Patents by Inventor Venkat Sasank Donavalli

Venkat Sasank Donavalli 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).

  • Proximity-based mobile device payments
    Patent number: 10204335
    Abstract: In some examples, by communicating with a mobile service, a user of a mobile device may settle his or her bill with a business using the mobile device. The business may be configured with a beacon to determine when the user's mobile device is near the business and a point-of-sale device to manage user orders and communicate with a mobile payment service. In response to a request by the mobile device, the mobile payment service may debit a user account associated with the mobile device for items purchased at the business. In turn, the mobile payment service may pay the business for the items purchased at the business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkat Sasank Donavalli, Vasanth Narendranath Petlu, Harshawardhan Chiplonkar, Jonathan Uy Hatol, Gregory Louis Chappell, Robert Serr
  • Proximity-based mobile device payments
    Patent number: 9972004
    Abstract: In some examples, by communicating with a mobile payment service, a user of a mobile device may settle his or her bill with a business using the mobile device. The business may be configured with a beacon to determine when the user's mobile device is near the business and a point-of-sale device to manage user orders and communicate with the mobile payment service. In response to a request by the mobile device, the mobile payment service may debit a user account associated with the mobile device for items purchased at the business. In turn, the mobile payment service may pay the business for the items purchased at the business. In some examples, the bill may be divided among a plurality of users corresponding to a plurality of mobile devices. And, portions of the bill may be provided to individual mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkat Sasank Donavalli, Vasanth Narendranath Petlu, Harshawardhan Chiplonkar, Jonathan Uy Hatol, Gregory Louis Chappell, Robert Serr