Patents by Inventor Manvinder S. Chopra

Manvinder S. Chopra 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).

  • Methods and systems for configuring and providing conference calls
    Patent number: 8503650
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. Once identified, each participant user is contacted and a response is received from each of the users. Based on the received responses, a conference call is established between the participant users and the subscriber user. In one aspect of the invention, at least one of the detecting and identifying steps are performed without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignees: Verizon Data Services LLC, Telesector Resources Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig L. Reding, John R. Reformato, Mahesh Rajagopalan, Brian F. Roberts, Chris L. Helbling, Manvinder S. Chopra, Ken J. Hum, Apurva Pathak
  • Interactive product / service listing
    Patent number: 8341677
    Abstract: A computing device receives selection of television content from a device associated with a user, and collects metadata associated with the selected television content. The computing device also collects information associated with commercials associated with the television content, and determines an interactive product/service listing based on the collected metadata and commercial information. The device further provides the interactive product/service listing to the device for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sundar Rajan Padmanabhan, Vijay Jayapalan, Manvinder S. Chopra, Xiaodong Zhang, Mohammad Azam Khan
  • INTERACTIVE PRODUCT / SERVICE LISTING
    Publication number: 20110302614
    Abstract: A computing device receives selection of television content from a device associated with a user, and collects metadata associated with the selected television content. The computing device also collects information associated with commercials associated with the television content, and determines an interactive product/service listing based on the collected metadata and commercial information. The device further provides the interactive product/service listing to the device for display to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Sundar Rajan PADMANABHAN, Vijay JAYAPALAN, Manvinder S. CHOPRA, Xiaodong ZHANG, Mohammad AZAM KHAN