Patents by Inventor Chithralekha Balamurugan

Chithralekha Balamurugan 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: 10192180
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes identifying a first set of workers from workers, based on a performance of the workers on a set of tasks previously attempted by the workers, and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) associated with the task. The method further includes generating a graph comprising nodes and edges connecting the nodes. Each of the one or more nodes is indicative of a worker. An edge, connecting two workers, is indicative of said two workers having worked together on at least one task. The method further includes receiving an input, to select a second set of workers from the first set of workers, based on one or more first parameters associated with each of the nodes in said graph and second parameters associated with each of the edges in the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Chandra Bose Rantham Prabhakara, Pallavi Manohar, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Patent number: 10135999
    Abstract: A method and a system for digitization of a document are disclosed. The document is scanned to generate an electronic document. One or more characters in a first set of portions of the electronic document are identified, based on a character recognition technique. Each portion in the first set of portions is classified in one or more groups based on at least a status of identification of the corresponding one or more characters. Further, one or more tasks are created for each of the one or more groups. The one or more tasks are transmitted to one or more crowdworkers, based at least on the respective type of the one or more tasks. Further, a response for each of the one or more tasks is received. Based on the received response, a digitized document is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Meera Sampath, Rebecca Taylor, Leslie Stone
  • Publication number: 20180109685
    Abstract: A method and a system for digitization of a document are disclosed. The document is scanned to generate an electronic document. One or more characters in a first set of portions of the electronic document are identified, based on a character recognition technique. Each portion in the first set of portions is classified in one or more groups based on at least a status of identification of the corresponding one or more characters. Further, one or more tasks are created for each of the one or more groups. The one or more tasks are transmitted to one or more crowdworkers, based at least on the respective type of the one or more tasks. Further, a response for each of the one or more tasks is received. Based on the received response, a digitized document is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Meera Sampath, Rebecca Taylor, Leslie Stone
  • Publication number: 20180089767
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for predicting service assurance between requestors and crowd workers for task processing on a crowdsourcing platform. The method includes receiving one or more service level agreement (SLA) attributes of one or more tasks. The method further includes selecting a first set of crowd workers, from a plurality of crowd workers associated with the crowdsourcing platform. The method further includes selecting a second set of crowd workers from one or more SLA-based clusters of the selected first set of crowd workers. The method further includes predicting the service assurance between the requestor and each of the selected second set of crowd workers based on at least performance sustenance parameters associated with the one or more tasks and the selected second set of crowd workers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Karan Kumar Budhraja, Preethi Raj Raajaratnam, Shruti Kunde, Madhavi Shankar
  • Patent number: 9710769
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes extracting one or more components from at least one task based on a task category associated with the at least one task. Each component corresponds to a part of the at least one task, that requires an input from a crowdworker. Further, the one or more components are categorized in a set of first categories, each of which includes similar components, and a second category that includes dissimilar components. The categorization is based on a comparison between content of each of component, and the task category. Thereafter, a representative component from at least one category from the set of first categories, and at least one component from the second category are combined to create the task. The task, so created, is crowdsourced to one or more crowdworkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventors: Saraschandra Karanam, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Neha Gupta, Nischal Murthy Piratla
  • Patent number: 9652445
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for creating one or more tasks of digitizing an electronic document. The electronic document comprises one or more fields. The method comprising receiving inputs to define one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more fields. The one or more fields are categorized in one or more groups based on the one or more characteristics. Additionally, a task is created for each of the one or more categorized fields based on the one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more categorized fields, wherein the task comprises at least a user interface for facilitating at least one remote worker to input a response for the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Shourya Roy, Sujit Gujar
  • Patent number: 9600788
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relates to a crowdsourcing directory system. The crowdsourcing directory system is configured for identifying and comparing one or more of a plurality of crowdsourcing platforms based on a plurality of attributes associated with each of the plurality of crowdsourcing platforms. The crowdsourcing directory system then recommends a set of crowdsourcing platforms from the one or more crowdsourcing platforms based on values of the plurality of attributes. The crowdsourcing directory system also maintains a repository of information pertaining to the plurality of crowdsourcing platforms. In an embodiment, the repository may be updated by implementing software adaptors configured to extract various information pertaining to the plurality of crowdsourcing platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Koustuv Dasgupta, Karnam Saraschandra, Shourya Roy
  • Publication number: 20170076241
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for selecting a crowd workforce for processing a task. The method includes receiving a request from a requestor to process the task. The method further includes generating a set of rules based on at least one or more attributes associated with the task. The method further includes selecting a first set of crowd workers, from one or more crowd workers, based on at least a triggering of one or more rules from the set of rules. The triggering of the one or more rules is based on at least a set of threshold values associated with the one or more crowd workers. The method further includes displaying a resource graph on a display screen of a requestor-computing device associated with a requestor, where the resource graph represents at least the first set of crowd workers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Shruti Kunde, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Deepthi Chander, Avantika Gupta
  • Publication number: 20170039505
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes identifying a first set of workers from workers, based on a performance of the workers on a set of tasks previously attempted by the workers, and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) associated with the task. The method further includes generating a graph comprising nodes and edges connecting the nodes. Each of the one or more nodes is indicative of a worker. An edge, connecting two workers, is indicative of said two workers having worked together on at least one task. The method further includes receiving an input, to select a second set of workers from the first set of workers, based on one or more first parameters associated with each of the nodes in said graph and second parameters associated with each of the edges in the graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Chandra Bose Rantham Prabhakara, Pallavi Manohar, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Publication number: 20160379315
    Abstract: According to embodiments illustrated herein, there is provided a method for processing one or more tasks. The method includes monitoring a worker-computing device for at least security threats. The method further includes transmitting selected one or more tasks to the worker-computing device. Further a worker associated with the worker-computing device processes the one or more tasks, while the worker computing device is disconnected from the crowdsourcing platform. The method further includes monitoring the processing of the one or more tasks by the worker, while the worker computing device is disconnected from the crowdsourcing platform. The method further includes receiving responses for the one or more tasks from the worker computing device, while the worker-computing device is connected to the crowdsourcing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, SARASCHANDRA KARANAM, Sujit Gujar, Neha Gupta
  • Publication number: 20160307142
    Abstract: According to embodiments illustrated herein, a method and system is provided for creating a log of one or more events in a first multimedia content. The method includes transmitting, by a transceiver, the first multimedia content and a second multimedia content to a first set of workers. The first set of workers utilize the second multimedia content to identify the one or more events in the first multimedia content. The method further comprises creating, by one or more processors, the log of the one or more events, identified by the first set of workers, based on at least temporal occurrence of the one or more events in the first multimedia content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Prabhakara, Shailesh Vaya, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Publication number: 20160148245
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes presenting one or more advertisements to a worker along with said task. The one or more advertisements are determined based on at least a type of said task being attempted by said worker, one or more tasks previously attempted by said worker, and a profile of said worker. Thereafter, an incentive to said worker is provided based on said presentation of said one or more advertisements, in addition to providing a remuneration for attempting said task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Laura Elisa Celis, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Publication number: 20160148168
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for distributing crowdsourcing tasks. The method includes receiving a handshake request, by a host device from a client device, at least for accessing one or more first crowdsourcing tasks, such that the client device has sporadic internet connectivity. Thereafter, in response to the handshake request a message is transmitted by the host device to the client device. The message includes at least an information pertaining to one or more second crowdsourcing tasks received from a crowdsourcing platform server. Further, the one or more first crowdsourcing tasks are transmitted by the host device to the client device. This transmission is based at least on a validation of one or more second responses, received from the client device, associated with the one or more second crowdsourcing tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Mohit Sorde, Preethi Raj Raajaratnam, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Publication number: 20160078392
    Abstract: A method and system for recommending suitability of crowdsourcing a business process is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of business requirements pertaining to the business processes, and receiving one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. The method further includes generating at least one of a comparison matrix or an optimization function based on the plurality of business requirements and the one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. Lastly, the method provides a recommendation on the suitability of crowdsourcing the business process based on at least one of the comparison matrix or the optimization function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Sujit GUJAR, Shourya ROY, Chithralekha BALAMURUGAN, Jacki ONEILL, Meera SAMPATH
  • Publication number: 20160071048
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for formulating a policy for crowdsourcing of tasks. The method includes receiving a set of incoming tasks and a range associated with a task attribute corresponding to each task in the set of incoming tasks. Thereafter, an execution of a first policy is simulated over a period of time to determine one or more first performance metrics, associated with the execution of the first policy. The first policy is based on a first value selected from the range. Further, the first value is updated to generate a second value based on the one or more first performance metrics, wherein the second value is deterministic of the policy for crowdsourcing of the set of incoming tasks over the period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Sujit Gujar, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Chandrashekhar Lakshminarayanan, Srujana Sadula, Shalabh Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 9152919
    Abstract: A method and system for recommending one or more tasks from a plurality of crowdsourcing tasks to a crowdworker is disclosed. The method includes identifying one or more categories for the plurality of tasks on the plurality of crowdsourcing platforms. In response to the identifying, determining, at a login time, values of one or more utility parameters of the crowdworker corresponding to the one or more categories. After identifying, the method selects the one or more tasks from the plurality of tasks by choosing one or more constraints on the determined values of the one or more utility parameters of the crowdworker. The method then recommends to the crowdworker at the login time, the one or more tasks associated with the crowdworker based on selected one or more tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Koustuv Dasgupta, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Laura E Celis, Karanam Saraschandra
  • Publication number: 20150278747
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes extracting one or more components from at least one task based on a task category associated with the at least one task. Each component corresponds to a part of the at least one task, that requires an input from a crowdworker. Further, the one or more components are categorized in a set of first categories, each of which includes similar components, and a second category that includes dissimilar components. The categorization is based on a comparison between content of each of component, and the task category. Thereafter, a representative component from at least one category from the set of first categories, and at least one component from the second category are combined to create the task. The task, so created, is crowdsourced to one or more crowdworkers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Saraschandra Karanam, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Neha Gupta, Nischal Murthy Piratla
  • Publication number: 20150199632
    Abstract: A method of administering mobile crowdsourcing includes: receiving a plurality of requests from requestors to fulfill tasks at specified task locations; receiving an itinerary from a worker, the itinerary defining a journey the worker plans to take and including at least a starting point of the journey and an end point of the journey; automatically generating, based on the received itinerary, at least one parameterized, personlized action plan, the plan identifying a subset of the tasks for which requests had been received; and providing the plan to the worker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Deepthi Chander, Laura Elisa Celis, Koustuv Dasgupta, Nischal Murthy Piratla, Chithralekha Balamurugan
  • Patent number: 8990676
    Abstract: A method for processing application forms comprising extracting content from filled first forms of consumers, each of the first forms comprising one or more fields, arranging the extracted content of one or more fields of the plurality of fields of the plurality of filled first forms in a first matrix; encoding the content of each of the rows of the first matrix to define a second matrix; and disposing the encoded content of the second matrix in multiple empty second forms such that content of one column is disposed on only one of the empty second forms, each of the second forms includes the same type and number of fields as that of one of the filled first forms, further wherein the number of the filled second forms is based on the number of the one or more fields in the filled first forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corp
    Inventors: Nischal M. Piratla, Kovendhan Ponnavaikko, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Michael Robert Campanelli
  • Publication number: 20150014411
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods, and systems for providing a customized and/or personalized transaction card to a user. The method begins with receiving a transaction card at or by a terminal device. A user is allowed to automatically login to a user account at or otherwise relating to the terminal device. Upon logging in, at least one workflow that is registered by the user is retrieved and then displayed to the user for selection. The selected workflow is then received. In response to the user's selection, the corresponding workflow associated activity is automatically executed, without requiring the user to navigate through multiple screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Nischal M Piratla