Patents by Inventor Kannan Balakrishnan

Kannan Balakrishnan 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: 10311407
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an indication that a communication is to be sent from the first party to a second party, and, for the communication from the first party to the second party, generating a code that encodes an indication of a communication routing between the first party and the second party. The computer-implemented method further includes embedding the code into the communication such that the code is sent with the communication from the first party to the second party, receiving a response to the communication, wherein the response to the communication includes the embedded code, and decoding the embedded code to determine the communication routing between the first party and the second party. Still further, the computer-implemented method includes causing the response to the communication to be routed to the first party based on the determined communication routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: John M. Dillard, William Richard Simonovich, II, John Jenkins, Chadd Eugene Grove, Kimberly J. Timmons, Christy L. Conn, Kannan Balakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20120047146
    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: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Kannan Balakrishnan, Robert Carini
  • Publication number: 20080052159
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, at least one encodable review code associated with providing services to a consumer is provided for use as a consumer interface to interact with the consumer, wherein the encodable review code is encoded based on a review code type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Venkataraman Balakrishnan, Kannan Balakrishnan