Patents by Inventor Malayappan Shridhar

Malayappan Shridhar 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: 20040228514
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing a document to a computer system. In an embodiment, the method may further include assessing whether writing in an information field approximately matches a writing profile representation from at least one information field from at least one other document. In certain embodiments, the matching writing profile representation may be associated with a corresponding text representation in a computer processable format in memory on the computer system. In some embodiments, the information field may be associated with the text representation corresponding to the matching writing profile representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Gilles Houle, Ronny Bakker, Johan Willem Piere Berkhuysen, Malayappan Shridhar, James G. Mason, Katerina Blinova, Babur Nugmanov
  • Publication number: 20040223637
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing a document to a computer system. In some embodiments, the method may further include obtaining information on writing in an information field of the document. In certain embodiments, the obtained written information in the information field and written information in at least one other information field may be compared to at least one writing profile representation. The writing profile representation may be obtained from at least one other document. In one embodiment, at least one of the writing profile representations may include written information from the information field and written information from at least one of the other information fields obtained from at least one of the other documents. In some embodiments, the comparisons may be used to verify the obtained written information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Gilles Houle, Ronny Bakker, Johan Willem Piere Berkhuysen, James G. Mason, Katerina Blinova, Babur Nugmanov, Malayappan Shridhar
  • Publication number: 20040218801
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a handwriting profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing one or more documents to a computer system. In one embodiment, handwriting profile representations may be determined for information fields of the document. The determination may use handwriting from at least one of the information fields of the documents. In some embodiments, handwriting profile representations may be updated from one or more additional documents. In certain embodiments, a document may be provided to a computer system for assessment. Assessment may include comparing handwriting in the information fields of the document to handwriting profile representations from information fields of at least one other document. In an embodiment, the method may include assessing fraud in the document using at least one of the comparisons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Gilles Houle, Ronny Bakker, Johan Willem Piere Berkhuysen, James G. Mason, Katerina Blinova, Babur Nugmanov, Malayappan Shridhar