Patents by Inventor Naresh Gopalani

Naresh Gopalani 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: 8315977
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles for simultaneously maintaining copies of data in a data center and a cloud computing environment providing network based services. Synchronizing applications monitor modifications to data records made in the data center and the cloud computing environment. The synchronizing applications are also configured to convert modified records from the data center into a format compatible with databases in the cloud computing environment prior to updating the databases in the cloud computing environment, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddharth Anand, Naresh Gopalani, Greg Kim, Neil Hunt, Santosh R. Rau
  • Publication number: 20110208695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles for simultaneously maintaining copies of data in a data center and a cloud computing environment providing network based services. Synchronizing applications monitor modifications to data records made in the data center and the cloud computing environment. The synchronizing applications are also configured to convert modified records from the data center into a format compatible with databases in the cloud computing environment prior to updating the databases in the cloud computing environment, and vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Siddharth Anand, Naresh Gopalani, Greg Kim, Neil Hunt, Santosh R. Rau
  • Patent number: 7958529
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani
  • Publication number: 20100005006
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani
  • Patent number: 7631323
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani