Patents by Inventor Nikhil Sukhtankar

Nikhil Sukhtankar 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: 20150154513
    Abstract: Computing systems and methods for enhanced ticket sales are provided. The enhanced ticket sales may include presentation of community-sourced seat information to a potential ticket buyer that describes the human experience of sitting in each particular seat at a venue. The community-sourced seat information for each particular seat can be photos, comments, or other data that have been gathered by a ticket server from online content posted by people that have attended previous events in that seat. The online content can be gathered from email accounts, social network accounts, or other online sources. In this way, the human experience of some or all of the people who have sat in a particular seat at various events, as recorded in photos, comments, articles or other online data, can be collected, filtered, and provided to a potential purchaser of a ticked for that seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Ryan E. Kennedy, Jayanth Vasudevan, Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Nikhil Sukhtankar
  • Publication number: 20150106134
    Abstract: Computing systems and methods for facilitating the selection and purchase of tickets for grouped seats for an event at a venue are provided. The grouped seats may include groups of seats in a piggyback configuration. The piggyback configuration may include at least one seat in each of multiple adjacent seat rows. The system may provide a user with a seat group filter option and receive a request for piggyback seats through the provided seat group filter option. The system may display a map and a list of available tickets for the event. The map may be updated in response to a user request for piggyback-only seat options. The updated map may highlight sections of seats that include available seats that match the requested piggyback configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Satya Gandham, Nikhil Sukhtankar