Patents by Inventor Kannan Balakishnan

Kannan Balakishnan 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).

  • Visual aid to assist making purchase by tracking key product characteristics
    Patent number: 8375035
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods and systems for assisting users in an ecommerce environment. The method includes displaying a user interface of including products. Each of the products have associated attributes. Each of the associated attributes are displayed in the user interface with an associated selection tool. The method further includes receiving one or more selections of the selection tools indicating selection of one or more of the associated attributes. The one or more selections provide a ranking of each of the selected attributes. For each of the products, the method calculates a real-time score total and displays the real-time score total within the user interface. The calculating includes determining a weighted value for each of the products based on an aggregation of each of the selected associated attributes of the product. Further, the method includes displaying a ranked list of the products based on the determined weighted values of each of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Carini, Kannan Balakishnan