Patents by Inventor Srihari Sampath-Kumar

Srihari Sampath-Kumar 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).

  • Secondary data storage and recovery system
    Patent number: 7698401
    Abstract: A system for providing secondary data storage and recovery services for one or more networked host nodes has a server application for facilitating data backup and recovery services; at least one client application for facilitating host node configuration to receive services; a secondary data storage medium; and at least one mechanism for passive acquisition of data from the one or more host nodes for storage into the secondary data storage medium by the server application. In a preferred embodiment secondary storage is streamlined through continuous data backup and enhanced by elimination of redundant write data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Inmage Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Rajeev Atluri, Anup S. Tirumala, Sam Inala, Srinivasarao Neelamraju, Srihari Sampath Kumar
  • Hypervideo system and method with object tracking in a compressed digital video environment
    Patent number: 6169573
    Abstract: A system and method for hypervideo object tracking in a compressed digital video environment includes a hypervideo authoring system and a hypervideo browser. The hypervideo authoring system permits one or more moving objects in an MPEG compressed video clip to be identified, tracked, refined, edited, and associated with a specified action with a minimum of user intervention. The hypervideo browser allows the MPEG video to be viewed and objects of interest to be selected by a user, thereby hyperlinking to additional information of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: HOTV, Inc.
    Inventors: Srihari Sampath-Kumar, P. Venkat Rangan, Kamlesh Talreja, Kenneth J. Goldman
  • Hyperlinks resolution at and by a special network server in order to enable diverse sophisticated hyperlinking upon a digital network
    Patent number: 6006265
    Abstract: Streaming digital hypervideo including copious embedded hyperlinks is distributed upon a digital communications network from a hypervideo server, normally an Internet Service Provider, to multitudinous client subscribers/users/viewers (client SUVs). Some or all of the client SUVs receive the same hyperlinks at the same place in the streaming hypervideo. Some small fraction of the client SUVs selectively volitionally exercise a fraction of the total hyperlinks, causing an access in the background of the unfolding hypervideo across the digital communications network to yet another server commonly called a "Video On Web server", or "VOW server". The VOW sever interprets each hyperlink request in consideration of (i) the identity of the exercising client SUV and, most commonly, (ii) additional data of a demographic, socioeconomic, credit, viewing preference, security and/or past hyperlinking history nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: HOTV, Inc.
    Inventors: P. Venkat Rangan, Vijnan Shastri, P. Srihari Sampath-Kumar, Arya Ashwani