Patents by Inventor Rajaram Viswanathan

Rajaram Viswanathan 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: 9817651
    Abstract: Techniques are described for recommending updates to a customer instance in a software as a service (SaaS) model. A request can be received to upgrade features belonging to the customer instance. In response to receiving the request, a feature configuration that corresponds to the customer instance can be identified. The feature configuration can a plurality of features from the SaaS model that are available to the customer interface. Once the feature configuration has been identified, a feature upgrade from a plurality of feature upgrades in an upgrade library can be determined to be applicable to the customer instance. The determination can be made by evaluating the upgrade library and the feature configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SUCCESSFACTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Rajaram Viswanathan, I.V.S. Narayana, Nischal Rao, William Doolittle, Natasha Loeffler-Little, Anusha Venkatesan
  • Publication number: 20160012373
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for representing employee performance in a multimedia presentation are described herein. The method involves receiving a set of inputs from a user relating to one or more tasks involving the user, at a various point in time. In response to a request for accessing a performance review form, the received set of inputs are encoded into graphical elements and a multimedia presentation is generated using the graphical elements and rendered in response to the received request. Further, the method involves receiving self-assessment data from the user based on viewing the multimedia presentation and automatically transferring the self-assessment data to corresponding fields of a performance review form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: RAJARAM VISWANATHAN, SHAROSH RAJASEKHER, NISCHAL RAO
  • Publication number: 20150261518
    Abstract: Techniques are described for recommending updates to a customer instance in a software as a service (SaaS) model. A request can be received to upgrade features belonging to the customer instance. In response to receiving the request, a feature configuration that corresponds to the customer instance can be identified. The feature configuration can a plurality of features from the SaaS model that are available to the customer interface. Once the feature configuration has been identified, a feature upgrade from a plurality of feature upgrades in an upgrade library can be determined to be applicable to the customer instance. The determination can be made by evaluating the upgrade library and the feature configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Rajaram Viswanathan, I.V.S. Narayana, Nischal Rao, William Doolittle, Natasha Loeffler-Little, Anusha Venkatesan