Patents by Inventor Nageswara Raju Dachiraju

Nageswara Raju Dachiraju 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: 9749668
    Abstract: One or more devices may receive activity logs from multiple set-top-boxes (STBs); determine that an outage has occurred based on the activity logs; identify one or more STBs, of the plurality of STBs, that failed to play back paid content during the outage, or where playback of paid content, by the one or more STBs, was interrupted during the outage; and credit corresponding accounts associated with the one or more STBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Jesus Martinez, Anil K. Guntupalli, Viswas Ventrapragada, Pritam Bedse, Kanagaraj Vengidasamy, Mukunda Raju, Bhanu Rongali
  • Patent number: 9743146
    Abstract: A device provides, to a user device, a list of on demand content available for purchase or rental from the device, and receives, from the user device, an indication of a selected on demand content from the list of on demand content. The device provides, to the user device, points-based purchase or rental options for the selected on demand content, and the points-based purchase or rental options include points associated with a loyalty program provided by the device for a user of the user device. The device receives, from the user device, a selected points-based option from the points-based purchase or rental options, and provides the selected on demand content to the user device based on the selected points-based option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaviswas Ventrapragada, Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Jesus Martinez, Mukunda P. Raju, Tulasi Kumar Neeli, Rajasekhar V. Tulasi
  • Publication number: 20170064398
    Abstract: A device provides, to a user device, a list of on demand content available for purchase or rental from the device, and receives, from the user device, an indication of a selected on demand content from the list of on demand content. The device provides, to the user device, points-based purchase or rental options for the selected on demand content, and the points-based purchase or rental options include points associated with a loyalty program provided by the device for a user of the user device. The device receives, from the user device, a selected points-based option from the points-based purchase or rental options, and provides the selected on demand content to the user device based on the selected points-based option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Nagaviswas VENTRAPRAGADA, Nageswara Raju DACHIRAJU, Jesus MARTINEZ, Mukunda P. RAJU, Tulasi Kumar NEELI, Rajasekhar V. TULASI
  • Publication number: 20160066002
    Abstract: One or more devices may receive activity logs from multiple set-top-boxes (STBs); determine that an outage has occurred based on the activity logs; identify one or more STBs, of the plurality of STBs, that failed to play back paid content during the outage, or where playback of paid content, by the one or more STBs, was interrupted during the outage; and credit corresponding accounts associated with the one or more STBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Jesus Martinez, Anil K. Guntupalli, Viswas Ventrapragada, Pritam Bedse, Kanagaraj Vengidasamy, Mukunda Raju, Bhanu Rongali
  • Patent number: 8627432
    Abstract: A method, performed by a video provisioning system, may include receiving a request for a first digital rights management (DRM) token, associated with a video asset purchased via the video provisioning system, from a browser application associated with a user device and providing the first DRM token to the browser application. The method may further include receiving a license authorization request to issue a DRM license for the video asset, where the license authorization request is received from a license server, where the DRM license is to be used by the user device to decrypt the video asset, and where the license authorization request includes a second DRM token; determining whether the second DRM token matches the first DRM token; and authorizing the license server to issue the DRM license for the video asset, when the second DRM token matches the first DRM token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Sampath K. Nambakkam, Nagaviswas Ventrapragada, Velmurugan Krishnaswamy
  • Publication number: 20120079578
    Abstract: A method, performed by a video provisioning system, may include receiving a request for a first digital rights management (DRM) token, associated with a video asset purchased via the video provisioning system, from a browser application associated with a user device and providing the first DRM token to the browser application. The method may further include receiving a license authorization request to issue a DRM license for the video asset, where the license authorization request is received from a license server, where the DRM license is to be used by the user device to decrypt the video asset, and where the license authorization request includes a second DRM token; determining whether the second DRM token matches the first DRM token; and authorizing the license server to issue the DRM license for the video asset, when the second DRM token matches the first DRM token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING , INC.
    Inventors: Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Sampath K. Nambakkam, Nagaviswas Ventrapragada, Velmurugan Krishnaswamy