Patents by Inventor Sanjay K. Moona

Sanjay K. Moona 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: 7552481
    Abstract: A method of determining an organization's network identity capability. The organization's relationships with its employees, customers and business partners, and the organization's technological infrastructure, are examined. By examining the organization's use of identity data (e.g., data identifying customers, employees), the organization's management of that data, and the technology infrastructure can be redesigned to enable better network identity capability. Improved network identity capability enables users' access to multiple applications or services through a single authentication process (e.g., a single login or sign-on), device-independent access to those applications and services, greater protection for the data, improved business processes and collaborations with business partners, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay K. Moona, Kevin Welsh
  • Publication number: 20090037265
    Abstract: A computer readable medium comprising software instructions for purchasing units, wherein the software instructions, when executed by a processor, enable a system including the processor to receive a request for an initial trial unit from a user, receive a request to purchase the initial trial unit from the user, complete the purchase of the initial trial unit using a first financial incentive, wherein the purchase of the initial trial unit is completed within an initial unit conversion period, provide, to the user, a second financial incentive to purchase at least one conversion unit after the completion of the purchase of the first unit, receive a request to purchase the at least one conversion unit, and complete the purchase of the at least one conversion unit using the second financial incentive, wherein the purchase of the second conversion unit is completed within a total promotion period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjay K. Moona
  • Publication number: 20030177121
    Abstract: A method of determining an organization's network identity capability. The organization's relationships with its employees, customers and business partners, and the organization's technological infrastructure, are examined. By examining the organization's use of identity data (e.g., data identifying customers, employees), the organization's management of that data, and the technology infrastructure can be redesigned to enable better network identity capability. Improved network identity capability enables users' access to multiple applications or services through a single authentication process (e.g., a single login or sign-on), device-independent access to those applications and services, greater protection for the data, improved business processes and collaborations with business partners, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Sanjay K. Moona, Kevin Welsh