Patents by Inventor Ashish Sharma

Ashish Sharma 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: 10944680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communications methods, apparatus and systems for collecting metrics and/or traffic routing using SDN principles. In an exemplary method embodiment, the method includes the steps of: operating a SBC to: (i) receive a session initiation signal used to initiate a first media session; (ii) send to an SDN controller session identification information identifying a first RTCP packet stream corresponding to the first media session and causing said SDN controller to control a first open flow switch to establish an entry in a table to cause the first open flow switch to send a copy of the RTCP packets corresponding to the first RTCP packet stream to the SBC while also communicating the RTCP packets corresponding to the first RTCP packet stream towards the intended first RTCP packet stream destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Nagesh Kumar Bollapalli, Siddharth Gahlaut
  • Patent number: 10938711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communications methods, apparatus and systems for providing media micro flow services in a scalable manner using SDN principles. In an exemplary method embodiment a session border controller in a SDN network is operated to receive first signaling information for establishing a first media session, the first media session including a first media packet flow that passes through a first programmable switch of the SDN network; generate instructions to implement a media micro flow service on the first programmable switch through which the first media packet flow passes; and send the instructions to a SDN controller which controls the first programmable switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Justin Hart, Kevin Riley
  • Patent number: 10902427
    Abstract: Systems and methods of improving the operation of a transaction network and transaction network devices is disclosed. A transaction network host may comprise various modules and engines as discussed herein wherein the probability that a transaction is a business or personal transaction may be evaluated for establishing proper usage of differentiated transaction instruments according to their proper purposes. For instance, a probable personal transaction may be identified as being associated with a business-oriented transaction card, whereby the transaction network may tailor the handling of the transaction, such as by denying it, whereby the transaction network may actively deter misuse of transaction products whereby the transaction network more properly functions according to approved parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Vernon Marshall, Sangarsh Nigam, Ashish Sharma, Bhupinder Singh, Mira Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20200388029
    Abstract: A system associated with quantifying a density level of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, based on prediction of reconstructed TIL information associated with tumoral tissue image data during pathology analysis of the tissue image data is disclosed. The system receives digitized diagnostic and stained whole-slide image data related to tissue of a particular type of tumoral data. Defined are regions of interest that represents a portion of, or a full image of the whole-slide image data. The image data is encoded into segmented data portions based on convolutional autoencoding of objects associated with the collection of image data. The density of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes is determined of bounded segmented data portions for respective classification of the regions of interest. A classification label is assigned to the regions of interest. It is determined whether an assigned classification label is above a pre-determined threshold probability value of lymphocyte infiltrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Joel Haskin SALTZ, Tahsin KURC, Rajarsi GUPTA, Tianhao ZHAO, Rebecca BATISTE, Le HOU, Vu NGUYEN, Dimitrios SAMARAS, Arvind RAO, John VAN ARNAM, Pankaj SINGH, Alexander LAZAR, Ashish SHARMA, Ilya SHMULEVICH, Vesteinn THORSSON
  • Patent number: 10830097
    Abstract: An engine case is provided having a first solid wall region and a second solid wall region with an internal region between the first and second sold wall regions. The internal region defines at least one cavity. One or more lattice structures are provided within the cavity that controls the flow of coolant air through the cavity. The cavity may be divided into two or more distinct cooling regions for allowing particular coolant flow paths to be provided to different parts of the engine case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Guenter Wilfert
  • Publication number: 20200320847
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for efficiently monitoring hand hygiene is provided. The system comprises one or more sensors configured to determine presence of one or more individuals in vicinity. The system further comprises one or more controllers configured to ascertain identity of the one or more individuals. The one or more controllers are further configured to send one or more alerts to the one or more identified individuals to wash their hands. Furthermore, the one or more controllers are configured to monitor one or more handwashing instances by the one or more identified individuals and generate one or more compliance results for each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances. The one or more controllers are also configured to initiate one or more actions corresponding to each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances based on the generated one or more compliance results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Nitesh Dattu Waghode, Vivek Vasant Diwanji, Amit Bindumadhav Pingle, Himanshu Pradhan, Mandar Pandurang Patil, Aman Singhal, Ashish Sharma
  • Patent number: 10783170
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for assigning a geographical location to a photograph of a landscape. A geographic location tag is calculated from raw sensor data and a three-dimensional terrain map that corresponds to the landscape in the photograph. One technique includes calculating a two-dimensional ideal view projection of a camera used to take the landscape photograph based at least in part on a geographic location of the camera when the landscape photograph was taken and a field of view of the camera when the landscape photograph was taken. At least one of the topographical features visible from the camera based on the two-dimensional ideal view projection is selected from a three-dimensional terrain map representing a plurality of topographical features within a geographic region. At least one geographic location tag representing at least one of the selected topographical features is assigned to the landscape photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Anubhav Jain
  • Patent number: 10778731
    Abstract: Communications methods, apparatus and systems for conserving Media Resource Function (MRF) resources by identifying streams of sessions, for example, non-real time streams, which can be routed to avoid use of MRF resources. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving by a SBC a session initiation request from a first device directed to a second device for a session including a plurality of streams; establishing a plurality of routes to the second device, said routes including at least a first route and a second route, the first route not including a media content processing entity and the second route including a media content processing entity; identifying from the streams for the session a first set of streams; said first set of streams including one or more streams that do not require media content processing; and routing one or more of the streams of the first set of streams via the first route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Nagesh Kumar Bollapalli
  • Publication number: 20200237352
    Abstract: A vein harvesting device is disclosed. The vein harvesting device includes a handle assembly, at least one elongated portion, first and second end effectors, and a tip. Each end effector is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the at least one elongated portion. Each end effector includes a first jaw member and a second jaw member, and at least one jaw member is movable toward the other jaw member. The tip is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the elongated portion. A distal end of the tip extends distally beyond a distal-most end of the first end effector. The first end effector is movable independently of the tip, and the second end effector is movable independently of the tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, David N. Heard, Joe D. Sartor
  • Publication number: 20200213221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communications methods, apparatus and systems for providing media micro flow services in a scalable manner using SDN principles. In an exemplary method embodiment a session border controller in a SDN network is operated to receive first signaling information for establishing a first media session, the first media session including a first media packet flow that passes through a first programmable switch of the SDN network; generate instructions to implement a media micro flow service on the first programmable switch through which the first media packet flow passes; and send the instructions to a SDN controller which controls the first programmable switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Justin Hart, Kevin Riley
  • Patent number: 10692355
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for efficiently monitoring hand hygiene is provided. The system comprises one or more sensors configured to determine presence of one or more individuals in vicinity. The system further comprises one or more controllers configured to ascertain identity of the one or more individuals. The one or more controllers are further configured to send one or more alerts to the one or more identified individuals to wash their hands. Furthermore, the one or more controllers are configured to monitor one or more handwashing instances by the one or more identified individuals and generate one or more compliance results for each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances. The one or more controllers are also configured to initiate one or more actions corresponding to each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances based on the generated one or more compliance results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.
    Inventors: Nitesh Dattu Waghode, Vivek Vasant Diwanji, Amit Bindumadhav Pingle, Himanshu Pradhan, Mandar Pandurang Patil, Aman Singhal, Ashish Sharma
  • Publication number: 20200190137
    Abstract: The invention pertains to methods of purifying fusion proteins, in particular TNFR:Fc fusion proteins. Methods disclosed herein can be used to produce highly pure TNFR:Fc fusion proteins (e.g., etanercept) having a biological activity by removing hard to separate product related impurities such as clipped and/or mis-fold/aggregated TNFR:Fc fusion proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Balakumar Thangaraj
  • Patent number: 10646210
    Abstract: A vein harvesting device is disclosed. The vein harvesting device includes a handle assembly, at least one elongated portion, first and second end effectors, and a tip. Each end effector is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the at least one elongated portion. Each end effector includes a first jaw member and a second jaw member, and at least one jaw member is movable toward the other jaw member. The tip is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the elongated portion. A distal end of the tip extends distally beyond a distal-most end of the first end effector. The first end effector is movable independently of the tip, and the second end effector is movable independently of the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Joe D. Sartor, David N. Heard
  • Publication number: 20200112692
    Abstract: Presented here is a system and method to record images having varying zoom levels using a lens having a substantially fixed zoom level. The resulting image can have varying zoom levels and can be of high quality. The light sensor recording the image can have a resolution higher than the desired resolution of the resulting image. The high resolution of the light sensor allows digital zooming, i.e., cropping of the image. The light sensor can operate in two modes, where each mode produces varying resolutions of the resulting image. Operating the light sensor in the mode producing a high resolution of the resulting image, however, does not produce images of satisfactory quality in low light conditions, and the light sensor may need to be switched between the first and the second mode depending on the zoom level and the lighting conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yazhu Ling, Kumi Akiyoshi, Ashish Sharma, Tien Viet Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200104321
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may perform a method for providing a unified pipeline for media metadata to converge disparate schemas and data structures into a global unified graph. The method includes receiving media metadata from disparate media sources that may each have a different metadata schema that defines the structure and attributes of the metadata provided by each media source. The computing device may compare media metadata received from the different media sources to determine that metadata received from the different media sources correspond to similar, or the same, media entities (e.g., songs, movies, books, etc.). The metadata for the similar media entities may then be combined into a global unified graph that may include metadata attributes and/or values of the metadata received from the various media sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Han Jia, Jianqing Sun, Philip Edward Lamond, Darren Seeto, Edward J. Roberts, Michael H. Walker, Christopher J. Powell
  • Patent number: 10587502
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communications methods, apparatus and systems for providing media micro flow services in a scalable manner using SDN principles. In an exemplary method embodiment a session border controller in a SDN network is operated to receive first signaling information for establishing a first media session, the first media session including a first media packet flow that passes through a first programmable switch of the SDN network; generate instructions to implement a media micro flow service on the first programmable switch through which the first media packet flow passes; and send the instructions to a SDN controller which controls the first programmable switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Justin Hart, Kevin Riley
  • Publication number: 20200074835
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for efficiently monitoring hand hygiene is provided. The system comprises one or more sensors configured to determine presence of one or more individuals in vicinity. The system further comprises one or more controllers configured to ascertain identity of the one or more individuals. The one or more controllers are further configured to send one or more alerts to the one or more identified individuals to wash their hands. Furthermore, the one or more controllers are configured to monitor one or more handwashing instances by the one or more identified individuals and generate one or more compliance results for each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances. The one or more controllers are also configured to initiate one or more actions corresponding to each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances based on the generated one or more compliance results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Nitesh Dattu Waghode, Vivek Vasant Diwanji, Amit Bindumadhav Pingle, Himanshu Pradhan, Mandar Pandurang Patil, Aman Singhal, Ashish Sharma
  • Patent number: 10575835
    Abstract: A vein harvesting device is disclosed. The vein harvesting device includes a handle assembly, an elongated portion extending distally from the handle assembly and defining a longitudinal axis, an end effector, and a retractor. The end effector is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the elongated portion, and includes a first jaw member and a second jaw member. At least one jaw member is movable toward the other jaw member. The retractor is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the elongated portion, and includes a shaft and a pair of legs. The retractor is movable from a non-deployed position where the shaft is aligned with the longitudinal axis, to a deployed position where the shaft is disposed at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Ashish Sharma
  • Publication number: 20200067994
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods, apparatus and systems for optimizing media paths in communications networks. An exemplary embodiment includes the steps of a first SBC (SBC1) receiving a session request including a SDP offer for a session between first and second devices including media stream(s), said request being sent by a second SBC (SBC2) and traversing a portion of a signaling path including intermediary device(s), determining that media stream(s) should bypass one or more of the intermediary device(s), generating and transmitting to SBC2 from SBC1 a SDP answer including at least one of: (i) all SDP media descriptor transport addresses being set to zero; (ii) all SDP media stream connection values being set to 0.0.0.0 and at least one media transport address being non-zero; or (iii) header information or SDP information indicating that at least one intermediary device should be bypassed for the one or more media streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Nagesh Kumar Bollapalli, Ashish Sharma, Pendyala Satya Ravi Kiran
  • Patent number: 10535106
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query associated with a trending topic selected by a user of an online social network from multiple trending topics and rewriting the query into a query command including multiple query constraints. The method also includes identifying one or more posts matching the query command, where each identified post has privacy settings making the post visible to all users of the online social network, and calculating, for each of the identified posts, a score for the post based on one or more post-quality features, where the score is calculated using a machine-learning model that assigns a particular weight to each of the one or more post-quality features. The method also includes sending to the user a commentary module including at least a portion of each of one or more of the identified posts having scores higher than a threshold score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Tal Mashiach, Ashish Sharma