Patents by Inventor Vijayanand Appadurai

Vijayanand Appadurai 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: 11423416
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to perform impact-based fraud detection. For example, a computing device (e.g., a network server) can receive user submissions from user devices corresponding to traffic incident reports, point of interest (POI) ratings, product ratings, vendor ratings, and/or other crowd-sourced information. The computing device can identify groups of users based on the user submissions and various grouping criteria. The computing device can determine the impact of these user groups with respect to the targets (e.g., traffic in an area, ratings of a business, etc.) of their user submissions. The computing device can prioritize high impact user groups when attempting to detect fraudulent user group activity (e.g., fraud rings).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayanand Appadurai, Andrea Bravi, Nagaraj Hatti Veerarajan
  • Publication number: 20210398144
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to perform impact-based fraud detection. For example, a computing device (e.g., a network server) can receive user submissions from user devices corresponding to traffic incident reports, point of interest (POI) ratings, product ratings, vendor ratings, and/or other crowd-sourced information. The computing device can identify groups of users based on the user submissions and various grouping criteria. The computing device can determine the impact of these user groups with respect to the targets (e.g., traffic in an area, ratings of a business, etc.) of their user submissions. The computing device can prioritize high impact user groups when attempting to detect fraudulent user group activity (e.g., fraud rings).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayanand Appadurai, Andrea Bravi, Nagaraj Hatti Veerarajan