Patents by Inventor Dhigha Sekaran

Dhigha Sekaran 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: 20230367539
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems and methods for generating and providing interactive sessions and interactive session captures. For example, upon completion of an interactive session, systems and methods described herein can generate an interactive session playback interface associated with an interactive session capture that includes various interactive features. During playback of the interactive session capture, the systems and methods described herein can update features of the interactive session playback interface to mirror interactions that occurred in the original interactive session, as well as provide additional interactive features associated with the interactive session capture. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hemal Khatri, Joel Alexander Sharin, Pradeep George Mathias, Adam Zerby, Deepan Gupta, Ananth Balakrishna Vasishta, Suhel Reto Sheikh, Jihoon Suh, Michael Sheppard Horowitz, Guy Shlomo Assedou, Biwei Ni, Dhigha Sekaran, Vinay Mahagaokar, Yi Shen, Mengwei Ding, Nikhil Mahendra Shah, Mark Shwartzman, Ashish Gupta
  • Patent number: 10511644
    Abstract: A multi-media online conversation in which automatic actions associated with executable components, such as recording and broadcasting, are performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conversation. The action appears as a visualization in a portion of the user interface that includes both individuals that may be joined into a conference as well as one or more executable components. The action associated within an executable component may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner with how individuals are added into an online conversation, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Dutta, Anand Srinivasan, Christopher M. Eagan, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Dhigha Sekaran, Marius Ungureanu
  • Publication number: 20190058743
    Abstract: A multi-media online conversation in which automatic actions associated with executable components, such as recording and broadcasting, are performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conversation. The action appears as a visualization in a portion of the user interface that includes both individuals that may be joined into a conference as well as one or more executable components. The action associated within an executable component may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner with how individuals are added into an online conversation, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Amit Kumar DUTTA, Anand SRINIVASAN, Christopher M. EAGAN, Krishnan ANANTHANARAYANAN, Dhigha SEKARAN, Marius UNGUREANU
  • Patent number: 10142380
    Abstract: Online conferencing involving video and audio in which automatic actions such as recording and broadcasting is performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conference area of a user interface. The action appears as a visualization in the contacts portion of the user interface, some of which contacts may represent individuals that may be joined into a conference. Recording or broadcasting the action may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner as how individuals are added into an online conference, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Dutta, Anand Srinivasan, Christopher M. Eagan, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Dhigha Sekaran, Marius Ungureanu
  • Patent number: 9883044
    Abstract: Techniques for a mixed audio conference are described. An apparatus may comprise an audio video multipoint control unit to mix call information from multiple call connections established over a packet-switched network for a conference call. The apparatus may comprise a telephony gateway communicatively coupled to the audio video multipoint control unit. The telephony gateway may establish a bridge connection with a conference bridge servicing a call connection over a circuit-switched network, the telephony gateway to translate call information from the call connection for use by the audio video multipoint control unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pulin Thakkar, Bimal Mehta, Dhigha Sekaran
  • Publication number: 20170302707
    Abstract: Online conferencing involving video and audio in which automatic actions such as recording and broadcasting is performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conference area of a user interface. The action appears as a visualization in the contacts portion of the user interface, some of which contacts may represent individuals that may be joined into a conference. Recording or broadcasting the action may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner as how individuals are added into an online conference, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Dutta, Anand Srinivasan, Christopher M. Eagan, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Dhigha Sekaran, Marius Ungureanu
  • Patent number: 9456333
    Abstract: A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mahendra Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy, Anish Desai, Ramkumar Natarajan, Jeffrey Kay, John Bruner, Ray Froelich, Tript Singh Lamba, Bayo Olatunji, Amey Parandekar, Vishal Ghotge, Andrew Peter Schoorl, Eugen Pajor, Shaun Pierce, Dhigha Sekaran, Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr., John Skovron, Reid Kuhn
  • Patent number: 9407621
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a console application. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a console application, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event. The console application may inherit the individual's permissions during the conference event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Nasir Vakil, Anton Krantz, Dhigha Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20160165064
    Abstract: Techniques for a mixed audio conference are described. An apparatus may comprise an audio video multipoint control unit to mix call information from multiple call connections established over a packet-switched network for a conference call. The apparatus may comprise a telephony gateway communicatively coupled to the audio video multipoint control unit. The telephony gateway may establish a bridge connection with a conference bridge servicing a call connection over a circuit-switched network, the telephony gateway to translate call information from the call connection for use by the audio video multipoint control unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pulin Thakkar, Bimal Mehta, Dhigha Sekaran
  • Patent number: 9294721
    Abstract: Techniques for a mixed audio conference are described. An apparatus may comprise an audio video multipoint control unit to mix call information from multiple call connections established over a packet-switched network for a conference call. The apparatus may comprise a telephony gateway communicatively coupled to the audio video multipoint control unit. The telephony gateway may establish a bridge connection with a conference bridge servicing a call connection over a circuit-switched network, the telephony gateway to translate call information from the call connection for use by the audio video multipoint control unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pulin Thakkar, Dhigha Sekaran, Bimal Mehta
  • Publication number: 20160044096
    Abstract: Scaling up and scaling out of a server architecture for large scale real-time applications is provided. A group of users may be provisioned by assigning them to a server pool and allotting them to a group. Grouped users help to reduce inter-server communication when they are serviced by the same server in the pool. High availability may be provided by choosing a primary server and one or more secondary servers from the pool to ensure that grouped users are serviced by the same server. Operations taken on the primary server are synchronously replicated to secondary servers so that when a primary server fails, a secondary server may be chosen as the primary for the group. Servers for multiple user groups may be load balanced to account for changes in either the number of users or the number of servers in a pool. Multiple pools may be paired for disaster recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sankaran Narayanan, Namendra Kumar, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy, Dhigha Sekaran, Vadim Eydelman, Bimal K. Mehta
  • Publication number: 20160014591
    Abstract: A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Mahendra Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy, Anish Desai, Ramkumar Natarajan, Jeffrey Kay, John Bruner, Ray Froelich, Tript Singh Lamba, Bayo Olatunji, Amey Parandekar, Vishal Ghotge, Andrew Peter Schoorl, Eugen Pajor, Shaun Pierce, Dhigha Sekaran, Frank Stephen Serdy, JR., John Skovron, Reid Kuhn
  • Publication number: 20150012984
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a console application. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a console application, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event. The console application may inherit the individual's permissions during the conference event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammad Nasir Vakil, Anton Krantz, Dhigha Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 8931051
    Abstract: Scaling and highly available clustering for large scale real-time applications is provided. A ring may be formed which includes multiple nodes for providing a set of services in a system. When a network partition is detected which affects communications between each of the nodes in the ring, the formation of additional rings is prevented by shutting down nodes which include a minority of voting nodes in the ring while maintaining the availability of the nodes which include a majority of the voting nodes to continue providing the set of services in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Namendra Kumar, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Sankaran Narayanan, Dhigha Sekaran, Vadim Eydelman
  • Patent number: 8880725
    Abstract: User defined routing rules are managed within a primary/backup architecture through continuous replication between home servers and their corresponding presence servers in an automatic manner. User set-up rules are stored and published by a designated presence server to home servers on which the user can register including the user's home registrar and any backup registrars. Changes to the rules may be disseminated and synchronized through comparison of versions and exchange of batches between the presence server and registrars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Sankaran Narayanan, Dhigha Sekaran
  • Patent number: 8850522
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event and who are physically present within a conference event environment, such as a meeting room, can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a conference event environment system. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a conference event environment system, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event via the conference event environment system to participate in the conference event. The conference event environment system may inherit the individual's permissions, such as in regards to whether or not the individual has been permitted to present content during the conference event. A conference event roster may be used to indicate that the individual has joined the conference via the conference event environment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Nasir Vakil, Anton Krantz, Dhigha Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20140136878
    Abstract: Scaling up and scaling out of a server architecture for large scale real-time applications is provided. A group of users may be provisioned by assigning them to a server pool and allotting them to a group. Grouped users help to reduce inter-server communication when they are serviced by the same server in the pool. High availability may be provided by choosing a primary server and one or more secondary servers from the pool to ensure that grouped users are serviced by the same server. Operations taken on the primary server are synchronously replicated to secondary servers so that when a primary server fails, a secondary server may be chosen as the primary for the group. Servers for multiple user groups may be load balanced to account for changes in either the number of users or the number of servers in a pool. Multiple pools may be paired for disaster recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sankaran Narayanan, Namendra Kumar, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy, Dhigha Sekaran, Vadim Eydelman, Bimal K. Mehta
  • Publication number: 20140137187
    Abstract: Scaling and highly available clustering for large scale real-time applications is provided. A ring may be formed which includes multiple nodes for providing a set of services in a system. When a network partition is detected which affects communications between each of the nodes in the ring, the formation of additional rings is prevented by shutting down nodes which include a minority of voting nodes in the ring while maintaining the availability of the nodes which include a majority of the voting nodes to continue providing the set of services in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Namendra Kumar, Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Sankaran Narayanan, Dhigha Sekaran, Vadim Eydelman
  • Patent number: 8666052
    Abstract: A universal phone number is provided for connecting to communication methods, including fixed line, mobile line, and internet communication methods. A communication group of communication methods may include multiple communication methods belonging to one individual or to multiple individuals within the communication group, such as a family. The universal phone number may be designated as the primary contact number for the communication group such incoming phone calls and text messages may be automatically routed to the communication methods in the communication group. The universal phone number may provide alerts to the multiple communication methods for notifying when incoming phone calls are answered. A universal voicemail box may also be provided for a scenario when the incoming call is not answered. Additionally, the universal phone number may provide the ability to keep the contact information for each of the individual communication methods private.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amey Parandekar, Dhigha Sekaran, Shahzaib Younis, Scott A. Plette, Marcelo D. Truffat
  • Patent number: 8645465
    Abstract: A method, system, and architecture for providing a conference system that effectively achieves high availability conferencing is provided. The conference system architecture provides a conference system that comprises a set of stateless conference servers and a shared conference store to provide highly available conferencing to its users. The conference servers serve (host) conferences (meetings) that allow users to conduct distributed conferences. Each conference server generally performs conference provisioning operations and conference control operations. The shared conference store provides for the storage of conference state information, thus allowing the conference servers in the conference server pool to be stateless by maintaining conference state information on the shared conference store. A stateless conference server may also locally maintain, for example, in cache memory, some of the conference state information that is maintained on the shared conference store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dhigha Sekaran, Deepak P. Rao, Sankaran Narayanan