Patents by Inventor Sunil Thadani

Sunil Thadani 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).

  • Enhanced recharge card management system with reseller users' security and accessibility
    Patent number: 7356327
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for allowing a reseller to securely access and manage scratch cards at a recharge card management system that is maintained by the service provider. The service provider and reseller users of the recharge card management system can create a scratch card batch that is associated with the reseller account identification. The service provider and reseller users can search, view and modify scratch card data based on security and accessibility. Advantageously, the reseller or distributor can only manage and sell scratch card only to its own account identification, thus protecting such transactions against fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, John B. Reid, Jie Su, Sunil Thadani
  • Enhanced recharge card management system with reseller users' security and accessibility
    Publication number: 20050108126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for allowing a reseller to securely access and manage scratch cards at a recharge card management system that is maintained by the service provider. The service provider and reseller users of the recharge card management system can create a scratch card batch that is associated with the reseller account identification. The service provider and reseller users can search, view and modify scratch card data based on security and accessibility. Advantageously, the reseller or distributor can only manage and sell scratch card only to its own account identification, thus protecting such transactions against fraud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, John Reid, Jie Su, Sunil Thadani
  • Credit reservation transactions in a prepaid electronic commerce system
    Publication number: 20040141601
    Abstract: A network-based e-commerce system 100, 200 contains one or more service control points (SCPs) 122, 206 for establishing and maintaining credit reservation accounts associated with a plurality of prepaid subscribers. The credit reservation accounts are dedicated for payment, if at all, to particular service (content) providers. Service (content) providers access the credit reservations via a gateway device 104, 204.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Sunil Thadani