Patents by Inventor Shivkumar Shankaran

Shivkumar Shankaran 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: 9697548
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a return request may be provided. For example, a user may want to return an item that the user received from an item provider via an electronic marketplace. The user can take a picture of the item and transmit the image to a computer that determines that the user would like to return the item. The computer may also determine that the item is returnable (e.g., was provided to the user within an allowable timeframe, satisfies a constraint for returning the item). The computer can initiate a return of the item. In some examples, the computer can also determine a convenient return location or the reason that the user is returning the item to the item provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosar Akram Jaff, Shivkumar Shankaran, Nitin Bhat, Kimberly Lee Daniels, Samuel Pike Hall, Nicholas John Morren, Raja Shekhar Goli, Prashant Agrawal, Sebastian Jorge Gunningham, Brian Jeffrey Saltzman, Tiana Osbourne Symmonds, Debby Wing Yin Man