Patents by Inventor Raj Abhyanker

Raj Abhyanker 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).

  • Publication number: 20140222577
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of a campaign in a geo-spatial environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating each profile of a geo-spatial social network with an address data, forming a group in support of a campaign in the geo-spatial network when a particular user creates the group in support of the campaign and automatically communicating media to a physical location of a member of the group based on the address data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial network. The method may also include automatically creating the group based on a public data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial social network even prior to certain users associated with each profile registering geo-spatial social network by applying the public data to the each profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140200963
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of polling in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a specific geographic location, determining a geographic region associated with a neighborhood, determining a first group of user profiles, the specific geographic location of each user profile associated with the geographic region, generating a first play view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network and the first group of the user profiles represented at locations in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of each user profile, generating a poll associated with the first group of user profiles and receiving poll results associated with the poll via a communication mode. The method may also include automatically tabulating the poll results and publishing, via the communication mode, the poll results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140195629
    Abstract: A method and system of a geo-spatially constrained private neighborhood social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer server of the global neighborhood to verify that a user lives at a residence associated with a geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment through a social community module of the computer server using a processor and a memory, to create a social network page of each user once verified, to enable the user to limit communications with only neighbors in a neighborhood in a geospatial vicinity of the user, and to distribute a message in a specified range of distance away from the registered users using an announce module. The computer server to constrain access in the online community with neighbors of the user based on the residence associated with the geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140195350
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of white page and yellow page directories in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes geocoding an address data associated with a listing of a directory on a map and publishing an inventory of a user associated with the listing to market to other users and residents a threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may include generating a set of coupons of a business associated with the listing as the inventory, and providing the set of coupons to the other users and residents the threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may also include adjusting the threshold distance away based on a request of the user associated with the listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Patent number: 8775328
    Abstract: A method and system an online neighborhood social network designed to create private websites to facilitate communication among neighbors and build stronger neighborhoods. The private websites are embodied in a website having a domain name of nextdoor.com. In one embodiment, a method verifies that a user lives at a residence associated with a residential address claimed by the user of an online neighborhood social network. The method restricts access to a particular neighborhood to the user and to neighboring users living within the neighborhood boundary of the residence. A social network page of the user is created once verified and access privileges are determined. A message is distributed to neighboring users that are verified to live within a neighborhood boundary of the residence. The method may designate the user as a lead user with an additional privilege based on a participation level of the user in the online community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140189013
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of determining neighborhood leads and forming government structures in an online geo-spatial social community are disclosed. A method of organizing a community network includes obtaining a region on a geo-spatial map, obtaining a first subset of members of the community network associated with the region, determining a second subset of the members with a highest number of points from the first subset, creating a representative body (e.g., based on an activity level of each of the first subset) from the second subset, and enabling the representative body to manage a portion of the community network associated with the region. A lead member user may be appointed or designated from the representative body from the second subset of the plurality of members with the highest number of points from the first subset based on an acceptance of the lead member (having additional access privileges).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140188880
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system of private neighborhood social networks, according to one embodiment. In one aspect, a method of providing users of information with timely information about a news story related to the geographic locations of the users includes receiving a submission of a news story from the Internet via a computer network interface device. A contact database is searched to select users whose geographic locations indicate a proximity to the geographic location of the news story. The selected users are provided with the geographic location of the news story, the description of the details of the news story, and the information related to items associated with the news story. An interested user is enabled to form an immediate communication in the form of an online interview with a neighboring user surrounding the specific geographic location of the news story.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Patent number: 8769393
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system of private neighborhood social networks, according to one embodiment. In one aspect, a method of providing users of information with timely information about a news story related to the geographic locations of the users includes receiving a submission of a news story from the Internet via a computer network interface device. A contact database is searched to select users whose geographic locations indicate a proximity to the geographic location of the news story. The selected users are provided with the geographic location of the news story, the description of the details of the news story, and the information related to items associated with the news story. An interested user is enabled to form an immediate communication in the form of an online interview with a neighboring user surrounding the specific geographic location of the news story.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140180914
    Abstract: A method, device and system of an autonomous neighborhood multi-copter commerce network in a community are disclosed. In one embodiment, an autonomous neighborhood multi-copter includes a storage compartment of the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter in which items are storable, a computer system of the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter that is communicatively coupled to a commerce server of a neighborhood communication system through a wireless network to autonomously navigate the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter to a destination in the neighborhood specified by the commerce server using a peer-to-peer network of client side devices in the neighborhood that are geo-constrained to a location of a defined neighborhood, and a navigation server of the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter to provide a remote sensing capability to the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter such that the autonomous neighborhood multi-copter is autonomously navigable to the destination using the peer-to-peer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140165091
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of television and radio station broadcast data generation in a constrained geospatial vicinity around a broadcast location of a neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, the station broadcast data is radially distributed as a notification data through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the station broadcast data generated through the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140149244
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of demand aggregation in a geo-spatial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating an item group associated with a registered user of a geo-spatial network, inviting a set of neighboring users geo-spatially proximate to the registered user to join the item group, placing at least one of the set of neighboring users as a member of the item group and/or communicating items of the item group to a set of providers of the items of the item group. The method may include placing a good and/or a service in the item group, and/or generating a frequency data, a pricing data, a unit data, and/or a time data. The method may further include geo-fencing the item group in an area that encompasses a neighborhood community in a threshold geographical radius from the registered user who creates the item group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Patent number: 8738545
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of map based neighborhood search and community contribution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a neighborhood communication system is described. This embodiment includes a privacy server to apply an address verification algorithm associated with each user of the online community to verify that each user lives at a residence associated with a claimable residential address of an online community formed through a social community module of the privacy server using a processor and a memory. The privacy server automatically determines a set of access privileges in the online community associated with each user of the online community by constraining access in the online community based on a neighborhood boundary determined using an algorithm of the privacy server. The privacy server may constrain the particular user to communicate through the online community only with a set of neighbors having verified addresses using the privacy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140143061
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system of an automatic publication of garage sale broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data. The garage sale broadcast data is radially distributed to data processing systems associated with users and their profiles around an epicenter (defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area (defined by the threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140143004
    Abstract: A method and system of event broadcast data publication through a neighborhood events server are disclosed. This embodiment includes validating that an event broadcast data is associated with a verified user of the neighborhood events server using a processor and memory. The embodiment includes verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the event broadcast data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the neighborhood events server and determining that a time stamp of the event broadcast data is trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the neighborhood events server. The embodiment includes automatically publishing the event broadcast data on a set of user profiles having verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the event broadcast data of the verified user of the neighborhood events server using a radial algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Patent number: 8732091
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of security in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment a privacy server verifies that each user of the community network lives at a residence associated with a claimable residential address of the community network formed through a social community module of a privacy server using a processor and a memory, to obtain from each user of the community network, using the processor of a computing device, member data associated with each user, the member data including an address, to associate the address with a profile of each user, to determine a location of each user based on the member data, to store the member data in a database, and to obtain a personal address privacy preference from each user, the personal address privacy preference specifying if the address should be displayed to other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140136414
    Abstract: A method, device and system of an autonomous neighborhood vehicle commerce network in a community are disclosed. An autonomous neighborhood vehicle includes a set of wheels aligned in a pattern to provide the autonomous neighborhood vehicle stability while traversing a sidewalk, a bike lane and a roadway. The autonomous neighborhood vehicle has an electronic locking mechanism and a storage compartment which is capable of storing items. The embodiment includes a computer system of the autonomous neighborhood vehicle communicatively coupled to a commerce server of a neighborhood communication system through a wireless network to autonomously navigate the autonomous neighborhood vehicle to a destination specified by the commerce server. A navigation server of the autonomous neighborhood vehicle provides a remote sensing capability to the autonomous neighborhood vehicle such that the autonomous neighborhood vehicle is autonomously navigable to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140136328
    Abstract: A system and methods for providing users with timely information including a geographic location, a description and information related to the marketing of goods associated with the news story are disclosed. A contact database is searched to select users whose geographic locations indicate a proximity to the geographic location of the news story. The information about the news story is generated to the selected users. An interface is created enabling an interested user to form an immediate communication in the form of an online interview with a neighboring user surrounding the specific geographic location of the news story. A contact information including an email address, an instant message identification and a telephonic contact number of users is generated. Other users can to access the contact information of the user when the user makes a submission in order to permit immediate communication between the other user and the submitter user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140130140
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of security in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment a privacy server verifies that each user of the community network lives at a residence associated with a claimable residential address of the community network formed through a social community module of a privacy server using a processor and a memory, to obtain from each user of the community network, using the processor of a computing device, member data associated with each user, the member data including an address, to associate the address with a profile of each user, to determine a location of each user based on the member data, to store the member data in a database, and to obtain a personal address privacy preference from each user, the personal address privacy preference specifying if the address should be displayed to other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140123247
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of authenticating a particular user of a third-party application as being a verified user of a neighborhood communication system having a verified residential address in the neighborhood communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment a verification module of a privacy server authenticates a particular user of a third-party application as being a verified user of the neighborhood communication system having a verified residential address in the neighborhood communication system, communicates a social graph of the particular user based on the personal address privacy preference of the particular user to the third-party application, and provides the verified residential address to the third-party application based on the authentication of the particular user of the third-party application as being the verified user of the neighborhood communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Publication number: 20140123246
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of multi-occupant structure in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. This embodiment includes a central module of a mapping server to determine, using a processor and a memory, that a marker is colliding with another marker simultaneously displayed in a map based on an overlap area of the marker with another marker, automatically create a group pointer that replaces the marker and another marker on the map, generate a view of the marker and the another marker when a user selects the group pointer, and generate a multiple-structure group pointer when the marker and the another marker are associated with adjacent structures which are not shared by occupants identified through the marker and another marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker