Patents by Inventor Ankur Tayal

Ankur Tayal 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: 11966984
    Abstract: A financial close automation (FCA) system receives or retrieves account data from one or more enterprise resource planning products (ERPs). The FCA examines the balance sheet for a given account and determines whether the account is auto-certifiable, and whether the unknown balance is below a threshold amount. If the answer to either inquiry is no, the FCA generates a task for the general ledger owner to provide an explanation for the discrepancy. A task is the created for a manager to review the provided explanation. If the manager does not approve of the provided explanation, additional information may be required. Once the manager approves the provided explanation for the discrepancy, the account is certified. If the account is auto-certifiable and the unknown balance is below the threshold amount, the account is auto-certified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Jessica Lee Tobin, Ellen Frances Espinosa
  • Patent number: 11720838
    Abstract: A project management portal is disclosed that may include a graphical user interface (GUI) by which individuals internal and external to the enterprise may coordinate performance of tasks and communicate with one another to complete the project. The GUI may include a job list window that displays a plurality of selectable jobs, each corresponding to a job that has been created by a user, and a job details window that displays information associated with a job corresponding to a selected job within the job list window. The job details window may include any number of data entry fields that allow a job to be configured. In some embodiments, some jobs within a job list window may be dependent upon other jobs, such that data produced during performance of a first job acts as an input to be used during performance of a second job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Vakili Jafari, Ankur Tayal
  • Publication number: 20220215329
    Abstract: A project management portal is disclosed that may include a graphical user interface (GUI) by which individuals internal and external to the enterprise may coordinate performance of tasks and communicate with one another to complete the project. The GUI may include a job list window that displays a plurality of selectable jobs, each corresponding to a job that has been created by a user, and a job details window that displays information associated with a job corresponding to a selected job within the job list window. The job details window may include any number of data entry fields that allow a job to be configured. In some embodiments, some jobs within a job list window may be dependent upon other jobs, such that data produced during performance of a first job acts as an input to be used during performance of a second job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Amir Vakili Jafari, Ankur Tayal
  • Publication number: 20220172300
    Abstract: A financial close automation (FCA) system receives or retrieves account data from one or more enterprise resource planning products (ERPs). The FCA examines the balance sheet for a given account and determines whether the account is auto-certifiable, and whether the unknown balance is below a threshold amount. If the answer to either inquiry is no, the FCA generates a task for the general ledger owner to provide an explanation for the discrepancy. A task is the created for a manager to review the provided explanation. If the manager does not approve of the provided explanation, additional information may be required. Once the manager approves the provided explanation for the discrepancy, the account is certified. If the account is auto-certifiable and the unknown balance is below the threshold amount, the account is auto-certified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Jessica Lee Tobin, Ellen Frances Espinosa
  • Patent number: 11288608
    Abstract: A project management portal is disclosed that may include a graphical user interface (GUI) by which individuals internal and external to the enterprise may coordinate performance of tasks and communicate with one another to complete the project. The GUI may include a job list window that displays a plurality of selectable jobs, each corresponding to a job that has been created by a user, and a job details window that displays information associated with a job corresponding to a selected job within the job list window. The job details window may include any number of data entry fields that allow a job to be configured. In some embodiments, some jobs within a job list window may be dependent upon other jobs, such that data produced during performance of a first job acts as an input to be used during performance of a second job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Vakili Jafari, Ankur Tayal
  • Patent number: 11257168
    Abstract: A financial close automation (FCA) system receives or retrieves account data from one or more enterprise resource planning products (ERPs). The FCA examines the balance sheet for a given account and determines whether the account is auto-certifiable, and whether the unknown balance is below a threshold amount. If the answer to either inquiry is no, the FCA generates a task for the general ledger owner to provide an explanation for the discrepancy. A task is the created for a manager to review the provided explanation. If the manager does not approve of the provided explanation, additional information may be required. Once the manager approves the provided explanation for the discrepancy, the account is certified. If the account is auto-certifiable and the unknown balance is below the threshold amount, the account is auto-certified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Jessica Lee Tobin, Ellen Frances Espinosa
  • Publication number: 20210319389
    Abstract: A project management portal is disclosed that may include a graphical user interface (GUI) by which individuals internal and external to the enterprise may coordinate performance of tasks and communicate with one another to complete the project. The GUI may include a job list window that displays a plurality of selectable jobs, each corresponding to a job that has been created by a user, and a job details window that displays information associated with a job corresponding to a selected job within the job list window. The job details window may include any number of data entry fields that allow a job to be configured. In some embodiments, some jobs within a job list window may be dependent upon other jobs, such that data produced during performance of a first job acts as an input to be used during performance of a second job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Amir Vakili Jafari, Ankur Tayal
  • Patent number: 11010817
    Abstract: A system includes a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to perform operations including receiving, via a product model API, product model data for a product sold by a vendor, receiving from the vendor, via an offer API, offer data corresponding to one or more promotional offers for the product, processing, via a deal hub, the offer data, generating a catalog item for the product, and displaying the catalog item within a catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Bharath Soundararajan, Amir Vakili Jafari, Ryan Meonske, Senthil Rajavallipuram Meenakshisundaram, Shilpa Subhash Deshmukh, Brandy Joe Frederick, Denise Michelle Wilson, Ankur Tayal
  • Publication number: 20190340562
    Abstract: A project management portal includes a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a task list window that displays a plurality of selectable task cards, each corresponding to an assigned task, and a task details window that displays information for a task corresponding to a selected task card within the a task list window. The task details window may include an activity field that allows comments about the selected task to be exchanged between multiple users. Some tasks within the task list window may be dependent upon other tasks. Further, completion of the selected task may activate a follow-up task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Ellen Frances Espinosa
  • Publication number: 20190340701
    Abstract: A financial close automation (FCA) system receives or retrieves account data from one or more enterprise resource planning products (ERPs). The FCA examines the balance sheet for a given account and determines whether the account is auto-certifiable, and whether the unknown balance is below a threshold amount. If the answer to either inquiry is no, the FCA generates a task for the general ledger owner to provide an explanation for the discrepancy. A task is the created for a manager to review the provided explanation. If the manager does not approve of the provided explanation, additional information may be required. Once the manager approves the provided explanation for the discrepancy, the account is certified. If the account is auto-certifiable and the unknown balance is below the threshold amount, the account is auto-certified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Jessica Lee Tobin, Ellen Frances Espinosa
  • Publication number: 20190279275
    Abstract: A system includes a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to perform operations including receiving, via a product model API, product model data for a product sold by a vendor, receiving from the vendor, via an offer API, offer data corresponding to one or more promotional offers for the product, processing, via a deal hub, the offer data, generating a catalog item for the product, and displaying the catalog item within a catalog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Bharath Soundararajan, Amir Vakili Jafari, Ryan Meonske, Senthil Rajavallipuram Meenakshisundaram, Shilpa Subhash Deshmukh, Brandy Joe Frederick, Denise Michelle Wilson, Ankur Tayal
  • Publication number: 20190278634
    Abstract: A system includes a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to perform operations including generating a graphical user interface for receiving and displaying a plurality of settings of a configurable adapter and controlling a middleware instance in accordance with a configurable adapter to perform data exchange operations. The plurality of settings of the configurable adapter include a source location, a destination location, and the middleware instance. The source location includes a first field of a first table of a first platform. The destination location includes a second field of a second table of a second platform. Controlling the middleware instance includes retrieving data from the source location specified by the configurable adapter, and copying the data to a destination location specified by the configurable adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Bharath Soundararajan, Amir Vakili Jafari, Ryan Meonske, Senthil Rajavallipuram Meenakshisundaram, Shilpa Subhash Deshmukh, Brandy Joe Frederick, Denise Michelle Wilson, Ankur Tayal