Patents by Inventor Akash Hasmukh Parikh
Akash Hasmukh Parikh 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: 10438257Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. Prices are defined for including one or more channels in one or more composite channels. The prices may be provided to channel curators associated with the one or more composite channels and the one or more channel curators may accept or reject the prices for including the one or more channels in the one or more composite channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Prabhu Balasubramanian, John Thomas, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Shishir Mehrotra
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Publication number: 20190238944Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to identify the paid channel comprising a plurality of media items. The internet-based content platform allows the channel curator indicate a list of types of access to the plurality of media items, a list of subscription levels, where each subscription level is associated with a different subscription fee and where each subscription level is associated with a type of access from the list of types of access. The internet-based content platform associates the list of types of access and the list of subscription levels with the paid channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Prabhu Balasubramanian, John Thomas, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Natalia Ann Cohen Fisher
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Patent number: 10262347Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to create a paid channel and may include a plurality of media items including at least one paid media item and at least one free media item, in the paid channel. The internet-based content platform may also allow a channel curator to define a subscription fee and a duration for a subscription to the paid channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Prabhu Balasubramanian, John Thomas, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Natalia Ann Cohen Fisher
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Patent number: 10079872Abstract: An internet-based content platform for providing subscription levels to channels are described. The internet-based content platform presents to an end user, a channel that includes a plurality of media items, a list of types of access to the plurality of media items, and a plurality of subscription levels associated with different subscription fees for different types of access. The channel is one of a plurality of channels of an internet-based content platform. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of subscription levels for the channel. The internet-based content platform records the selected subscription level of the end user for the channel. The internet-based content platform provides a type of access to the plurality of media items of the channel for the end user according to the recorded subscription level of the end user for the channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson
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Patent number: 9961402Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to identify a paid channel where the paid channel is associated with a plurality of media items. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to indicate a subscriber set of advertising attributes for the paid channel and a non-subscriber set of advertising attributes for the paid channel. The internet-based content platform associates the subscriber set of advertising attributes and the non-subscriber set of advertising attributes with the paid channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Prabhu Balasubramanian, John Thomas, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Natalia Ann Cohen Fisher
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Patent number: 9560400Abstract: A content platform that includes subscribable paid channels is provided. The content platform receives, via a user interface, a request of an end user to subscribe to a paid channel. The paid channel is one of a plurality of channels of the content platform and has dynamically changed content. The content platform requests, via the user interface, end user information that includes payment information of the end user. The content platform receives the end user information and creates a subscription to the paid channel for the end user based on the end user information. The content platform provides, via the user interface, access to the content of the paid channel to the end user at substantially the same time as creating the subscription for the end user.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson
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Patent number: 9509798Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of a paid channel from the list of channels from the end user. The paid channel includes a plurality of media items including at least one paid media item and at least one free media item. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of media items from the end user. The internet-based content platform determines whether the selected media item is a free item or a paid item. When the selected media item is a paid item, the internet-based content platform requests subscription information of the end user. When the selected media item is a free item, the internet-based content platform provides the at least one free media item to the end user.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson
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Publication number: 20140366047Abstract: A content platform that includes subscribable paid channels is provided. The content platform receives, via a user interface, a request of an end user to subscribe to a paid channel. The paid channel is one of a plurality of channels of the content platform and has dynamically changed content. The content platform requests, via the user interface, end user information that includes payment information of the end user. The content platform receives the end user information and creates a subscription to the paid channel for the end user based on the end user information. The content platform provides, via the user interface, access to the content of the paid channel to the end user at substantially the same time as creating the subscription for the end user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson
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Publication number: 20140337139Abstract: An internet-based content platform for providing subscription levels for channels is described. The internet-based content platform receives a user request for one of a plurality of media items of a channel. The internet-based content platform determines whether the user is subscribed to the channel. When the user is subscribed to the channel, the internet-based content platform presents the requested media item according to a subscriber set of advertising attributes. When the user is not subscribed to the channel, the internet-based content platform presents the requested media item according to a non-subscriber set of advertising attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson
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Patent number: 8850490Abstract: An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable paid channels is provided. The internet-based content platform receives, via a user interface, a request of an end user to subscribe to a paid channel. The paid channel is one of a plurality of channels of the internet-based content platform and has dynamically changed content. The internet-based content platform requests, via the user interface, end user information that includes payment information of the end user. The internet-based content platform receives the end user information and creates a subscription to the paid channel for the end user based on the end user information. The internet-based content platform provides, via the user interface, access to the content of the paid channel to the end user at substantially the same time as creating the subscription for the end user.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: John Thomas, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Robert Lee Thompson