Patents by Inventor Vikas Sabharwal

Vikas Sabharwal 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).

  • Search prioritization interfaces for communication platform users
    Patent number: 11276037
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • SEARCH PRIORITIZATION INTERFACES FOR COMMUNICATION PLATFORM USERS
    Publication number: 20190303869
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • Search prioritization among users in communication platforms
    Patent number: 10366368
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a user query to find users of the communication platform associated with one or more search terms, performs a graph search process based at least on the one or more search terms to identify a first set of users related to the user through at least one common user, and performs an indexed search process to identify a second set of users associated with the one or more search terms. The user search service then presents to the user a result view comprising the first set of users prioritized over the second set of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • SEARCH PRIORITIZATION AMONG USERS IN COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS
    Publication number: 20180081993
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a user query to find users of the communication platform associated with one or more search terms, performs a graph search process based at least on the one or more search terms to identify a first set of users related to the user through at least one common user, and performs an indexed search process to identify a second set of users associated with the one or more search terms. The user search service then presents to the user a result view comprising the first set of users prioritized over the second set of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue