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).

  • Patent number: 11941241
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Patent number: 11941009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
  • Patent number: 11928326
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
  • Publication number: 20240037109
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
  • Publication number: 20230067290
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
  • Patent number: 11494070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood
  • Patent number: 11188216
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
  • Publication number: 20210326033
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Patent number: 11042283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Patent number: 11003711
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Josiah Boning, Jie Tang, Julie Tung
  • Publication number: 20200064994
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
  • Patent number: 10496266
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
  • Publication number: 20190278471
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
  • Patent number: 10360228
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
  • Patent number: 10346023
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
  • Patent number: 10200421
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Thomas Kleinpeter, Thomas Wright, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Tina Wen, Rajeev Nayak
  • Publication number: 20180373420
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Patent number: 10095398
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Publication number: 20180059926
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood, IV
  • Patent number: 9870430
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramesh Balakrishnan