Patents by Inventor Nithya N. Vijayakumar

Nithya N. Vijayakumar 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: 9224173
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate establishing a communication session between a computing device of a user and at least one other computing device within a collaboration platform (system) to facilitate one or more communications between the user and other users associated with the platform. Updates are received to an account of the user that is accessible via the user's computing device, wherein the updates provide information relating to posted activities, notifications or other content and individuals associated with the posted activities, the posted activities, notifications or other content being available at one or more computing devices associated with the platform. The updates are automatically organized in at least one order based upon a profile of the user that is associated with the user's account. The computing device of the user provides a listing of the updates based upon an order determined by the organizing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Namrata Arora, Keith Griffin, Ashok Varadhan, Nithya N. Vijayakumar
  • Patent number: 8977698
    Abstract: A networking environment accessible by a plurality of computing devices is established to facilitate communications between participants associated with the computing devices, where content is generated and shared by participants via the networking environment. An item of content is shared with a group of recipients associated with computing devices via the networking environment, where the shared item of content includes one or more tags associated with the content, and each tag includes an initial weight value associated with the tag. A relevance factor associated with the group is determined, where the relevance factor is based upon information obtained from profiles of recipients from the group, and the initial weight value of each tag associated with the shared item of content is adjusted based at least in part upon the collective relevance factor associated with the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal Veda, Nithya N. Vijayakumar, Namrata Arora, Keith Griffin
  • Publication number: 20140156743
    Abstract: A networking environment accessible by a plurality of computing devices is established to facilitate communications between participants associated with the computing devices, where content is generated and shared by participants via the networking environment. An item of content is shared with a group of recipients associated with computing devices via the networking environment, where the shared item of content includes one or more tags associated with the content, and each tag includes an initial weight value associated with the tag. A relevance factor associated with the group is determined, where the relevance factor is based upon information obtained from profiles of recipients from the group, and the initial weight value of each tag associated with the shared item of content is adjusted based at least in part upon the collective relevance factor associated with the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal Veda, Nithya N. Vijayakumar, Namrata Arora, Keith Griffin
  • Publication number: 20130297705
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate establishing a communication session between a computing device of a user and at least one other computing device within a collaboration platform (system) to facilitate one or more communications between the user and other users associated with the platform. Updates are received to an account of the user that is accessible via the user's computing device, wherein the updates provide information relating to posted activities, notifications or other content and individuals associated with the posted activities, the posted activities, notifications or other content being available at one or more computing devices associated with the platform. The updates are automatically organized in at least one order based upon a profile of the user that is associated with the user's account. The computing device of the user provides a listing of the updates based upon an order determined by the organizing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Namrata Arora, Keith Griffin, Ashok Varadhan, Nithya N. Vijayakumar