Patents by Inventor Hemanth Kumar Narayanan

Hemanth Kumar Narayanan 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: 11010813
    Abstract: A system and method includes presenting a single product to be located in the retail store to the customer using a mobile application running on the mobile device, receiving an indication from the customer either to dismiss the product or to add the product to a grocery basket of the mobile application to form user data, presenting a cue card to ask the customer a question, receiving an answer from the customer as to yes or no to the question to form cue card data, using a data model and an algorithm to predict the most probable product the customer is going to want to add to the grocery basket, transmitting a representation of the most probable product, and displaying the most probable product on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the most probable product is based on the user data and the cue card data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Richard Doyle
  • Patent number: 10380669
    Abstract: A query is input to a search engine and search results, such as product records, are identified as relevant to the query. The results are presented to a user in a first interface, such as one allowing scrolling in a first direction. On selection of a result, a second interface is displayed of a “shelf” for the selected result, the shelf including related items such as might be located on a same shelf as the selected result in a retail location. The second interface may allow scrolling in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Pravat Ranjan Rana, Bhaavan Merchant, Aastha Garg
  • Publication number: 20180165743
    Abstract: A system and method includes presenting a single product to be located in the retail store to the customer using a mobile application running on the mobile device, receiving an indication from the customer either to dismiss the product or to add the product to a grocery basket of the mobile application to form user data, presenting a cue card to ask the customer a question, receiving an answer from the customer as to yes or no to the question to form cue card data, using a data model and an algorithm to predict the most probable product the customer is going to want to add to the grocery basket, transmitting a representation of the most probable product, and displaying the most probable product on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the most probable product is based on the user data and the cue card data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Richard Doyle
  • Patent number: 9984403
    Abstract: An electronic shopping cart of a user is presented in a first interface during checkout, such as one allowing scrolling through representations of items in a shopping list in a first direction. On selection of an item, a second interface is displayed of a “shelf” for the selected item, the shelf including related items such as might be located on a same shelf as the selected result in a retail location. The second interface may allow scrolling in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Items in the second interface may be selected and either added to the electronic shopping cart or used to replace the selected item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: WAL-MART STORES, INC.
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Pravat Ranjan Rana, Bhaavan Merchant, Aastha Garg
  • Publication number: 20160125495
    Abstract: A query is input to a search engine and search results, such as product records, are identified as relevant to the query. The results are presented to a user in a first interface, such as one allowing scrolling in a first direction. On selection of a result, a second interface is displayed of a “shelf” for the selected result, the shelf including related items such as might be located on a same shelf as the selected result in a retail location. The second interface may allow scrolling in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Pravat Ranjan Rana, Bhaavan Merchant, Aastha Garg
  • Publication number: 20160125504
    Abstract: An electronic shopping cart of a user is presented in a first interface during checkout, such as one allowing scrolling through representations of items in a shopping list in a first direction. On selection of an item, a second interface is displayed of a “shelf” for the selected item, the shelf including related items such as might be located on a same shelf as the selected result in a retail location. The second interface may allow scrolling in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Items in the second interface may be selected and either added to the electronic shopping cart or used to replace the selected item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Narayanan, Pravat Ranjan Rana, Bhaavan Merchant, Aastha Garg