Patents by Inventor Manish M. Sambhu

Manish M. Sambhu 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).

  • Indexing and searching documents with restricted portions
    Patent number: 10275606
    Abstract: One or more computer devices may receive a document from private content that is accessible by a set of users, and may extract metadata from the document. The metadata may provide information relating to one or more aspects of the document. The one or more computer devices may determine, based on the metadata, whether a portion of the document includes information that is only to be accessible by a particular user from the set of users, and may append a restrict indicator to the metadata when the portion of the document includes information that is only to be accessible by the particular user. The restrict indicator may identify the particular user and the portion of the document. The one or more computer devices may store the metadata and the restrict indicator in a personal search index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew E. Kulick, Arcot J. Preetham, Manish M. Sambhu, Hyduke Noshadi
  • Indexing and Searching Documents with Restricted Portions
    Publication number: 20160092689
    Abstract: One or more computer devices may receive a document from private content that is accessible by a set of users, and may extract metadata from the document. The metadata may provide information relating to one or more aspects of the document. The one or more computer devices may determine, based on the metadata, whether a portion of the document includes information that is only to be accessible by a particular user from the set of users, and may append a restrict indicator to the metadata when the portion of the document includes information that is only to be accessible by the particular user. The restrict indicator may identify the particular user and the portion of the document. The one or more computer devices may store the metadata and the restrict indicator in a personal search index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew E. Kulick, Arcot J. Preetham, Manish M. Sambhu, Hyduke Noshadi
  • Social Image Search
    Publication number: 20150169571
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying and providing image search results including general image search results responsive to an image search query and social image search results responsive to the image search query wherein each of the social image search results is associated with content generated by a respective member of a social graph of a user wherein the member is at two or more distinct degrees of separation from the user and has a minimum number of social graph friends in common with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Julia H. Farago, Terran Melconian, Ankur Bhargava, David Bau, Manish M. Sambhu, Francisco M. Galanes