication data from a client seeking access to establish an account in an online marketplace. The service level application identifies a source of truth corresponding to the authentication data and verifies the authentication data with the corresponding source of truth. The service level application determines an access level tier to the online marketplace for the client based on the source of truth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Venkatesh Thanuvan, Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Patent number: 10181143
    Abstract: A system and method for a service level application are described. The service level application receives authentication data from a client seeking access to establish an account in an online marketplace. The service level application identifies a source of truth corresponding to the authentication data and verifies the authentication data with the corresponding source of truth. The service level application determines an access level tier to the online marketplace for the client based on the source of truth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Thanuvan, Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Publication number: 20170351993
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for intelligent adjustment of shipping data based on past cubing tendencies. A user may access a service provider to request generation of shipping labels for one or more future packages to be shipped. The user may provide shipping data required to generate the labels, including a value for each label that is used to purchase shipping services using the label when the label is affixed or associated with a package. The provider may review past shipping data for the user and/or similar packages, and may determine whether the entered shipping data accurately estimates the user's shipping needs. If the past shipping data indicates that the user may require different shipping needs, such as additional value, the provider may adjust the value. Any over or under charge may then be refunded to the user on actual shipping of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Publication number: 20170236189
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating WiFi transactions are provided. A consumer device logs in to a merchant's WiFi network and a tab for the consumer is opened up with the merchant. The merchant adds items ordered by the consumer to the tab until the consumer decides to close the tab. The consumer can close the tab by logging off the merchant's WiFi network, pressing a button on a mobile device indicating that he or she wants to settle the tab, or specifying that the tab should be closed after a certain amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur SRINATH
  • Publication number: 20160189097
    Abstract: A system is provided that allows a user to make modification to an online order that the user previously made. In particular, when the system receives the user's instruction to modify an online purchase order, the system may determine or track the progress of the purchase order. Based on the progress of the purchase order, the system may implement modification to the purchase order accordingly. In an embodiment, the system may determine the cost of making such modification and may present the user with the fee or cost for making such modification. The system may allow the user to review the cost for making the modification and decide whether to proceed with the modification. For example, the user may decide not to proceed with the modification, because the cost or fee for making the modification exceeds the amount the user is willing to pay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Saji Hussain Padmaraagam, Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath, Sathish Vaidyanathan, Prabhakar Ramadass
  • Publication number: 20160117682
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating payment are described. A user creates a user profile with a service provider, and the user profile is stored locally on a user device. When the user wants to make a payment from the user device, software running in the background of the device determines that a user profile is stored on the user device. If a user profile is detected, the software automatically presents the user with an option to make a payment with one or more funding sources. User credentials in the user profile are used to authenticate the user and authorize payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath, Jigar Surana
  • Publication number: 20160048893
    Abstract: A system and method for a service level application are described. The service level application receives authentication data from a client seeking access to establish an account in an online marketplace. The service level application identifies a source of truth corresponding to the authentication data and verifies the authentication data with the corresponding source of truth. The service level application determines an access level tier to the online marketplace for the client based on the source of truth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Venkatesh Thanuvan, Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Publication number: 20140214713
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a shipping label are described. A shipping label application stores a shipping preset preference corresponding to an item listed by a seller on the marketplace, the shipping preset preference identifying one of a plurality of shipping carriers and one of a plurality of shipping services selected by the seller for the item. The shipping label application identifies the item in a transaction of the seller in the marketplace, retrieves the shipping preset preference of the seller corresponding to the item, and generates a shipping label for the item based on the shipping preset preference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
  • Publication number: 20130254132
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium is provided to provide a publisher with a single interface to a plurality of shipping service providers. To begin, the method may receive, through a message bus, a request event message sent by the publisher. The request event message may include a shipping service provider identifier. Next, the method may identify a shipping interface based on the shipping service provider identifier, where the shipping interface corresponds to a shipping service provider of the plurality of shipping service providers. The method may then send, using the shipping interface, a shipping service request to the shipping service provider, with the shipping service request corresponding to a shipping service provided by the shipping service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath, Mohit Soni, Madusudanan Rengasamy