Patents by Inventor Raghava Karanam

Raghava Karanam 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).

  • Provisionable-services clearinghouse for authorizing and tracking a mobile device's access to multiple types of services and multiple service providers
    Patent number: 8850016
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for authorizing, managing, and brokering services for and between a plurality of service providers. A provisionable-services clearinghouse maintains in data storage a plurality of records that each identify (i) a respective mobile device, (ii) one or more types of service for which the respective mobile device can be provisioned, and (iii) a respective provider of each of the so-identified types of service for which the respective mobile device is currently provisioned. Subsequent provisioning requests identifying (i) a particular mobile device that itself is identified by a particular record from among the plurality of records, (ii) a first type of service, and (iii) a particular provider, and compared against the records in order to determine whether the requested provisioning can, or should be, authorized and/or recorded. Other information, such as contract terms, geographic limitations, etc., could also be included in the request and/or record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Raghava Karanam, William E. White, Abhik Barua