Patents by Inventor Ramesh Balakrishnan
Ramesh 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).
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Patent number: 11941241Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
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Patent number: 11941009Abstract: Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
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Patent number: 11928326Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
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Publication number: 20240037109Abstract: Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
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Publication number: 20230067290Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
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Patent number: 11494070Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
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Patent number: 11188216Abstract: One or more embodiments increase the visual appeal and organization of presenting digital content items. In particular, one or more embodiments improve the visual appeal of a presentation of digital content items by emphasizing one or more digital content items within the presentation of digital content items. For instance, one or more digital content items may be emphasized within a graphical user interface including a gallery of digital content items. The emphasized digital content items can be selected based on a score reflecting a particular characteristic of the digital content item and/or a metric of user interest in the digital content item. Digital content items with relatively high scores as compared to other digital content items may be emphasized when presented in conjunction with the other digital content items.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
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Publication number: 20210326033Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
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Patent number: 11042283Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
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Patent number: 11003711Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that facilitates accessing audio files associated with a user from an online content management system. During operation, the online content management system receives a function call from a client to list audio files associated with the user. In response to the function call, the system filters through operations for files associated with the user to identify audio files. Next, the system returns metadata for the identified audio files associated with the user to the client. In some embodiments, filtering through the operations involves filtering an operation log to identify operations performed on audio files associated with the user, wherein the operations occurred since a preceding call to the function.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Josiah Boning, Jie Tang, Julie Tung
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Publication number: 20200064994Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
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Patent number: 10496266Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
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Publication number: 20190278471Abstract: One or more embodiments increase the visual appeal and organization of presenting digital content items. In particular, one or more embodiments improve the visual appeal of a presentation of digital content items by emphasizing one or more digital content items within the presentation of digital content items. For instance, one or more digital content items may be emphasized within a graphical user interface including a gallery of digital content items. The emphasized digital content items can be selected based on a score reflecting a particular characteristic of the digital content item and/or a metric of user interest in the digital content item. Digital content items with relatively high scores as compared to other digital content items may be emphasized when presented in conjunction with the other digital content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
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Patent number: 10360228Abstract: Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
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Patent number: 10346023Abstract: One or more embodiments increase the visual appeal and organization of presenting digital content items. In particular, one or more embodiments improve the visual appeal of a presentation of digital content items by emphasizing one or more digital content items within the presentation of digital content items. For instance, one or more digital content items may be emphasized within a graphical user interface including a gallery of digital content items. The emphasized digital content items can be selected based on a score reflecting a particular characteristic of the digital content item and/or a metric of user interest in the digital content item. Digital content items with relatively high scores as compared to other digital content items may be emphasized when presented in conjunction with the other digital content items.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
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Patent number: 10200421Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for creating shared virtual spaces using a client device. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request from a user to share one or more digital content items with other users via a shared virtual space. The disclosed systems queue a request to send data to a content management system to create the shared virtual space. In some instances, the disclosed systems can determine that a connection between a user's client device and the content management system is below a threshold connectivity, and then simulate an online experience for the user despite the poor connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Thomas Kleinpeter, Thomas Wright, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Tina Wen, Rajeev Nayak
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Publication number: 20180373420Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
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Patent number: 10095398Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
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Publication number: 20180059926Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
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Patent number: 9870430Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates access to content. During operation, the system tracks a content item at an online content management system using an identifier for the content item. Next, the system uses the identifier to provide a link to the content item, wherein the link enables access to the content item from an electronic device independently of a location of the content item within the online content management system.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventor: Ramesh Balakrishnan