Patents by Inventor Sankarganesh Gopalakrishnan

Sankarganesh Gopalakrishnan 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).

  • File format for table styles
    Patent number: 7526719
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for formatting data. In one implementation, a system provided includes a device to persistently store a table style, the table style specifying properties inherited by a table object displayed in a computer-aided design program. The table object includes a title cell, header cells and data cells that each have properties and data. The table style includes an identifier to identify the table style that designates properties associated with the table object. Exemplary properties include a flow direction designator, horizontal spacing data, vertical spacing data, a first suppression flag, a second suppression flag, title cell properties, header cell properties, and data cell properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventor: Sankarganesh Gopalakrishnan
  • Network distributed product manager system
    Patent number: 7155714
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for inventorying software products. One or more search definitions are created specifying the software products, as well as one or more network domains and individual computers, to be searched. The search is performed using an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) parser file to extract data on the specified software products from the registries of the specified network domains and individual computers. A report listing of the software products installed on the specified network domains and individual computers is compiled from this data. The report listing can be saved for later use in an inventory database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefanos Michail Makris, Sankarganesh Gopalakrishnan, Elango Ganfsan, Eng Guan Chan
  • Network distributed product manager system
    Publication number: 20030236772
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for inventorying software products. One or more search definitions are created specifying the software products, as well as one or more network domains and individual computers, to be searched. The search is performed using an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) parser file to extract data on the specified software products from the registries of the specified network domains and individual computers. A report listing of the software products installed on the specified network domains and individual computers is compiled from this data. The report listing can be saved for later use in an inventory database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Applicant: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefanos Michail Makris, Sankarganesh Gopalakrishnan, Elango Ganesan, Eng Guan Chan