Patents by Inventor Shankar ARUMUGAVELU

Shankar ARUMUGAVELU 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: 10015674
    Abstract: An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session with the authenticated mobile device, receive, during the activation session and by way of the authenticated mobile device, user input indicating a user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device, and activate the authenticated mobile device on the mobile network based on the user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Felt, Thomas Michael McGurl, Sankar Shanmugam, Nagaraju Manchiraju, Shankar Arumugavelu
  • Publication number: 20180020354
    Abstract: An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session with the authenticated mobile device, receive, during the activation session and by way of the authenticated mobile device, user input indicating a user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device, and activate the authenticated mobile device on the mobile network based on the user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Michelle Felt, Thomas Michael McGurl, Sankar Shanmugam, Nagaraju Manchiraju, Shankar Arumugavelu
  • Patent number: 9794786
    Abstract: An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session between the authenticated mobile device and the user account, provide, during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile device, and activate the mobile device on the mobile network based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Felt, Thomas Michael McGurl, Sankar Shanmugam, Nagaraju Manchiraju, Shankar Arumugavelu
  • Publication number: 20170094508
    Abstract: An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session between the authenticated mobile device and the user account, provide, during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile device, and activate the mobile device on the mobile network based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Michelle Felt, Thomas Michael McGurl, Sankar Shanmugam, Nagaraju Manchiraju, Shankar Arumugavelu
  • Patent number: 8793167
    Abstract: A device may convert accounts maintained by a first information technology system to a second information technology system. In one implementation, the device may convert a first set of attributes corresponding to an account in the first information technology system to a second set of attributes corresponding to the account in the second information technology system. The device may validate the second set of attributes by converting the second set of attributes back to a third set of attributes corresponding to the account in the first information technology system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jerold Menezes, Shankar Arumugavelu, Harish Korapati, Viswanadha R. Sontam
  • Publication number: 20120130780
    Abstract: A method performed by a server device, may include receiving information about a customer order, associated with a particular service or product provider, from an ordering system; determining whether the customer order is eligible for a promotion based on the received information where the promotion includes a reward to a customer for placing the customer order; and requesting balance information associated with the customer order from a billing system, when the customer order is eligible for the promotion. The method may further include receiving a balance amount, associated with the customer order, from the billing system; determining whether the balance amount is less than a balance threshold; and sending a message to a fulfillment system to fulfill the promotion, when the balance amount is less than the balance threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Diganta Kumar Nayak, Shankar Arumugavelu, Mahmoud Muhieddine Elassir, Vivek Gurumurthy, Velamur Srinivasan Sudharsan, Ravi Kanth Kalavagunta, Rasesh Yogesh Maniar, Sunil Avadhanam, Srinivasa Reddy Pakala, Krishna P. Yemparala
  • Publication number: 20120005614
    Abstract: A device may convert accounts maintained by a first information technology system to a second information technology system. In one implementation, the device may convert a first set of attributes corresponding to an account in the first information technology system to a second set of attributes corresponding to the account in the second information technology system. The device may validate the second set of attributes by converting the second set of attributes back to a third set of attributes corresponding to the account in the first information technology system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Jerold MENEZES, Shankar ARUMUGAVELU, Harish KORAPATI, Viswanadha R. SONTAM