Patents by Inventor Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar 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: 6823312
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing improved understandability of received speech characterized in that it includes input interface adapted to capture received speech signals connected to a speech recognition means for identifying the contents of the received speech connected to one input of a data processor adapted to perform improvement in understandability, a user profile storage connected to another input of said data processor for providing user specific improvement data, and an output generator connected to the output of said data processor to produce personalized output based on an individual's needs. The instant invention also provides a configured computer program product for carrying out the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parul A. Mittal, Pradeep Kumar Dubey
  • Publication number: 20040192962
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure cyclohexylphenyl glycolic acid of formula (1). The present invention more particularly relates to a process using cyclohexylphenyl ketone for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure cyclohexylphenyl glycolic acid of formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar, Rodney Agustinho Fernandes, Priti Gupta
  • Publication number: 20040182750
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the extraction of aromatics from petroleum fractions i.e. naphtha, kerosene and gas oil, using re-extraction route for recovery of solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Mohan Krishan Khanna, Shrikant Madhusudan Nanoti, Guru Prasad, Bhagat Ram Nautiyal, Dharam Paul, Bachan Singh Rawat, Madhukar Onkarnath Garg, Alok K. Saxena, Pradeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 6795179
    Abstract: A system for sorting randomly positioned, irregularly shaped scrap metal particles on a moving conveyor employs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and includes an image detector for locating the particles as they path through a predefined viewing area, a position detector for detecting movement of the conveyor, a laser system for providing laser pulses, a scanner assembly for directing the pulses to selected locations within a target area, a light collector, a light distribution and spectral analyzer for isolating and measuring at least one selected band from the collected light, a separator, and suitable logic for identifying the particles, monitoring their position, monitoring the output of the laser and, operating the scanner assembly to direct the pulses to the identified particle. The spectral data is then analyzed, each particle is categorized, and thereafter sorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Pradeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 6778688
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for enabling the remote authentication of fingerprints over an insecure network using a client-server architecture by generation of a set of random queries relating to fingerprint patterns based on stored fingerprint data at the server, to which the client responds based on the observed fingerprint patterns, followed by the issuing of a randomly generates set of challenges pertaining to geometrical relationships between the fingerprint patterns for which confirm responses are received by their server, the final authentication being determined by the proportion of correct responses by the client to said challenges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pooja Aggarwal, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Charanjit Singh Jutla, Vijay Kumar
  • Publication number: 20040110985
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure 3-phenyl-3-hydroxypropylamine of formula I; more particularly the present invention relates to the said process using styrene; 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Pandey
  • Patent number: 6713639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the in situ preparation of optically pure (S)-3,4-dihydroxybutyric acid derivatives represented by the Formula [2] and more particularly, to a process which enables preparing optically pure (S)-3-hydroxy-&ggr;-butyrolactone represented by Formula [1] by oxidation of &agr;- or &bgr;-(1,4) linked disaccharide or oligosaccharide with an oxidant under basic condition to give acid and cyclization sequentially under acidic condition to give (S)-3-hydroxy-&ggr;-butyrolactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Mukund Keshao Gurjar, Pradeep Kumar, Anis Naim Deshmukh, Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay, Puspesh Kumar Upadhyay
  • Publication number: 20030183807
    Abstract: Phosphor powder with the basic composition comprising alkaline earth metal aluminate, an activator such as Eu and a co activator has been disclosed. The said phosphor has been synthesized by use of alkaline earth metal salt along with single phase alumina, an activator and a co-activator. The after glow decay was found to be more than 150 hours. The process uses a reducing agent in the form of carbon or an organic compound of carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Virendra Shankar, Harish Chander, Haranath Divi, Pradeep Kumar Ghosh
  • Patent number: 6625330
    Abstract: A method of doing meaningful modifications on an image is presented. These modifications can then be used in variety of applications related to image shape manipulation and similar shape retrieval. The method extracts macrofeatures and microfeature from a given shape. Deformations are done on the macrofeatures only. These deformations are either predefined, or are taken from a deformation library, or are calculated from the shape itself, The microfeatures are then added to the deformed macrofeatures to get a deformed shape. The shape deformations then allow user's perception of shape similarity to be learned, which is reflected in the values of parameters in a parameterized shape similarity metric. The user can use one of the deformed shapes as the initial query point, instead of the shape he or she started with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Sugata Ghosal, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Abhinanda Sarkar
  • Patent number: 6611834
    Abstract: A user at a client machine can customize components of a database search performed at a server. The user does this by sending executable code to the database server. Software code runs as middleware on the database server machine to communicate between the database server and the client and performs the functions of supplying the client with vital information required for generating code which will be used for customizing various processes of the database retrieval session. Typically, the server comprises a set of database servers and the middleware runs on each database server machine to communicate between the database servers and the client. The middleware provides a virtual machine on which the user-supplied code written in a virtual machine language is executed, giving a uniform interface across the set of database servers on which the same user-supplied code will be executed ensuring that the user-supplied code executes under database server specified access privileges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav Aggarwal, Deepavan Chakrabarti, Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Nitin Punamkumar Garq, Sugata Ghosal, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Sreerama Kolluru Venkata Murthy
  • Publication number: 20030132142
    Abstract: A system for sorting randomly positioned, irregularly shaped scrap metal particles on a moving conveyor employs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and includes an image detector for locating the particles as they path through a predefined viewing area, a position detector for detecting movement of the conveyor, a laser system for providing laser pulses, a scanner assembly for directing the pulses to selected locations within a target area, a light collector, a light distribution and spectral analyzer for isolating and measuring at least one selected band from the collected light, a separator, and suitable logic for identifying the particles, monitoring their position, monitoring the output of the laser and, operating the scanner assembly to direct the pulses to the identified particle. The spectral data is then analyzed, each particle is categorized, and thereafter sorted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Pradeep Kumar
  • Publication number: 20030114676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a single-pot process for the preparation of metal nicotinates, useful as a dietary supplement, from beta picoline as a source of the starting material, said process comprising the steps hydrosulfonation of beta picoline with sulfuric acid, heating the reaction mixture thus obtained to a temperature of about 150°-210° C. followed by oxidation with a suitable oxidizing agent to obtain nicotinic acid sulfate, reacting the nicotinic acid sulfate with a water soluble zinc and/or chromium salt to produce a solid metal nicotinate and separating it to thereby recover the corresponding metal nicotinates of high purity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Nikhilesh Chandra Bhardwaj, Pradeep Kumar Verma, Agarwal Ashutosh
  • Patent number: 6560742
    Abstract: The present invention involves a method for generating a partial Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC) value of a first interval of data in a digital data stream. The method includes the step of loading a precomputed CRC value corresponding to a one bit followed by a predetermined number of zeros. The predetermined number of zeros correspond to the number of digits of a polynomial minus one. The first interval of data is partitioned into a plurality of bits. The precomputed CRC value corresponding to the one bit followed by the predetermined number of zeros is enabled, for each of the plurality of bits having a value of one. The enabled, precomputed CRC values are combined to generate the partial CRC value of the first interval of data. Advantageously, multiple copies of the process may be executed in parallel to achieve a large speed-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Sanjay Mukund Joshi, Marc Adam Kaplan
  • Patent number: 6556281
    Abstract: A flexible chuck for supporting a substrate during lithographic processing is described. This flexible chuck includes an electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the electrode layer, and a substrate support layer disposed above the piezoelectric layer. By providing electrical signals to the piezoelectric layer through the electrode layer, the support layer can be flexed, thereby changing surface topography on a substrate disposed on the flexible chuck. The contact layer can include projections, each of the projections corresponding to a respective electrode within the electrode layer. Furthermore, the substrate support layer can be formed of a conductive material and thus serve as the ground layer. Alternatively, separate substrate support and ground layers can be provided. The flexible chuck in accordance with the instant invention can be a vacuum chuck. Also described is a method of monitoring topographic changes in a flexible chuck in accordance with the instant invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: ASML US, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar Govil, Jorge Ivaldi
  • Patent number: 6545240
    Abstract: A system for sorting randomly positioned, irregularly shaped scrap metal particles on a moving conveyor employs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and includes an image detector for locating the particles as they path through a predefined viewing area, a position detector for detecting movement of the conveyor, a laser system for providing laser pulses, a scanner assembly for directing the pulses to selected locations within a target area, a light collector, a light distribution and spectral analyzer for isolating and measuring at least one selected band from the collected light, a separator, and suitable logic for identifying the particles, monitoring their position, monitoring the output of the laser and, operating the scanner assembly to direct the pulses to the identified particle. The spectral data is then analyzed, each particle is categorized, and thereafter sorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Pradeep Kumar
  • Publication number: 20030040897
    Abstract: A power management and control system having a dynamic data exchange (DDE) server simulator for simulating supervisory management and control of electrical distribution systems is presented. The DDE server simulator is an alternative DDE server which simulates device values rather than acquiring data from real devices. The DDE server simulator generates and calculates device data from user generated electrical property profiles and updates DDE compliant clients. The DDE server simulator accepts the actual topics and item names and power profiles are user configurable with an option to apply white noise to the data, which provides true-to-life values to the user. These simulated measured values are used to calculate derived parameters and pre-set arrays provide wave form data in the proper format. Device events and trips can be interjected by the user and properly interpreted by the simulator. The data is passed to the clients via DDE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Murphy, Kelley E. Gourley, Cliff John Winkel, Brett William Bolte, Veronica Kertesz, Donald S. Whitehead, James Burke, Harshad Tanna, Subhash Garg, A. Rajeshwar Rao, S.S. Lakshmi, Sudhir Mishra, J. Lakshminarayana, Pradeep Kumar Tamanna, B. Ravi Kumar, M. Kailashnath, Patrick G. Salas, Donald Richard Brown, Jose Bscheider, Grady W. Broadnax, Edgar Yee, Mary A. Doddy, Indrajit Purkayastha, Sara Simplot, Dana Foster, John S. Vandevanter, Wolfgang Meyer-Haack
  • Publication number: 20030034281
    Abstract: A system for sorting randomly positioned, irregularly shaped scrap metal particles on a moving conveyor employs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and includes an image detector for locating the particles as they path through a predefined viewing area, a position detector for detecting movement of the conveyor, a laser system for providing laser pulses, a scanner assembly for directing the pulses to selected locations within a target area, a light collector, a light distribution and spectral analyzer for isolating and measuring at least one selected band from the collected light, a separator, and suitable logic for identifying the particles, monitoring their position, monitoring the output of the laser and, operating the scanner assembly to direct the pulses to the identified particle. The spectral data is then analyzed, each particle is categorized, and thereafter sorted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Pradeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 6509952
    Abstract: Particular types of distortion within a lithographic system may be characterized by linewidth control parameters. Linewidth control parameters of any given line or feature within a printed pattern vary as a result of optical capabilities of the lithography apparatus used, particular characteristics of the reticle, focus setting, light dose fluctuations, etc. The instant invention uses focus offset coefficients to change the focus at points within a slot to compensate for the linewidth control parameter variations introduced by the factors contributing to such variations. Additionally, different focuses can be set dynamically along the scan for a particular slot point. A set, or sets, of focus offset coefficients is generated for a particular lithography apparatus, depending on the number of linewidth control parameters for which correction is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Silicon Valley Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar Govil, James Tsacoyeanes
  • Patent number: 6501757
    Abstract: An ATM switch having a plurality of input-ports and a plurality of output ports allowing a plurality of priority levels, which is highly modular allowing expansion of the number of cell buffers in a shared buffer pool, thus efficiently handling bursty traffic of one-to-one and one-to-many destination ports, using the bit slicing concept to reduce the operating speed of the switch, and decrease the cell buffer size requirement per slice along with reducing the number of shared queue memories per slice, aiding cost effective and efficient, very large scale integration (VLSI) implementation. It also allows configurability of input link speeds, taking care of the order of cell delivery to the output ports. The switch on receiving the input cell, searches for a free buffer in the shared pool, then routes the cell into this buffer and indexes the pointer into an output queue called the queue management module which uses a shared pool of queue memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Centre For Development of Telematics
    Inventors: Muthusamy Kamaraj, Mariamma Joselin, Kalyanaraman Pattabhiraman, Satish Manohar Kulkarni, Jain Philip, Jayant Bhatnagar, Pradeep Kumar Bhatnagar, Kailash Narain Gupta, Adde Palli Gopinath Dixit
  • Publication number: 20020186841
    Abstract: Techniques for efficient KASUMI ciphering are disclosed. In one aspect, one KASUMI round for generating a fractional portion of the KASUMI cipher is deployed with appropriate feedback such that eight sequential rounds produce the KASUMI output. In another aspect, one third of the FO function is deployed with appropriate feedback such that three successive cycles produce the FO output. In yet another aspect, the FI function is deployed with appropriate feedback such that two subsequent cycles produce the FI output. In yet another aspect, a sub-key generator comprising two shift registers produces sub-keys for each round and sub-stage thereof in an efficient manner. These aspects, collectively, yield the advanced benefits of low area and low cost implementations of KASUMI with a simple user interface. Various other aspects of the invention are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Roberto Fabian Averbuj, Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Rajat Rajinderkumar Dhawan