Patents by Inventor Sankar Ram Dhanabalan

Sankar Ram Dhanabalan 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: 20150319494
    Abstract: A device receives a recording schedule for programs to record at a future time and causes, based on the recording schedule, at least some of the programs to be recorded in the device memory to create recorded content. The device detects use of the device, by a user, to initiate obtaining content that creates a conflict with the recording schedule. The device identifies alternate content, from the recorded content, that is related to the content that creates the conflict with the recording schedule. The device presents, to the user, a notification of the conflict. The notification includes a list of at least some of the alternate content from the recorded content such that the user can select alternate recorded content from the notification menu without disrupting the recording schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sankar Ram Dhanabalan, Prabhakar Mani, Anil Kumar Padi
  • Publication number: 20150281745
    Abstract: A disclosed system and method relate to presenting a program guide that includes information associated with an instance of programming, including audio information and visual information. A request for the information associated with the instance of programming is received, and a determination is made whether delivery of the first audio information could be completed within a threshold time after receiving the request. The audio information is provided to a user in connection with the visual information when the delivery of the first audio information could be completed within the threshold time. Alternatively, when the delivery of the first audio information could not be completed within the first threshold time, other audio information associated with the instance of the programming is obtained and provided to the user in connection with the visual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sankar Ram Dhanabalan, Kishore Tallapaneni, Mandar Dhonsale, Ravikumar Thangavel, Jaykishan Tiwari