Patents by Inventor Praneeth Kongara

Praneeth Kongara 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).

  • Publication number: 20140279079
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards grouping together media assets that are stored in different locations. Media assets are identified as having common classification by using the metadata associated with such media assets (420). Additional media assets are also added to such storage locations automatically (430), where the additional media assets share the same classifications as the previously classified media assets. Optionally, offers (425) are provided to a user based on such classification operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Gregory David Gudorf, Stelian Markov, Samir M. Ahmed, Praneeth Kongara
  • Publication number: 20140249936
    Abstract: A method and a digital locker system for providing digital locker services are described. Content offers come from external sources and locally hosted sources. Content offers from external sources are received and processed in a content offer processor along with catalog information. Content offers from locally hosted sources are retrieved and catalog information is generated accordingly. Both types of content offers are aggregated and prepared for storage in a content offer cache, which are then used for providing services, such as content query, to users. Content acquisition and playback requests from users are handled according to the provider of the requested content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Stelian Markov, Praneeth Kongara, Warren Robert Vollinger, Samir M. Ahmed