Patents by Inventor Ragini A. Ravishankar

Ragini A. Ravishankar 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: 11888924
    Abstract: A computer system and method for transferring a file from a device in proximity, including start downloading a file from a message addressed to a recipient, checking the message for one or more common recipients of the message; downloading the file from a remote server in response to no common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, downloading the file from a remote server in response to the file not being available for transfer from any common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, automatically applying file transfer permissions to the downloaded file for each of the common recipients of the message, checking if a common recipient device in proximity has requested to download the file, and transferring the file to the requesting common recipient device in proximity in response to the common recipient device in proximity being a mapped trusted device of the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ragini A. Ravishankar, Alok K. Singh
  • Publication number: 20200274917
    Abstract: A computer system and method for transferring a file from a device in proximity, including start downloading a file from a message addressed to a recipient, checking the message for one or more common recipients of the message; downloading the file from a remote server in response to no common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, downloading the file from a remote server in response to the file not being available for transfer from any common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, automatically applying file transfer permissions to the downloaded file for each of the common recipients of the message, checking if a common recipient device in proximity has requested to download the file, and transferring the file to the requesting common recipient device in proximity in response to the common recipient device in proximity being a mapped trusted device of the recipient device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ragini A. Ravishankar, Alok K. Singh
  • Patent number: 10715581
    Abstract: A computer system and method for transferring a file from a device in proximity, including start downloading a file from a message addressed to a recipient, checking the message for one or more common recipients of the message; downloading the file from a remote server in response to no common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, downloading the file from a remote server in response to the file not being available for transfer from any common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, automatically applying file transfer permissions to the downloaded file for each of the common recipients of the message, checking if a common recipient device in proximity has requested to download the file, and transferring the file to the requesting common recipient device in proximity in response to the common recipient device in proximity being a mapped trusted device of the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ragini A. Ravishankar, Alok K. Singh
  • Publication number: 20180213043
    Abstract: A computer system and method for transferring a file from a device in proximity, including start downloading a file from a message addressed to a recipient, checking the message for one or more common recipients of the message; downloading the file from a remote server in response to no common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, downloading the file from a remote server in response to the file not being available for transfer from any common recipient devices being in proximity to the recipient device, automatically applying file transfer permissions to the downloaded file for each of the common recipients of the message, checking if a common recipient device in proximity has requested to download the file, and transferring the file to the requesting common recipient device in proximity in response to the common recipient device in proximity being a mapped trusted device of the recipient device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Ragini A. Ravishankar, Alok K. Singh