Patents by Inventor Anand N. Sankaran

Anand N. Sankaran 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: 20120291057
    Abstract: A method including providing a television service to customers; identifying a customer when the customer uses the television service; tracking content viewed by the customer; calculating probabilities based on the customer's viewing of contents, wherein the probabilities pertain to features applicable to the viewed contents and the features include genres of the viewed contents; selecting one or more upcoming contents, available at a future date to the customer, to recommend to the customer based on one or more features applicable to the upcoming content that correspond to one or more features applicable to the viewed contents; and providing a user interface to permit the customer to select from the one or more upcoming contents recommended to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Gunda, Nilanjan Roy, Muhil Rajamanickam, Vijay Prabhu Baskaran, Jubish Cheriya Parambath, Anand N. Sankaran
  • Publication number: 20120151514
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a user request to view a channel to which the user does not currently subscribe. Customer information regarding the user and marketing rules regarding a plurality of combination offers that include the channel may be obtained. A number of combination offers from the plurality of combination offers may be determined based on the customer information and the marketing rules. One or more of the determined combination offers may be provided to the user. A user request to purchase a selected one of the provided combination offers may be received. The channels included within the selected combination offer may be provisioned based on the user request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Venket Kandanala, Nicky Pinakin Joshi, Lisa A. Caputo, Karthik Srinivasan, Mousumi Dasgupta, Anand N. Sankaran, Rajesh Narayan, Jubish C. Parambath, Mareeswari Muthusamy, VijayPrabhu Baskaran
  • Publication number: 20120151533
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining customer information regarding the user and marketing rules regarding a plurality of store offerings. A number of store offerings from the plurality of store offerings may be identified based on the customer information and the marketing rules. One or more of the identified store offerings may be provided to the user. A user request to purchase a selected one of the provided store offerings may be received. The content or services associated with the selected store offering may be provisioned based on the user request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Venket Kandanala, Lisa A. Caputo, Nicky Pinakin Joshi, Mousumi Dasgupta, Srimathi Saravanan, Jagadish B. Nagam, TamilKumaran Palaniappan, Rajesh Narayan, Anand N. Sankaran, Jubish C. Parambath
  • Publication number: 20120150642
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a phone service, an Internet access service, or a television service to customers; identifying a customer when the customer uses the at least one of the phone service, the Internet access service, or the television service; selecting products or services for which the customer qualifies based on the identifying; gathering customer-specific data for the customer; generating recommendations that pertain to the at least one of the phone service, the Internet access service, or the television service for the customer based on the products or the services for which the customer qualifies, the customer-specific data, and other factors, wherein the other factors include at least one of a location of the customer or a time in which the recommendations is to be provided to the customer; and providing the recommendations to the customer via the at least service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Venket Kandanala, Karthik Srinivasan, Nicky Pinakin Joshi, Mathew P. Varughese, Anand N. Sankaran, Siddhartha X. Gunda, Pankul X. Mahajan, Jubish C. Parambath, Paranjothi X. Ramalingam, Lisa A. Caputo, Sundarajan Varadharajan