Patents by Inventor Nirupama Appikatala

Nirupama Appikatala 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF QUALITY ISSUES IN ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
    Publication number: 20250259194
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to managing online experiments. In one example, a plurality of experiment layers is created with respect to a plurality of online users. Each experiment layer includes at least one experiment each of which includes one or more buckets associated with respective features to be experimented on. Each of the plurality of online users is assigned to a corresponding bucket in each experiment layer, such that the user is simultaneously associated with multiple experiments in different layers. User event data related to the plurality of experiment layers are collected from the plurality of online users. One or more contaminated buckets are automatically detected based on the user event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Sundeep Narravula, Nirupama Appikatala, Sudhir Chauhan, Miao Chen
  • Method and system for automatic detection and prevention of quality issues in online experiments
    Patent number: 12299705
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to managing online experiments. In one example, a plurality of experiment layers is created with respect to a plurality of online users. Each experiment layer includes at least one experiment each of which includes one or more buckets associated with respective features to be experimented on. Each of the plurality of online users is assigned to a corresponding bucket in each experiment layer, such that the user is simultaneously associated with multiple experiments in different layers. User event data related to the plurality of experiment layers are collected from the plurality of online users. One or more contaminated buckets are automatically detected based on the user event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Sundeep Narravula, Nirupama Appikatala, Sudhir Chauhan, Miao Chen
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF QUALITY ISSUES IN ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
    Publication number: 20180158082
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to managing online experiments. In one example, a plurality of experiment layers is created with respect to a plurality of online users. Each experiment layer includes at least one experiment each of which includes one or more buckets associated with respective features to be experimented on. Each of the plurality of online users is assigned to a corresponding bucket in each experiment layer, such that the user is simultaneously associated with multiple experiments in different layers. User event data related to the plurality of experiment layers are collected from the plurality of online users. One or more contaminated buckets are automatically detected based on the user event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Sundeep Narravula, Nirupama Appikatala, Sudhir Chauhan, Miao Chen